Rainbow, Helmut Smits
Title: Rainbow
Year: 2010
Materials: acrylic paint
Photos by Lotte Stekelenburg
Social housing project in Noisy-le-Grand
Social housing project in Noisy-le-Grand in the eastern suburbs of Paris, built 1980-84. Architect Manuel Nuñez Yanowsky. Nunez Yanowsky has also completed urban planning projects in Algiers, Brazzaville, Hamburg, Saint Petersburg, Sofia, Tbilisi, and several Belgian and Spanish cities.
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Henrique Oliveira at the Rice Gallery
From the Rice Gallery:
Oliveira uses tapumes, which in Portuguese can mean “fencing,” “boarding,” or “enclosure,” as a title for many of his large-scale installations. The term makes reference to the temporary wooden construction fences seen throughout the city of São Paulo where Oliveira lives. It also refers to the weathered wood Oliveira uses as the primary material in his installations.
Early on, Oliveira experimented with the surfaces of his paintings by gluing newspaper onto a canvas and scraping it, or mixing sand with the paint. A breakthrough occurred while he was a student at the University of São Paulo, where for two years the view from his studio window was a wooden construction fence. Over time Oliveira began to see the deterioration of the wood and its separation into multiple layers and colors as similar to the process of painting. One week before the final student show opened, the construction was finished and the worn out plywood fence was discarded. Oliveira collected the wood and used it in his first installation.
Oliveira’s installations, which he refers to as “tridimensionals,” have evolved into massive, spatial constructions that combine painting, architecture, and sculpture. In some installations he uses walls as supports, attaching and shaping lengths of PVC tubing to create enormous, protruding forms over which he layers thin sheets of wood. In others, he arranges thousands of pieces of painted wood into gestural abstract “paintings” that spill off the wall into the viewer’s space. The constants in Oliveira’s work are the visual and tactile qualities of wood that has been exposed to the elements, and though he incorporates new, flexible plywood into his work, his primary material remains the discarded wood collected on the streets of São Paulo.
Visit Henrique Oliveira’s website – here.
consumption enhancing the everyday football: football sculpture
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Nike’s giant World Cup balls up
How (and why) Leicester-based Ratcliffe Fowler Design helped Nike create a sculpture out of 5,500 footballs in a South African shopping centre
curation enhancing the everyday guerilla com: bridge guerilla phallus
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Russian art group Voina “dicks” a St. Petersburg Bridge – Boing Boing
Over the years, Voina staged many actions: police station take-overs, anti-homophobic faux-lynchings in malls, stray cat throwing into swanky restaurants, anti-Medvedev public orgies and all kinds of ruckus. Their most recent target: the headquarters of FSB, the offices of Russia’s KGB incarnate Federal Security Service. Our source: Voina themselves.
In the early morn of Che Guevara’s birthday, the group psyched out bascule bridge guards and made their way to the center of Liteiny Bridge. In 23 seconds flat, Voina painted a 213-feet-tall, 89-feet-wide phallus dubbed “Giant Galactic Space Dick.”
Russian art group Voina “dicks” a St. Petersburg Bridge – Boing Boing.
Fingerings
Judith Ann Braun’ s Fingerings are done with fingers dipped in charcoal, sometimes using both hands simultaneously to the extent of arms’ reach. In this way they are gestural inscriptions of my body, developing a vocabulary of mark making with these simple means.
enhancing the everyday ephemeral guerilla com semiotic
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Folded Paper – Simon Schubert
’ve just rediscovered the amazing paper art by
. It’s not really clear if he really folds the paper or if he rubs the lines into the paper. Anyway, amazing work!
Some of these pieces are more abstract than his previous work.