ART CITADEL: Art Showcase

Bologna-based Italian artist  Nunzio Paci  (previously here and here ) produces hauntingly detailed paintings that combine anatomical renderings with multi-colored blossoms and leaves. His latest series,  Mimesis , is inspired by the idea of species evolving together over time, and the similarities shared by different organisms in order to better adapt to predators and climate. “The concept, deriving from Plato and Aristotle’s theory on reality and imitation, draws inspiration from the natural phenomenon of mimicry in evolutionary biology and gives it a broader meaning,” Paci explained to Colossal. “In Mimesis , flora and fauna not only copy one another, they enmesh themselves in each other’s existence forming a cohesive organism, in an attempt to take shelter from the totality of the outside world.” Within the series fauna helps to protect flora, creating a symbiotic relationship through the included animals’ death and rebirth. Flowers fill the hallows of prese...

the playful logo with a tongue sticking out and one of the characters (る) written sideways On Friday last week, a curious restaurant popped up in Tokyo’s Toyosu district. It was called “The Restaurant of Order Mistakes” (注文をまちがえる料理店), a twist on The Restaurant of Many Orders , Kenji Miyazawa’s 1924 tale. Sure, it’s clever, but why a name for a restaurant? Because this pop-up restaurant had an inclusively-driven mission, and had hired waiters with dementia and Alzheimer’s. The premise of the pop-up restaurant, which was in a trial period from June 2 – June 4, 2017, was that the staff who have dementia may get your order wrong. But if you go in knowing that, it changes your perception about those who suffer from the brain disease and it makes you realize that with a little bit of understanding on our part dementia patients can be functioning members of society. Mizuho Kudo , who attended the event and tweeted about her experience, wrote that they went in and ordered the hamburg b...

Artist: Jürgen Klauke Venue: Guido W. Baudach, Berlin Exhibition Title: Bewegtes Ich Date: April 28 – June 10, 2017 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of the artist and Guido W. Baudach, Berlin Press Release: Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present Bewegtes Ich (Moving Self), the third solo-show of Juergen Klauke with the gallery. Klauke, born 1943 and living and working in Cologne, is one of the most renowned german artists. On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2017 the exhibition shows a selection of key works from 1972 to 2017. Juergen Klauke is a unique figure in the art world. His inventions are nowadays taken for granted, and have significantly influenced art over the last 40 years. He is a pioneer of multimedia and interdisciplinary artistic exploration, whose work fascinates and irritates in equal measure, oscillating between the pol...

Hiroshi Sugimoto looking out on the Sagami Bay at the Enoura Observatory | all photos courtesy Odawara Art Foundation After ten years in the making, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Enoura Observatory is set to officially open this October in the city of Odawara. We should actually call him photographer “and architect” because he’s the chief mastermind behind the project. a 100-meter-long gallery oriented to frame the sun at dawn Located about 60 miles southwest of Tokyo, this comprehensive arts facility is the architectural project of Sugimoto’s Odawara Art Foundation which he established in 2009 “with the aim of conveying the essence of Japanese culture to a wider audience.” The foundation received a $6 million dollar grant from the Japan Society of New York in 2014 to aid in the construction of the Observatory complex. the underground chamber Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sea of Japan, Oki IV, 1987. Gelatin silver print. The Enoura Complex will be comprised of: seasonal art g...

Artist Dan Rawlings merges subject matter that would seem to be in direct contrast to its medium: trees cut into an old silo or ferns that sprout from rusty street signage. A collision of urban and rural. “I try to create images that remind people of the moments when everything seems possible and free,” says Rawlings, “times when climbing a tree, or sitting admiring the way its branches twist and curl means nothing, but means everything.” One of his most ambitious pieces, titled Nature Delivers , depicts the shell of a forest cut into the walls of an old delivery truck that was commissioned by Kendal Calling and Walk the Plank for the Lost Eden festival. Unfortunately, somebody set fire to the work earlier this year. You can see more of Rawling’s work on Instagram and in his online gallery . Powered by WPeMatico The post Forests Cut into Vehicles and Street Signage by Dan Rawlings appeared first on onArt magazine . from onartmag http://ift.tt/2rYuEQL via IFTTT