Octavioamado – designer
Born in Argentina, the designer Octavio Amado is known worldwide for his creations and installations of a stongly suggestive character. A painter and a sculptor in origin, Octavio Amado sees light as a primary source of confort, pleasure and a causer of sensations.
BGM project
Daily life wall clock
This wall clock doesn’t indicate time by numbers and hands. Instead, the figures of a grandmother, grandchild and dog represent hours, minutes and seconds. Silhouettes of nature and daily life are arranged around the clock, and each figure moves through these scenes to represent the time.
ARSHILE GORKY: SKETCHBOOK DRAWINGS
Date: Now Showing through August 31, 2010
Location: Jack Rutberg Fine Arts 357 N. La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
web: www.jackrutbergfinearts.com
Also in Los Angeles
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
Museum of Contemporary Art
Now through September 20, 2010
Los Angeles, CA – Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles is currently presenting a rare exhibition of drawings by one of the most pivotal and significant 20th century American painters, Arshile Gorky (1904-1948). The exhibition extends through August 31. “Arshile Gorky: Sketchbook Drawings” features Gorky’s early sketchbook drawings dating from the early and mid 1930s. It was during that period when Gorky absorbed and re-defined European avant-garde sensibilities, having at that time a profound impact upon such artists as Willem de Kooning, Hans Burkhardt, Stuart Davis, John Graham, Isamu Noguchi and what ultimately became known as the New York School.
Óli Jóhann Ásmundsson
Ojadesign
Architect designer Óli Jóhann Ásmundsson was born 1940 in Reykjavík Iceland. He completed both his college studies and apprendiceship as a carpenter in 1961. He studied architecture at Nottingham University UK and graduated as an architect 1967. Besides working as an architect, Asmundsson has devoted much of his professional life to the design of systems for the building industry, such as partitioning systems and systems for prefabricated houses. In 1995 he started designing furniture and related work and in 2000, his Delta Chair was selected for the Icelandic pavilion at the Expo in Hanover, Germany, which resulted in a substantial presentation in the respected design magazine Moebel Interior Design. Asmundsson was invited to exhibit his collapsable furniture at the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Arts in 2002 and in 2007 he was invited by the Reykjavik Art Museum to exhibit his work “Meditation on Furniture” at the Kjarvalsstadir Art Museum in Reykjavik. This year Asmundsson has opened a gallery for his work named “Gallerí ÓJÁ” at Laugavegur 178, 105 Reykjavík.
Asmundsson´s furniture design can be found in the collections of museums in four countries: Kunstindustrimuseet in Oslo, Kunstwerbe-Museum in Berlin, The Museum of Applied Arts in Vilnius and the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Arts.
Óli Jóhann Ásmundsson
Grænlandsleið 39,
113 Reykjavik
Iceland
T. +354 5574856 – +354 8216566
oja@ojadesign.is
www.ojadesign.is
Sergio Mannino
Untitled #1 (Hannover)
Location: Sergio Mannino Studio – 45 Main Street, Suite 546 – Brooklyn, New York 11201
info@sergiomannino.com
www.sergiomannino.com
A wall mounted curial cabinet. It is the first of 5 objects inspired by a series of photographs by Santi Caleca in the Hannover red light district. Production: 100 signed pieces and one artist proof, ($2,100 + taxes and shipping)
The Unknown
When I was twelve, one summer night, I listened to a scientific program on the radio while I was looking at the sky with my brand new telescope. The speaker, a professional astronomer, was trying to explain the sky and the position of stars and planets to the listeners. Everything was very easy to understand, even for a kid and I was totally fascinated. Later in the night, he explained how to find Saturn out of the myriad of stars I was looking at: it was much brighter then anything else around and for me just the fact that I was able to recognize it, was already a big emotion. Without hesitating I moved my telescope and pointed at the object; focusing was never easy but in a few minutes I was totally amazed! I saw a small white circle with the rings around it! My heart started beating very fast and I was so excited that I couldn’t even talk. I will never forget that emotion; I will never forget what I felt that night.
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Pretty Much Everything – photographs 1985-2010
Dates: 24 June 2010 until 15 September 2010
Location: Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
info@foam.nl
www.foam.nl
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam proudly presents a survey of the work of the world famous photographic duo of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Inez and Vinoodh began their work together in 1986 in Amsterdam. Now, 25 years later, with their campaigns for fashion houses such as YSL, Chanel, Balmain, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Chloe’, and with regular publications in W Magazine, Vogue and The New York Times, they are amongst the most important photographers in the world today. They are amongst the very few artists that have successfully crossed the line drawn between fashion and art and have managed to simultaneously maintain careers in both fields. The team has lived and worked in New York since 1995.
Foam will show approximately 300 photographs spanning 25 years of the duo’s career. Art, fashion and portrait works all exist next to each other. By disregarding any chronological order the combinations of images are based on personal, formal, social, political and intuitive associations that show the way the artists have lived with the images for 25 years.
Inez van Lamsweerde en Vinoodh Matadin launched their international career with the publication of ten pages in the British magazine The Face in 1994. It was here that for the first time in a fashion series the models and the backgrounds were photographed separately and subsequently combined into a single image by use of a computer. The series typified van Lamsweerde and Matadin’s hyper-realistic style and was made to celebrate and subvert fashion within the context of a magazine.
