A Celebration of Creativity
anima ona is a design studio established in 2018 by Freia Achenbach (based in Stuttgart, Germany), Carlo Kurth (based in Hirschberg, Germany) and June Fàbregas (based in Barcelona, Spain). 3D printed shoe by Freia Achenbach. You can see more of their work here
Archway Studios is a live-workspace built in and around a 19thC rail viaduct. The project works with the constraints of an inner-city, industrial site next to a train line, and the challenges of a fortified design that engages its surroundings. You can see more of their amazing projects here and more on the fabrication of this sculptural build.
Masayume (prophetic dream), was developed by a team of contemporary artists called mé, whose core members are haruka kojin, kenji minamikawa, and hirofumi masui. The balloon, which measures the equivalent to a six-story building (about 20 meters), has been rendered in black and white and its face aims to serve as an observer of the pandemic. You can find out more about the Me collective here
Ori Lichtik is a musician, drummer and creative DJ who has collaborated on all of Gai Behar and Sharon Eyal’s works to date. Ori creates soundtracks from improvised and live playing, created in real time with the choreographers and dancers in the studio. His work is influenced by textures and styles from industrial music through funk and hip-hop to classical and baroque music, serving the choreography and holding a dialogue with it. You can listen to OCD LOVE here
‘Sometimes I come away from what I am photographing sick at heart, with the faces of people in pain etched as sharply in my mind as on my negatives. But I go back because I feel it is my place to make such pictures. Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera’ – you can read more about her life and work here
Christo and Jeanne-Claude claimed their work contained no deeper meaning aside from its immediate visual impact. Its purpose was simply ‘to bring beauy and joy to the people and encourage new ways to experience the world around us’. You can find out more here
Obviously, when we made SWAN LAKE we didn’t know that it would have the impact it’s had, but over the years I’ve come to realise that it’s been the trigger for a lot of boys and young men going into dance. You can read the full interview here
‘I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.’ Tate Modern is looking afresh at the work of Rodin in an exhibition this spring. ‘The Making of Rodin’ will run from the 29th of April through to the 31st of October and you can read more about it here.
Speaking about TRANSPORT Antony Gormley said, “The body is less a thing than a place; a location where things happen. Thought, feeling, memory and anticipation filter through it sometimes staying but mostly passing on, like us in this great cathedral with its centuries of building, adaptation, extension and all the thoughts, feelings and prayers that people have had and transmitted here. Mind and body, church and state are polarities evoked by the life and death of Thomas Becket. We are all the temporary inhabitants of a body, it is our house, instrument and medium; through it all impressions of the world come and from it all our acts, thoughts and feelings are communicated, I hope to have evoked this in the most direct way possible”.
The two metre long work uses hand made antique iron nails from the Cathedral’s repaired south east transept roof to construct a delicate filter-like membrane outlining the space of a floating body. The membrane is pierced with nails passing through it from inside to outside and vice versa. The work is suspended above the site of Thomas Becket’s vestry place in the Eastern Crypt of the Cathedral. Words from Art Daily
Architecture studio Atelier Vens Vanbelle has built a Corten steel guesthouse with a watchtower in Uitbergen, Belgium, for a client in the film business.
Named after its owner, Alex Guesthouse was built to meet his brief that international guests should remember their stay forever. It was constructed from different layers of laminated veneer lumber (LVL) clad in Corten. You can see more of their work here
Beautiful Creative Minds 