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penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

serpentine 2017

exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

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University of Sunderland MA Glass and Ceramics Show

UNTITLED PROJECT: CABIN [THOREAU]

UNTITLED PROJECT: CABIN [THOREAU] [ANGLET], 2016 –– a carved and painted replica of Henry David ...

Untitled Project: Honda CB77 Superhawk

UNTITLED PROJECT: HONDA CB77 SUPER HAWK, oil paint on carved wood, 2013-2014 –– A carved/painted...

Franz Kline

Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...

New Generation

Experiemntal art

What Is A Simulation?

What is a simulation? It is a private game we devise when the aliveness of a situation is too comple...

Michael Schoner

Michael Schoner develops 3D and 2D designs in different scales varying from architecture and interio...

The art of improvising art

The recently abandoned administrative headquarters of Austrian Post, an imposing turn of the century...

Memphis Posters

4 posters by the legendary Italian design collective Memphis Milano.

A Flat Named Desire

An inspirational collection of interior objects.

Just Before Paradise

“And just as we learn about our lives from others, so, too, do we let others shape our understandi...

Food Architecture

Food dal cucchiaio al mondo: Works of artists and architects who deal with the global political, soc...

Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger (born 1953 in Dortmund, died 1997 in Vienna) is one of the foremost and simultan...

“I perhaps owe it to flowers that I became a painter.”

Arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, Monet was also an avid horticu...

Expression/Information

Painting is seen as a form of practice that—contrary to canonical accounts—in no way shies away ...

Total Automation

In The Promise of Total Automation, artists examine technology in its complexity. They point out our...

German Art since 1960

German ‘paragons of painting’ such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff and Markus Lüpertz have ...

Jean Lurçat

Jean Lurcat, painter, poet and ceramicist, great renovator of contemporary French tapestry, produced...

Scum Pixel

'Scum' refers to a foamy layer or mass that forms on the surface of liquid when it is boiled or ferm...

The Bauhaus Revolution

The Bauhaus was the most influential design school of the 20th century. See more in the new magazin...

In Infinity

Yayoi Kusama’s unique imagery spring from the recurring hallucinations that have haunted her since...

In Orbit

"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...

Sislej Xhafa

Sislej Xhafa has furnished the waiting room of a police station in Gent like a grand palace. He pres...

reversed silhouettes

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Eric Giraudet de Boudemange

Eric Giraudet de Boudemange (1983) graduated in 2007 from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris ...

Christian Herdeg: Kunst und Bau

Christian Herdeg was born 1942 in Zurich. Trained as a photographer, cameraman and lighting technici...

Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...

Obsolete Distinction

In contemporary society, the digital world pervades the physical to such an extent that any distinct...

HOKUSAI X MANGA

Courtesans, Heroes, Stars and Phantoms - In the early seventeenth century, Edo, which was the bigges...

“I’m not supposed to talk about it”

Nine artists were invited to exhibit in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital of the unknown. The enti...

Francois Morellet 1926 - 2016

Since he first began making work in the 1950s, Morellet has been engaged in creating work which has ...

Xavier Antin: Printing at Home

A printer manual to disturb and disrupt the printing process. Xavier Antin, born in 1981, lives and ...

The Oily Actor

“I had been looking around these ideas of systemic crisis, global financial crisis, which is what ...

Jewelry Design Art

Jewelry Art design pattern inspired from nonlinear dynamics. Drawings collection about fluid flows...

BASILE ARTECO "Falce/Scythe" design anonimo

Design Anonimo, Scythe in forged iron handmade in Italy in the occasion of the exhibition of the "FE...

BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/B" design Enzo Mari

DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron fruit-bowl, Limited Edition of 6 numberd and signed by the Author Enzo...

Universality of the Vortex-Sphere Archetype

The Universality of the Vortex-Sphere Archetype - Code nature sign language Following the entire pr...

Colliding Worlds

Architectural models of small planets appear in unexpected places. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2007

Jean-Jaques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...

Untitled Project: GOLD /eBAY

http://conradbakker.tumblr.com/post/142238609646/goldebay

Palmyra, End of March, 2016

Palmyra. City of Mesopotamia, city of the Phoenicians, of the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Persians, a...

Carreaux

Turn of the century tile and mosaic samples from the Societe Generale de Carrelages in Paris.

Tamara

Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter. She was the most fashionable portr...

DADAMAINO

“I have always loathed the material and have always sought the immaterial” Dadamaino (Emilia Edo...

Color constructions

The work of Krijn de Koning interrupts the environment by adding sculptural, architectural and colou...

Woman. Black. White.

Black and white photos of charismatic women.

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939. After studying drama at the Unive...

Palatial Eliasson

Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) works in a wide variety of mediums, including in...

Pierre Besson

Pierre Besson: Fictions begins… Pierre Besson navigates between visual arts and architecture, and...

Still Life Monkeys

The inclusion of a monkey with other still-life elements imitates earlier Flemish still-life painter...

Function Follows Form

Formlab is a series of photos generated by an ongoing process for inspiration, random objects are co...

Animated Self-Portrait

A fun .gif avatar experiment

Make War, Not Love

Digitally printed charmeuse silk series 'Touchingly Unfeeling' by Jonathan Zawada. Jonathan Zawada...

Petrolheads

“We need to understand that we have the same problems all over the world on different levels. We a...

안 민 정 Private Pictograph

Minjeong An (1981~) studied at Seoul National University of Technology. She lives and works in Seoul...

Antonio Rubino

Antonio Rubino: Pittore, illustratore e scrittore (Sanremo 1880 - Baiardo 1964). Legato all´art nou...

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena (Parma, 1696-Berlin, 1756) was painter, draftsman, event and theatre desig...

Supercars

Max Siedentopf grew up in Windhoek, Namibia and continued to live in Berlin and Los Angeles. He curr...

朱敬一 Standing Ink

Zhu Jingyi , born 1975 in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China, studied at Nanjing Normal University a...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

Hasui Kawase 川瀬 巴水

Hasui Kawase (1883 – 1957) , the best known proponents of the 新版画 New Prints movement, was ...

France 1661

Views of Renaissance France by Kasper Merian, 1655-1661

Spatial Objects

Spatial Objects is the result of Dan Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic p...

Upscaled

In the summer of 2010 the city of Eindhoven asked us to make something fun happen in the city centre...

The Slave Ship

But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever p...

UN_NATURAL BESTIARY

In this work Andrea Alessio collects, as in an ancient bestiary, a series of animal images. The fore...

FLOW by Lazerian

First impressions count for everything, a principle UK creative practice LAZERIAN responded to after...