Many of the artists at CONTEXT may have thrown their paintbrushes and canvas to the winds, but there are still a few who work in traditional materials but with a contemporary twist, as they bridge across the two. One, from nearby Cuba, is Ruben Alpizar (born 1965) with the Estudio Arte Contemporaneo brings his traditional training […]
Throw away those old canvases and paintbrushes; the art of the future is created from an explosion of materials including rubber ducks (TP Hardisty), crushed drinks cans (Roberto Longo), fabrics (Miha Kim), Barbie dolls (Leanor Anthony), silk ties (Kim Young-Suk), layers of metal mesh (Georgio Tentolini), old buttons (Augusto Esquirel) , Gummi bears (Castle Fitzjohns), […]
Folded aeroplanes, screws, nails, spoons, polyamide mesh, ceramic pots, old paintbrushes, old records and cassettes, basket balls and darts, plus the newest technologies of LED lighting and thin display screens: Art continues to break out of the traditional boundaries of paint, canvas and bronze sculpture. Galleries and artists from all around the world have been […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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