Yago Hortal, SP75. 2014
Olafur Eliasson, The mediated motion, 2001
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Landscape House Milad Eshtiyaghi
Iranian architect Milad Eshtiyaghi creates wonderful concepts for unique contemporary homes. He often uses interesting landscapes as the backdrop for sculptural architectural works. His latest concept is called Landscape House and it acts as a continuation of the varied surfaces of the mountainous forests of Switzerland.
True to its name, Landscape House seems to emerge from the forest floor in two sweeping white volumes. By rotating the forms, Eshtiyaghi resolves the cantilever by allowing one volume to rest on the other. Each extrusion ends with a façade of floor-to-ceiling glass that allows for unobstructed views outwards. The careful overlap and rotation of the volumes mean that occupants can enjoy two uniquely framed views from the comfort of indoors.
Sculptures by Richard Serra
Richard Serra (b. 1938) is an American artist involved in the Process Art Movement. He is best known for his large, site-specific steel sculptures. These monumental minimalist constructions, typically comprised of self-supporting, shaped and angled corten steel plates, can be found in art institutions and public spaces across the globe.
Anish Kapoor - Dismemberment - Gibbs Farm, New Zealand
Gibbs Farm sculpture park is home to a series of major site specific artworks commissioned from some of the world’s most significant artists.
Composed of a vast PVC membrane stretched between the two giant steel ellipses, Kapoor’s work is architectural, and yet it also has a fleshy quality which the artist describes as being “rather like a flayed skin”.
Kapoor has commented, “I want to make body into sky”. At the farm he achieves this. Here, the artist had to devise a form that was both freestanding and capable of surviving a constant arm-wrestle with the sky and the mercurial weather conditions.
Photography by John Baloyi, a freelance artist and Creative Director Black Artistry, from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Surreal photo manipulation by Hansruedi Ramsauer
Hansruedi Ramsauer is a gifted self-taught digital artist and web designer currently based in Bachenbülach, Switzerland.
After a 20-year career in the financial sector, I started my own business as a web designer a few years ago ( go4design.ch ) made.In order to better meet customer requirements, I made up my mind to learn Photoshop and post a self-created picture on social networks every day.
Brett Scheifflee’s “Haiku” at Robert Lange Studios.
Currently on view at Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, South Carolina is artist Brett Scheifflee’s solo exhibition, “Haiku.”
“After a year where many of us dealt with anxiety, relative isolation, loss and too much screen time, I wanted to create a body of work that encourages the viewer to slow down and to feel a bit more connected to the beauty that is always around us. When learning oil painting, my favorite professor used to recite Haiku poetry in an effort to teach us how beautiful and emotive just a short, but very thoughtful work could be. The examples he gave were usually perfectly paused moments in nature and in hindsight, it’s almost surprising they stuck with the 18 year old version of me as much as they did. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I started to think of making paintings as potential visual counterparts to Haiku poetry and I consider it an ongoing challenge. What can make writing in general more powerful at times is that the text-derived images that arise in our minds are not frozen to examine, they bend and shift and seem to always have the potential to be greater. The “fleshed out” image on the other hand is frozen to examine and fully realized, so I learned to be careful to not illustrate too many aspects of a scene, but rather to set the stage so that memories and details would come to mind in the viewer and hopefully have a more lasting effect. For instance in “Pulling the Tide”, I was asked by another artist why I didn’t paint any fish jumping or ripples in the water? They said it seemed as if it was just about to happen, but I thought because her mind went there anyways and began plugging in future possibilities for the scene is what made it a successful image and one you might want to come back to and re-examine. Like a great Haiku, you are given only so much and if those three lines touch something in your heart and mind, it can go much further and change as your experiences grow. All of these paintings are executed with oil paint on either panel or canvas, and I attempt to work in whatever way allows the paint to feel like the subject. In painting landscapes, that usually means that your edges have to be as careful and delicate as the wispy clouds that streak across an evening sky, but sometimes, it calls for rich textures, fine lines and deep transparency.” - Brett Scheifflee.
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Millo’s “At The Crack Of Dawn” at Thinkspace Projects.
Currently on view at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California is artist Millo’s solo exhibition, “At the Crack of Dawn.”
This exhibition, from internationally renowned muralist Millo, is a collection of works in his signature predominantly black and white style. With detailed monochrome cityscapes and color pops to highlight the subjects, Millo creates the moment just before waking in a series of breathtaking scenes. The friendly inhabitants of each scene float above their urban settings displaying a blend of dream and reality. He crafts giant characters who are out of scale and often clumsy, confined to an urban habitat that forces them to invent new ways to live.
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