heard ny

heard•ny is an installation & performance piece that will be presented from monday 25 march through sunday 31 march, 2013, as part of a series of events celebrating grand central terminal's centennial.

artist nick cave will transform grand central terminal's vanderbilt hall into a pasture for a grazing herd of 30 fantastical life-size horses. sixty dance students from the ailey school will don cave's celebrated 'soundsuits' & perform specially choreographed 'crossings' at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. every day.

cave worked closely with chicago-based choreographer william gill to design the dancers' movements, incorporating both choreographed & improvised movement. the horses will preform as a 'herd' in the vanderbilt hall or in smaller groups within the main concourse & throughout grand central terminal. 

this is a creative time project founded in 1974, creative time is a new york based non-projit that has commissioned & presented the most innovative art in the public realm throughout new york city, across the united states & around the world.

wish i was there! 

excentrique(s)

excentrique(s) by artist daniel buren for the 2012 annual monumenta at the grand palais in paris. buren's installation attempts to reconcile the human scale with the cavernous environs into which it has been inserted. it functions as a continuous canopy of twister-colored circular pavillions that cover the space's 13,500 square meter ground floor. the resulting supra-structure is calibrated to the minimum height required for the standard paris apartment, forming a low-lying enclosed space that drowns visitors in dampened color & light-laced shadow. 

bloom skin

bloom skin for issey miyake spring/summer 2012. window by WOW.

bourrasque

bourrasque by paul cocksedge. lyon, france.

bourrasque is a sculpture installed in the courtyard of hotel in lyon for the city's annual festival of lights. the 200 suspended sheets were made from an electrically conductive material that lights up when a current passes through it. london designer paul cocksedge molded each sheet of paper by hand - the paper is the same size as a sheet of a3 paper.

wald aus wald

wald aus wald by takashi kuribayashi is a paper installation at the hong kong arts centre that comprises of trees in a snowy landscape hovering above the gallery floor as part of an exhibition called vision of nature: lost & found in asian contemporary art. it will be on show from 10 december through 29 january 2012. so ethereal & otherworldly. amazing what one can do with paper.

wim delvoye - gothic chapel series

belgian artist wim delvoye has created a gothic chapel series that consists of stained glass windows made from recycled x-rays.

waste landscape

artist elise morin & architect clémence eliard of design studio SML (small medium large) in collaboration with 104.fr have collected, sorted & hand sewn 65,000 cds & turned them into rolling hills of shiny aluminum in the centquatre at the halle d'aubervilliers in paris.
the artists explain, "the project joins a global, innovative & committed approach, from its means of production until the end of its 'life'. waste landscape will be displayed in locations coherent with the objectives of the project: art's role in society, raising consciousness towards environmental problems through culture, alternative modes of production & the valuation of district associate work & professional rehabilitation...waste landscape is at the crossroad of contemporary art, landscaping & environmental concerns.
the installation has a life cycle in which it will be exhibited in multiple spaces, built into different formations in each one. as time goes on the cds will be recycled into polycarbonate, the final step on the artists' part to convey the concept of "waste" & transformation.
waste landscape will be at the halle d'aubervilliers in paris until 10 september, 2011.

BAMscape

BAMscape by faulders studio installation. berkeley, california, united states.

BAMscape is a free-form seating environment commissioned by the berkeley art museum/pacific film archive. installed for a two-year duration, BAMscape provides a new centerpiece within the museum's large 6,692 sq ft central atrium gallery, and merges disciplines of art, architecture & furniture. as an open site for lounging, film screenings, live performances & multimedia events, BAMscape fosters the museum's direction for providing diverse event programming amidst its gallery spaces.
BAMscape hosts wireless internet & integrated outlets for powering laptops, & allows visitors to enjoy the space as a site for study & social networking. to achieve a maximum of volumetric presence withing the budget limitations, the pre-fab system deploys CNC large-scale laser cutting processes to custom manufacture 150 individual curved modules. lightweight & comprised of 93% air, the rigid foam structural substrate is laminated with thin layers of painted plywood.

savage beauty - preview

savage beauty, a retrospective of alexander mcqueen's work will kick off the annual met ball on may 2.

the catalogue of the exhibit was recently released and an interview with mcqueen's successor, sarah burton by tim blanks is included.

burton tells blanks that when mcqueen first got the call from LVHM to go to givenchy, he thought they were calling him to do a handbag collaboration with louis vuitton (the hot thing at the time). she recalls, "we had one pattern-cutting table, which used to belong to body map & flyte ostell, with chairs that didn't reach the table. when lee got the givenchy job, we got chairs that reached the table and he was really excited because it meant there was money coming in, and he could do things he'd never done before."

quotes from mcqueen about each collection are included....one of my favorites:

i'm an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you just want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. [with the collection] i wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. it was all about....a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. i find beauty in melancholy."  (this is in regards to the last photograph above) i think i love this statement so much because part of me fears that i can so relate to it....