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Flying Fish was part of the work made for the solo show ‘ Play and Display- Steel Masquerades from Top to Toe ‘ at the Museum of Mankind . The idea of the exhibition was to bring a mask collection to life.In museums masks on poles had none of the magic of a mask on a performer. I studied and filmed a teenage masquerade troupe from my home town and collected some masks for the British Museum which are on show in the Salisbury Gallery.

Okolokurukuru the troupe I studied dressed …

JAN FABRE
Visual artist, choreographer, director, writer.  Jan Fabre favors an artistic search meant to go beyond expressive barriers.  His work has a summary and interdisciplinary character, even if many of his works are linked to a study of the human body and its transfiguration.

This intense exploration of man, studied and explored in its corporeality, and the artist’s fascination with the natural world link his work to the concept of metamorphosis, borrowed from his passion for the sciences, and entomology in particular.
The …

RARE ENSEMBLE comprenant un canapé et une paire de fauteuils à dossiers renversés en acajou, placage d’acajou et bois doré. Les accoudoirs décorés de palmettes, flanqués de cygnes formant pieds. Ils sont décorés de rosaces et guirlandes de laurier. Pieds postérieurs en gaine. Russie ou Europe du Nord, premier tiers du XIXe siècle.

Fauteuils: H_85,5 cm L_68,5 cm P_46 cm Canapé: H_89 cm L_127 cm P_48 cm Modèle reproduit page 199 de l’ouvrage « Le mobilier du XIXe siècle en France et en Europe » …

Reflectius features sixty rotating mirrors that successively reflect a single laser beam at precise angles to draw numbers.

The body of the clock has a complex triangulated surface that reminds of the complicated trajectory the beam of light travels in no time.
Dimensions: height 124 mm (4.9″), width 260 mm (10.2″), depth 76 mm (3″)
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Find François Fredj-Weill and the Design Furniture “Collect-xion” at L & B London.
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Project 5 was a four day pop-up live art and music event at Sydney’s Cockle Bay Wharf. The featured artists were Ben Frost, Shannon Crees, Beastman and Phibs with music act 206Collab performing live.
The artists were commissioned to produce one 2.5mx1m mural each to be later auctioned to raise money for Information and Cultural Exchange – a non-for-profit visual arts organisation servicing marginalised youth in Sydney’s western suburbs. The auction event will take place Thursday 20 May, 2010 in a high profile auction event to be held at Darling Park, …