...tell what this review of my show at Inmo says. Only thing I know is that the lovely Rika Hiro wrote it, and that this magazine apparently rocks in Asia. 
Together with the review I got the invites for Inmos' booth at the 2006 China International Gallery Exposition, otherwise know as the Beijing Art Fair. Where you there? Did you see it?
I know I said arriverderci to Milano, but there's still stuff in my 2BLOG folder so bear with me. 
why o why do I like these? I wonder if post modernism is ready for the big comeback, and this is so scary, it cant be happening.
Milan is surrounded by 70's satellite towns that don't feel like suburbs but like a ghost office park. Opera is one of those places, and it takes it's name from an amphitheatrical hi-rise grandly facing nothing. Next to it is what seems like endless empty office buildings in the middle of empty fields, filled with empty roads and trees without leaves.
Next to Opera is Milano Tre, another satellite city modeled after the American dream of quiet roads and two story houses and trees and squirrels and neurotic lonely kids bicycling around aimlessly where nothing is happening and everything is under control. 
So our Lugano weekend is over, but the feelings remain. We went up to Locarno where Miltos had his Feelings show at Fabbrica. 20 amazing large-scale digital drawings of feelings, looking like memories, floating in a liquid smoke, in a unique technique . 
At night we stayed in a loft that was part of a clown training center. 
Passing through Lugano, we stopped at the Swiss Miniature Village which includes many mini Alps, Airports, many Swiss Chalet and funnily enough 80's deserted mini malls with what seemed like drug dealing. Not what you would expect to find in a toyland.
Casa Vogue is the Architecture/Art/Strangeness quarterly supplement to Vogue Italia, and its usually the most inspiring magazine around. Stuff you see in Casa Vogue are almost impossible to see anywhere else, like weird tree houses, gypsy camps, metal villas on remote mountans etc etc etc, the list is really endless. I'm always excited to see a new issue, and the current issue features a page on Hotel Blue Wave with a really nice text/interview by Flavia Fossa Margutti so the excitement is, ermm, double. 
I'm in Milan but also just spoke at the L.C. Vers conferance on Le Corbusier in Volos (via DVD). Sometimes its fun to be somewhere that you're not.
Havent seen this video but I LOVE Annika's work. I was in a trance when I saw her New Gravity video. This one has has amazing stills
RIDE THIS20.45 min DVD loop(c) 2004 ANNIKA LARSSON Music by Sean McBride
I almost spilled my coffee this morning when I read this title. 
The tremendous Ettore Sottsass at LACMA
Sometimes I post photos from books I like, mostly architecture. This book could be full of architecture that I like, and landscapes, events, places and people. You can make your own version by going to ArminLinke.com and choosing from his amazng archive the photos that you want on your book.
I've been meaning to post this for AGES, ever since I saw it photographed by Armin Linke.
This was the installation of the "Sassi" rocks at Rivoli when the show happened. They were floating in a cluster, at the beginning of the long Manica Lunga space.
At the end of the space (and the end of the show) there was the reverse piece, a big pile of foam bricks mixed up with some of the Multipli pieces like a big dumb
Experimentally fabulous armchair made from a blob of polyurethane foam by Danish designer Gunnar Aagard Andersen, exhibited in MOMA New York 1964. 
This is Eden, by Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners. Looks super scary in an unexpectedly organic way, or maybe not. I wonder what it smells like. 
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