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“Say what you need to say plainly, and then take responsibility for it”

Ai Wewei

“There exists my action, regardless of whether or not it is secured,” Kazuo Shiraga wrote in his 1955 essay “Action Only.” Defining painting as a gesture rather than a medium was revolutionary in the 1950s.

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. I really like the way he brings art, architecture, technology and people together, great stuff.

Not a easy lifestyle to get in London but possible with Deus.

Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa are SANAA, their work is amazing and in my view very down to earth.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Jean Arp

Brooklyn-based Cory Arcangel is one of the leading media artists of his generation. He often appropriates, manipulates and subverts new media, including video games, computer software and the internet.

‘Treehugger’is a pavilion created from the collaboration between One Fine Day architects and the University of Applied Sciences in Trier, the design looks to give both the students and craftsmen a broader understanding of computational design and computer aided manufacturing technologies. In my view a great result.

Branch out.

Lucio Fontana’s respect for the advancements of science and technology during the 20th century led him to approach his art as a series of investigations into a wide variety of mediums and methods.

When architecture and lighting get together nice things can happen.

Frank Stella was an early advocate of making non-representational paintings, rather than artwork that alluded to underlying meanings, emotions or narratives. He wanted his audiences to appreciate color, shape and structure alone.

MoMA PS1 Pole Dance by SO - IL

I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I seriously like The Mirrorcube room at the Tree Hotel in Sweden, TVARK architects have built one of the most amazing tree houses out there.

Les Ateliers Ruby helmets, I want all of them. 

Carsten Höller’s artistic practice focuses on methods where the interaction between work and public becomes fundamental. “You could say that the real material I am working with is people’s experience”, he has said.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York City-based interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts.

Roger Hiorns makes works of art whose particular aesthetic lies somewhere between the representational and non-representational, and so disrupts our expectations of the boundaries between them.

‘Metropol Parasol’ megastructure in Seville, Spain. Designed by J. Mayer H. and opened in 2011.