Elysian

(adj.) beautiful or creative; divinely inspired; peaceful and perfect

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Jose Romussi

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Adrienne Slane

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Larissa Haily Aguado

[nevver]

Chroma, Beth Hoeckel

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Rowan Mersh

Windowpane Oyster Shells (2014), Dentalium Shells (2012), and Sliced Black Walnuts, Wire (2013)

Rowan Mersh is a multi-media sculptor who explores form through intuitive application of a material’s inherent qualities. His diverse and experimental approach to creation is epitomised by his ability to take very ordinary materials and transform them into the extraordinary. From textile sculpture to kinetic and interactive installation, Mersh’s pieces are inventive and multipurpose, bridging the realms of art, design and fashion.

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Noriko Ambe

From her Cuttings series

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Noriko Ambe - Flat File Globes

This is a collaboration with metal cabinets. The cabinets are a metaphor for the human body as emptiness. Also, this work visualizes the intersection of the stream of vertical time with the present.

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Pol Bury (1922–2005)

Inspired by Surrealism’s embrace of chance and by the capricious movements of Alexander Calder’s sculptures, the Belgian artist Pol Bury created his own kinetic art beginning in the 1940s—motorized, spinning paintings, subtly shifting cut-paper reliefs, and slowly moving metal sculptures. In 1963 he created his first cinetization—a photo-collage suggesting movement within the print—an art form he pursued for the remainder of his career. By cutting concentric circles in a photograph and reassembling the pieces with a slight twist.

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Roni Horn 

Her, Her, Her, and Her (2002-03)

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On Kawara - I Got Up Series (1968-79)

Every day between 1968 and 1979, Kawara sent postcards to two different recipients, hand-stamped with a message informing them of the time at which he had got up that morning (or afternoon). The project lasted 11 years.

With projects such as I Got Up, On Kawara not only abandoned the artisanal techniques that still defined modern art to some extent in the early 1960s, but, more importantly, outsourced the 'completion' of his work to anonymous third parties. In leaving the delivery of his telegrams and postcards, for example - in a sense the final stage of the creative process - to the US postal service and Western Union delivery schedules, On Kawara emphasized the significance of concept over aesthetic form in a far more radical way than modern artists had previously attempted, in line with the most radical tendencies of Conceptual art.

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Walter Mason

Similar to the work of legendary land artist Andy Goldsworthy, Mason’s land art captures the beauty of different seasons. He splits his photographs into three different categories: Fall, Winter and Spring/Summer. Through his photos, Mason shows that each season has its own forms of natural beauty. 

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Stephen Walter

Walter’s major project ‘The Island, London Series’ was published in 2008 and has enjoyed sustained critical acclaim ever since. In each of his borough prints, Walter combines history, trivia, personal experience, local knowledge and imaginative additions to creatively explore an area in all its contradictory complexity.

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Tom Friedman

Untitled 1990 

The artist writes his signature repeatedly for the life of a pen 106.7 cm

[visuallycurious]

Francis Alÿs

Paradox of Praxis 1

(Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing)

Video, 4:49 min.

Mexico City, 1997

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Mariko Kusumoto

Sea-life inspired Jewellery 

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Mark Wallinger. 

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Kelly Peters

One of my favourite newfound artists. Gorgeous colours, with mountains as the main subject.