olafur eliasson
Posted on | April 7, 2009 | No Comments
very cool stuff. organized by the sf moma, the museum of contemporary art in chicago will open its doors for olafur eliasson’s “take your time: olafur eliasson” exhibition between may, 1 and september, 13. it is the first comprehensive survey in the usa of works by olafur eliasson, whose immersive environments, sculptures, and photographs elegantly recreate the extremes of landscape and atmosphere in his native scandinavia, while foregrounding the sensory experience of the work itself.
drawn from collections worldwide, the presentation spans over fifteen years of eliasson’s career. his constructions, at once eccentric and highly geometric, use multicolored washes, focused projections of light, mirrors, and elements such as water, stone, and moss to shift the viewer’s perception of place and self.
also, check out the website for this exhibition, like it. moma.org/…
klamauk – or hullabaloo, in a good way
Posted on | April 6, 2009 | No Comments
check out the music label klamauk (which basically means hullabaloo) from mainz, germany. founded by tilman schwarz, michael fluhr and karsten brommenschenkel in august 2008. the label focuses on techno and house (or as they’d describe it: microfunk) releases.
not only do i actually like the music but the guys running the show came up with a cool web device. because the first vinyl release was a black and white print with individual hand coloration from each artist the guys from klamauk wanted to keep the individual element to their releases alive even for mp3 cover art. the website was realized by euro rscg 4d in duesseldorf, germany.
design your cover at klamauk.net/digital and listen to their music at juno or itunes.
trash art
Posted on | April 3, 2009 | No Comments
very graphic, like it. the italian artist moreno di trapani has created a unique installation in reaction to the garbage crisis in naples, italy. di trapani placed hundreds of stuffed garbage bags into an empty building in the northern city of tradate. the building facade overflows with the bags, which “ooze out of the windows and out of the doors; the garbage piles up on the balcony.”
trainloads of naples garbage (some of which had radioactivity levels eighty times the norm), collected by the italian army, have been shipped to hamburg, germany last year to be processed. love it.
let the germans process the trash.
(photo by gianpietro malosio, text partly from jennifer allen, artforum)
“pins and threads” by debbie smyth
Posted on | March 17, 2009 | No Comments
like this a lot! it is art that’s not only thoughtful but also artful and artistic in a literal sense. on a first glimpse just black and white, 2d graphical that turns with the second look into a delicate and complex 3d installation. debbie smyth was selected as one of the most promising graduates of 2008 for the dezeen talent zone. her installation pins & threads uses, as the title suggests, sewing pins and black thread to draw a series of electricity pylons across several canvas panels.
the technique transforms ordinary structures — often thought of as ugly blots on the landscape — into beautifully minimal graphic drawings, which are at once 2D and 3D, anchored to their panels but also floating in space.
debbie smyth graduated from the west wales school of arts in 2008 and describes herself as a constructed textile artist. her work employs “an array of mechanisms, she folds, collapses, inflates and interlocks her materials to transform two-dimensional lines and planes into three-dimensional shapes and space.”
