Recently, Audi invited CH to Ingolstadt, Germany, for a behind-the-scenes look at their extraordinarily advanced production facility. Additionally, we spent some time in Munich, where we were able to roam around Audi’s highly protected design…
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Le travail de Peter Han est éphémère, c’est un des leitmotiv de l’artiste : être capable de se détacher de l’œuvre. Enseignant à l’université ce qu’il appelle le Dynamic Sketches, l’artiste enseigne et dessine sur un tableau noir. Un processus à découvrir en images et en vidéo.
Pop-Surrealist Mark Ryden introduced his creepily precious characters to the contemporary art world in the 1980s to wide acclaim, and in his sixth book, “); return…
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On paper, self-taught jewelry designer Guiliano Capogrossi Colognesi has all it takes for his company, Disegno Gioia, to be successful. He presents beautiful and creative design concepts and has a working website on which to showcase them, but the products—with price tags of anywhere from $100,000 to $25 million—won’t…
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Découverte d’Aaron Horkey est un illustrateur talentueux qui cherche à créer des dessins pour différents formats, principalement des posters. Avec son style particulier, les créations de cet artiste australien sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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The Vitra Design Museum Gallery opens with a show of the Memphis Design founder’s definitive early work
The Vitra Design Museum (a must-see destination for design nerds), recently opened a new gallery space for small exhibitions. The inaugural show, curated by Fulvio and Napoleone Ferrari, features the lesser-known enamel designs of Ettore Sottsass. Created early in his post-war career, the designer began experimenting with geometric forms and color. He explored the complex process of enameling, and used the glasslike material to illuminate metals like copper with pure, vivid hues.
Accompanied by sketches, the exhibit complements the larger exhibition currently on display in the museum until 3 October 2011, “Zoom. Italian Design and the Photography of Aldo and Marirosa Ballo,” which also features Sottsass’ work.
In the vases pictured above, the stark industrial look of the enamel set against the natural warmth of the wood establishes a concept deeply explored in Sottsass’s career. The irregular nature of the enamel, with the colors melding in a wavy line, also stands out in contrast to the polished, earthy glaze of the finely lathed wood.
Working with copper rounds, the designer also made a series of brightly-colored paintings, defined by their geometric forms within forms. The irregularity of the enamel surface produces a vivid texture as well. It’s within these early works, dating back to 1958, that lays the foundation of his style: brilliant colorways and pleasingly severe geometric shapes.
Visit the Vitra Design Museum‘s site for information.
How one global art community is connecting through sketchbooks
Five years ago, Shane Zucker and Steven Peterman, fed up with the challenge of making a living as artists, founded Art House as a student project. Now, the active online community has over 50,000 users and an art library that is traveling the United States.
Art House’s beginnings go back to Atlanta College of Art (SCAD since bought it), where Shane was studying graphic design and Steven, printmaking. Seeing their friends daunted by the task of getting into galleries as a daunting task, the two rented a space and held their own pay-to-play exhibit, charging artists enough to show so that it covered their overhead.
Shane’s father mentioned sketchbooks—what if people from all over the world paid to submit sketchbooks to be displayed? Between April and November of 2010, 28,000 people signed up to be a part of the Sketchbook Project and 10,000 of the sketchbooks sent out to people in 94 countries were sent back. The collection is now touring nine U.S.cities and you can even get a library card to check them out.
Shane sat down with me and a new member of the Art House team, Eli Dvorkin, recently to explain the power of community.
Eli: We’re not telling anyone that they are going to suddenly become famous through this. Also, we don’t sell any of the work. There’s no financial benefit to anyone here. If you think about the resources that go into this tour and having a permanent space in Brooklyn, it adds up to a lot of money and time. As five people or even 100 of your closest friends, you could never do this, but when 10,000 people come together, you can actually do it.
Shane: For a lot of galleries, art is a means of commerce. They make money. That’s just not us.
S: Serious artists. Scrapbookers. Moms. There’s a huge range of people who do the Sketchbook Project. There are teachers that have their students do it and then there are senior citizens who are just bored.
E: People have written exactly that to us. People say, “This is essentially my one outlet a year for my artistic impulses.” Overtime they sit down with the sketchbook and it’s with them for a good chunk of the year. We get little life stories. Like 10,000 lives on shelves. Only a small subsection is any formal study. It’s cathartic.
S: Steve came up with most of the themes. My favorite is “Science Project Gone Wrong.”
E: I think I’d have to go with “Mystery Maps” even though I devised it. The themes are not rules, but it’s interesting to see how a teenager in Singapore and a senior in Canada interpret “Science Project Gone Wrong.”
E: We’re starting to collect a lot more information about the participants. When you check out a sketchbook, the artist has the option to be notified by SMS and eventually you’ll be able to get in touch through our website.
S: We’re going to relaunch the site and will be scanning most of the sketchbooks so that people can start tagging individual pages of books. You”ll be able to search “Photography” and “China” and find results. But what’s really cool is that we don’t have to do that, because the community is dying to get involved.
E: Shane, you better not!
S: No, this has been pretty full time. I haven’t even made a sketchbook. Steve started one, but I don’t know if he finished it.
E: We have a lot going on at Art House though. Soon we’ll be launching our own notebook collection. The names will co-ordinate to the sizes, like “Back Pocket,” “Messenger Bag,” etc.
S: And of course there’s the tour and soon we’ll start sending out the 2011 sketchbooks to participants!
The 2010 Sketchbook Project began in April, so stay tuned for this year’s launch. Also, to see the library in person, check out the 17,900-mile tour or the permanent location in Brooklyn.
Photography by Aaron Kohn
Artist Erik Foss reshapes the alphabet with smutty cut-outs
Co-owner of one of downtown NYC’s more notorious bars Lit Lounge and the similarly lowbrow-inspired Fuse Gallery, it most likely comes as no surprise that Erik Foss‘ “Word” series consists of pin-up girls “artfully arranged” to create a very sexy alphabet. We had the chance to see the series in person in Miami, at the Anonymous Gallery booth inside Scope. With the Art Basel bonanza going strong, Foss’ works stood out for their minimal, elementry school-style take on the risqué subjects.
But staying true to Foss’ provocative style, the entire assortment of all 26 letters of the alphabet collages some of the most naughty bits of 70’s pornography. The patchwork characters are a mix of hips, legs, butts and busts. While some letters like “V” are pretty straightforward, others such as “W” are a an intricate tangle of torsos and calves. Naturally our favorite letter was “O.”
None of the letters would be suitable for work or small children, but the enticingly intimate series is an interesting, semi-erotic way to reconnect with the tools we use to construct language. If you want to own any of Foss’ “Word” pieces, the series is available for purchase as a whole or as individual letters. For a more brazen approach, you can pick up a limited edition t-shirt with your favorite letter printed across the chest from the Anonymous gallery shop.
Un élégant travail vidéo en technique stop-motion, afin de suivre l’élaboration d’une carte de fin d’années et du dvd associé par le studio Mindcastle. Un processus créatif allant des croquis jusqu’au produit final. A découvrir en images et en vidéo dans la suite.
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