Appeel
Appeel is a project by the designers TheGreenEyl.
They call it a virus that spreads through interactive individuals.
Tim Knowles
Tree drawings by Tim Knowles.
Beautiful.
Urban river
Looking for inspiration for a new school project - create a work/monument for a public space - I came across this installation by Henk Hofstra.
He painted 1 km of road blue. The blue road is a memorial to the waterway that used to be there where the road is now.
50 drawings
50 drawings I made, to be used for a collage.
Noel Middleton
Tara Donovan
Wow, this is one patient artist!
She makes these amazing enormous sculptures out of small everyday objects.
Stacked Clear Plastic Drinking Straws;
Styrofoam Cups;
Paper plates;
Adding Machine Paper;
There goes the neighborhood
In this project of Lisa Dahl she uses photographs from real estate magazines as well as her own photographs.
By applying multiple layers of brightly colored paint and other materials on top of the suburban homes - also to be seen as the ‘Amcerican Dream’ and its discontents - she transforms these homes into recognizable forms but with no sense of comfort you normally equate the homes of our dreams with.
Exchange
The January project at my school is all about exchange. So I thought it might be nice to make a post with some artist that use exchange - in the broadest sense of the word - in their work.
For instance an interesting exchange work by Sophie Calle is address book.
‘Having recently found an address book on the street (which she photocopied and returned to its owner), she decided to call some of the telephone numbers in the book and speak with the people about its owner. To the transcripts of these conversations, Calle added photographs of the man’s favorite activities, creating a portrait of a man she never met, by way of his acquaintances.’
Another wonderfull project of Sophie Calle is The Blind. For this project she interviewed blind people and asked them to define beauty. She made photographs that interpret this information and also portraits of the people she interviewd.
And ofcourse Cindy Sherman who exchanges her personality for her photographs;
And last but not least a project by Gillian Wearing - ‘Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say’ - in which she asks random people on the streets to exchange their thoughts with her.
Marc Johns
Post-its by Marc Johns.
Lily van der Stokker
Lily van der Stokker designed a wallpaper for the van Abbe museum. The museum asked her to display this wallpaper in a room specially for her. In here she was asked to invite a series of artist to exhibit their work together with her wallpaper. I find this an interesting idea.
I saw the room with Rachel Harrison as guest;
Lily van der Stokker plays with the contradictions between decoration and art. Is this room above an installation or just a two dimensional decoration?
Other work by Lily;
