Archive for October, 2011
Annette Kelm
Posted in Artist Research on October 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Yukiko Terada
Posted in Artist Research on October 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Textlile Sculptures
Using found/unwanted materials, transforming it into something new. – altering the value. Hand sews, a gesture against the fast pace of society.
Issues of overproduction and consumption are apparent within this work.
Ceramic Knits
Posted in Ceramics on October 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Elena Khurtova in collaboration with Marie Ilse Bourlanges. Ceramics objects made from continuous clay threads.
19 pieces. Knitted Porcelain, Bone China, Earthenware.
Cyprien Gaillard
Posted in architecture, Artist Research on October 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Explores architectural ruin through strategies of demolition, preservation, conservation, reconstruction, interested in the strangeness of our contemporary landscapes and how we interact with them. Also working with the idea of cultural monuments being ‘removed and displaced all over the world’. (such as the relocation of Pergamon’s alter).
In this installation, 72,000 ‘Efes” bottles of beer have been transported from Turkey to Germany. The boxes of beer form the pyramid. By climbing the structure and drinking the beer the demolition has already been initiated.
“Along the lines of the gradual destruction of the sculpture the alcohol gradually dispels and destroys both body and mind. The physical hangover is also an architectural one, from which one has to recover.” – http://www.moussemagazine.it/blog/?p=10331
Erosion/Disruption of Form
Posted in Artist Research, Ceramics on October 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
TASMIN VAN ESSEN
Ceramic designer exploring medical themes of disease (acne/syphilis/viral/cancer/osteoporosis), questioning the stigmas attached by creating delicate beautiful pieces. Contaminating the raw clay with various foreign materials such as yeast/salt, (Some porcelain forms have ben sandblasted to wear the surface to reveal inner states) deliberately encouraging imperfections, blemishes. A metaphor for the body, the vessels used are based on 17th-18th century apothecary jars (strong medical/historical links), these jars get passed from generation to generation, as do the hereditary conditions explored Tasmin Van Essen explores.
Artificial Ruins
Posted in architecture on October 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
In the late 1970’s early 80’s BEST Products Company of Richmond, Virginia commissioned SITE architects to build a series of supermarkets. It’s response, to create ‘mock ruins’ encasing the shop floor in a structure that was already falling down. a nice contradiction enveloping consumer need for shiny new, with the fantasies of decay.
http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/old-before-their-time
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