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Getty Station

A really exceptional art space has opened in the middle of Chelsea on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan a while ago. Gallerist and art collector Michael Shvo bought an abandoned gas station where he has installed a temporary art exhibition. »Kids don’t really see sheep in the middle of New York at a gas station,« Shvo said and picked up Francois-Xavier Lalanne’s sheep sculptures. The installation is one of many planned artworks that will appear in the location before Shvo finishes constructing a luxury building in place of the former gas station. Business as usual what we might call.

Getty Station

Getty Station

Getty Station

Getty Station

Getty Station

All images © collabcubed.

Art is Trash

The legendary Berlin-based Sechsenmaler has successfully demonstrated how to leave marks on trash, discarded objects and materials. Now, a suitable successor was just found. The following pictures are part of the London’13 series made by Francisco de Pájaro aka Art is Trash. The artist turned London’s garbage piles into bizarre monsters

Trash Is Art: London'13

Trash Is Art: London'13

Trash Is Art: London'13

Trash Is Art: London'13

Trash Is Art: London'13

Human Debris

If you just plain hanging around on a vacation to a beach, watch out for these curious installations made out of plastic bottles, wood planks and other garbage washed up from the sea. The project Human Debris by american photographer Jeremy Underwood spotlights the environmental condition of Houston’s waterways through the building of site-specific sculptures assembled out of discarded material.

Human Debris by Jeremy Underwood

Human Debris by Jeremy Underwood

Human Debris by Jeremy Underwood

HumanDebris4Human Debris by Jeremy Underwood

All images © Jeremy Underwood.

Quelle Fete

Just a victim of bad music? If the air of the room had previously been checked, the sudden death of these famous symbols of glamour and eroticism maybe could have been prevented. Rotterdam-based art collective Rotganzen has created a series of deflated disco balls. If you go out clubbing on the weekend, watch out: they could lie lifeless on the floor.

Rotganzen - Quelle Fete

Rotganzen - Quelle Fete

Rotganzen - Quelle Fete

Private Moon

What is fantastic about the moon is that it always gets around a lot. His personal travelling companion Leonid Tishkov is probably the perfect travel mate, as you can see. »Private Moon« is a series of stylized and sentimental photographs of both with a large illuminated crescent moon taken at various locations around the world. Fitting to this setting: J’ai demandé à la lune by Indochine.

Leonid Tishkov - Private Moon1
Private Moon in the Arctic

Leonid Tishkov - Private Moon2
Private Moon in Berlin

Leonid Tishkov - Private Moon3
Private Moon in Italy

Leonid Tishkov - Private Moon4
At the straw store. Cishan

EL AL

Chicago-based artist Naama Arad shredded hundreds of Xerox prints to form a large curtain installation. The many small strips merge together into an image of a monument that we might see online or in travel books. Blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior, Arad’s work creates a wonderful illusion of depth on a two-dimensional flat surface. This installation was part of EL AL at the Midrasha Gallery of Art, Tel Aviv.


Shredded Xerox Prints, Tape, 355×391


Installation View

Bouquet Final

French conceptual artist Michel Blazy makes rare use of white foam. His latest installation called »Bouquet Final« was located inside a 13th century monastery near the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. This free-flowing, floodable substance was bubbling a collection of amazing cloud formations into the classic architecture of the building in an impressive way. The foam was produced by a generator from behind the installation. For more examples of Blazy’s work, visit his gallery. Beware: installation is not suitable for foam parties.

All photos by: Pauline Rymarski
Courtesy Art: Concept, Paris & College des Bernardins, Paris