Just as we have featured artworks available for purchase to inspire the Installation reader to collect, Zona MACO was founded on the belief that artwork should be affordable.  The initiative “Less than 2,500 USD” created by Zélika García, founder and director of Zona MACO, aims to encourage art collecting among the youth of Mexico.  As brand partners of […]

Issue 04  /  Miller Updegraff: Before the Image Fades There are several raw canvases that have been stretched by hand, drying on the lawn in the mid afternoon sun.  Several overturned, empty white gallon buckets support either side.  A makeshift assembly line that would only be possible in Southern California.  Seated outside of his converted […]

The filmmaker describes that the inspiration came from different readings and lot of artists as Oskar Fischinger, Bill Viola and Eadweard Muybridge.  I just made the film in the framework of a school project where students had to imagine how art could evolve into the future.  So, I wondered how the man would succeed to […]

Tony Taj fuses art and technological application.  His practice reconsiders the traditional artist tools and along with acrylic paint and canvas, Taj has introduced the Ambient Media Portal, a technology that activates painting into an immersive experience.   Implementing acrylics encrypted with a QR code, the viewer can now lose himself inside the dimensionality of the […]

Antonio Aricò draws inspiration from tradition.  Italy’s cultivation of olives dates back to the Middle Ages and olive oil tasting is an integral ingredient in the cultural palette.  Aricó explains that the name for his collection Taste of Wood is “a funny eulogy to olive oil, to olive wood, to wooden furniture and has for […]

Installation’s Issue 20 first introduced Vitor Sá‘s Beautiful Chaos, a photographic and video exploration of the vibrant streets of his native Rio de Janeiro.  The uneven streets are like labyrinths, buzzing with an electrical energy similar to the rigged cable towers overhead.  Since then Sá has returned to one of Brazil’s many landscapes in order […]