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Featured at the New Museum, and with international acclaim from an expo at the Venice Biennial, Mire Lee is captivating art lovers with her gut-wrenching installations. A fully kinetic and tactile form allows for explorations of the disgusting and the morbidly fascinating.
Born in Seoul and living in Amsterdam, Mire Lee stood out from the crowd with her 2022 ceramic entrails. The Endless House: Holes and Drips installation received a range of reviews, with being unable to look away the common denominator. Now displaying in New York’s the New Museum, a fresh batch of creepy creativity is available to admire. The walls have been layered with fabric and wet clay that’s been allowed to flow and expand with the help of a steam machine. A muddy red paint was then applied to give the material a sense of organic origin. Then, to fill the space, a variety of moving sculptures have been placed that are representations of the natural world. Metal and plastic objects are used to build the shapes with fabric and paint to finish the job. The imagination can be left to run free while standing among the grotesque and horror-film-like setting. Walking among the moving sculptures can help bring a nightmarish scene to life as visitors explore and make conscious all the chilling ideas. If you like your thrills to be over the top and designed to disgust, then you’ll be right at home at Mire Lee’s Black Sun exhibition. Roblox is a multiplayer and multi-world game that is played all over the world. It’s available on PC and games machine. Users can play in many worlds that all have different objectives and rules. Each mini game contains the options to explore and play with several online members, players can chat, make friends, and meet up in different levels. Bringing people to the game is all about creating new experiences and fun games for people to play. Recently unveiled was the new exhibition, Replica. The entire 5th Avenue façade and the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum has been recreated and uploaded to the popular gaming forum. Known for holding onto cultural and art creations that span the entirety of human history, gamers and culture fans can join forces to make this experience worthwhile. A complete copy of the art is waiting in the digital realm. To encourage visitors to the museum, visitors can scan the artefacts to place them in their own Roblox museum. The objects have been given codes that correspond to digital versions that become collectable items in the game. Bringing augmented and virtual reality functions to museums became popular during the pandemic. When it was impossible to visit in person, the institutions often made their work available online. Roblox is the latest venue to be given the magic ingredients. Roblox is a poplar gaming platform for the fact that it is completely customisable. Gamers and programmers can learn how to build their own worlds and implement their own working rules. Many people like working in Minecraft for this ability however in Roblox the options are far wider because of the available variations. It could be seen as a level up from the crafting and building game, where you become an architect of the digital world. On display in the prominent Regina Gallery in Seoul, South Korea, a vibrant and inventively charming display of colour and shape is currently immersing visitors. Underwater spectra dominate the colour palette chosen by painter and installation artist Jan Kalab. The Czech born artist, who began in the late 80s working with graffiti and street art murals, has created a modern and fascinating array of images that reflect what he glimpses from underwater scenes. Jan Kalab has progressed in his style from the early days, traversing murals and lettering over to 3D images and into sculpture. Now with his paintings on canvas as installation pieces, the whole skillset is lending a lever to his outreach with expressivity. His work has been exhibited as displayed in many high-brow galleries including those in Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Paris, London, Miami, and New York. Now once again in the East, the capital of South Korea has been waiting patiently for the work to be displayed with them. Since agreeing to exhibit at the Regina Gallery, Jan Kalab endured the lockdown like the rest of us and any immediate plans were put on hold. Thankfully this has enabled the artist to create this brilliant arrangement of vivid colour and shape work that we can now enjoy in person or online. An enchanting and dream-like amalgam of forms and shades brings an inspired and underwater sense of diving shallow depths and admiring the flora and fauna. Via World Art News Stone Roses Guitarist To Display Popular Oil Painting Exhibition At Damien Hurst’s Gallery21/6/2023
Creative people often have more than one level to their ability, and John Squire of The Stone Roses is a key example of inventiveness in action. A series of oil paintings titled Disinformation is set to be displayed at Damien Hurst’s Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall from September 11th to November 10th. A good two-month slot will mean that plenty of people can go and see the images.
John Squire is known for using photographs for his art, he enlarges them and then paints over the scene with his own style and direction. The finished product differs from the original in many subtle ways and the choices of image send a specific energetic message to the viewer. John also uses an art software app to digitally enhance and manipulate the images introducing glitches and repeating patterns where the need arises. Having designed the album covers for the band and created the promotional images, it’s no surprise that his unrelated work is equally as kinetic in the art world. Since leaving The Stone Roses in 1996, John Squire has continued to express himself musically and artistically with admirable results. The exhibition is accompanied by a great full-colour book that contains more than just the images on display. Find Stone Roses merchandise on eBay, support Alternative Fruit with this link on any purchase! Welcome To The Alternative Fruit Wishing Well Here you can throw your virtual pennies and make a wish. Your clicks will be translated into funding for Alternative Fruit, Sound Read Six and all of Homunculus Media. That means more music, more arts, more culture, more education for those who want it, and more exciting unknown things! The world needs this! You know it's a good idea, just click the wishing well. It takes you straight back to this page via a short ad. Simply tick the captcha, tap the button, wait for the 30 seconds timer, scroll to the end and tap the button to go back here. It just makes sense. *There's no magic and I can't grant wishes. You'll be doing a good deed so Alternative Fruit hopes your wishes come true somehow. If you want to create your own donation links you can sign up free here. Clicked enough? Thank you for each and every one! You have risen above! You can go back to the home page here. Do you want to give some real money? That would be amazing! You'll be one in a million. Donate Here
Celebrating the one hundredth birthday of the late Ellsworth Kelly, the world-famous minimalist who rose to fame in the 1960s is being honoured with a selection of key exhibitions. Known for stripped down and cut back art productions, in which shape, line, and form were used in such sparing and loosely translated mannerisms, a deep and subconscious element seemed to leap out from the simplicity.
Never one to throw anything away that related to his work, the paradox of his spartan style reveals a plethora of keepsakes and memorabilia that draw perfect lines from piece to piece. The massive collection has been curated since his death in 2015 and is now being used to celebrate his decades-long career in art and design. A keen use of colour and minimalism gave Kelly a distinctive style that has become instrumental inspiration for many future generations since his time. A range of items are being exhibited this year that focus on individual aspects of the artist’s work. A series of sketchbooks that show scribblings and the formulation of ideas can be seen at The Museum Of Modern Art. According to those who knew him, Ellsworth Kelly would usually have a sketchbook on his person and would often resort to delving in to jot down his observations and concepts as they arose. During his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, during the 1950s, Ellsworth Kelly began a lifelong love of photography. His ability to capture oddities of angle and contrasts of direction is a keystone element in modern composition. His photographic works are on display at the Santa Barbra Museum of Art from October 15th to January. Kelly also produced free standing sculpture. His choices reflected the aesthetic with shape and form taking real space in various precious and well-known materials. A selection of these works can be seen at the Lever House office building until the end of April next year. via ArtNews How many times do we appreciate the way something feels? Maybe when we are trying on new clothes or testing the texture of our cooking, we rarely spend longer than a few moments exploring this facet of reality. Sight is a dominant sense for most people, it over lays the others in a primary manner. What we hear, smell, feel, and taste are usually subordinate unless we are deliberately using the other senses. For blind people, touch is a lifeline for the receiving of passive information. Braille is an ingenious way of writing via texture shapes that, with practice, people can learn to read like script. The level of resolution required to determine the shapes of each letter is higher that what most people are used to. Imagine what experiences we are missing out on because our fingers are out of focus? Multi-disciplinary artist Fulvio Morella has invented a method of putting this faculty of human interaction to work. Known for producing geometry and angular shapes in nearly everything he does, this latest exhibition is no different. Only this time, the idea is that you have to handle the work and explore it via the sense of touch. Of course, the works look fantastic without the blindfold but when you take the plunge and explore the series through the fingertips, a whole new artistic experience is opened. With the work, Morella wants to rework the idea that sight is what gives us knowledge of the world. A hidden landscape of subtle and fine surface characters is hiding in plain sight. We must close our eyes and let the fingers do the work. Beginning with woodturning in 2019, the artist began experimenting with Greek Braille inscriptions on mixed media creations. Since then, he’s taken the concept to an ever-increasing reach of media that has various identifiable touch qualities. The set, the grain, the nap, and finish all stand as portraits for inner thoughts and abstract conceptual understanding. Currently on display in Rome until 31st of May. Via World Art News
Renewing the public affection for pixel-based works of art, digital creator Kim Asendorf has minted a run of colour and sound themed pieces on the Ethereum network via Feral File. A cool 0.25 ETH each, all but three of the fifty originals are available to own as non-fungible tokens. The concept might seem complex at first, in which sounds generated by colour via computer code are projected into a Moire pattern style visual output. Taking something visual and applying a function to produce something else visual that describes the original scene is analogous to many of life’s processes.
The entire experience of Kim Asendorf’s work involves the sound of the colour played alongside the visual display. As we can experience this simultaneous expression of translation, the scope of information’s ability to adapt and reproduce is exhibited. Being able to see various colours in action through the medium of pixel-based visuals, we can see how their influence on our lives can be determined. We know that white noise is good for helping us to sleep, other colours of noise have different properties we can also make use of. The unique algorithm used in Colors Of Noise is designed to be coherent with this psychological principle. The audio-visual experience that is contained within each of the 50 pieces of art can be described as multi-sensory and unique. The vibrancy of the audio soundscape is only enhanced by the retro-esque visuals made into static pictures for us to observe. The vastness of the work encapsulates the massive influence of colour on our psychology and subconscious. If the various qualities of subtle difference in frequency can be shown with a stable platform such as this, we can only guess as to how the much more complicated mechanism of the brain is put to work by their various inputs. Via Fad Magazine See the exhibition
It’s not clear when the centre will be finished, however the contracts have been signed. A well-known institution, The Shelburne Museum has recently unveiled its plans to build a $12.6m art centre especially dedicated to the Indigenous community. Built to represent over eighty unique North American tribes, bands, and peoples, the building is to be encapsulated by award-winning architect David Adjaye.
Carrying the name of a long-term resident of Vermont and a notable benefactor to the museum, the Tony Perry Centre for Native American Art will be a permanent home to a growing and rich collection of gifted and professionally purchased pieces. In the spirit of the culture, the building is to be made completely sustainably with as many renewable products as possible. The iconic interpretations of various woods and stones will be taken into proper consideration when defining the shape, structure, and positioning of the building. A keen eye for detail will ensure the Indigenous people of North America will have a building they can tell stories about. Born in Ghana, a long way from the skyscrapers of the United States, David Adjaye has already established himself as a virtuous designer of modern buildings. His outsider’s touch has enabled him to build fantastic yet practical monuments to modern living. Recently working in Washington DC, Adjaye was enlisted to design the National Museum of American History and Culture. Indeed, David Adjaye is a busy man, as he’s been head-hunted to expand the Studio Museum in Harlem and the International Financial Corporation Headquarters in Dakar. We are sure it’s no problem at all to have so many projects on the go at once and that each one can be surpassed with exceptional quality. The people of the North American Indigenous Community surely deserve plenty more spaces dedicated to their masters, what’s in a Picasso that isn’t in a work from an equally as enlightened Native American? Via Art Forum
When I started Alternative Fruit, I wanted to find a way of bringing academic humanities to the public for free. With a media format, it follows a typical model with unusual content to make it stand out. Although there isn’t as much humanities-based academia available to the public for free as there is science or mathematics, people like me have identified the need for it. A mission to dig a well and produce a fountain where people of all walks of life can learn about what it means to be who they are is not as unusual as it might seem.
Gresham College was founded in 1597 and has been putting on free lectures for over four hundred years. A whole range of topics have been taught from within the walls, however the humanities are an important element in their continual output. Now in the modern age, Gresham College has a YouTube channel that displays professional standard lectures on a plethora of subjects. Whether you’re interested in Women Leaders of Early Christianity or the Gods of Pagan Britain, you can be submerged in mindful and academically sourced information on the topic. Sit back and indulge yourself in nearly two hours of seminar on Sir Christopher Wren, the British mathematician, taught by Katherine Blundell and Sarah Hart. If art is more your thing, then why not investigate the Portraiture and Power series in which the iconic images of some of history’s most famous faces are explored. There are literally thousands of videos on hundreds of subjects sitting there waiting for us to watch. We can get a daily fix of university level in-depth thought about art, history, science, mathematics, politics, and much more with no real end in sight. For as long as it takes to catch up on everything so far, there will be many more fresh ones to discover after that. When combining a regular routine of watching these lectures and filling half an hour or so with free learning on Futurelearn, the result will be a formidable mindset few would find the need to contradict. Here are some Alternative Fruit picks from Gresham College to get you started. Visit the channel for the whole selection. Media: Trust and SocietyThe Life Of ChordsBooks, Libraries and CivilisationsCultural Heritage and War |
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March 2024
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