Sculptor wolfgang laib collecting and sifting pollen for one of his insanely pigmented art installations…yellow yellow yellow!

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Book Waterfalls made of some 5,000 books by Alicia Martin. 

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Looking back: Pierre Portelli’s iconic Greymatter installed at St James Cavalier’s Centre for Creativity, Castille Hill, Valletta in 2008.

Portelli created a catwalk-like platform on the marble floor of the main hall, upon which people were meant to tread. Neatly dividing the concrete structure was a narrow strip of grass, which throughout the duration of the installation took a life of its own attracting curious hands, feet, insects and other organisms. 

Malta hasn’t seen an installation of this calibre in quite a while. Pierre leaves us wanting more. 

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Is it visual art, audio art, a sculpture, a product, a machine? Byoungho Kim’s works could be described as all of these. They are visually stunning, make sounds, have a sculptural quality and they are manufactured just like any other highly-engineered industrial products.

Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1974 Kim has explored the edges of art and product, sounds and visuals throughout his career. As his sound sculptures have no “practical use,” they are defined as art but their intrigue lies in the technology behind them.

The two lighting fixture-like pieces we are featuring are made of aluminum and they use both piezo and arduino technology. A piezo is an electronic device that be used to both play and detect tones. arduino is a popular open-source single-board microcontroller. None of this means much to most of us, but the result — sounds being emitted and changed by the sculptures — is fascinating.
 
The rounded Soft Crash (330 x 330 x 165 centimeters, or 130 x 130 x 65 inches) was one of the pieces on display at Kim’s solo exhibition at the end of 2011 at the Arario Gallery in  Seoul. The second piece, from 2010, is called Horizontal Intervention (96 x 280 x 25 cm, 38 x 110 x 10 in.)
 
Byoungho Kim describes his pieces as “constructed fantasy” that expresses mankind’s continuous pursuit of new desires. - Tuija Seipell (http://www.thecoolhunter.net)

Byoungho Kim has certainly captured Velcro’s attention. 

Anamorphic illusions by Swiss artist Felice Varini