The following are two exhibitions that would be worth visiting over the Easter Holidays.
Both could be related back to the GCSE Exam title of “FORCE”. The first is an exhibition about the destruction of Pompeii, which is being held at the British Museum:
The second exhibition worth visiting would be the Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective at the Tate Modern. Specifically looking at his piece of work entitled, WHAM:
The Diver from James Lancett on Vimeo.
Created by the artist Vik Muniz, these images were created using multitudes of discarded objects and trash. You may have seen his work in the 2010 documentary Waste Land.
These photographs by the artist Yao Lu are digitally assembled images of landfills and buildings draped in a green mesh to resemble traditional Chinese landscape painting. You could interpret her work to be a comment on society and the environment.
{By Wang Zi Won, for more information click here}
This work is by the artist Josh Keyes. He describes his work as, ” a hybrid of eco-surrealism and dystopian folktales that express a concern for our time and the Earth’s future.”
Shintaro Ohata’s work up close appears to be made from simple oil paints, but step back and you’re in for a surprise. Each piece is actually a hybrid of painted canvas and sculpture that blend almost flawlessly in color and texture to create a single image. The cinematic figures are sculpted from polystyrene while the backgrounds are made from traditional painting techniques. Via his artist statement:
Shintaro Ohata is an artist who depicts little things in everyday life like scenes of a movie and captures all sorts of light in his work with a unique touch: convenience stores at night, city roads on rainy day and fast-food shops at dawn etc. His paintings show us ordinary sceneries as dramas. He is also known for his characteristic style; placing sculptures in front of paintings, and shows them as one work, a combination of 2-D and 3-D world. He says that it all started from when he wondered “I could bring the atmosphere or dynamism of my paintings with a more different way if I place sculptures in front of paintings”. Many viewers tend to assume that there is a light source set into his work itself because of the strong expression of lights in his sculpture.
(Found via Colossal)
This is Momo:
Andrew Knapp noticed that his border collie, Momo would always hide when fetching sticks, instead of bringing them back. After photographing a few images of Momo doing this, Knapp decided this would be a great idea for a series of urban and rural landscapes with Momo hidding somewhere in each frame.
To see more of Momo click the image below:
Chalfont's Art Exams 2013 