This is a prison tower from somewhere in Florida. Looked interesting enough to save in my Misc Image folder of Dec 05. I must have been thinking about something for sure.
Grayson Perry's "Map of an Englishman" is just one of the most amazing print pieces I've seen. I wish I had a great scan of it, just to spend hours and hours traveling the mountains of Despair, the villages of Anger, Hate, Spite, crossing the rivers of unloved, unwanted and of course uninspired, to end up in the sea of stupid.
Ok so I dont remember all these places, I'm sure the map is very different and I'm just projecting (!) I saw it in full scale at Perry's Victoria Miro show two years ago. He was there with all his fabulous tranny entourage.
Ok so maybe its the extra weird music, or maybe its the weather, or maybe its me. I'm supposed to be filling in my Agenda for the catalogue of the New Trends exhibition, instead I'm obssesing (tsk tsk spelling) with anything tropical, exotic, polynesian, deserted-beach life and lost kind of thing. I just googled tiki image and this weird rock (bottom) came up. Is it a house? Is it a sculpute? Is it a rock? why its all of the above.
Around this time last year I was a lot in Holland, finishing off my Blue Wave exhibition at MU, in Eindhoven. For such a small place Eindhoven (which means "End of the Fields") has a number of very cute buildings, starting off from the train station.
The super funny Evoluon, a flying saucer with rotating lights, made in the 60's as a Phillips showroom.
And the De Bijenkorf department store whose facade was designed by Gio Ponti. I liked this other building too, but only when its upside-down and reflected in water;
Speaking of water, right next to this building is the Eindhoven City hall, and in the lobby you can still see the main maquette from the Blue Wave. It was too big to travel so we just parked it there, but I wonder if it gets lonely in the lobby, since it was really made for a public space.
These birds are from Jim Lambie's show Byrds that took place somewhere, and I randomly happened upon them when I remebered how super-inspiring his work is. Does this make sense? Was this a valid sentence? And is this golden door zig-zagging over this stripped floor while eating an oval mirror?
Love this Raf Simons double-inside-out-how-did-he-put-it-on jacket. the rest of the collection is kind of classic, but will propably look should-I-or-shouldnt-I-get-this when its on sale.
These silk-screened "bullet-hole" paintings on shaped canvas were part of Nate Lowmans' fantastic show at Maccarone gallery. The show was an anarchic mash-up of xeroxes, paintings, newspaper clippings, crime-scene photos and faux-random stuff ("Denial is not a river in Egypt"). It was his first solo exhibition in New York. It was called THE END.
I was so busy deciding what to wear and who to be, that I missed the Lawrence Lessig lecture in Second Life. If you did too, you can read the full transcript here
I love Naotaka Hiro's Ass Fall. Do I have to make an interesting comment about it? I dont think so. 
On his site you can find more interesting stuff , like his "Looking Through my Hand - See-through Suburbia" project that I find super intriguing.
Its funny that I've been in New York for a week and I'm still thinking about L.A. 
Just off of Hill Street is LA's simulated Chinatown. It was built in the '50s for a movie and then inhabited by chinese americans as a real place. 
Now its inhabited by cool stores such as OOGA BOOGA, cool school such as Piero Golia's Mountain School of Art, galleries and project spaces mixed with Mah-jong parlours and chinese stuff stores, mixing film with reality. One of the first spaces to open there was Miltos' Electronic Orphanage, which now has become Telic.
This blog is currently being collected by the Archive for Spatial and Aesthetic Praxis
1.jpg)
Posts
All Comments
