The transformation of aesthetics and politics
A practical research explicitly distinguishes between what is beautiful and what is interesting, exploring the differences between representation and reality.
The project tackles the religious, social, c
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The transformation of aesthetics and politics
A practical research explicitly distinguishes between what is beautiful and what is interesting, exploring the differences between representation and reality.
The project tackles the religious, social, c
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Liberties is an experiment in giving and receiving and working together peacefully to create something of universal value and at the same time benefit individually. It is an interactive lear- ning experience, in which each participant learns tha
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Abstract
Liberties is an experiment in giving and receiving and working together peacefully to create something of universal value and at the same time benefit individually. It is an interactive lear- ning experience, in which each participant learns tha
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Children of the Enemy is a sculpture dedicated to the children on either side of any conflict down through history. Stand before them and become the attacker. Stand behind them and become the attacked.
"Children of the Enemy", model for bronze, 55" h
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Children of the Enemy is a sculpture dedicated to the children on either side of any conflict down through history. Stand before them and become the attacker. Stand behind them and become the attacked.
"Children of the Enemy", model for bronze, 55" h
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“The Body” is an installation in which a 1,80m x 0,5m pile of salt rests over a rustic wooden table. This work brings the discussion of the presence of an almost immaterial and spiritual body evoked by the size and by the symbolic character
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“The Body” is an installation in which a 1,80m x 0,5m pile of salt rests over a rustic wooden table. This work brings the discussion of the presence of an almost immaterial and spiritual body evoked by the size and by the symbolic character
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Unrealized Project: Town Square - Rebecca Herman and Mark Shoffner
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Town Square is comprised of several sculptural elements: a tall, narrow, guillotine‐like structure in wood (without a blade); a series of steps leading up to the guillotine from the back; a basket on the floor in front of the guillotine; and two halves
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Town Square is comprised of several sculptural elements: a tall, narrow, guillotine‐like structure in wood (without a blade); a series of steps leading up to the guillotine from the back; a basket on the floor in front of the guillotine; and two halves
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This contains a proposal for the Sweet Auburn Multiscape. It is a steel sculpture that mimics the skyline seen in the Sweet Auburn district in Atlanta over 40 years ago. The purpose of this piece is to reactivate the neglected neighborhood by calling atte
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This contains a proposal for the Sweet Auburn Multiscape. It is a steel sculpture that mimics the skyline seen in the Sweet Auburn district in Atlanta over 40 years ago. The purpose of this piece is to reactivate the neglected neighborhood by calling atte
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The pyramids...to be seen to be believed - Jonathan Monk
Unbuilt Roads
Glasgow 1990
Cultural Capital of Europe
5 February 1990
Mr Jonathan Monk
22 Cecil Street
Hillhead
Glasgow G12 8RH
Dear Jonathan Monk
Thank you very much for your exciting letter concerning your proposed project for this year namely
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Glasgow 1990
Cultural Capital of Europe
5 February 1990
Mr Jonathan Monk
22 Cecil Street
Hillhead
Glasgow G12 8RH
Dear Jonathan Monk
Thank you very much for your exciting letter concerning your proposed project for this year namely
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Press release.
Helen maher. ‘Experiments In Organza’
Textile Sculptor, living & working in London.
Current project, ‘Experiments in Organza’, investigates the interaction between
Primary Elements- Solids, Liquids & Gases & Secondary Elem
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Press release.
Helen maher. ‘Experiments In Organza’
Textile Sculptor, living & working in London.
Current project, ‘Experiments in Organza’, investigates the interaction between
Primary Elements- Solids, Liquids & Gases & Secondary Elem
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Two Years’ Untouched Garden 6th Momentum Biennial Moss, Norway (2011) Two Years’ Untouched Garden was Wooloo’s proposed work for the 6th Momentum Biennial. The work was to be a sculptural intervention among the gardens and grounds of the historical
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Two Years’ Untouched Garden 6th Momentum Biennial Moss, Norway (2011) Two Years’ Untouched Garden was Wooloo’s proposed work for the 6th Momentum Biennial. The work was to be a sculptural intervention among the gardens and grounds of the historical
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Two Barges is a proposal for a pair of illuminated signs to be ferried around the island of Manhattan using the Hudson, Harlem and East Rivers. The signs will be made from panels of tungsten lightbulbs fixed to a supporting metal rig. The letters wi
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Two Barges is a proposal for a pair of illuminated signs to be ferried around the island of Manhattan using the Hudson, Harlem and East Rivers. The signs will be made from panels of tungsten lightbulbs fixed to a supporting metal rig. The letters wi
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Hall of Residence for the UPV - Taller Basico de Arquitectura [TBA]
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Hall of Residence for the UPV (2011)
AIR STRATA
This metal cloud made from three air strata rises on its own footprint. The interior is opened into two equal halves, generating a large interior street opened to the sky and to the ground plane, which
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Hall of Residence for the UPV (2011)
AIR STRATA
This metal cloud made from three air strata rises on its own footprint. The interior is opened into two equal halves, generating a large interior street opened to the sky and to the ground plane, which
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Project 1 – It was the original idea…a new “dress” for my cutlery… a new grip for a knife, a fork, a spoon, which are not very changed in their functional part ( taking food!) but exactly in their grip! It doesn’t seem comfortable at first gla
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Project 1 – It was the original idea…a new “dress” for my cutlery… a new grip for a knife, a fork, a spoon, which are not very changed in their functional part ( taking food!) but exactly in their grip! It doesn’t seem comfortable at first gla
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When I decided to become a professional artist in 2005 , I was switching from a career to my vocation , ignorant of how the art world works I concluded the best means of gaining interest and artistic notoriety quickly was to make a selection of large co
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When I decided to become a professional artist in 2005 , I was switching from a career to my vocation , ignorant of how the art world works I concluded the best means of gaining interest and artistic notoriety quickly was to make a selection of large co
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THE FLUID PAVILION OF ARCHITECTURE - MARIA KARACHRISTOU
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The fluid pavilion of architecture is a model for expression in contemporary aesthetics. It’s a conceptual model based on the theories of Deleuze about Leibniz and Baroque. The Baroque endlessly produces folds.
Deleuze writes:
We can better underst
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The fluid pavilion of architecture is a model for expression in contemporary aesthetics. It’s a conceptual model based on the theories of Deleuze about Leibniz and Baroque. The Baroque endlessly produces folds.
Deleuze writes:
We can better underst
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I started a project that focused on the idea that we all project our thoughts, beliefs, ideas and values onto those that come across our paths in our daily lives. Sometimes tihs is a positive experience and sometimes it is a negative experience.
I c
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I started a project that focused on the idea that we all project our thoughts, beliefs, ideas and values onto those that come across our paths in our daily lives. Sometimes tihs is a positive experience and sometimes it is a negative experience.
I c
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Proteiform is an uncompleted work started in May 2010. My first intention was to implant multiples yellow pins in big Styrofoam balls to create a 1:1 human scale installation.
At the time, my budget to create this new work was somehow limited. I choose
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Proteiform is an uncompleted work started in May 2010. My first intention was to implant multiples yellow pins in big Styrofoam balls to create a 1:1 human scale installation.
At the time, my budget to create this new work was somehow limited. I choose
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20 Foot High x 12 foot circumference Spool of Thread; 3" foam core thread / yellow/ aluminum spool .
The large spool of thread is positioned next to Cleopatra's "Needle" ( obelisk ) in Central Park , NYC.
Location behind Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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20 Foot High x 12 foot circumference Spool of Thread; 3" foam core thread / yellow/ aluminum spool .
The large spool of thread is positioned next to Cleopatra's "Needle" ( obelisk ) in Central Park , NYC.
Location behind Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Editorial Sculpture: Divina Commedia - Javier Toro Blum
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The Divina Commedia triptych is a sculpture project, consisting in three ovoid metal cast pieces. Each piece has engraved in low relief (1.5mm) one part of the Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. With a 2.5mm typography ev
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The Divina Commedia triptych is a sculpture project, consisting in three ovoid metal cast pieces. Each piece has engraved in low relief (1.5mm) one part of the Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. With a 2.5mm typography ev
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Irisation Field - Maria Gaspar, Alexander Eisenschmidt
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Irisation Field
by Maria Gaspar & Alexander Eisenschmidt May 25, 2011
Irisation Field is a durational event that engages hundreds and thousands of people. It takes
place in bleak locations of the city, like vacant lots or abandoned public spaces. It is
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Irisation Field
by Maria Gaspar & Alexander Eisenschmidt May 25, 2011
Irisation Field is a durational event that engages hundreds and thousands of people. It takes
place in bleak locations of the city, like vacant lots or abandoned public spaces. It is
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Charlie Lucas (Tin Man)
Struggling with the Ancestors
Proposal for Vision and Vernacular Eight African American Artists in Venice
Presented by American Folk Art Museum at Fondaco dei Tedeschi, June 2011
Artist Statement
I create beauty from t
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Charlie Lucas (Tin Man)
Struggling with the Ancestors
Proposal for Vision and Vernacular Eight African American Artists in Venice
Presented by American Folk Art Museum at Fondaco dei Tedeschi, June 2011
Artist Statement
I create beauty from t
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Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD 19 Oct 2012
This is a Project Description for the unrealized Los Angeles Police Department Hollenbeck
Station Public Art Project RFP.
My proposal was for a number of 3’ x 7’ ceramic tile panels mounted on the CMU
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Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD 19 Oct 2012
This is a Project Description for the unrealized Los Angeles Police Department Hollenbeck
Station Public Art Project RFP.
My proposal was for a number of 3’ x 7’ ceramic tile panels mounted on the CMU
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Condensed Playground: Le Pendu femelle, "Underskirt (detail)" as Postpartum Uterus Involution - Sheridan Lowrey
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A commercial metal swing set (with one swing on center) and three-row aluminum bleachers in close proximity. Swing orientation is bi-directional. The piece should include a performance reenacting the dynamics of Fragonard's The Swing, 1767, and Duchamp's
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A commercial metal swing set (with one swing on center) and three-row aluminum bleachers in close proximity. Swing orientation is bi-directional. The piece should include a performance reenacting the dynamics of Fragonard's The Swing, 1767, and Duchamp's
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I was a male adolescent with a psychotherapist as a father. That lead to some conflicts. One of my favourite arguments that I can remember was: if you help a wicked person achieve a qualitative leap, does he become more or less bad? Which is the ladder yo
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I was a male adolescent with a psychotherapist as a father. That lead to some conflicts. One of my favourite arguments that I can remember was: if you help a wicked person achieve a qualitative leap, does he become more or less bad? Which is the ladder yo
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Drawing for a human- scale wave, made from paper and biro pen. Using only the pressure of the pen to induce sculptural form from a flat surface. Referencing a common motif of the sublime, this work suggests something ordinary with extraordinar
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Drawing for a human- scale wave, made from paper and biro pen. Using only the pressure of the pen to induce sculptural form from a flat surface. Referencing a common motif of the sublime, this work suggests something ordinary with extraordinar
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In Turin von Alighiero Boetti für Fiat entworfenes Projekt, das im Rahmen der Landwirtschaftsausstellung 1970 in Verona prasentiert werden sollte, auf der die Firma vertreten war. Es sah eine etwa zwanzig Meter hohe Saüle vor, die die verschiedenen Schi
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In Turin von Alighiero Boetti für Fiat entworfenes Projekt, das im Rahmen der Landwirtschaftsausstellung 1970 in Verona prasentiert werden sollte, auf der die Firma vertreten war. Es sah eine etwa zwanzig Meter hohe Saüle vor, die die verschiedenen Schi
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