Kira Kotliar

Beautiful work of german artist Kira Kotliar.

Gift from Diane

Today I've received this beautiful gift from Diane. Thak you so much for this, I love it and I put it on my living room with other beautiful things.

New blog background

I have a new blog background thanks to

http://www.backgroundfairy.com

Visit her blog, follow the instructions and soon you will have a new background.

Via Dianes blog.

Art Museum from São Bernardo - MASB

Over 30 years João, from Henfil, an at space from São Bernardo, collected the works from known and unknown artists from Brazil. His dream was to have an Museum.
Today this dream came through.

Finally São Bernardo has a Museum, a small but very beautiful Museum.

Fabio Amsterdam was the curator of the first exhibition.

I'm very proud to have three works there.

Christmas Cribs - Hilda Breda Collection

Traditional

Miniatures

rich

brazilian folk art

mexican folk art

Hilda Breda is a Christmas Cribs collector from São Bernardo. She owns about 430 Christmas Cribs in all sizes and materials from Brazil and 35 other countries.

She started her collection at the time of her marriage, because she wanted to decorate her home with a crib for Christmas. Instead of one she bought two cribs. The same happened in the next year. 1996 she owned 30 cribs and she really beganns to collect cribs.

Today was the show of her collection. Beautiful!

Lena Wolff - Paper quilts

Amazing paper quilts from Lena Wolff.

I found it by Ulla.

Bijoux

This wonderful bijoux are from Odette, France.

You can seee more at her site: http://www.lesbijouxdodette.com

Bienal de São Paulo

What is this? An empty room with a man? A new art form? A performance? An installation?

No, this empty room is a building from Oscar Niemeyer where the Bienal of Art from São Paulo takes place. Do you see any art? No. This is the Bienal of Emptiness (Bienal do vazio). A shame!!!! What does Mesquita did with the money? Ah, Ok, there are a few artist on the thirth floor!
And this is was São Paulo means is an art show!

Fernando Lucchesi - Brazilian Artist

Fernado Lucchesi is a brazilian artist, living in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. I love his assemblages, which are only partially made of found objects. Most of the things he use for his shrines or boxes are made by himself. He begann to make this kind of things as a Christmas gift for his friends.

Crochet and art

You can see the fantastic crochet work from Emily Barletta, a Brooklyn, NY, based artist, here
and her blog here.
I found it via designsponge.

Isabelle de Borchgrave

I didn't know Isabelle de Borchgrave. I meet her work because she has an exposition "Papier de la Mode" here in São Paulo. Stunning dresses made with paper, handpainted. I'm in love with her work.

The site is: http://www.isabelledeborchgrave.com

Altered Books - Melbourne

If you love collage art and altered books, take a look at this twoMelbourne based artist Gracia and Louise. They do collaborative projects and their work is stunning. There is also a blog (or two).

http://www.gracialouise.com

This great work is from Alyssa Phoebus.
It's not embroidery, it's a drawing.
I have found it via http://littlesomethings.blogspot.com.

Isabela Capeto

Take a look at this brazilian fashion designer
http://www.isabelacapeto.com.br
to see the wonderful dresses she create.
She uses a lot of embroideries and beadings.
Delightfull!

Hope Kroll - Collagist

If you don't know this great collagist, take a look at her site:

http://www.hopekroll.com

She works with collage, but her work is also 3D. Beautiful!

Esma Paçal Turam

I made some experiments in the past with a hot glue gun. I was working with some gypsum sculptures and I wanted to add some texture over them. So I discovered that the silicon from the hot gun doesn't glued over the gypsum, but I have a wonderful pattern.





But Esma Paçal Turam mades a stunning work with a simple hot glue gun. She was born and lives in Istanbul.

You can see more of her work here: http://www.esmapacal.com