Saturday, May 22, 2010

OLAFUR ELIASSON

Saw his exhibition yesterday at the Martin Gropius Bau. The way the installations worked with the exhibition spaces was really powerful. It's impossible to distil any of the installations to a single image, as they're all about movement either of light, or of people through spaces. Anyway shown here: the mirror atrium space and the dancing water hose, which i both found really moving.
The mirrors that extended diagonally to the corners of the roof windows, made a space where you walk surrounded by the ceiling. The mirrors had the other effect of blocking out light to the rest of the foyer space. You walk through the darkened scaffolding complex supporting the mirrors to enter the room. Very dramatic.
The water pendulum was set up as a hose spraying water lit only by a strobe light in a room totally darkened by black curtains and a black sponge floor. The water pressure forces the hose to dance. Its movements and the water drops are frozen by the strobe light. You feel like you're being drawn nearer by its beauty but fear getting wet.


Tuesday, May 11, 2010

VICTOR TIMOFEEV

Victor Timofeev
Stumbled upon this artist's blog a couple years back. Forgot the name and could never find it again  but some of his drawings mashing buildings with other objects '2006-2007' stayed in my head. Re-found his blog the other day googling the same thing (the Farnsworth House) that I was looking for when I first found him, which was weird.
"Architectural cappriccio, facade of the edifice conforming to an inverted cross incision."
"Aldo Rossi's design for the university village in Chieti (1979) with all windows open."



Love these rubbish sculptures.