27 Jun 00:00:22  |  ThisIsColossal

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As a Tribute, Vhils Carves Ten Masked Healthcare Workers into a Hospital Wall in Porto

   26 Jun 00:00:03  |  ThisIsColossal

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Browse Hundreds of Artist?s Zines, Prints, and Other Works at the Virtual Brooklyn Art Book Fair This Weekend

   26 Jun 00:00:03  |  ThisIsColossal

The Brooklyn Art Book Fair has moved its 2020 market online, extending the opportunity to pore through the offerings from artists and independent publishers to those who don’t reside in New York City. This year’s fair boasts more than 400 publications presented by 45 vendors, like The Free Black Woman’s Library, Printed Matter, and Paradise Systems. Founded in 2017 to provide smaller presses and artists the opportunity to showcase their work without a financial barrier, this is the fourth iteration of the annual event organized by Endless Editions. More

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Floating Black Balloons Explore Contradictions in Artist Tadao Cern?s Installations

   25 Jun 00:00:10  |  ThisIsColossal

Artist Tadao Cern often considers dualities and contradictions?lightness and heaviness, minimal and intricate, inanimate and lively. He channels these relational tensions into “BB,” installations featuring black balloons that float in parallel planes and incline in rows. “These boundaries are a result of our own mental rule-making, and at the end, we surround ourselves with many limitations,” the artist shared with Colossal. “(The) notion of contradictions is nothing more but a man-made concept…A feeling of nothingness and absence of all the ideas became the objective for me.”
Based in Lithuania, Cern has brought the ephemeral project to Tokyo, Beijing, New York, Paris, Venice, and Cologne in recent years. More

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This Incredibly Detailed Sino-Tibetan Book Was Printed More Than 40 Years Before the Gutenberg Bible

   25 Jun 00:00:10  |  ThisIsColossal

An ancient-book collector is offering a rare glimpse into a Sino-Tibetan book that’s believed to have been printed as early as 1410 in Beijing. A self-described bibliophile known as Incunabula, the collector shared a thread containing dozens of images showing inside spreads full of red ink drawings and Ranjana script, a writing system developed in the 11th century. The Gutenberg Bible, which was printed with movable metal type, dates back to 1454, nearly 45 years after this woodblock-produced text. More

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2,292 Plants Fill the Audience in Opening Performance at Barcelona?s Gran Teatre del Liceu

   24 Jun 00:00:17  |  ThisIsColossal

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Solemn Faces Emerge from Hazy Portraits by Artist GyoBeom An

   24 Jun 00:00:17  |  ThisIsColossal

Rendered in thick pencil, a new series of portraits by Seoul-based artist GyoBeom An feature models’ faces obscured in a monochromatic haze. While the distinct characteristics remain, a smudged overlay casts each subject in a blur. An tells Colossal that he begins with a figurative drawing that’s composed and deconstructed over and over. No matter the medium?the artist works in pencil, pen, and acrylic paint?he strives to reflect the “conflicts and emotions aroused from distinct social roles…that ranges from models and cartoon characters to gods.” For more of An’s considerations of the self and societal dynamics, head to Behance. More

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An Aerial Timelapse Captures One Million Begonias as They?re Woven Into an Ephemeral Tapestry

   23 Jun 00:00:05  |  ThisIsColossal

Every other August, dozens of volunteers gather near the Grand Place in Brussels to compose a 19,000-square-foot, floral rug that blankets the central square. The massive installation is woven with one million begonias?a hearty flower that Belgium is the largest producer of worldwide?that last just four days before wilting.
Although the 2020 edition of the “Flower Carpet” event has been postponed, Berlin-based Joerg Daiber, of Spoon Film, captured the 2018 iteration in a short timelapse that shows how the vibrant tapestry is fabricated. More

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A Transfixing Animation Utilizes the Optical Illusions of Pareidolia to Parallel Two Narratives About Birth

   23 Jun 00:00:06  |  ThisIsColossal

Created by London-based animator and artist Vier Nev, “A Mind Sang” plunges into an entrancing journey of life’s stages. The short film is centered on themes of transformation as it hypnotically shifts perspectives scene-by-scene. “It began with twenty drawings I had created about different cultural representations of birth and identity. I find that in my drawings I often come back to the same characters: queer couples, mothers, and, for some inexplicable reason, cats,” Nev said in a Vimeo interview. More

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