Art in Translation

Resembling giant spider webs, Blalock’s textile installations sometimes reach as high as 15 feet. Their large scale and intense color transforms the non-threatening, domestic doily into a structure that aims to create a sense of unease for the viewer.

Jung Lee analyses the language of complete love and the deep solitary state it throws the lover into. Collecting cliched expressions of love and hatred Lee places them in deserted landscapes in the form of neon text sculptures, mimicking cold neon signs so often found in cities. The result is a group of beautiful and melancholy empty landscape photographs, contrasting sentimental phrases such as these.

"Neon Bloom" by Amanda McCavour. This artist's works are influenced by Egon Schiele. When asked about the artist, she says, "I like the way that his figures sometimes seem to float on the page, disconnected from a place. The way that he paints, sometimes the paper becomes a part of the figure, the colour shining through. I like this kind of transparency within the figures that he draws. I also like the way that some things are left empty or missing. I've always liked the idea of things unraveling or falling apart. I think that's why I like to work with thread. Egon Schiele's drawings have this feeling."

"J’ai rêvé d’un autre monde" (I dreamt of another world) is one of Claude Lévêque's site-specific, atmospheric works, where vibrating neon lights, shadows, and everyday objects open breaches in reality—breaches that are often unsettling, sometimes joyous, always vertiginous.

"Staircase-III" by Do Ho Suh. Made from silk and nylon fabrics and based on full-scale models of the artist's home in Korea and the United States, these Homes are sensuous installations recalling tents and other forms of movable architecture, evoking the nostalgia of journey, migration, identity, and perhaps, most importantly, displacement.

We fell in love with the mobile "Red Independent Heart" when we visited Joana Vasconcelos' exhibition at the : this enormous heart of Viana (the iconic piece of Portuguese filigree), patiently filled in with red plastic cutlery, makes a movement of circular rotation suspended from its axis, evoking the cycles of life and of the eternal return. ❤️

Alexander Calder popularised the “mobile” as art, powered with motors or carefully balanced to be set in motion by the lightest of air currents. He pioneered kinetic sculpture, often consisting of abstract shapes decorated in primary colours, conceived during the interwar years at a time of feverish experimentation in art, dance and theatre. He numbered many of the leading Surrealist and modernist artists among his friends.

These sculptures in chicken wire by Benedetta Mori-Ubaldini have no internal structure at all, therefore the play between presence and absence becomes the magical element of the work and gives each piece the lightness of an apparition, a ghost-like quality like a trace from memory or images from a dream. 🦍

So happy to receive flowers in our office. Also, these smell so good...! 🌷

Orly Genger hand-knotted over 100 miles of rope into thick plaits for "Bigg Boss". She is a sculptor interested in reshaping space and actively engaging the viewer.

Today in the office we welcome "Unidas", a screen printing by Estefanía Martín Sáenz. Happy Friday!

Suspended swarms of objects in temporary installations to tap the mixture of fear and fascination that phenomena such as bird flocks, fish schools, and bee swarms tend to evoke in nature. "Emergent Behavior" by Thomas Jackson.