1Banksy’s Telephone Booth To parody the decline of the famous London Telephone Booths, infamous British guerilla artist Banksy puts an axe through this one. 2Reymond’s Real Life Transformer One of the most famous works of french artist Guillaume Reymond, this series of performances, “TRANSFORMERS”, brings together different types of vehicles, gathering them according to a …
1Michel Lauzière: The Rollerblade Bottle Tune guy The Rollerblade bottle tune guy? That’s right. He makes music by rollerblading along a street with strategically placed and filled bottles. Not long ago, he sued Audi for picking up the idea in this ad; it got settled. Watch him on the following video playing Mozart’s Symphony No. …
1Black Whole Conference: made of 72 chairs The Black Whole Conference chair sculpture was made out of 72 chairs by Michel de Broin on 2006.It was part of the Québec Triennial “Nothing is Lost, Nothing is Created, Everything is Transformed” exhibition at the Musée d’Art in Montreal. 2Sound Wave: made of melted vinyl records On …
1Moaning Lisa: orgasmic electronic music Matt Ganucheau’s Moaning Lisa is quite possibly the strangest electronic music instrument ever created. Part shock art, part artificial intelligence and part musical instrument, Moaning Lisa challenges you on many levels. Ganucheau explains: “The process leading to a female orgasm is a uniquely delicate challenge for both sexes leaving it …
World’s biggest origami. Width: 215 feet and 8 inches; height: 120 feet.
Johan Lorbeer is a German street performer. He became famous in the past few years because of his “Still-Life” Performances, which took place in the public area. His installations includes “Proletarian Mural” and “Tarzan”, which are famous in Germany. Several of these performances feature Lorbeer in an apparently impossible position. With his still-life performances, this …
Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne, Australia, to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie. Mueck then started his own company in London, making models to be …
Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. From being a traumatised and unrecognised dyslexic child, he is now emerging as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time and is literally capable of turning a spec of dust into a vision …
Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community. In these mass ornaments, thousands of military troops …
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