Installations | 2015 Archive.Very few things get us excited like clever Installations as they often encompass so many different disciplines - set design, art direction, conceptual thinking and more. A good installation is one that provides a holistic and immersive...
Stories On Design // Empty & Abandoned Buildings.I've always had a profound fascination with empty buildings and abandoned spaces. It's difficult to look at these sorts of images without a whole bunch of mixed feelings rising to the surface - a sense of wonder, confusion, awe,...
Nel Verbeke Invites us to Embrace Melancholy.Nowadays it’s as if constant happiness is what we should aspire to. This leaves no room for other, more reflective states of being and melancholy. And yet, in times gone by, these feelings were accepted in our daily lives as natural...
Stories On Design // Thin Black Lines, Revisited.As it's been nearly 5 years since I first wrote about my love for thin black lines, I thought it would be fun to revisit this topic after all this time. It's so easy to forget that something as simple as a line can be so powerful and...
Highlights From the 56th Venice Art Biennale 2015.The Venice Biennale has for over a century been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Ever since its foundation in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, promoting new artistic trends and organising international...
Hypothesis by Philippe Parreno at Hangar Bicocca in Milan.Hypothesis by Philippe Parreno at HangerBicocca showcases works characterised by sound and light according to a precise script devised by the French...
In Infinity: Yayoi Kusama at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.At 86 years of age, Tokyo-based Yayoi Kusama is a world-known figure in contemporary art - highly original, wildly eccentric and avant-garde. And although others are well and truly retired by her age, Kusama shows no hint of slowing down,...
Ai Weiwei Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts London.The elegant rooms of London's Royal Academy of Arts and Ai Weiwei's brave and visionary works are a perfect match. The exhibition itself is politically charged, provocative, powerful and poetic in equal measure, made even better by the...
‘Incipit’ Wire Mesh Sculpture for Italian Festival Meeting del Mare.For the Italian festival Meeting del Mare, art collective 'Incipit' created a wire mesh sculpture as a public art installation. Built by hand, the translucent structure stood on the waterfront of Marina Do Camerota in Italy. The...
