Posts Tagged ‘zaha hadid’
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Glasstress: © Jaume Plensa, Glassman, 2004
Glasstress is an arts project that sponsors and exhibits artists, architects, designers working in the medium of glass – The exhibition in Venice was conceived by Adriano Berengo of the Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, and produced by Venice Projects and the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) of New York, who will be hosting the exhibition at a future date.
Works were exhibited by artists Jaume Plensa, Vik Muniz, Nabil Nahas, Kiki Smith, Doug and Mike Starn, Pharrell Williams, Zaha Hadid (whose work was not completed in time) and Erwin Wurm among many others. Plensa’s glass body above with its blood red fluid is a reminder of the flow of gravity after death.
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Tags: Adriano Berengo, Doug and Mike Starn, Erwin Wurm, Glasstress, Jaume Plensa, Kiki Smith, MAD Musuem, Museum of Arts and Design, Nabil Nahas, Pharrell Williams, Venice Biennale, Vik Muniz, zaha hadid
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
Vincent Callebaut Lilypad, A Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees, 2008 Digital rendering, dimensions variable © Vincent Callebaut Architectures
Ant Farm's 1969 work, 50×50′ Pillow for the Whole Earth Catalog led to the commission to build the medical tent at Altamont.
By Kiša Lala
The new independent film Space Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm, directed by Laura Harrison and Elizabeth Federici is a biography of the renegade architecture outfit Ant Farm that operated in the 60s and 70s counter-culture movement and pioneered the use of many architectural design devices, technologically ahead of their times.
In Europe there were other radical /guerilla architecture organizations around like Archigrams (UK) and SuperStudio (Italy) whose theoretical inventions were then put to practice by AntFarm in the USA. Their subversive, alternative ideas fertilized the possibility of overturning old-habits. As an ‘underground’ collective, Ant Farm, funded most of their own projects and focused on urban designs that were temporary, nomadic and malleable – opposite of the dominant style. They were also exponents of Buckminster Fuller’s assault against the right angles of traditional architecture.
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Shoji Sadao Dome over Manhattan, ca. 1960 Silver gelatine print, 34.9 x 46.7 cm Courtesy: The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
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Tags: Ant Farm, Archigrams, Architecture, Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, Diller Scofidio, Elizabeth Federici, Guerilla, Hirshhorn Museum, inflatables, Kisa Lala, Laura Harrison, Marc Newson, new york, Nomad, SuperStudio, Vincent Callebaut, Water Cube, zaha hadid
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 Designed by Jean Nouvel© Ateliers Jean Nouvel Photo: Philippe Ruault
The Serpentine Gallery in London’s Hyde Park is having a slumber party right at the heels of their annual summer party, which took place around their 10th and latest eye-catching Pavilion, designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel.
Nouvel’s scarlet Pavilion set the scene for the darlings of the British art set attending. Ron Arad, Antony Gormley, Gavin Turk, Dinos Chapman, Sir Peter Blake, Grace Jones, Tracey Emin and model Lily Cole were among the guests invited to play ping-pong and tennis with champion players and have their heartbeats recorded by French artist Christian Boltanski’s installation The Heart Archive. Also on view in the permanent galleries inside was the summer show of new inkjet prints by Wolfgang Tillmans.
July 8 2010 Summer Party at Serpentine Gallery, London, England. L to R: Dinos Chapman and Keith Tyson, Sir Peter Blake and Chrissie Blake, Tracey Emin. Photo: Nick Harvey
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Tags: Antony Gormley, Cecil Balmond, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Libeskind, Dinos Chapman, Frank Gehry, Gavin Turk, Grace Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jean Nouvel, Julia Peyton-Jones, Kisa Lala, Lily Cole, London, Rem Koolhaas, Ron Arad, Serpentine Gallery, Sir Peter Blake, tracey emin, Wolfgang Tillmans, zaha hadid
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
By Helen Shih
Anish Kapoor, "Widow" (courtesy of Anish Kapoor Studio)
Rome is the home of classical art and architecture such as the Coliseum, St. Peter’s Basilica, and the Sistine Chapel, but its art scene is changing as the city attempts to modernize itself. Several years ago, Richard Meier updated the Roman architectural landscape with the Ara Pacis Museum. The structure was built over an existing building that houses the Ara Pacis Augustae, a sacrificial altar dating to 9 B.C.
Rome’s latest venture, the Maxxi, or the National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, is the city’s first national museum of contemporary art. No relics lie in Maxxi, where Zaha Hadid’s flowing lights and staircases wind through the space ensconced in concrete. The debut collection includes work from artists such as Gilbert and George, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. Not to be missed is Anish Kapoor’s 2004 sculpture “Widow,” a 15 meter long black tube consisting of PVC coasted polyester fabric that flares out like a horn. (more…)
Tags: Anish Kapoor, contemporary art, gerhard richter, gilbert and george, maxxi, new zealand, olympics, orbit, richard meier, rome, the farm, the widow, william kentridge, zaha hadid
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