“Your Chance Encounter” by Olafur Eliasson
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson presents his work called ‘Your Chance Encounter’ in a large solo exhibition held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
Contemplating the Void, Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York
The void… a scientific concept brought into fiction through art. “Contemplating the Void” is an amazing exhibition gathering 200 creative projects from both emerging and world-renowned artists, in celebration of 50 years of the NY Guggenheim museum. Ways how the central void of the building was filled without restrictions to realism and practicality are explored with the original works of Anish Kapoor, designers Fernando and Humberto Campana, and architects such as Álvaro Siza Vieira Arquitecto and BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group).
“Rainbow Church” by Tokujin Yoshioka
At the exhibition of Tokujin Yoshioka, which opens from May 1st, he will present his dream project “Rainbow Church”, a large scale straw installation for the first time in Aisa, and many more.
The idea of this architecture project “Rainbow Church” dates back to when Tokujin wan in early 20s.
Tokujin visited the Chapelle du Rosaire located in Venice. He was impressed to see the world of Matisse being expressed by the sunlight of the Provence.
Since then, he had been dreaming of designing an architecture were people can feel the light with all senses.
Approximately 8-meter-high stained glass made with 500 crystal prisms will be filling the space with rainbow colours as the light shines on it.
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Ivan Navarro, “Die”
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Iván Navarro. An exhibition of Navarro’s new sculpture “Die,” (2009) will take place from December 10-December 23, 2009 at 511 W. 27th Street.
Iván Navarro’s work, constructed mainly out of fluorescent tubing and electrical materials, transmits social and political commentary in a functional, complex and visually stunning sculptural format.
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Radical Nature Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, Exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery
The beauty and wonder of nature have provided inspiration for artists and architects for centuries. Since the 1960s, the increasingly evident degradation of the natural world and the effects of climate change have brought a new urgency to their responses. Radical Nature is the first exhibition to bring together key figures across different generations who have created utopian works and inspiring solutions for our ever-changing planet.
Boundaries of Desire, Exhibition by Terry Rodgers
The Scheringa Museum will organise the first solo European museum exhibition of American painter Terry Rodgers (1947). With 20 large paintings and a number of sketches, the museum will present an overview of Rodgers’ unique oeuvre as it has developed over the past 10 years.
Rodgers, who exhibits his work around the world, is as talented as he is controversial. His very realistic and dynamic figurative pieces depict a world in which the ‘young and beautiful’ occupy a prominent place. However, the wealth, beauty and promiscuity cannot conceal the emptiness of their lives.
Body Worlds by Professor Gunther von Hagens
All the bodies belonged to people who authorised the use of their bodies after their deaths for the educational benefit of medical professionals and non-professionals alike.
The specimens are preserved by plastination – an impregnational technique carried out in a vacuum where the body tissue is saturated with special plastics.
This technique was invented by the exhibition’s creator, Professor Gunther von Hagens. Plastination lends a high degree of rigidity to the tissue, enabling bodies to be displayed in upright, lifelike poses.
The Water Hole by Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger
Collaborators since 1997, Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger bring together found and made objects for their extravagant installations. They have brought their fairy-tale world to Australia to create The Water Hole in Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Steiner and Lenzlinger create site-specific fantasias and interactive wonderlands that are an adaptation of nature through synthesis.
Called The Water Hole, it begins as a winding, arched corridor. With its proverbial silver lining, the passage is a shimmering cavern, an underground river decked in spacesuit material that rustles with the air currents of your movement. The slithery texture is supported by sticks, but you can almost imagine that they’re the roots of heavy trees above.
At the end of this quivering canal you come to a spooky rainforest with old plumbing and dangling debris — buckets and spiders, matted wire and drink bottles. Hanging items drop downward like stalactites. You walk around the trashy plastic cave with a sense of awe, as if inspecting the natural marvels of speleology.
The Manifest Hope: DC, Photo Exhibition
The MANIFEST HOPE: DC Gallery is an art exhibition produced by EMG. It celebrates that role and shines a spotlight on artists who use their voices to amplify and motivate the grassroots movement that carried President-Elect Barack Obama to victory.
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“Exposure” Exhibition by Tierney Gearon
American artist Tierney Gearon will be showing a series of large-scale photography at Phillips de Pury auction house employing a new process for the artist. Each photograph, contrived through the classic mechanism of double exposure in camera, has been composed by carefully combining two of the artist’s images whose compositions and themes act as counterpoints to each other: interior space and wilderness; youth and old age; solitude and companionship. The result is a powerful exploration of psychological terrain.
“Systematic Landscapes Exhibition de Young Museum, San Francisco at Maya Lin
“Systematic Landscapes” is a show of sculpture and installation by Maya Lin. Lin has focused on a reconsideration of landscape in a time of ecological tension and change. This body of work engages the issue of our fragile connection to the environment in timely and poetic ways.
The exhibition, which explores notions of landscape and geologic phenomena, is scheduled to run from October 25, 2008, to January 18, 2009, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
Dissipations Exhibition by Robert Stadler
Dissipations is an exhibition by designer Robert Stadler, opens at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris this weekend.This series of furniture is made of stacked boards that are lacquered or upholstered.
Voussoir Cloud by IwamotoScott Architecture at SCI-Arc Exhibition
The SCI-Arc Gallery present Voussoir Cloud, a site-specific installation by San Francisco based architecture and design practice IwamotoScott in collaboration with Buro Happold. Voussoir Cloud’s design explores the coupling of potentially conflicting constructional logics – the pure compression of a vault with an ultra-light sheet material.
August 11, 2008 - Category: Architecture, Art, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 3
Kinetic Car Sculpture at the BMW Museum
Can you imagine a wave of ondulating orbs that appear to weightlessly float? This impressive kinetic sculpture made of 714 metallic balls is exhibited at BMW museum, Munich. The balls dance, flow and the shape of a vintage motor.
Check out the video and see the installation in action.
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Hugh Holland’s Exhibition
Adolescent males dominate “Angels: Street, Skate, Seventies,” a show of Hugh Holland’s photographs that are the product of his encounter with the emerging counter culture of skateboarders in the seventies. It was in 1975, while driving along Laurel Canyon Boulevard, that Holland became aware of the young boys swooping and swirling along the drained pools and began taking shot of them.
Hugh Holland exhibits his work at “Colette” shop in Paris until the 1st of July.
June 29, 2006 - Category: Art, Exhibiton, Photography - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 2
La Force De l’Art, Grand Palais, Paris
Nicknamed the “Exposition Villepin”, La Force De l’Art, which will run until June 25 is the first exhibition in the newly restored Grand Palais, Paris. Intended as a showpiece for contemporary art in France, the exhibition seems to be a mixed bag of highlights from the last 40 or so years. You will find the work of Bertrand Lavier, Raymond Hain and others famous artists.
What’s really interesting in that exhibition is that there’s sometimes more emphasis on the artist than on the art work.
Maya Lin’s Systematic Lanscape
The exhibition is on view through September 3, 2006. Organized by Henry Art Gallery, focuses on a trio of large-scale sculptural installations that offer a different means for viewers to encounter and comprehend the landscape. 2×4 Landscape is a vast hill or wave built of 65,000 boards set on end; Wire Landscape, a distorted grid in space, can be walked under or viewed from above.
Iluminar
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“From the darkness to the light”: Iluminar is not a design exhibition about the light but a light exhibition about the design.
Leading by our favorite designer Fernando and Humberto Campana, the exhibition is bringing together 250 masterpiece of lighting signed by more than 100 designer.
The scenario, from darkness to light and back again, is inspired by the rhythm of the day, as well as seasons, and life. They reenact the colors of a day and bring you to a fantastic world of colors.
