Tag: visual ecstasy
Mind Bending Installations & Sculptures by Anish Kapoor.
17th February
Celebrated Bombay born, London based artist Anish Kapoor is renowned for his enigmatic sculptural forms which are incredibly difficult to describe in words. So who am I to even try, right? Right. There is no doubt that his ginormously epic installations are captivating and visually arresting, like the incredible Leviathan at Grand Palais in Paris last year (2011). It’s seriously serious and absolutely mesmerising, no? Having said this, I am equally intrigued and captivated by his smaller, seemingly simpler works, such as the Untitled series shown below. To me, looking at these incredible pure glossy shapes is a form of visual meditation…
Letman and Gijs Frieling for Dries van Noten | Menswear A/W 2012.
1st February
Did you ever have a moment where you saw something so awesome that you immediately proceeded to hyperventilate and had to quickly look for a paper-bag to breathe into and calm yourself down? No…? Yeah, me neither. I’m waaaay too cool for that… *Fidgets nervously* Oh ok, except maybe when I saw this.
At the recent Dries van Noten menswear fashion show at the Grand Palais in Paris, five painters were busily working on a 30m long mural while a bunch of well-dressed models strutted they’re stuff on the catwalk. The painters ignored the models walking behind them and continued working on their canvas wall, carefully recreating the work of typographer Job Wouters (aka Letman) and Dutch artist Gijs Frieling…
The Obliteration Room by Yayoi Kusama at GoMA in Brisbane.
27th January
Yayoi Kusama is a contemporary Japanese artist who puts dots all over her world. Her obsessive compulsive nuttiness is close to my heart and Kusama’s is definitely one of my all time favourite artists. Since December 2011, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) has been showing her work in a ‘Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever‘ exhibition. Part of this event is a seriously cooltown interactive installation for children called The Obliteration Room – a series of rooms were painted completely in white where every room surface, piece of furniture and decoration was treated as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, kids were given thousands of colour dot stickers and were encouraged to make their creative contribution towards transforming the white space into one exploding with vibrant colours…
Photography | 2011 Archive.
30th December
01 | A Frock And a Hard Place | Fashion Editorial. 02 | Planet Tilda. 03 | In Bloom | Fashion Editorial. 04 | Peter Lippmann for Christian Louboutin. 05 | ‘Dream Sequence’ by Madame Peripetie. 06 | Where Children Sleep. 07 | Infra by Richard Mosse. 08 | Hands. 09 | Tunnel Of Love. 10 | Holi Festival of Colours. 11 | World War II Bunkers. 12 | Dear Photograph…
Installations | 2011 Archive.
27th December
01 | Balloon Bench | Satoshi Itasaka of H220430 Studio. 02 | CHANEL Runway for Spring Summer 2012 by Zaha Hadid. 03 | Daniel Arsham. 04 | Lacey Bits and Pieces // Janet Echelman | Guest Post by Textile and Terrain. 05 | Akio Hirata’s Exhibition of Hats by Nendo | Tokyo, Japan. 06 | Wrapped Interiors by Penique Productions. 07 | There are no Circles | Lionel Estève. 08 | Temporary Architecture in a Pop Up City // Burning Man Festival | Guest Post by Textile and Terrain. 09 | ‘Bang’ by Ryuji Nakamura at the CNAC Lab | Tokyo, Japan…










