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Alfredo Jaar nasceu 1956, em Santiago, Chile. Vive e trabalha em Nova York, EUA. “I can’t go on, I will go on” [Não posso continuar, eu vou continuar] – as palavras de Samuel Beckett, que estão na parede do estúdio de Alfredo Jaar, em Nova York, resumem lindamente seu estado de espírito e sua postura em relação à arte, além de explicar sua paixão pelo pensamento do italiano Antonio Gramsci, que escreveu sobre o pessimismo do intelecto e o otimismo da vontade.

O artista fugiu do Chile sob o domínio de Pinochet. Não podia respirar. E, ainda assim, faz obras enfrentando os horrores mais sombrios da nossa época. Seu objetivo? Mudar o mundo, mas ele confessa que lida diariamente com o fracasso. Acorda no dia seguinte e tenta mais uma vez. É preciso continuar. Ele foi até Ruanda durante o dramático genocídio; viajou a Fukushima para fazer obras-homenagem às vítimas do acidente nuclear; e foi na fronteira entre México e Estados Unidos criar um tributo aos que morreram tentando atravessá-la. Alfredo Jaar alerta: nenhuma imagem é inocente, precisamos reaprender a ver. E, se ainda vivemos no chiaroscuro de onde nascem os monstros, como proposto por Gramsci, Jaar é quem joga luz para nos defendermos.

Alfredo Jaar, Lament of the Images, 2002.

Two aluminum tables, glass, perspex LED lights, and motor. 419.1 × 249 × 122 cm. Edition 3. Photography by Maki Ochoa.

Lia Rumma, Milan / Naples.

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Ponto e Espaço / Dot and Space _Taj Mahal and Agra Fort Tour from New Delhi, Índia. Renata Soubhia @resoubhia

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Stefan Sagmeister is a world renowned graphic designer, conceptual typographer and performance artist. His famous hand rendered typography, wide variety of materials and techniques, and use of controversial imagery come together to make up the identity of his work. Having the tendency to push his audience to their ethical limit with his work, he may be seen as somewhat questionable but is undoubtably interesting all the same. He is renowned for focusing on strong themes as sexuality, humour and in some instances slightly disturbing imagery and human emotion in his work. Some may say he is a nonconformist, looking for that shock factor and that his work verges on bad taste, all to prove a strong reaction. I want to question this. In this essay I will look further into his works. I will research his methodology and try to show the true uniqueness and style of his designs.

https://sagmeister.com

https://sagmeisterwalsh.com/work/

Bringing the mood back up with this The Happy Show balloon by Stephan Sagmeister.

http://thehappyshow.tumblr.com/

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Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1969.  Lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Vanessa Beecroft’s work has been shown internationally since 1993, and since then has shaped performance art, the representation of the female body, and sociopolitical discussions of art. Beecroft’s performances (titled VB, followed by the number), which have been an ongoing practice for over twenty-five years, have been presented in many of the world’s preeminent museums and major contemporary events. The performances often highlight the tensions between nakedness and clothing, constraint and freedom, the collective and the individual, and human strength and weakness. 

Vanessa Beecroft was one of the first artists to collaborate with fashion brands, starting in the 1990s, and since 2009 has collaborated extensively with musician and producer Ye West. Now belonging to popular culture as well as the contemporary art canon, her work also manifests a deep dialogue with the history of art and traditions of representation in Europe and of many of the world’s cultures. She is also a keen practitioner of photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture, using each medium to present perspectives on the body, as she brings Renaissance influences together with modern forms of representation. Her art is a passionate field of experimentation, rooted in history, evolving according to its own rules, and expanding into the world where it takes on many philosophical and political tones to question the significance of our existence as human beings. 

According to gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, “Vanessa Beecroft is one of the rare artists who invented a new way to make a work of art. Ninety-nine percent of artists are treading ground that’s already well established, they are making small innovations, and then there are very rare artists who come up with a whole new concept of how to make a work of art and expand our sense of what a work of art can be. Vanessa Beecroft has done that.”

https://vanessabeecroft.com

vanessa beecroft

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Thomas Heatherwick

The studio’s founder and design director comes from a background immersed in materials and making.

His curiosity and passion for problem-solving matured into the studio’s current design process where every architect, designer, landscape architect and maker is encouraged to challenge and contribute ideas.

https://heatherwick.com/projects/objects/spun/

Spun Chair by Thomas Heatherwick

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Noriyuki Haraguchi (原口典之)

Born 1946, in the Kanagawa Prefecture. Graduated from Nihon University College of Art in 1970. Beginning his career as an artist in the late 1960s, he became the first Japanese artist to be selected for the international exhibition, “Documenta 6” (Kassel, Germany) in 1977. From a full scale, three-dimensional reproduction of a military aircraft to a steel pool containing oil waste, Haraguchi uses a range of industrial materials that are difficult to manipulate, such as iron and polyurethane. Whilst beginning his career as an artist during the ANPO-era in the context of socially-engaged art, his works also reflect values of Objecthood, the depiction of an object’s materiality via the removal of meaning and function. 

Shortly after “wall to wall Noriyuki Haraguchi”, his solo exhibition at √K Contemporary, the artist passed away in 2020, at the age of 74.

https://root-k.jp/artists_en/noriyukiharaguchi/

Oil Pool, Noriyuki Haraguchi, 1970/2015

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Yves Klein’s Monotone Silence Symphony in San Francisco YVES KLEIN'S MONOTONE SILENCE SYMPHONY IN SAN FRANCISCOMARCH 27, 2017On January 12, 2017 at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Lévy Gorvy presented the third U.S performance of Yves Klein's groundbreaking Monotone-Silence Symphony.Over one thousand people were present to experience this moving and transcendent work, which unfolds as an orchestra of musicians and singers holds a single continuous tone for a twenty-minute period, followed by twenty minutes of absolute silence.With thanks to Grace Cathedral and online partner Artsy. Video by Slow Clap Productions.

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Scanner Room

2014 Kinetic, site specific installation designed for Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle LED, aluminum, engine 760 x 740 x 480 cm 

Installation designed specifically for the gallery space that engulfs this space completely, creating an environment constructed by light and filled with it. The form is minimalist, its most important element is a constant, monochrome flow of light that materializes and diffuses itself subsequently. Space has been created for people to be inside it, and in this case, the visible is only the beginning of an individual experience that may be coloured with different emotions and states of consciousness.

Usually, scanning is used to represent images or to read encoded, written messages. Therefore, overexposure to light may be treated as a kind of a potential introspection, a state of concentration, a meeting and exchange with one’s own self. Its intensity develops with time and may get you close to meditation, but it can also take the form of a momentary flash of light, a transient feeling or image.

Text: Kaja Pawełek  Curator: Kaja Pawełek Coordinator: Katarzyna Tomczyk-Wysocka Images: Bartosz Górka Partners: Metex JC Cascarino, LTT Lighting, MATT, Dumel

https://karolinahalatek.com/Scanner-Room

Karolina Halatek - ‚Scanner Room‘

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Peter Saville British, born 1955

Peter Saville exists in a territory of his own. His practice occupies a space between art and design, and his unparalleled approach has resulted in a unique contribution to culture. This hybrid position came into being partly through the unprecedented autonomy afforded to him, aged 22, as co-founder and art director of the legendary independent UK label Factory Records.

Unlike most 'commercial artists' of the time, and indeed since, Saville was free to design without approval. Making his art in the context of mass production, he accessed an audience through pop music, best exemplified in the series of record sleeves he created for Joy Division and New Order between 1979 and 1993.

His achievements were celebrated in The Peter Saville Show at the Design Museum in London in 2003. His first major show in a contemporary art museum was at the Migros Museum in Zurich in 2005. He continues to exhibit internationally.

Peter Saville related works for sleeves, covers or packages

https://petersaville.info/

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

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Hannes Wallrafen is a highly acclaimed Dutch/German photographer who lost his eyesight 10 years ago at the height of his career. Wallrafen is famous for his staged photography through which he seeks to translate time into engineered images. His work can be regarded as personal interpretations of local history: storytelling at its core.

In the seventies and eighties Wallrafen used his camera to denounce injustice. He travelled to Northern Ireland, Chile and India, and among others followed the Squatter movement. In the second half of the eighties he started searching for other ways of expression because, as society changed, so did his worldview. In his works the compelling message shifted to more direct images imbued with subtle criticism on society. His artwork is characterised by themes such as transience, history and memory just as his idiosyncratic relationship with literature and delicate sense of humour make his work readily recognisable.

The work of Hannes Wallrafen is included in many private and public art collections across the world, such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam. The iconic photo ‘De Schimmel’ was shot in the pre-Photoshop era and is an exemplary demonstration of Wallrafen’s talent and skill.

Hannes Wallrafen: De Schimmel (1992)

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Backstage, Antonio Berardi said that a vision of Lady Macbeth scheming, screaming, and schlepping her way through the Highlands of Scotland was his starting thought for this collection. William Shakespeare first came up with the character, his most compellingly poisonous catalyst for tragedy, three years after the death of Queen Elizabeth I. Contemplating the dress of this period and the rustling synthetic technical gear you’d wear to hike the high road today were aids to reading Berardi’s text in dress.

Antonio Berardi FW 2017, Sora Choi, London

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Cindy Sherman Nascido em 1954

Nascida em Glen Ridge, Nova Jersey, em 1954, Sherman se formou na State University of New York, Buffalo, em 1976. Ela alcançou a fama no mundo da arte internacional com sua série de fotografias em preto e branco, “Untitled Film Stills” (1977–80), que avançou o conceito de fotografia narrativa.

Na maioria de suas obras, Sherman é modelo, fotógrafa e diretora. Ela regularmente altera sua aparência além do reconhecimento por meio de maquiagem, próteses e figurinos. Ela extrai suas personas de uma variedade de fontes, incluindo contos de fadas, história da arte, filme noir e o mundo da moda. Seu uso de figurinos e maquiagem desafiou a maneira como o retrato era considerado.

Embora tenha começado sua carreira usando fotografia em preto e branco, Sherman fez a transição para filme colorido no início dos anos 1980. Seu trabalho está incluído nas cole��ões da Tate Gallery, Londres; do Museu de Arte Moderna; e do Metropolitan Museum of Art, entre outros. Sherman recebeu vários prêmios, incluindo o Prêmio Internacional de Fotografia da Fundação Hasselblad em 1999 e uma bolsa da Fundação MacArthur em 1995. Ela mora e trabalha em Nova York.

Cindy Sherman

Unexchangable WIELS, Brussels April 19 – August 12, 2018

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Alicja Kwade (*1979 in Katowice, Poland) lives and works in Berlin.

Alicja Kwade is known internationally for sculpture, expansive public installation, film, photography and works on paper that challenge scientific and philosophical concepts by dismantling the boundaries of perception. Her distinctive artistic language involves reflection, repetition, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of everyday objects and natural materials in an effort to explore the essence of our reality and to examine social structures. Often veering towards the absurd and transforming commonly accepted assumptions into open-ended questions, her poetic and mesmerizing oeuvre disrupts familiar systems and searches for new explanations to comprehend our world.

https://alicjakwade.com/

Blues Days Dust, Alicja Kwade

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Douglas Gordon

Film noir (Fly), 2008

Film Noir (Fly) is a black and white video projection showing a close-up of a fly lying on its back, intermittently twitching its legs but unable to get up. The artist Douglas Gordon fixed the fly’s wings to a table top and recorded its struggle until it died. The work thus presents the artist, and by implication the viewer, as sadistic. Gordon has featured flies in other works. For instance, the two videos Fuzzy Logic and B-Movie, both from 1995, which show single flies twitching their legs and wings until they die. For the artist these works represent ‘an image of something that we kill everyday. We see them dying in corners of rooms at home; we don’t care about them. Some of us even tortured these things as part of a “game” to play when we were children. But seeing something like this in a museum becomes a much more distressing game to play.’ (Quoted in National Gallery of Scotland 2006, p.114.)

In 1995 Douglas made a number of black and white videos under the title of Film Noir. In these works he displays an obsession for closely and zealously observed details which are enclosed in repetitive structures. The title of these works corresponds to a cinematic term used primarily to describe a genre of Hollywood crime dramas from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. The Hollywood film noir period is generally associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style with roots in the cinematography of German expressionist film. Film noir reacted against the dominant ideology of society and the conventions of contemporary Hollywood films, introducing the noir hero who is defined by a dark personality qualities and who occupies a disturbing and dangerous world. By appropriating the cinematic term, Gordon’s Film Noir videos take on its associations, becoming the vehicle for his most recurrent themes, such as moral ambivalence, guilt and death.

Based in Glasgow and New York, Gordon works in various media including film, text, photographs, video and various types of installation. He has become best known for works made using existing film footage – both documentary and fictional – altering its pace, context or scale.

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Model Alice Glass drives into the future, styled by Alastair McKimm in slick fabrics and accessory supermova looks. Photographer Daniel Jackson serves up a de-sexualized fashion eroticism with a dangerous edge in ‘Don’t Be A Rockstar, Be A Legend’ for i-D Magazine./ Hair by Holli Smith; makeup for Hannah Murray

alice glass by daniel jackson for i-d pre-spring 2015

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Dieter Roth Swiss, born Germany. 1930–1998

Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist who gained recognition for his diverse body of work, which included artist's books, editioned prints, sculpture, and creations from found materials, including rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot.

Born in Hannover, he spent his early years in Germany and Switzerland, developing an interest in art and poetry while living with a family of artists in Zürich during World War II. Roth's artistic journey was marked by collaborations and experimentation. He co-founded the magazine "Spirale" and associated with the Fluxus movement, all the while maintaining his distinct artistic identity. Notably, his artist's books challenged traditional formats, allowing readers to interact with and rearrange pages. His work often involved incorporating found materials like newspapers and magazines.

Throughout his career, Roth pushed artistic boundaries by creating biodegradable artworks that evolved over time due to natural decay. His pieces, like "Insel," combined foodstuffs with various materials, showcasing his unique perspective on transformation and impermanence. He died in 1998.

https://aws.walkerart.org/collections/artworks/246-little-clouds

Dieter Roth - 246 Little Clouds (1968)

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Le Corbusier (Charles- Édouard Jeanneret) French, born Switzerland. 1887–1965

“Architecture is a system of thought.” Le Corbusier

In 1923, in his book Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture), architect and designer Le Corbusier declared houses to be “machines for living in.” While this phrase speaks to his belief that good design should be functional, Le Corbusier was equally invested in marrying utilitarianism with “poetry, beauty, and harmony.” Rejecting earlier movements like Art Nouveau for their celebration of ornament, historical nostalgia, and lack of functionality, he embraced the work of American engineers—in the form of machines, factory complexes, and grain silos—as a foundation for a new, modern architectural language...

https://www.moma.org/artists/3426

Le Corbusier