Szabolcs KissPál is a Romanian artist based in Budapest whose work has focused on dualities: KissPál ´s works are about doublings and dualities, positives and negatives, the two appearances of one object. Among them is the complex and multi-layered work ´Rever´, part of a series installations, which KissPál exhibited in Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, Moldavia, Rumania,… Continue reading Szabolcs KissPál’s negative flags
Tag: Flag Art
Einarsson’s Black, White, and Burned Flags
With his art Gardar Eide Einarsson examines fundamental structures of social conflicts in modern societies based on the interplay between authority and rebellion. He focuses on expressions of power, on control and suppression, on methods and manifestations of sub- and countercultures, as well as on individual people who gained international renown as dictators, terrorists or… Continue reading Einarsson’s Black, White, and Burned Flags
Musical White Flags
The white flag of surrender is a recurring motif in popular music. Here is a brief survey, courtesy of YouTube: Our first and most popular musical white flag was a 2003 pop hit by Dido with a video featuring Whedonverse actor David Boreanaz. "White flag" appears in the chorus: I will go down with this ship / And… Continue reading Musical White Flags
The Wild Standard
The Wild Standard is a small Austin-based business designing, producing, and marketing handmade, limited-edition, minimalist art-flags. Their one-sided, black-and-white designs and emphasis on hand-lettering would not work well in the normal context for a flag: flying in the wind atop a flag pole. However, as home decor hung vertically or horizontally on an interior wall… Continue reading The Wild Standard
Flags Buried Alive
The artist AA Bronson returned to his New York home after the 9/11 terrorist attacks: What I found there is inscribed indelibly on my brain: a thick chalky dust of glass, concrete, paper, asbestos and human flesh that covered everything; and American flags, everywhere. Within a month I had purchased my first flag on eBay. I… Continue reading Flags Buried Alive
Proposal for a New American Agriculture
Claire Pentecost is an artist/activist focusing on food, soil, and bio-engineering; and a professor of photography at SAIC (the School of the Art Institute of Chicago). For Proposal for a New American Agriculture, she placed a US flag in a composting bin in her basement in Chicago, removing and photographing it after worms had transformed most… Continue reading Proposal for a New American Agriculture
Edith Dekyndt’s Transparent Flag
Artist Edith Dekyndt was born in 1960 in Ypres, Belgium. She lives and works in Tournai, Belgium and Strasbourg, France where she investigates methods of perception and phenomena on the verge of the invisible, via installations, video art, drawings and photography. (From the artist's bio at http://zerogravity.empac.rpi.edu/dekyndt/.) This transparent flag was part of her video… Continue reading Edith Dekyndt’s Transparent Flag
Outkast’s Stankonia flag
OutKast are a celebrated hip hop duo from Atlanta. For their critically acclaimed 2000 album Stankonia, in what became an iconic image, they appear on the cover in front of a huge black and white variant of the US flag, with inverted stars. Paste magazine ranked it 21st in their list, The 25 Best Album Covers of… Continue reading Outkast’s Stankonia flag
Angus Watt’s Festival Flags
By Scott Mainwaring Since 1994 British visual artist Angus Watt has been making elaborate flag displays for the annual international music and arts festival WOMAD (World of Music, Arts, and Dance). His work has since spread to other festivals around the world, including Mysteryland and the New Zealand Arts Festival. Often we think of flag… Continue reading Angus Watt’s Festival Flags
Flag Origami
A Japanese shop on Etsy, OrigamiLand Decorations, is selling a set of traditional folded cranes with designs adapted from the flags of 24 different countries: Japan, United States, Australia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Brasil, Argentina, Canada, Spain, China, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Thailand, Germany, Vietnam, India, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Malasia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, and Russia. Displayed together, they… Continue reading Flag Origami
Portland Flag Association 