venerdì 30 settembre 2011

OLEG DOU ART

Oleg Dou è uno dei più interessanti fotografi in circolazione.  Nonostante la sua giovane età (nato a Mosca nel 1983) il fotografo russo si è subito imposto alla ribalta internazionale grazie al suo stile innovativo ed originale. Il suo percorso artistico inizia come designer, solo nel 2005 passa alla fotografia.
Ispirato dalla cultura fashion e surrealista, Dou ama shockare la gente creando opere attraverso la combinazione di realtà e artifizio, mescolando sapientemente arte e design. Il fotografo russo  ritocca digitalmente il viso delle persone, i suoi ritratti tra essere umano e androide dal viso di porcellana, riscoprono la bellezza artistica della sperimentazione avanguardistica. Ritratti bianchi come il gesso, immobili, dolci e spettrali nello stesso momento. Visi di bambole umane modificate, placide monache con una tipica bellezza straniera, inquietanti bambini dallo sguardo quasi alieno, volti color latte che contrastano con sporadici elementi colorati che muovono la staticità di primissimi piani. Oleg Duryagin è stato lanciato al grande pubblico da Elegy Magazine, e nel 2007 ha ottenuto il primo premio nell’International Color Awards e nell’International Photography Awards (replicando la vittoria anche nel 2008). Le forme sono levigate, talvolta cancellate, rese con estrema precisione, in un’ottica di umana post-identità; al centro occhi vitrei scrutano l’infinito, in silenzio. L’arte diventa strumento di riflessione sulla contrapposizione tra il vivente e l’inerte, l’attraente e l’inquietante, il bello ed il brutto. Fonte

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PNEUMATICI RICICLATI BY YONG HO JI

A number of new pieces by Korean sculptor Yong Ho Ji who creates these elaborately layered and textured sculptures using shreds of recycled automobile tires. (via this isn’t happiness)

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giovedì 29 settembre 2011

SCENES FROM GUANTÁNAMO BAY

During a military judicial hearing on Monday in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other detainees charged with coordinating the attacks of September 11th told Judge Col. Stephen Henley that they wished to stop filing legal motions and to confess in full. However, some of the detainees hedged their statement - suggesting they might change their minds if they could not be assured of execution. By January, some of the nearly 250 men at Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility will have been locked up for seven years. Collected here are photos of the multiple detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay - all photographs either reviewed by or released by the U.S. Military.

image A detainee washes his hands in Camp 6 high-security detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. By January, some of the men will have been locked up on this U.S. military base in Cuba for seven years. President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to close the detention center at Guantánamo and is weighing what to do with the roughly 250 foreigners who are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

image Razor wire lines a fence in the Camp 4 detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

image A detainee walks past a cell block in Camp 4 medium-security detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

image An image shows part of the closed "Camp X-Ray" overgrown with vegetation at US Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, December 9, 2008. The camp was in operation from January 2002 to April 2002. Some 300 prisoners were housed there before it closed. (REUTERS/Mandel Ngan/Pool (CUBA)
 image This picture taken on July 23, 2008 shows an exercise area of the detention center at Guantánamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba. (Randall Mikkelsen/AFP/Getty Images)

image The sun rises over Camp Delta detention compound at Guantánamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba on June 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsleyl, File)

image The cell of a non-compliant detainee at Camp Delta, Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Photo taken in April, 2006. (U.S. Army Sgt. Sara Wood)

image In this Oct. 9, 2007 file photo, a Guantánamo guard watches over detainees, not pictured, in the exercise area at Camp 5 maximum-security facility at Guantánamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

image A "Camp Justice" sign is seen near high-security courtroom which will hold the pre-trial sessions for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants on charges related to the 9/11 attacks at Camp Justice, on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan,Pool)

image All detainees at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are given a copy of the Koran. Surgical masks are provided to the detainees so they can keep the Koran off the floor and prevent guards from touching it. Photo taken in April, 2006. (U.S. Army Sgt. Sara Wood)

image A detainee kicks a soccer ball around the central recreation yard at Camp 4, Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, June 10, 2008, during his daily outdoor recreation time. Detainees in Camp 4 get up to 12 hours of daily of outdoor recreation, including two hours in a central recreation yard. (U.S. Army 1st Lt. Sarah Cleveland)

image The cell block on a typical ward in Camp Delta, Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Photo taken in April, 2006. (U.S. Army Sgt. Sara Wood)

image A Guantánamo detainee sleeps in his cell in the Camp 5 detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

image Joint Task Force Troopers man an entranceway into Camp Delta as seen during dawn on Sept. 24, 2007. (JTF Guantánamo photo by Army Sgt. Joseph Scozzari)

image Waves crash upon the Guantánamo Bay coastline as Tropical Storm Noel ran through the Caribbean Oct. 31, 2007. Noel produced heavy rain and gusting winds in the first heavy storm to hit Guantanmo since Hurricane Dean in early August. (JTF Guantánamo photo by Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class William Weinert)

image Guards patrol inside Joint Task Force Guantánamo's Camp Six, Aug. 25, 2008. Camp Six is a maximum security facility which is modeled after a stateside federal prison. (JTF Guantánamo photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Treadwell)

image Army Col. Lawrence Morris, chief prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions, addresses media personnel during a press conference following the arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 co-conspirators in McCalla Hangar here June 5, 2008. (JTF Guantánamo photo by Navy Petty Officer 2nd Nat Moger)

image A detainee rubs his eyes after morning prayers in Camp 4 medium-security detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

image A U.S. flag hangs in the military courtroom used for trying detainees accused of war crimes on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

image A Guantánamo detainee peers through a steel grate as guards walk nearby in the Camp 5 detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

image Detainees pray before dawn in the Camp 4 detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

image A traditional Muslim prayer rug sits folded next to slippers and flip flops, which are among the basic items provided to detainees, on a cot in Camp 4 medium-security detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

image A watch tower at the detention center, in Guantánamo Bay US Naval Base, in Cuba, seen on July 23, 2008. (Randall Mikkelsen/AFP/Getty Images)

image A detainee peers through a plastic window in Camp Iguana detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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