Artist Sarah Meyohas’ New Holographic Works Change Colours Depending on How You View Them

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE

While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends to socio-political issues to everything that affects the great aesthetic global consciousness. Or, let’s just travel the world and have some fun!

 

Vandals in England have painted a large-scale sculpture of a black woman by Tschabalala Self white.

Tschabalala Self’s 10-foot-tall sculpture of a seated Black woman was spray-painted white by vandals in England last week. The US-based artist said the act was representative of the racism and misogyny that are endemic in Europe and abroad. The piece, Seated (2022), which debuted last year near King’s Cross in London, is currently on display at the De la Warr Pavilion in the East Sussex town of Bexhill-on-Sea. The Bexhill-on-Sea neighborhood came together to clean up and restore the artwork after it was vandalized on May 15th. More than 200 people participated in the attempt, according to the BBC. This past weekend, the De la Warr Pavilion made a public announcement about the damage and stated that it wanted to leave the artwork on display until its scheduled end at the end of October. Read more on ARTnews.

Artist Sarah Meyohas  New Holographic Works Change Colours Depending on How You View Them

You could be excused for assuming that Sarah Meyohas simply installed a bunch of completely black glass panes across the gallery when you first walk into her most recent exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery. But when you approach these mirrored panels, they start to reflect mesmerizing three-dimensional images that are all tinged with iridescent colors, such as a group of plants here and a piece of a naked female body there. No, it’s not a digital ruse; instead, it’s the outcome of Meyohas’s ongoing experiments with holographic technology. These new works, which Meyohas referred to as the “Rolls Royce version” of holograms, are actually diffraction gratings, machines with multiple-lined or grooved surfaces that disperse light into its many colors or wavelengths. Meyohas has recently found structural color to be “religiously appealing.” It is the resultant bright tones experienced by the human eye. Read more on Artnet news.

2,500-Year-Old Ancient Greek Catacombs Were Found by Archaeologists Using Subatomic Particles

Deep below the bustling city streets of Naples, Italy, researchers used futuristic sounding technology to reveal an ancient Greek tomb that archaeologists for years knew existed but have been unable to access, according to Live Science. The area currently known as Naples was first called Cumae, the first ancient Greek colony in Italy. Around 650 B.C.E the settlement was renamed Neapolis, or New City, and was of the most important and powerful colonies held by the Greeks, with its own forum, a bevy of temples, and multiple underground catacombs. Archaeologists interested in Greek life in Italy have not previously been able to access the ancient structures that are still standing since they are 33 feet below Naples. Archaeologists were able to locate a burial chamber that dates to between the sixth and third centuries B.C.E. without having to dig using muons, cosmic rays in the Earth’s atmosphere that can pass through solid matter, a sensitive type of photosensitive film, and a detection unit that resembles a large flatbed scanner. Read more on ARTnews.