Tanaka Ryohei is one of the most important contemporary etching artist in Japan. Born in 1933 in Takatsuki City (Osaka Prefecture), he studied etching … [Read more...]
Ed Ruscha’s Erased Words
In the work of USA painter Ed Ruscha, (more on Socks) words have been central since 1959. Several pieces use large sentences superimposed to … [Read more...]
Reece Jones’ Spooky Landscapes
London-based artist Reece Jones draws dark landscapes made by superposing layers of charcoal and then erases a small surface of them with sandpaper in … [Read more...]
The Observatory by Robert Morris (1971)
The Observatory is a land-art piece by Robert Morris located in Flevoland, in the Netherlands. The first version of the project was created by the … [Read more...]
Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Reality Properties: Fake Estates” (1973)
Starting in the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased fifteen lots in the city of New York, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. … [Read more...]
Sol LeWitt’s “Forms Derived from a Cubic Rectangle” (1990)
"Forms Derived from a Cubic Rectangle" (1990) was a set of prints correlated to the wall drawings Sol LeWitt (already on Socks) was producing during … [Read more...]
Richard Giblett’s Architectural Algorithms
Richard Giblett (B.1966, Hong Kong), an artist living and working in Melbourne, creates bi and three-dimensional works as explorations of urban … [Read more...]
Franco Purini: Study of Architectural Elements (1968)
The number 11-12 (Nov-Dec 1972) of Italian architecture magazine Controspazio presented a retrospective of the earliest "design researches" by the … [Read more...]
Im-materiality no. 3 (Consciousness) by Ebbe Stub Wittrup &Troels Sandegård
"Im-materialitet no.3 (Bevidsthed)" is a collective exhibition, held at the Sorø Kunstmuseum, (2014), presenting works by Robert Barry, Hansjoerg … [Read more...]
Mel Bochner’s Measurements (1968-69)
Mel Bochner is an American conceptual artist, draughtsman, painter and writer. His first exhibition, held at the Visual Arts Gallery in New York … [Read more...]
Corner Solutions of Mies Van Der Rohe’s towers (John Winter, 1972)
In the February 1972 issue of The Architectural Review, the architect, writer and Architectural Association teacher John Winter analysed the design … [Read more...]
The Space Between, by Marc Yankus
“This work presents a subtle, surrealistic alteration of the architectural landscape found in New York City, where imagination and documentation meet. … [Read more...]
Thin Layers of an Invented Reality: Works by Popel Coumou
Dutch photographer Popel Coumou works combining photos with drawings and layers of paper, fabric or even clay. The process starts with the artist … [Read more...]
Inhabiting Memories: Dagmar Schmidt’s Grabungsstädte – a Tribute to the Plattenbauten (2003-2005)
"Plattenbauten" are buildings whose structure is assembled out of prefabricated concrete slabs. Widely used in East Germany since the 1960s for public … [Read more...]
Ettore Sottsass Jr.’s Metaphors (1972-1979)
"He starts leaving discrete signs in the landscape, almost invisible traces, he continues building real architectures or metaphors of the … [Read more...]
Spuk, a Story without Characters by Niklas Rüegg
Niklas Rüegg is a visual artist living in Bruxelles and Zurich. His work Spuk ("Ghost") is (what remains of) a comic, a sequence generated by excising … [Read more...]
Klaus Rinke: Time, Space, Body, Transformations
Klaus Rinke is a German artist who explored several artistic means (painting, sculpture) before concentrating on body art. He especially used the … [Read more...]
The St.Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals by Hans Van der Laan
The St.Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals (Netherlands) is a Benedectin Abbey which was built starting in 1922 as a simple quadrilater with two towers … [Read more...]
“I haven’t found a measure yet / To calibrate my displeasure yet”: The design sensibility of post-punk band WIRE
The stark urgency and clean lines of their prose mirrored the light-metal severity of groups like Wire, the Banshees, and Gang of Four, just … [Read more...]
Rhythmus 21, an Early Abstract Film by Hans Richter (1921)
Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 – February 1, 1976), a German avant garde artist who had contacts with "Der Blaue Reiter", Cubism and Dada movements, was … [Read more...]
Life Through Screens: Wanda Koop’s Monumental Paintings
Wanda Koop is a Canadian artist known for her monumental-scale paintings which are usually combined with poetic videos and performances in large … [Read more...]
120 Doors by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen (2003)
Following the previous post on the isometric environments created by Franka Hörnschemeyer, here we propose a relatively old installation by Chilean … [Read more...]
Franka Hörnschemeyer’s Isotropic Environments
Franka Hörnschemeyer is an artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her plan drawings lie between graphic sketches and architectural … [Read more...]
Mary Miss’s 1977–1978 Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys
Mary Miss (1944), pioneer of land art, focuses her outdoor interventions on the experience of the individual moving in a particular landscape; … [Read more...]
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