_grau | 10:01 min | d 2004 | HD premiere from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.
_grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds …
This is how Simone Micheli describes his project:
The i-SUITE interior architectural plan lies its foundations in the concept of modern luxury I developed after a thorough and targeted thinking. During the “XXX Congreso Colombiano de Arquitectura” ( 30th Colombian Architecture Convention) which took place in Barranquilla (Colombia) in 2007 I asserted: “ …the new luxury does not mean immobility or habit, but rather freedom and movement. It is a light and a stirring thought, at any moment we are able to choose where and how to live and to reinvent the environment we live in.
DIDIER MARCEL at The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art - MUDAM LUXEMBOURG - 10.10.2009 - 03.01.2010
“It’s a question of admitting that art is not life and that art is always a difference produced between a real thing and its translation.”
Didier Marcel
Hans-Christian Berg is one of the most interesting artists of his generation in Finland. In 2002, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department with an MA and from the University of Art and Design, Ceramics and Glass Department with an MA in Helsinki. In 2007 he has been named as the Young Artist of the Year. Berg’s primary interest is optical illusion and experimentation with perception of light and surface reflection.
Austrian architectural firm COOP HIMMELB(L)AU presented their design for ‘Pavilion 21 MINI Opera Space’ for the Bavarian State Opera during a press conference in Munich.
Godiva’s new concept flagship store by Tokyo based studio Wanderwall. Godiva’s idea was “treat thyself”. Wonderwall’s intention was to add a breath of fresh air to the more traditional image Godiva instill. The shop features humorous design details such as the “melting chocolate” ceiling combined with the primarily classical interior design.
Matej Krén’s work is remarkable for its exceptional scope. In recent years his distinctive approach to sculpture, object, installation, drawing, print, painting, action art, film, music, sound and word has attracted attention at many prestigious international art shows.
His work not only touches on very contemporary problems, such as erasing the boundaries between reality and fiction, memory and the present, but also on classic themes in art - the relation between inner and outer, the part and the whole. Typical of his work is a searching for a complexity of content expressed in a monumental and comprehensible language.
To Breathe - A Mirror Woman, 2006, site specific installation at Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Madrid. Courtesy: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Kimsooja (Taegu. Korea, 1957) has dedicated her long, intense artistic career to developing her own personal vision of the world through the use of installations, performances, photography, videos and site-specific projects. Her obvious singularity has tempted some to seek out links with certain Eastern philosophical and artistic traditions, but her core material is reality itself. Her upbringing and life experience have helped shape her thinking into a unique blend where Christianity and Western philosophy is intimately entwined with Zen Buddhism, Confucianism, Shamanism and Tao.
Robert Bruno’s edifice is one extreme building that stands in stark contrast to the desolate landscape of Ransom Canyon, Texas. Artist/Architect Robert is both owner and sculptor of this one-of-a-kind steel house. House’s four legs stand it up to the top of a canyon wall. It’s imprecisely ovoid shape is composed of a double shell structure, an interior and exterior shell with insulation in between.
For the exhibition "Laocoon(s)" at the Rodin Museum, Paris in 2007, Etienne Bossut presented works produced from a series of casts of the chair "Orgone" designed by Marc Newson.
At this edition of FIAC Paris, at the gallery Chez Valentin our attention was caught by work of french artist Etienne Bossut.
Since the 80s, Etienne Bossut manufactures “images-objects”. Central to his work is an ancient production method of casting, but reformulated and moved from a simple manufacturing process, the technique becomes essential here, support of a more comprehensive reflection on art and sculpture in general.
Cans, cars and all kind of objects taken from daily life and also from the world of art and design are cast in resin, faithful but not quite identical copies.
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