FIE NORSKER

(Landscape With Rainbows, 2005)

(Hair Ghost in Landscape, 2005)

What does nature mean to me? Emptiness, infinity, mysterious stuff, an evolutionary past...

I feel that all these things are depicted in Norsker's paintings. It looks a bit like a mixture of a spruce forest and a small town disco...

More of her paintings, drawings, and ceramics right here.

Mark Kilner

(Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis), 2009)

(Numbskull, 2007)

I was a little surprised when I saw this skull in a gallery predominantly consisting of peaceful nature shots…

Look through his gallery and get surprised yourself.

Marcel Duchamp

(Bicycle Wheel, 1913)

The most fascinating mission behind Duchamp’s ready mades, was to blot out the line between art and reality.

(Reality can be just as artistic as art, and art can be just as real as reality – both things are elements in the same universe.)

I’m not sure if I’m supposed to like their visual appearance, but I think they somehow look really nice. I wish that I could get one of them as paperweight or something…

Xi Chen---

(Covalent Electron, 2007)

(Perfume, 2007)

I don't know much about Xi Chen, except that she is from China, lives in New York, is generation 1989, and she likes Jesus and Mary Chain. That's also what that I need to know.

Her pictures is a visual explosion of youth, love, and sex, depicted cinematic in a very feminine and sensual way - without it gets girly at all.

I think one of reasons, that it doesn’t get girly, is because of her fascination of rock 'n' roll. Her pictures are eventually incredible raw and many of her portraits are portrayed in painful positions or/and with depressed facial expressions.

Enjoy more of her pictures here.

John Dove and Molly White ---

What’s the difference between art and design?

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Over and over again has the above question been asked, and no one has seriously convinced me about a distinction. Personally I would just say that art is no more than a (useless) word people use to distinct high culture from low culture.

To state an example I guess most people would categorize John Dove and Molly White’s works as design, because they were mass produced on t-shirts and their fans were not seen as fans but seen as customers.