Ever had the urge to throw yourself off a tall building? Give it a go by lying down at le centquatre in Paris. Argentinian artist, Leandro Erlich has tested people’s perception of reality by recreating a facade of a building, laying it on the floor and putting the multi-storey mirror in front. Looks like more fun than ‘Man on a Ledge’ if the reviews are to be believed. ‘Batiment’ is
Artist Emily Barletta can’t see past red. In an interview for mrxstitch.com she says: ‘For years now, red has been the only colour that makes sense for me. Any other colour in an artwork is secondary. Usually if the object I’m making is red, then other colors present denote a secondary object or idea invading into the art, like a problem or a disease… Struggling with form and marks is a challenge
David Hockney,Winter Timber, 2009, Oil on 15 canvases, 274 x 609.6 cm, Copyright David Hockney, Photo credit: Jonathan Wilkinson The biggest ever UK exhibition of landscape paintings by a living British artist opens 21 January 2012 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The exhibition includes David Hockney’s new and vivid paintings inspired by the Yorkshire landscape and some are huge in scale; the painting above is over 6 metres wide. David Hockney, Woldgate
Eve Arnold and Eva Zeisel had more than a name in common. Pioneering achievements by both artists spanned much of the 20th century and both women achieved firsts in their respective fields. Eve Arnold, who died aged 99 on the 4 of January 2012, was one of the first female photographers to join the Magnum photographic agency in 1957. Eva Zeisel, ceramics designer, who died on 30 December 2011 aged
Apologies for the recent radio silence – we’ve been having some tricky construction work done here at Avocado Sweet and it’s taken a bit longer than we expected. Hope you didn’t think we’d eaten and drunk ourselves into actual comas over the holidays! Should be all sorted soon though and we’ll be right back to daily posting.
Managing expectations is a good idea when it comes to present giving. This wrapping paper apologises in advance for the present inside. Available to download free from The Guardian this this week are wrapping papers designed by well-known artists. ‘Sorry’ is by Jeremy Deller. Below, Tacita Dean’s design is based on an image of a woman looking very uncomfortable on a sledge from a 100 year old German postcard, and below,
Tidying up has to be the most pointless activity known to man. Swiss artist, Ursus Wehrli has even tidied up things that don’t need to be tidied; sunbathers, fruit bowls, alphabet spaghetti and pine branches. However, there’s no denying the sense of order is very pleasing to the eye. T ] These pictures appear in Wehrli’s latest book, Die Kunst, aufzuräumen (The Art of Clean) which follows up his first book, Tidying
If you tend to look down rather than where you’re going, you may already have seen Slinkachu’s work. He has been abandoning little people on the streets since 2006. Both street art installation and photography project, he remodels and paints model train set characters which he then places and leaves on the street. ‘The street-based side of my work plays with the notion of surprise and I aim to encourage city-dwellers to
Such is the demand for these lifelike diminutive dogs that the Scottish artist, Domenica More Gordon has decided the fairest way to sell them is by picking the winning buyer out of a hat. World-wide media coverage of the dogs, including a World of Interiors piece which prompted an enquiry from Brad Pitt, means that demand outstrips supply. The sale opened on the 29 November 2011 and is still open
Most of us consider ourselves rather bold to have a brightly coloured ‘feature’ wall in our homes: Carnovsky, a Milan based artist/designer duo, invite you to go a whole lot further with these wild, wraparound 3D effect wallpapers. The papers are created using a technique in which three images overlap, each one in a primary colour. Together they create a deliberately disorientating and stimulating environment. Viewed through a filtered light