Vitrahaus by Herzog & de Meuron
“Taking building concepts to their illogical conclusions, this series of surreal animations provides a tour of impossible architectural structures and facades, each taken to a fresh visual extreme. Created by French architect Axelde Stampa, Architecture Animée inverts our expectation of solid structures (with people moving past and through them), instead creating a static backdrop and fixed surroundings against which iconic buildings come to life. Each work ends up looking (abstractly) like an extension of the original architectural intent or some sort of motion implied within it, such as the above game of god-scaled Tetris that seems to play out in realtime. Spinning, twisting and deforming, the pieces play on something intrinsic to each subject – almost as much a natural extension as an artistic interpretation.
-WebUrbanist
“In the black-and-white photographs of Gilbert Garcin, a solitary figure navigates spare-yet-fantastical landscapes populated with towering sea-urchin shells, puppet strings, and oversized flowers. To create his images, Garcin crafts a tiny model world in his studio, which he artificially illuminates “to make more real” and then photographs. Working quickly, he spends two or three days…
“Altering images using online editing software, Squire used distorted, fragmented sections of images which he then enlarged from the small screen onto giant canvases using traditional oil painting methods. “I took some photographs myself and crashed the editing software multiple times until I started finding images that I was excited by,” he says. “It wasn’t a process designed to…
“I’ve gotten more into fashion and politics and the way we can affect things. I feel like I’ve grown into what I was always thinking about but not really aware of. The whole reason that I’m a photographer, really, is to push optimism on people. I mean, I’m producing fashion photography. It shouldn’t be a…
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