Revelations features Australian and international artists including Ah Xian, Lisa Roet, Sam Jinks, Clement Meadmore, Inge King and Bill Fontana, and will unveil new acquisitions and highlight major works from the long standing collection.

The RMIT Art Collection provides a considerable overview of Australian art history and includes some of the most highly regarded and successful artists that both the country and the University have produced. Its purpose is to tell the history of the University through the creative output of its staff and alumni, and to reflect RMIT’s core values of innovation, creativity, sustainability and social engagement.

The artist Janet Echelman has so mastered large scale installations.  She has a great story, see TED, about how she fell into the work she is now doing, amazing breathing sculpture that respond to the forces of nature — wind, water and light.

Really worth a look at:
http://www.echelman.com/
http://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman.html


Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

What an amazing idea- a gallery that supports artists over a decade of their career, buy their art and help them succeed!

Tim Silver's work currently on exhibit and explores notions of change and decay, and he has a particular fascination with the relationship between an object and its image. The photographs document the decay over time.

More on Ten Cubed at: http://www.tencubed.com.au/

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/collection-captures-the-power-of-10-20130815-2ryy7.html

The visuals on this are truly amazing- 4 short videos that represent human motion in a digitally sculpted form.

Scroll down and watch the videos.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/08/human-movement-converted-into-digital-sculptures/

It's official........ street art makes money and so is now accepted by the authorities. It even reduces vandalism! 

This short video (7 minutes) has some gorgous images of great art. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-07/melbourne-grafitti-now-a-legitimate-tourist/4872376?section=entertainment

I just couldn't go past posting this extraordinary visual explosion of colour by Dutch artist Suzan Drummen. She uses thousands of  individually placed glass, mirrors, metal and precious stones, that reflect light and give a 3D impact effect.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/08/suzan-drummen/

A beautiful tribute to Ruth Asawa in the lead-up to her May 2013 US exhibition.

Grace, beauty and an amazing technique in this 3 min video called 'Objects and Apparitions' 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krZkKY4HmU8
 
She also does the most amazing live casting: another (3 min) short video that is a large family portrait all through casting. ... try and stop yourself from moving to this music too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzll3On0jDk

Congrats to Fleur and Alex Wiber for this great online creative approach to providing gallery space for artists. With 'art as the unifying force',  they have created a space to link artists with collectors. 

http://globalartspace.org/

and my site at 

http://globalartspace.org/artists/maria-simonelli/

Now what do we think about this? ... another Banksy artwork has been cut down from  a London street and will be auctioned , just a few months after another was sold for $750 pounds.

The source of the murals removal is unknown but it is already up for sale. 

The Sincura Group says they have 'salvaged for renovation' a street piece "No Ball Games" which shows two children playing with a sign that reads No Ball Games. 

A website statement  says  "With extensive building works taking place in the local vicinity, and further concerns upon its safety, the piece has been removed to be sensitively restored to its former glory."

The same company created outrage early in 2013 after it had sold another Banksy piece - Slave Labour, depicting a young boy hunched over a sewing machine making a Union Jack. 

So what do we think? who owns the street piece..the building owners, the passers by, the community or the artist? And who benefits from the cash? 

Is this just another from of theft and who really owns these valuable works of street art? 
 

This time last year I was immersed in a study tour in Germany with VCA students, and I desparately need another fix...so a few sites and images to re-inspire.

Genießen !! (enjoy)

StreetArt In Germany is such a fun site, and really captures what it says...https://www.facebook.com/StreetArtGermany?fref=ts

Monocle24 is the coolest, hippest thing to come out of the UK since...ummm.
It has a film section and Art In Berlin was a recent feature....it shows a serious and grown up side on Berlin 
http://monocle.com/film/culture/art-in-berlin/

Interested in what happened to all artwork looted during WW2?Recently the spotlight has fallen on the incredible and sustained effort to track and reclaim collections.
Searching for plundered art..audio at
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/marc-masurovsky/4663344

and for my own walk down memory lane...
http://mariasimonelli.weebly.com/project-sojourn.html