A great, if painstaking installation…
With this installation she dubs Causa-Efecto (Cause and Effect), Spanish artist Ana Soler makes us feel like we’re living in The Matrix. Featuring 2,000 tennis balls frozen in mid-air, the installation gives off the illusion that the balls are bouncing of the walls, floors and ceiling of the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante, Spain.
via My Modern Metropolis.
Check out My Modern Metropolis round up of some brilliant pieces of smoke based art…
In their own, unique and ingenious ways, they’ve given us a newfound appreciation for smoke’s wispy, cloud-like appearance, showing us that it’s possible to take something quite ordinary and make it appear magical, surreal, and even extraordinary.
A brilliant and amazingly hard to achieve idea…
Spanning over 30 years, Swiss artist Felice Varini has been mesmerizing viewers with his anamorphic illusions. The artist, who resides in Paris, displays his illusionary work in both private and public spaces. The urban paintings require a specific point of view to visualize the geometric shapes he creates as a continuous whole. From any other standpoint, the piece is fragmented and may not align properly.
Taking published works in the form of newspaper articles, novels, and even horoscopes, this style of “blackout poetry” reveals only carefully selected words to create a new, shorter composition of expression. Often, the poems produced offer a sense of hope and inspiration.
via My Modern Metropolis.
Oh to be rich…
An incredibly rare piece of original, published Calvin and Hobbes artwork is going up for auction at Heritage Comics on February 23, 2012. Expected to bring in $50,000+, 1989-90 Calendar Cover Watercolor Illustration Original Art (c. 1988) is a 13″ x 10″ piece by artist Bill Watterson. Only a very small handful of Calvin and Hobbes originals have ever come onto the market and none of them has ever been published.
via My Modern Metropolis.
What a brilliant art project, on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona from January 28 until May 31, 2012.
The Boneyard Project was first devised by Eric Firestone and organized by curator Carlo McCormick. What the project entailed was the revival of “nose art” which was popularized during the World War II era. It involves reinterpreting the body of an aircraft – a sort of airplane graffiti.
via The Flop Box.
