clouds and mountains and buildings and theory and art and websites and trees and people and
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Lion under the rainbow
yesterday was the last day of the "Lion under the rainbow" contemporary art from Tehran, curated by Alexandros Georgiou, in an empty apartment in downtown Athens. The show + the space was a completely particular experience, which doesn't really translate into photos, but here's some evidence anyway. (but check the website for better pics of the works plus names of artists which as usual I forgot to record.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Sottsass' Printed Plastic Prototypes
Here's some printed plastic laminate furniture prototypes (with great titles as always) by great Ettore Sottsass Jr (I finally caved in and got the awesome DOMUS compendium by TASCHEN, definitely cheaper but less fun than getting old issues at Gallaghers)
Monday, June 16, 2008
New Angelidakis.com
Well not really new, just a new homepage
with projects to be updated and filled in over the summer months...
with projects to be updated and filled in over the summer months...
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Learning from Beijing
Beijing must be the ultimate fake experience, the Las Vegas of the Far East. Instead of casinos imagine semi upscale worker housing, endless groups of identical boring skyscrapers, and shopping malls full of contraband stuff you wouldn't want even if it was original. What you see has been choreographed by the government, every poor neighborhood hidden behind brand new stone walls with hanging flower pots, happily undulating next to patches of perfect gardens, hiding the stinking hell of living without running water, stinking sewer streets and life as it was before the Olympics. Even the highway to the Great China Wall is lined with a thick wall of trees so you think China is a beautiful forest when instead its all factories that make made in china garbage. Still a fascinating place to visit.
Along the way we passed Marble Gates
(In The Temple of Heaven Park or something like that)
and rainbow gates
that glow at nightand tree gatesand Pagoda skyscrapers
with VIP hotlines
and slightly 80's rooftops
and neoclassical shopping-mall absurdities
we said hi to the Great Wall of Chinaand slid down slides
we passed fruitbowl sculptures
and poor neighborhoods covered-up
with "will be pretty" posters
they didnt let you look inside, where its dirty and stinkybecause the future is poster perfect
Sterling Ruby at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art Area
Amazing Bia Davou drawings at the Transexperiences exhibition by EMST, 798 Space
The Arab Guggenheim Museum by Nikos Charalambidis
great drawing by Katerina Christidi
stone grotto staircase in the Forbidden City
Steven Holl's Looped Hybrid
could never resist Koolhaas' CCTV, the most impressive and sinister building I saw recently
from every possible angle
looming over unsuspecting China
Herzog & de Meuron's Bird Nest also quite nice
some samurai skyscrapers
Yellow and Blue neighbors
with Eiffel Tower topping
R2D2 Siamese twins
More Pagoda Post Modernism
with lightbulb outlines pretending everything is all right
Along the way we passed Marble Gates
(In The Temple of Heaven Park or something like that)
and rainbow gates
that glow at nightand tree gatesand Pagoda skyscrapers
with VIP hotlines
and slightly 80's rooftops
and neoclassical shopping-mall absurdities
we said hi to the Great Wall of Chinaand slid down slides
we passed fruitbowl sculptures
and poor neighborhoods covered-up
with "will be pretty" posters
they didnt let you look inside, where its dirty and stinkybecause the future is poster perfect
Sterling Ruby at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art Area
Amazing Bia Davou drawings at the Transexperiences exhibition by EMST, 798 Space
The Arab Guggenheim Museum by Nikos Charalambidis
great drawing by Katerina Christidi
stone grotto staircase in the Forbidden City
Steven Holl's Looped Hybrid
could never resist Koolhaas' CCTV, the most impressive and sinister building I saw recently
from every possible angle
looming over unsuspecting China
Herzog & de Meuron's Bird Nest also quite nice
some samurai skyscrapers
Yellow and Blue neighbors
with Eiffel Tower topping
R2D2 Siamese twins
More Pagoda Post Modernism
with lightbulb outlines pretending everything is all right