Author: Giorgio Armani Location: Via Bergognone, 40, 20144 Milano, Italy Original Construction Year: 1950 Year: 2015 Photographs: Davide Lovatti
Classics: Palais de Tokyo // Jean-Claude Dondel, André Aubert, Paul Viard, Marcel Dastugue + Lacaton&Vassal
Architects: Jean-Claude Dondel, André Aubert, Paul Viard, Marcel Dastugue + Lacaton&Vassal Location: Paris, France Year: 1937/2002 Photographs: +Plans: Courtsey of Chair Caruso St John ETH Zurich
Teshima Art Museum // Ryue Nishizawa
Architects: Ryue Nishizawa Location: Takamatsu Port, Japan Year: 2010 Photographs: Iwan Baan, Courtsey of Nishizawa, Noboru Morikawa
Classics: St.Agnes // Brandlhuber X Düttmann
Architects: Brandlhuber X Düttmann
Location: Berlin
Year: 2013 X 1967
Photography: Philipp Langenheim, Courtsey of FvF, Brandlhuber
A++ // Matteo Cremonesi
A++ exhibition by Matteo Cremonesi
A photographic practice grounded on close-ups, which pays a special attention to creating synthetic, impersonal, austere, ephemeral, formally balanced, polite images, that describe and express the detail, what’s minute, the “skin” or thin surface of things over and over. Attributing and assigning to such tendency for formalization the ability to emotionally narrate attitudes and the meaning of a discourse, or maybe, more simply, just a “sensitivity”.
Cremonesi proposes a reconfiguration of landscape photography, which, from the static take onto the common object moves towards a surfacing practice, expressed through the innocence and ambiguity of the latter. It is also framed by the effects of patinas and by the helplessness of the look.
"Sculptures" is a series of works composed of collections (Bin, Printer, Photocopier, Washer, Camera, Mirror) of photographic images of everyday objects. The images report subjects, shapes, materials. Lingering on them through repeated formal cuts to investigate their characteristics. The search for an ideal dimension of the subject together with the attempt to look at it as if recording natural subjects becomes a chance to carry out a perceptual reflection with the purpose of producing a representation of the contemporary technological habitat which could establish a connection with the very perception of what is “natural”.
A++ by artist Matteo Cremonesi at Jarach Gallery in Venice.
Still on till November 8th.
Photography: Courtsey of Matteo Cremonesi
Das gelbe Haus // Valerio Olgiati
Architects: Valerio Olgiati
Location: Flims, Switzerland
Year: 1999
Das gelbe Haus
Photographs: Wikipedia, waullye.blogspot.fr, e-architect.co.uk, arch’it, artisan, archinfo.it, Francesca Vitale
Im-materiality No.3 // Ebbe Stub Wittrup + Troels Sandegård
Im-materiality No. 3 (Consciousness) by Ebbe Stub Wittrup + Troels Sandegård
"Im-materiality No.3" is a collective exhibition, held at the Sorø Kunstmuseum.
The exhibition is curated by Brigitte Kirkhoff Eriksen, and presents itself as follows:
"Can we even understand the material world that lies outside of ourselves? Can we separate ourselves from it? How can we pose the question "what is real?" if "we cannot understand what is real unless we understand what 'what' means, and we cannot understand what 'what' means without understanding what 'means' is, but we cannot hope to understand what 'means' is without understanding what 'is' means." (Ray Brassier)
"We could give up right away. Nevertheless, Im-materiality No.3 will venture an attempt at describing the relationship between the consciousness and the surrounding world, between thought and thing, the immaterial and the material. The exhibition asks a lot of questions to which it offers no clear-cut answers. For the consciousness is an unsolved riddle and no one knows if it resides in one place or indeed everywhere."
Danish artists Ebbe Stub Wittrup + Troels Sandegård work with superstition and the creation of myths, optical illusions and tricks of the mind in his art. They take inspiration from psychology, theosophy, gestalt and colour theory, and they're ability of challenging and disturbing our logical and rational interaction with the world.
Sticks and Stones // David Chipperfield
Architect: David Chipperfield
Location: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Year: 2014
Photographs: David von Becker
// Installation Art by Antony Gormley
// Installation Art + Sculptures by Antony Gormley
British artist Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has been widely exhibited throughout international exhibitions.
The objects hover between being architecture and being an image of architecture. Contained objects in a defined internal space.
In the Ropac Gallery installation, all the lights were removed and the frames were painted with two layers of phosphorescent paint that absorbed light during the day and emitted it at night. In the night-mode the work assumes an unstable position between the virtual and the real.
For more news check his page for an insight into his art practice and the studio.
all images courtesy of Antony Gormley
// Muller van Severen
// Muller van Severen
"Muller van Severen" is another great design export from Belgium.
The design of Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen, who are also both practicing as visual artists, is something in between art and furniture. They call it a 'furniture project'.The duo met in Gent, where Fien was studying photography and Hannes plastics. No wonder their collections can be seen as pieces of art and remind of sculptural objects.
The furniture is made of a thin wire structure, that frames the sculpture and has a transparent character. Like 'drawings in a space' thats how the designer like to call it. The minimalistic use of material and construction leads to clear forms and an own timeless aesthetic.
We are pretty sure that we will hear a lot more about their great designs in the future!
If you are also in love with their work, try to step by the new exhibition of their design at Gallery Valerie_Traan in Antwerp till 25 of October!
photography by Muller van Severen