art

rob & nick carter – postcards from vegas

i think the following images belong to the category of the ” it’s so bad that it’s nice” or something like that. funny how men couple can achieve this level of suspicious taste, from gilbert & george to pierre & giles. anyway, this exhibition was shown in london at the “fine art society”, posh place indeed, where the contrast between the walls and what they hold might have been even weirder than the piece themselves… there is no absolute good taste, right?

“to create, this new body of work entitled ‘postcards from vegas’ the artists used one of only two remaining cibachrome machines in the world to enlarge the postcards, which are drawn from a collection the carter’s each collected as children in the 1960s and 1970s, to up to 150 times the original size. in addition, the couple have added replicated and reduced-to-scale vintage neon signs spotted on trips to las vegas.“

by pp.


CATEGORIES: art

hand carved limestone elephant

hey pp i got your elephant right here! this is a beautiful piece of work, hand carved out of lime stone, its so detailed its sick. inside the solid piece of stone there is baby elephant and inside that baby elephant another elephant. this was all done using a single piece of stone. it was done in india and purchased for $600 which if you divide the days it took to make this by the amount its absurdly low. i mean these days you buy a digital camera for that price and you simply throw it away the next year! any how love it, and look at it daily in admiration of the work and try and remind myself just how much we suck! by dd

CATEGORIES: art, musings, objects

Saachi: Top 10 London Shows for April

different abstractions – green cardamom – london: saw this show and another piece of his in the NY exhibit at the danese gallery along side of richard serra’s work, and the piece pictured above was quite unbelievable. the surface is made of thin threads than blur the reality of the physical surface even at a few inches distance. you could swear what you are seeing is a piece of glass suspended and not a physical thread. quite amazing. saachi placed the show as of the best shows in london for April and had this to say about it:

“…all three artists in this exhibition use abstraction interestingly. artist hadi tabatabai makes intensely poised grid-based abstractions. only close examination reveals that their meticulous construction uses threads just off the surface, or grout just below it, to create a stilled zone in which to contemplate the ambiguity of figure and ground, the nature of truth, the meaning of life…” see it if you can. by xy

CATEGORIES: art

Artist Rashid rana : aluminum books

books by rahsid rana. 2007, UV inkjet on aluminum, edition 1/5, this was exhibited at the art dubai week for $35,000, i loved it, and i so wanted it , and i was quite tempetd but i was about 34k short… by dd

CATEGORIES: art, books

ROBERT longo – god machine

parisian galery thaddeus ropac presents a selection of work by robert longo, the name of the show is “god machine”. even if there is nothing really new there, it’s always nice to see some of bob’s maniacs and graphic pieces! by pp.


CATEGORIES: art, eye candy

metro symphony

“conductor turns the new york subway system into an interactive string instrument. using the mta’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on massimo vignelli’s 1972 diagram.”


… and that’s really nice, check it here! by pp.


CATEGORIES: art, music