The opening for the New Practices New York / 2008 is tonight at the Center for Architecture.
Read more info here.
Nice projects, nice models, tons of people.
View a couple pictures after the jump.
Posts Tagged ‘exhibitions’
New Practices NY
Friday, September 5th, 2008Design and the Elastic Mind
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
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I made it earlier today to the MoMA preview of Design and the Elastic Mind. I couldn’t really take enough time to look around, but it is definitely an impressive selection of interesting work..
I’ll post something more complete once I make it back to the museum and actually get to spend some time in the exhibition. But for now, here are some low quality phone pics for now.
Sagmeister @ Deitch
Friday, February 15th, 2008
I made it today to the Deitch Projects to see how the Sagmeister “banana wall text” was holding up. The show, although small, is pretty awesome. The banana wall text is gone, they’ve all ripened so all you’ll see an almost homogeneous color. The smell of the entire place reminds me of my house in Colombia: ripening bananas in the kitchen. It’s a nice cozy feeling.
His prints are fantastic -check out the small prints of salt-like text on the smaller room- and the interactive spider web.
More images after the jump below.
75 Years of Architecture @ MoMA
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
After visiting Hirst’s installation at Lever House, we made it to MoMA for the exhibition 75 Years of Architecture at MoMA.
The lineup was of course impressive, and the drawings / collages should be required viewing for any architect or architecture student within continental America and beyond.
It was quite a treat to see Aldo Rossi’s drawings of the Modena Cemetery, which is for me one of the most important architectural projects produced in the 20th Century. Not lagging behind were Le Corbusier’s teeny-tiny sketches for masterplans for South America as well as the gigantic crayon sketches for Algiers, Peter Eisenman’s studies for House IV (which are a lesson in technical drawing – pre or post computer), Kahn’s beautiful yet scary sketches for Philadelphia’s masterplan, Hans Hollein’s Aircraft Carrier City, several Mies’ drawings, two Archigram’s, one Superstudio’s, a few Koolhaas’, Asplund’s, Fuller’s, Tschumi’s, Price’s, etc, etc.
See more hi-res pictures after the jump below.
Bjorn Schulke @ Bitforms
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
I made it last night to Bitforms gallery in Chelsea for the opening of Björn Schülke’s show on a tip-off by our friend Gil Aikos. The exhibit, Überschall, features 5 interactive sculptures/instruments which came to life every now and then by humming, playing their string, flying in-situ or exhaling low frequency ‘moans’. The manufacturing and wiring of the pieces was absolutely impeccable and it only added to the hybrid yet absurd and abstract nature of the work.
View Bitforms’ site here for more info.
More lousy phone pics after the jump below.
Banksy in NYC
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
We made it today into the Banksy show here in NYC. I don’t know exactly what it was (well I actually know) but it was just un-interesting at several levels:
First, the fact that his work is shown in a gallery is already off. I know he is already mainstream, but perhaps the type of venue has to change. Maybe cordon off the areas where his graffitis are? Or through webcams just stream footage of the actual graffitis… I guess that this would be the issue with any type of exhibition of this kind of work.
Second, the gallery was deliberately full of trash, either stuff people had left over time (which I doubt) or just made to look ‘urban’ or whatever you want to call it, some of the prints ‘half unpacked’, etc. It must be precisely because of the fact that it is inside a gallery and the fact that it so deliberate that was the biggest bore. One of the interesting things though, was seeing the price list for some of the prints.
PS.1 Wind down
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
We finally made it to PS.1 for the last Warm-up session of the summer. I had not been very gung-ho about visiting the installation this time around but figured it was necessary to see it after all.
The installation Liquid Sky by Ball-Nogues is a bit better that the art inside, and that is uhmm.
The small-town-circus-like structure provides plenty of shade and hammock like seating, but just because it has parametric modeling (to generate each one of the mass-customized pieces) doesn’t necessarily make it new or more interesting. The minimum should be for it to work – which it does – but that doesn’t make it any different than just using standard exterior canopies or a circus tent for that matter.
Project to Surface
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
We made it on Friday to the exhibition “Project to Surface” where our friends at Associated Fabrication produced all the physical objects, in a collaboration with Ben Krone (from SHoP architects) and 5 different artists. The pieces, mainly made out of Corian, were CNC milled and display a range of manufacturing techniques which A.F. is very comfortable with.
The exhibit closes on Tuesday, but will only open on Monday from noon to 3 pm.
See Frank’s earlier post here.
View more images of the exhibition after the jump.
Project to Surface
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
A very interesting looking exhibition will be opening this Saturday and running through Aug. 28. Here’s the blurb:
“Art and architecture collide on Madison Avenue. Project to Surface is a collaboration between five visual artists and an architect in rendering their visual concepts into three-dimensions through the use of cutting edge architecture software, fabrication tools and techniques.”
I am pretty sure they are holding the show in the gallery space of SHoP’s new building on Madison Avenue. So a there are quite a few reasons to check this one out.
Here’s the link: project to surface
Illumination #2
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
So tonight the opening for Illumination (v2.0) has happened. The show was at the Bravin Lee gallery in Chelsea. We (SOFTlab) produced all the video work and animations together with artist Michael Somoroff and his team. The installation includes a 270-degree video projection which, I have to admit, looked pretty amazing.
If you’re in the city, go check it out. We will soon be posting stuff on our site .
More images from the opening after the jump.