Category: Gallery
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It’s the vague familiarity of her shiny, fleshy subjects that make British artist Clare Chapman‘s paintings so compelling. Not quite abstract, but not entirely tangible, they seem unsettlingly biological, like disease-induced blisters, insect eggs or alien pods about to burst. Simply looking at them is enough to make you feel warm and sticky. Monstrous, disturbing, yet […]
For a recent feature commissioned by British foodie magazine The Gourmand, photographer Catherine Losing created the mesmerizing series The Serpent That Ate Its Own Tail. Losing’s bizarre shots depict edible suicide missions, from a row of pierced eyeballs overseeing the deep-frying demise of dismembered chicken parts to an octopus grasping at an electric crocodile knife, powered by […]
Drifting through the notoriously polluted waters of Homebush Bay in Sydney, Australia, the Floating Forest seems like something out of a surreal Hayao Miyazaki film — or at least, a deliberately crafted art piece. What makes it so magical is that the foliage sprouting from this 102-year old transport vessel came into being by its own […]
Despite their government’s minor aversion to boundary-pushing art, China is killin’ it at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Featured at this year’s Chinese Pavilion is the work of digital artist Miao Xiaochun (and six others) centering around the theme of “transfiguration.” Playing on this notion, the installations figuratively explore the transformation of life to art by reinterpreting canonical Christian […]
London is notorious for its network of CCTV cameras. The surveillance efforts are ubiquitous, Orwellian and frighteningly advanced: Authorities can watch and track people, from camera to camera, all over the city. While New York City is moving in the same direction, at least in London a menagerie of signs has been deployed to remind the […]
Almost two years after his release from Chinese prison, dissident artist Ai Weiwei addresses his politically motivated 80 day incarceration with S.A.C.R.E.D., currently on view at the Venice Biennale. It’s a series of six dioramas, each representing a scene from his time behind bars — in fiberglass and iron, 377 x 198 x 153 cm. Set inside boxes which […]
At last, something delicate and feminine for the refined masturbator. This lovely jewelry collection also doubles (quadruples?) as a set of sex toys. Fed up with the phallic-shaped dildo’s dominion over the sex toy industry, a team of female Italian designers created Ménage à Quatre to offer independent women a hands-on approach to self stimulation. […]
Swiss artist Till Rabus pays homage to Salvador Dalí with his deliciously bizarre series “Surrealist Camping Lunch.” In Rabus’ anthropomorphic food-themed reinterpretations of paintings like The Metamorphosis of Narcissus and The Temptation of St. Anthony, Dalí’s signature stretched elephant legs become eating utensils and his metaphorical egg becomes… an egg. Rabus’ work just made an internet resurgence, thanks […]
When photographer David Maisel chooses industry-blemished landscapes to shoot aerially, he considers not only aesthetics — he is partial to the “bizarre or surreal”-looking — but the story behind the location and its relation to photography itself. “I’m teasing apart different aspects of what compromises photography,” Maisel tells Wired UK. “To print photos, we need paper, so I’ve […]
In a vacant New York City water tower, four experience designers created a modern speakeasy called the Night Heron. It was only open for an eight week run, each night risking arrest — the owner of the building never knew of the bar’s presence. Guests were led on a trespass journey through a series of vacant […]
