Barbara Kruger has an exhibition of her early assembled works at the Sprüth Magers London. These pre-digital pieces, aka ‘paste ups’ were influenced by her experience as a magazine editorial designer. Her pieces are composed of found images with overlaid slogans set in Futura Bold Oblique.
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.
–Barbara Kruger
When
Show runs until January 23, 2010
Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 6pm
Where Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London, W1S 4EJ
London-based architectural artist Stephen Wiltshire is a savant. He was nick named the “living camera” because of his ability to accurately draw detailed landscapes from memory after viewing them briefly. Stephen is autistic and learned to draw before he learned to speak. He uttered his first words “pencil” and “paper” at age 5.
Fabulous prize
Myartspace.com is offering the chance for 3 artists to have their work represented at the Scream London Gallery during June 2009.
Deadline
May 15, 2009
Rules
In order to enter the competition, an artist must be a member of myartspace (membership is free). You can sign up here. Then submit a maximum of 20 jpegs (no larger than 10 megabytes each) to be judged. The jury panel includes Vanessa DesClaux from the Tate Modern, Tom Morton from the Hayward Gallery and Francesco Manacorda from the Barbican Gallery.
Registration fee
$50 (or $25 early registration fee before March 31, 2009)
Notification
The winners will be announced by May 31, 2009.
I admire sculptor London-based sculptor, David Mach and his enthusiasm:
When I have ideas I want to make them, and not just some of them, but all of them. As a result of that my sculpture covers a multitude of sins. I like to work in as many different materials as possible. It’s no understatement to say I am a materials junkie—jumping from highly-painted realistic cast fibreglass pieces to sculpture with coathangers, to a thatched barn roof laced with fibre-optics to designs for camera obscures (or at least the buildings to house them) and layouts for parks.
– David Mach
This piece was inspired by an image of Neil Armstrong when he landed on the moon.
Of his work, David says
The work is made up from hundreds of standard metal coathangers, welded to each other around a plastic positive later removed, and then silver nickel plated. What does it cost to send a man into space, to make him walk on the moon? I am fascinated by the effort of that, the science, the brainpower, the sheer physical power of the rockets. Billions of dollars spent over decades, invested in the best minds, and here I am, using the cheapest, throwaway nothing object, a coathanger, to portray that.
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