Mechanical fragility: Dolls by Yotsuya Simon – gallery
Japanese artist Yotsuya Simon dedicated almost his entire life to studies on human body. I don’t have to mention that Japanese surrealism, jazz music and seeing Hijikata Tatsumi’s Butoh performance have influenced Yotsuya Simon‘s aesthetics and body of work.
Bodies of his dolls are tangible and fragile, open and humorous, yet very strong in expressiveness. Probably the most intriguing sets of contemporary angels I have ever saw.
Mechanical Girl 1, detail by Yotsuya Simon, 1983 (c)
Milena Ristic – on the happy side of art and the blunt side of life
Milena Ristic is one of those artists who is deeply rooted into everyday reality, but manages to capture its absurdities like miniature fragments – bitter sweet, edgy, direct and hard to resist.
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Body cinema: Nick Cave’s wearable sculptures and performances
Nick Cave‘s gallery has already been featured here… and boy, I luv it…
Nick Cave, photo taken from: greyareasymposium.org
Pocket cinema: Robert Seidel’s experimental films
Robert Seidel is an award winning experimental film maker and visual artist… His films simply mesmerize by recalling psychedelic motifs in new digital environments and soundscape territories…
Robert Seidel: excerpts from ‘_grau’ and ‘passion pit’ (c)