Motoi Yamamoto

Yamamoto uses salt to create monumental floor paintings, each so absurdly detailed, it makes A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte look like child's play. He calls them, fittingly, his Labyrinths.

The story behind Yamamoto's salt sculptures is sweet and sad. His sister died of brain cancer more than a decade ago. To honor her memory, he began sketching with salt -- in Japan, a traditional symbol for purification and mourning. The meandering patterns are meant to convey a sense of eternity.

Clerkenwell Design Week - Introspection 2011 Pictures

Materials: Aclrylic Mirror, MDF, LED

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Clerkenwell Design Week - Introspection 2011

These images are the 3D renders of the new spatial installation for the clerkenwell design festival.

Introspection creates an interesting play between mirrors and light questioning the viewer’s perception of space. When entering the House of Detention, one notices the intrusion of concrete elements in contrast with the original envelope of the building. Openings have been closed off affecting the circulation, creating dead ends, detours and a feeling of entrapment.
The staircase was sealed off with a concrete slab resulting in a non-functional space lacking light and perspective. Introspection opens up the space by creating new perspectives and plays with the viewer’s usual perception of it. The observer is confronted to his own experience of the space and forced to look at it in a completely new way.

New Installation idea - House of Detention

Acrylic panels with mirror film & Led's to turn negative spaces into positive spaces.

Nils Nova

NEW SITE? The House of Detention

John McCracken - Beauty

John McCracken was born in 1934 in Berkely, California, and currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since the 1960s, he has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including historical exhibitions such as Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum in 1966 and American Sculpture of the Sixties at the Los Angeles County Museum, 1967. Recently he has participated in major group shows at Moderna Museet, Stockholm in 2008, and Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. Beginning in November of this year, a major museum retrospective of the artist’s work will be featured at Castello di Rivoli, Turin. The artist is represented in New York by David Zwiner

Clerkenwell Design Festival - Installation Idea 1

Fred Sandback

Fred Sandback, Untitled (Fourth of Ten Corner Constructions), 1983 maroon and black acrylic yarn

Fred Sandback, untitled (sculptural study, two part vertical construction), 1986

Fred Sandback, corner piece, 1969

Fred Sandback was born in 1943 in Bronxville, New York. After receiving a B. A in philosophy at Yale University, he studied sculpture at Yale School of Art and Architecture. In 1981 the Dia Art Foundation initiated and maintained a museum of Sandback's work, the Fred Sandback Museum in Winchendon, Massachusetts, which was open until 1996. His work is permanently on view at Dia:Beacon, Sandback died in 2003.

Doug Wheeler

Barbara Astman - Clementine

date made: 2003-04 materials: installation element: seasonal lights, black and white digital images on acetate measurements: aprox. 24 x 8 ft. other information: installation: art gallery of windsor, windsor, ontario all content copyright © barbara astman all rights reserved via centre for contemporary canadian art database