Salute to the Lions of Vancouver - Gathie Falk - 1991 Vancouver
Two stainless steel lions leap through lighted hoops on the deck of Canada Place, facing the mountain Lions across Burrard Inlet. Falk won a cross-Canada competition for this 1991 commission.
Ante la torre de la iglesia del Salvador y Santo Domingo de Silos y triunfo de San Rafael, al paso por la plaza de la Compaa.
Des reconstitutions de visages de Jules Csar et autres personnages antiques
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"Pioneers" monument. The word here means not the settlers but scout-like organization for soviet kids. This statue is installed at the corner of Pionerskaya subway station and I dare say I like it, though, of course, the movement itself ceased to exist long time ago.
: Welttag des Fahrrads // World Bicycle DayInterestingly, this isn't the only connection between the city's tenements and what is probably the most famous statue in the US. The stone used to make the steps leading up to its base came from Dumfries, and is the same distinctive Locharbriggs red sandstone used to make many Glasgow tenements from round 1890 onwards.
A statue of Liberty overlooking Queen's Park on the Southside of Glasgow from the top of W.M. Whyte's 1885 French Renaissance style tenement. This makes it marginally older than it's US equivalent, which was only dedicated in the following year.
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Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nikola Mozhaisky) 17th century
'Trfico'
Creacin de 1955-58.
Tcnica: Escultura en bronce.
Dimensiones: 63 67 32 cm.
Ubicacin: Museo Krller-Mller, Otterlo, Pases Bajos.
Autor: Willem Reijers (neerlands, 1910-1958)
"Dans luvre de Bernard Venet, les formes abstraites et minimales sont fortement influences par les mathmatiques et lastrophysique" - Rodolphe Martinez
Exposition Collector, Bordeaux, en Juillet 2022.
Nicolas Mouart, 2026
Made this in 2023 in the MagicaCSG SDF 3D editor. It started as a drone-like aircraft, but in the end it could also be regarded as a submarine vehicle.
reproduction of Michelangelo's David stargazing
Dieser 'Prachtkerl' wartet auf Regen // This 'fine specimen' is
"Expecting rain"
by Square Chikwanda
Carole Feuerman: Monuments of Stillness Hilton Contemporary
Alphaball - Tony Bloom - 2002 New Westminster
Metal alphabet letters and base-ten digits form a sculpture outside New Westminster Public Library. Every book inside begins with these symbols.
Another edit of the Schwarzenegger statue that I previously submitted for (Prachtkerl / fine specimen, hunk).
I just remembered that Arnold was nicknamed the Austrian Oak, so I thought this would be fitting for as well. In his bodybuilding days he did, indeed, have a thick trunk.
'Preserving Paradise' - how we can manipulate the environment to suit our aesthetics
Kim Vertue discusses Marc Quinns The Garden & our eternal desire to capture & keep the essence of beauty.
Signifier
Prachtkerl / Fine specimen, hunk
Ahnold, guardian of Columbus, Ohio.
'Retrato de la emperatriz Alejandra Fidorovna'
Creacin dcada de 1840.
Tcnica: Escultura en mrmol.
Dimensiones: 68 46 cm.
Ubicacin: Museo del Hermitage, San Petersburgo, Rusia.
Autor: Christian Daniel Rauch (alemn, 1777-1857)
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Orme Sight by Thompson Dagnall
Beacon Fell Country Park
Kuronothrax
5 Inches long
Made from Aluminum foil, Masking tape, Doll eyes, Plastic, Latex, Apoxie Sculpt
Yinka Shonibare: Material (SG) II
A Kasa-Obake made for fun and my love for made with and with my Flashforge 3D Printer you can get the at Gumroad
Trauma and Affect
SPUI25, Tuesday, June 23 at 05:00 PM GMT+2
Given the many current wars and conflicts, it is crucial to understand how trauma works, how it is stored in our bodies, and how it manifests itself time and again. In this programme Ernst van Alphen, Ihab Saloul, Eugenie Brinkema, and Ronald Ophuis engage in a dialogue regarding Van Alphens latest book, Trauma and Affect, in which he explores the power of these concepts through art and literature.
Trauma and affect: both concepts have become increasingly important in the critique of art, literature, and culture since the 1990s. The concepts have been used in many different ways and disciplines, including queer studies, feminism, cultural analysis, art criticism, literary studies, and postcolonial studies, as well as sociology and economics. However, with the current tendency to easily use the concepts in relation to everyday events, they have suffered from inflation. This led to widespread confusion: the terms have been overused and exhausted, thereby losing their critical power.
Ernst van Alphen, Ihab Saloul, Eugenie Brinkema, and Ronald Ophuis will engage in a discussion, posing questions such as: what relevance and critical power do the concepts hold today And how are they intertwined
The guiding of this program is Van Alphens new book titled Trauma and Affect: (Mis)Understanding Pain Through Art and Culture (Valiz, 2026). Through the lens of visual artworks, literature, and cinema, Van Alphen explains how trauma originates in the past and what explains its re-enactment in the present. In addition, he discusses artists who develop strategies that process affect into critical making and thinking.
The work of visual artist Ronald Ophuis demonstrates how the ideas of trauma and affect are made productive, a proposition that will be explored in greater depth during the panel discussion.
Valizs founder and director Astrid Vorstermans will open the programme with a short introduction.
Speakers
Ernst van Alphen is professor emeritus of Literary Studies at Leiden University. Before that, he was Queen Beatrix Professor of Dutch Studies at UC Berkeley. His fields of research and expertise are cultural analysis, trauma and affect studies, and gender studies. He is particularly interested in issues that are central in modern and postmodern literature and in the relation between literature and the visual arts. His most recent publications include: Seven Logics of Sculpture (Valiz 2023), Productive Archiving (ed. Valiz 2023), Shame! and Masculinity (ed. Valiz 2021), among others.
Ihab Saloul is Founder and Research Director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), and Professor of Memory and Narrative at the at the University of Amsterdam. Saloul is a founding editor of several book series: Global Heritage and Memory Studies in the Present (Amsterdam University Press), Heritage and Memory Studies (Routledge), Palgrave Studies of Cultural Heritage and Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan), and the forthcoming book series Palestine: Past, Present and Future Narratives (Central European University Press CEU).
Eugenie Brinkema is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, status-only Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto, and affiliated faculty at the University of Amsterdam. Her work focuses on the relationship between aesthetic form and violence, affect, sexuality, and ethics. She is the author of numerous articles and two books: The Forms of the Affects (2014) and Life-Destroying Diagrams (2022), both with Duke University Press.
Ronald Ophuis lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the AKI in Enschede. Ophuiss practice interrogates the representation of interpersonal trauma and the pervasive inclination to avert ones gaze. Drawing on sustained research, dialogues with involved subjects, and carefully staged scenes with actors, he constructs paintings that position the viewer as an implicated witness, mobilizing art as a site for affective engagement, critical reflection, and ethical judgment. He is also a member of SAAC (Sexually Abused Artists Collective).
Astrid Vorstermans is the publisher/founder of Valiz, with a background in art history and a long path in publishing.
PRRVA ASU ("Cleft of Time" or "Time Gap", I think) by Jan imek (1994) forMini renards
'Story of friendship', cool & cute street art by Batist Vermeulen in AntwerpI wonder if Patience the Lion thinks that Pride should be for lions too.
Happy Pride Month!
The idea that art is everywhere grounds an exhibition opening this week at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art called 'Keith Haring in 3D.' Our writer Kate Mothes shares her experience previewing the show.
Sculpture of a Moogle
'Retrato de Domitia Longina'
Creacin principios del siglo II d. C.
Tcnica: Escultura en mrmol griego.
Dimensiones: 77 cm. (altura)
Ubicacin: Galera de Los Uffizi, Florencia, Italia.
Autor: Desconocido.
Expositions : Michel-Ange, Rodin, corps vivants , Marilyn Monroe : cent ans ! , Calder, rver en quilibre Nos conseils sorties de la semaine
Kurdish artist Roda Medhat has been translating traditional textiles into vibrant neon sculptures.