Posts Tagged ‘Art’

A multi-channel video with immersive sound work, that addresses the themes of silence and landscape with location recordings of each of the seven volcanic islands captured in high detail. Its ten minute duration presents an ethereal sequence of scenes that resonates with the glory of the natural environment. Mink and Scanner captured the idea of silence and human intervention, by creating traces through different areas which addresses the existence of the real and imagined landscapes that they’ve confronted and readjusted throughout their journey…

Atlantida, Installation at 2nd Biennial of the Canaries 2009 from Olga Mink on Vimeo.

One of the most special artists I’ve seen this month is American artist Christian Faur.

Faur is an artist that developed his own colour-code language to communicate with and he also makes works that uses scientific and mathematical formulas. Also special are the portraits he builds out of colour codes with nothing but crayons. Faur proves to be a many-sided and interesting contemporary artist and I got his permission to show some of his works here.

Christian Faur – Just Paper II / 2008

This is the work of Faur that touched me most. It’s made from torn pieces of paper stuck on a foam background. It’s the well known image of the tower of Guantanamo Bay. What makes the work special is that it’s build from the shredded constitution of the United States of America. Marvellous.

Christian Faur – Continuum / 2001

Faur also has a number of paintings based on mathematical and/or scientific formula. They come close to something I would call visual poetry, and very startling visual poetry indeed, that also has a scientific background. That background and fascination for the laws of nature sounds trhough in most of Faur’s work. Some of his work is also strongly conceptual; he has published an essay of Wittgenstein translated into his own colour language:

(original handmade artists book based on the text “Remarks on Color*” by Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Also special are the works that are build from hundreds of coloured crayons, which again contain coloured codes which will probably yield hidden messages when they are translated from the colour language Faur has constructed:

The Wind, the wind, 2007, Hand Cast Encaustic Crayons, 3 Panels at 19.5 in x 19.5 in each

The Wind, the wind, 2007, Hand Cast Encaustic Crayons, Left panel 19.5 in x 19.5 in.

In short, Faur is a fascinating artist that developed his own language and tries to grasp the forces and formula behind our realities. He definatly deserves the attention of a wider audience. Please take a look at his website:

http://www.christianfaur.com/

One of my favorite artists at this moment is Alexandra Crouwers. Her work is fantastic, actually, no matter if it’s her drawings, installation works or animations. Here are four examples of an installation artwork she did, more work of her and drawings/animations can be directly viewed on her website through the link below the images:

Visit the website of Alexandra Crouwers

I remember I once saw a pornshoot with a girl and an octopus in a bathtub which I found very artistic and exciting. Today, I saw this amazing artwork on Linh Dinh’s weblog about the lower half of the human body:

The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife. C. 1820. 6 1/2″ x 8 3/4″ by Katsushika Hokusai

What a touching image! There is more work of this artist on this website

This is one of the most grabbing artworks I have seen lately and the overall best example of conceptual protest art I have seen. I am talking about Jordi Colomer’s ‘Anarchitecton’ which is a serie of videos and pictures of people protesting with buildings as a protest sign:

That makes you think in these times of economic crisis: is capitalism actually a protest against itself?

Isn’t the only way to effectively protest capitalism becoming capitalism itself? The way things are build now there’s no way to escape the system, unless you manage to climb on top of it. The same is true about our so-called ‘democracy’: it has become the most intolerant political system ever invented, far more intolerant than any dictatorship has ever been. That is an interesting paradox.

View the whole work on Jordi Colomers website

Rivkah Young is an artist born in Koln, Germany. One of her projects is called ‘Colorium’ and it evolves around photographing empty stages. The stage normally doesn’t get any attention as an object, it is always treated as applied art at best, as something dependant on the artists or showmasters that perform there. That is why Rivkah Youngs photographs are very special. Her photographs evoke an almost alien sense of beauty and her eye for composition is remarkable.

Her pictures evoke a strange sense of beauty and solitude. She gave me permission to post some of them on Loewak:

More of Rivkah Young’s work can be seen on her website. She also has a PDF with all the Colorium works online:

Website – Colorium PDF