Slinkachu
In their current show “Trash Talk” at Thinkspace Projects, interventionists Jaune and Slinkachu offer new solo pieces and collaborative works. Jaune, last mentioned on HiFructose.com here, is known for his tiny, stenciled sanitation workers that toy with scale and humor throughout city streets. Slinkachu (last featured here) uses everyday objects as vessels for his own small characters in unexpected dioramas. This show runs through June 22 at the space.
Bigger is better, unless you’re Slinkachu. The UK-based artist (previously posted on our Tumblr here) started placing his tiny figures around London back in 2006. Slinkachu sources these from a company that supplies model train products, and vintage 1960s toys, which he embellishes for his own purposes. He’s a big fan of artist Chris Ware, whose works also tend to use a vivid color palette and are full of meticulous detail. When we say tiny, we mean barely a centimeter high. Slinkachu has to use a magnifying glass to add details to his little people. If it wasn’t for his compelling photo series, they would be left completely undiscovered to passersby. He has photographed these humorous, miniature scenes all over the world in places like Cape Town, Doha, Berlin, and New York, to name a few. During the course of documenting his work, Slinkachu began to question: Just what happens to art that’s been abandoned on the street?
Many of us brought our toys to the kitchen table and played with our food, much to our parents’ dismay. Although toys were designed to entertain and inspire us in our youth, many artists continue to look back at these childhood artifacts for inspiration. Miami based sculptor and photographer Pablo Dona often refers to his memories of playtime in his art. His installations of hand-crafted miniature people interacting with commonplace items take the innocence of play and create a surreal new reality.
As Hi-Fructose packs our bags and gets ready for this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach weekend, we wanted to take a quick minute to compile an advance preview of some of the works that we’ll be looking forward to seeing in person at this year’s SCOPE art fair. Get a look at some of the highlights of last year’s fair here (as well as an in-depth look at the Joshua Liner booth here and Corey Helford Booth here.)
Stay tuned all week as Hi-Fructose will be reporting live from the fairs, and a get a preview of what to expect at this year’s SCOPE fair after the jump.
As the culminating group show of FAME Festival draws to an end, and as more and more mind-blowing photos begin popping up on the internet, and if you’re like us, you’re asking the question: how on earth does one dude organize, finance and curate this whole thing? Or other questions: how did such a killer festival emerge out of a little-known town (try finding a hotel there!), how does it draw such international big names, and what do those little old ladies in the sidelines of the photos think of all this?
Hi-Fructose Correspondent Lauren Quinn sits down with FAME Festival founder Angelo Milano for a quick interview.
