Mylinh Nguyen
"Inspired by animalistic forms both living and extinct, artist Mylinh Nguyen welds alien creatures from brass, bronze, and silver."
Romain Langlois
"A self-taught sculptor, Romain Langlois studied medical books and anatomical charts to understand the human body, building his first sculptures using only plaster and clay. Seeking a more permanent material, Langlois turned to bronze, a metal he now incorporates into works that are inspired by nature rather than man."
"Through his sculptures the artist would like to reveal the inner energy of the elements, to convey their mysteries which beyond their intrinsic beauty follow us in the look that we have."
Christo - "The Floating Piers"
For 16 days, “The Floating Piers,” a saffron-colored walkway, will connect two small islands in a lake in Northern Italy to the mainland.
“It’s actually very painterly, like an abstract painting, but it will change all the time,” Christo, 81, a Bulgarian-born American, said of his project.
"Getting the walkway to both gently undulate and remain securely affixed to the uneven lake bottom was a feat that has occupied engineers, construction companies, French deep-sea divers and even a team of Bulgarian athletes drafted over the past two years. The walkway is assembled from 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes that form its 16-meter-wide (53 feet) spine, covered this week with a waterproof and stain-resistant fabric made by a German company for the project."
Seven Magic Mountains by Ugo Rondinone
"Renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s colorful large-scale, public artwork Seven Magic Mountains is a two-year exhibition located in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring seven thirty to thirty-five-foot high dayglow totems comprised of painted, locally-sourced boulders."
Rogan Brown
These pieces are "part of a new series of works that mixes hand and laser cutting to create an incredibly detailed and varied visual texture making multiple references: coral, bacteria, pathogens, diatoms, fungi etc...Each motif is however completely fictive and imagined; it is this interplay between the imagination and the "real" world that fascinates me, reality is transformed and estranged through the creative process which paradoxically makes the finished work more real and unique."
Lisa Nilsson
Artist Lisa Nilsson uses a centuries-old technique called quilling to painstakingly create intricate textile patterns with compact rolls of Japanese mulberry paper. Her latest artworks Jardine and Gospel are inspired by the patterns of an Islamic carpet and an 8th century gospel cover. 8 months of work went in to creating the 27” x 34” carpet piece.
