David Nash - wonderful wood

David Nash - Black around Red (detail) - red Eucalyptus - 2011 

Galerie Lelong Paris - Art Brussels 2011

David Nash - Red Channels (detail) - red Eucalyptus - 2011

Galerie Lelong Paris - Art Brussels 2011

David Nash - Mosaic Egg - Oak - 2004

Galerie Lelong Paris - Art Brussels 2011

David Nash - Red Rain (detail) - red Eucalyptus- 2011

Galerie Lelong Paris - Art Brussels 2011

David Nash at Galerie Lelong Paris (click to access site)

This wants me to take courses in how to handle a chainsaw... gorgeous works, very inspiring.

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Robert Stephan

Ron van der Ende - endless patience

I'm not particularely a car fan.  I'm the sort of person who'll say ... it was a low blue car.  Will recognize maybe five models that stand out like the gorgeous DS Citroën or the Deux Chevaux.  When I met my later husband and was driving his car for some time, I didn't even know what brand it was when someone asked me!

But I couldn't stop looking at this : Phoenix: Rise I (Pontiac Firebird Trans Am) - 2011 - Bas Relief by Ron van der Ende.

come and have a closer look...

The tiniest pieces of salvaged wood have a perfect fit.

can't keep my eyes from it.

Ron van der Ende - Limo I - 2009

www.ronvanderende.nl

Galerie Ron Mandos at Art Brussels 2011

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Alvaro Tamarit - deconstructions

Matthew Day Jackson

Road maps, city maps, country maps ... my mind starts to travel whenever I see one.  I love looking at maps, could do it for hours ... 

This fact combined with wood; no wonder I was lovestruck when I saw this.

Only part of a larger work at Art Brussels.

This is stunning, intriguing, fascinating ... I was hooked even before I saw the title of this work.  Knowing what it was about made it even more breathtaking. (for the record, this is not me in the picture)

side view

Matthew Day Jackson (USA) - August 9, 1945 (not the entire work in photo) - 2011

scorched wood and lead on panel

Grimm (NL) - www.grimmgallery.com/

google the date to find out what it is about or take this shortcut

more wood and twigs on art fairs

Is it a recent trend in art or do I spot these everywhere because I like wood?

Hans Op de Beeck - Treehouse - 2011 - Xavier Hufkens Gallery - Art Brussels 2011

Hans Op de Beeck - Still Life (3) - 2010 - Galleria Continua - Art Brussels 2011

www.hansopdebeeck.com

Evan Holloway - Reference Branch  - Art Brussels 2010

http://www.artbrussels.be/

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secret garden

Tadashi Kawamata at Art Brussels

wood ... always attracted to wood when I see it, and this is particularly playful.

I'd love one...

Tadashi Kawamata at MULIERMULIER GALLERY (BE)

Kawamata Tadashi
www.muliermuliergallery.com/




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Arne Quinze - Stilthouses

Enrique Marty at Art Brussels

Art is dangerous
not my words but Enrique Marty's...

Enrique Marty (SP) - from the series "Art is Dangerous", Pablo & Ruth - 2010

solo show at Deweer Gallery - Art Brussels

more pictures taken last year

http://www.deweergallery.com/

http://www.artbrussels.be/

Art Brussels 2011

29th contemporary art fair

The staff is absorbed by the live broadcast of the Royal Wedding.




I've got more than 200 pictures to sort...

in the meantime, here is part of a video as first post on Art Brussels

Tony Oursler - Thaw - 2000 - JGM Galerie

Art Brussels
until 1 May 2011

portraits in wood

The wooden sculptures by artist Anja Weinberg in yesterday's post remind me of another wood sculptor we saw at the Art Brussels Fair last year.

Stephan Balkenhol

A totally different style of portraits in wood by Aimé Mpané

info on current exhibition with works by Aimé Mpané HERE - until 27 February 2011 -I hope to get there one of these days.

Kawamata in miniature

My mind is still on wood and digging in the archives of unpublished pictures I found these taken at the Art Brussels Fair last year.

The doll's house version of his larger projects.

Tadashi Kawamata (click to access his site)

more Art Brussels archives HERE

and more in the next days

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Tadashi Kawamata in Chaumont-surLoire

Le Gun studios

Le Gun - The Unknown Room - mixed media, size 25 m²

A stunning space at the Brussels Art Fair last spring (I know, I'm somewhat late in posting this).  I do love bright and bold colours, I do love soft natural tones and I do love this world in black and white.

A collective of artists called Le Gun...

... built a room to present their black and white drawings.

It is like stepping into one of the drawings and become a part of the work itself.

I spent quite some time looking at all the details.

mmm... can't get enough of it.

I was quite surprised by the chair in the corner, it looks very similar to a chair I made three years ago.

The story of the room HERE

Le Gun artists :

Neal Fox

Chris Bianchi

Bill Bragg

Stephanie von Reiswitz

Robert Rubbish

Stand at the Art Brussels Fair 2010 by gallery Suzanne Tarasieve