Art

May 16, 2017

Sinking Floor Installation Looks Like an Endless Portal to the Upside Down

Design duo Fanny Bouchet and Emmanuelle Messier of Byme Architecture have a knack for creating inventive interiors and avant-garde art. This multifaceted talent is particularly evident in Débarrassons le Plancher, an architectural art installation that reimagines history and tricks the eye. Débarrassons le Plancher—Frenchfor “let’s get rid of the floor”—is composed of over 3,000 wooden cubes. Each block was manually cut by the artists and eventually glued by hand to the floor of an ancient fortification in the south of France.

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May 15, 2017

Giant Hands Rise Up from Venetian Lagoon in “Support” of Climate Change Awareness

Venice holds an interesting position as a city steeped in history, yet also at the cutting edge of contemporary art. And with the 57th International Art Biennale getting set to open, surprising art is already starting to pop up in the lagoon. Installed on May 13, Lorenzo Quinn‘s monumental sculpture installation Support is already making a splash.

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May 11, 2017

18-Year-Old Photoshop Expert Pairs Unexpected Objects to Create Dreamy Composite Photos

With a speciality in surrealism, Lisbon-based artist Luisa Azevedo creates delightfully dreamy composite photographs. Her clever collection of surreal photography showcases her talent for turning unexpected objects, figures, and locations into seamlessly surreal scenes. Azevedo crafts each composite using real-life photographs. Often taken by the artist herself, these photos range from depictions of animals and plants to landscapes and buildings. Once she has identified which images she'd like to stitch together, she expertly merges them into creative, collage-like compositions.

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