Light & shadow in art

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Get lost in Antony Gormley’s Mist Room – Blind Light

The Mist Room, which premiered on October 26 and lasted all through to December 1, 2007, was a major exhibition by artist Antony Gormley. The Mist Room became a critically acclaimed piece of work, managing to pull over 200,000 visitors. The installation, which was first hosted by the Hayward Gallery, London, was so successful that […]

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Anthony McCall & 10 of his best solid light works

Anthony McCall is a pioneering artist in ‘solid light’ installations. His works have been exhibited worldwide and always mesmerizing with the use of natural elements, light, fire and space to create art. Biography McCall was born in England in 1946. He studied graphic design and photography at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in Kent

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Shirin Neshat’s Rapture – Veiled women in traditional Islamic attire

Performances, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Rapture is a projection of black and white video where Iranian artist Shirin Neshat gives a narrative that concerns the differences between Muslim women and men. Neshat has used the video projection to explore the cultural and social role of women in the Islamic World and shot the work in Morocco with a cast that

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Fan Ho’s street photography: How Hong Kong looked like 60 years ago

Photography, Street photography / 11 minutes of reading

Born in Shanghai in 1931 but moved to Hong Kong early in his life, Fan Ho was a renowned actor, film director, and photographer who has won numerous awards (280 awards, empirically speaking) for his work since 1956. In his teens, he began to photograph the drama of city life, ranging from the teeming markets

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Hiroshi Sugimoto’s fascinating & tranquil Seascapes

Photography / 4 minutes of reading

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a photographer who was born in Japan in 1948 and now divides his time between Tokyo and New York City. Both cities influence the works of Sugimoto, who began dabbling in photography in high school. Still, he was retrained as an artist in California in 1974, where he received his BFA in

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