Diego Gravinese,
my favorite hyper-realistic painter of late.
(Source: howtochangedworld, via equaldesign)
Judith Supine fucking kills it
Mart Stam Arm Chair
This chair is a simplification of the Mart Stam and Breuer cantilever arm chairs of 1929 (Standard-Mobel, Thonet Model B34). Since the continuous tube which forms both the base and the arms also serves to keep the back vertical apart, the “handlebar” back cross piece of the earlier model is eliminated. This chair began to be produced by several companies in Italy during the 1960’s. At present, it is one of the most widely sold and copied modern chairs.
Quentin Jones
is a London-based illustrator, a Cambridge philosophy graduate and one of fashion’s brightest young filmmakers, specialising in a cartoonish style of surreal photo-montaged animation. Quentin is one of those people you love but secretly hate, she is visually stunning, uber talented and everything she touches at the moment, is turning to gold.
via think-work-play.com/quentin-jones/
(Source: quentinjones.info)
“Tetrachromat” exhibit by Tauna Auberbach
The exhibition, Tetrachromat, plays on the notion of ‘tetrachromatic’ vision. People normally perceive the world around them trichromatically (in three colours). Humans have three types of receptor for the perception of colour with varying sensitivities: red, green and blue. A new theory exists that there may be a small percentage of people (only women) who have a fourth colour receptor, which makes them ‘tetrachromatic’. In order to play on such ideas of a fourth component which, if it could be proven, would radically change our view of the world, Auerbach employs two analogies in this exhibition – the spatial (the idea of a fourth dimension) and the spectral (a fourth colour spectrum).
dazeddigital: As we prepare to see off 2011, Dazed Digital take a look back at some of the most inspiring stories of the year across music, fashion, film, art, and culture. Here are a selection of the art stories we thought really made an impression this year.
BEST OF ART & CULTURE 2011
Dazed and Confused profiles the photography of Kristie Muller.
The Origins of Street Art
This NYTimes article on Taki 183 is regarded as a turning point in New York City’s graffiti culture, and a wistful reminder of a more simpler time.
via Wooster Collective
Portraitist Jonathan Yeo
produced, in 2007, a portrait of George Bush collaged together from clippings of pornographic magazines. The U.S. Republican party called it “extremely distasteful,” but it was an instant hit — and similar portraits followed.
Yeo’s newly open exhibition at London’s Lazarides Gallery reveals yet another radically different aspect of the painter’s multifarious practice. For “You’re Only Young Twice,” Yeo has turned to cosmetic surgery for subject matter. The show features images of bodies mapped out for the scalpal, before-and-after mammary augmentation diptychs, and unconscious patients on operation tables.
Above, Yeo’s “Capsulotomy and Implant Exchange Symmetrisation,” 2011
Angelika Taschen shows off her books
…among other things, as she invites the inimitable Selby to get in her space.