“Mirrors Mirror creates the viewers’ image by directing 768 small mirror tiles in a way that reflects different portions of their image. The piece is made of 24 columns of “pixels” that form a concaved curved surface that is aimed at the viewer. Brighter pixels reflect the upper body of the viewer and the wall behind him and dark ones are aimed lower. So the environment is important as it affects the reflection. The viewing experience is quite private as the resulting image can be seen only by the reflected person. This piece also includes an algorithmic animation feature that is triggered every time a person leaves the piece.”
I want this in my house. Check out the website for more images from the Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective. A collaboration between Yale University Art Gallery, MASS MoCA, and the Williams College Museum of Art.
“Wall Drawing 51
All architectural points connected by straight lines.
June 1970
Blue snap lines
LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut
First Installation
Sperone Gallery, Turin, Italy and Museo di Torino, Turin, Italy
First Drawn By
P. Giacchi, A. Giamasco, G. Mosca”
“Wall Drawing 51 was first installed in 1970 in Turin at both the Museo di Torino and the Sperone Gallery. Although on display simultaneously, the site-specific nature of this drawing means that each installation is a unique version of the work. The content of the work rests entirely on the pre-existing space and was an indication of Sol LeWitt’s interest in more directly engaging the architectural context of his work.
LeWitt’s instructions for Wall Drawing 51 dictate “All architectural points connected by straight lines.” Using the simplest and most technically precise means available, Wall Drawing 51 comprises hundreds of blue lines of varying length stretching from one architectural detail to another, including door frames, columns, fire alarms, etc. Employing a chalk snap line, a contractor’s tool that is used to create straight lines on flat surfaces, this drawing focuses the viewer’s attention on the architecture of the space. Each corner on the wall is connected to any and all surrounding points with a straight chalk line. These lines make a complex web of marks that move the eye back and forth across the wall, highlighting, for instance an electrical socket’s relationship to a door frame, an air duct’s relationship to an outlet.”
Amazing florescent light chandeliers by Yuichi Higashionna.
“Yuichi Higashionna is an artist whose works of paintings, objects and installations are inspired by unexplainable odd and uncanny feelings emerged from something strikes him in his everyday life. Something unexplainable in words and something uncanny, complex and ambiguous he feels are turned out to be his creation of art works appealing to us with visual clarity.”
Commissioned to create an installation for the Pulse Contemporary Art Show in Miami last week, The Glue Society developed a series of amber fossils as an indication of what could be uncovered millions of years from now. Value is added to the disposable bits and bobs that are evidence of our odd existence to highlight the dangerous fact that what will be remembered might not be the most important.
The wallpaper is a visualization of 2 years of images captured by Sky-Catcher, a project by Luna Maurer and Jonathan Puckey that takes a picture of the sky above Amsterdam every 5 minutes. Each vertical strip is exactly one day and contains 144 images. You can see the duration of the days change by the size of the blue bar (daytime).
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