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Fabian Oefner: Black Hole- Paint in motion

“Black Hole” is a series of images, which shows paint modeled by centripetal force. The setup is very simple: Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod, creating these amazing looking structures.

The motion of the paint happens in a blink of an eye, the images you see are taken only millisecond after the drill was turned on. To capture the moment, where the paint forms that distinctive shape, I connected a sensor to the drill, which sends an impulse to the flashes. These specialized units are capable of creating flashes as short as a 1/40000 of a second, freezing the motion of the paint.

There is a short video of how the images were created at the bottom of the page.

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“Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works”
 El Anatsui

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show features over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction.

Included in the exhibition are twelve recent monumental wall and floor sculptures, widely considered to represent the apex of Anatsui’s career. The metal wall works, created with bottle caps from a distillery in Nsukka, are pieced together to form colorful, textured hangings that take on radically new shapes with each installation. Anatsui is captivated by his materials’ history of use, reflecting his own nomadic background. Gravity and Grace responds to a long history of innovations in abstract art and performance, building upon cross-cultural exchange among Africa, Europe, and the Americas and presenting works in a wholly new, African medium.

photos: C-Monster

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Architects of Air Celebrate 22 years of Inflatable Domes with EXXOPOLIS via Designboom

EXXOPOLIS is architects of air’s 20th luminarium, a cluster of monumental inflatable structures completely illuminated by natural light and until recently, created devoid of computers. the current inflatable is touring the united states, with the most recent technicolored installation at university of california santa barbara. while the wondrously colorful domes have evoked a sense of awe worldwide for the last 22 years, the most recent iteration of the ephemeral structures commemorates the original EGGOPOLIS, created in nottingham with help from volunteers and community service workers. 2 million visitors and 38 countries later, the architectural language has developed into a series of spaces richly informed by the complex geometries of the natural landscape and represents a evolution of the personal formal language of alan parkinson, the company’s founder.

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Geometrie by Lorenzo Morandi

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Alejandro Munoz Miranda - Youth Center, El Chaparral (2010)

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Claudio Parmiggiani - Sea of Broken Glass (2010)

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Fabienne Verdier