Alfredo Jaar

Alfredo Jaar is a architect and film maker and his work has been shown extensively around the globe. Jaar is now NY based but was born in Santiago de Chile 1956.

I was I'll during this weekend so I'm not sure the lecture took place, also I assume you meant Alfredo Jaar and not Alfred Jaar as it said in the e-mail.

What I can see on Alfredo Jaar is if his lecture was confirmed I really missed something. On his website there are mostly photos and some short films, also a lot of poetic content, kind of melancholic. I am really interested in his "this is not America" in the project "lights in the city" which is shown on a large LED sign. This project has references to geography and global relations.

Jaar's Rwanda project is very strong, you should go into his website and have a look, the texts on the site is protected so I couldn't attach it to this blog

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Hares

I am finally finished with my hares, here is a picture.

Slow Loris.

Cutiepie, eller som jag skulle saga, GULLVERT!

David Kassan

David Kassan is a very talented artist. He is a realist painter that takes inspiration from his surroundings, as a NY based artist street art is one of his influences also he takes inspiration from artist like Rembrandt, DaVinci and Mark Rothko.

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Blaise Drummond

Liverpudlian Blaise Drummond is a very talented artist, I'm very happy to find a local painter, as Liverpool, no offence seems more of a conceptual, digital media and installation art kind of place, I feel that painting hasn't got the platform it really should have. I think that painting could be just as inventive and contemporary as any other art form. (this actually makes me quite upset.)

Anywho the subject in Drummond's experimental and visionary paintings is the relationship between culture and nature. He uses the architecture of le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe among others as reference points for a non-sentimental outlook into the future via the past.

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Os Gemeos

Os Gemeos (the twins) are in the top of my favourite street artists, these guys travel around the world exhibiting their work in galleries. Os Gemeno's is also I think the undisputed kings of street art in South America. Inside the galleries they produce fantastic installations and on the street they have fun with the local people and paint relevant and also amazing street art. As I now work with a installation I take a lot of inspiration from their installation work.

Here are some pics;

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I killed my world and I killed my time.

I want to paint, but for the minute I don't feel I got any time for such pleasure.

I'm going to post some pictures from the painter Mark Ryden, which is just to fantastic to be true in my opinion.

Mark Ryden

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Sanjeev Shankar

Sanjeev Shankar held a lecture the 24th of march, The lecture was very inspiring and Sanjeev seems to be a wonderful person. I really liked his will and determination to keep the Indian cultural identity.

Shankar's motivation and engagement to work with the people who still have a "primitive" surroundings, still produce these traditional Indian footwear. Shankar travelled to these villages and lived with the people; together they produced shoes with inspiration taken from modern trainers mixed with the traditional kolhapuri slippers made with the non-powered traditional technique.

Shankar has a background in design, craft and architecture. He comes from Bombay India and his work deals with cultural differences and interacting with people, creating together with others that beholds a special traditional crafts knowledge mixed with his contemporary thinking creates very interesting objects. Also Shankar are working with the "common" people for example his project Jugaad in New Delhi where he worked with the local people to create something out of used cooking oil-tins. This is what the local people and Shankar achieved during his time in New Delhi;

You can find Sanjeev Shankar's work

here