Chair installation

the video installation becomes a teaser for the 2012 design week in vienna.

transformed using heat, the series of reconstructed seating objects explores the 'infamous lawn chair' and its role in design culture.

reblogbeforerecycle: Steve Haslip art Update: Steve Haslip is a graphic designer originally from a small village in the South of England. He currently lives and works in New York City. In 2009 Steve graduated from the MFA Design course at the School of Visual Arts New York. Steve studied at Central Saint Martins in London.

I’m really excited for this new exhibition at the Walker Art Center. Is it real? Lifelike invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, often playful, and sometimes surreal. This international group exhibition features artists variously using scale, unusual materials, and sly contextual devices to reveal the manner in […]

Ivan Puig is a Mexico based artist who lets his own sculptures drown. Two of his works are called ‘Crecimientos Artificiales’ (Artificial Growth) and ‘Hasta Las Narices’ (Fed Up). The second series outlines a commentary about education and questions the artificial in the induction of knowledge. In a general manner it reviews the structures of […]

What starts with an underlying functional form in the work of artist Pablo Reinoso often gets carried away as his furniture pieces begin to take on lives of their own. The crawling tendrils and stretched figures that emerge are rendered all the more exotic by his defiant use of hard wood with so ...

URS FISCHER - CHAIR FOR A GHOST, 2003

Artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled a number of significant artworks in the last few weeks. The artist released a music video and created a large-scale diorama depicting scenes from his controversial imprisonment, and also created a sobering installation comprised of 150 tons of straightened rebar taken from schools that collapsed during the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Lastly at the 2013 Venice Art Biennale Weiwei contributed an installation consisting of 886 wooden antique stools called…

the experiment, titled the kinship method, explores how five established designers can take inspiration from one another.