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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...

NuSA

Flags are symbols of identification. Designed at the time of the formation of a country, they transp...

serpentine 2017

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

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

We Ar

University of Sunderland MA Glass and Ceramics Show

Attraction - Repulsion

An experiment in typographic assemblage. An algorithm creates individual entities (shown as black do...

Neverending Graphics

Graphics and animations are generated on the fly, resulting in perpetual variations. Move your mouse...

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...

Living Ink

Living Ink is a creative tool for the users of penccil. With Living Ink, users can create graphics i...

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...

The algorithm of fashion

Each of these scarf patterns is unique. The production workflow involves an algorithm which creates ...

The art of improvising art

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

Just Before Paradise

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

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...

Pillars

Consisting of connected bricks whose relative position can be altered by changing underlying paramet...

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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Swarm fabrication: Kokkugia / Roland Snooks

We have a fascination with the impact of new technologies on architecture and construction. We are f...

Spatial Clusters

"Refined nature consists of evolved technology such as robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic...

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...

Obsolete Distinction

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

“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

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...

DADAMAINO

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

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet

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

Pierre Besson

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

101 x 101

AFTER STUDYING GRAPHIC AND PRODUCT DESIGN AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY FOR ART AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE IN GE...

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...

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...

Spatial Objects

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

picking figs in the ˚̥̞̞̽̽ͯ garden while my world eats Itself

picking figs in the ˚̥̞̞̽̽ͯ garden while my world eats Itself is a curatorial poetry collabor...

FLOW by Lazerian

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

Forward Retreat

Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...

Faces of the 17th century

17th century Dutch portraits from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Absalon: Cellules

Cellules d'habitation: 6 residential modules of 9 square metres, designed to fit in 6 major cities (...

Pavel Tchelitchew: Spiral head

Pavel Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (1898 - 1957) was a surrealist ...

BRANCHES & TREES

Line structures from branches and trees against the sky or as a reflection

Zigzag Castle

Felice Varini was born 1952 in Locarno. He lives in Paris.

The Great Travelling Art Exhibition

Drawings created on the rear shutters of white haulage trucks are done by scribing into the layer of...

Dismaland

Open until September 27 2015 in Weston super Mare. With art by Andreas Hykade, Amir Schiby, Ammar An...

Jean Arp: Randomness

Randomness was a key part of Jean Arp’s work right from the creation of the first dadaist group in...

Europa ‒ Where it has been & Where it is at

What image represents Europe? Is it the fall of the Berlin Wall, universal human rights, the Europea...

Glasskogen

A proposition for an art installation. Contemplating the difference between being sheltered and bein...

Ben Weiner: Post-Psychedelic Dreams

Ben Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York.

Cladding

Parametric design variations for a concrete facade cladding system manufactured by 3D printing. (C) ...

Fractal facades

Architectural detail studies generated by fractal algorithms.

Event Horizon

Sci-Fi Environments generated by fractal algorithms. Mario Gagliardi Design 2015.