Artworks & exhibitions created in 2003

Doris Salcedo’s impressive chair installation – What you should know

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Who is Doris Salcedo? Doris Salcedo is a Colombian artist, born in 1958 in Bogota. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1980 at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University then traveled to New York for a Master of Fine Arts degree. Later she returned to her hometown of Bogota to teach at the Universidad Nacional …

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s rainbow explodes over New York

Performances / 2 minutes of reading

The Transient Rainbow by Cai Guo-Qiang was a minute-long show of color and light and it was held at the East River, just over the southern tip of Roosevelt Island. The event was held by the Museum of Modern Art, New York to commemorate MOMA’s temporary move to Queens. The Transient Rainbow was displayed …

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Banned: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s controversial dog video

Performances, Video Art / 3 minutes of reading

The video work titled Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other has only recently been removed from Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition series known as Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. The video series has been met with disapproval and disparagement not only by some art critics but animal lovers and welfare organizations as …

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Abbas Kowsari’s surprising photos of veiled female police squad in Iran

Photography / 1 minute of reading

Tehran’s first all-female police unit In 2003 the first females ever graduated from Iran’s police academy in the capital city Tehran, after undergoing training for three years. Spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei himself had to give permission to Tehran’s police chief Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf to create the first all-female police unit. Abbas Kowsari about his project …

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Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project – Everything you should know

Environmental Art, Installations / 4 minutes of reading

About the Weather Project Olafur Eliasson has created a gigantic installation which in 2003 took overall space in Tate Modern, London. The artwork, a sun rising out of a mist, was bound to keep any visitor in awe. In this project named The Weather Project, the Scandinavian artist recreated the sun and the sky to …

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Kaarina Kaikkonen – These are some of her best installations

Environmental Art, Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Kaarina Kaikkonen’s biography Kaarina Kaikkonen is one of Finland’s most important artists. She is best known for her inventive use of second-hand clothing pieces (mostly jackets & shirts) and molded craft paper to transform public places like churches, streets and plazas into memorable jacket installations. The environment is incorporated into these installations in some way, …

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Wim Delvoye’s profane messages hammered into rocks in stunning scale

Installations / 1 minute of reading

With the advancement of technology, delivering messages has never been this easy. All we do is create emails, text messages and even Twitter posts, and it’s just a click away! Except for the Belgian artist who puts great effort in delivering such message, Wim Delvoye. About Wim Delvoye’s mountain carvings Delvoye created iconic works …

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Elmgreen & Dragset’s Short-Cut looks like an accident scene

Installations / 7 minutes of reading

Berlin-based artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset have carved their career out of fixation with objects and their settings and what happens when those particular objects are recontextualized in the name of art. In this instance, the duo was commissioned by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi to create a large-scale installation for Milan’s quintessential shopping mall, Galleria …

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Photographer Weng Fen’s girls stare into China’s future

Photography / 5 minutes of reading

Who is photographer Weng Fen? Born in 1961, Weng Fen is a Chinese photographer and an active contemporary artist since the late 1990s. He is famous for creating works related to nature, humans, and urbanization. The artist is a native of the Hainan province and studied at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated …

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Artworks & exhibitions created in 2003

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