Key Sook Geum: Wire and Light

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Elegant and ethereal, floating forms fill the space, combining the materiality of twisted wire and beads, crystals, and pearls with the ephemeral qualities of light and shadow. There is a sense of poetry, cathartic release, and peaceful movement in the stillness of KeySook Geum’s works. Life-sized sculptures of dresses, qipaos, and other forms of fashion hover suspended in the air or draw from the walls,

Erwin Wurm: Seriously Humorous

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“I am interested in the everyday life. All the materials that surrounded me could be useful, as well as the objects, topics involved in contemporary society. My work speaks about the whole entity of a human being: the physical, the spiritual, the psychological and the political.” Wurm is known for his humorous approach to formalism. About the use of humor in his work, Wurm says

Liao Yibai: Real Fake Irony

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Chinese artist Liao Yibai created so many commanding, stainless steel sculptures for his new series Real Fake, that two galleries had to join forces to exhibit the works. Yibai’s artworks are sleek and meticulously detailed sculptures that examine “China’s rags-to-riches story of material obsession” and “the concepts of ‘real’ and ‘fake’ through mash-ups of luxury labels, the appropriation of real fake brand names, and the

Shingo Sato: Transformational Reconstruction

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Today’s pattern challenge isn’t. By that I mean there’s no challenge for you to figure out because the pattern maker -Shingo Sato- in today’s example shows you how to tender said results. At right is such an example; an origami bodice. Pretty fun huh? You can see the making of this particular example on Youtube. His claim to fame is popularizing the elimination of darting

Wisharawish Akarasantisook: Morethanlove

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“Find something that amazes you and keep on with the good work for your entire life”, I think these are the words that the fashion designer Wisharawish Akarasantisook repeated as a mantra before doing so amazing pieces of art. His talent is limitless, both in Mango competition than Hyeres festival he has proven to be a rising star with stunning taste and eclectic skills. The

Pierre Debusschere: manipulations

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Belgian director, photographer and curator Pierre Debusschere utilizes innovative technologies to create high impact visuals. In 2009, he founded 254FOREST, a creative studio working in the realms of film, art, photography and music. Debusschere launched his career at Dazed & Confused in 2008. Shortly after, he was invited to work with Nicola Formichetti on an acclaimed digital content application forVogue Hommes Japan and Dior Homme,

Stéphanie Baechler: Every Day Actions

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Starting point for my project are formations, shapes and material combinations that result from the rather accidental than conscious every day actions of human life. I was inspired by curtains, fabric pleats, plastic bags, fabrics that happened to be spread on the floor, wrapped objects and creased blankets. The sheer fascination that fabric drapery can evoke! I was equally absorbed by mass production of clothes,

Lauren Bowker: See the Unseen

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Watching a piece of leather transition through a rainbow spectrum of color before your eyes would sound, to most, like the opening premise of a blockbuster sci-fi flick. But this is no optical illusion. It is a garment coated in ink that responds to the slightest environmental change, more closely mimicking the gradients of infrared thermography than the meager, stilted efforts of a dime store

Susan Stockwell: Nature, Accumulation, Transformation.

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Susan Stockwell’s work takes many forms from small studies to large scale installations, sculpture, drawings and collage. It is concerned with issues of ecology, geo-politics, mapping, trade and history. The materials used are the everyday, domestic and industrial disposable products that pervade our lives. These materials are manipulated and transformed into works of art that are extraordinary. One of Stockwell’s recent exhibition ‘Flood’ in York

Susan Cutts: Stitched

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Susan Cutts: I work as a sculptor, handmade paper is my material, and our relationship with clothing, my inspiration. The empty shoe is a familiar image so I work in multiples to emphasize the dialogue each piece suggests. Our feet shape the shoe – by the way we walk the way we stand – making it as individual as a thumbprint and like a thumbprint