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I am an information designer and a Partner at Pentagram advocating for Data Humanism.

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didático

http://www.joostgrootens.nl/#academic_publications

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Illustrator "known for multi-disciplined, process led, hand drawn work within graphic compositions."

Neasden Control Centre

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Stephen Smith Contemporary Visual Artist

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Boxed constructions and collage.

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Joseph Cornell - 43 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy

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Visual artist that works with transparency and layering.

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Nobuhiro Nakanishi, Portfolio Site. 中西信洋のウェブサイト

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Contemporary artist. Many installations. Succinctness; colour; refletion.

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Official website of Olafur Eliasson and his studio: Studio Olafur Eliasson

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Visual artist.
https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/anish-kapoor

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Visual artist.
http://www.premiopipa.com/pag/artistas/lucia-laguna/

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South African artist known for his animations, etchings and drawings.
https://art21.org/artist/william-kentridge/

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The man who destroyed all his belongings. Performance artist.

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One day in the '90s the British artist Michael Landy came up with a radical concept for an artwork: he decided to destroy every single one of his possessions in public. The idea was simple. But executing it proved surprisingly complex. So, in order to make it happen, he teamed up with Artangel, the non-profit arts organisation, which specialises in realising extraordinary one-off projects with contemporary artists, and set to work.

Three years later, in 2001, having compiled an exhaustive inventory of his belongings that ran to 7,227 items, he found himself standing in an empty shop in Oxford Street in central London. Before him, in yellow trays placed upon a conveyor belt, were the belongings that he had amassed over his 37 years, destined for landfill.

When they had finished, the artist owned nothing at all, apart from the blue boiler suit he was wearing

During the course of two weeks, every single one - clothes, love letters, artworks, his Saab 900 Turbo car, even his father's sheepskin coat - was stripped, shredded, crushed, dismantled, or otherwise destroyed by Landy and his team of 12 assistants, while listening to David Bowie and Joy Division. When they had finished, the artist owned nothing at all, apart from the blue boiler suit he had been wearing throughout. He called the project Break Down.

"It was the happiest two weeks of my life," Landy told me recently, speaking shortly after the opening of Out of Order, his raucous mid-career retrospective at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, which features ample documentation of Break Down. "At moments, admittedly, I felt like I was witnessing my own death, because people I hadn't seen for years would turn up, and I thought, 'Well, they'd only turn up for my funeral.' But often I did feel real elation. No one had ever destroyed all their worldly belongings before."
Dying of consumption
Fifteen years on, Break Down - which remains Landy's best-known work - is considered a provocative masterpiece of recent British art. Moreover, because consumerism in the West has only accelerated since 2001 - witness, for instance, the rise of YouTube vloggers such as Zoella who devote entire videos to rummaging through shopping bags in order to celebrate high-street 'hauls' - it has also come to seem remarkably prescient.

"We see artworks through the prism of our current concerns," explains James Lingwood, who commissioned Break Down, and has just celebrated 25 brilliant years as co-director of Artangel. "The insistent pressures on people to consume have become more and more present in our culture, and there is an increasing feeling of discomfort about how alienating these pressures can be. Michael, through Break Down, put his finger on a deeply troubling part of our contemporary condition."

Break Down was a kind of bonfire of the vanities for the 21st Century

At the time, though, the reaction to Break Down was ambivalent. It was staged in a former branch of the Dutch fashion chain C&A (the same building now houses a branch of low-cost clothing retailer Primark). "That was the perfect place for it," Landy says, "because it wasn't set in an art gallery but a place where people go to consume." Moreover, because it took place on Oxford Street, the "mecca of consumerism" in Britain, as Lingwood puts it, people wandered in unaware that they were about to encounter contemporary art. At first, they assumed that they had entered some kind of sale. According to Landy, one or two "little old ladies" even brought back clothes that they had bought in C&A's closing-down sale. But as observers watched Landy's possessions going past on mechanised rollers, and saw all the stuff being smashed up, they were, says Lingwood, "deeply unsettled - and sometimes appalled".

Why appalled? "Well," he replies, "it's not very difficult, for many people, to witness the destruction of household objects such as crockery. But to see the destruction of personal mementoes, letters, photographs, works of art - that is deeply disturbing."
Smashing effort
As a result, even when the venue contained thousands of visitors, the mood was often sombre, as people began to think about their own relationships with possessions and objects. On one level, Break Down was a kind of bonfire of the vanities for the 21st Century, excoriating the waste and excess of the West. "In a sense, the message was: where are we heading?" Landy explains. "The more stuff people have, the more successful we perceive them to be - but if we all end up with 7,227 things, then we won't have a planet."

There was something exhilarating about seeing somebody liberating themselves from the tyranny of ownership - James Lingwood

In addition, Break Down functioned as a contemporary memento mori: all of us, to differing degrees, use possessions to construct our identities and project ourselves to others - yet here was a man wilfully obliterating his material existence to the point of total annihilation.

At the same time, says Lingwood, "There was something exhilarating about seeing somebody liberating themselves from the tyranny of ownership. The work pointed in two directions - and perhaps that's where its genius lay."

Indeed, Lingwood believes that Break Down wasn't "simply a frontal attack on consumerism, but something a bit more complex - about the relationship between who we are and what we possess and desire. Of course, Break Down was about Western society's obsession with stuff and ownership. But it was also about a more existential question, which was: who am I?"

Landy, himself, says that Break Down was partly a self-portrait: the title even played on the idea of the artist experiencing a midlife crisis. The inventory that he prepared for it, which assigned catalogue numbers to each of his possessions, and took more than a year to compile, is currently on display in the form of a gigantic list on a wall in the Museum Tinguely. Landy was adamant that he had to include "everything I owned - even bits of mouldy plastic that had fallen off the VCR". Accordingly, his index includes tedious tallies of mundane objects including matchboxes, wire wool, toilet roll, and plastic bags.

But, here and there, intimate, and sometimes tongue-in-cheek, allusions to Landy's relationships with lovers and friends can be found. Item R3356, for instance, was a "handwritten note" to his partner, the artist Gillian Wearing, "asking her not to leave towels on [the] bathroom floor". R3409, meanwhile, was his fine-art degree thesis that the artist Abigail Lane, an ex-girlfriend, and fellow student at Goldsmiths art school in east London, "was paid £100.00 to write on his behalf".

There are also references to earlier artworks by Landy such as Market (1990), one of three major installations preceding Break Down that asked similarly searching questions about value and society. (The other two were Closing Down Sale (1992) and Scrapheap Services (1995).) Landy created Market after graduating from Goldsmiths, where he belonged to the generation, alongside Damien Hirst, that would become known as the Young British Artists. The installation took the form of temporary market stalls, cobbled together out of plastic bread crates and artificial grass, arranged in a vast, disused building in east London. Ordinarily, humdrum stalls like these would be used to sell fruit and vegetables, but Landy's "market" was eerily empty.

In Basel, recreated stalls from Market have been placed throughout the retrospective, which follows no chronological order, but instead mixes up Landy's artworks anarchically. The Market stalls "gel the disparate elements together," Landy explains, "like the rolling hills of the English countryside."
Personal effects
While planning Break Down, Landy spent a long time considering how he should destroy his possessions: "I didn't want someone just to set about it all with a baseball bat," he says, "or set the whole thing on fire, like a funeral pyre." In the end, he decided to mock up a materials reclamation facility, with "dismantling bays" and 100m of conveyor belt arranged in a figure of eight, "like a Scalextric set". That way, he says, "People could actually see what was in these little yellow trays for about 10 minutes as they travelled around the belt."

When it was all over, Landy quickly discovered that consumerism was unavoidable: "Within about five minutes," he says, "someone had given me a Paul Weller CD." He laughs. "Obviously, I didn't have a CD player to play it on."

Having things, creating things - that's partly what makes us human

But, he continues, he never promised to remove himself from society altogether, in the manner of Christian saints, such as Francis of Assisi, who renounced worldly goods. "It is a very human characteristic to possess things," Landy says. "Having things, creating things - that's partly what makes us human. Besides, Break Down was a work of art, not a way of life."

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Landy's studio, on the ground floor of the townhouse that he shares with Wearing in Shoreditch in east London, is a minimalist space with bare whitewashed walls and a polished concrete floor. Even so, this empty room still contains a desk with speakers and a computer, a tasteful grey sofa, and a large bookshelf filled with publications about art. There is also, currently, a scale model that Landy used to plan his exhibition in Basel. "Someone looked at this," he tells me, "and said, 'For someone who destroyed everything, you've got a lot of stuff.'" He chuckles. "The truth is, it's very difficult to escape consumerism in Western society. In fact, it's almost like breathing: you can't."
Alastair Sooke is Art Critic of the Daily Telegraph.
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O mais conceituado artista do movimento underground norte-americano, Robert Crumb, sempre foi um apreciador da música negra de seu país, especialmente o Blues. Sua paixão pela música levou-o a ilustrar capas de discos, cards que trazem as biografias de músicos, cartazes de shows e lojas de discos antigos e, claro, histórias em quadrinhos que enfocam o ambiente musical, seus intérpretes e as letras das músicas, em verdadeiros clipes em quadrinhos gráficos.

Robert Crumb Dennis ,nascido em 30 de agosto de 1943 cartunista americano e músico que muitas vezes assina o seu trabalho R. Crumb. Sua obra apresenta uma nostalgia da cultura popular americana do final do século 19 e início do século 20, sátira da cultura americana contemporânea.

Crumb ganhou destaque após a estréia de 1968 Zap Comix, o primeiro sucesso underground comix publicação. "Criações populares de sua partir desta época incluem a contraculturas dos personagens como Fritz the Cat e Mr. Natural, surge as imagens de "Keep on Truckin" e " Strip".

Em 1970, vai definindo através das linhas biográficas e autobiográficas , seu trabalho e refinando seu estilo de desenho, um pesadamente "crosshatched" . Muito de seu trabalho apareceu em uma revista que ele fundou, Weirdo (1981-1993), que foi uma das publicações mais importantes da história em quadrinhos alternativa .

Resposta certa, não importa nada: o essencial é que as perguntas estejam certas... .
Saiba como escrever na obvious.

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O mais conceituado artista do movimento underground norte-americano, Robert Crumb, sempre foi um apreciador da música negra de seu país, especialmente o Blues. Sua paixão pela música levou-o a ilustrar capas de discos, cards que trazem as biografias de músicos, cartazes de shows e lojas de discos antigos e, claro, histórias em quadrinhos que enfocam o ambiente musical, seus intérpretes e as letras das músicas, em verdadeiros clipes em quadrinhos gráficos.

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Visual artist. She works with light, shadows and distortions in order to explore ideas of reality.
https://reginasilveira.com

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Illustrator.
http://www.owengent.com

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Graphic designer. Typographer.

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Graphic designer well-known in the 80s. Typographer.

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Graphic designer.

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Designer for mostly children's books.
https://chrishaughton.com

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Ornaments and lettering designer.

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Lettering designer.

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Após 10 anos de processo artístico, iniciados lado a lado na fundação da SINLOGO, Alois Di Leo e Filipe Grimaldi fecham um ciclo apresentando uma exposição com estética popular de personagens fictícios e letras vernaculares pintadas a mão.

As obras percorrem desde generalizações de personagens à profissões populares, colocando juntos as técnicas de pintura tradicional e amadora vernacular, descrevendo através de "letra e retrato" a história de cada personagem.

São aproximadamente 50 personagens que traduzem parte das experiências dos artistas, folclóricas e reais, populares e contemporâneas, de inúmeros tamanhos, técnicas e tratamentos.

Na mostra, os autores capturam o sentimento popular e o estilo de vida latino se apropriando também de material de descarte local que serve como suporte para todas as obras.

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Letras e Retratos - Filipe Grimaldi e Alois Di Leo - Filipe Grimaldi

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Designer.

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Illustrator, São Paulo - Brazil henri.campea@gmail.com

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Graphic designer. Worked as an art director for Cosac Naify for eleven years.

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Seleção de projetos da designer gráfica paulistana Elaine Ramos, membro da Alliance Graphique Internationale / Brazilian graphic designer’s portfolio.

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Artist that works with polaroids.

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Photographer.
Sharpness, great visual field. In other words, what I usually tend to avoid when photographing. It doesn't transpose any "romantic" feelings to me.

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Photographer.
The Clearing

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World War photographer.
http://www.leemiller.co.uk

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Grupo de artistas e gravadores que amam livros de artista e publicações independentes. [...] paixão pela matéria impressa e questões de reprodutibili-dade e o prazer do manuseio do livro-objeto.

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Contemporary artist.

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Film maker and artist. He made music videos for the Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Royal Blood, Tame Impala, and many other artists.

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David Wilson is a director and artist based in London, UK

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Artist known for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture.

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1935-1937 Len Lye - "Kaleidoscope" + "A Colour Box" + "Colour Flight" (highlights mix)

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He was an English experimental music composer, and founder of an experimental performing ensemble, the Scratch Orchestra.

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Abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter.

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An Optical Poem - produced by Oskar Fischinger  1938

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Animator.

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Visual artist who, among other things, makes digital paintings on canvas using scanners and digital inkjet technology.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/wade-guyton

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Visual artist known for his paintings and, to me, his woodcuts are also interesting.

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Gravuras.
http://www.casadasartes.com.br/obras-1047-politipias.html

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Photographer. Works a lot with the overlap of images.
http://claudiajaguaribe.com.br

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Photographer. Known for the "Câmera Aberta" project at IMS São Paulo.

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ZUM

Making of do projeto de Michael Wesely

Assista ao making of do projeto Câmera aberta, do artista alemão Michael Wesely, que documentou com câmeras analógicas e digitais a construção do centro cultural do Instituto Moreira Salles na avenida Paulista, em São Paulo, de 2014 a 2017.

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Exposição "Câmera aberta", de Michael Wesely, no IMS Paulista

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Projeto iniciado em 2014, com curadoria de Thyago Nogueira, em que o artista alemão instalou seis câmeras nas fachadas dos edifícios vizinhos à obra do IMS Paulista para capturar continuamente imagens das quatro faces da construção. Em cartaz até 31 de dezembro.

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http://www.nunoramos.com.br

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Minimalist artist.
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-de-maria-walter.htm

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Cartoonist, painter, and animator.
http://cargocollective.com/rafaelcoutinhoartbr

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As Surpreendentes Aventuras do Barão de Munchausen - RAFAEL COUTINHO

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As Surpreendentes Aventuras do Barão de Munchausen

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Illustrator.
http://sophielecuyer.blogspot.com.br

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Illustrator.
http://www.david-lupton.com/

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http://susyoliveira.ca

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http://rebeccachew.co

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Illustrations for a feature story on mental health, Esquire Malaysia. Several photographs from my family's photo albums were used to illustrate the mental issues my family was personally afflicted...

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"Heinecken described himself as a 'para-photographer' because his work stood 'beside' or 'beyond' traditional notions of the medium. He extended photographic processes and materials into lithography, collage, photo-based painting and sculpture, and installation. [...] Heinecken used found images to explore the manufacture of daily life by mass media and the relationship between the original and the copy, both in art and in our culture at large."
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1384

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http://www.aldotolino.com

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Visual artist.

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Visual artist.
https://zupi.com.br/justine-khamara-2

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Street photographer.
"[...] Vivian would further indulge in her passionate devotion to documenting the world around her through homemade films, recordings and collections, assembling one of the most fascinating windows into American life in the second half of the twentieth century."
http://www.vivianmaier.com

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Photographer. Famous for his portraits.
https://www.irvingpenn.org/home

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"Influential photographer Jeff Wall makes large-scale color images that seem to capture people engaged in everyday life, but are in fact largely staged."
https://www.artsy.net/artist/jeff-wall

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From Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Wall, Passerby (1996), Gelatine silver print, 250 × 339.5 cm

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Photographer.
http://lounge.obviousmag.org/com_cafe/2014/09/Annie-Leibovitz-fotografia-em-arte.html

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http://www.openart.se/2013/konstnarer/petra-jensen/

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http://www.beadenton.com/

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Sculptor.
https://www.andrewrogers.org/

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Photographer.

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Photographer.
"You don't see. You feel."
http://atelliefotografia.com.br/grandes-nomes/nome-andre-kertesz

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Photographer.
https://daniolivier.com

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Photographer.
http://www.queimandofilme.com/2013/11/28/miroslav-tichy-e-a-arte-do-controle-absoluto/

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Painter, photographer, and designer.
http://www.geraldodebarros.com/

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"Seu foco de investigação artística é a criação de aparatos fotográficos próprios para a captação e reconstrução do movimento, e sua apresentação se materializa nos mediuns do vídeo, fotografia e instalação."
http://leticiaramos.com.br/

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"Yael Bartana’s films, installations and photographs explore the imagery of identity and the politics of memory."
http://yaelbartana.com/biography

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Collage artist.
https://zupi.com.br/fotomontagens-de-hannah-hoch/

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Visual artist.

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Designer and visual artist.
http://www.ruskhasanov.com

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Typographic artist and graphic designer.
http://yomaraugusto.com

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Artist and designer.

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James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination. He is an author, designer, filmmaker and firestarter. He continually strives to make work that is sexy, strong and memorable; work that tows the line between the sacred and the profane. His paintings of expressionist designs can be seen on ceramics, surfboards, billboards and supermodels.

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Photographer.
http://www.karenstuke.de

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Photographer.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/francesca-woodman/
https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2016/01/22/album/1453463389_967121.html#foto_gal_1

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Illustrator.
http://danielegneus.com

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http://www.glennligonstudio.com

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https://www.artsy.net/artwork/barbara-kruger-i-shop-therefore-i-am

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https://piamannikko.com

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Helsinki-based artist Pia Mnnikk observes and recreates physical paths of the human form, depicting small intervals of movement within a space, in her Dj Vu series. Using tulle fabric and ink, the artist presents a series of ghostly silhouettes cutting through different rooms, as though each flowing panel is a moment frozen in time. Altogether, each site-specific installation exhibits the trail of one man moving from point A to point B.

Normally, physical footprints aren't left behind everywhere we walk, so it can be difficult to know the precise areas our bodies have inhabited, but Mnnikk's creations give us a better idea of the human body's movement and physical space capacity. They allow us to contemplate how often we retrace our steps without even realizing it.

Pia Mnnikk's blog
via [ My Darkened Eyes]

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Time Mapping Installation Reveals Human Movement

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Helsinki-based artist Pia Mnnikk observes and recreates physical paths of the human form, depicting small intervals of movement within a space, in her Dj Vu series. Using tulle fabric and ink, the artist presents a series of ghostly silhouettes cutting through different rooms, as though each flowing panel is a moment frozen in time.

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"City of Shadows"
http://www.aa13.fr/photographie/city-of-shadows-alexey-titarenko-12252

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http://www.espritsnomades.com/artsplastiques/leitersaul/leitersaul.html

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http://sallymann.com

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Lee Kirby Photography | Portrait - Landscape - Music Photographer London U.K

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Lee Kirby Photography | Portrait - Landscape - Music Photographer London U.K

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http://rosanna-jones.blogspot.com.br

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https://www.gerhard-richter.com

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Pakron uses "experimental darkroom techniques to create ‘silver drip portraits’ of his close friends and family. [...] Rather than immersing the paper entirely, he hand-paints developer solution onto the photo paper, revealing key elements of the face, such as eyes, nose and mouth, communicating emotion via a few selected features."

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Visual artist.
http://lucassimoes.com.br/
"Tudo Deixará de Existir"

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Check out "Boring Postcards".

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Photographer. Check out "The Innocents".

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Photographer.

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Photographer.

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Sophie Calle é artista plástica e fotógrafa francesa nascida em Paris, 1953. Ela utiliza suas experiências pessoais como ponto de partida para construir narrativas que desprezam os limites entre realidade e ficção; transformando situações banais em poesia, atingindo um público que transcende o mundo artístico.

Influenciada por um pai colecionador de arte, Sophie resolveu seguir a carreira artista. Na década de 60 viajou sete anos por diferentes países, tendo seu primeiro contato com a fotografia na Califórnia. Em 1970 voltou a Paris. Sentindo-se perdida, começou a caminhar pelas ruas da cidade e fotografar estranhos.

Destas caminhadas, surgiu o trabalho Suite vénitienne (Suíte Veneziana). A artista se interessou por um desconhecido e resolveu segui-lo pelas ruas de Paris fotografando e tomando notas como um detetive particular. Coincidentemente, ela foi apresentada a ele em um vernissag e e descobriu que ele iria a Veneza; Sophie resolveu continuar seguindo ele até a cidade italiana.

Dois anos depois, em 1981, a artista resolveu inverter a situação. Ela pediu para a mãe contratar um detetive para segui-la por um dia. A performance se tornou o trabalho La filature (A perseguição), misturando fotografias e anotações de Sophie e do detetive.

Um dos trabalhos mais conhecidos da autora é o Prenez soin de Vous (Cuide de Você), 2007. Após receber uma carta de rompimento de seu namorado, ela convidou 107 mulheres de diferentes profissões para analisar e interpretar a carta; resultando em um trabalho multimídia exposto pela primeira vez na Bienal de Veneza, em 2007.
"Recebi uma carta de rompimento.
E não soube respondê-la.
Era como se ela não me fosse destinada.
Ela terminava com as seguintes palavras: "Cuide de você".
Levei essa recomendação ao pé da letra.
Convidei 107 mulheres, escolhidas de acordo com a profissão,
para interpretar a carta do ponto de vista profissional.
Analisá-la, comentá-la, dançá-la, cantá-la. Esgotá-la. Entendê-la em meu lugar. Responder por mim." (
Sophie desenvolveu outros trabalhos como Les Dormeurs (Aqueles que dormem), Le carnes d'adresses (Caderno de endereços), L'hôtel (O hotel), Doure exquise (Dor de cotovelo), No sex last night (Sem sexo na noite passada), Gotham Handbook (O guia de Gotham), Chromatic Diet (Dieta cromática), The Birthday Ceremony (Cerimônia de aniversário), Chambre aves vue (Quarto com vista) e, mais recentemente, Mas pu saisir la mort (Impossível capturar a morte). Neste último, ela filmou o momento em que sua mãe faleceu.
"Em vez de contar os dias que faltavam para a morte dela, passei a contar de forma obsessiva os minutos que faltavam para trocar a fita, desloquei a angústia. Quando ela morreu, eu estava efetivamente presente, vi seu sorriso." (Sophie)
A artista vive a sua arte. Ela utiliza a fotografia, escrita e vídeo para realizar seus trabalhos que partem da sua vida. No entanto, Sophie Calle destaca que não faz da arte uma terapia.
"Meu trabalho não tem nada a ver com a intimidade. Quando uso minha vida, não é minha vida, é uma obra colocada na parede. Algumas coisas que me acontecem eu uso como o motor para um projeto, mas isso não significa para mim ensinar a intimidade, mas sim a poesia que vem das coisas banais, o que acontece com todo mundo. Eu trato de brigar com uma parede e fazer exposições. Não me interessa a quantidade de intimidade, ou de ausência, que está em minha obra. Esse é o trabalho do crítico. Essa é sua linguagem, não a minha." (Sophie)
Sophie Calle faz de sua vida uma sequência de performances que giram em torno de regras como em um jogo. De acordo com o site video brasil, esse traço faz referência ao Oulipo, movimento literário francês dos anos 1960 em que escritores como Raymond Queneau, e Italo Calvino se propunham a criar a partir de regras restritivas.

A artista participa intensamente do circuito de arte com exposições nas principais galerias e museus do mundo. Entretanto, ela usufrui de diferentes meios de comunicação para atrair novos e distintos públicos.
"O que diferencia muitos de meus trabalhos é o fato de que eles são, também, minha vida. Eles aconteceram. Isso me distingue e faz com que as pessoas gostem ou desgostem intensamente do que faço. É por isso, também, que tenho um público além do mundo da arte." (Sophie Calle)
Les Dormeurs (Aqueles que dormem), 1979

OBRAS DE SOPHIE CALLE

Suite vénitienne (Suíte veneziana), 1979

Les Dormeurs (Aqueles que dormem), 1979

La filature (A perseguição), 1981

Le carnes d'adresses (Caderno de endereços), 1983

Doure exquise (Dor de cotovelo), 1984-2003

No sex last night (Sem sexo na noite passada), 1992

Gotham Handbook (O guia de Gotham), 1993

Chromatic Diet (Dieta cromática), 1997

The Birthday Ceremony (Cerimônia de aniversário), 1997

Chambre aves vue (Quarto com vista), 2003

Prenez soin de Vous (Cuide de Você), 2007

Pas pu saisir la mort (Impossível capturar a morte), 2007

FILMES SOBRE SOPHIE CALLE

Contacts 2 - Le Renouveau de la photographie contemporaine. 1990 - 2002.

REFERÊNCIAS

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Sophie Calle é artista plástica e fotógrafa francesa nascida em Paris, 1953. Ela utiliza suas experiências pessoais como ponto de partida para construir narrativas que desprezam os limites entre realidade e ficção; transformando situações banais em poesia, atingindo um público que transcende o mundo artístico. Influenciada por um pai colecionador de arte, Sophie resolveu seguir...

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