Working with a team of designers and architects, Gates has set about refurbishing
a series of abandoned buildings using a variety of found materials, creating a book and record library as well as a venue for dinners, concerts and performances.
Not exact matches
It wasn't until 2014 that he began taking pictures
of his first
abandoned building series, entitled Dilapidation and featured here.
Anne d'Harnoncourt wrote
of this
series in 1976»... the large, lyrical paintings approach abstraction without
abandoning a sense
of spatial depth... Compositions [are]
built up
of large, brilliant expanses
of yellow, orange, blue and flaming red, under remote skies
of lavender or aquamarine.»
Currently, Hunter is in the midst
of realizing Video Bomb Houston, a
series of new five - minute long video works in a two - hour loop, created specifically for
abandoned buildings throughout the city.
The photo
series of micro-scale models came about after Lapid found an online archive
of photographs by a photographer based in North Dakota, who had been documenting the decay
of abandoned buildings in the area.
The third edition
of Altrove Street Art Festival is now over, but this year's festival left behind a
series of amazing murals and installations created under the concept Abstractism, Humanize Landscape in different places
of Catanzaro, from the historical city center to the suburbs, inside
abandoned buildings and as part
of the natural landscape.
The artist photographed much
of the material for his new
series in the countryside
of Scandinavia and Austria; in
abandoned homes, churches and
buildings that he found while driving cross-country through the United States; and at a recent residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.
The
series» title, Re-inhabited Circle Ks, reveals what these mom - and - pop shops, which also include a tattoo club and tuxedo - rental shop, have in common: they're the new occupants
of buildings abandoned by the chain store in the 1980s and 90s after a new corporate plan dictated relocating to more profitable corner lots.
Hector Hernandez's Hyperbeast
series, in which a plucky dancer drapes a presumably fan - blown piece
of monochrome fabric over his body, leaving only his legs, which are clad in tights
of a different color, visible as he moves through
abandoned building interiors, aims for a tension that it doesn't quite strike.
As Gareth Jones explains: Roadhouse is one
of a
series of canvases in which a bleak mental landscape -
abandoned buildings, telegraph wires, lowering skies - is sandwiched between abstract panels which function as surrogate sky and ground.
Gordon Matta - Clark (1943 — 1978, New York) was a conceptual artist known for a
series of site - specific projects, which he carried out in the late 1970s involving the dissection
of abandoned buildings.