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Designers Luca Nichetto and Oki Sato of Nendo have pooled their creativity to create a joint collection under the title ‘Nichetto=Nendo’ at Foro Buonaparte 48. The collaboration was inspired by a creative process in Japanese culture whereby one person composes the first three lines (kami no ku) of a short poem known as a tanka, …
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A new mural on the side of a skyscraper in Sao Paulo, Brazil, pay homage to the late genius Oscar Niemeyer. Enjoy the stunning work by Eduardo Kobra. Image via http://www.streetartnews.com
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I found this great author over at BrainPickings and I would like to share it with those moved by graphic design. Iconic Designer Massimo Vignelli on Intellectual Elegance My favorite quote from the discovery Signore Massimo Vignelli
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MoMA PS1 presents Warm Up 2012, beginning July 7 and taking place every Saturday this summer through September 8. Now celebrating its 15th year, the museum’s highly anticipated outdoor series will continue its tradition of seamlessly blending “experimental” music, art, culture and the culturally curious inhabitants of the five New York City boroughs. The annual …
Lidewij Edelkoort, trend forecaster and visionary from Paris has developed an exhibition concept for MOTI, Museum of the Image in Breda: it is called The Pop-Up Generation, Design Between Dimensions. Listen here as Edelkoort tells us a bit more about this cultural phenomena.
Happy Friday!
Photo: Sandro Fornasier
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ILLUMInations (4th June to 27th November).
The 54th edition of the international modern art exhibit that is Biennale di Venezia, is underway in the city of Venice, Italy right now. Incredible to know that it has been going on since 1895.You may also have heard of the International Venice Film Festival which happens in conjunction with the Biennale.
The title chosen for the 2011 edition of the Biennale is evocative and compelling, ILLUMInations is a reference to poetry, writing, to the Biennale’s very structure composed of national pavilions. However the most important message this tittle illustrates is the one of art’s intrinsic characteristic: it’s unique and illuminating experience. The grounds are set up with two main exhibition areas, The Giardini and The Arsenal, which will give you moments of extreme density and others of greater breath.
An impressive arts, dance, film and cultural organization expanding the gardens of Venice and setting the stage for the interpretations of hundreds of artists from Spain to Israel who have transformed their country’s pavilion in to a statement of personal meaning, national expression, emotional turmoil at times and hopefully ILLUMInation. Below I take a closer look at some of the pavilions I was most struck with…
France
The French Pavilion curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, presents a new installation by French artist Christian Boltanski. The installation, titled “Chance“, deals with the themes that are characteristic for Boltanski’s work: chance, luck and misfortune.
Venezuela
Holland
España
After arriving to Piazza Roma with a couple friends the first thing to do with a bunch of Italians is eat & drink. Once we had some homemade beer and and few pounds of cured meats we were ready to hop on a vapporetto and navigate to the ‘giardini’ to arrive at one of the two main exhibition areas in the Gardens of Venezia. The lush backdrop of the gardens is a most idyllic canvas for all of the modern art expression to reveal itself as you enter the pavilions. Yes the buzz from lunch helps too!
Starting with Spain you’re perplexed by the simplicity of the artist’s interpretation to the more elaborate German, French and Venezuelan pavilions. [See videos and Photos] With modern art there is not any one meaning to a work or works, all you can gather is an experience and perhaps emotions which is a powerful measure of the work itself.
Personally I thought the fair is unlike any other, there is no art for sale, most importantly the emphasis on the representation of a country through a message, I found very compelling. For me the day spent in the Gardens was one I’ll never forget. It’s truly something to see and do, even more so if you are a modern art enthusiast.
United States
Korea
Canada
The artist is Vancouverite Steven Shearer, known for his engagements with near and distant pasts—namely, with the hard-rock and heavy-metal iconography of the 1970s and 1980s, and its visual resonance with the longhaired bohemians and symbolist reveries of late 19th-century European painting.
Germany
The Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Best National Participation was given to Germany this year for Christoph Schliengensief’s multi-disciplinary practice “that is intense, committed, and possesses a strong personal vision.”
For more info beyond what you find here please visit the official website for the Biennale.
Architecture that promotes happiness
Sugamo Shinkin Bank is a Tokyo based banking group that promotes architecture as a means of providing a necessary service to their customers; so much so that their motto is, “We are happy when we make you happy.” After having already commissioned two projects, the director of Sugamo Shinkin Bank asked Moureaux to design the Shimura branch for which he requested a colourful, cheerful building that would make people forget the seriousness of being in a bank.
Shikiri, division by color
Inspired by Japanese sliding panels, Emmanuelle Moureaux—a French architect who has operated for more than a decade in Japan—has developed shikiri, a new concept that literally means “to divide space with color.”
In the project for the Sugamo Shinkin Bank, she invented what she calls “Millefeuille Rainbow,” a rainbow-colored 12-layered “puff pastry” that emerges from of the building’s main facade to welcome bank customers luminously. Looking up becomes spontaneous, and according to Moreaux, the view of the sky can put people in a better mood—naturally.
Happiness lights up by night
What an innovative architectural masterpiece. Not only is visually striking by day but at night, the colored layers are illuminated. The light varies depending on season and time of day, creating a myriad of landscapes. For more information please check out “An Architecture report from Tokyo by Salvator-John A. Liotta.“
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Architecture is one of my interests and if you have read this blog before you know so. Today I bring you the 2011 Pritzker prize winner and his celebrated work. For those who are not familiar with this award, it’s the equivalent of the Novel Prize, this is the highest honor you can receive in this field.
This years winner, Mr. Souto de Moura, who lives and works in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, is deeply respected in the field but is not as well known internationally as many previous Pritzker winners. He is the second Portuguese architect to win the prize; the first, in 1992, was Alvaro Siza, for whom Mr. Souto de Moura worked at the beginning of his career.
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Below is a photo retrospective of some of the works and if you would like to read on please click here.
