to the artists, designers and craftspeople who think I call their work kitsch... this is NOT the case, it refers to my own work
Showing posts with label iron/steel/metal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iron/steel/metal. Show all posts

Dec 19, 2011

Ante Timmermans - spacial drawings

inspiring playful wire sculptures and mixed-media








Ante Timmermans - Spieltisch - 2011





Ante Timmermans - Ludopticon - 2011





Ante Timmermans - Cirque B - 2011






exhibition
'splendid isolation'
Ostend - Belgium
summer 2011


Ante Timmermans click to access artist's blog


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Nov 13, 2011

les Fêtes de la Saint-Martin revisited

It' a misty and quiet Sunday, the first day that we actually feel the autumn.


We're off to go on an art tour through tiny, old villages and some cross country driving.
It's been three years since we went on this art tour for the last time.

Djack
The fog persists all day long, I quite enjoy the feeling of changing seasons.  The smell of wood burning stoves.


Djack




Artworks are scattered over different villages, private homes and gardens and a few impressive centuries old farmhouses.






Daniel Detilleux

Daniel Detilleux

Daniel Detilleux
digital recordings of birdsongs are transformed into a steel sculpture


Daniel Detilleux - Bluesette (the sound graphics of music by Toots Thielemans)



Digital Vibrations in Music



6 villages
70 locations
150 artists

46th edition of
Fêtes de la Saint-Martin
Belgium
weekends until 27 November 2011

more posts to come, view all posts on the art tour - past and future as they'll get published - HERE


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Sep 6, 2011

reading between the lines

Gijs Van Vaerenbergh


along a walk and bike trail in the green hills of Limburg, Belgium


last friday




we couldn't wait until it was finished




wanting to see the work in progress



construction works almost done



welders are securing the layers of steel, 30 tons in weight



from a distance, the structure is transparent



it gets more interesting coming closer where optical effects make parts of it look solid



the steel structure is a copy on a 1:3 scale of the nearby church



Pieterjan Gijs & Arnout Van Vaerenbergh
a gorgeous set of pictures on their Flickr pages HERE (bottom of page)

a project by
Z33 - house for contemporary art - the museum without a collection
Z-OUT pit - art in open space

official inauguration on 24 September 2011 from 2PM until 17PM
Borgloon - Belgium



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the upside dome (click)

Jun 23, 2011

Jean Pirnay revisited...

A nice walk through the High Fens area, close to the German border.  On our way back, through a tiny village, we spot this alongside the road...


We do recognize immediately who made this...



although there is no sign next to this installation...


... the steel structure topped with heavy rocks...


no doubt this is Jean Pirnay, a local sculptor.






He has a special relation with rocks and stones...



view the related post at the bottom to discover more about this









Simply amazing how these heavy rocks stay on top.


Jean Pirnay's blog (in French)



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sculptures and installations - Jean Pirnay

Jun 6, 2011

Delicate wire sculptures and colourful glass paintings

















Park Byung Hoon - detail of painting in glass


(opposite the museum with the same name, view previous posts to see part of the collections in the museum)
until 03. July 2011




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Jun 4, 2011

John Chamberlain's wrecked cars

Crushed steel, compressed car bodies, colourful sculptures.



Lorelei's passion - 1982





Horsepucky - 1976






Acme Thunderer - 1989

detail






Impurient Whey - 1982

detail






Shoemaker's Knife - 1978

detail

Quite a collection at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, only a few of them here on my blog.  An exhibition is coming up next month that marks the start of the AMERICAN SUMMER, so there will be more artworks on show.


08.07.2011 - 23.10.2011
Pinakothek der Moderne
Munich - Germany


www.johnchamberlain.cc


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crushed drinking cans