Liv Blåvarp: Touch Wood

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For almost 30 years, jewellery artist Liv Blåvarp has been creating organic and voluminous constructions out of wood. Since her American debut in 1995, international recognition of her work has steadily increased – most recently through her being awarded the Bayerische Staatspreis for 2012, at the international contemporary craft competition SCHMUCK (‘Internationale Handwerksmesse München’). ‘It’s largely about developing sculptural form’, explains Liv Blåvarp, when asked

Linda Carrara: Self-Portrait in Still Life

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The term “still life” appears late and refers to a broad genre of painting wrongly regarded as minor because hardly focused on the representation of a social and religious order, and less valued in terms of academic technicalities. Yet, the representation of inanimate objects is a particularly fertile territory of experimentation. When we think of the representations of flowers, fruits, tables, everyday objects, instrument of

David Mach: Glued People

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David Mach (born in Methil, Fife, on 18 March 1956[1]) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. Mach’s artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. Typically these include magazines,vicious teddy bears,newspapers, car tyres, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces. One example of his early magazine pieces, Adding Fuel to the Fire, was

Anthony Roussel: Waves of Destiny

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Gehard Demetz: The Invocation

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Unfinished and unmistakable, Gehard Demetz realises his figures by assembling small wooden pegs as if they were shreds of history. His works are generally of children or adolescents with a look that is sometimes extinguished, sometimes melancholy and almost sulky, a symptom of the bitter conftict with themselves and the world of adults, and of the premature loss of tè that innocence that we usually

Robert Seidel: Projected Memories

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Robert Seidel is a Berlin based artist, working in the field of experimental film, projection and video installation. He began his studies in biology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena before transferring to the Bauhaus University Weimar to complete his degree in media design. His projections, installations and experimental films have been shown in museums like LACMA Los Angeles, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, ZKM

Department of Architecture: Hilton Pattaya

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Department of ARCHITECTURE Co. Ltd. is a design studio practicing architecture, interior design, landscape design, and other related design disciplines in a broad range of programmatic requirements and scales. It focuses on developing ideas in architecture, researches on social, cultural, and physical context, as well as takes on an exploration for alternative ways of material utilization. Department of ARCHITECTURE is responsible for interior design

Leopold Blaschka: Fish Glass

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Leopold Blaschke was born in Český Dub, Bohemia, to a family which originated from Antoniwald in the Izera Mountains, a region known for processing glass, metals and gems. The family had also spent time in the glassblowing industry of Venice.

Leopold displayed artistic skills as a child, he then joined the family business, which produced glass ornaments and glass eyes.

In 1853,

Karen La Monte: A Heart of Glass

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LaMonte grew up in Manhattan, New York. In 1990, she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Bachelor in Fine Arts with honors. Immediately after college, she was awarded a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America, in Millville, New Jersey. Following that, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, and worked at UrbanGlass, a not-for-profit public access glass studio.

Angela Palmer: Scan Art

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Nurturing her sculptural technique as an anatomist at the Ruskin School, Angela Palmer’s portrait include an eighth century BC Theban priest, Djeddjehutyiuefankh, and Eclipse, an 18th century thoroughbred racehorse, as well as a series based on the head of the novelist Robert Harris and, in an Ashmolean Museum work described as “sensational”, a Mummy Boy revealing the contours of a child wrapped within a