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Minima | Maxima by MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY

'’To be inside Minima | Maxima is to be transported to a strange future, a science fiction world, removing us from ourselves and finding a sense of naive wonder within. The impulse is to explore, to visually wander. Transformed into a childlike state, visitors can do so without the pretense of reference or concepts, employing instead the potent investigative powers of our senses.

The project extends MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY's research and development efforts to achieve structural integrity through ultra-thin, self-supporting assemblies, which find strength in the double curvature of their form. In the whimsical yet durable universe the studio creates, curves win out over angles. Branches, splits and recombinations make columns and beams irrelevant. A 'networked' surface rolls in, on and around itself, transforming into a space that upends preconceived notions of enclosure, entrance/exit, and threshold, while also providing its own support. It bends in all directions, but still manages to stand upright on its own.’’ X

Learn more of Marc’s work and evolution here

Asian Assumptions by Acel Suriaga, 13 years old.

Winner of the 2017 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

‘‘The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades 7–12.This year, students submitted more than 330,000 works of visual art and writing to the Scholastic Awards; more than 90,000 works were recognized at the regional level and celebrated in local exhibitions and ceremonies. The top art and writing at the regional level were moved onto the national stage, where more than 2,700 works earned National Medals. National Medalists and their educators will be celebrated at the National Ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City.‘‘ (X)

  The Art of David Stenbeck

Vivid and enthralling, the work of David Stenbeck goes beyond using the human body and landscape as subjects to manipulate. An interview for Majestigal Magazine,revealed that David was not only a '’a watcher of sorts, making observations and translating them somehow’’, but the editor-in-chief of Floret Magazine, a literary magazine ‘’that publishes young/new poets and novelists in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian’’. 

David continue to explain in his interview that ‘’photography to me has been more of a fun seance, where I get to act out a bit, though still working with the same theoretic aesthetics or linguistics as I do in my writing. But it’s gaining on me.’’

Continue to be enthralled by his art here / Check him out at Floret Magazine

The limitless work of Katharina Grosse

‘‘I don´t understand this level or limit stuff. Painting is simply what I want to do when I open my eyes. I indulge in exuberance and aggressive energy without killing anybody.

Looking at my painting you are experiencing the absence of linear structures, the fracturing of causalities, and the equality and simultaneity of structures that normally seem to exclude one another. In my painting they can be seen at the same time. Painting is an ideal medium to put across this phenomenon of equality and concurrency. It is able to provide all visual particles on the picture plane simultaneously.’’ (Katharina Grosse explaining her art to Bomb Magazine)

Enjoy more of her work here

Punctures by Peta Clancy

Peta Clancy explores the dimensions of photography in her solo exhibition Puncture. She will present a new suite of 4 large-scale intimate self-portraits that explore the transformative, fragile and resilient qualities of paper.

Using a fine needle the artist carefully applies thousands of tiny pinpricks through the surface of photographic paper. These markings rupture the surface of the photographic print and form beautiful embroidered patterns that are visible on the surface of the paper. (KNSTRCT)

Enjoy more of her work here