David Schalliol captures us with his unexpected angle. His art involves architecture, sociology, history and photography. I chose to talk about this author because photography in his hands is just one piece of a bigger thing. And that piece helps to depict and analyse the context. Maybe these pictures, done in Chicago, will attract you with its aesthetics, but there is a lot more in it.
I came across Ryan McGinley work again. Even though these pieces showed up a while ago, it still look inspiring and worth having a look at. This time he is moving to the bleak underground, which through his lens — rose, blue, orange — becomes fantastically lyrical and peaceful home of solitary beings.
I was standing in a centre of the Somerset House exhibition hall preparing my mind and eyes to consume vast assortment of the biggest illustration fair of the year. As I stood with my eyes shut this annoying feeling of déjà vu at last began to fade and was fully disrupted by the smell of sausage. Yes. This was my second time at Pick Me Up, and one immediate difference I noticed was smell… “Previews are funny” I though to myself, some smell of cheap vine or sweat or mould, some reek with overpowering perfume. “Sausages are original” I thought again and took one passing me on a plate. I realised I was hungry not only for some juicy art.
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Pablo Wendel — artist of younger generation, yet to be involved with critics or defined with conceptual boundaries described by curators, but he already attracted a lot of attention from mass media, social networks and took part in some of most recognized galleries and exhibitions ( Bloomberg Contemporaries 2010, Saatchi best graduate awards ). The reason behind all this attention most probably lies behind his wit and accurate raillery. His performances are spreading in speed of light and quickly becoming of “must see” type.
One of the best known performances, probably shown on most of bigger countries’ television channels and written about in newspapers, was staging of Terracotta warrior in China’s architectural heritage exhibit. Pablo himself disguised as one of the warriors just stood still there amongst legendary heroes. Sure enough China’s dictatorship-like Police didn’t like it one bit, so young man, who wasn’t reacting to questions and urging to leave, was just carried out of battlefield.
But this is not a sole performance of this guy, so let’s talk about his other work.
Aiste Stancikaite is a photographer travelling in Asia at the moment. For Art Pit, she features the most interesting moments of her journey and writes some feedback about her impressions of Asia. In this post, you will find her photo reportage from Thailand.
‘Picture Tells…’ is an experimental web app which in near future will help you discover new exciting things through art. At this point we have some interesting stories to tell about each image you choose and some insights for you to share with your friends. [...]
Art Pit is collaborative and open community, always looking for new possibilities and individuals to join our team. If you are interested in writing, you can contact us, noting what topics interest you. After selection, if you get in our team, you will get your [...]
Art Pit just recently introduced to our readers a new shop, where you can find limited edition prints and creative stuff, designed and made by our artists and writers. Our community is very interdisciplinary and we do like interesting, good looking, eco friendly and qualitative things, [...]
In the summer, of 2010 Art Pit organized international festival ‘Oshia’ of informal education and contemporary culture. Festival took three days and involved various activities such as exhibitions, workshops, lectures, discussions, film screenings, concerts, etc. We were very happy to gather fascinating personalities, who shared [...]
Art Pit is curious and passionate about new art forms and experimental art. Performance art festival ‘Silence, Please’ was organized in case to introduce contemporary live art scene in Lithuania and Estonia and rise discussions about its development. The festival was organized in two cities [...]
Art Pit team highly believes that creative city development and improvement of social spaces within the city are very important. One of our aim is to work with abandoned places and areas and use various resources to make this spaces lively active and fascinating again. [...]
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