Reality is a just a concept. Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade transforms and duplicates unnoticed everyday objects like a hand pallet truck into the language of illusion, an imaginary, parallel dimension. The possibility not to function (or function differently?) is a subconscious capacity. Hubwagen by Alicja Kwade.
Image © Edition Block. Photo: Uwe Walter
Alicja Kwade – Die Editionen 2008 – 2014
Edition Block GmbH Office
Duration: May 2nd – July 26th, 2014
Chris LaBrooy is back, just as curious as ever. The title of his new work is »Flight Intestine«, an awesome rendering of a Boeing 747 whose intestines are dripping from the body of a plane. It’s weirdly beautiful. How frequently in his work the artist transforms ordinary objects into much stranger versions of themselves.
All images © Chris LaBrooy.
After a bunch of groundbreaking hits, Minneapolis artist Brock Davis has released some new artwork over the last few months, awesome and as always easy to follow. Created with common household items and products that we encounter on a daily basis. There is a portrait of a bear created from facial hair shavings, a Star Wars »Cereal TIE Fighter« using two Crispix for the hexagonal wings and two Cheerios for the hull and a heart carving in a broccoli stem. Brock Davis made his Instagram page become a gallery. It is worth a visit.
Popcorn Rain Cloud
Broccoli Carving for my Sweetheart
Cereal TIE Fighter
Said Goodbye to the Bear on my Face
All images © Brock Davis.
Do you remember? Last year Spanish street artist SpY wrapped a german police car as part of the CityLeaks Urban Art Festival in Cologne. I really don’t know why I never mentioned this guy on this blog. Since the 1980s, his interventions and graffitis may be encountered in cities all over the world and his ideas are as strong as ever. Funny, fleeting and confusing at the same time.
WRAP – Cologne (Germany), 2013
Some older works…
Leaves – Madrid, 2009
LIVE – Rosarno (Italy), 2012
Street Wars – Madrid, 2008
Web – Madrid, 2008
All images © SpY.
On the 25th revolutionary 1st of May demonstration in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 2012, protesters were throwing huge inflatable cobblestones, made of silver-reflective foil and tape. The creative intervention meant as a celebration of an object which is both a symbol and a material weapon of anti-authoritarian struggle everywhere. It also aimed to bring new strategies of tactical frivolity into the demonstration.
The campaign was initiated by the art-activist collective »Eclectic Electric Collective« (EEC), an international organised network, consisting of artists, activists and other interested people, with a base in Berlin. The collective now operates under the name Tools for Action.
Photo: inflatable cobblestone during the General Strike in Barcelona 2012. © Oriana Eliçabe
Irish graffiti artist Maser has covered his clashing patterns all over an abandoned petrol station in Limerick City somewhere in Ireland as part of a transformative urban art project. Maser titled the installation »No.27 – a nod to Ed Ruscha« – after an American pop art artist who published a collection of photographs titled »Twentysix Gasoline Stations«.
Jeremiah Johnson »House of Worship« is a model of a church constructed from his personal collection of empty prescription pill bottles. Johnson has suffered from a disease called ulcerative colitis since 2001.
House of Worship – prescription pill bottles, wood, wire, fluorescent lamp, printed paper, hot glue. 56x36x55″, 2014
