Jan Kempenaers Work from Spomenik. Buy the book here. “Powerful photographs of mysterious monuments in former Yugoslavia. Willem Jan Neutelings, quoted from this book: “The Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers undertook a laborious trek through the Balkans in order to photograph a series of these mysterious objects. He captures the Spomeniks in the misty mountain landscape […]
Archives for posts tagged ‘architecture’
Andreas Muxel and Martin Hesselmeier
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Andreas Muxel and Martin Hesselmeier Work from Revolving Realities “Revolving Realities is an autoreactive installation, one that plays with our sense of reality by continually causing us to perceive and experience a place and an object in new ways. Its surfaces projected with different images, textures and animations, the object becomes a mirror of changing […]
Robert Overweg
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Robert Overweg Work from his oeuvre. “I try not to follow the roads I am supposed to take, but try to seek out my own path within and outside the given boundaries of the game. I find joy in making use of a glitch/error which gives me the possibility to have a different look at […]
Nicolas Sassoon
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Nicolas Sassoon Work from his oeuvre. See Home/Land @ Ani-Gif “I want to go back to the idea of modularity that has come across in the last model you sent me. Does the malleability and flexibility of these 3D environments inspire your process, or has your work always contained a element of repetition and combination? I’ve always been excited […]
Daniel Arsham
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Daniel Arsham Work from Three Dimension “Straddling the line between art, architecture and performance, Daniel Arsham has worked with Merce Cunningham, Hedi Slimane, Bob Wilson and Jonah Bokaer. He makes architecture do things it’s not supposed to do, mining everyday experience for opportunities to confuse and confound our expectations of space and form. Simple yet […]
Bas Princen
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Bas Princen Work from Refuge. “Bas Princen brings together five cities from a region which over the past fifty years has experienced dramatic development. The five cities portrayed are Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo and Dubai. The images of Princen constitute architectural research and visual poetry at the same time. This survey has been commissioned and […]
Phillip Schaerer
Monday, 27 December 2010
Phillip Schaerer Work from Bildbauten. Also see Raummodelle, they are fantastic as well. “The series of images with the title „Bildbauten“ deals with the effect and the claim to credibility of images of architecture that appear to be photographs. It further questions the medium “photograph” as a documentary piece of evidence depicting reality. Frontal views […]
Renata Lucas
Sunday, 26 December 2010
Renata Lucas Work from her oeuvre. “Renata Lucas’s practice is a critical interpretation of how our built environment determines actions, behavior and social relationships, and by extension, society’s dependency on the preservation of prescribed definitions of space, property and order. By offering an alternative spatial imagination—one that brings into consideration malleability, manipulation and play—Lucas provokes […]
Zeitguised
Saturday, 13 November 2010
Zeitguised From the Concrete Misplots series: “Featured in swiss architectural magazine Hochparterre’s “Raumtraum” section, these visualizations of future architectures search for the accidental in computer driven manufacturing processes. Based on iconic housing shapes, these buildings were intended as prototypes for mass-customization. Yet, as things go with computerized manufacturing, there have been misplots. The cartridge was […]
Georges Rousse
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Georges Rousse Work from his oeuvre. Below is an excerpt from Rousse’s correspondences with Canadian Art Historian, Jocelyne Lupien. Paris, January 9, 2000 Good evening Jocelyne, Your letter has got me thinking about the camera, it makes me wonder about the meaning and evolution of my works over the years. I do not have your scientific or […]