ART CITADEL: Art Showcase

Artist: Susan Hiller Venue: Pérez Art Museum Miami Exhibition Title: Lost and Found Date: October 14, 2016 – June 4, 2017 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of video, images, press release and link available after the jump. Video: Susan Hiller, excerpt from  Lost and Found , 2016. Video, with sound, 30 min.   Images: Images and video courtesy of the artist; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; and Lisson Gallery, London. Photos by Oriol Tarridas. Press Release: Susan Hiller (b. 1940, Tallahassee, FL; lives in London) is an influential pioneer of multimedia installation art recognized for her early adoption of video as an artistic medium and for her ability to transform conventional gallery spaces into haunting, immersive environments. Hiller combines the archival tendencies of conceptual art with an emphasis on psychologically charged subjects, from war memorials to paranormal phenomena. Commissioned by Pérez Art Museum Miami and maki...

Vending machines in Japan were first introduced in 1888 and sold cigarettes. But their proliferation has been astounding and the country now has an estimated 5.5 million vending machines nationwide. Its penetration rate is the highest in the world with roughly 1 vending machine for every 23 people. In fact, they’ve become so ubiquitous and common that they blend in with Japan’s landscape. Maybe that’s why it takes an outsider to shine a light on them. In 2012 German photographer Benedikt Partenheimer visited Japan on a residency program and captured, among other things, a series of eerie photographs of vending machines quietly glowing at night. Devoid of any human behavior, it felt as though the machines existed alone in some post-apocalyptic world. The work was presented in an exhibition at the Hara Art Museum in 2014. “You can find them on almost every street corner,” says the artist. “Especially at night they become a visible reference of energy consumption and likewise ema...

Artist: Lucy Skaer Venue: MRAC, Sérgnan Exhibition Title:  The Hunt Date: March 25 – June 4, 2017 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Musée régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérgnan. Photos by Aurélien Mole. Press Release: Lucy Skaer is an English artist (born in 1975, lives and works in Glasgow) who has gained international recognition on the art scene in only a few years. In 2007, she was among the six artists selected to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale and in 2009, she was a Turner Prize finalist. Following her solo exhibitions at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh and the Chisenhale Gallery in London, the Kunsthalle in Basel devoted a monographic exhibition to her in 2009, as did the Witte de With in Rotterdam in 2016. She is represented in France and in the United States by Peter Freeman, Inc. Within the framework of multi-dimensional in...

Warsaw-based embroidery artist Paulina Bartnik stitches colorfully lifelike brooches of birds and other tiny creatures in a dense style called needle painting. Each object begins as a piece of wool which she prods with a special needle in a process called dry felting which results in a surface ideal for embroidery. She then paints with a needle directly on the felt and embroiders the finer details. You can see more of her creations in her Etsy shop . (via Bored Panda ) Powered by WPeMatico The post Lifelike Bird Pins Embroidered by Paulina Bartnik appeared first on onArt magazine . from onartmag http://ift.tt/2sBsq7d via IFTTT