Photographer / Film Maker - Jamie Beck: cinemagraph Here at theMET, we’re always looking for creative projects that catch our eye. More than anything, we love posting about work that pushes boundaries, showing our audience something that has been changed, flipped or spinned into something magically different. Then, we see it as our job to find out the story behind such projects. A few days ago, when Met member Mark Huckabee put up a post called Astounding Animated Gifs, we knew we had to dig deeper. Before we go into that more, enjoy these lovely cinemagraphs that they sent directly to us. What’s been the response like, so far, on your animated gifs? Which of them is your favorite piece and why? What do you hope others get out of these works? Which gif has been the most popular and why do you think that is? Were you inspired by other gifs or anyone else before you started this more artistic ones? What do you have next in store for us? Thanks for the interview, Jamie and Kevin.
Tony Cragg | BRITISH SCULPTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY biography Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949. He worked as a laboratory technician at the Natural Rubber Producers Research Association 1966-68 before attending Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Cheltenham College. Cragg began working at a time when Minimalism and Concept Art were gaining ground. Cragg recognised the need to produce work that developed “an alphabet of sculpture” from “all the materials and techniques that have been discovered to date.” Tony Cragg won the Turner Prize in 1988 and represented Britain at the 42nd Venice Biennale in the same year. Cragg’s work has been the subject of many international exhibitions, with recent exhibitions including: Tate Liverpool 2000; Cass Sculpture Foundation, 2005; Ca’Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna in Venice, 2010; The Louvre in Paris, 2011 and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh 2011. Tony Cragg currently lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.
cole rise Artist - Dave Devries: The Monster Engine Children are the most real monsters of all; covering you in Cheerios of a morning, scratching your favourite LP, steeling your ice cream, throwing sand in your face, refusing to change the channel from Thomas the Tank Engine…. years of pure disruption and carnage can wonderfully and monsteriously bounce into your life at any time! We at The Coolector HQ know all too well. As godfathers of coolection, we are also the fathers of monsters, so are of no stranger to the delight and plight of modern monster care! Parents, you know, we know – monsters sure exist! Dave DeVries asked the question, ‘What would a child’s drawing look like if it were painted realistically?’ Impressed with Devries’ maniacal mind – check out the rest of his work over at The Monster Engine.
Dear Pixar, From All The Girls With Band-Aids On Their Knees : Monkey See sculpturer - Seo Young Deok: Chain Sculptures The human body and its formation lie at the core of the Korean artist Seo Young Deok’s work who is preoccupied with the stories told through the human figure. His solo exhibition 'Dystopia' took place at the INSA/Arko Art Centre in Seoul from 26 October 2011 until 31 October 2011 and showed his nude sculptures made meticulously in welded metal chain links piece by piece. Seo Young Deok presented a number of nude sculptures, some lying on the ground, some hung on the walls. He used welded metal chains in order to model them linking them piece-by-piece. At first glance, when someone takes a look at his work, one cannot help but notice that the artist draws strong references from the work of the renowned British sculptor Anthony Gormley. What Seo Young Deok’s sculptures capture is the anxieties of the modern human and especially the anxieties of the younger generation. Discover Seo Young Deok's chain sculptures through the pictures that follow:
Architect / Designer - Thomas Heatherwick British designer Thomas Heatherwick founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring craft, design, architecture and urban planning together in a single workspace. Today a team of 200, including architects, designers and makers, work from a combined studio and workshop in King’s Cross, London. Rather than identifying with any particular style or aesthetic, Heatherwick Studio is best characterized by its working methodology. The studio explores and tests responses to produce a design that fulfils spirit and letter of the brief in an inventive way. This process is independent of scale: from developing a chair or a masterplan, the same system of collaborative inquiry and experimentation is applied. The studio’s completed projects include a number of internationally celebrated buildings, including the award-winning Learning Hub at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Sculpturer / Artist - Guy Laramee: Carved Book Landscapes (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Laramee’s next show will be in April of 2012 at the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal.
Photographer - Prokudin Gorskii: 3 colour photos Illustrator / Cinemagrapher - Paolo Zagreb Origami / Sculpturer - Mademoiselle Maurice Born and raised in the high mountains of Savoy, Mademoiselle Maurice is a French artist of 29 years. Following study Architecture in Lyon, worked in Geneva and Marseille she has settled before going live a year in Japan. Following this year in the country of the rising sun, and the tragic events of 11 March 2011 (earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear power plant explosion of Fukushima) while living in Tokyo, she decided to start composing its artistic and urban works in connection with these facts. It is based on the legend of 1000 cranes and Sadako’s story, a little girl who lived the tragedy of Hiroshima. Now based between Paris and Marseille, Mademoiselle Maurice develops and creates in her studio colorful works with the fruits of a rich influences and career lessons. Via paper, paint, metal, or other mixed media and recycled stuffs, she gave birth to works in tune with their daily lives. Rising from the Paris grey, so was born a nebulous breaking works with urban monotony.