Aug 11 2010

Body cinema: Agata Olek’s actions and performances

She will crochet us all, my dear friendz… her finger army has no mercy… Agata Olek‘s designs, actions and performances recorded by Andreas Troeger aka TechonologyArtist…

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Agata Olek: Crocheted Bike, photo by Christopher Stribley (c)

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Jul 26 2010

Judy Chicago – When Women Rule the World

Last summer Textile Museum of Canada presented Judy Chicago’s When Women Ruled the World, an exhibition covering 40 years of her art practice. Judy Chicago is shown as pioneer in many senses, resolving the stereotypes of female art, textile art, community art…., assaulting century-long models of aesthetics, patriarchal society and men-assigned monumentality.

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Would God be Female? by  Judy Chicago

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Jul 22 2010

Ernesto Neto – the art of dream, the art of life

It’s been a while since I was writing about textile art – but recently Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto took me to some new horizons of art that simultaneously goes for aesthetic and engaged. His latest exhibition ‘The Edges of the World’ has just been opened in Hayward Gallery in Southbank Centre in London, and created specifically for this occasion.

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Ernesto Neto, Horizon of events III, detail

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Jul 19 2010

Karolina Pernar’s wearable sculptures – gallery

Karolina Pernar, an amazing artist whose work I’ve covered earlier today in some other situation and digital territory… and, of course, I couldn’t resist not to share her sculpture based jewelry here…

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Sculptures to Wear by Karolina Pernar
Photo by Luka Mjeda (c)

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May 5 2010

Lucy McRae, transforming bodies and materials – gallery

Lucy McRae… former ballerina and trained architect titles herself as a Body Architect… Lucy McRae’s fascination with human body and its ability of reshaping and transforming are in the center of her aesthetics…

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Transnatural by Lucy McRae (2010)

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