Art Barter – the platform for free exhange between artists and the public – is holding an art-swapping event from the 27th to the 29th of November. Usual suspects like Gary Hume, Tracy Emin and Gavin Turk are amongst the artists who have work on offer, as well as a list of bright young things.
In curator Lauren Jones’ words:
“We want to make art available to a more diverse crowd, not just people with disposable income. ArtBarter is the perfect setting to make this happen, whilst also providing a fun way to get people involved with the arts.”
Great concept! The event will be held at the Rag Factory in east London, the former studio of Tracey Emin and Gary Hume. Sponsor Green&Black’s will be showcasing a piece of ‘Chocol’art’ made by Sir Peter Blake.
Don’t forget to bring something. Who knows, you might be able to swap your fancy bike, web design skills or hairdressing talent for a piece of art!
Nice weekend read: link to the Sightunseen blog which has a post on the witty Greek design trio Greece is for lovers. Their work is based on Greek cliches. The skateboard below put a smile on my post-Friday-night-hangover face!
Sightunseen: ‘The idea behind their products is to reflect an outsider’s naive perspective on Greece, perpetuated by tourism campaigns like “Greece Is For Lovers” in the ’70s and “Build Your Myth” in recent years.’
Work by Greece is for Lovers: Athens antennae & Gladiator skateboard for Greek Skateboard company Propaganda.
If you are crazy about maps – it definitely runs in my family – pop down to the England & Co gallery on Westbourne Grove, London. Their ‘The map is not the territory – Revisited’ show runs until the 28th of November and includes cartographic and map related artworks by Chris Kenny, Jason Wallis-Johnson and Grayson Perry amongst others.
Jason Wallis-Johnson’s ‘Manhattan, Seismic Shift’ tryptich turns NYC in an urban mountain resort. That’s my kind of winter wonderland!
Title: Tom Foulsham – The table that can tell stories and other contraptions
Location: 123 Pancras Road London NW1 1UN
Link out: Click here
Date: 13th November – 5th December 2009 : Visit the show and talk to the artist : Thursdays + Fridays 1pm-7pm Saturdays 10am-6.30pm weekly.
RSVP essential – see link out
Info by gallery: An intriguing insight into the workings of mechanisms, everyday science and the interaction and play between machine and spectator.
A first UK solo show of Tom Foulsham’s machines and an insight into his process.
Tom Foulsham born in 1981 studied Architecture at the Bartlett and was an architectural assistant at Arad Associates.
He went on to study Design Products MA at the Royal College of Art, graduating this summer 2009, under the tutorledge of Ron Arad.
He exhibited his ‘ Balancing Shelves’ at Pecha Kucha ICA in 2007.
He showed his ‘ Candle Balance’ as part of the V&A group exhibition ‘In Praise of Shadows’ in September 2009
The PechaKucha circus halted in London last Monday and brought a varied – to say the least – bunch of speakers to the stage. Great concept, speakers get to show 20 slides at a speed of 20 seconds per slide. Mix this with a friendly atmosphere and cold beer and you have a pleasant night out!
Moritz Waldemeyer’s presentation is online now and worth checking out. His work is a fusion of technology, art, fashion and design. He talked us through projects for clients ranging from the Flos/Starck/Baccarat/Jenny Holzer combo to Wallpaper and U2. He also worked with A listers Ron Arad and Zaha Hadid and worked on those great mechanical dresses for Hussein Chalayan in 2006. Find out more on his website.
Scoop! This is “Home Disco” a brand new project that will be featured in the next Wallpaper Magazine.
Flos/Starck/Baccarat/Jenny Holzer collaboration and Stage Jacket for Mr. Bono.
PechaKucha in the words of founder Mark Dytham (of Klein-Dytham Architects):
PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of “chit chat”, it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It’s a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace.
These stunning images are not dreamed up by some photoshopping whizzkid, they are actual NASA photos from Mars. Stunning landscapes. You can find more information and an amazing set of 34 photos (including exact Google Mars locations!) on The Big Picture:
“Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel.”
Frédéric Lebain – once-upon-a-time chef turned professional photographer – shot ‘Un printemps a New York’ the first time around last Spring. He printed posters of his details of mundane New York views and then returned to the same spot to place the original shots within a larger frame of the same view. Makes for subtly surreal photos in which visible helping hands or feet underline his unbrushed style.
Check the whole series of photos here.
photo credit: fred lebain
via designboom
Ever witty Erwin Wurm is at it again with his ‘one minute sculptures’. This time with Claudia Schiffer and a set of everyday objects in the lead roles.
These photos are part of a spread called ‘Kunst Pausen’ that Wurm shot for the November issue of German Vogue.
If you happen to be in Brussels, the ‘Erwin Wurm, Desperate Philosophers’ exhibition in the Xavier Hufkens Gallery is opening today at 6 pm.
Read more about it on Utopia Parkway.
This is old news, but you might not have seen these stunning B/W photos of the latest show by Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren yet. I can’t get over them, so here you go.
Spot singer Róisín Murphy in background with well hidden baby bump!
Photo Credit Stephan Moscovic.
If you want to read more about them, I can recommend the catalogue to their grand exhibition ‘The House of Viktor and Rolf’, held in the Barbican Arts Gallery in London in 2008. But that’s old news too, because these guys keep running ahead and keep coming up with ever greater concepts!
There is a video of this show on the rather annoying Viktor and Rolf website, go and find it or try your luck on YouTube. Yatzer has great photos too.
‘Installations by architects, experiments in building and design’ seems a book worth adding to the shelf – and worth reading for that matter!
I picked it up from a book review on the great we-make-money-not-art blog, which has in-depth info and great illustrations from the book.
We-make-money-not-art is the brainchild of Belgian Régine Debatty. She writes about the intersection between art, design and technology on the blog as well as in several European design and art magazines. She also curates art shows and speaks at conferences and festivals about the way artists, hackers and interaction designers (mis)use technology. Worth bookmarking!
Book Cover: ‘Installations by Architects: Experiments in Building and Design’, by Sarah Bonnemaison and Ronit Eisenbach. Available via Amazon USA and UK.
‘Walking in the Park’ Project: Asher DeGroot, David Gallaugher, Kevin James, and Jacob Jebailey. Photo credit: Andre Forget.
