Art in remote places

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 …

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Why should you visit the Teshima Art Museum?

Architecture, Installations, Japanese architecture, Sculptures, Sound installations / 7 minutes of reading

Why does the Teshima Art Museum that only hosts a single piece of work by one artist attract art lovers from all over the world? One of the main reasons is perhaps that this clever construction allows the audience a chance to not only look at the art. It lets you experience the buildings …

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Not Vital’s remote house in Patagonia, Chile

Architecture / 3 minutes of reading

Who is Not Vital? Not Vital is no stranger to success. Throughout his long and illustrious career, he has become synonymous with works that fuse sculpture and architecture to create an almost spiritual experience for his audiences. Vital’s works echo a powerful conflict and link between our understanding of traditional architecture and sculpture, which allows …

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Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty – Everything you need to know

Environmental Art, Installations / 10 minutes of reading

Spiral Jetty is one of the most well-known earthwork sculptures, as well as the most famous and influential work by sculptor Robert Smithson. Shortly after the Spiral Jetty was constructed in 1970, it faced various challenges. People have wanted to destroy the project and put the land on which it lies into …

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Danila Tkachenko: How hermits live in the Russian wilderness

Documentary photography, Photography / 6 minutes of reading

Who is Danila Tkachenko Danila Tkachenko (b. 1989) is a Russian visual artist, specializing in the field of documentary photography. He is known for winning the World Press Photo prize for his series Escape. Tkachenko gained a degree in documentary photography from the notable Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. Escape Escape is a series …

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Christophe Jacrot in Norilsk, Russia’s most polluted city

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

Christophe Jacrot is a captivating French photographer. Most of his artworks attract acclaim from a large audience. One such piece is his Norilsk series. If you’re unaware, Norilsk is a Russian city. However, the series isn’t about the whole city or some abstract theme. The image captures the moment the city is covered in …

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Nadav Kander’s visit to eerie Chernobyl

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria, and many other museums host artworks from Nadav Kander. The renowned portraiture and landscape photographer has a portfolio of shots covering historical events and the world’s top personalities. Some top-ranking individuals in his catalog include Kissinger, Obama, Blair, and Rapper Tinie Tempah. In landscaping photography, the Yangtze …

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Ragnar Axelsson: These might be the last days of the Arctic

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

Who is Ragnar Axelsson? Ragnar Axelsson is an Icelandic born photojournalist who has been a champion for preventive measures against global warming. Born in 1958 in Iceland, RAX, as he is commonly known, has been a vocal person about the effects that rapid climatic change has had on the Arctic region. Growing up passionate about …

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The story behind Walter de Maria’s impressive Lightning field

Installations, Light Installations / 4 minutes of reading

The Lightning Field created by sculptor Walter De Maria is today celebrated as one of the 20th century’s most noteworthy installations of land art. As one of the seminal artists and the founding fathers of land art, Walter De Maria completely revolutionized how audiences perceived art, especially during the 1960s, when the land art …

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Lu Guang & pollution: Chinese regime doesn’t want you to see this

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Lu Guang is an award-winning Chinese photojournalist and has done a lot of documentary projects highlighting social, economic and environmental issues and injustices. This renowned photojournalist’s exposures on pollution and environmental destruction have long been underreported in China due to the government’s penchant to mete out punishment to such activists. Due to his work …

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John Feely’s Outsider – Harsh Mongolian landscapes

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

Photographer John Feely embarked on a trip to discover the otherworldly landscapes of Western Mongolia and came back with fascinating works. The emerging Australian photographer was based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for the duration of his project and his allegorical approach to photography has helped him to quickly create a name for himself as a …

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Nadav Kander in Kurchatov – This city has never appeared on any official maps

Photography / 10 minutes of reading

If it were possible to take a picture of the entire earth’s surface, the mosaic of human co-existence would be a sight to behold. Some areas are military grounds, mining cities or tourist destinations, while others are education hubs, just to mention a few. It is hard to appreciate that in the midst of …

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Andy Goldsworthy – Touching North, 1989, North Pole feat

Andy Goldsworthy’s four massive ice sculptures at the North Pole

Environmental Art, Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Andy Goldsworthy’s installed sculptures at the North Pole In 1989, Andy Goldsworthy created four massive snow rings at one the most remote place on Planet Earth, the North Pole. These ephemeral sculptures marked the position of the North Pole and were built around it. Through any of the four sculptures, the direction will always be …

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Huang Qingjun’s intimate portraits of Chinese families – Family Stuff

Photography / 4 minutes of reading

Usually, life is viewed from the perspective of people as they appear in public. It is not unusual to come across a rich-looking individu...

Elmgreen & Dragset created Marfa’s own Prada store

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Prada Marfa is a permanent installation work of two Scandinavian artists Elmgreen & Dragset. The freestanding building resembles a Prada storefront and was launched on October 1, 2005, as a “pop architectural land art project”. Can you go inside Prada Marfa? From a distance, the artwork appears to be a large minimalist …

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