NorthEast to SouthEast

This is just one Autumn day. I decided to spend this saturday of mine in one of the best galleries in London. The Barbican Art Gallery.

12 Nov 2011

The Barbican art gallery is transformed, curated and design by Rotor, They make the portrait of OMA. Co founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas as the office for Metropolitan Architecture. It has seven partners and a staff of 280 architects, designers, researchers and support staff in offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing and Hong Kong. 

OMA works was magnificently astonishing. Mind blowing. I don't think Rotor did an excellent job curating it. The first part of the exhibition was rubbish. Some pictures are pixelized, somehow the organization of the presentation just doesn't do it for me. It was boring discouraging viewers to read. However I really enjoy the works. The model making, the drawings, really show the thought and time put in every little details; something to be shown. I realize the things they do in an a real Architectural firm is very similar with the projects I do in school. The process of plenty research, experiments and testing. 

I suggest you to go and see it before it ends on the 19th February 2012. If your in London of-course.

After the Barbican I realized... mmhh I don't have anything to do at home I'll just walk around. 

So there i was with my pocket camera walking around the gray city. 

A marching band?

Architecture in North East London

Beautiful hexagonal glass

Towering Buildings. Like this picture in particular to me it looks like a collage and the dull tone of dead pink and mint green.

Odd looking corner?

Corridor to a bar

Black telephone booth

Autumn leaves

didn't realize i was walking to the south! Summerset House :D

London is gray but is never boredom

All photographs are taken by Hana Tindjau

Apocalypse

John Martin was a controversial but key figure in 19^th Century art. He is visionary, eccentric, populist and epic. Like what shown in the size of his canvases, this wildly dramatic artist with his vision of heaven and hell was larger than life.

This exhibition presents a spectacular vision of his, capturing the full drama of his imagination. Much of Martin’s work is ghastly, but the exhibition is still packed with highlights, the ridiculously melodramatic Belshazzar’s Feast; the terrifying power of The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum; the mezzotint prints for Milton’s Paradise Lost; the devastatingly brilliant final triptych. His works gives a huge impact like a tsunami that’s going to hit one but my gosh the exhibition was repetitive. Rooms after room are filled with never ending succession of cliffs, forests, mountains, ancient cities, mythological figures, waterfalls and lighting.

There is something about his style I cannot really understand. His painting style is realistic but the subjects are over the top and the over contrast color he use gives a very dreamy effect whilst still holding on its dramatic and scoundrel atmosphere. The artist uses bold primary colors to emphasize the atmosphere but also the subject of his work.

I adore his paintings. The artist himself was a phenomenon in his own right as he had no formal training. Yet he is one of the greatest artists in the 19^th century.  Darkness dawns. Global meltdown. Rocks burst like boiling hot lava. Nobody did the apocalypse as well or as frequently as John Martin.

If you are in London see this exhibtion before it ends at Tate Britain.

Have a great weekend 

xoxo

AA for Bloomsbury Festival 2011

22 October 2011

AA first years are participating in the Bloomsbury Festival.

A beautiful day in Bedford Square. Wood structures are scattered around the square filled with its own wonderful concepts. Korean marshal arts, dancing, badminton games, Thai food and coffee makes the exhibition alive. 

Photograph courtesy of Nabila Mahdi

Fashion Love

Was browsing youtube and look what I found;

watch till the end!

Lately I've been admiring fashion today because its not just pretty and beautiful but I think fashion is so much more than that! Its about concept, ideas and innovation. Hussein Chalayan is between fashion and technology he actually combines both which I think is pretty cool. He become the 'odd one out' but he become unique and different then others.


I was very pleased with my assessment 'Hana's performance throughout the course has been excellent and she has demonstrated through commitment.' Yeyeyeyeye! Very sorry with my late posts since the 3D spatial specialism has been very busy over the week.  After my assessment week we all got reading week. I went to the barbican art gallery to see the Future Beauty: 30 years of japanese Fashion exhibition to start off. 


This exhibition was a survey of avant-garde japanese fashion from early 1980's to now. Issey Miyake, Rei Kawabuko and Yohji Yamamoto redifined very basis of fashion. They take the simplicity of fabric to form expression, they turned fashion into art. 


Works by Miyake, Kawakubo and Yamamoto are presented alongside also including Junya Watanabe, Jun Takahashi, Tao Kurihara and Mintdesigns. 


Photograph courtesy Lyndon Douglas/Barbican Art Gallery

Junya Watanabe

Yohji Yamamoto

Issey Miyake's APOC series

Issey Miyake's APOC series

Tao Kurihara SS08

close up

Yohji Yamamoto

Hiraoki Ohya

Issey Miyake Polygon series

  

Rei Kawakubo

Rei Kawakubo

Mintdesigns

Tao Kurihara

I really enjoyed the exhibition didn't realize I spend three hours inside. I was glad i went and now I see fashion in a different way.

xoxo