World's Fair, World Fair, Universal Exposition and Expo as this event has been name in the passed. This event influences the development of several aspects of society including art and design education, international trade and relations, and even tourism. The first exposition was held in 1851 and since then the themes present have changed from displaying new inventions, address issues of culture and mankind to the present developing art and design.
The Exposition is held in a different country, around the world. The highlight to me are the pavilions that are made by each individual country in the location chosen. These are a representation of the creativity and imagination of what the countries can design. This year it is held in Shanghai and here are a few of the best pavilions in my opinion. In order of Pavilion UK, Chinese, Israel, Romanian, Hungarian, Denmark, Portugal, Russian
SELF PORTRAIT
THE MODES OF AL-IKSEER
TRANSIT STATION
MADONNA AND CHILD
Here are a few examples of work from Harminder Singh Judge. He describes himself as an artist trapped in a perpetual love triangle with religion, art and pop culture. I came across Harminder, thanks to the Guardian newspaper. Some super strong messages being thrown out at you through his creative, artistic pieces. If you like what you see there is an exhibition in Nottingham on that started on the 24th April - July called The Inconcistency of Everything.
Here is his website for more on Harminder +++++++
See I have always thought that splattering paint erratically onto a blank canvas is not art. But these pieces done by the Norwegian artist Jørund Aase Falkenberg is taking it to a new level, to actually have a possible meaning, as if there was another piece of work hanging there etc. I love the contrast between the clinically clean rectangles made of from careless splattering of paint.
