Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
Monday, November 7th, 2011
Earthscraper, Mexico City. Designed by BNKR Arquitectura BNKR Arquitectura www.bunkerarquitectura.com © Copyright BNKR
“The Earthscraper is the Skyscraper’s antagonist,” said a spokesman from BNKR Arquitectura describing their latest venture in densely packed Mexico City. Their proposal is to drill downwards, inverting a skyscraper that would extend 65 stories under ground, circumventing restrictive local laws that prevent building skywards higher than 8 stories.
Bosco Verticale - Architectural Design: BOERISTUDIO (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra)
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Tags: bosco verticale, carbon, earthscraper, Energy, Environment, Lazarides, Mexico, Milan, trees, vertical forest
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Sculpteur de Nourissons - detail © Charles Matton, Courtesy All Visual Arts, Photo: Tessa Angus
Sculpteur de Nourissons © Charles Matton, Courtesy All Visual Arts, Photo: Tessa Angus
A retrospective of handmade miniature interiors by
Charles Matton is on exhibit in London’s
All Visual Arts gallery. Matton, who died in 2008 of lung cancer, built ‘Boxes,’ that recreated artist studios and mise-en-scènes, emotive still-frames of inhabited interiors, empty hotel hallways, lonesome ateliers and imaginary boîtes. Poking one’s head inside one of Matton’s enclosures is being Gulliver trespassing into another reality and expecting the room’s lilliputian occupants to return any moment.
The fascination with doll’s houses is that we glorify our need for tidying and collecting objects with imperial strokes and a make-belief sense of omniscience. Replicating the world exactly had been Matton’s passions, and his artistic journey began with painting hyperreal interiors that he eventually extrapolated into three-dimensions, creating rooms with walls exactly as he would have painted them on canvas, drawing cracks on the patina, filtering sun and shade on the furniture, miniaturizing the effects of light itself.
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Tags: Alberto Giacometti, Baudrillard, Charles Matton, Francis Bacon, Jean Baudrillard, Kisa Lala, London, new york, Sigmund Freud, Sylvie Matton
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
©Patrick Witty - here is new york - exhibition at School of Visual Arts
Ten years ago, on just another week like this, with New Yorkers speeding to their next meetings, racing for subways with coffee in hand, and models primping for Fall Fashion week – a morning like any other suddenly unraveled. The following moments would gnaw at collective memories, punctuate lives, and instigate a series of devastating world events. It was a tragic start to the new century and an ominous beginning for the new millennium. It was America’s passage from puberty. Some still recollect their movements in dreamlike sequence, whether it was the moment of becoming first aware, escaping the avalanche of dust, peering from rooftops at the collapsing towers, or just smelling the acrid vapours alone in one’s room…
As seen from the world trade center in 2000- Horizonte Perdido, 2000 ©Roberto Linsker, Courtesy of 1500 Gallery, NYC
Tags: 1500 gallery, Christian Sievers, Elena del Rivero, New Museum, new york, new york fashion, New York Historical Society, Photographs, School of Visual Arts, september 11, Tim Barber, World Trade Center, wtc
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Batman inspired Thierry Mugler boat - The Thierry Mugler Spire Speedboat
Speed-freaks and fashionistas will dig the Batman boat by runway designer Thierry Mugler modeled by Spire Boat Builder, set to debut in September this year in the 2011 Monaco Yacht show. The boat is a blend of nostalgic 50s era chrome and tailfin-inspired car aesthetic with the comic book style of Bat mobiles. But designing for a floating lifestyle maybe a new trend.
Aquariva by Marc Newson
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Tags: Aquariva by Marc Newson, Dakis Joannou, Dennis Ingemansson, Gagosian, Italian, Jeff Koons, Monaco, Roy Lichtenstein, speed boat, speedboat, Thierry Mugler, Yacht
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
Mouth Eyes, 2009, video still, © Jessica Harrison
Jessica Harrison’s artworks are discomfitingly tactile, triggering a collision of senses, and sometimes even, immediate recoil. In this video still, Mouth Eyes, she places lips in the eye sockets, resulting in involuntary synesthesia in the viewer.
Harrison deconstructs the body, defining its interior space in relation to the exterior world of sensations, not just as a simple duality but an osmotic plane, exploring, as she describes it, “a complex chasm of surfaces and sensations that relate to and transgress one another. Rather than being a stable entity, the body emerges as one that is in constant flux, shifting, stretching, snapping, softening.”
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Tags: Jessica Harrison, new york, Times Square Gallery
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
By Aaron Barr
'Braindrop' - Photo by Marc Whalen
At the Escape to New York festival in Southampton earlier this month, I found myself sitting inside a 17-foot tall sculpture called Braindrop alongside it’s creator, Kate Raudenbush, and a mix of good friends and strangers. With eloquence and charm, Kate explained her inspiration for the artwork and how to best experience it – from the inside, lying on one’s back, looking up into the vortex – which reveals a surprisingly breathtaking, kaleidoscope effect.
Kate Raudenbush is a New York City-based sculpture artist who uses symbolism for social commentary and self-reflection. Integral to her work is the public’s participation, so it was nothing short of kismet that we found ourselves, friends and strangers alike, conversing and sharing, while inside a huge steel drop of water.
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Tags: Art, Burning Man, Escape to New York, Escape2NY, experience, experiential, festival, installation, Kate Raudenbush, Music, new york, Sculpture, Southampton
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Gypsy woman showing her golden smile - Romania - © Photo Kisa Lala 2011
Living on the edges of townships in the grey zones between cities, the Gypsies of Central Europe stay off the grid. Myths, rumours, lies cloud their histories for they leave few traces and heed no rules, instead, they live off the land, and sometimes they beg, thieve and steal.
Count Kalnoky tells me, that at his residence, in the village of Miklosvar in Romania, where I was staying as a guest, he was indeed wireless: the gypsies had cut the cables to fence the copper for their lawless trade.
The roving life seems romantic, but it’s not for the timid. To winter in open fields, to bed in barns, wagons, trailers means Gypsies are strong in their will to be free. They barter for work and stow their riches in silver and gold, knowing it can’t burn like paper, or vanish when people stop believing in its value. Gypsies are always on the move but when they halt, they build silvery houses, knowing if all else fails, they can just melt the metals and leave.
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Tags: Gypsy, Iain McKell, Kisa Lala, Miklosvar, Patrick Cariou, Photography, Romania, Romanies
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
EVOL 2011 © All rights reserved by evoldaily
EVOL 2011, Hamburg, Germany © All rights reserved by evoldaily
In a similar vein to
Kiefer’s film,
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, but in an altogether different context – is the art project by German street artist
EVOL for Hamburg’s
MS Dockville Music Festival being held August 12-14, 2011.
Usually the artist creates urban stenciled work on city walls – of prison-like, pre-fab buildings and drab housing projects, but when asked to create an installation for the music festival, he was confronted with a natural landscape with grassy fields. Describing the space Evol says, “Usually I prefer to work on site by interfering with already existing structures,” but instead he found, “endless meadows, trees and blue sky.”
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Tags: Berlin, Dresden, EVOL, Germany, Hamburg, Street art
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
Film still from Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, 2010 Directed by Sophie Fiennes.
Sophie Fiennes’ film Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, is a meditative and mostly wordless portrait of Anselm Kiefer’s studio in Barjac in France. Keifer left his native Germany in 1993 and took over a derelict silk factory, La Ribaute, in the South of France. It was an industrial landscape surrounded by woods, which Kiefer transformed by excavating subterranean passages, caverns and tunnels to create an ever-evolving architectural space.
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Tags: Anselm Kiefer, Anton Corbijn, Film Forum, La Ribaute, New York City, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Sophie Fiennes
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Fencing Classes. Christoph Büchel Piccadilly Community Centre Hauser & Wirth, London
One of the more curious shows I witnessed in London was at Hauser & Wirth’s Piccadilly gallery, which had been transformed into a Community Centre by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel. The change was so complete that I initially walked right past the gallery’s premises, which had removed any signs of its former status as an exhibition space. Even the galleries nameplate had been dismantled and replaced by standard billboards and announcements associated with events at the new pop-up community centre. The gallery’s sudden reversal into a non-profit centre for the under-privileged notably clashed with its location in the posh enclaves of Central London.
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Tags: Christoph Büchel, Hauser & Wirth, Kisa Lala
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