Le Zèbre bleu: JONATHAN WATERIDGE

Scott Teplin

Tate Report 2008: Andreas Gursky – Colour photograph on paper face-mounted on Perspex

This image depicts the Formula 1 racetrack in Bahrain as seen from a helicopter. Andreas Gursky works with a medium-format camera, taking pictures which he then scans into a computer where he can manipulate them. His aim in using digital technology is not to create fictions, but rather to heighten the image of something that exists in the world. Unlike some of Gursky’s more elaborately composed images, this photograph is a minimally manipulated shot of the racetrack spiralling through the desert. The human figure, represented by the race cars visible on the track, is dwarfed by the man-made landscape. The image draws attention to the speed of process and the might of technology. Bahrain I also represents a tendency in Gursky’s work towards abstraction; the sinuous lines of the racetrack in this image evoke gestural abstract painting.

(via abadrivera)

Andrew Holder

Ehren Elizabeth Reed

Krista Wortendyke

via Andy Jenkins

Art Cars (Jeff Koons is next)

A 9 episodes documentary series in which artists of abstract work explain to their parents
where its all about.episode 1:
Fantastic artist Arno Coenen talks to his father about the Eurotrash beer he developed for an art museum.

limboland.tv

The formula for a fabulous new Dutch internet series is simple: a visual artist is seated at a table with a work of his or her art, joined at the other end of the table by a parent. There is a brief explanation of the piece (with constant parental interruption) which leads into a sometimes rambling, sometimes heated conversation. There is just one problem: the producers of this brilliant experiment only inserted English subtitles into the first episode.

(VIEW FULL-SCREEN FOR SUB-TITLES)

Drawings and Paintings by Carlos Quiterio
Exhibition @ CCC Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. July 16th to August 30th 2009.

Paredes de Cor by kodap (Carlos Quitério) on Flickr.

Shary Boyle

THINKMULE : Art, Illustration & Design

Alan Macdonald Paintings – a “Neo-Pop-Classical” style..

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Marco Zamora

“I think that painting is very much like solving a complicated mathematical problem, where each step logically and necessarily follows from the previous step, finally arriving at a solution. Ideally, an elegant one.”

Henrique Oliveira