“Started in ’99, this is my life work. I individually cut single sheets of paper by free-hand and stack them together. The work consists of positive or negative shapes. I am trying to embody relationships among humans, time and nature.” — Noriko Ambe
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'Synthesis and Prism' by Jonelle Mannion

A response to the exhibition Synthesis by Claire McCluskey and Steven Maybury, 21st March - 21st April, Eight Gallery, Dublin 2

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artandsciencejournal:

Rosaline de Thelen’s Homos Luminosos


Spanish artist Rosaline de Thelen borrows and bends fiber optic technologies to create her haunting Homos Luminosos: floating human forms made of shimmering light. Currently on display at the Kinetica Art Fair in London*, de Thelen’s various fiber optic creations have been capturing audiences for some time, but to imbue the medium with human characteristics certainly introduces a special, even poetic element to her artworks. Homos Luminosos are at once sculptural and ephemeral, their physicality resolving and vanishing as visitors move about the space. It comes as no surprise then that reactions to de Thelen’s work range from childlike fear to spiritual reverence (indeed, one exhibition in 2011 had her work installed in a church). De Thelen is able to contemplate the mysteries of light and illusion while also satisfying our taste for technology. 

See more work by de Thelen at her website here, and check out more work by Kinetica artists here.

- Erin Saunders

*Kinetica ended March 3rd of this year — thanks for the correction hellenias!

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showslow:

Layered MRI Self-Portraits Engraved in Glass Sheets by Angela Palmer

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Picasso, Constellation drawings, 1924.
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7knotwind: Javier Cruz | via: lines-form-spaces
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arpeggia:

Josef Albers - Structural Constellation, Transformation of a Scheme, No. 12, 1950 (top); No. 23, 1951 (bottom)

(via 7knotwind)

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likeafieldmouse: Wire sculpture by David Oliveira
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Press Release Maya Lin: Here and There 6-10 Lexington Street, London 22 March – 11 May, 2013 Opening: Thursday, 21 March, 6 to 8 PM Pace is honoured to present Here and There, a two-part exhibition of new work by American artist Maya Lin presented in London and New York this spring. Here and There is on view at Pace London, 6-10 Lexington Street, from 22 March through 11 May and at Pace, 32 East 57th Street, New York from 26 April through 22 June. This is Maya Lin’s first exhibition in London. Lin explores aspects of the natural world through sculpture and drawing, focusing on mapping as a way to translate the enormity of a place to a scale that we can see and understand. The New York presentation of Here and There concentrates on the geography of Manhattan and New York State (Here), while the London exhibition explores natural phenomena within but also beyond London, extending to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Arctic (There). Employing technological methods to study and visualise topographies and geographic phenomena, Lin creates sculptures that interpret the natural world through a twenty-first century lens. By abstracting natural forms into a single material – marble, wood, silver, or steel – she reveals things that are often hidden below the surface or beyond sight, merging rational order with notions of beauty and the transcendental. Lin’s Pin Rivers and Silver Rivers – wall works representing aerial views of waterways, in which the image of the river is made of either recycled silver or steel pins, with the wall forming the surrounding land – enable viewers to see rivers both as interconnected wholes and as dynamic, sculptural forms. The use of pins helps to represent the dispersion of the waterways, particularly evident in the evocative, fan-like shape of the Lena River estuary or the slender, meandering Danube. The Disappearing Bodies of Water works consist of layers of white Vermont Danby marble carved to represent the diminishment of three bodies of water over time – Lake Chad, the Aral Sea, and the Arctic Ice mass. The shape of each layer of marble is derived from a satellite image of the shrinking mass of the body of water. As climate change accelerates, Lin is increasingly interested in rising currents and changes at the water’s edge. Though she has previously engaged with three-dimensional modeling to show depth and area, this is the first time that Lin uses three dimensions to represent temporal change. The exhibition also features marble sculptures of longitudinal and latitudinal sections that reveal the mountainous terrain above and below the ocean’s surface. The fourteen-foot-long marble sculpture Greenwich Mean Time represents the cartographic section of the Greenwich Meridian, the parallel passing through London at zero degrees longitude. To create the sculpture, Lin began with drawings, tracing the complex terrain of the ocean floor, followed by computer analysis and scaled models to find the right form before it is made in marble. “It’s a process that balances scientific data with the handmade,” says Lin. “If the end form looks only like the idea of the information, then it fails. It has to become its own form – evocative, beautiful, strange. I start with extremely complex scientific data points and then, through a visual editing process, I find the scale and simplicity of the form – revealing a landscape both visually discernible and compelling.” The Pace London exhibition features a room dedicated to Lin’s last memorial, What is Missing?, a multi-sited artwork that raises awareness about the current crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss. A website (www.whatismissing.net) acts as a nexus for the project, creating an ecological history of the planet and inviting people to share something they have personally witnessed diminish significantly or disappear from the natural world. At Pace London, the room will concentrate on the history of the Thames and of London and its environs, revealing the former biological abundance of the waterway through details gleaned from historical documents and archives. Visitors to the gallery are asked to contribute their own memories of the Thames, adding to the historical account. Here and There will be accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Robert Storr, dean of the Yale University School of Art, and William L. Fox, Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art.   For press inquiries, please contact:London: Nicolas Smirnoff, nicolas@pacegallery.com / +44 203 206 7613 New York: Sarah Goulet, sgoulet@pacegallery.com / +1 212 421 8987
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staceythinx:

Single Cloud Collection by Leandro Erlich imagines what would happen if clouds could be captured between panes of glass.

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Claire McCluskey, Conneggtivity, 2013. Drawing on fiberglass egg, as part of the Jack & Jill Foundation’s Big Egg Hunt 2013.
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shesinacoma: Masaki Nakayama
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krgkrg: Typewriter drawing by Kasper Pincis
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scienceisbeauty: Table of Mechanicks, from Ephraim Chambers (1728) Cyclopaedia, A Useful Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 2, London, p.528, Plate 11. By The drawing is signed ‘Fletcher Sculp’ [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Opaque  by  andbamnan