An exhibition organised to commemorate the celebrations of the 50th year of Diplomatic relations between India and Colombia. ‘Signs of Skin’ are works of a well established Colombian Artist Claudia Hakim who started her artistic career in the late 1970’s. Since then she has explored different thematic arrangements communicating a rich artistic language in a direct and concrete manner. Hakim applies her skill and clarity to the definition of the sculptural language. Her work has the capability to induce the senses to the point of generating a wish to interact with it. The themes that she addresses and the new ideas that are suggested are conveyed to the visitor in a magical way.
On the subject of Antarctica, here’s a video trailer for DJ Spooky’s Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica…
Photographer Richard Mosse discusses his work with Geoff Manaugh over at BLDGBLOG. Here’s an excerpt that explains the video above:
I met an extraordinary Dutchman out in Thailand who is known in wreck-chasing circles as the Dakota Hunter. He very generously let me gatecrash his shoot of a Thai-organized project sinking Dakota aircraft into the waves off Phuket. These aircraft were vintage American military bombers (and Sikorsky attack helicopters) from the Vietnam War that had been donated to the Thai Army upon America’s withdrawal from Saigon. They had been flown by the Thai Air Force until they could fly no longer, and have since lain rusting in the jungle.
But the diving clubs of Phuket, struggling to re-stimulate the dive-tourism industry as well as the coral reef environment that had been virtually wiped out by the recent tsunami, came up with the idea of sinking these decommissioned aircraft onto the ocean floor.
I pulled this footage from Thailand together with a second video showing the 2009 US Airways crash in the Hudson River. In this piece, I became fascinated by themes of tourism, disaster, globalization, the military-industrial complex, and history. But most of all, I’m drawn to the aesthetic power of the air disaster, and the majesty of watching airplanes be submerged and re-emerge from water, like a kind of baptismal rite. The sea has a wide array of psychoanalytic and mythic associations which I feel produce sparks of meaning when they coincide with the airplane’s modern form.
It’s interesting- for me, the video transported my mind to Antarctica, though I know the footage is from New York and Thailand. From there, I started thinking about Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antarctica. So, I opened up my iTunes and am listening to it right now…
Dan Bergeron’s Face Of The City
Mysterious. Makes me think of how people disappear in the city. Sometimes the busyness, the architecture, the synthetic, the density— all can swallow up someone.
The Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera in her Manhattan loft, surrounded by her art. After six decades of very private painting, she sold her first artwork five years ago at the age of 89.
What an inspiration to persevere in what you do. Slow and steady wins the race! Read the whole story at the New York Times…
Wonderful geometric wooden textiles by Elisa Strozyk, masters student at Central Saint Martins, London.
I’m not quite sure what this is about, but I like it.
This exhibition will be the first survey of Marcus Coates’ work in a public gallery in the UK and will include early film pieces, sculpture, sound, costumes and photographs as well as new work. Coates often assumes the identity of an animal, such as a fox, goshawk or stoat, by simulating its appearance, enacting its habits and appropriating its language.
n 1938, the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller wrote Nine Chains to the Moon,his radical proposal for improving the quality of life for all humankind via progressive design and maximizationof the world’s finite resources. The title was a metaphor for cooperation – if all of humankind stood on each other’s shoulders we could complete nine chains to the moon. Today, the population of the planet has increased more than three times to 6.7 billion (we could now complete 29 chains to the moon), and the successful distribution of energy, food, and shelter to over 9 billion humans by 2050 requires some fantastic schemes. Like Fuller’s revelation from five decades earlier, 29 Chains to the Moon features artists who put forth radical proposals, from seasteads and tree habitats to gift-based cultures, to make the world work for everyone.
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