Orozco - Tate Modern

Tate modern, 29th Jan:
"four bicycles (there is always one direction)" 1994 - "Orozco's bicycle sculpture is a poetic assemblage of iron wheels, created by removing the seats and handlebars and then fitting the frames together.
"la ds" 1993 - "la ds exemplifies his reconfiguration of industrial objects for artistic purpose. It is a sculptural intervention which consists of cutting a citroen ds in three pieces and removing its central part. 'it is not enough to cut a car in half. you have to build it up again,' he has said".

Rubber House by Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten

The Rubber House is a small pavilion, completely made out of rubber. The house can be entered, one person at a time, to retreat from the outside and to find oneself again. The introvert character of the pavilion is reinforced by the hollow acoustics of the interior. Partly translucent walls enlighten the space during the day Unlike what you might expect, the Rubber House is all about mass and weight.The house is an amber-coloured rectangular monolith (outside dimensions 1,5x 1,5 x 2,3 m) in which an egg shaped interior seems to be carved out. One wall offers a small bench and another a window-frame with no view. The entrance is nothing more than a vertical cut in a third wall. The whole house, including bench and window-frame, is made out of poured in place urethane resin.... http://www.dezeen.com/2010/08/23/rubber-house-by-zeinstra-van-gelderen-architecten/

Balancing Act by Ensamble Studio

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: two enormous girders slice through the Arsenale exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale thanks to Madrid architect Antón García-Abril of Ensamble Studio. Entitled Balancing Act, the installation comprises one girder balanced across the other, supported at one end by a metal spring.A rock perched atop the other end acts as a counter-weight.... http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/08/balancing-act-by-ensamble-studio/

The stunning work of photographer Finbarr O'Reilly

Swansea-born photographer Finbarr O'Reilly started his journalism career as an arts correspondent in Canada, before working as a text stringer for Reuters in Africa. He turned to photography in 2005 and has won numerous awards for his work since. O'Reilly spent some weeks photographing US and Afghan forces fighting the Taliban in Helmand province...http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/nov/24/finbarr-oreilly-reuters-helmand-photography#/?picture=369014869&index=8

Carhartt, Francesc Rife

The new Barcelona outlet for urban-wear label Carhartt - part of L'illa (comercial complex designed by Rafael Moneo and Manuel de Sola-Morales.

Covering only 43m2 it has the appearance of a sophisticated pop-up shop. the space is clad in oak paneling, screens and display elements, resulting in a warm atmosphere of intimacy and coherence. 'I was inspired by a timberyard - the starting point of a material that is about to be transformed'... http://rife-design.com/rife2.html

NO LIMITS IN THE STREETS

From graffiti to the city:

The history of a system of proliferation, invasion of space, and appropriation of place.

On the way from the street to the museum, the essence of graffiti loses its breath.

If it does not metamorphose it becomes a mutilated object, which in the best case loses its legs and in the worst, sells its soul.

The following installation is a rewriting of tags made on the city; it’s the mutation of graffiti into the invasion of space, parasiting the smallest crevices of the site. Here the gallery is implicated as the active support of the intervention, a metaphor of the city.

The proliferation is pushed to the limit; the space is saturated and supra-tagged.

From this apparent urban chaos, a unitary space is born, where the floor, the walls, and the ceiling are but one, creating a loss of senses, orientation, and gravity.

Time is suspended....

http://www.stephanemalka.com/en/2010/07/rues-sans-frontieres/

Raphael Zarka

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/8609/raphael-zarka.html