{"id":3060,"date":"2012-05-03T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2012\/05\/03\/nick-gentry-floppy-disks-for-canvas\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:02:00","slug":"nick-gentry-floppy-disks-for-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2012\/05\/03\/nick-gentry-floppy-disks-for-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Gentry: floppy disks for canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The British artist Nicholas James Gentry was born in London on 29 May 1980. He still lives and works there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the <strong>Olympics <\/strong>in the British capital as a highlight of the sporting year and of the athletics season, the organisers of the <strong>Memorial <\/strong>could not have wished for a more suited artist to design the poster of the 2012 edition.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork by Nicholas, <strong>Nick Gentry <\/strong>says, is influenced by the increased use and impact of technology, and the consumerism in contemporary society. He often uses already processed materials and artifacts in his works.<\/p>\n<p>His big break as a painter came with a series of paintings, in which &quot;<strong>floppy disks<\/strong>&quot; and <strong>VHS tapes <\/strong>formed the canvas. With it Gentry emphasised reuse and recycling of all kinds of personal objects.<\/p>\n<p>Such as the painting that will be the Memorial poster. It uses copper wire in the canvas.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Gentry successfully exhibited in cities such as his own <strong>London<\/strong>, but also in <strong>New York <\/strong>and <strong>Miami<\/strong>.<br \/>In <strong>Belgium<\/strong>, his work is distributed by <strong>Absolute Art Gallery<\/strong>, which has branches in <strong>Bruges <\/strong>(4 Dyver) and <strong>Knokke <\/strong>(285 Kustlaan and 806 Zeedijk).<link http:\/\/www.absoluteartgallery.com>www.absoluteartgallery.com<\/link>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British artist Nicholas James Gentry was born in London on 29 May 1980. He still lives and...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}