POINTLESS ART: CACTUS, BALLOONS & NEONS

MARTIN CREED / EXHIBITION

LONDON / SOUTHBANK CENTRE / 29 January 2014 - 27 April 2014

Until April London's Southbank Centre is hosting a retrospective exhibition of Martin Creed's work.

Winner of the 2001 Turner Prize, Creed is recognized for his playful installations and minimalistic, but witty approach. Crossing all artistic media and including music, he transforms everyday materials into surprising art forms. After 20 years of his presence on the British art scene, it is about time to sum it all up in one major exhibition.

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield in 1968 and currently lives and works in London. Apart from being an artist, he is also an independent musician. On February 3rd he released his second album Mind Trap via Telephone Records.

Yoko Ono's London Exhibition

Yoko Ono's exhibition at Hyde Park's Serpentine Gallery was a lovely collection of the artist's video-art, installations and interactive projects.
Before you entered the gallery you found a beautiful Wish Tree. Everybody was given a chance to write their wish down and hang it among other people's notes. It was a beautiful meditation, Lodon's message to God.

Inside there was a glass labyrinth, some of Yoko Ono's early video-art projects, poems and a wall with meditative and somewhat quirky texts written in pencil.

Yoko collects images of people's smiles. There were 2 electronic photo-booths where you could take a picture of yourself and submit it to the artist's collection. After a few minutes the images were projected on a large screen so that you could see yourself in a gallery and somehow become a piece of art. The photos are kept in Yoko Ono's archive and will be used in the future as a part of a larger installation.

The soothing surroundings of the Serpentine Gallery became a home for Yoko Ono's beautiful and minimalistic art concepts.

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Text: Maya Persson
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Bernard Barnes - Art in Wales

 Author: Bernad Barnes

During my Bank Holiday's trip to Wales I stopped in Barmouth where I discovered a beautiful art gallery located in former St. John's Church Hall building. Transformed into an open studio, this magical place is based on a level above the city and offers a free access to an impressive private art collection. Bernard Barnes and Reyna Rushton have taken over the building and filled it with their paintings and sculptures. It is an exhibition space open to visitors, but also a private workshop where the artists produce their work and organize events. Barnes is interested in cosmology, synapses and connections between living creatures. His pictures are covered with very precise lines which resemble the paths of the traveling light and the maps of the stars in the sky.

'Art On The Hill' Gallery is a MUST-SEE if you are in the Gwynedd Wales not only because of its atmosphere, but also Bernard's impressive painting installation which fills an entire wall of St. John's Church Hall. This masterpiece is made of 9 panels, exceeding the size of 3 tall men standing on the top of each other and is definitely some kind of a discovery for me.
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Text / images: Maya Persson
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Links:
http://www.bernardbarnes.com/
http://www.culturecolony.com/news?id=6020&start=40

Giantic Fish Sculptures From Recycled Plastic Bottles

Large fish-shaped sculptures created with the use of discarted plastic bottles have appeared at one of the most visited beaches in Rio de Janeiro as a part of Rio+20 conference on sustainable development. The installation is illuminated at night with colorful lights which make it glow in the dark. The project serves as a reminder for beach-goers to recycle plastic bottles in order to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in our oceans'.
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via http://www.psfk.com/2012/06/sustainable-plastic-fish-sculptures.html
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/

3000 Camera-Flowers

This impressive field of tiny turquoise forget-me-not cameras has been created by Andre Feliciano - Brazilian artist recently comissioned by the United Photo Industries. His first installation presented to the American art lovers features over 3000 minature camera-flowers emerging from among leaves of grass. Andre has become familiar to the world's audience only just recently, but his Brazilian career path has been long and breath-taking. He had his exhibitions at Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM), the Tomie Ohtake Institute and Sao Paulo’s Geothe Institute. Personally I find him one of the greatest modern art talents who may become as big as Christo and Jeanne-Claude or Yayoi Kusama if he keeps his mind and projects fresh. Good luck, Andre! See you at Tate Modern!

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More about Andre's creative concepts at his funny blog:

http://blog.natureza.art.br/

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