Istanbul 3

Not sure how many posts you can get out of a city, but Istanbul is definitely a spectacular place. Here's a more or less random selection of photos, even though everything is in the end related to everything.

a roof of something in Top Kapistarting to develop an obsession with all sorts of scaffolding, (very 80's of me)the trees in the Gulhane Park

from the summer pavilion of Top Kapi to the Golden Horn

some archaeological order

some urban chaos

Haydarpasa railway station, the military coming to inspect

the Armenian church

a sprawling stairway in Beyoglu

ready for takeoff in Taksim

the time is right in Dolma Basche

Notes on Istanbul II: Spaces

sometimes you don't have to write too much

Notes on Istanbul

We're in Istanbul because Angelo is this months' artist for the YAMA project, organized by the lovely Sylvia Kouvali. YAMA is a huge screen in the middle of Istanbul. This is the view from the 17th floor of Marmara Pera Hotel, just below the screen. These suburbs are supposed to be pretty dodgy
and looking up to the YAMA screen
some random collection of objects on the street
a scaffolding that looks like a building
another scaffolding that looks like another building, on the way to Taksim square
probably the most fabulous door I've seen,
leading from the Dolma Basche right into the Bosphorous

Under Construction in Geneva

et voila

Shopping for a vehicle

I really had my eyes set on this fabulous Pegasus but it is kind of hard to drive.. the spaceship is cool though kind of StarWars meets NewJersey... the car is suddenly boring and 1st life and not even blackmaybe the red bird? is it a chicken?? or maybe I just keep looking, and anyway this week I spent tons of Linden Dollars on two seaside adjacent lots that will be the new home-office...

COLLATERAL, opening photos

Yes, I've kind of overdone it with the COLLATERAL posts, but I just received these photos by Lorenza Mercuri, and I couldn't resist posting them because they tell the story of the space so much better...

COLLATERAL, installation shots

This is the cave for Pierre Huyghe's Third Memory. The space is normally much darker, so we had to cheat and open the security door to let some light in, and be able to take these shots.

Runa Islam, the piece that opens the show

Mathias Muller and Christophe Girardet

a panoramic shot, the pieces that are visible are from left to right: Cory Arcangel "Colors", Pierre Bismouth "The Jungle Book Project", Carola Spadoni "Live Through This" and Dimitris Kozaris "Star Tricks"
and some shots of the Philosophy Libreria + Biglietteria, at Hangar Bicocca

If you are in Milan tonight...

Come to the opening of COLLATERAL, at Hangar Bicocca from 7:30 to 10:30 pm
Press conference at 1 pm

While at DLD...

I met up with my old friend Ruth Berktold, who I hadnt seen in at leat 10 years. now she runs a firm called Yes Architecture. Yes indeed.

If you're in London tonight

Come to Miltos Manetas' Internet Painting show at the super-cool Blow de la Barra gallery, 35 Heddon street. Everybody will be there.

COLLATERAL, construction shots

Opens February 1st, Hangar Bicocca, Milano.

Allianz Once, Allianz Twice

On the way to the airport we passed by the Allianz Arena by the great Herzog & de Meuron, a building that has made football fans hot for arhitects (which is a good thing). I had to take a mini-shuttle and the driver was great and super fast, so I barely got a chance to look at the staium properly, especially as it was white for the occasion (snowstorm).
Inside the Munich airport, I got a chance to have a better look. I guess twice of a good thing is even better... What's really interesting though is that the pattern that H&dM have used on the stadium's facade, is in fact a kind of logo for Munich,
as you can see all over town and mostly on the Munich Crest (though this is a bit venturing into Angelo territory so I'll leave it to that..)

Last DLDays

M/M and Hans Ulrich are about to go on stage on the smaller "NEEN" auditorium. The two projections have been dedicated to showing works by Rafael Rozendaal, Miltos Manetas Angelo Plessas and me for the whole conference. I really wanted to get Arianna Huffington to say something here but but she was having a power blabla at the Lufthansa Lounge (by the way she is too funny in person) so instead you get me looking at you.

HUO starting off but I'm not sure you can see anything...
and a little soundbyte by M/M tallking about the internets and their really great parallel Serpentine which we have to wait a few months to see and Olafur Eliasson Another highlight of the panel was the presentation by Ai Wei Wei who even though speaks perfectly english decided to give the talk in chinese to give a bit of personality. Check out his really cool work here
and if you speak chinese, also check out his super nice blog