Architecture news / Archive»
- Vivienda CM in Buenos Aires: travertine for the exterior walls and roof of a residential building
- The lobby of Arizona State University’s Washington Center is adorned with desert sandstone worked with CNC-cuts and sandblasting
Design news / Archive»
- Luxury design for the elevator cabin: various features against Coronavirus contagion of passengers, light shapes the box, natural stone or full-size monitors for the walls
- Salvatori shows its novelties 2020 only in the media – even without the furniture fair in Milan and Design Week
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Italian Biesse Group has published the 3. edition of its Sustainability Report
- In the BioProMarL project, researchers hope to give the stone surfaces new properties, modelled on the lotus effect
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Middle East Stone and The Big 5 in Dubai postponed to next year (2021) September 12 – 15
- Message from Xiamen Stone Fair as the Covid-19 virus is spreading in some regions in the Americas, Africa, and India: “We care much about you”
Stone Stories»
Art news / Archive»
- Application open until October 01, 2020: 10 to 15 grants for artists from or living in the Arab world, and/or engaged with the Arab world
- For young emerging Tunesian artists: the Rambourg Foundation Prize for Contemporary Art (submissions postponed to July 15, 2020)
Briefly noted»
Artists’ Portraits
Sibylle Pasche brings the viewer of her marble sculptures to intellectual games
With her works, the Swiss artist depicts „the primal symbols of nature and their processes of change”, as she herself says
Peter Crinnion, British sculptor, produces small, mischievous pieces in stone
He studied fine art and soon discovered the precision of stone sculpting as an enrichment
US sculptor Celeste Roberge depicts the tectonic movement of the Earth’s crust and the passing of time in many of her works
Her gigantic works using gabions have become icons of art
Helaine Blumenfeld: „marble as a means to show our spiritual side“
Works of the American sculptress are on show at Huygens’ Hofwijck in The Netherlands during summer 2019
Stone mosaics for the soul by US artist Nick Gilbert
He names his works „Poetry of Stone“ subtitled „Stone Artistry for the Soul“
Bulgarian sculptress Agnessa Petrova creates monumental stone sculptures
Change is part of the art: from real to abstract, from sculpture to painting, transience between the materials
„She turned to sculpture for professional and emotional fulfillment and a way to define herself apart from her money”
Norton Museum in Florida shows 45 sculptures and drawings of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Hama Lohrmann: stone, wood, clay or plants brought to order by human standards – for a time
The German LandArt sculptor Hama Lohrmann leaves a trail often soon swept away by wind and weather
Hirotoshi Ito aims to show how warm and soft stone can be by conveying joy and happiness
Beholders are meant to laugh and have fun with his works
At Marmomac, stone sculptor Jago was awarded „Master of Stone“ in the tradition of Verona’s Ancient Guild of Stone Arts
He „merges the past and tradition with creativity, inventiveness and modern vision“, according to the jury
