Hasta La Ideas

The Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art) in Frankfurt commissioned two collectives of illustrators, one from Frankfurt and one from London, to create new artworks on a theme of secrets for an exhibition aimed at children…

The show, entitled Pssst, has been curated by Jakob Hoffman in cooperation with the Kinder Museum Frankfurt. Hoffman worked with both Frankfurt collective Labor who work regularly with the museum, and also Anorak magazine in the UK who put together a group of British illustrators that have contributed to the fun kids magazine.

Sixteen artists in total – including Matthew Bromley, Gemma Correll, Rob Flowers, Anke Kuhl, Supermundane, and Philip Waechter – were invited to participate by creating brand new works exploring the theme of secrets. Here’s a look at some of the work in the show:

Rob Flowers created these large prints in bright colours. Visitors are encouraged to put on the face masks next to the prints and the coloured filters in the eye holes of the masks allowed the wearers to see the ‘hidden’ images which related to the masks of Flowers’ characters Earl of Mushroom, Eyeball Shamen, and Treegar – shown below:

“We were given an open brief to approach the secrets theme in anyway we liked,” says contributing artist Rob Lowe (aka Supermundane). “Interactive pieces were encouraged but it wasn’t explicitly part of the brief. My work (shown above) is called Speak Secrets / Hear Secrets. The wall is massive 4m x 8m and double sided with tubes running through it so children can speak into them and listen on the opposite sides. The holes don’t match up so you could be hearing someone speaking from right at the other end of the wall.”

Also visible above is Gemma Correll‘s Monster Jaws. Children (those who dare) can put their hand into the many-eyed beast’s mouth. Correll explains: “Kids can put their hands in his mouth and feel what’s in there (various squishy and strangely shaped things). There’s a glove incorporated with the hole so they can’t peer in.”

Matthew Bromley‘s piece (being finished, above) explores the idea of graffiti artists wanting to keep their identity secret. For the show he created the Pssst Crew – five fictional characters (Snoz Flapper, Goober, Bozo, Dilbert and Chump) who each paint or paste a logo which represents something about their personality. Visitors were challenged to match up the characters with their tags / paintings.

Bromley also created a publication (shown above) to accompany the project that can be bought in the museum shop.

Above, Christopher Fellehner‘s Secret Ambassador installation allowed visitors to record secrets (by pressing a button and whispering into his ear) or listen to secrets by turning the mouth.

Zuni and Kirsten von Zubinski (who also created the image at the top of the post which was used for the show’s promotional material) created a confession booth (above) in which visitors could unload their secrets.

Psst: An Exhibition for Children runs until January 27 at Museum Für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Domstrasse 10, 60311 Franfurt am Main. While the show runs, installations by Matthew Bromley and Simon Peplow will also be on view at the Kinder Museum Frankfurt.

For more info, visit mmk-frankfurt.de

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This artistic installation, comprising 30 unique handmade redwood angelpoise lamps with classic tungsten lightbuls, emerges from the ground creating a structured landscape of responsiveness and light. The sound-reactive illumination takes the spectator through the emotional and physical journey of the performer at the center. The sequenced installation builds the setting, following the motion of the story while providing a consistent spacial response for the viewer. Check out the vid to see it in action!

In September 2012, Nocte was commissioned by artistic director Heather Eddington of State of Flux DanceFilm Company for their Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Awards 2013 finalist performance A Study of Who, organized in collaboration with Create and the Barbican.

A Study of Who is a collaboration between State of Flux and the poet Anna Mae Selby depicting the five stages of grief in a scenography inherently designed and implemented by Nocte.
By using different lighting setups and dispositions for each consecutively revealed element, every scene of the choreography is accentuated in its various settings.

Designer: Nocte

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Nothing says “fresh start” quite like a new online home. On the sculptural heels of its 25th anniversary year, the Calder Foundation has debuted a new website at calder.org with the goal of creating a “more visceral, firsthand experience of Alexander Calder‘s work.” A splash page features videos of mobiles in motion, and amidst the foundation’s trove of images, cataloguing info, and historical texts are new features including a blog, a timeline of the artist’s life in pictures, and a selection of rarely seen historic Calder films (check out Hans Richter‘s 1962 experimental short From the Circus to the Moon).

Also ringing in 2013 with a new website is the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Part membership hub, part design showcase, the upgraded asid.org, launched today, begins with a homepage that highlights rotating designer portfolios based on a user’s location as well as the option to view portfolios and search for designers by specialty and expertise. Head to the “Knowledge Center” to bone up on topics such as sustainable design and to browse case studies that illustrate how interior design can address specific physical, psychological, social, and economic needs.

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Damien Hirst, who this month announced his defection from Gagosian Gallery, where he has been represented for 17 years.

“Through ‘loyalty,’ lethargy, apathy, or fear, the biggest-name artists have been willingly shackled to their heritage galleries–now that may be changing. I don’t believe this trend is specific to Gagosian. The very foundations of the ‘artist representation’ model are crumbling. Maybe all the top-selling artists will fire their galleries and form one big collective, then they can just set prices and cut out the dealers. I’d prefer it if they charged one price at the door and then a bingo machine randomly chose which artwork you got; that would make it fun again.”

-Collector, gallerist, and writer Adam Lindemann in “The Art World Game Changers of 2012,” published in the December 24-31 issue of The New York Observer

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“Living Room Corner Arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Sr.,” a 1984 photograph by Louise Lawler. (Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art)

This holiday season, deck the halls with delightful juxtapositions à la Louise Lawler. The artist and photographer was granted full access to the home of 20th-century art collectors Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine in 1984, just a few years before much of their collection was dispersed at Christie’s. Armed with only a 35mm camera and a sharp eye, Lawler captured pairings such as a Jackson Pollock canvas and an elaborately decorated soup tureen, and this living room scene, in which a Roy Lichtenstein sculpture-turned-lamp appears to grab the attention of Stevie Wonder, all under the watchful eye of a Robert Delaunay disque painting. The festive trio goes on view tomorrow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of an exhibition of photographs from its permanent collection.

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