German dadaist, activist, pacifist, fotomontagist John Heartfield.
Maartje Bos
Maartje Bos is a Dutch artist. She lives in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
Bos makes minimanist sculptures, of stylized, seemingly simple forms and colors that radiate tranquility and balance.
Her sculptures are made from colored acrylic resin cast in molda of silicone.
With the series the Cock collection, Maartje Bos wants to express a masculine side from a femine perspective. The results are surprising fallistic forms, lovingly expressed in simple shape and soft colors.
Where her example Brancusi worked with natural colors of gold, wood, clay and stone, Maartje Bos uses modern materials and techniques of acrylics and polyesther. Brancusi's stylized forms are reflected in a contemporary form in the sculptures of Maartje Bos. Even specific ideas such as Brancusi's La Princesse X, Maartje has been able to translate in aunique way into her Cocks collection.
Matt Black – American Geography
In the photobook American Geography, Matt Black has documented his travels through the US in pictures.
The books in divided into four parts: South and West, South and East, North and East, North and West. Matt Black's photographs in gritty black and white shows us the people and the urban and rural landscapes that he encountered during his travels. Rough pictures of rough lives.
The photographs are interspersed with images of things he noticed during his trips: utensils, squashed cigarette packages, a playing card, a lottery ticket and many signs of tramps asking for help and money.
"ANYTHING HELPS"
Every part of the book is preceded with a selection of notes from the diary he kept during his trip. These form mini stories themselves, poems almost. Even the atmosphere of the notes is somewhat grim. Combined with the short stories and the pictures of the begging signs, the books leaves an impression of a country that neglects his bottom of society.
One of the most beautiful photobooks I have seen this year.
