Christina Rinaldi was announced winner of Saatchi Gallery’s first Motion Photography Prize last night in London for her black-and-white window washing GIF. Organized in association with Google+ (to hype their “Auto Awesome” feature), the award was juried by “forward-thinkers,” — film director Baz Luhrmann, Saatchi Gallery CEO Nigel Hurst, artists Shezad Dawood, Tracey Emin and Cindy Sherman. Here’s what Sherman came up with for the press release:
Christina Rinaldi’s entry of a window washer almost transcends the GIF medium by turning the soapy water into brushstrokes, so it seems more like creating a painting.
The winner, a self-described New York-based creative director and conceptual nail artist, gets a “once-in-a-lifetime trip with a photographer or film-maker as her mentor.” Read why Art F City’s Paddy Johnson thinks “the whole idea is pretty dumb” but is fond of the “Jump” one.
We just hope the pigeonGIF came in at a close second.
Here's the cover of Dasha Zhukova's Garage art magazine that hits the stands February 9th. Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman? Cindy Sherman. Cindy... Cindy Sherman. Cindy Sherman Sherman Cindy Cindy Cindy Cindy Sherman? Oh, ho, ha-ha, Sherman, yes. Sherman. Fuckin' creepy. Even Cindy says so: I like how creepy the photos turned out, even…
What do you get the mega-collector who has everything? Why, a sculptural self-portrait, of course! And what better subject than, oh, that time when the art-world patron was caught choking his now ex-wife, star chef Nigella Lawson, at a London restaurant, an incident that he referred to as a "playful tiff"…
OH MY GOD THIS SKULL HAS BOOBS IN IT SHIELD YOUR INNOCENT EYES EVERYBODY. ArtInfo reports that the blue-chip Saatchi Gallery has been censored by Facebook when the Salvador Dalí x Philippe Halsman’s 1951 classic Voluptas Mors was removed for being "offensive" because OH MY GOD BOOBS BOOBS AND BUTTS IN ART…
