mayisabe'sicons

so awe-some.

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mianoti:

Mona Hatoum * **

Impenetrable

black finished steel, fishing + barbed wire

thanks to FLORES EN EL ÁTICO for inspirations and suggestions

Impenetrable appears to float in the space: a delicate and precariously suspended cube. This floating cube is ghost like, but at the same time it has a physicality that possesses the space. However, on closer inspection, this cube which appears so delicate from a distance actually consists of barbed wire rods, and juxtaposes notions of magic, wonder, and fragility with those of danger and fear. The barbed wire is a deadly encumbrance but at the same time an ethereal and astonishing structure of minimal form.

the-flying-ninja:

Installations by Robert Montgomery

10 Awesome (and expensive) Outdoor Installations

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cannibalhymn:

Surveys (From the Cape of Good Hope) 
An exhibit by Jane Alexander at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston

Jane Alexander’s hybrid mutants speak to the porous borders between humans and other forms of animal life. Alexander acts as a surveyor mapping the forces, interests, and passions at play in human behavior. Her sculptures, installations, and photomontages are firmly rooted in her South African experience. They also transcend their locality, revealing the disparity felt every day around the world between the rhetoric of peace and decorum and the human capacity for oppression and violence.

“These issues would be particularly accessible to an American audience because of our common histories of discrimination and segregation,” Alexander told the Savannah Morning News in March, “and the continued presence of and the lack of resolution of their legacy.”

I really enjoyed Alexander’s exhibit today! I really wish I could have gotten a good picture of her installation Security, a rectangular space with two chain fences topped with razor wire holding inside a bird-like statue. In between the fences lays thousands of rusted machetes and used red, rubber gloves. It was fantastic.

These pieces do a great job of exposing the fine line between the person and the animal, the civilized and the wild. 

artforadults:

more paintings by horyon lee

devidsketchbook:

COLLAGES BY JOE WEBB

Artist Joe Webb - My collages work to a basic rule of sourcing just two or three images….Then I present them as a reinvented single image with the objective of communicating a new message or idea. I started making these simple hand made collages as a sort of luddite reaction to working on computers for years. I like the limitations of collage…using found imagery and a pair of scissors, there are no Photoshop options to resize, adjust colours or undo.