Thursday 23 July 2009

Shiraz Bayjoo...maps, icons and flags

Shiraz Bayjoo’s works explore a common ground that lies between the autonomy in art through abstraction, and the emotive icons of fracturing cultural and religious identities. For more visit www.shirazbayjoo.com.

Gulf 2













Globe 1

















Wednesday 8 July 2009

Mark Bradford...mapping the urban space

From an areial perspective Mark Bradford captures the view of urban cities using all types of paper (found in the city) to create large scale collages.





Kryptonite












The Flies








http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bradford/index.html

We create maps to give meaning...Joao Machado

Joao Machado explores maps as a medium like paint, to create a figure a face, a nude...a couple.
See more of his work at www. joao-machado.com.













Nude, 2006









Alfie, 2008












African Dance, 2006

Monday 6 July 2009

Peter Dykuis...maps, politics, and more

Peter Dykhuis integrated maps explore ideas engaging with politics, ethics, and questions ideas about war and human behaviour.


You are here (detail), 2005












State Dinner (detail), 2005

























More work at www.dykhuis.ca

Friday 3 July 2009

Daniel Medina...New Social Maps

Daniel Medina questions how we intrepret the geopolitical world of today and what this means in relation to the spaces where worlds, countries, nations intersect or collide.


Nuevos Mapas Sociales, 2009














7th Gwangju Biennale, 2008













Interrogatin Systems, 2008