Archive for August, 2009
Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
April 28, 2009–October 25, 2009 (weather permitting)
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 212-570-3828
Maelstrom, Roxy Paine’s magnificently intricate installation currently on the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is to date the most prominent offspring of a rapidly evolving typology, lifesize
tree golems rendered in stainless steel. Paine [...]
Bruno 9li’s metaphysical world
Mythological, spiritual, pantheistic: the first adjectives to define Bruno 9li’s metaphysical world, one of the most interesting emerging artist within brazilian artistic panorama. 9li (pseudonym/abbreviation of Bruno Novelli,1980) sinthetizes within his artistic production several dichotomies and contraddictions of the brazilian world: metropolitan, ephemeral and technological. In his works, animals seem to spring out the [...]
Pereira Miguel ARQ | Casa Monte na Comporta
Casa Monte na Comporta in Grândola, Portugal is a house that sits in its surroundings as if it had always been there yet it also manages to look completely fresh, cool, new and spectacular.
The house’s undulating shape echoes the gently sloping sand dunes, and its hard and angular surface planes contrast beautifully with the rounded [...]
Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair
10 to 13 September 2009, Shanghai, China
Shanghai in Art
ShContemporary takes place every September in the spectacular Shanghai Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China. The first edition in 2007 immediately established itself as Asia’s most dynamic and international contemporary art fair (see photos here).
The 2008 edition attracted over 140 prestigious international galleries from nearly 30 countries, and [...]
Jeff Koons – Art from everyday objects
Jeff Koons – born January 2, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania - is known for his giant reproductions of banal objects such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces, often brightly colored.
He studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and [...]
Ron Arad – Cage Sans Frontières 2009
Ron Arad: No Discipline
New York, August 2, 2009–October 19, 2009
The Museum of Modern Art, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, sixth floor
Ron Arad: No Discipline celebrates the designer’s interdisciplinary and “no-disciplinary” spirit. Physical concepts are traced through works in different materials and scales, and objects are grouped in families based on [...]
Casa FOA 25th Edition
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Casa FOA is, essentially, a setting for free rein in creativity, a meeting spot where designers, architects, decorators and landscape gardeners selected for their talent and prestige share their quests and trends with the public.
Casa FOA was launched for the first time in 1985, when Mrs Mercedes Malbran de Campos and a group [...]
India Art Summit 2009
In August 2009, the second edition of India’s Modern and Contemporary Art Fair promises to be much larger in scale and scope; with 55 top galleries from India, the Asian region, Middle East, Europe and the United States showcasing a range of artworks. Together with an extensive seminars programme, curated projects, art films, social events, art publications [...]
Will Alsop Architecture
William Alsop (born 12 December 1947) is a British architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial modernist buildings, most in the United Kingdom. Alsop’s buildings are usually distinguished by their use of bright colour and unusual forms. Because of his avant-garde and strikingly different buildings, Will Alsop has always been [...]
MoMA | James Ensor
From june to September the Museum of Modern Art is holding an exhibition of James Esnor.
MOMA | James Ensor
June 28, 2009–September 21, 2009
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor
James Ensor (1860–1949) was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late nineteenth century and an important precursor to the development of [...]
