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Tishk Barzanji is an Iraqi artist currently based in London. In his work, he combines photography and digital production of images, mixing 3d modeling with collage. The scenes he constructs are a surreal intertwining of many styles and eras in visual arts and architecture. Direct references to … Read More
The “constellations drawings” are a series of sketches by Pablo Picasso drawn on sixteen pages of a notebook in 1924. For these small drawings in black pen and ink, Picasso took inspiration from sky charts and aimed at an artistic exploration of the limit between abstraction and figuration. Black dots are connected by thin lines … Read More
Kate Shepherd is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. In her paintings, prints and silkscreens, Robert Mangold minimalism and formalism are combined with a sense for perspective and geometry that is evidently in debt with the artist’s background as a former architecture student. As such, her works are always on the brink between … Read More
In “Der Fels ist mein Haus = La rocher est ma demeure = The rock is my home”, Werner Blaser analyses Swiss vernacular stone architecture. The wonderfully illustrated book contains a number of black and white photographs that have been originally collected by the editors at Subtilitas. As stated in Gaudenz Risch’s review, in Blaser survey, “Matter, structure … Read More
Sean Sullivan is a multimedia artist currently living in NY’s Hudson Valley. He paints, draws, makes prints, sculptures and poems with few and simple means. In the results, he aims at incorporating the conditions in which the works are made. Producing art becomes a process of recording, which adds the traces of chance to the … Read More
Orinda House, also known as “Moore House” is located in a valley behind San Francisco, was designed by architect Charles W. Moore for himself and built in 1962. In this project, Moore experimented with very simple means the possibility to recreate a project that could embody references to different moments of architectural history and that … Read More
Hashimoto Okiie ( 1899- 1993) was a Japanese woodcut artist. After working as a teacher and spare-time artist, he devoted himself completely to the artistic activity and became well known only after the publication of Oliver Statler’s Modern Japanese Prints (1960). He specialized in prints depicting Japanese castles and gardens, as the 1946 series “Ten Views of Ancient … Read More
“Weltschmerz” and “Made in Sarajevo” are two series of ink drawings by Washington DC-based artist Ben Tolman. The first one is a collection made in 2016 featuring symbolic constructions which compress the city, with its social differences and paradoxes in a stack of floors, terraces, volumes and materials. The overwhelming scenes are sometimes filled with … Read More
The Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the Solar pavilion) was Alison and Peter Smithsons’ weekend home in Wiltshire in the countryside in South-West England. The building is an important moment in the architects’ research on alternatives to suburban houses, on the combination of found structures with contemporary, prefabricated materials and on the way a … Read More
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