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Through serene, idyllic landscapes, Tomás Sánchez visualizes his long-harbored fascination with meditation. The practice, the Cuban painter says, is “where I find many of the answers to questions that transcend from the personal to the universal. Meditation is not always a fleeting time.<br />
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As a visual metaphor for the intensity and urgency of the ongoing climate crisis, urban artist SpY erected a luminous orb that towers nearly 25 meters above Madrid’s Plaza de Colón.<br />
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Photography #architecture #churches #light Cloaked in Red and Blue Light, St.<br />
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André Schulze scours dusty thrift store bins and private advertisements for vintage paintings and photographs created in the first half of the 20th Century.<br />
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Spectacularly detailed paintings by Jacob Brostrup layer indoor and outdoor scenes in luminescent colors. The artist renders each component of his oil paintings with exacting, realistic detail, but the overlapping narratives of time and place create a dreamlike state.<br />
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Save this picture! Lebanon-based firm JPAG has created a short architectural movie titled “Coming Back to Life” which uses an abandoned icon from the Lebanese civil war to generate a modern day fairy tale.<br />
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Krakow-based duo Przemek Podolski and Marta Basandowska create immersive environments from hundreds of yards of string illuminated by black lights.<br />
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Housed in the cellars of SIAM’s majestic Neo-Renaissance palazzo, which was purposefully built in 1889 for the institution’s educational and training programs, visitors, who are required to wear protective helmets before they descend into the underground exhibition space, would be excused of thi<br />
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Norway-born, Berlin-based artist Anders Gjennestad, who works as STRØK (previously), paints monotone figures often clad in striped shirts moving gracefully across unexpected surfaces.<br />
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Photographer Karen Jerzyk explores themes of loneliness and isolation through her ongoing series, The Lonely Astronaut. Sparked by her purchase of an authentic vintage high-altitude space suit in 2017, Jerzyk has been traveling the world taking photos of women in the suit.<br />
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Save this picture! They say one cannot separate art from the artist, or perhaps in this case, the artist from the architect. Arguably one of the most criticized architects, Le Corbusier is often portrayed as cold and controlling.<br />
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Al Mefer transforms rural Iceland into a rouge-tinted world, producing images that make the area’s shrubbery look like candy floss, and moss-covered landscapes appear like red velvet cake. Mefer photographs a mixture of Icelandic topography, from iconic waterfalls to fields full of pink sheep.<br />
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Inspired by the wildlife and nature found in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon-based artist Jason Pancoast of Shadowfox Design handcrafts intricate images out of laser-cut pieces of oak wood.<br />
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<span class="s1"><b>in honor of claude debussy’s music — 2018 being the centennial year of the french composer’s death — his <i>pelléas et mélisande</i> (1902) will be reimagined with a profoundly epic backdrop: a concave mirror resembling a silver eye.</b> the last production of this opera was directed by bob wilson in 1997. </span><br />
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<br />Canadian paper artist <a href="http://www.calvinnicholls.com/">Calvin Nicholls</a> (<a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/paper-sculptures-calvin-nicholls/">previously</a>) continues to build striking likenesses of wildlife, featuring birds, bears, and foxes rendered in haut-relief sculpture. Despite working in monochromatic palettes of white and off-white paper, he imbues the animal portraits with a sense of liveliness and realism.<br />
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For their latest dizzying interactive installation, Japanese collective teamLab (previously) brought the ocean indoors, creating a projected environment that reacts to the movements of visitors, all encased within the infinite space of a mirror room.<br />
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Photographer Christopher Herwig has circled the former Soviet Union, exploring the most remote areas of Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine to find and photograph its unique bus stops.<br />
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architectural photographer, sebastian weiss, presents his latest photo series: ‘dramatis personae’. the series presents public faces of buildings in france, concentrating on their public performance.<br />
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Whether you’re an established professional working with a top gallery, a weekend tinkerer, or a student tackling personal projects, here at Colossal we believe that your creativity enriches our world.<br />
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British artist Olivia Kemp creates large-scale drawings that combine observational studies made in Norway, Italy, and Scotland with fantastical places that exist only in her imagination.<br />
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following a similar aesthetic style to the ornamental wigs of the baroque and rococo periods, paper artist asya kozina creates ornate headdresses that pay homage to one of the most outrageous luxuries and stylized trends in history.<br />
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You have been presenting your drawings in pairs, triads or tetrads as well as making collages out of separate phrases. Is there an overreaching narrative that the viewer is invited to deduce or fabricate from these pictorial and textual compilations?<br />
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Argentinian artist Marta Minujín has used thousands of prohibited books to construct a replica of the Parthenon in ancient Greece on a Nazi book-burning site in Kassel, Germany.<br />
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Save this picture! Along with eight other contemporary artists, Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe is exhibiting his installation called 'Plexus A1' within the WONDER display at the Renwick Gallery until July 10.<br />
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Graduate shows 2016: the UK's high-speed railway network could incorporate an underground swimming pool, museum and concert hall, suggests Royal College of Art graduate Ciaran Scannell.<br />
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