Zobop
“Zobop is the collective title of an ongoing series of psychedelic floor designs by the Scottish artist Jim Lambie… The artist has explained that the intention behind the work is to fill a room with rhythm while keeping the space itself free from physical obstruction, in a manner analogous to that of music…The titular word ‘Zobop’ was invented by Lambie, and as a linguistic coinage it might be compared with the twentieth-century neologisms ‘Be-Bop’ and ‘Re-Bop’, introduced in the 1940s to characterise the complex chords and syncopated rhythms of emergent jazz.”
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“My models are my muses. I like to capture people that I find interesting in life. Though they do not always have ‘the perfect feature’, they fascinate me – they are normal people yet whimsical” Xiangyu Liu says. The Chinese photographer moved to Russia to study fine arts before turning to photography. There, he discovered another…
‘René Magritte’s cerebral, enigmatic paintings and prints helped define the imagery and philosophy of the Surrealist movement. His most famous works, including The Treachery of Images (1929) and The Son of Man (1946), explore the illusory power of art and juxtapose mundane and fantastical iconography. Magritte was born in Belgium. After a stint at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels…
“I never saw anyone that looked like me in movies or on the covers of fashion magazines. I also didn’t see Asian photographers shooting for the magazines I looked at, which made me question if I could even make it as a photographer” – Peter Ash Lee. Xiao Wen Ju graces the pages of Vogue…
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