RISD Exposé opening
Last Friday was the opening of RISD Exposé, a pop-up store in downtown Providence that is dedicated toward current RISD students slinging their art and design work like there’s no tomorrow. Here are a few standouts from the show.
Archived entries for Real life
Dieter’s in London
A new show at the design museum in London will reinforce why everyone wants to bang Dieter Rams by showing tons of the stuff he did for Braun and other people. Runs through March 7th.
More info here
Opening tonight! Rectangular stuff!
Tonight from 6-9pm at Sebastian + Barquet (544 w. 24th st., NYC) is the opening for what looks to be a pretty serious show of Donald Judd’s furniture work. Be there or be square (see what I did there?). In case you miss it, the show runs until Christmas. Yeah angles!
realiTRON
Architecture from the future, brought to us by architect turned digital media artist, Pablo Valbuena. A master of space, time and perception Valbuena’s work is based primarily around his ceaseless investigations of “space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as a space in transformation.”
The above images are from Valbuena’s urban installation for the Hague City Hall, in the Netherlands.
See the interaction in real-time here.
Below are images of his earlier work called the Augmented Sculpture Series. See the piece as it appeared at ARS Electronica in 2007.
The Game of the Century
Check out this video reenactment of the 1956 chess “game of the century” between Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne, performed on the brilliant History Chess set by Constantin and Laurene Boym. Each piece in this chess set is a hand-carved representation of unique and sometimes troubling memories from the last century – the sinking of the Titanic; the Unabomber’s cabin; oil barrels; Macintosh computers; tanks. Every game played on this set juxtaposes the memories in unique ways. It’s like that Billy Joel song in statuette form.
From their site:
The history of the 20th Century has often been compared to a chess game: a struggle of opposing political systems, ideologies, brands, and artistic movements. Every figure in our monumental chess set alludes to a particular historical icon, beginning with the sinking Titanic and ending with the scarred towers of the World Trade Center. … Essentially, the set is a collection of 32 different sculptures on board, which the game continuously re-combines in a new composition.
Fake Fish
Meet my new pets! and current favorite thing. These guys were created by artist Helen Altman and currently live at the DCKT gallery where I visit them every morning on my way to work.
For all the drug droog addicts in NY
The Scout has a writeup about the first droog store this side of the Atlantic, which opens today in Soho:
Commodity design objects in glass cases, one-offs and artist proofs scattered about the floor. No furniture stages, white walls, or moody gallery lighting. According to designer & Droog collaborator Jurgen Bey the Droog retail space is a sketch: a blueprint for upending expectations. To that end the space succeeds; it feels more like a studio than a store, let alone a gallery.
If you’re in New York you should totes go check it out. The address is 76 Greene Street, between Spring and Broome. You know, where everything else is. They’re open until 7.
