Manikins (1951).
Male Nude (1954).
Good gallery of his often enigmatic paintings here.
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• The gay artists archive
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Art
The Museum of Fantastic Specimens
Hajime Emoto creates very convincing imaginary creatures, all with a slightly desiccated appearance, that range from the strikingly demonic (like the example above) to more mundane fish, amphibians and plant life. Site is Japanese-only but that don’t let that prevent you from browsing.
Via The Nonist.
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• The fantastic art archive
Atta Kim: On-Air
New York Series, 57th Street, 8 Hours (2005).
Atta Kim: On-Air
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, New York
June 9 through August 27, 2006
This exhibition presents a selection of recent works from the ON-AIR Project by the Korean contemporary artist Atta Kim (born 1956). For these large-scale, visually spectacular color photographs, Kim employed extended exposures—sometimes as long as eight hours——to explore fundamental questions of time and perception. Using such varied subjects as parliamentary sessions, soccer games, outdoor military exercises, and erotic unions, Kim suggests that it is possible for us to perceive the passage of time in radically different ways.
The Sex Series, 1 Hour (2003).
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East
Love by Hassan Massoudy.
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East
The British Museum
18 May–3 September 2006
Room 35
Admission free
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East is an exhibition based largely on the collections of the British Museum complemented by a number of loans. It demonstrates the imaginative ways in which artists across the Middle East and North Africa are using the power of the written word in their art today.
The exhibition includes wonderful examples of calligraphy transforming writing into art, books of poetry, and works which reflect current issues facing the modern Middle East.
Opening times
Daily 10.00–17.30
Open late Thursday & Friday until 20.30
The art of Cai Guo-Qiang
Inopportune: Stage One (2004).
9 cars and sequenced multi-channel tube lights.
Inopportune: Stage Two (2004).
Tigers: papier-mâché, plaster, fibreglass, resin, painted hide.
Arrows: brass, bronze, bamboo, feathers.
Backdrop: Styrofoam, wood, canvas, acrylic paint.