Earthquake-inspired art

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How to make art out of foam? Kohei Nawa shows you

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

For years, cosmologists and astronomers have hypothesized about the presence of another planet that is claimed to boast a bigger mass than Earth; as big as ten times. This planet is said to be situated in the outermost regions of the solar system and could even potentially be inhabited by unknown celestial beings. Starting in […]

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At age 95, Fumiko Hori created this mural for the Fukushima Airport

Ceramics, Murals / 4 minutes of reading

Fumiko Hori supervised the installation of the mural herself, quite an impressive feat for a woman aged 95 at the time. The giant relief wall was based on Hori’s original painting at the CREARE Atami-Yugawara Studio. The relief carving at the airport helps to create an illusion of depth on an otherwise shallow surface. The

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Katsuhiro Otomo - Kinka Doji Riding the Waves Accompanied by Fujin and Raijin, 2015, ceramic relief, 8.7 x 2.8 meter, installation view, Sendai Airport, Japan feat

Katsuhiro Otomo’s mural at the Sendai Airport – Riding the Waves

Ceramics / 4 minutes of reading

Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of Akira, the 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film, is one of the most well-known manga artists, animators, screenwriters, and film directors in the world. Though he is best known for his manga series and film adaptations, Otomo crossed over into the sculpture world when he was asked to design a

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Alberto Burri - Cretto di Burri (crack of Burri), 1984–2015, concrete, 1.50 x 350 x 280 m (4.9 x 1,150 x 920 ft), Gibellina, Sicily, Italy feat

The magnificent Cretto di Burri – 30 years in the making

Sculptures / 10 minutes of reading

Also known as Cretto di Gibellina (crack of Gibellina) or The Great Cretto, the Cretto di Burri alias crack of Burri is a landscape artwork by Italian visual artist, painter, sculptor, and physician Alberto Burri. He started to work on it in 1984 and left it unfinished in 1989 because of a lack of funds.

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What is Ai Weiwei’s Straight about?

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

90 tons of steel reinforcing bars that were destroyed and mangled in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake were essential components of the installation titled Straight by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The 150 rods of steel rebar used were meticulously straightened by hand after being recovered from the schools that had collapsed as a result of the

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Yoshitomo Nara’s paintings & drawings: Cute or dark and frightening?

Ceramics, Paintings / 5 minutes of reading

Yoshitomo Nara was born in Hirosaki, Japan, in 1959 and is a Japanese artist whose work has been exhibited around the world. He lives and works in Tokyo, and Japanese popular culture plays an influential role in his world. Nara studied at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, receiving his B.F.A. (1985)

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Ai Weiwei: The Sichuan earthquake & 9000 children’s backpacks

Installations / 12 minutes of reading

Ai Weiwei is unmistakably one of the most influential and equally controversial Chinese artists in recent history. He became famous worldwide in 2009 thanks to his highly celebrated art project, Remembering, an art piece he created to honor over 80,000 Chinese, most of whom were school children who perished in the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

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