Of Mirrors, Mirages and Reflections

Shirin Abedinirad’s stunning mirror installations defy viewers’ perception of reality, while also offering unexpected perspectives of the places into which they have been set.

Much could be said about mirrors and the different roles they have played in different cultures throughout the times.  From stealing souls, to showing the manifestation of one’s mind and soul, to doors leading to different worlds, they offer an endless field of speculation and challenge us to question our very essence and our inevitable frailty and transience.

Circles and Spirals

Sally Smith’s environmental art features delicate, ethereal sculptures illustrating the simple and fragile beauty of the natural world.

“Round, like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, never ending or beginning…” goes the song. This has set us thinking about the prevailing use of circles and spirals in art works included in what has been agreed to call Land Art, as is the case – among others – of Andy Goldsworthy, already featured in our blog. And, yet, we are suddenly struck by the fact that we find it quite natural. After all, Land Art deals with Nature and a mere glance around us reveals how far circles and spirals are basic elements in Nature.

Back to Nature

Andy Goldsworthy’s awesome and thought-provoking art creations nurture our respect for the environment, while also offering viewers extremely beautiful examples of imaginative Land Art sculptures celebrating Nature.

The nostalgia of winter often invites us to contemplate about Nature, its cycles and the mutual interaction between humans and what surrounds us. Present day environmental movements and concerns have motivated many artists to direct their creativity to what has already been acknowledged as Land Art, offering viewers unexpected and stunning art works often found in surprising sceneries, therefore emphasizing our awareness to the mentioned concerns, while also opening new perspectives on what can be regarded as Art.

Fascinating Indecision

“Calm and motion, dissolution and density, the contrastive play with gravity and overcoming it, with reality and simulation, (...) rising or falling?” These are some of the words used by Michael Stoeber to describe the absolutely mesmerizing gravity-defying sculptures by Cornelia Konrads.