I once met someone who collected old family portraits because he felt sorry for the people in it. He thought that they would be very sad knowing they ended up in a garbage can because nobody cared anymore, so he made it his task to save them.

It was a wonderful story and the same feeling came right back to me when I saw the work of  Anthony Goicolea. 

Inspired by old studio portraits of his long-dead relatives, he reproduced them in pencil as if they were negatives, and then photographed them as missing-person posters – appended to streetlights, trees and buildings.

The result is a series where I find, in Goicolea’s words, “the strange sense of nostalgia for something I have never been a part of or experienced directly.”

 Website: www.anthonygoicolea.com

‘Super Flat artists create their own version of popular culture to draw attention to the dominance of media, entertainment and consumption,’ 村上 隆

Takashi Murakami, has made his final pit-stop over in Spain at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao after stops in Los Angeles, New York and Germany.With a complete selection of over 90 works in different media he has created a dizzying world filled with mood flowers, singing moss, magic mushrooms and morphing creatures and  he didn’t stop at the museum. So imagine an entire city packaged with Murakami’s bright palette of pop, the flatness of traditional Japanese art and some Surrealist movement elements.

Now I’m only waiting for a jellyfish eyed plain to take me there.