Spitalfields Public Art Programme Phase 2
Corporate art for a corporate setting-
site responsive sculptures:
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The urban agriculture however is unexpected:
site responsive sculptures:
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The urban agriculture however is unexpected:
Blood on Paper
@ V&A 15 April - 29 June 2008 link
An exhibition about the art of books. Some individual creations, , some mass produced pamphlets which excel in creativity of layout or form. An art gallery experience, it's not one to one with the viewer only with the creator- look don't touch, don't turn the page!
'From the troubling concept of a cut into organic material, a gash on the human body, he creates a powerful meditative structure'(Blood on Paper Pamphlet)
An exhibition about the art of books. Some individual creations, , some mass produced pamphlets which excel in creativity of layout or form. An art gallery experience, it's not one to one with the viewer only with the creator- look don't touch, don't turn the page!'Today images and texts are increasingly dematerialised and delivered electronically from the virtual world of the computer onto the screen..... the book is a physical object and an idea' (Blood on Paper Pamphlet)
The books which stood out to me include:
Anish Kapoor
'Wound'
'From the troubling concept of a cut into organic material, a gash on the human body, he creates a powerful meditative structure'(Blood on Paper Pamphlet)Cai Guo-Qiang
The Danger Book series- books which threaten to explode when opened
'a perpetual challenge to the reader to resist consummation by destruction'
(Blood on Paper Pamphlet)
The exhibit includes one of the bomb books and a video of the process
Anselm Kiefer
The Secret life of plants- 'recalls the outlines of constellations, the heavens and the plants. These represent the earths beginnings and the eternal process of transformation.'(Blood on Paper Pamphlet)
This book stands in the entrance of the exhibition, as tall as an adult and made from lead, its surface is textured and worked, it has presence as a sculpture that viewers seek to draw meaning from.
The Fourth Plinth
The Fourth Plinth is renouned for temporary & contemporary art in the presumed traditional Trafalgar square. The most recent commission is Thomas Schütte's Model for a Hotel 2007 wich was critisised as being a house for pigeons! The sulpture certainly stood out!
The 6 shortlisted artists for the next installation include:
Jeremy Deller
Tracey Emin
Antony Gormley
Anish Kapoor
Yinka Shonibare
Bob & Roberta Smith
Pregnant Alison Lapper on the Fourth Plinth (aug-sept 07):
(picture from http://www.artwords.co.uk/acatalog/art.html)
The 6 shortlisted artists for the next installation include:Jeremy Deller
Tracey Emin
Antony Gormley
Anish Kapoor
Yinka Shonibare
Bob & Roberta Smith
Pregnant Alison Lapper on the Fourth Plinth (aug-sept 07):
(picture from http://www.artwords.co.uk/acatalog/art.html)
Sunshine & the Southbank
'How lucky are we to live in London' is the general feeling associated to the southbank:
Just on a sunny day more people get to experience it!
Focus on Slow Food
Market stalls in a prominent public space between Waterloo station and the South bank, 5.5.08.
click -to learn more about the slow food movement
click -to learn more about the slow food movement
The Cans Festival. 05.05.08
Under the arches of waterloo bridge 28,544 people got togeather to spray. Banksy and many other 'biggies' created amongst the masses:
click for more info on the cans festival
A dramatic SNOG:
Advertising the DEGREE SHOW:
Swiss Cottage
'the presence and absence of water suggests activity and tranquillity with equal ease. A strongly moulded land form, together with lush planting, provide a striking context for the water element.' The shallow paddling pool in the center is fed by a bore hole system which is also supposed to be used to water vegetation. However, on my visit, as so common with bore hole water harvesting systems, it was not maintained and the pool was dry. The landscape was a disapointment, and the not so dramatic mounds of earth were balding!
Gustafson Porter PR 2006
CLICK 4 Gufstason & Porter website
Adjacent to the Gustafson & Porter landscape lies the contrastingly inspiring
Library/ fitness center/ Multiuse Community center
Designed by Basil Spence in 1960's. It had huge presence, which is reflected in its popularity. The community center, Library & Fitness Center, Cresh & Cafe bring the community togeather in the otherwise drab, car dominated area.
Jean Pouvre @ Tate & Design Museum
Jean Pouvre's Tropical Maison is currently outside the Tate Modern. The tropical maison is a prefabricated house designed in the 1950's, it is made from sheet steel panels and fitted with sliding aluminium wall panels. Prouvre beleived in mass production of building components and funiture and all the components are flat, light and less than 4m wide for economy of manufacture and easy of construction.Incorporated blue glass port holes protect against UV Rays
The Design museum has a partnering exhibtion which shows Jean Prouves other work, he was an engineer primarily, and an architect/ furniture designer as a result. Architects such as Richard Rodgers still draw inspiration from his work. Function comes first and his various works are unfrilly, neccesities,
the arches in the picture below are repeated in numerous designs.
industrial methods of producing an egg
Image from Bill Mollisons book: 'Permaculture. A Designers Manual'
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