11
décembre
Shadow, Rook Floro, 2011
The art installation shows “two men”, one is sitting and undergoing meditation, and another one is standing, seems a shadow of the sitting man, and represents a reflection of him, the standing man represents your ‘shadow’, which involves your hidden desires to be different and become perfect of your mind. The man is sitting here shaping his ‘shadow’.” Moreover, whole scene is mostly black and white, gives me a sense of emptiness and depressed.
What would you ask for, if you could have just one wish come true?
”I wish” is a phrase that we usually use in our daily life like “I wish it wasn’t rain today.” , “I wish I can get on train on time.” But what if we think deeply about what we really want, you would not wish for the better weather but the things that come more meaningful to you.
And those wishes may appear on collection “I Wish Your Wish” of the exhibition “ A Day Like Any Other ” by Rivane Neuenschwander. “I Wish Your Wish” is an installation, which invited thousands of people to write down their wishes and print them on the colourful ribbons.
“Inside Out Project” by JR
JR is a French artist who considers himself as « neither a street artist nor a photographer”. He began his career as a teenage graffiti artist. Later, he started to flypost large black-and-white photographic images in public locations since the age of 17. Beginning at Paris, JR pasted people’s portraits up in the streets, basements and on the rooftops. Later, he created several projects including Portraits of a Generation, Face2Face, Women Are Heroes and Los Surcos de la Ciudad in different places such as Israel and Palestine.
After winning the TED Prize which is awarded annually to ‘One Wish to Change the World’ in 2011, JR started the “Inside Out Project”. This project is an ongoing global multimedia, participatory art project which transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. In the following paragraphs, this unique “Inside Out Project” will be discussed and the concepts behind it will be analyzed.
Robotlab
Robotlab is an organization which works with industrial robots in public spaces. It mainly explores the relationship between human and machine by means of installations and experformances. Robotlab is founded 2000 by Matthias Gommel, Martina Haitz and Jan Zappe. The free artist group is associated to the Institute of Visual Media at the ZKM - Center of Art and Media Karlsruhe, Deutschland.
In the past 10 years, Robotlab has created so many experimental situations in different exhibition spaces, in which the public has the opportunity to interact with robots. Actually, all of its art works are involving various aspects such as music, science and fine art. Anyway, it is a good chance for people to meet robots in public and some exhibitions. Therefore, humans can have contact with them and experience how they behave and know how to behave correctly with them.
Yotsuya (TOKYO, 1997) by Daido Moriyama
Yotsuya (TOKYO, 1997) by Daido Moriyama
Yotsuya by Daido Moriyama, a Japanese photographer who is famous for black and white photos. He made mostly photos of landscapes, flowers, women and traditional ceremonies in Japan. The work I want to comment is a black-and-white photo taken in Tokyo in 1997.
The photo is mainly about a person at Yotsuya, a very famous and old place in Tokyo. In half of the picture, then the remaining parts are blacken. There is a fading from black to light then the half-face of the person. As it is a black and white photo, colours look cold and soft with strong noise that particles are clearly seen on the photo.
09
décembre
Material measure I-IIIII
- Sinéad O’Donnell - 2011
Material measure I-IIIII are a series of performance arts called Material Measure which created by Sinead O’Donnell was recorded in a video format in 2011 and uploaded into YouTube. About this series ,the first video of this work was recorded in 22-7-2011, it had been last for around over one year right now and I think she is still working on it but not just satisfied right this time.
07
décembre
This skull is created by the artist, Mr Brainwash who like to create some pop art and also a filmmaker in Los Angeles. He likes to make street arts, spraying on the wall, drawing on the ground. Since he held his art show in 2008, he had been recognized by the public. This time, this artwork, Reborn was drawn by 9 colours for the main skull, who was originally the skull of Marilynn. Actually the artwork is not quite beautiful from my point of view. While, it can represent the “reborn” of Marilynn. It is because it shows the Marilynn clearly even if it is a skull or dead. When the public saw the yellow curvy hair with sharp red lips, it made us recognize who it is. While, if using skull as an artwork. It can fused with different element to make it more creative.
