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Richard Maloy | Clay Head 3, 2008

photograph, 650 x 500 mm

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Gianluca Tabellini | Mycelium Tectonics, 2015

These simple microogranisms are able to create networks of resource and nutrient distribution in an efficient and complex manner, through adaptive aggregation processes in function of environmental conditions. Such processes of material computation can be simulated in a digital environment providing precious tools to generate and test a variety of possible archictectural systems. The purpose of this first phase is, through the study and application of biological models, to direct the architectural system towards an organic, dynamic and integrated relationship with the ecosystem. In other words, to create an architecture that becomes indistinguishable from nature.

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Julia Phillips | Nourisher, 2022

Ceramic, medical PVC tubes, stainless steel, and steel cable

I was trying to draw borders, but also enclosures and passageways, curves that could be the inside of the body or negative space.

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Harmony Hammond | Chenille #11, #12, 2021

Oil and mixed media on canvas

The artist takes scraps of textile, accompanied by their various histories, and creates a new body out of these fragments. Imbued with the lives lived by the materials used, Hammond’s paintings reveal a layered history of touch. The painting is a body that has been in physical contact with Hammond over and over, the touch at times gentle, at other times rough.

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john isaacs (artist) / birgit* richard (author of Dead Lines: Death in Art, Media, Everyday) / oliver zybok (gallery curator)

john isaacs in dead_lines: death in art-media-everyday - oliver zybok + brigit richard (2011)

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Alwar Balasubramaniam | Body as Shell, 2011-15

Sandstone

Throughout his practice, the artist investigates the threshold between presence and absence, materiality and immateriality, the physical and spiritual, the object and space. In this unnerving sculpture, the body appears to be withered away, no longer a mass but a mere shell, suggesting the precariousness between life and death.

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( works / "Adriana Varejão’s cultural cannibalism" )

'extirpation of evil by incision,' 1994 in adriana varejão: histórias às margens [at the margins] - museu de arte moderna de são paulo (2013)

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How did it take me this long to find your wonderful blog??? Exactly the sensibilities that guide my own search!

because i have not updated this blog in a long time. :~) not to worry. a thousand and one flesh from my repository awaits you.

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Gossamer worm (Tomopteris) By: D. P. Wilson From: The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands 1972

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Auriea Harvey/Michaël Samyn | skinonskinonskin, 1999

The work is a complex portrait of an artistic and romantic relationship that shows that online intimacy is as deeply felt, embodied, and full of risk and reward as any other form.

( start emulator )

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your blog cured my depression. i went outside and sketched for the first time in months .

<3 this blog is not a cure for life but a reflection of it.

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Lodovico Brunetti | The Punished Suicide, 1863

"real human taxidermy"

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Berlinde de Bruyckere, Aaneen-Genaaid (Sewn together) 1999 wax, polyester, blankets

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| Figure, 2013*

bronze/marble

51.5 x 33 x 31 cm

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Livia Canestraro (*1936)  

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simultaneously identifiable and moving, at times also unsettling, that translates into the flesh of sculptures the paradox of ‘sublime weakness’ posited by Lao-Tzu.

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Plunder

Berlinde De Bruyckere

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