Allan McCollum‘s The Dog From Pompei, 1991. Cast glass-fiber- reinforced Hydrocal. Replicas made from a mold taken from the famous original “chained dog” plaster cast of a dog smothered in ash from the explosion of Mount Vesuvius, in ancient Pompeii, in 79 A.D. Produced in collaboration with the Museo Vesuviano and the Pompei Tourist Board, Pompei, Italy, and Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy.
I have long been a rabid fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s films and work. He is arguably one of the greatest film directors of all time. I can truthfully re-watch his movies and tv series over and over again, and never get tired of it. As a homage, I rolled and carefully placed 2,197 cells of post-it notes (being held together by scotch tape) to form a silhouette shadow of Hitchcock. Just like in most of his films, this structure is an attempt to convey that not everything you see is always what it seems. Link here.
‘Yoshifumi Hayashi (1948, Fukuoka, Japan) is an artist specializing in scenes of female erotica. In the 21st century, he has been associated with the Mondo Bizarro art gallery in Italy.’
André Feliciano considers himself an art gardener. His utopian view of the world can be better understood by his concept of “Floraissance Art,” which mixes the words “flora” and “renaissance” and calls for a postmodern return to arcadia. Feliciano uses words like sprouting, cultivating, and gardening in his artistic practice. His colorful, artificial garden made out of resin-based flowers and dirt is majestically beautiful and leads us to an inner state of calm and contentment. Why not extend these feelings to our present condition so that we can start building a better future? Feliciano, born in 1984, in São Paulo (Brazil), has exhibited at Photoville (New York, 2012), Bonni Benrubi Gallery (New York, 2011), and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (2010), among other venues. His work has been featured in the New York Times online, Time magazine’s photography blog, and the blog of the International Center of Photography. (via Location One)
Julie Rrap has been a major figure in Australian contemporary art for over three decades. Since the mid-1970s, she has worked with photography, painting, sculpture, performance and video in an ongoing project concerned with representations of the body. Julie Rrap’s work is held in every major public collection as well as many corporate and private collections. Rrap was selected for the prestigious Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria in September 2009. (via Arc One)
Oliver Kosta-Théfaine (born in 1972) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. He was the chief redactor of Wordlsigns Magazine and Nusign magazine, Paris, 2007. Graduated in Art History, he is a Self-taught artist. Since 1996, the artist works with galleries and institutions worldwide. In each of his pieces, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine plays with the codes of popular culture. His work is structured around the use of language specific to the city and its suburbs, thus changing or twisting given meanings to confront the widest possible audience. His work has been shown at institutions and galleries such as Fondation Cartier, A.L.I.C.E. Gallery and Cripta747.
These playful and creative photos are the work of Guim Tió Zarraluki, artist based in Barcelona. Have a look.
The Arkadelphia Piece (2010) by artist Jonathan Brilliant, is an installation composed of 50,000 wooden coffee stir sticks woven in place and held by tension with gallery bench inclusion -Hammons Gallery OBU, Arkadelphia Arkansas.
” I am an artist living and working in Scotland predominantly interested in culture, prejudice with ambitions to challenge traditional concepts of portraiture and figuration with works that are almost devoid of recognisable facial characteristics. Through an obsession with identity I have produced a body of work containing paintings that communicate all that is intimate and personal in me. These figures have been stripped of identity by immersing their face in various materials that deform and disfigure their appearance; the only way in which the viewer can penetrate through these disguises is to look into the eyes, in which they try to contemplate the vulnerability, trying to understand the image before them. My aim is to use my art to stimulate questions of beauty and ugliness, of disfigurement and difference, and thereby, interrogate the viewer’s responses to prejudice, stereotyping and perhaps even subliminal reactions.” – Lisa Scrimgeour
Elena Rapa (Fano, 1978) lives in Milan. She defines herself as an eclectic artist. Her creatures and background settings come from childhood fantasies. They pervade her entire work, and can be found in pictures, objects and supports, paper and recycled stuff. Experimentation means artistic growth to Elena. It is opposed to the stasis caused by the production speed and the repetition of a well-known, banal signature style. In the production process, Elena loves to keep more than one way to choose, from the beginning to the final step. She starts with a sketch (inspired by a book, a toy, an object), then she decides the surface to work on, choosing the colours depending on the mood she’s in, and she gives a possible “ending” to her artwork. She will probably modify it months later. (via Fabrica Fluxus)
