roy lichtenstein

© Oscar White 

"pop art is an involvement with what i think to be the most brazen and threatening characteristics of

our culture, things we hate, but wich are also powerful in their impingement on us." roy lichtenstein

happy birthday!! on october 27 1923 roy lichtenstein was born in new york.

he was a founder and formost practitioner of pop art, a movement that countered the techniques and concepts of abstract expressionism with images and techniques taken from popular culture.

le surréallisme, c'est moi

© Philippe Halsman und/and Salvador Dalí, Dalí’s Mustache, 1953, Privatsammlung Wien/Private Collection, Vienna. © Magnum Photos / Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2011. Image Rights of Salvador Dalí reserved.

Glenn Brown, Song to the Siren, 2009, Sammlung des Künstlers/Collection the artist, London © Glenn Brown, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery 

Louise Bourgeois, Arch of Hysteria, 2004, Courtesy Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth © Louise Bourgeois Trust, VBK, Wien, 2011

Francesco Vezzoli, Surrealiz (Who’s afraid of Salvador Dalí?), 2008 © Francesco Vezzoli, VBK, Wien, 2011

Salvador Dalí, The Eye, 1945, Privatsammlung/Private Collection, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth © Salvador Dalí. Foundation Gala-Salvador Dalí / VBK, Wien, 2011 

you can see until october 23th "le surréallisme c'est moi" at the kunsthalle wien.
about seventy works by salvador dali are confronted with the internationally established positions of louise bourgeois, gleen brown, markus schinwald and francesco vezzoli.

sculptor tobel

amazing german sculptor, you can find his work all around the world.

have a look at his homepage here.

tobel comment on his work:" i like to maintain the stone's strength by only working the inside, leaving the outside in its rough, natural state, it's a way to honor the hundreds of millions of years that the stone has aged. too much polishing destroys the nature of the granite; i like to reveal the stone's secrets."

sculptures from ilona kálnoky

"My sculptures and objects emerge through the encounter of
body and space. They are concerned with the relationship
between these two. I use the term 'body' because it includes
the emotional aspect of the viewer."

Ilona Kálnoky