there is an exhibition with the title ‘cold war modern’ at the v&a museum, london right now. yesterday I was there and took some illegal pictures, forgot to switch off my flash and was almost kicked out. it was thrilling.
installation view oasis 7 by hans-rucker-co at documenta 5, kassel, 1972
I saw esther stocker‘s work at the liftoff, (location was the office of buro philip van den hurk financial consultants) at the dutch design week in eindhoven, which ended last month. the title of the exhibition was ‘the truth of basics, resetting the history of living between four walls’ and different artists and designers were presenting artwork or designs in a room.
one of my teachers at my academy, academy maastricht, use to say to me: matylda, I really wanna know where your black and white obsession is coming from. I didn’t find an answer yet but I do know that it’s true. what I like about esther stocker’s installations: they are black and white and geometrically well thought out (like a system she wants you to be in).
lift 2008
another post from the saatchi gallery (the current exhibition ‘the revolution continues’ about chinese art is worth to visit!) here is the ‘old persons home’ installation by sun yuan and peng yu. they are renown for working with extreme materials such as human fat tissue, live animals, and baby cadavers to deal with issues of perception, death, and the human condition.
I am in london since friday, had a great halloween evening at the no. 5 cavendish square hotel, get to know the cold and rainy british weather and didnt see anything designish worth to post. but I present ‘the diet chip’, an invention of stephan siepermann during the dutch design week.
Erdnussflips — a light brown, peanut-flavored corn snack in the shape of a small pellet
call me crazy or scream at me because I cant stay somewhere for long. but I feel home in different places. sometimes I just think that it is just nicer somewhere else. you learn a lot while traveling and meeting people. that’s what I do. london was good – london wants me back. here I come. lalala
I was already familiar with bart and lucy. I guess that mireille de koning, a friend I met in maastricht, told me about them. but I saw their work again at the mu eindhoven during the dutch design week. I am quoting the text about their work. why should I try to explain their work when they describe it best?
The following is from lucyandbert: lucy and bart is a collaboration between lucy mcrae and bart hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. they share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. they work in a primitive and timeless way creating future human shape, blindly discovering low-tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.
the 3 pictures above are from shape + clour
another event at the dutch design week. the designhuis (eindhoven’s design museum – some people would even say that it is another playground for lidewij edelkoort, ex-chairwoman design academy) presents a detailed exhibition of works of 180 students from over 30 european design colleges and universities. the good thing: it covers all disciplines that contribute to the creative industry. here is a little selection..lalala – some work, like jon stam‘s curiosity cabinet and joni neelen‘s preparing dreams bed were also exhibited here (and at the design academy graduation show).
karakters by leon de lange (design academy, eindhoven) – its a series of furniture meant to lean against, sit on or lie on. they weight only 7 kilo’s and are made for different arrangements.
some fashion in between – itske van deursen graduated this year at the willem de kooning academie hogeschool rotterdam. her collection was exhibited at modebelofte in the krabbedans, eindhoven. I saw this outfit and I fell in love. itske, you made a matylda outfit.
see my previous entry about the modebelofte 2007, during dutch design week (early beginning of my blogging)
they are maybe famous or known for their furniture or their products… but not for making punk music. joost van bleiswijk, stephan siepermann and jos kranen are a band. not a regular one. they never do auditions. they think that they call themself ‘4 mouthed barbarelas’ (but they are not sure yet). they perform just once a year during the dutch design week.
here is my selection of work from the graduation show at design academy, which is located in the witte dame, eindhoven.
this poster is hanging close to the witte dame, the ‘heart‘ of eindhoven. just a quick post. you will find more tomorrow.
hm.. I should have photoshoped my face into the poster. haha
after 2 months in london I am back (not really back but just here again.. for a while, I guess ). with a little stopover at my parents in germany, I am on my to the dutch design week in eindhoven. Its the seventh edition of the largest design event in the netherlands. around 1500 designers from home and abroad will show their work in more than 50 locations all over the city. I will attend maarten baas party at the smalle haven tomorrow evening. so, see you there.. or give me a call and meet me somewhere else. lalala, matylda
rose etherington is the assistant, co-editor and right hand woman of marcus fairs and rupinder boghal, founder of dezeen, online design and architecture magazine. together we have soup for lunch, chocolate for breakfast and champagne in the evening (at all the receiptions). If you google her name you find loads of design but no picture of herself.. till now! besides, I am the dezeen blonde no. 2.
hello ros(i)e
last night lacoste unveiled zaha hadid’s ne footwear collection. It is some very special footwear capsule collection which were designed in collaboration with the zaha hadid architects – a preview during london’s frieze art fair.
on saturday I poped into the carpenters workshop gallery to check out the work of american furniture artist wendell castle.
