If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed to receive the latest Architectradure’s articles in your reader or via email. Thanks for visiting!
The artist Devorah Sperber recreates paintings by assembling spools of thread. Reflections is a permanent Installation at the Centro Medico Train Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The artist used 60,000 spools of thread and 23 convex mirrors for the installation.
“Reflections” is a site-specific work, constructed from 60,000 spools of thread, which coalesce into a photo-realistic image when seen reflected in convex mirrors mounted on an opposing wall. My intention was to utilize the element of surprise to create a brief interruption in the lives of people as they move through the Centro Medico Train Station (…) Because people will be in motion, the images seen in the mirrors continuously change. As people step onto the escalator and descend to the lower platform, the reflections in the mirrors gradually dissolve from seascape to the neutral gray ceiling and blue skies seen through clear glass skylights above.
Detail
I discovered the work of Deborah Sperber on V magazine.
Two days after I posted on the work of Deborah, I found out via cool hunting that the Pulse art fair in NYC last week showed a large number of pixelized works.
Andy Diaz Hope uses gel-caps for creating images of people in front of their medicine cabinets.
The occupation 2006, archival photographs, gel capsules, acrylic, 18 W x 15″ H
William Betts recreate surveillance camera pictures using acrylic paint. This reminds me of Gerhard Richter’s Akt auf einer Treppe. Emma – Nu dans un escalier. 1966 in which the boundaries between painting and photography are blurred and through which comes a new form of expression in the arts.
Carlos Estrada-Vega combines pixel-constructivism of digital media practices to paint and wood dowels within the canvas.
Dona Clara, 2005. Margaret Thatcher Projects
In the Middle of the End, Isidro Blasco uses 2D photos and later turns the them into a 3d experience using board mounted architectural structures.
The Middle of The End
Knitoscope Testimonies by Turbulence, are surprising animations created using “Knitoscope” software, a program that translates digital video into a knitted animation.
Video
erica
An excellent interview on Turbulence featuring Jo-Anne Green by Régine Debatty on we-make-money-not-art
Reconstruction shown at Artefact 2007 is a matric of LEDs that projects shadows and lights of passerby in a pixelized fashion. More can be read on the show and project on multimedialab
reconstruction
Monumental ceramic pixel art found on coolfinds.
Pixel art by Swedish artist Maria Ängquist Klyvare. The artist has worked with mosaics since the eighties. More on her web site.
A child’s face on Etsarbron near Gullmarsplan in Stockholm.
