Art & temples

Mariko Mori’s Dream temple – Based on a 1,400-year-old building

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

For any artist, the greatest challenge must be the search for images that do not feature in their unique personal situations but which humans can relate to. For the most part, something that quickly comes to mind when viewing artwork is beauty, love, death, birth or sex. The works of Mariko Mori have this …

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

Fan Ho biography 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 …

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Why did Zhang Kechun travel along the Yellow River?

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

About the Yangtze, China’s Yellow River The Yangtze River, Asia’s longest river, is the main subject of The Yellow River, a series of phot...

Fabrice Fouillet’s photos of world’s largest statues

Sculptures, Statues / 4 minutes of reading

Fabrice Fouillet’s Colosses Through several centuries, there have been different statues erected around the world. These statues vary in size and what they represent. Photographer Fabrice Fouillet embarked on a tour to study and take photographs of the biggest and most imposing statues in the world; A project he named Colosses. The idea behind the …

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Takahiro Iwasaki’s intricate miniatures of ancient Japanese temples

Architecture, Sculptures, Temple architecture / 2 minutes of reading

Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki’s sculpture the Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss) is a sophisticated miniature recreation of Phoenix Hall, which is part of Japan’s Byodo-in Temple complex. Embodying many elements of tradition and modernity, the piece imitates the reflection of the traditional mirror pond as a physical object, suspended from the ceiling, performing to the …

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