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Galleries

This week end i went to a couple of galleries that i could only recommend.
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The first one was Museum 52 on Redchurch street.
Esther Stocker has a very strong installation there:
"Esther Stocker's installations and associated paintings are abstract compositions in space; drawings animated in three dimensions by material, colour and form. For this exhibition she has created a site-specific installation and a series of painted works, all continuing her investigations into the logics and rules inherent in depictions of space."
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The second one was Flower's East Domestic Appliance exhibition.
A great selection of work articulated around usual domestic objects. Genuinely , the whole exhibition is fantastic. Personally, i loved Antoine Zgraggen destruction parlour (cf pic) where you get to choose an object and destroy it :), Theo Kaccoufa's pieces (the "Dream River" bed is simply spooky but fascinating) and Max Dean (+ others) "Robotic Chair" was at the time funny and worrying. (cf. video)
The exhibition just started and will be on until the 13th September so if you are in the area, do see this.

Street

Ahah. Love this.

Loop

Darth

Wish i was in Paris right now to see this:
(and the other pieces from the very exciting Superdome
exhibition at Palais de Tokyo.)

lights

Daniel Firman's work is worth taking a peek at.

Opt

While i was in Paris, i took the opportunity to go and see Bridget Riley's retrospective show at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
As i'm usually pretty keen on the Opt art aesthetics, i got absolutely amazed by Riley's work that i only knew in surface. The show presents her work in a chronological order and following each step of her art through various explanations about her choices is a real bliss. Even though my favorite bit would be the early black and white period, the entire path through her graphic and intelectual research is remarkable.

Link here.

Boom Chack!

Very cool installation by David Byrne in NYC (liking the website design too).
Here's the pitch: " Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument."

Via today and tomorrow.

CellarDoor

This week end i went to the Institute for Contemporary Arts to see
Loris Greaud's installation. Really nice piece, some weird dark vibes coming out of these Kubrick-esque rooms but a really interesting concept (quite hard to sum-up though so here's an excerpt form the ICA website) :
"Gréaud's installation at the ICA, with its three almost identical rooms, reveals another of the artist's key preoccupations - the notion of doubling and repetition. The repeating elements within the rooms include: high-speed automatic doors which open like shutters; special light-emitting speakers designed by the artist; and a carpet with a pattern derived in part in part from architect Buckminster Fuller's experiments with the geodesic dome. Finally, Greaud's installation at the ICA will be subject to a number of periodic interruptions, one of which is the arrival of three identical figures serving black champagne."
At the ICA, until the 22nd June, info here.

Popp

Julius Popp talks about his work and presents his Bit.fall piece. Very nice.

Via Design & typo.

Nada Prlja

ADVANCED SCIENCE OF MORPHOLOGY
2006
Nada Prlja
Public Art Project
Marble Arch Park, London
26 flags 120x180cm,26 poles 7m.

"Advanced Science of Morphology is sited at Marble Arch where 26 flags depicting the morphed national flags of former Yugoslavian countries have replaced the flags of the current EU member countries."

Check her website.

Via VVORK.