Codefc has just come back from Ibiza where he spent a few weeks (what?!). He obviously took the opportunity to leave his marks on a few surfaces and kindly sent us a few pictures of his work.
Passenger event at Home House
Passenger is a monthly occurrence and aims to showcase across all creative disciplines, for your enjoyment and inspiration. Our first one is on Monday 5 September, from 7:30pm til 3am.
INNOVATIVE MUSIC VIDEOS
Plaid, The Horrors, Moby, Is Tropical, Audiobullys, Depeche Mode, Fulton Lights, Table Beggar, WhoMadeWho and Justice
FASHION ACCESSORIES
A new British fashion designer showcase, curated by Emma Crosby, curator and manager of London a la Mode and consultant to Vauxhall Fashion Scout
LIVE MUSIC
If you don’t know who Ebru and Stereo Decade are, you absolutely need to get better acquainted.
The event is strictly guestlist only, so please RSVP to emma@thepassenger.co.uk
Please bear in mind that we are always open for artists, filmmakers, performers, designers, musicians and more to pitch ideas and projects to us and use this event as a vehicle – we want this event to be representative of just how creative Londoners are.
Words from the Passenger Committee
10 mind blowing sculptures from all around the world
We came across these mind-blowing sculptures and could not resist sharing them with you. Defying gravity or just beautiful, you can decide for yourself. We hope you’ll enjoy them.
Why not telling us about them in the comments below?
Name: “The Immigrant Sculpture” by Bruno Catalano
Location: Portugal
Meaning: Symbolizing luggage full of dreams but an empty heart, because you are leaving everything behind.
Name: “Popped Up” by Ervin Loránth Hervé
Location: Budapest (Hungary)
Meaning: Promotional piece for Art market Budapest (2014). The temporary sculpture combines art with nature, surprising visitors while welcoming them to the Eastern capital.
Name: Jeju Loveland
Location: Jeju island in South Korea
Meaning: Jeju Loveland is an outdoor sculpture park which opened in 2004 on Jeju Island in South Korea. The park is focused on a theme of sex, featuring 140 sculptures representing humans in various sexual positions.
Name: “Hippo Squares”
Location: Taipei Zoo (Taiwan)
Meaning: The square is the brainchild of former zoo Director Chen Pao-chung, who came up with the concept while looking for ways to complement the African Animal Area. After consulting with employees and designers, Chen greenlighted the square and it went on to become one of the facility’s signature nonliving attractions.
Name: Not known
Location: Tuen Mun Park (Hong Kong)
Meaning: Not known
Name: “The Rundle Mall pigs”
Location: Rundle Mall, Adelaide (Australia)
Meaning: The four pigs won Adelaide City Council’s Rundle Mall National Sculpture Competition for the upgraded Rundle Mall in 1997. South African-born and Sydney-based sculptor Marguerite Derricourt was the winner. Her four bronze pigs were unveiled on July 3, 1999.
Name: “River God Tyne” statue by sculptor David Wynne (1968)
Location: Newcastle Town hall (UK)
Meaning: It portrays the river God in human form, a fountain within his outstretched hand coursing a constant stream of water along the tortured and twisted torso of the aquatic diety.
Name: “Octopus plays Chess” by Leigh Dyer
Location: Hasting Old Town (UK)
Meaning: These fantastic pieces that live in the Chess Square, George Street, Hastings Old Town.
Name: Yorkshire sculpture park (UK)
Location: Yorkshire sculpture park (UK)
Meaning: The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an open-air gallery in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, showing work by British and international artists
Name: Rock sculpture by Smaban Abbas
Location: Terminal 3, Cairo airport (Egypt)
Meaning: ?
Simon Stalenhgas’s sci-fi digital paintings
I always wondered if I could appreciate ‘digital painting’ as much as more traditional painting, what I mean by that is art which is made with brushes or pencils on some panels or canvases as opposed to via a computer.
Call me old fashion but I like thinking about artists spending hours in their studio, stroking or splashing paint on canvases but I must admit, I now also get exciting with this computer assisted method of painting that we call ‘Digital painting’
And how could you not be when you look at Simon Stålenhag | Art-Pie‘s works – keep on reading
About the artworks
Simon’s paintings and stories take place in an alternate version of Sweden in the 80s and 90s. The central location is the countryside of Mälaröarna, a string of islands and half islands just west of Stockholm. The background is this:
In the 1950s, the Swedish government orders the construction of a large particle accelerator. The state agency RIKSENERGI is tasked with developing this massive project. In 1969 the The Facility For Research In High Energy Physics is ready, located deep below the pastoral Mälaröarna-countryside. The local population soon calls it THE LOOP.
From it’s inception to it’s closure in 1994, The Loop was the largest accelerator in the world. The thousands of staff: scientists, engineers and maintenance workers, all serve Riksenergi during these years – and makes possible tremendous scientific advances. But the power of the Gravitron, the heart of the accelerator, proves difficult to control. The side effects of the project are dramatic. Strange sightings and bizarre rumours taints the scientific image of The Loop.
In the shadow of the weird machines filling the countryside, life continues as normal. The kids of Mälaröarna grew up living above the technological marvel of The Loop, but for them it was just a part of their very ordinary lives. Until strange beasts from another time showed up, that is.
About Simon Stålenhag
Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag burst onto the art scene in 2013 when his first series of paintings were shared on the Internet. His original blend of naturalistic landscape paintings with science fiction elements and a very low key recollection of growing up in the eighties struck a chord. Not just in Sweden, but all over the world.
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Simon uploaded his first digital paintings onto the Internet in 2013, since then he has become something of a phenomena in the art and sci-fi communities. Simon shares his time between a small cabin at Mälaröarna (the setting that inspires his work) and an apartment in Stockholm.
Tutorial: how to paint mountains with oil paint
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Hannah Rothstein Thanksgiving Special plates of food
What not to like here? It is Thanksgiving today and San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein transposes Thanksgiving dinners as plated by famous artists throughout history.
Andy Warhol
Georges Seurat
Jackson Pollock
Picasso
Rene Magritte
Vincent Van Gogh
All artworks (prints) are signed and limited edition and even better, %10 of profits will be donated to the SF-Marin Food Bank. For inquiries, write art@hrothstein.com.
Dan Baldwin’s new show ‘The Fear Of Letting go’ at Lawrence Alkin gallery
In conjunction of Dan Baldwin’s new show, ‘The Fear of Letting go‘, we are offering a copy of the book that the artist is simultaneously releasing.
Entitled ‘The Fear of Letting go’, you will find all the artworks from the show and more. Last but not least, Dan will sign the book!
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About the show
‘The Fear of Letting Go’ charts a new direction in Dan Baldwin’s creative practice. His approach to making this new work is more structured and, for the first time ever, Baldwin is planning and constructing his paintings, methodically creating links and dialogues between the different media on show.
Following his sell out New York show ‘The End of Innocence’, this latest collection on display will feature new paintings, bronzes, ceramic vases and original works on paper and wood. ‘The Fear of Letting Go’ will be Baldwin’s most autobiographical and intimate body of work to date.
The work on display successfully retains Baldwin’s signature dense and multifaceted aesthetic, as well as continuing and progressing his engagement with bronze sculpture. His obsession with incorporating found objects and sentimental ephemera is still abundantly apparent as he invites the viewer to delve deep into his past, reassessing feelings of nostalgia.
“This new work is a lot to do with memory, childhood and innocence –
most of the new paintings are contained within a room, or an environment. I’ve always said it’s about life and death, but in this body of work it’s more personal…” Dan Baldwin
Read the interview of Dan Badlwin by Lawrence Alkin gallery –
WHAT- ‘The Fear Of Letting Go’ by Dan Baldwin
WHERE – Lawrence Alkin Gallery, 42 New Compton Street, London, WC2H 8DA
WHEN – 1st October- 14th November, Monday to Saturday 11am –7pm, or by appointment
www.lawrencealkingallery.com
We will pick up the 50th entrant to this competition as the winner!
Now is ‘really’ time for Street Art at Black Rat
This is what of those shows that when you hear about them, the automatic and systematic next thing you do is to pencil that in your diary in a big font.
Now’s The Time exhibition at Black Rat gallery is an impressive group show, a sort of retrospective of what Street Art has been in the past few years and what it will be for years to come: getting more and people liking it. Continue reading Now is ‘really’ time for Street Art at Black Rat
Dzia, Nychos x HRVB & Virusvirujo street art
Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today: Dzia, Nychos x HRVB & Virusvirujo.
Dzia
Nychos x HRVB
Virusvirujo
Athleticizm by Goldie at Underdog
