Most people take images of other people to preserve memories; I photograph objects to preserve my memories. Ion Zupcu, photographer, was born in … [Read more...]
Gustavs Klucis’s ‘Constructions’ and Other Works
Gustavs Klucis (1895 - 1938) was a painter, sculptor and graphic designer. He was born in Latvia, but spent most of his life in Moscow, until being a … [Read more...]
City: Bolshevik Superpoem in 5 Cantos, by Manuel Maples Arce
Here is my poem brutal and manifold of the new city, Oh city all tense with cables and exertions resonant with motors and wings. Urbe … [Read more...]
Accidental Abstraction: Works by Marc Nagtzaam
Marc Nagtzaam is a Dutch artist who lives and works in Belgium. His production consists mostly of black and white graphite drawings on different … [Read more...]
Julien Rodriguez: “La Marche Sensible”
Julien Rodriguez is a student at the "Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs de Paris". Every time he visits a building or an exhibition, the young … [Read more...]
Statement and Counter-Statement, by Experimental Jetset (2011)
The three posters exhibited in 2011 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, were for Amsterdam graphic design studio Experimental Jetset, a sort of … [Read more...]
Think Space 2015 / ‘Weak Monumental Square’ by Aristide Antonas
Think Space, an international, public, anonymous, single stage, conceptual architectural – urbanistic design competition, (to which we participated … [Read more...]
Within Four Walls: Binnenskamers by Tim Enthoven
"Binnenskamers" (Within four walls) is a graphic novel by Dutch artist Tim Enthoven, published in 2011. The book contains the detailed story of … [Read more...]
The Pleasures of Suburban Life: Las Terrenas Resort (Elia Zenghelis – Eleni Gigantes, 1989)
The 1989 competition entry for a resort in Santo Domingo, was for Elia Zenghelis (teacher, co-founder and former partner of OMA) and Eleni Gigantes … [Read more...]
Drawing Soane: a Comic by Eu Jin Lim
Young architectural assistant Eu Jin Lim chose the house John Soane built for himself in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London as the setting of a short … [Read more...]
Order and Failure: Wittgenstein’s Haus on Kundmangasse
In November 1925, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, sister of the Austrian philosopher, commissioned Austrian architect Paul Engelmann to design a … [Read more...]
‘Things are Queer’ by Duane Michals (1973)
This 1973 series of nine photographs by Duane Michals (1932, -) is a short narrative piece with a twist at each step, a discovery of an unexpected … [Read more...]
Steven Holl’s Bridge of Houses (1979-1982)
Throughout history bridges have been a focus of legends of every civilization. Esthetes, philosophers and poets have used the bridge as a transcendent … [Read more...]
L. S. Lowry: the Project of the Working Class Environment
In 1909 English painter L. S. Lowry moved to the industrial town of Pendlebury, the environment which would later inspire him for several years. Row … [Read more...]
Andrew DeGraff’s Unfinished Construction Sites
Illustrator and painter Andrew DeGraff is working on a series of sketches of unfinished construction sites with a surreal twist. The axonometric … [Read more...]
Chris Ballantyne’s Suburban Uncanny
The works of Chris Ballantyne have been already featured on Socks. We're back to write about this artist to introduce some of his more recent works … [Read more...]
Images Come First. Andrea Alberghini interviews Manuele Fior
IMAGES COME FIRST Andrea Alberghini interviews Manuele Fior (MAS Context #20 "Narrative", Winter 2013, available in pdf here.) It is a long time … [Read more...]
Fragments of Decay and Dystopia in the Comics of Liam Cobb
In Liam Cobb's work the vignettes, the segments of stories, the disparate panels, all seem to represent scattered instants of a yet undefined … [Read more...]
Serialised Reliefs by Jan Schoonhoven (1950’s – 1990’s)
One of the most important Dutch artists of the Twentieth Century, Jan Schoonhoven (1914-1994) is mostly known for his investigation in light, form, … [Read more...]
Extended Sequence of Flowing Spaces: 33rd Lane (Geoffrey Bawa’s House in Colombo – Sri Lanka) – 1959-1970
Geoffrey Bawa’s house in Colombo (1959 - 1970) is an exercise in horizontal densification. The result of decades-old process of annexation of four … [Read more...]
“Light, Time, Silence” by Keisuke Yamamoto
Keisuke Yamamoto (1961, -) is a Japanese print artist who worked on a series of interesting lithographies called “Light, Time, Silence”, which include … [Read more...]
“The house sees itself reflected in the office”: Abalos & Herreros’ Housing & City, Barcelona (1988)
Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros established their well known architecture office in Madrid in 1984 and kept working together until they parted ways in … [Read more...]
Gábor Attalai: Map Works For Klaus Groh (1971)
Attalai Gábor (Budapest, 1934-2011) was a leading representative of Hungarian conceptual art, performance, and graphic design. His works, with a large … [Read more...]
Arnar Ásgeirsson’s Living Sections
Icelandic artist Arnar Ásgeirsson creates narrative works employing disparate materials and techniques, from video to installation and animations. The … [Read more...]
Suburbs as Land Art: Drawings by Ross Racine
Canadian artist Ross Racine exacerbates the inherent irrationality of suburbs by drawing aerial views of invented sprawling communities. In an … [Read more...]
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