Simple installation…mass impact. Wicked
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Location:Denmark
Wish I was in Denmark to see this exhibition!
Avant Gardens Women 1920-1940
14th February - May 28, 2012
They were all determined, uncompromising, experimental and committed to their art and their contemporaries. All the pioneers of the aesthetic renewal of the arts in the interwar period. And they’re all quite undeserved, virtually unknown today.
Eight prominent women, their art, careers and networking is in focus.Avant Gardens Women 1920-1940
14th February - May 28, 2012
They were all determined, uncompromising, experimental and committed to their art and their contemporaries. All the pioneers of the aesthetic renewal of the arts in the interwar period. And they’re all quite undeserved, virtually unknown today.
Eight prominent women, their art, careers and networking is in focus.
Eight women, five themes, several “isms”, many expressions and two fiercely experimental decades. Yes, there is an extensive and ambitious presentation of eight of the most prominent female avant-garde artists of the inter-war over Europe. It is the first time their works are gathered in a show that both paints a picture of them individually and focus on their art, relationships and networks. Many threads attached to such a unique time-image with the spotlight directed at artists who have never received the attention and the legacy they deserve.
The exhibition seeks to rewrite the history of early 20th century and 30s artistic avant-garde by showing how these eight women decisively contributed to the aesthetic innovations that occurred during those years. Renewals we know as Dadaism, Surrealism and Constructivism, which grew out of creative and radical circles in particular Berlin, Zurich and Paris.
The eight women did in their own ways to anticipate and exploit opportunities in the society in flux, the end of first World War brought with them. They behaved much freer to traditions and conventions and experimented with both genres, expressions and materials with its own identity. Avant Gardens Women brings together around 200 works, showing how the eight unfolded in painting, photography, collage, design, film and sculpture.
“The Boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” - Edgar Allan Poe
The shortfilm, based on Edgar Allan Poes quotation, is the result of my work in the 5th semester at the Anhalt University of Applied Science. It was a solo project and the conceptional work, the creation and the implementation of the animation took about three months.
Der Kurzfilm, welcher auf Grundlage von Edgar Allan Poes Zitat entstand, ist das Ergebnis einer Semesterarbeit aus dem fünften Semester an der Hochschule Anhalt im Fachbereich Design. Er entstand als Ein-Mann-Projekt und Konzeption, Bau der einzelnen Elemente sowie Animation dauerten etwa drei Monate.
Charles Bello has spent the last 40 years handbuilding a succession of homes with timber cut and milled from his 400 acres in Northern California.
Photos by Leslie Williamson.
Learn more about his quest to acquire and preserve redwood forests at www.savetrees.org.
(Source: mlagreen.com)
Room of Heights by Roman Ondak
Every visitor is encouraged to mark their height on the wall and after several months a dark band encircles the gallery.
Metropolis.
1930s imagining of 1980s New York in the sci-fi musical Just Imagine (1930, dir. David Butler) (via)
Designed by art director Stephen Goosson, the city set was an elaborate miniature model that covered a ground area of 75 x 225 feet and whose tallest tower measured 40 feet.
Just Imagine’s New York was primarily inspired by architect Harvey Corbett’s prediction that 1970’s New York would resemble a “very modernized Venice” and by the futuristic urban designs presented in Hugh Ferriss’s 1929 book, The Metropolis of Tomorrow.
Ferriss’s drawings of the ”business center of the future” (pictures #3-5) provided the most direct inspiration for Goosson’s sets. Broad superhighways establish a geometric ground plan that extends upward through overlapping levels of bridges, streets, and terraced walkways. The grid of streets and bridges is pierced by huge freestanding skyscrapers surrounded by lower setback buildings, a design Ferriss created as an analogy to the natural world of “towering mountain peaks… surrounded by foothills”
The opening scenes of the (otherwise mediocre) film, which feature this cityscape, can be seen here.
More on the building of the Just Imagine set. Collection of Hugh Ferriss’s futuristic city sketches here.
