Surprising installations and sculptural works by canadian artist Michel de Broin...

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I’m back home in Rome after a short trip to Linz, where I visited Ars Electronica 2009. Here you can find a full photo report, as usual. For some highlights on the artworks I saw, be sure to follow the link to Random Magazine!

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Common Task is a project by Pawel Althamer. “Common Task is a documented group activity, a social sculpture, realised within the science – fiction formula. The artistic project is a combination of an activity performed in public spaces with the social aspects such as exclusion related to the systemic transformation process, self-organisation and bottom-up initiatives which may change the world and shape the future. In broader terms, the Project alludes to the ideals of freedom and ...

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In 2004, Francis Alÿs collaborated with the National Portrait Gallery to create a piece generated by the gallery’s state-of-the-art internal CCTV system. Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the Gallery at night…

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Speech Bubbles (1997), by Philippe Parreno, is a mass of cartoonlike three-dimensional white speech bubbles trapped against the gallery ceiling…
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Amazing series of carved magazines by Nate Page. He writes: “I enjoy transforming an image to become more physical and an object to be more image-like”…
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This is the first thing I saw arriving in Copenhagen. We were just strolling around the city, when I saw the Overgaden Gallery sign and decided to take a look. Established in 1986 by a group of local artists, Overgaden is a really interesting no-profit space for contemporary art, with a program of ten exhibition per year. Currently they are working on the new one, but last week I managed to see an amazing solo ...

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This is a must-read. Artist Jon Rafman has written a wonderful essay on Google Street View for Art Fag City:
“One year ago, I started collecting screen captures of Google Street Views from a range of Street View blogs and through my own hunting. This essay illustrates how my Street View collections reflect the excitement of exploring this new, virtual world. The world captured by Google appears to be more truthful and more transparent because of ...

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I’m back in Rome after a short trip to Denmark and Sweden (here you can find the full photo album). I saw a lot of interesting stuff that I’m gonna report in the next few posts. Starting with the best of course: Mike Nelson‘s exhibition at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. The installation occupies a whole floor of the museum with a labyrinthine and replicating series of rooms. The experience of walking through this ...

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You look at the photos and think “wow, what a spectacular installation”, maybe a little too crafty, but beautiful nonetheless. Then you realize something is missing. And slowly understand that it’s reality itself… Pseudo-documentary is a photo series by David DiMichele, and depicts fantasy installations in monumental exhibition spaces. As we read in his gallery website: “DiMichele creates this work by first building scale models of exhibition spaces, and producing original artworks in drawing, painting and ...

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