Falling Water

"exalting the simple laws of common sense or of super-sense if you prefer determining form by way of the nature of materials..."

Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, Kaufmann House, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936. 

From snapshots of friends to abstract images created sans camera in darkrooms or photocopiers, Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photo image making for more than two decades.  For his most recent collection of photos he explains “my travels are aimless as such, not looking for predetermined results, but hoping to find subject matter that in some way or other speaks about the time I’m in.” 
His exhibition Wolfgang Tillmans: Neue Welt will be on at the Kunsthalle in Zurich until November 2012.

So far away from me

The National Film Institute of The Netherlands has just opened an exhibition about Stanley Kubrick. Screening all of his feature films, short films and exhibiting his screenplays, storyboards, set props, and early photos.  They even promise to reveal a selection of some of his shelved film projects.

 Lolita

 The master at work

STANLEY KUBRICK: THE EXHIBITION 

June 21 to September 9 at The Eye Film Institute.

Sunday Ummm

The beautiful design of the new Serpentine


Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei from Serpentine Gallery on Vimeo.


The 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London created by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei.  A cork-clad structure that allows visitors to move beneath the Serpentine's lawn and explore a hidden history of previous incarnations.

"Our path to an alternative solution involves digging down some five feet into the soil of the park until we reach the groundwater," say Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. "There we dig a waterhole, a kind of well, to collect all of the London rain that falls in the area of the Pavilion. In that way we incorporate an otherwise invisible aspect of reality in the park – the water under the ground – into our Pavilion. As we dig down into the earth we encounter a diversity of constructed realities such as telephone cables and former foundations."

A lovely video of people interacting with the space can be found here on Domus.

These ideas of making visible a ghostly structure of secret space resonates with the work of Studio Velocity and their House in Chiharada.  Roughly translating as “a bottom floor with a view of the sky and a top floor that’s like a town” the plays on form and scale reflect a landscape inside the home.

 

 Located in Aichi prefecture, the home derives it’s name from the way stairwells rise up in the living room to resemble buildings in a town. 

architectural model

night shot 

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi

At first I was all...



And then I was like -

And now I'm all 

"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle"
- Robert Alden

 "When you possess light within, you see it externally."

- Anais Nin

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle Onasis

The Light in Winter

This Melbourne festival brings together artists, designers, architects, filmmakers and multicultural groups in a free, month-long program of light sculptures, talks, events, workshops, performances and the Solstice Celebration.  This year’s program, directed by Robyn Archer, is inspired by the National Year of the Reading and will celebrate the enlightenment that reading sheds on our lives. Literary texts, oral traditions, calligraphy, music, body art and braille are all viewed in a new light, along with imaginative light sculptures, and surprising collaborations from top international and local artists, designers and architects.  This morning on the river terrace I enjoyed cBraillie by Rob Caslick.  Located in a shipping container, cBraille focuses on emotions as the direct link between visitors and a visually impaired person.

 

Spot the Kusama

The Obliteration Room
part of Yayoi Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition at GoMA until March 12, 2012.

Sweet Sweet Galaxy

Sweet Sweet Galaxy is the first major British show by Tanya Schultz, Nicole Andrijevic and John Kassab. Schultz and Andrijevic have worked in collaboration since 2007 using the alias Pip & Pop and this is their second collaboration with sound artist Kassab.

Sweet sweet galaxy is a unique installation depicting an infinite psychedelic landscape of coloured sugar, cake decorations, origami, found objects and an immersive soundscape by the other great JK from Melbourne.

If you're in London - go check it out at http://www.smithsrow.org/site/visit/!