Jewellery engineer Sigurd Bronger receives Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize
Norwegian jewellery engineer Sigurd Bronger receives the 2012 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize of SEK 1,000,000 (approx EUR 110,000). Sigurd Bronger is a jewellery designer who works in the sphere of the delicate and small scale; between early 20th century mechanical industrialism, humour, love of the material, time and the finely polished. Bronger’s jewellery crosses...
Curiosity object by Gaëlle Gabillet & Stéphane Villard
Gaëlle Gabillet & Stéphane Villard have made a Curiosity object which is both pieces of furniture and display windows. The lights act as small curiosity cabinets highlighting the beauty and strangeness of their subjects. These lights question what is to be looked at: the object or its content? Where are we supposed to be focusing our...
We feel fine – An exploration of human emotion, in six movements
I have written about one of Jonathan Harris’ projects before – back then it was Cowbird. Now it is something older, but nonetheless equally fascinating. “We feel fine” is a program, a piece of code written to detect human emotions all over the world as they are declared online on blogs. Since August 2005, We...
A poetic temporary snow drawing
The artist Sonja Hinrichsen recently made a beautiful large scale snow drawing at Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado. Like the tracks you did as kid, but this time with a far more poetic touch. Sonja made the snow drawing with the help of five choreographed friends. Below are some images of the snow drawing by Cedar Beauregard . I’m not...
1400 feet grass carpet by Gaëlle Villedary
Artist Gaëlle Villedary recently made a nice installation called ‘Tapis Rouge!’ in a small French town called Jaujac. It was made as a celebration of their arts and nature trail programs. Gaëlle Villedary wanted to connect the center of the village to the rich natural surroundings. Magic pictures below by David Monjou.
Rotterdamse Museumnacht
On the 10 of March this year the streets of Rotterdam were filled with people wearing blinking badges. It is the night of Rotterdamse Museumnacht, a yearly event where most of Rotterdam’s museum and galleries open their doors from eight in the evening until two in the morning. Besides their current exhibitions, the institutes put...
ROA installation show Defragmentation in Stockholm
A while ago we wrote about the installation show Defragmentation by urban artist ROA in Stockholm. We just got a bunch of images from Anthony Hill at The Scarlett Gallery who is organizing the show. Looks great! ‘
Art, pattern and complexity
The David Report contributor Kristina Dryza was at the artists talk for the new exhibition opening at the Royal Institution of Australia: Art, pattern and complexity. Photos detailing the night are below and the exhibition is open until 16 May, 2012.
A delightfully quirky gallery
In November 2010 Heli Mäenpää, Creative Director of leading Finnish photography agency Viewmasters in Helsinki received a very to the point email from long-time partner Nokia: “Do you have any ideas for Helsinki World Design Capital?”. “We have one. But it´s a good one” Heli replied. Last week, I attended the opening of new gallery...
Catharsis: the purifying aesthetic experience
In Aristotle’s “Poetics” (from around 330 BC) the term catharsis is introduced – a term that has always fascinated and interested me, and which I find highly useful when seeking to explain why comfort zone breaking aesthetic experiences are a human need (discussed in my previous post) Catharsis is a greek word meaning “to purify”. Aristotle describes...
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