Maurice Sapiro, Gold on the Water, 2012
Dr. Seuss would love Choi Jeong Hwa’s tree installation as much as Slow Art Day does.
Magnus Gjoen’s prints examine how to change peoples relationship and preconceived notions of objects. Something which is potentially extremely destructive can be made into beautiful yet fragile objects of art. It’s this misconception of beauty which Magnus Gjoen wants us to see in a different light, being it weapons, animals or the human race itself. The latter which is capable of creating immense beauty but also capable of destroying it all. Taking inspiration from street and pop art and juxtapositioning it with fine art, he creates new and modern takes on old masterpieces or manipulates something powerful and strong into something fragile but beautiful. He often questions the correlation between religion, war, beauty & destruction in his art. Magnus Gjoen was born in London to Norwegian parents and studied design in London and Milan and works as a designer/graphic designer for Vivienne Westwood. (via)
Cornelia Parker: Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991
The visual cacophony that Parker creates in this mixed media installation is stunning; we particularly like her use of light and shadow to expand the piece’s boundaries past their physical edges. If you stumbled across this work in a museum, how long do you think you’d spend looking at it?
One day each year – April 12 in 2014 – people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. Participants look at five works of art for 10 minutes each and then meet together over lunch to talk about their experience. That’s it. Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art and the art of seeing.
