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Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle starring in London
Updated: May 4 2009, 09:51 CET
LONDON: One of the most under valuated art forms are illustrations and especially children books illustrations. Hopefully the new exhibition “Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle!”, that opened haar doors at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London yesterday, will help to change this. The travelling exhibition about the work and partnership of the British illustrator Quentin Blake and writer Roald Dahl, looks at the unique working relationship between illustrator and author, and the way that this process brings the stories to life. This talented partnership was responsible for some of the world's best-loved children's books, including The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
On show are more than 80 of Blake's original illustrations, alongside original manuscripts, interactive features, Dahl-related objects, plus audio and film clips. The highlights include one of Dahl's own sandals, which the BFG's footwear was based on; exclusive film of Blake at work in his London studio and a replica BFG's cave complete with dream catchers.
The exhibition has been developed by Seven Stories, The Centre for Children's Books in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The V&A Museum of Childhood aims to encourage everyone to explore the themes of childhood past and present and develop an appreciation of creative design through our inspirational collections and programmes. The Museum is part of the V&A family of museums, and houses the national childhood collection. The galleries are designed to show the collections in a way which is accessible to adults and children of all ages.
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Oslo opera house wins European Union Prize
Updated: May 1 2009, 12:57 CET
OSLO: Last year April the Norwegian capital Oslo presented her new opera and ballet house to the world. The massive white waterfront building, resembling an iceberg jutting out into Oslo's fjord, was designed by Norwegian company Snøhetta and is the largest cultural building created in 700 years in the Scandinavian country and a tourist attraction. Last week the European Union announced that the building is the winner of the biannual European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe architecture prize. “The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo is more than just a building,” said jury chairman Francis Rambert in a press release yesterday. “ It is first an urban space, a gift to the city.”
A "carpet" composed of tens of thousands bricks forms a ramp that becomes the building's roof--thus, you can wade out of the fjord in front of the opera house, and walk directly to the building's roof. As befits a building on the water, the interiors are meant to hark back to traditional Norwegian boat design, with undulating walls made of wood.
The building pulled Snøhetta, a young firm, from relatively obscurity, thanks to its intricate construction and quirky design. The company was set up in Norway in 1989, and previously designed the new Library of Alexandria. Co- founder Kjetil Thorsen co-designed the temporary summer pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery in 2007 with Olafur Eliasson.
The 60,000 euro prize, which gets European Union funding, is given every two years to a building constructed during that two-year period. Winners will collect this year’s award at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona on May 28.
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Work Anton Corbijn on show in Budapest
Updated: April 29 2009, 11:41 CET
BUDAPEST: Today the Ludwig Museum in Budapest opens her doors to ‘Anton Corbijn’, an exhibition of photographs and video work of the Dutch portrait photographer and video-clip directors Anton Corbijn (b. 1955), as part of a series presenting works born from the meeting of pop culture and high art. Corbijn has made an equal contribution to the success of such groups as Depeche Mode, U2, Nirvana, as well as Joy Division, the subject of ‘Control’, his recently premièred first full-length film. His photographs show pop-icons, musicians and Hollywood celebrities, transferring them from the glittering medium of tabloid photos. His suggestive, grainy and frequently black and white pictures are not run-of-the-mill portraits but personal, intense and poetic visions.
The Ludwig Museum is the only museum of contemporary art in Hungary to collect international art. The museum was founded by the Hungarian cultural government in 1989. The collection was established with 70 pieces of contemporary art donated by Irene and Peter Ludwig. This gift was completed with 91 pieces in 1991 as permanent loans. The first independent exhibition of the new museum was also opened in 1991 in Building 'A' of the Royal Palace. In 1996 the institution became the Museum of Contemporary Art, and saw an extensive growth in the Hungarian section of the collection.
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Van Gogh’s landscapes feature in Basel
Updated: April 27 2009, 12:36 CET
BASEL: One of the worlds’ artists that always attracts many visitors is the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890). Until 27 September artlovers can feast their eyes in Basel at ‘Vincent van Gogh - Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes’ at the Kunstmuseum Basel. The show that opened this weekend is comprehensive survey of the landscape paintings by the Dutch artist. On show are seventy paintings – both world-famous key works as well as paintings barely seen previously by the general public – giving a new insight into van Gogh’s body of work. In addition, forty masterpieces by contemporaries, from Kunstmuseum Basel’s world-famous collection, place van Gogh’s approach to nature in a broader context.
In Van Gogh’s encounter with nature he found his way, step by step, to his own artistic language and, in doing so, to a radically new freedom in painting. The exhibition shows how the earthy hues of the early Dutch works made way in Paris to a lighter and color-flushed style of painting. Then in the south of France, Van Gogh arrived at the intensely luminous coloring and vitalizing expression.
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the Galerie (Gallery) and the Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings). The main focus is on paintings and drawings by artists active in the Upper Rhine region between 1400 and 1600 and on the art of the 19th to 21st centuries. The Kunstmuseum possesses the worlds largest collection of works by the Holbein family. Paintings by Basel-born Arnold Böcklin feature among the 19th-century highlights. In the field of 20th-century art, the accent is on Cubism (Picasso, Braque, Léger), German Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism and American art since 1950. Contemporary art is exhibited at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Museum of Contemporary Art)
For more information see: www.vangogh.ch
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A positive utiopian vision of Brussels
Updated: April 22 2009, 11:39 CET
BRUSSELS: This month the Jubelparkmuseum opened her doors to the utopian exhibition Vegetal City A vision on an endurable future by Luc Schuiten. The show of the work of the visionary Belgium architect Luc Schuiten, presenting a positive vision that suggest we group together around positive creativity and invent spaces that represent one of the fundamental principles of life: life creates conditions favourable to life. Schuiten herewith opposes the negative vision of the deterioration of our environment, the weather changes and the damage made to biodiversity increasingly.
In an utopian Brussels for example, adding to the existing buildings external envelopes and transplants, made in vegetable structures and in bio-mimetic materials transmits the idea of a needed change in the way habitat functions and in consumer habits. New pedestrian passages are developed on the roof-gardens. In Schuiten's projects, people move about on cycles, individual vehicles moved mainly by muscular energy with an electric assistance on demand, or on ornitho-planes, sort of airships. The surface of the membranes they are made with captures the solar energy and transforms it into electricity to feed the electric motors by moving the propellers and causing the wings to move.
For more information see: vegetalcity.net
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