UNDERWATER in ART

May 28th 2012

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‘Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards’ (2001) was Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s first video work, and forms part of his beautiful film series, Memorial Project Vietnam. All three films were shot entirely underwater off the coast of Vietnam in the Indochina Sea, and explored Vietnamese history and identity. In this particular “Memorial” work, six fisherman race across the ocean floor, pulling cyclos (rickshaws) and occasionally going up to the surface for air, and in ‘Happy New Year - Memorial Project for Vietnam II’ (2003), a New Year’s dragon is carried by divers in the water, with small balls randomly shooting upwards and exploding coloured powder, referencing the 1968 Tet Offensive which occurred on the eve of the lunar New Year.

Video excerpt for “Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards”

More images and video excerpts: Lehmann-Mau pin Gallery

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May 23rd 2012

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Gregory Colbert

“Gregory’s images return us to the sanity of our undeniable, unavoidable, inextricable connection to nature. And they do it with beauty, grace, lightness-of-being, strength. His images, like whale songs, are the last wild voices calling to the consciousness of terminally civilized humanity, our last contact with nature before we submerge forever in our own manufacture and lose forever the final fragments of our wild selves.”
—Roger Payne

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May 22nd 2012

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May 19th 2012

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Hawaii artist Carol Bennett’s captivating underwater art.

“You don’t have to live in an oceanfront home—or ever have set foot on a beach, for that matter—to appreciate artist Carol Bennett’s sensual paintings of swimmers suspended in water. While those who have a penchant for all things aquatic will appreciate the prominence of water in Bennett’s works, her swimming-inspired paintings are sure to strike a mesmerizing chord in anyone who lays eyes on her art”.

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May 19th 2012

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“Sam Green’s uniqueness lies in his ability to create images that carry astonishing energy. Unleashing the unruly, unconscious urges through the use of primitivism and gripping us to observe in awe the abstract detail reminiscent to the tranquillity of water – the drawings are simultaneously exciting and calming.” Sam Green’s website

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April 19th 2012

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Luka Klikovac photographing paint underwater …

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April 19th 2012

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Mark Hillesheim underwater photography

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April 19th 2012

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Mark Hillesheim underwater scapes