India Song Photography

Karen Knorr’s past work from the 1980’s onwards took as its theme the ideas of power that underlie cultural heritage, playfully challenging the underlying assumptions of fine art collections in academies and museums in Europe through photography and video. Since 2008 her work has taken a new turn and focused its gaze on the upper caste culture of the Rajput in India and its relationship to the "other" through the use of photography, video and performance. The photographic series considers men's space (mardana) and women's space (zanana) in Mughal and Rajput palace architecture, havelis and mausoleums through large format digital photography.

Karen Knorr celebrates the rich visual culture, the foundation myths and stories of northern India, focusing on Rajasthan and using sacred and secular sites to consider caste, femininity and its relationship to the animal world. Interiors are painstakingly photographed with a large format Sinar P3 analogue camera and scanned to very high resolution. Live animals are inserted into the architectural sites, fusing high resolution digital with analogue photography. Animals photographed in sanctuaries, zoos and cities inhabit palaces, mausoleums , temples and holy sites, interrogating Indian cultural heritage and rigid hierarchies. Cranes, zebus, langurs, tigers and elephants mutate from princely pets to avatars of past feminine historic characters, blurring boundaries between reality and illusion and reinventing the Panchatantra for the 21st century.

PAINTING BY MARINA PRINTSEVA UNIQUE ART(24 PICS)

Talented and unique artist Marina Printseva was born in 1949 in the city of Pskov, Russia. She is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, and a member of the International design and textiles Association. Technique of her work is unique and has no analogues in Russia or abroad. It is a brilliant mixture of embroidery, painting and application. Marina Printseva participated in many national and international exhibitions. Her works are in the collections of a number of museums (Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts, Moscow; Peterhof State Museum, the Museum of Ryutgess, USA, etc.).

FABULOUS MOSAIC BY LAURA HARRIS

Talented american artist Laura Harris was born in 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She got philological education, worked as a teacher for more than fifteen years and has been recognized as the best teacher of the State of Wisconsin. But the disease, progressive multiple sclerosis, forced her to leave her beloved job and do at least a favorite hobby. Laura did not give up, and devoted herself to art. Laura Harris says: "No silver lining .... I was involved in art my whole life. My father was an artist, and I remember as a child, he forbade me to use a coloring book, because they limit the imagination." Now in his home studio, she creates a fabulous mosaic of various materials: glazes, porcelain, cut mirrors, beads, buttons, gears from old clock, river pebbles, etc.

Mini Cooper S, from 7000 nails

A copy of the famous Mini Cooper S car was built for the international exhibition of Berlin design week by German sculptor Alexander Geissler. Delicate, almost transparent sculpture weighs less than 300 kg, out of 7000 metal nails. To create a copy of Mini Cooper S at 1:1 author spent more than two hundred hours of time in front of this, studied the structure of the car. Stylish, elegant, shiny car made ​​of nails welded together, sculptural replica Mini Cooper S has gained admiration, respect, and genuine surprise, as well as the skill of the author, his dedication and patience.