New piece by graffiti artist turned artist: KAWS .
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind carries me across the sky.
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Ojibwe people.
Richard Mosse’s pictures of Congo draw from a different palette of colours, literally. Using recently discontinued Kodak infrared film, his photographs turn the vegetation of the eastern Congo into jarring magenta, while the soldiers’ uniforms go purple. It feels as if we have fallen down a rabbit hole, into a more surreal space.
This Aerochrome infrared film was developed by the US military in the 1940s to detect camouflage and to reveal part of the spectrum of light the human eye cannot see. But where this technology was invented to detect enemy positions in the underbrush, Mosse uses it to make us call into question pictures we thought we understood. These are the images we take for granted from Congo: the ruthless militia commander, the rape victim, an unwitting peasant. But in Mosse’s pictures, Congo’s photographic clichés are represented in a counterpoint of electric pink, teal blue and lavender. By representing the conflict with an invisible spectrum of infrared light, he pushes us to see this tragedy in new ways.
The work of Kon Trubkovich often deals with the technological transfer of information, and the inherent visual aspects that occur from disruption, interference, and distortion – lines, blips, anomalies. His oil paintings and drawings bring back childhood memories of what the TV looked like when you hit pause on the VCR or visited a channel that was scrambled. The New York-based Russian artist begins his work by shooting video, and only later decides what stills will eventually become oil paintings or graphite drawings.
teenage rapper from Daytona Beach - Kitty Pryde - kind of amazing.
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Following the two months long action in the city of Shanghai, VHILS shows to the public his unusual work, chisels-carved walls, acid-engraved metal or laser-cut posters. VHILS’s artwork is a revolution in the stencil technique in its use of unusual tools. Through the destruction of walls, he explores the layers of urban space and its history. Old papers, worn out posters, wood panels, brick walls are attacked with chisels, jackhammer, acid, or explosives, in order to sculpt his stencil on the wall. VHILS’s portraits underline an important contrast between new and ancient ; he makes visible the inside face of these buildings. VHILS tries to give a new face to the city which is, for him, a ground of popular inspirations.
For this first exhibition in China, VHILS invests not only the gallery but also the city. He carves the walls of buildings. VHILS says “it is the ephemeral that captivates me, the transformations and developments in the city”. The exhibition emphasizes the uniqueness of his work and the technical transformations he makes use of.
VHILS in Shanghai.
