A Cathedral Made from 55,000 LED Lights

A Cathedral Made from 55,000 LED Lights:









The Luminarie De Cagna is an imposing cathedral-like structure that was recently on display at the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium. The festival was host to almost 30 exhibitions including plenty of 3D projection mapping, fields of luminous flowers, and a glowing phone booth aquarium, however with 55,000 LEDs and towering 28 meters high the Luminarie De Cagna seems to have stolen the show. ( via stijn coppens, sacha vanhecke, sector271)

Henrik Menné

Henrik Menné:







Henrik Menné

Work from his oeuvre.

“Whether they are dynamic or static; sculptures by Henrik Menné are basically about process, balance and about organizing matter through both rigid systems and chance.

The major part of Mennés production consists of large-scale machines or arrangements temporarily put at work when exhibited – all sculptures are ‘in the making’ so to say. Their process is always silent, controlled and structured by repetitive movements as the machines transform a single material – plastic, wax, metal or stone – into peculiar objects. These soft-formed elements are seldom regarded as autonomous art works and destroyed or recycled when no longer on show.

Although closed and often self-referring, the system in which the process takes place both changes the environment and is sensible to changes in the environment. The instability of the physical context is therefore what causes important marginal variations in the shapes of the particular outcome.

The static sculptures by Menné contain the same immense effort and obsessive trait when it comes to putting forces such as gravity and well-known qualities ascribed to conventional materials into play. Another more conceptual approach is to be found in the few replicas of everyday objects, which are disturbed to the point where they loose the original function.

The intriguing low tech and analogue character of all works by Henrik Menné make visible the principle on which the individual system of the particular sculpture is organised. Despite this rational transparency works by Menné almost always appear as logically impossible and tremendously beautiful.” – Galleri Tom Christoffersen

via pietmondriaan

Jim Punk: exq=.s.te =n.c&de/s

Jim Punk: exq=.s.te =n.c&de/s:

Jim Punk is prolific and anonymous.

His website is encased largely in a cryptic
vernacular predominately of his own design: A laptop is rendered in ‘Oldskool’
ASCII style illustration graphics with the ‘keyboard’ displaying letters and
symbols (such as “&” or “n”) arranged in no particular order—as if Punk had
button smashed his keyboard and left the results to exist as is. There
are no direct title links, or any kind of straightforward archive list of
projects, instead it’s these arranged letters and symbols that when
painstakingly, individually clicked on, lead the viewer down into a further
maze of Punk’s own glitchy, early net art based work.

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azertyuiop^$¨£

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It’s this jumbled arrangement of symbols and
navigation confusion that has come to define Punk’s work over the
years. Responding to blog comments, tweets and even emails with this
seemingly incomprehensible employment of language, Punk avoids a certain
communicative regularity; rejecting the comprehensibility and clarity that
often lends itself to distinct individual recognition. Instead, Punk’s
non-linear, schizophrenic performance draws attention to the form language and
communication take, all the while disrupting standardized information flow and
producing an irregularity in the way we expect to approach and access content.

Punk's latest user generated project, exq=.s.te
=n.c&de/s, is a glitched out Twitter feed that anyone can
post to. Utilizing a customized keyboard, comprised solely of unicode symbols, users can easily create
and tweet glitchy status updates. With currently more than 600 tweets,
Punk’s project works within the hyper consumptive pace of Twitter and utilizes
it as an alternative platform for formalized making. While Twitter
predominately exists as a website used to communicate in short, concise bursts
of text, with users usually promoting an event or revealing the banal
adventures crucial to their own existences, Punk’s Twitter demonstrates the
formal exploits of such a system; its purpose, re-purpose and what it is
capable of doing.

In a time when the capture and dispersal of
information seems crucial to maintaining productivity, Jim Punk decides that
playfulness and experimentation are still worth pursuing.

Follow and contribute here.

Josh Poehlein ‘Dark Cities’

Josh Poehlein:

All images © Josh Poehlein

Paul Chan

Paul Chan:







Work from The 7 Lights
from his exhibition at the New Museum. The videos and drawings from the exhibition can be seen here.

“This exhibition marks the American premiere of Paul Chan’s complete series “The 7 Lights,” offering a unique occasion to explore the practice of a New York-based artist whose work engages such fundamental themes as politics, poetry, war, death, and desire. Begun in 2005, Chan’s ambitious cycle combines obsolete computer technology with hypnotic imagery to create a series of enigmatic encounters with light and darkness. In the title, the word “light” has been struck through, drawing attention to its dramatic absence.

Tristan Perich

Tristan Perich:





Tristan Perich

Work from 1-Bit Symphony and Interval Studies.

“A return to the format of Perich’s lauded 1-Bit Music (described by the Village Voice as “technology and aesthetic rolled into one”), 1-Bit Symphony further reduces the hardware involved while simultaneously expanding its musical ideas. 1-Bit Symphony utilizes on and off electrical pulses, synthesized by assembly code and routed from microchip to speaker, to manifest data as sound. The device treats electricity as a sonic medium, making an intimate connection between the materiality of hardware and the abstract logic of software.

While 1-Bit Symphony is purely electronic in its execution, its contents reflect Perich’s long-standing interest in orchestral composition. Since the release of 1-Bit Music in 2006, Perich’s compositional work has combined 1-bit audio with acoustic classical instruments, providing insight into the conceptual and aesthetic relationships between physical and electronic sound. With 1-Bit Symphony, Perich brings this insight back into the digital realm, juxtaposing the grand form of a classical symphony with the minimal nature of 1-bit circuitry.” – Tristan Perich

nicola yeoman

nicola yeoman:











installations by nicola yeoman

Byoungho Kim

Byoungho Kim:

All images © Byoungho Kim

Doug Wheeler

Doug Wheeler:











Doug Wheeler

Work from his oeuvre

“As a pioneer of the so-called “Light and Space” movement that flourished in Southern California in the 1960s and 1970s, Wheeler’s prolific and groundbreaking body of work encompasses drawing, painting, and installations that are characterized by a singular experimentation with the perception and experience of space, volume, and light. Raised in the high desert of Arizona, Wheeler began his career as a painter in the early 1960s while studying at the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts) in Los Angeles.” - David Zwirner

via The New York Times

Explore the LES Through the Bowery

Explore the LES Through the Bowery:

The Lower East Side is saturated with a rich artistic tradition, which you’d be more familiar with if not for your cherished tradition of getting saturated whenever you’re down there. Celebrate both neighborhood customs at Artlog’s Lower East Side Art Crawl, a two-and-a-half hour tour of thirteen Bowery-proximate galleries on Saturday, February 4.

The event, lasting from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., grants you access to the New Museum, plus a baker’s dozen of top-notch art houses, each of which will welcome crawlers with contemporary exhibitions from up-and-coming locals, including a monotype series featuring World War II dog-fighters entitled Abandon Ship.

At each stop, you’ll have the opportunity to sip a glass of premium wine or a frosty Grolsch. You’ll wrap up the afternoon of oeuvre-appreciation with a gratis Bushmills Honey Mojito at the after-party at Gallery Bar, where we hand off the reins to you at 9:00 p.m.

Sperone Westwater will present an exhibition of portraits and self-portraits by notable European and American artists from the sixteenth century to the present. This survey includes Old Masters from Italy, France, England, and The Netherlands, as well as works by modern and contemporary artists.




Jon Kessler, The Blue Period, 2007/2011. Courtesy Salon 94.

Salon 94 presents Jon Kessler: The Blue Period, an installation featuring kinetic machines, surveillance cameras, video monitors and life-size cardboard figures. This video-drenched panopticon is the culmination of Kessler’s longtime interest in surveillance, alienation, and spectacle. First shown in Berlin in 2007, this is the first time the work is being shown in the U.S.

The Hole’s group show, titled, …, explores new tendencies in abstraction. The artists featured all explore a material-driven or process-based approach to abstract painting with a strong dose of humor or the absurd. There are also lots of dots. Hey, isn’t this an abstract painting show? It is also the last day of the GREY AREA pop-up at The Hole Shop.

Sue Scott Gallery features Malcolm Morley who, despite being an accomplished printmaker, constantly bends the rules of the medium. Morley uses the monotype not as a staid or simplistic process of transference, but rather as an investigation of how the pressure of a press affects imagery. In each monotype, Morley pushes experimentation, never using the exact same technique twice.

An ongoing dialogue between the deconstruction of objects and the construction of form occurs at Dodge Gallery. Michael Zelehoski transforms found, utilitarian subjects into two-dimensional works that are picture, relief and object in one.

Christopher Henry Gallery presents innovative video projection mapping techniques. Dev Harlan controls and shapes projected images into precise alignment with his sculptural forms. Through the masterful use of this hybrid video technique, Harlan makes the intuitive a reality and gives the works rhythms and a dialogue that set their own pace.




Installation view of Kurt Tong, House with Guard, Maid and Dog. Courtesy Jen Bekman Gallery.

At Jen Bekman, find out why Egyptian pharaohs entombed themselves with their riches, and why Chinese emperors were buried with effigies of their armies. Case It Rains In Heaven documents 16 images of the curious Chinese modern-day practice of Joss paper offerings for the deceased. As artist Kurt Tong explains, in Chinese culture many believe that the dead are unable to carry their possessions with them. It is therefore up to their ancestors and loved ones to properly equip them for the afterlife.

Mulherin + Pollard presents a three-person show featuring Bruce Wilhelm, Jared Lindsay Clark, and Shannon Wright. Each artist shows works that display a highly developed sense of tactile function and form challenging conventional modes of visual language through installation, mixed media, and painting.

Lambert Fine Arts presents Racks On Racks and Urban ARTifacts highlighting the works of Shalom Neuman and Terrenceo, two artists who expose the social issues that an egocentric society saturated with apathy has long deemed as acceptable. Both artists take a multi-sensory and multimedia approach to boldly challenge our assumptions about contemporary culture and life in the digital age.

Other galleries included:

Charles Bank, RETROspect

Gallery nine5, Collective

Lehmann Maupin, Instanbul ’74 Presents Sandro Kopp

Hendershot, Come and Get It!

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Please join Artlog and our friends at Thrillist for this special Art and Wine Crawl on Saturday, February 4 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. This tour through the Bowery neighborhood includes special talks with artists and gallery owners, wine and beer, and an amazing afterparty at Gallery Bar on Orchard Street from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Artlog Access: Get tickets here for the The Artlog/Thrillist Wine & Art Crawl on Feb 4th

Artlog subscribers can use the code ARTLOGVIP for $15 off tickets. Check-in at the New Museum from 3:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

D-O-B-R by Susann Stefanizen

D-O-B-R by Susann Stefanizen:

Awesome graphic monochromatic experiments by Susann Stefanizen. All the following pictures are from the series called D-O-B-R. See more;














via | All This Talk

Felted Anatomy

Felted Anatomy:







Designer and illustrator Dan Beckemeyer created this wonderful exploration of anatomy by first illustrating a skeletal structure, then stitching a cardiovascular system, and finally adding hand-felted muscle mass. Beautiful work. See more over on Behance. (via illustrations of insides)