09/04/2013

Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse rooftop to open as art space.

by Ora-Ïto. [Marseille] France
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
French designer Ora-Ïto is trans­form­ing the rooftop of Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille and will be open to the public this summer as a contemporary art space. Originally intended as an outdoor gymnasium for the self-contained community of Cité Radieuse – the first building in Le Corbusier's influential Unité d'Habitation project – the rooftop gradually fell into disuse and was put up for sale three years ago.

French de­sign­er Ito Mora­bi­to, who works un­der the brand name Ora-Ïto stepped in to buy the space and set to work transforming it into an arts centre with a cafe, shop and artists' residences. A 1950s extension was removed to reveal a sun deck and shower room with coloured tiles. Cité Radieuse was damaged by fire last August when a fire broke out in a first floor apartment.

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07/04/2013

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Vertical Paintings and Other Works.

Ivorypress. [MAD] Spain. 09/04/ > 18/05/2013.
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA.
The russian artists Ilya & Emilia Kabakov return to Madrid, where they exhibit their works produced from the late nineties to the present day with different techniques making references to art history. In 2000 we published in our magazine, METALOCUS 04, the exhibition of these artists in the Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro park, Madrid, where some of the works were exposed as How One Can Change Oneselves that you will see from next month in Ivorypress Space. You don´t miss this exhibition.

On 9 April Ivorypress Space will host in Madrid an exhibition of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, the Russianborn and international artistic duo currently based in the United States. Under the title Vertical Paintings and Other Works, the show will encompass a wide selection of work that, through different techniques, makes references to art history and literature...

06/04/2013

BODY AND SOUL. LARRY FINK.

MAC [A Coruña] Spain. 11/04 > 15/09/2013
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
The major retrospective exhibition "Body and Soul" of the famous American photographer Larry Fink, presents his famous images of some of the most famous celebrities in the United States shaking hands with snapshots of anonymous characters that reflect reality and contrasts of American society.

In 1970, John Szarkowski includes the most of the images of Larry Fink at MoMA, the beginning of a series of exhibitions in the most important European and American museums.

His different works share several constants: the empathetic attachment of the photographer towards a pervasive sensuality and ability to capture the body gestures, whose its esemble constitutes a universal language. Skin, hands, sweat, everyday gestures either poses studied imposed by the status or revealing of...

04/04/2013

Toni Cumella: Shaping Ideas / Modelando Ideas.

Fundación Metropoli. [MAD] Spain. 04/04/2013.
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA vía Paloma Diaz.
Architecture, Exhibitions
The Fundación Metrópolis of Madrid inaugurates today, April 4, an exhibition on the work applied to contemporary architecture of Toni Cumella. Collaborating with Enric Miralles, Benedetta Tagliabue, Nieto Sobejano, Alejandro Zaera, Pedro Campos Costa, E. Soria, Josep María Botey, Enric Ruíz Geli and Mestura arquitectes on several projects. Don´t miss it!

Focusing on the four main fabrication processes in use at Ceràmica Cumerlla - extruding, casting, pressing, and revolving - Shaping Ideas / Modelando Ideas presents the work of Toni Cumella and the application of his ceramics in some of contemporary architecture´s most significant project. Born in 1951, the son of ceramicist ...

03/04/2013

HYPERREALISM 1967 ‐ 2012

Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza [MAD] 22/03 > 09/06/2013
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
Art, Exhibitions
The exhibition now presented at the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza offers a survey of Hyperrealism that starts with the great US masters of the first generation such as Richard Estes, John Baeder, Tom Blackwell, Don Eddy, Ralph Goings and Chuck Close, continues in Europe with their influence on subsequent generations, and concludes in the present day.

In the late 1960s a group of artists emerged in the United States who painted scenes and objects from daily life with a high degree of realism, using photography as the basis for their works and achieving international recognition at Documenta in Kassel in 1972.

Hyperrealism is not a closed movement and today, more than forty years after it arose, many of the pioneering figures continue to be active while new artists deploy the...

26/03/2013

Spiral Art Gallery II.

By Atelier Deshaus. [Jiading New Town, Shanghai] China.
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA.
Created from the charm that defines his twin sister-gallery, about which we spoke yesterday, Spiral Art Gallery II is another pavilion with which it is supplemented the project of these Chinese architects, Atelier Deshau. With cozy lines and a perfect way to blend into the landscape, the authors tell that it is also in its inside where the game resides, open and closed spaces those relate to the environment.

Memory of project.

Using spiral is to give the different ways of “open” and “close” between the ground floor and upper floor: the ground floor is back towards the courtyard and slightly lower than the ground, while the upper floor faces outward to the open landscape. And...

25/03/2013

Spiral Art Gallery I.

By Atelier Deshaus. [Jiading New Town, Shanghai] China.
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA.
The architects used the spiral of significative way, because it has a great importance in the project, being the organizer element of the program building and it makes that spaces change continuously, as well as height and inclination of the walls, the views from the gallery. A project where nature, landscape and architecture are fused among them.

Memory of project.

The intention of spiral is to establish a way to see scenery. A gestalt is invaded by a spiral with inner space of privacy and some primitive senses. Interior space is gradually transforming from public to private, most importantly, creating one way...

25/03/2013

Like Pastoe. 100 years of design innovation.

[VIDEO] Kunsthal [ROT]. Holland. 23/02 > 02/06/2013
metalocus, JUAN SOLERA
After 100 years of existence the Pastoe brand furniture has decided to celebrate such a longtime birthday with an exhibition. Drawings, photographs, advertising material and the designs themselves are organized around several themes to show the mark made by many designers in this brand since 1913.

During the spring of 2013, the Kunsthal Rotterdam will be presenting a comprehensive exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Dutch furniture brand Pastoe. Since it was founded in 1913, Pastoe has grown to become an internationally recognised designer label. The brand stands for simplicity, timelessness, quality and craftsmanship. Over the past years, Pastoe has acquired an excellent circle of designers including Maarten Van Severen, Shigeru Uchida...

25/03/2013

Call for Projects: Eme3 2013. TOPIAS.

eme3 [BCN] Spain. Deadline 19/04/2013
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
Opening the period for the submission of projects to take part in the 8th edition of eme3 Festival to be held in Barcelona from June 27th to 30th at Fabra y Coats (see annex I) while the exposition will remain open until July 30th with a program of activities.

Applicants: who can participate

To the call for projects eme3 invites to participate architects, designers, trans- disciplinary groups, artists and other professionals or citizen who have a proactive attitude when approaching inherent problems to contemporary cities and architecture, understanding that the necessities of the actual metropolis go beyond a merely buildable approach...

21/03/2013

JUNYA ISHIGAMI. How small? How vast? How archItecture grows?

deSingel [Antwerpen] The Netherlands 08/02 > 16/06/2013
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Architecture, Exhibitions
Can be invisible Architecture? Architecture like a cloud, like a horizon, like a wood, like a landscape, like water. To Junya Ishigami these are not metaphors. He draws inspiration from the way nature appears to man and aspires to an architecture that floats, that is infinite, light, that flows, is transparent, dissolves and has hardly any substance. It is not the logic of the design, the spatial theory or the structural principle of a building that should stand out.

Ishigami wants his buildings to appeal through their new spatiality and environmental richness. He seeks out the limits of the possible - both human and technical - and calls this 'making a new reality'. It is a quest for the pure and essential in architecture. In the profound and varied world of architecture he operates with an endless sense of wonder.

Venue.- deSingel. Desguinlei 25 / B-2018 Antwerpen. The...

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