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The Artling's Third Drop of our NFT Collection

The Artling is pleased to announce the third drop of our curated NFT collection! We have selected another series of works by eight artists whose NFT works range from still images to videos and are inspired by their paintings and various mixed media works. Scroll down to check out our third drop of our NFT collection!   Sumali Piyatissa

June 22, 2022

Masterpieces of Modern Art: The Picasso Century at NGV International, Melbourne

From 10 June - 9 Oct 2022, the world-premiere Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, The Picasso Century, will be on at NGV International in Melbourne. This exhibition charts the extraordinary career of Pablo Picasso in dialogue with the many artists, poets, and intellectuals with whom he intercepted and interacted throughout the 20th century. These artists include Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Françoise Gilot, Valentine Hugo, Marie Laurencin, Dora Maar, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Dorothea Tannin, and Gertrude Stein. 

June 15, 2022

The First Physical VOTE Exhibition: David Shrigley vs Joan Cornellà

For the first time ever from 12 - 20 June 2022, Singapore bears witness to a colossal clash of titans within the art world - David Shrigley and Joan Cornellà. Across the span of over a year, the dark-humour throwdown between British artist, David Shrigley, and Spanish satirist, Joan Cornellà, has transpired as the latest ground-breaking racket entitled VOTE. This bilateral immersion of artistic input resulted in a set consisting of 8 silkscreen prints, which embody the satirical and cynical sense of dark humour shared by both artists. In addition, never-before-seen digital artworks born out of their collaboration will pose as a revelation unique to Void Deck. This groundbreaking event is hosted by Void Deck through the foundational initiative of the eCommerce platform, DDT Store. 

June 14, 2022

The Artling's Latest NFT Artworks

The Artling is pleased to announce the second drop of our curated NFT collection. Following our inaugural launch, we have selected a series of works by eight artists whose NFT works range from still images to videos. Scroll down to check out our latest NFT artworks!   Alvin Mak

June 08, 2022

"Rail Car": Bob Dylan's First Monumental Sculpture in France

This month, Nobel Prize-winning songwriter, musician, and artist Bob Dylan has unveiled his first monumental sculpture "Rail Car" - a site-specific ironwork sculpture installed at the Château La Coste in Provence, France. The permanent sculpture is an immersive ironwork freight car installation set on train tracks, engaging prominent motifs in Dylan’s art and drawing upon aspects of Dylan's past. As Dylan describes in his Chronicles: Volume One, "I’d seen and heard trains from my earliest childhood days and the sight and sound of them always made me feel secure. The big boxcars, the iron ore cars, freight cars, passenger trains, Pullman cars. There was no place you could go in my hometown without at least some part of the day having to stop at intersections and wait for the long trains to pass".

May 12, 2022

"Watching" by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Anna Louise Richardson at West Space Gallery

"Watching" is an upcoming collaborative exhibition by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Anna Louise Richardson, which will run from 14 May - 26 June 2022 at West Space Gallery, Collingwood Yards. The works in this exhibition convey feelings of being approached, watched, or singled out by wild or domestic animals. They also capture the emotive resonance of these moments, reflecting ideas of death, fear and preternatural communication with the natural world. Raising a young family in a rural environment, the exhibition builds on the artists’ shared experiences to articulate personal stories that voice their relationships with other living creatures. "Watching" embraces both the magic and fantasy of childhood and the pragmatism of living in close proximity to nature, renewing mythologies about the cyclical processes of life. 

May 10, 2022

Low Yield Fruit by Nathan Beard at swea pea Gallery

On view from 26 March - 7 May 2022 at the swea pea Gallery, Low Yield Fruit is Nathan's new body of sculptural work that was inspired by the complex personal, cultural, and colonial histories of his Australian-Thai heritage. He draws from his research on the trade and export of tropical fruits between Thailand and Australia.  The works exhibited comprise detailed silicone casts of tropical fruits exported from Thailand to Australia, such as durians, mangos, mangosteens and jackfruits, and limes which were harvested from the artist’s late mother’s garden. These fleshy fruits are spiked precariously on top of rigid steel frames and bronze forms enlarged from scanned details of hands and heads from Buddhist shrine statues, accented with shimmering resin pools of juices. These totem-like forms are personal artefacts that are manifestations of his cultural memory which are imbued with layers of symbolic meaning. 

May 06, 2022

An Artling Online Exclusive: eL Seed

The Artling is pleased to announce our latest online exclusive with French-Tunisian artist eL Seed.  eL Seed is a contemporary artist whose practise crosses the disciplines of painting and sculpture. He draws from the wisdom of writers, poets, and philosophers from around the world to convey messages of peace and commonalities of human existence. He uses his art as an echo of the stories of the communities that he meets around the world and aims to amplify their voices.  His work has been shown in exhibitions and in public places all over the world, including the facade of “L'Institut du monde Arabe” in Paris, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the  DMZ between North and South Korea, the slums of Cape Town, and the heart of Cairo's garbage collectors neighbourhood. In 2021, eL Seed was selected by the World Economic Forums as one of the Young Global Leaders for his vision and influence to drive positive change in the world.

April 29, 2022

A Multisensory Experience: "The Centre" by Jason Bruges Studio

"The Centre" is Jason Bruges Studio's latest installation at the Museum of the Future in Dubai. The multisensory installation is an inhabitable media artwork that combines water, light, vibration, and sound to reawaken the senses.  In a world of touchscreens, the metaverse, and augmented reality, there is a need to reconnect with our bodies and with each other. As an antidote to our digitally saturated reality, the installation offers an immediate, visceral experience inspired by historic rituals. Since the dawn of time, humans have sought unique ways to physically heal and spiritually recentre. Across the globe, socio-cultural practices have been constructed in pursuit of healing and spirituality. From Victorian spa therapies to Tibetan gong baths, these rituals use water and vibration in hopes of achieving restorative purposes. Historically, people gathered by water for survival and habitually still do. In the present day, you might often see office workers gathering by water fountains with their sandwiches at lunchtime In city centres.

March 25, 2022

"Design the world you want" at Melbourne Design Week 2022

Melbourne Design Week (MDW) is back and celebrating design in their annual 11-day programme filled with talks, tours, exhibitions, launches, installations, and workshops across Australia's coastal capital. Returning with their sixth edition, the event champions design by promoting its broad array of disciplines ranging from communication design, industrial design and architecture to interior design, landscape architecture, urban design, craft and functional art. The uniting feature of these fields is a focus on experimentation, innovation, and ideas that enrich the world.  MDW is a platform for designers, educators, enthusiasts, thinkers and businesses to come together to share ideas, show and sell new work, and consider how design can be used as a force for good in an increasingly complex and precarious world. The curation of MDW is led by the NGV Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture team (Ewan McEoin, Simone LeAmon and Myf Doughty alongside Timothy Moore, Director of Sibling Architecture).  From 17 to 27 March 2022, the dynamic programme will transform Melbourne and parts of regional Victoria with a series of exhibitions, talks, films, tours and workshops, including the biennial Australian Furniture Design Award, the launch of the Melbourne Design Fair. This year MDW continues to respond to the theme "Design the world you want", celebrating the diverse ways design can work towards a better future. 

March 23, 2022

A New Project by Ian Strange and Trevor Powers: DALISON

DALISON is a creative collaboration between artist Ian Strange and musician Trevor Powers. The site-specific light and sound installation also culminated in a single-channel film, a series of photographic works, and a one-off live performance. This work was created around an isolated home at 20 Dalison Avenue, Wattleup, a southern suburb of Perth in Western Australia. This space was designated for industrial redevelopment by the state government in 1996 and has been slowly erased. 20 Dalison is one of two remaining "hold out" homes in Wattleup's once-thriving township. After twenty years, the home's former owners finally decided to sell the place in 2019 and 2020. Dalison now awaits demolition, joining the fate of more than 300 homes that have been bought and raised by the government here over the past twenty years. Created in collaboration with those former owners and other former Wattleup residents, the film and photographic works form a surviving record of this unique temporary installation. DALISON is a eulogy to this home and the community it was once part of. DALISON forms part of Strange's ongoing global body of work, which explores notions of home and social displacement around the world and will be shown in a series of upcoming exhibitions and screenings in 2022.

March 16, 2022

The Artling Presents: Giorgiana Theiler's Solo Exhibition at kasa. kaisin., Zurich

In collaboration with kasa. kaisin., The Artling is excited to announce our first exhibition in Europe featuring the young Swiss artist Giorgiana Theiler. Theiler is a South African Italian - born Swiss Artist raised and living in Zurich, Switzerland. She graduated with a BA Hons in Communication Design with a pathway in Photography in 2018. She was scouted by a professor at the Royal College of Art, London and subsequently completed a Masters degree in Information Experience Design in 2020.  Her recent body of work revolves around the utilisation of information to create an experience of the senses through different design aspects, with colour theory and abstract expressionism as highly significant themes. Giorgiana’s work epitomises the finer detail usually concealed from the naked eye but made visible through technology. In implementing this method, she wishes to add her contribution to the enhancement of personal well-being. She draws her influential energy and inspiration from visual artists such as Gerard Richter, Felipe Pantone, and cultural artists Jeff Koons. 

February 22, 2022