Marc Laroche

Hair

by sabine7
in mocoloco.com


Hair becomes the medium in this series of black and white photographs by Marc Laroche. Almost a sculptural element, these tresses take on a life of their own as they whirl around and over their owners' faces. The hair acts as a disguise, a neutralizer and a mask, but also as a silky modelling clay that is putty to the forces of the air that controls it. Straightforward portraits become textured abstrac

Marcel Ceuppens

The Man at The Window

by sabine7
in mocoloco.com

There is definitely a mid-century feel to Marcel Ceuppens' digital paintings. The Belgian artist has a knack with a lone figure, a smartly dressed man in a suit and a hat who carries a briefcase and walks quite silently. He is too cool not to smoke or worry about blood on the job, yet is the consummate family man and team player, despite his aloofness, perceived or otherwise. Do we trust him? Can we afford not to?

Andy Freeberg

Guardians

by sabine7
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Guardians is a new photographic series by Andy Freeberg, who focuses on the women who sit guard over the art in Russian museums. The seated women become as much a part of the viewing as the art above them. The women often become engaged by the pieces, and their role takes on a personal aspect when the art becomes part of their lives.

T1982-H19 by Hans Hartung


by sabine7
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The late abstract expressionist Hans Hartung dedicated the last three years of his life to producing as many canvases as he could, after being told he was terminally ill. The results are full of energy and drama. The colours range from soft to intense and Hartung used items such as rollers, garden rakes and olive branches, along with spray paint, to create large paintings full of emotion. These works are described as expressing "ideas of infinity and the sublime on the one hand, and existential inner torment on the other," but can be viewed as just plain stirring as well.

Jessica Snow

252(+1) Dots by Jessica Snow

by sabine7
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Sometimes the simplest things are what it takes to make us feel just right. Jessica Snow uses saturated colour to hit this point home in the form of lots of dots, stacks of stripes and petals that go round and round.

James Jean combines symbolism and narrative

"Maze" by James Jean


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With a mix of Japanese Woodblock prints, Northern Renaissance paintings and etchings, Chinese scroll paintings, Shanghai advertising posters, comics, anatomical charts, and vintage printed ephemera as influences, James Jean combines symbolism and narrative in work that displays fluidity and grace.

Brian Parillo

Downtown LA Architecture

by sabine7
in mocoloco.com

Abstracts? Geometrics? Bold angles, sharp edges and a shine softened by nature's skies - how to sum up Brian Parillo's photographs of architectural L.A.? Has the silver screen left a silver sheen? No, it is the perspective and skill of a photographer whose work is like an eye magnet. Still, in L.A., the future is now.

I spent two years drawing flowers

Flowers by Takashi Murakami


by sabine7
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Takashi Murakami explains how flowers became crucial elements in his work, "When I was preparing for the entrance exams for the University of Fine Arts, I spent two years drawing flowers. I drew some every day. And the entrance exam in the Nihon-ga section also involved flower drawing. Afterwards, to earn a living, I spent nine years working in a preparatory school, where I taught the students to draw flowers. Once every two days, I would buy flowers for my lesson and make compositions for the students to work on. At the beginning, to be frank, I didn't like flowers, but as I continued teaching in the school, my feelings changed: their smell, their shape - it all made me feel almost physically sick, and at the same time I found them very 'cute'.

The Guardians

Van Dyck's Portrait of Maria Bosschaerts,
Pushkin Museum by Andy Freeberg

by sabine7
in mocoloco.com

This series, entitled The Guardians, by Andy Freeberg speaks of respect, dignity, honour and patience. The art becomes part of the lives of the women who watch over it. May the art around us become part of our lives as well.

POST FOSSIL

Excavating 21st century creation

by sabine7
in mocoloco.com

POST FOSSIL: excavating 21st century creation is a design exhibition curated by Li Edelkoort that is currently on at the Design Museum Holon. The pieces shown in the exhibition are "future fossils" or the objects created by a group of designers, including Nacho Carbonell (work shown above), Maarten Baas, Pieke Bergmans, BCXSY, Samuel Ben Shalom and Studio Re-Creation, that challenge more conventional ideas of design, by "going back to the primitive roots of the very act of making things."

Urban Interiors

The City: Laundromat by Lori Nix


by sabine7
in mocoloco
The very nature of Lori Nix's work is fascinating in itself, as Nix has been creating tiny dioramas since the mid-1990s (featured in photographs taken with her large-format camera). Even more intriguing is the atmosphere of doom presented in her latest body of work, a series of urban interiors in a state of uncomfortable decay. The tableaux, which range from a laundromat during the day and at night to a map room with geography askew and a church that harbours old signage, are meticulous depictions of a possibly very eerie future.