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Beautiful house of books by Matej Krén at the MAMbo.

Scanner is an installation specifically conceived for MAMbo, the artist’s hugest to date. Krén has been carrying out this research all over the world since the 90s, taking his cue from an investigation of the impossibility for humans to reach final, definite goals, proposing instead a destabilizing individual experience.

Krén’s presence at MAMbo, his first in Italy, has been possible through the cooperation with LIC, Literárne informačné centrum – Bratislava (Center for Literary Information), a cultural association run by the Slovakian Republic’s Ministry of Culture; it is the ideal crowning of a series of events at Bologna’s Children Book Fair, whose 2010 edition has hosted Slovakia as guest of honor.

Throughout his career, Matej Krén, among the most important Slovakian contemporary artists, has focused mainly on the means of elaboration and transmission of knowledge, establishing suggestive links between their historical and ideological relativity and the experimentation with many forms of optical and perceptual illusion.

The narrow inside space, multiplied and complicated by mirrors, evoke a sensation of sublime terror, an alteration referring to a puzzling infinity itself created to destabilize conventional spatial habits. Mirrors become an instrument to create illusion and, at the same time, to unmask it. Since the public can easily see themselves reflected in a false infinite – thus discovering the illusion – the problem becomes the latency of perception.

Chosen because of their nature as seat of knowledge, as symbols of intrinsically human free thought, books are here “used” as raw materials for an artistic process existing and communicating on many distinct levels.

Beautiful house of books by Matej Krén at the MAMbo.

Scanner is an installation specifically conceived for MAMbo, the artist’s hugest to date. Krén has been carrying out this research all over the world since the 90s, taking his cue from an investigation of the impossibility for humans to reach final, definite goals, proposing instead a destabilizing individual experience.

Krén’s presence at MAMbo, his first in Italy, has been possible through the cooperation with LIC, Literárne informačné centrum – Bratislava (Center for Literary Information), a cultural association run by the Slovakian Republic’s Ministry of Culture; it is the ideal crowning of a series of events at Bologna’s Children Book Fair, whose 2010 edition has hosted Slovakia as guest of honor.

Throughout his career, Matej Krén, among the most important Slovakian contemporary artists, has focused mainly on the means of elaboration and transmission of knowledge, establishing suggestive links between their historical and ideological relativity and the experimentation with many forms of optical and perceptual illusion.

The narrow inside space, multiplied and complicated by mirrors, evoke a sensation of sublime terror, an alteration referring to a puzzling infinity itself created to destabilize conventional spatial habits. Mirrors become an instrument to create illusion and, at the same time, to unmask it. Since the public can easily see themselves reflected in a false infinite – thus discovering the illusion – the problem becomes the latency of perception.

Chosen because of their nature as seat of knowledge, as symbols of intrinsically human free thought, books are here “used” as raw materials for an artistic process existing and communicating on many distinct levels.

Give Shi Jindian some wires and a whole lot of time, and he will make you a wire frame replica of the Chiangjiang 750, is essentially a knockoff of the Russian military M72-M is for mototsikl-which was an evolutionary version of BMW’s 1938 R71 side. X-ray vision without the X-ray!

Jason Bruges Studio has a bunch of really fun projects, one of which I especially love, the ‘Panda Eyes’ installation for WWF. The panda’s track guest’s movements around the gallery and rotate to follow their movements as they make their way round the exhibit.

There’s something really alluring about the dichotomy of the cheap cardboard boxes and the beautiful art vases on top of them. Now on show at the other criteria Bond Street store. The only thing now is wishing I was nearer…

urban taster’s favourite conceptual product designer Tokujin Yoshioka has just completed another installation, this time entitled ‘Snow’ and is filled and filled and filled with tonnes of feathers!

Like a single stroke in three dimensions, or the lights streaking off two racing cars, Gerry Judah’s latest installation for Audi at the Festival of Speed is one hell of a beauty. via Dezeen

An interesting way of looking at consumerism and landfills, layering clothing upon clothing and simulating a landscape that is eerily familiar. By Jarod Charzewski

The purchasing habits of the North American consumer requires the extraction on our planets resources only to replace them with processed goods in the form of discarded merchandise. This geological cross section shows the new and improved layers of the Earth. Through our ever expending and multiplying landfill sites these new layers will provide us with a planet rich in synthetic nutrients and chemically enhanced goodness.

An interesting way of looking at consumerism and landfills, layering clothing upon clothing and simulating a landscape that is eerily familiar. By Jarod Charzewski

The purchasing habits of the North American consumer requires the extraction on our planets resources only to replace them with processed goods in the form of discarded merchandise. This geological cross section shows the new and improved layers of the Earth. Through our ever expending and multiplying landfill sites these new layers will provide us with a planet rich in synthetic nutrients and chemically enhanced goodness.

Such rich colours and beautiful patterns, all painstakingly hand-painted by artisans, elevating a mere ox-cart into a crazy work of art! via Creative Roots