Meet the Hipster in Stone

Meet the Hipster in Stone by Paris-based photographer Léo Caillard and photo retoucher Alexis Persani who "dresssed" Louvre sculptures in modern daily outfits  - a great addition to my earlier post New Old.

To achieve "dressed up" effect Caillard photographed the statues then his friends in similar poses in the hipster outfits. In case if you are curious to know how they made this project, here is the video (probably, should have been in a faster mode): 

check out this link for more pictures from this series

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I have uploaded some pictures from my recent gallery visits.

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Mucha exhibition in Prague

Gazelli Art House Baku

Marco Rossi Artecontemporanea & Spazio Oberdan in Milan

Also, make sure to check out Gogolfest of Kiev - a week-long contemporary art festival which this time took place in an abandoned factory. The opening night was really vibrant and very energizing. 

Check out the videos by clicking here.

Stay tuned for a big upload on Art Biennale of Venice that I finally visited earlier this month! Still have to find time and courage to face the work of over 3000 pic selection!

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Have a nice weekend,

CN

Beyond Love - Happy birthday, Robert Indiana!

It is tough to be an actor of one role or an artist of one artwork. Curiosity brought me to check what else has Robert Indiana who turned 85 today, has created apart from “Love”. 

He did various colors of “Love” transforming them into Italian “Amor” and Hebrew "Ahava", some “Hope” that earned him money at least to “Eat”. Too simple but at the same time original… and this is “Art”, my dears! 

the original image, with green and blue spaces backing red lettering, served as a print image for a Museum of Modern Art Christmas card in 1964 

"The word love was connected to [the artist's] childhood experiences attending a Christian Science church, where the only decoration was the wall inscription God is Love. The colors were an homage to his father, who worked at a Phillips 66 gas station during the Depression." (Megan Wilde for Mental Floss Magazine's)

Love is spread across the world in 39 locations

This sculture is in Fondation Pierre Gianadda's sculpture park in Martingy, Switzerland

Swedish Love, 1995, Wool Carpet. Source: Artnet 

Amor in front of Milan's La Scala opera house. Source: Flickr 

Hebrew "ahava" is the most commonly used word for both 

interpersonal love and love between God and God's creations. Source: Tumblr

Hope, inspired by Obama. Source: The Seattle Times

Hope in front of Pepsi Center at the Democratic National Convention, Denver, USA. Source: MTV  

The Electric EAT, 1964-2007 Aluminum and lights 198.1 x 198.1 x 17.8 cm 

Source: Paul Kasmin gallery

Unbearable Lightness of Being

Unbearable Lightness of Being is a title of a book I read few years back. 
These images probably depict this controversial statement...
Enjoy!

Over  the City, Marc Chagall

Natsumi Hayashi's Today's Levitation, Saturday, 06.09.2011

Natsumi Hayashi's Today's Levitation, Saturday, 06.04.2011

Hossein Zare

John Clang

Beata Rydén

Berndnaut Smilde. His clouds made it to TIME's top 10 inventions if 2012

Louis Lander Deacon

Sam Taylor Woods

Bence Bakonyi

Bence Bakonyi

Vikram Kushwah. Ofelia and The Flying Balloons

Henrik-Aarrestad-Uldalen

Eric Zener. Carriage, 60 x 70, oil on canvas, 2010

Vikram Kushwah. The Fireplace

Maria Abramovic. The Levitation of Saint Teresa, 2010

Maria Konstanse Bruun. When Matters are out of Place

Thomas Edetun. Levitation

Scattered by Zena Holloway

Simon McCheung. I can't Wake Up

Gregory Colbert. Ashes on Snow

Underwater Dreams. Nymphs by Katerina Bodrunova

Angel 5 by Zena Holloway

Phoebe Rudomino, Still from Johnson & Johnson's 'Imagine' Total Hydration body wash TV commercial, HomeCorp., 2006, C-Print. Source: Saatchi Online

Jvdas Berra

Helen Pynor

Eric Zener. Taking Flight

Feet |fēt| by  Richard Brocken

Adeline Mai

Adeline Mai

Lizzie Buckmaster Dove

Jeremy Geddy

Jonathan Ducruix

Stephen Beadles

Bara Prasilova

Julia Fullerton-Batten

Memoirs of Lost Time (Emily Falling in Library), Vikram Kushwah

Martin Stranka. I Was Falling High 

Patricio Cassinoni. Floating Around 

Natsumi Hayashi'sToday's Levitation,Monday  05.30.12

Maurizio Cattelan. Novecento, 1997Chinese Jewel Box by Katerina Bodrunova

Ori Gersht. Time After Time & Blow Up. 2007

Sue Blackwell.

Sue Blackwell. Nature in Britain, 2012

surreal "Flying Houses" by French photographer Laurent Chehere

French photographer Thomas Subtil for his entertaining series Hakuna Matata or No Worries

Yang Yongliang

Giuseppe Lo Schiavo

Ahmet Ogut

Donya

Melania Brescia

Danielle Julian Norton