Cyprien Gaillard's work explores the effect of architecture on human life, using techniques borrowed from Land Art and Minimalism. He treats modernist buildings as romantic ruins, and aestheticizes their destruction. Gaillard films the demolition of housing projects and the explosions that carve away

Architectural, Catastrophe, Melancholy, Minimal, Monumental, Nostalgic, Pastoral, Power

Abstract, Abstract expressionism, Abstract painting, Abstraction, Arts & crafts design, Color field, Complex, Dense, Grotesque, Intense, Minimal, Modern sculpture, Monochromatic, Organic, Science, Visceral, Voluminous

RUSTIC 21ST CENTURY MINIMALISM Using individual blocks of color to form a precise visual statement is a technique that dates back through the ages at least as far as 4th century Macedonia, arguably reaching its apex with the Christian mosaics of the byzantine empire eight centuries later. It is la

Illustration, Minimal

Writer, editor, translator and critic of books of fiction, art, culture, history and religion from the Middle East focusing on Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Algeria, Palestine, Spain, Mexico and Latin America. Camacho is a Comparative Literature (Spanish, French, and Italian) graduate of UC Berkeley and cu

Deconstructive, Minimal, Political, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Power, Religious