Resistance’68: A Radio-Film for the Mind’s Eye – reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the 1968 protests, social conflict, counterculture and the Art of Resistance as creative weapons against political repression. The format is a sound art prototype – a filmic cut-up for radio with a difference, linking the activism of the past to the art … Continue reading
Pollution Pods are a series of five interconnected geodesic domes which contain carefully mixed recipes emulating the relative presence of ozone, particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide, which recreate the pollution from London, Beijing, São Paulo, New Delhi and Tautra in Norway. Forming a ring in the centre of the Somerset House … Continue reading
Fields of Gold is a 700sq.m glass façade artwork that reflects the ideas of sensor technology for Sensor City, an innovation centre in the Knowledge Quarter of the University Enterprise Zone in Liverpool, designed by artist Julian Stocks and glass manufacturer Ariño Duglass collaborating as ArtistFacade.com. Ariño Duglass, the glass laminator, working with Novum Structures, wrapped Sensor City’s exterior in an abstract pattern on the … Continue reading
The 10th annual Ornellaia Vendemmia d’Artista commissioned William Kentridge to illustrate Ornellaia 2015 Il Carisma. The art project, launched in 2009, by Italian winery, Ornellaia, selects an artist each year to create an artwork to interpret the distinctive character of the individual vintage. The artist created a site-specific artwork for the Ornellaia Estate, customized a limited series of 111 large-format bottles, … Continue reading
Alberto Burri, 1915-1995, is recognised as a central figure working in Arte Povera, concerned with the integrity of poor and unorthodox industrial materials such as jute sacking, metal, plastic, tar, sand, glue and fire. He also combined architecture, sculpture and space in the creation of one of the largest landscape artworks in Europe. The Cretto di Burri … Continue reading
