Oscar Santillan - Daybreak (2010) - Paint scraped from the wall and dusted onto the floor
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A.F. Vandevorst installation for Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011
“A girl sleeping in a hospital bed in her A.F. Vandevorst dress. But here, the girl as well as the mattress and pillow are made out of candle wax. Once lit, what starts as a perfect image will slowly melt and perish during the biennale.”
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Xie Lei. Blow, 2011. Oil on canvas, 44.1 x 55.2 cm.
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—Jackie Kay, from Trumpet
Excellent thought as I sit in the darkness on this early November morn.
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Karma by Do Ho Suh
The sculpture was made from 98 cast stainless steel figures, creating an illusion of the tower stretching to infinity.
The sculpture stands at 23 feet and is installed in the Sydney and Walda Bestoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum Of Art.
Rehab is for Quitters, 1998. Damien Hirst.
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Alexander James - Glass, 2012
Artist’s Statement:
“In this new body of work I explore a process formulated in the studio that naturally removes all the pigment from the capillaries in rose petals. It is a complex procedure that over a period of days replaces the pigment with highly purified water leaving behind only the skeletal fibre and plant structure visible; all while the plant still lives and grows.
These beautifully detailed and painterly photographic works are captured underwater and presented ‘as shot’ without the use of post production either traditional or digital.
From the outset I wanted to take this instantly recognisable subject and re-present it in an entirely new and significant way. Originality of process is paramount, even with something as common place as a rose.”
Sir John Everett Millais - Ophelia (1851-52)
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