Almost there (Matías Cuevas)

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Untitled (Egyptian)
2012
Carpet, carpet trim, household paint and torch on panel
84" x 60"

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2012
Carpet, carpet trim, household paint and torch on panel
84" x 60"
 Walk with me
2011
Carpet, carpet trim, household paint and torch on board
48" x 36"
 Dear alien (brother me)
2011
Carpet, carpet trim, household paint and torch on board
84" x 60"
Lightning
2011
Carpet, carpet trim, and lit imprints on board
48" x 36"
 
Pictures from Matías Cuevas Website

Fujimori Terunobu

The architecture of Terunobu Fujimori - houses with real dandelions or leeks planted on the roof, a tea room like a bird house perched on tall tree trunks with the bark still attached - is extremely original. It combines new concepts quite different from those of conventional architecture with a sense of nostalgia that evokes memories of a distant past. The modernist architecture of the 20th century was functional and based on science and technology. It excluded a relationship with nature or historical and regional qualities and adopted an "international style," universal qualities that were thought to apply around the world and were promoted as the main direction of new architecture. Because of its mechanical, artificial, mass-produced look, however, modernist architecture took away the human face of the city. At a time when contemporary architects were engaged in a trial-and-error attempt to overcome the contradictions in this style as they groped toward the future, Fujimori was designing "architecture that advances toward the past," incorporating things that had been rejected by modern architecture, including traditional techniques surviving in rural areas. Fujimori's architecture is international but vernacular. It is not tied to any particular stylistic category but goes back to a time before there were nations, national peoples, and architectural styles. He participates personally in the construction process with the Jomon Company, a group made up of friends and benefactors.

Terunobu Fujimori & Nobumichi Oshima, Teahouse Tetsu, 2006.
Photo: Masuda Akihisa.
Takasugi an house

text from operacity.jp


Up to the Nose

A white wolkswagen bug has drowned in a liquid of the same color. This is part of Ivan Puig’s installation hasta las narices -up to the nose-. The car is a part of a three piece installation where in the end we discover that the car and the driver are toy figures floating in what seems to be a glass of milk. The aim is to reflect on the proportions of events and its realtivity.The Mexican artist says he is interested in the “proportions of events and their relativity.“




Homage to the lost spaces

After New Zealands´earthquake in february 2011 many buildings had several damaged and were turned down. Mike Hewsons' office building was abandoned since then.This is the idea behind this art instalation: "I wanted to help the community to remember that this building was full of life, fun and families before the earthquake. And that it is important to think about places that we have lost in the same way we homage other losts. It is a way of preparing the destroyed building to his funeral, 'wearing' it with beautiful big size images showing what happened inside during his 'life' for what may be his last goodbye".

Mike Hewson website