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Interactive installations by Takahiro Matsuo.

ART: The Kiss by Maria Anwander

“The Kiss was given to the MoMA as a donation without asking for permission. I entered the museum as a regular visitor and gave an intense French kiss to the wall.”

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Keith Haring for Messages to the Public, January 1982.

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The world is beautiful but not sayable. That’s why we need art.

Charles Simic, “Untitled (Soap Bubble Set), 1936” (via sisyphean-revolt)

Pixel art?

Artist Shawn Smith is playing with your senses and changing the perspective of the onlooker. At first glance these sculptures look like pixelated contemporary art pieces, straight from the media art category, while in fact these are 3D sculptures build up out of wood blocks...

via Mixed Grill

http://www.mixedgrill.nl/2013/03/14/dieren-gemaakt-van-houten-pixels/

#pixel #wood #art #Shawn Smith #Mixed Grill

Eyes as Big as Plates...

Karoline Hjorth & Riita Ikonen had released the third chapter of their Eyes as Big as Plates series. The first part of this project was produced “in collaboration with local senior heroes, sailors, retired agronomes and 90-year old parachuters”, all from Riitta’s hometown of Pohjois-Karjala.

Focusing on the wonderful heritage of this small town, “Eyes as Big as Plates presents Pohjois-Karjala seniors through references of familiar characters and protagonists of Finnish folklore, infused with the participating local seniors’ own stories and personal relationship to folklore, myths and imagination.

via It's Nice That

On view at The Intercourse, Redhook, Brooklyn from March 22nd onwards!

#Karoline Hjorth #Riita Ikonen #It's Nice That #photography #seniors #Finnish #Folklore #Eyes as Big as Plates

Not an art piece?!

But a creative farmer in Doellstaedt, East Germany, who didn't get permission to build his horses a stable....

via vormplatform and Inthralld

#horses #table #chairs #east-germany #art #stable

Amazing artful shadows 'Fragments' by Kumi Yamashita

Via Bloguerrilla and StreetArt in Germany

#Art #shadow #Kumi Yamashita #Bloguerrilla #StreetArt in Germany #Fragments

Who said a demonstration couldn't be a piece of art?

Through Fubiz http://www.fubiz.net/2013/02/25/10-000-yellow-helmets/

#yellow helmets #hard hats #demonstration #italy #art?

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Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman travels the world creating playful, site-specific artworks with the help of local residents. At a first glance, Hofman’s works brim with whimsy and nostalgia for childhood with their brightly colored, toy-like appearance. His monument-scale pieces engage with the local culture of the places where they are installed, often encouraging a conversation about social issues through humor and the element of surprise. Slow Slugs, for example, is a sculpture of two slugs constructed from plastic bags. The slugs were made to ascent the stairs of a Catholic church in Angers, France, to symbolize the journey to death. Hofman’s enormous Rubber Duck floated in bodies of water in Australia, Japan and Europe to symbolize the hope for a world without borders. In Sao Paolo, Hofman created a giant monkey out of flip-flops with the help of local students. Take a look at some of the artworks below, images courtesy of Florentijn Hofman.

Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait Turned Into a Photograph

Photographer Tadao Cern recently decided to explore what Van Gogh’s work would look like as photography instead of painting, taking one of the artist’s most famous self-portraits and using Photoshoppery to transform it into a still photo.

#Gogh #portrait #photography #tadao cern