Stockholm Design Week goes “Underverk”
During the soon upcoming Stockholm Design Week, a new and alternative fair will see the light of day – the Guerilla Design and Art Week. The collaborative online art and design platform, UNDERVERK is hosting the event that takes place in the same period as the regular design festival, from 4 to 10 February. The...
Sense & sustainability
From July the 21st to September 23rd, 2012 the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve (Basque Country) will serve as the scene of the international contemporary art project Sense & Sustainability, curated by Alberto Sánchez Balmisa and organized by the Fundación 2012 Fundazioa. Sense & Sustainability includes 10 site specific installations developed by 10 international artists. They have developed...
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...
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...
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.
Second edition of Decadent Pigeons in Barcelona
Lisa Klappe and Joachim van der Hurk have been invited back to Barcelona to present a second edition of Decadent Pigeons. The exhibition will take place from 12 January till 2 February 2012 at Galeria La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain. They will set up an extended mix of static portraits, grubby films and living sculptures....
Klaus Enrique Gerdes’ recreation of the work by the artist Arcimboldo
During a photo shooting of a human eye that was peeking out amongst hundreds of leaves, it occurred to photographer Klaus Enrique Gerdes that he could actually utilize leaves to construct portraits or masks. He researched what other artists had created along these lines and discovered Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who made paintings with this concept in mind over...
An open house as platform for art and design
Studio Job has purchased and reconstructucted a villa by one of Gerrit Rietveld’s pupils, the architect D.L. Sterenberg. Sterenberg, strongly influenced by his master, designed this characteristic modernist villa with a flat roof, a highly functional and cost-efficient design. The villa is located in the quite village of Bergeyk, near Eindhoven. For years Studio Job...
Herman Miller youth art project
Herman Miller has collaborated with the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) and ArtPrize to give students opportunity to design art that expressed their own unique perspective. The students were invited to address four major topics, including sustainability, cultural diversity, arts and community, and volunteerism. They worked with an unusual canvas—a set of the company’s...
Enlightened Waste at London Design Festival
As part of the 2011 London Design festival, Marion Friedmann Gallery presents Enlightened Waste, the first UK exhibition to showcase the work of French-Mexican designer Thierry Jeannot and Austrian artist Gisela Stiegler. Both Thierry Jeannot and Gisela Stiegler use waste packaging material to create enchanting light sculptures. The exhibition will be conceived as a magnificent...
Loading...