Across a number of projects in the last few years, the French art collective Hehe has created four working versions of alternative rail vehicles.
Radeau de Sauvetage, Géographies variables, L’école européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne, Lorient, 2013
M-Blem, 2012
Tapis Volant à Saint Denis, France
Métronome – the train project, 2012
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Although summer season is long gone, there’s no reason to clear out your garage of old paddling pools. Here is a simple way to create a unique garden feature. But be careful: use of technology under the age of 10 is detrimental to early swimming experience. »Paddling Pool Fountain« by dutch artist Helmut Smits.
Paddling Pool Fountain, 2003, inflatable paddling pools, buckets, water pump, 3-head spray head, PVC, wood, tarp, glue, paint.
All Images © Helmut Smits.
Planting a seven meter high plane tree on the roof of a twelve-storey residential high-rise in Gießen, Germany. The projects‘ title Treehouse represents this romantic idea of living in unison with nature. Treehouse here stands for a retreat from »down earth«.
Baumhaus, Installation, Baum auf Hochhaus, 2014
Pflanzung einer sieben Meter hohen Platane auf dem Dach eines zwölfstöckigen Wohnhochhauses in Gießen. All images © Wiebke Grösch / Frank Metzger.
Urban Interventions by Tony Spyra
The Weight of Life, Kraków, Poland, 2013
Physalia, Ostend, Belgium, 2013
Abandoned Shipwreck, Vienna, Austria, 2012
Career, 425 x 101,65 x 118,75cm, 2014, Picture: Hannes Katherl
All images © Tony Spyra.
Using his finger to scribe into the layer of dirt built-up from exhaust emissions, Lancaster-born artist Ben Long creates elaborate drawings on the rear shutters of white haulage trucks. In this on-going series, collectively entitled The Great Travelling Art Exhibition, Long expands upon the daubing and crude slogans that commonly adorn commercial freight vehicles. Dirt ist beautiful! Sometimes…
Bird Truck Drawing I – The Great Travelling Art Exhibition, 2001, Drawing in dirt on haulage truck, 650 x 246 x 341 cm
Horse Truck Drawing – The Great Travelling Art Exhibition, 2002, Drawing in dirt on haulage truck, 650 x 246 x 341 cm
Stag Truck Drawing – The Great Travelling Art Exhibition, 2007, Drawing in dirt on haulage truck, 650 x 246 x 341 cm
Realistic Worlds & Managed Spaces by Ray Ewing.
Skaket Beach Motel. Cape Cod
Gulf of St. Lawrence Room. Montréal Biodôme
Trader Joe’s. Hyannis, MA
VooDoo Beach at The Rio. Las Vegas, NV
Wildwood Inn & Tropical Dome. Florence, KY
All images © Ray Ewing.
A new work of Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse. psychylustro transforms one of Philadelphia’s major transportation thoroughfares with a series of seven bright, bold installations along the city’s rail gateway between 30th Street and North Philadelphia stations. The work unfolds in a series of seven passages – from vast, dramatic warehouse walls to small buildings and stretches of green spaces — meant to be framed through the windows of the moving train, creating a real-time landscape painting that explores shifting scale, perspective and the passage of time. Magic train world.
psychylustro – The Drama Wall / 2014 / acrylic on wall, floor, and various objects
The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program is the largest public art program in the United States. All images © by Steve Weinik.
Early work…
untitled / 2008 / acrylic on wall and floor
