Conceptual art installation

To visually represent the concept of emotional protection I have created a series of installations using multiple opposing casts of my face imprisoned in three sets of steel enclosures. One cast represents an outer shell devoid of emotion while the other …

A rope 20 meters long, 30 centimetres in diameter and weighing 120 kg is suspended in the main hall of the Zipper Gallery. Both ends gradually become dismembered from the main web until their minute thicknesses cling to the walls of the exhibition space, supporting the installation. Remitting to the Cartesian axes, three lines drawn across the wall of the gallery insert the work within the planes of the mapped space and in the terrain of control. Thus, the artist Janaina Mello Landini…

In his Andrew Newman’s work ‘Attempt to fill an empty space (Performance Anxiety)’, 2008, Newman’s hand quivers as he reaches for the hand of the other. Wavering before the embrace. It is in this moment, in this attempt, in this action, that Newman loves. Before the embrace. His hand shakes....

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Swiss artist Fabian Buergy explores themes of dysfunction and transformation in his surreal and often twisted conceptual art installations and digital

Pseudonymous Indian street artist DAKU recently installed an immersive text-based work in Panjim, Goa. Placed along 31st January Road, a fishnet structure suspends letters above pedestrians. The region’s abundant sunlight pours through to cast shadows on the street, spelling out tropes about the passage of time. Some of the phrases include, “Time works wonders. TimeContinue reading "Sunlight Casts Shadows of Phrases Exploring Theories of Time in a Street Art Installation by DAKU"

Monika Grzymala