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John Waters, Guest Curator at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis - NYTimes.com
John Waters, the Artful Dodger By HILARIE M. SHEETS Published: June 23, 201 “I ALWAYS think of art as animate objects with their own little lives and personalities,” said John Waters, the filmmaker known for ignoring the boundaries of good taste and bad in movies like “Pink Flamingos” and “Hairspray.” “I’m curious about who can live with each other.” Enlarge This Image Stephen Maturen for The New York Times John Waters curated “Absentee Landlord” at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. More Photos » Multimedia Slide Show ‘Absentee Landlord’ Blog ArtsBeat The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. More Arts News
Enlarge This Image Stephen Maturen for The New York Times A work by Wolfgang Tillmans, left, and “Shoestring Potatoes Spilling From a Bag” by Claes Oldenburg. More Photos » Mr. Waters, also an actor, writer, artist and art collector, is now a museum curator as well. Invited by the Walker
good weather exhibition by sarah illenberger
© meloncholie, 2010 by sarah illenberger. fine art print, 40 x 60 cm, ed. of 50. courtesy of gestalten.
sarah illenberger : 'good weather' exhibition
at: gestalten space , berlin
from: 18 august — 11 september, 2011
(opening: august 18, 18:00 – 21:00)
to coincide with the launch of the the artist's first monograph gestalten space will show a large selection of work by berlin-based visual artist sarah illenberger .
© chili con carne, 2008 by sarah illenberger for enroute magazine. fine art print, 70 x 84 cm, ed. of 25. courtesy of gestalten.
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good weather also presents many of the original crafted objects composed from combining an array of materials such as paper, textile, and stones to mundane everyday items from fruits and rubber bands to car tires.
meticulously created with analog handicraft instead of using a computer, sarah illenberger’s richly-detailed work opens up new perspectives on seemingly familiar
levitation self portraits by hayashi natsumi
image © hayashi natsumi elevating the art of self-portraits to a new level - literally - tokyo-based photographer hayashi natsumi 's work consists of the artist seemingly floating in midair within conventional settings in and around the japanese city. entitled 'today's levitation', the series is updated daily with new photographs set in a variety of locations from a desolate street to a busy train platform. using the aid of a simple tripod, the self-portraits are taken with a 10-second timer from a distance. all the poses are captured in mid-jump with no aid of a rigging system or photoshop. impossibly relaxed and composed, the floating subject injects a surreal atmosphere to the often normal set, rendering an image devoid of gravity or physics. to see many more images from the series, click here to natsumi's daily blog. image © hayashi natsumi image © hayashi natsumi image © hayashi natsumi image © hayashi natsumi image © hayash
gulp - world's largest stop motion animation
'gulp' by aardman all images courtesy aardman 'gulp', a short film created by sumo science at aardman , has broken a world record for the 'largest stop-motion animation'. completely shot using a 12-megapixel cellphone camera on a nokia N8, the project was set on 11,000 m2 of sand on south wales' pendine beach. props include a full-scale boat and a rain-jacket clad actor to tell a harrowing episode of a fisherman's time at sea. the short involved a large team that raked and smoothed out patterns on the sand to create a seascape--and the inside of a whale's belly--when viewed from above. shot from a large crane overhead, the images were then compiled to run at 25 frames per second to create the stop-motion effect. make sure to check out the making-up film embedded at the bottom of the page. Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo . camera set up nokia N8 the team prop
wastelandscape by elise morin & clémence eliard
'wastelandscape', an installation by elise morin and clémence eliard created by french artist elise morin and architect clémence eliard, 'wastelandscape' overtakes the 'halle d'aubervilliers' of paris's centquatre with an undulating landscape composed of 65,000 old CDs, sorted and hand-sewn together into a 500-square meter surface. the piece is on exhibition at the centquatre now through september 10th. in the artists' words: ' made of petroleum, this reflecting slick of CDs forms a still sea of metallic dunes; the artwork's monumental scale reveals the precious aspect of a small daily object. ' 'wastelandscape' is planned for exhibition in multiple locations, transforming each time, before eventually being completely recycled into polycarbonate. the 500-square meter artificial landscape utilizes 65,000 CDs installation view view from above closer view detail view video view of the exhibition an
paper shadowbox sculptures by christina lihan
'uffizi', a paper shadowbox sculpture by christina lihan originally trained as an architect, US-based artist christina lihan creates elaborate paper relief sculptures, mounted in shadowboxes and ranging from two to six inches deep. as subjects she has taken buildings ranging from the eiffel tower and taj mahal to private residences and american cities. all carefully assembled in detailed layers, the artworks are composed of unpainted, 300lb. coldpress watercolour paper. lihan begins her work by photographing and sketching the site, generally creating scaled charcoal drawings that she then enlarges to the planned size of the finished piece. she lays out the buildings directly over these sketched forms, and cutting out details in place and ultimately assembling all the components into the finished composition. all carving, scoring, cutting, and folding is completed by hand, and lihan admits that, basing her work primarily on its aesthetic effect rather than on mathemati