Riusuke Fukahori Goldfishes...

FIRST WATCH THE VIDEO
 http://vimeo.com/32967940

Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori paints three-dimensional goldfish using a complex process of poured resin. Its more like painting then pouring then putting a layer of painting and then again pouring resin. The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer. I really enjoy the rich depth of the pieces and the optical illusion aspect, it’s such an odd process that results in something that’s both a painting and sculptural. Wonderful!! This is quite a wonder of its kind to create a 3D illusion.
The other day in class we were discussing the aspect where art is considered as art until its concept based, or only labor intensive pieces like realistic painting could only be called as art pieces, If yes then what were the fluxes or minimalistic or anti-art or other movements producing art or they were NOT doing art?? To answer the question, i think for me art is a moment where the viewer is at a  point whether its reality or art? I mean the point where viewer interacts with the piece and and those moments are art themselves if could relate to it....That is the artist's moment!! I  think everyone has its own perspective to this topic...But i think whether the art piece is conceptual or non conceptual once it is precieved as art, it should be interactive in order to be a good art piece. So either u achieve it by concept or by labor, it doesn't matter unless it makes the viewer to interact to it.
Where thousands of people precieve art as a to a medium of dialogue, Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori works for pleasure and science of medium...There is no concept associated to these pieces but they are crafted with such a science and excellence that it keep u engaging...which for me fulfills the purpose of art.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

 

 

So these are the works of the very well known christo and jeanne-claude,
They were both born in 1935, Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same date, Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958. They had been warapping objects since 1968 and on and on uptil now. Thier work include wrappping up canvases, still life, chairs, sofas, sculptures,interiors, buildings, pathways and even mountains. i had never seen any artist works in such immense amount. I opened thier website and want just waiting for the moment that i could have finished lokking up to his works. All of his projects were up thier lined up as if they were thier to blow me off. i had been researching artist but christo simply kicked all others. This is what i call practicing art....

Although their work is visually impressive and often controversial as a result of its scale, the artists have repeatedly denied that their projects contain any deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic impact. The purpose of their art, they contend, is simply to create works of art or joy and beauty and to create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes. 

Art critic David Bourdon has described Christo's wrappings as a "revelation through concealment." To his critics Christo replies, "I am an artist, and I have to have courage ... Do you know that I don't have any artworks that exist? They all go away when they're finished. Only the preparatory drawings, and collages are left, giving my works an almost legendary character. I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain"

Although Jeanne died in 2009, christo still works, his latest under progress work is Mastaba in Abu Dhabi...
Check it here http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/projects/the-mastaba

Also visit thier web for more rocking works...
.http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/

William Forsythe, Scattered Crowd

Since 2002 artist, dancer and choreographer William Forsythe has traveled with his audio/visual installation Scattered Crowd, created with thousands of suspended balloons in galleries, museums, banks and other architecturally significant spaces. Though the photos clearly do the work visual justice I think it’s hard to truly appreciate the full experience without walking through the space itself and hearing the accompanying music by Ekkehard Ehlers,  Forsythe refers to the work as being “an air-borne landscape of relationship, of distance, of humans and emptiness, of coalescence and decision”.

Artist's Discribtion

Thousand of white balloons, suspended in a billowing wash of sound; an air-borne landscape of relationship, of distance, of humans and emptiness, of coalescence and decision. In the gorgeous, breathless space that is choreographer William Forsythes «Scattered Crowd», the viewer inhabits and alters, through their stillness or speed, their sense of proportion and time, the configurations that make up this constantly shifting, ecstatic world

Shelley Miller is a Montreal-based artist whose installations, sculptures and public works have been exhibited across Canada as well as India and Brazil.
Using materials that for centuries have been reserved as tasty decoration the finest cakes and pastries, Montreal-based artist Shelley Miller attacks brick walls and deteriorating urban surfaces with cake icing to create ornate scrolls and decorative motifs.

While the medium itself is purely culinary, her illustrations and patterns borrow heavily from calligraphy and decorative arabesque scrolls seen in ancient temples and mosques. Another added dimension is its impermanence as the works crack, drip, and melt off the wall, potentially disappearing in just a few days.
Most recently Miller presented an interactive piece at Nuit Blanche in Montreal called Throw-Up..
Check it here http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1075

Also check out her website http://www.shelleymillerstudio.com/

Agents of death into instruments of life

Pedro Reyes  is a Mexican Artist, born in Mexico city works with sculpture, architecture, video and performance...This is the work of him that i came across recently and it  inspires me in the way the objects changed its worth and context in a way its had been recycled and presented as musical objects...In this work he joined the musicians to create these tremendous looking musical instruments...

In the words of the artist:

Imagine is a set of 50 musical instruments fabricated out of destroyed weapons – revolvers, shot-guns, machine-guns, etc. This work is a progression of Palas por Pistolas (2008), where 1527 weapons were melted and made into the same number of shovels to plant 1527 trees. In April this year I got a call from the government who had learned about Palas por Pistolas, they told me a public destruction of weapons was to take place in Ciudad Juarez and asked me if I was interested in keeping the metal, which would otherwise have been buried as usual. I accepted the material but I wanted to do something new this time. 6700 weapons, cut into parts and rendered useless, were given to me and I set out to make them into instruments.

A group of 6 musicians worked for 2 weeks shoulder-to-shoulder turning these agents of death into instruments of life. The task was challenging but they succeeded in extracting sounds, from percussion to wind and string. It’s difficult to explain but the transformation was more than physical. It’s important to consider that many lives were taken with these weapons; as if a sort of exorcism was taking place the music expelled the demons they held, as well as being a requiem for lives lost.

This is also a call to action, since we cannot stop the violence only at the place where the weapons are being used, but also where they are made. There is a disparity between visible and invisible violence. The nearly 80,000 deaths by gun-shot that have occurred in Mexico in the last 6 years, or the school shootings in the US are the visible side of violence. The invisible side is that one of gun trade-shows, neglecting assault rifle bans, and shareholder profit from public companies. This is a large industry of death and suffering for which no cultural rejection is expressed.Guns continue to be depicted as something sexy both in Hollywood and in video games; there may be actors who won’t smoke on the screen, but there has not been one who would reject the role of a trigger-happy hero.

In the last century there has been organized movements for gay rights, gender and race equality and the environment, yet we still need to express our desire for a world without weapons. Living in a community free of guns ought to be a human right. Many liberties that we enjoy today were once considered utopian, and the first step taken into that direction was to Imagine.

 Check out his blog for complete lineup of his amazing wok

www.blog.pedroreyes.net

A Seperate Reality...Alex Andreyev

Artist Alex Andreyev works and lives in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. His incredibly surreal paintings of floating people and objects are digitally painted using Photoshop and Corel...

 Trying to categorize or summarize the genre of the digital paintings is nearly impossible. Part science fiction, part dystopian future, most impressive thing in the scenes is that they are equally disturbing and beautiful, his characters inhabiting a world tells us that he is is deeply influenced by Soviet-era literature, music and movies.  Andreyev recently published an art book, A Separate Reality....

When i looked at these digital paintings the most closest works i could ralte to was The Dali's paintings

Have a look!!!

These surreal paintings came to my mind when i looked at the work of Alex and also the most interesting think is that, when Dali made his paintings and now even alex has made his painting they almost hint over the same issue and the paint they are making is close to each other....