All Things Art & Photography
Exhibition New York: Sebastiaan Bremer at Edwynn Houk Gallery
September 12 – November 2, 2013
Opening reception: Thursday, 12 September,
Sebastiaan Bremer is showing a really amazing group of hand painted photographs in his current exhibition at Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York. Unlike most who simple hand color their photos Sebastiaan adds another layer of meaning with his meticulous handling of paint and line to obscured snapshots. This is a really beautiful exhibition and not to be missed.
One of the many inspirations for my series Infinities, Australian Rock Art is one of the first attempts by man to describe the workings of the world in a multilayer image. For the Aborigines it was known as The DreamTime…
Australia has one of the most outstanding and diverse rock art records in the world. Rock art consists of paintings, drawings, stencils, engravings, bas-relief and figures made with the wax of native bees. It is found in caves and rock shelters, on rock platforms and boulders. From inner Sydney to the Pilbara, from Tasmania to the Top End of the Territory as many as 100,000 individual rock art sites are thought to still exist, with exciting new discoveries made each year. In this context the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU) was established at Griffith University in 2011. PERAHU is located within the School of Humanities and advocates multidisciplinary, multicultural and scientific approaches to rock art and cultural evolution research. PERAHU’s key aim is to promote excellence in Australian and international rock art, human evolution and place research across Australasia. PERAHU collaborates closely with Indigenous peoples wherever research is undertaken.
The Andy Warhol Foundation is unloading all of his work at a time when his prices are sky high. There are many issue here regarding the true value of his art work which this article explores.
Sanna Kannisto make images in the far reaches of our world. She is an artist who uses the camera to explore her relationship with nature. Like myself she collects nature via the camera for her own personal Cabinet of Wonder.
via her web site
D-Day artwork: 9,000 Sand Drawings Commemorate The Fallen
“British artists Andy Moss and Jamie Wardley of sand in your eye, along with a team volunteers, arranged and stenciled 9,000 drawings on the sand of the d-day landing beaches in Normandy, representing the civilians, Germans and allied forces that died during WWII. ‘The Fallen‘, which commemorates international peace day on September 21, is a massive art installation of thousands of silhouettes covering the shoreline. echoing the ephemeral nature of the lives lost, the artworks are totally erased by the incoming tide, a sobering reminder of what happens when peace is not present.
‘…the idea is to create a visual representation of what is otherwise unimaginable – the thousands of human lives lost during the hours of the tide during the WWII normandy landings on 6 june 1944. there will be no distinction between nationalities, they will be known only as ‘the fallen’. it does not propose to be a celebration or condemnation, simply a statement of fact and tribute to life and its premature loss.’ — jamie wardley”
via DesignBoom.com