The extravagant afrofuturistic glasses of Cyrus Kabiru

The extravagant afrofuturistic glasses of Cyrus Kabiru

Fontastiko · 6 years ago · Art

Class of 1984, Cyrus Kabiru is a Kenyan self-taught artist author of C-Stunner, extravagant glasses made by assembling waste materials recovered in the streets of Nairobi, his hometown.

“Optical Sculptures” by afro-futuristic extraction that tell the themes of the African Diaspora through the lens of technoculture, a term used to identify works and products incorporating itself technology, culture and politics.

Works that you can also admire in Africa Rising, a book that documents the multi-faceted richness of Africa today through fashion, design and lifestyle.

An opportunity to look closely at one of the African artists of the moment.

Give him an eye.

Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al
Gli stravaganti occhiali afrofuturistici di Cyrus Kabiru | Collater.al

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Short video for Breakfast – Yopo, motion poetry

Short video for Breakfast – Yopo, motion poetry

Giulia Pacciardi · 6 years ago · Art

Children and monsters.
The most terrifying combination of the world.
Under the bed, in the closet, behind the curtains and in the nightmares.

But what happened if a child was not afraid of monsters and she would able to tell their story?
Yopo is poetry in motion.
It ‘a short video produced by Method Studio that gives birth to Monster a poem by Dorothea Lasky, told by a small voice that rises and falls below the pace of events.

Short video for Breakfast – Yopo, poesia in movimento | Collater.al

Short video for Breakfast – Yopo, poesia in movimento | Collater.al

 

‘This is a world where there are monsters
There are monsters everywhere, racoons and skunks
There are possums outside, there are monsters in my bed.
There is one monster. He is my little one.
I talk to my little monster.
I give my little monster some bacon but that does not satisfy him.
I tell him, ssh ssh, don’t growl little monster!
And he growls, oh boy does he growl!
And he wants something from me,
He wants my soul.
And finally giving in, I give him my gleaming soul
And as he eats my gleaming soul, I am one with him
And stare out his eyepits and I see nothing but white
And then I see nothing but fog and the white I had seen before was nothing but fog
And there is nothing but fog out the eyes of monsters.’

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Layerscapes, the GORE-TEX installation at Fuorisalone 2017

Layerscapes, the GORE-TEX installation at Fuorisalone 2017

Collateral Crew · 6 years ago · Art

Gore Fabrics presented at Fuorisalone 2017 its expansion strategy in the lifestyle sector, its goal is to promote his best technologies to urban and lifestyle international brand as Norse Projects, Yeezy, Loewe and adidas Originals that has always united style and designer to performance and functionality.

Gore Fabrics, that for the fourth consecutive year takes part in the Fuorisalone, has unveiled its strategy during a roundtable, which was attended by Nils Juhl, Key Account Manager for Gore Fabrics, Tobia Sloth and Mikkel Grønnebæk Norse Projects and through LAYERSCAPES, a multisensory and interactive installation dedicated to the increasingly close relationship between fashion and performance.

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Extrapolate, outside the lines

Extrapolate, outside the lines

Giulia Pacciardi · 6 years ago · Art

What happens if a line drawn on a sheet of paper comes out from the margins?
In the normal course nothing.
But in a video?

Johan Rijpma, visual artist based in Utrecht, in his short animated video Extrapolate takes a line, pulls fast and let everything moves alone.
Once past the boundaries of the grid, the starting point, the process is diffused and reflected on everything in its path, beyond all limits, beyond any deformation, as well as any element that is sucked.

A fun and unexpected video that, at the end, explains why the initial hesitancy to come out from the margins.

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Traveling Landscapes, mini ecosystems in vintage suitcases

Traveling Landscapes, mini ecosystems in vintage suitcases

Fontastiko · 6 years ago · Art

The love of nature, the preservation of our existence.
This is what the Kathleen Vance works talk about.
She is an American sculptor and the author of Traveling Landscapes: mini ecosystems kept in trunks and old leather suitcases.

An idea that has its roots in the memories of the artist, helpless spectator of the change over the years that has transformed the colorful landscapes of Maryland in gray and unifying urban spaces.

A disturbing change that has influenced her entire artistic career, now oriented to the protection and preservation not only of environments and native landscapes but of all those places where progress paves the way to civilization through sweltering concrete casting.

Site-specific works whose materials, extracted from their natural environment, are re-imagined in the form of installation in an experience that aims to raise our awareness towards nature, exorcising the idea that the only way to continue enjoy them is to shut it up in narrow places away from us.

Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al
Traveling Landscapes, ecosistemi in miniatura all'interno di valigie vintage | Collater.al

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