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yasunari ikenaga

May 16, 2017 by slow shimo

Taken from Juxtapoz Magazine (August 09, 2016) Born in 1965, artist Ikenaga Yasunari’s serene and soothing portraits of modern women evoke a dreamy nostalgia through their faded golden hues and elegant floating poses. Using a Menso brush, mineral pigments, and soot ink on linen cloth, Yasunari continues the ancient tradition of Nihonga painting while simultaneously bringing modern elements to play, such as present-day clothing styles and floral textile designs. The result is both beautiful and melancholy, capturing the timelessness of […]

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to leave a light impression

March 22, 2015 by slow shimo

darren almond (b. 1971, wigan, uk) at whitecube, bermondsey white cube, south galleries, bermondsey. 22 january to 13 april 2014 This exhibition included photographs from the ‘Fullmoon’ and ‘Present Form’ series as well as a group of small-scale bronze sculptures. The ‘Fullmoon’ series of photographs, which have taken Almond to every continent over a period of 13 years, are taken under the light of a full moon using long exposure, enabling details undetectable to the human eye to be revealed. […]

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analogies : koya abe

March 4, 2015 by slow shimo

from the series Analogies (koya abe) Digital Art Chapter 5: Analogies Irezumi, the Japanese tattoo, is an art form that represents commitment, dedication and physicality. Digital media is an art form that represents transformation, flexibility and emptiness. Irezumi tattoo is also a traditional form of art whereas digital media is an emerging form of art. In my perspective, irezumi is ultimately loyalty and digital technology is deception. I became aware of these characteristic qualities initially, but then I realised that there are cultural, social and […]

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yoshitomo nara

February 28, 2015 by slow shimo

Yoshitomo Nara (b. Aomori, Japan, 1959) As one of the leading artists of Japan’s influential Neo Pop art since the 1990s, Nara is well known for his depictions of children and animals. Nara’s cute, though often menacing, children and animals are so readily associated with popular culture, particularly manga comics and animation, that viewers may neglect to contemplate his evocative imagery in depth. His popular appeal masks the serious social and personal dimensions of his work-feelings of helplessness and rage, […]

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witness

February 26, 2015 by slow shimo

Witness (2000, susan hiller) audio-sculpture; 350 loudspeakers, 10 cd players, amplifiers, wiring, lights, etc. Witness is an audio work about seeing; In Witness relationships between the visionary and the visualised are mediated by sound. First presented May-June 2000 at The Chapel, 92, Golborne Rd, London (Artangel projects). “I am a security guard on the Central Pier in Blackpool. I want to keep my job, so I will not give out my name…” “My name is Jan Pienaar, I am 45 and I farm […]

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susan hiller

February 26, 2015 by slow shimo

Susan Hiller (b. Cleveland, Ohio, 1940) Susan Hiller was born in 1940 and grew up in and around Cleveland, Ohio until 1952 when her family moved to South Florida where she attended local schools and Coral Gables High School. She was awarded a scholarship to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1961. After a year in New York studying film and photography at The Cooper Union and archaeology and linguistics at Hunter College, Hiller went on to do postgraduate work at Tulane University […]

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redon

February 25, 2015 by slow shimo

Odilon Redon (1840 – 1916) Artist’s Secrets 1894 I have made an art according to myself. I have done it with eyes open to the marvels of the visible world and whatever anyone says, always careful to obey the laws of nature and life. I have done it also with the love for several masters who led me to the worship of beauty. Art is the Supreme Range, high, salutary and sacred; it blossoms; in the dilettante, it produces only delight, but […]

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eva hesse

February 22, 2015 by slow shimo

eva hesse (1936-1970) When Eva Hesse came to maturity as an artist during the mid-1960s, the women’s movement and the sexual revolution were emerging as powerful, liberating forces in the U.S. It was a time when voices of the counterculture gained widespread recognition. The urge toward radical reappraisal and reform was manifest in the art world as well—Pop art and Minimalism displaced Abstract Expressionism through their categorical dismissal of artistic subjectivity and the heroic gesture. Almost immediately, however, artists questioned the […]

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sarah lucas

February 11, 2015 by slow shimo

The bawdy euphemisms, repressed truths, erotic delights and sculptural possibilities of the sexual body lie at the heart of Sarah Lucas’s work (b. 1962). First coming to prominence in the 1990s with a show at London’s City Racing memorably titled, Penis Nailed to a Board, this British artist’s sculpture, photography and installation have established her as one of the most important figures of her generation. Lucas’s materials – furniture, clothing, food – are sculptural and associative. Nylon tights provide a […]

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