A 3 week house swap to this visually rich city was truly amazing, well worth the annual clean up that comes with the exchange - and fair play to my 4 year old and 8 month old for not complaining too much while being dragged in to every exhibition I could manage with them. Well done Kal and Finn!
This is a short clip made at Casa Batllo - one of the architect Gaudi's famous houses in Barcelona. It was in a room that was used for laundry in the house and this was communicated by projecting on to sheer material in the darkened room. It immediately reminded me of my thinking with the panels idea for REV, the effect here is simple but effective.
"The Cinema Effect - Illusion, Reality and The Moving Image" at the Caixa Forum. The exhibition, which was originally curated for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which “the cinematic” has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century; in the art world, the use of film, video and cinematic language and devices for works in a range of media has been growing since the early 1960s. The influence of film and its vocabulary have grown to the point where the boundaries between real life and make-believe are at the least blurred and at the greatest almost indecipherable. Artists included Andy Warhol, Rodney Graham, Tony Oursler and Kelly Richardson among others
I managed to see a bit of quality video mapping by collective Telenoika. Like the exhibition above, video mapping also blurs the boundaries between reality and non reality, it transforms a real space into an imaginary one. The projection of images onto the surface of the building totally transforms the visual landscape and it is really powerful to see this kind of work in the flesh - the scale and atmosphere of it with the sound effects is utterly absorbing.
This is a short clip made at Casa Batllo - one of the architect Gaudi's famous houses in Barcelona. It was in a room that was used for laundry in the house and this was communicated by projecting on to sheer material in the darkened room. It immediately reminded me of my thinking with the panels idea for REV, the effect here is simple but effective.
"The Cinema Effect - Illusion, Reality and The Moving Image" at the Caixa Forum. The exhibition, which was originally curated for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which “the cinematic” has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century; in the art world, the use of film, video and cinematic language and devices for works in a range of media has been growing since the early 1960s. The influence of film and its vocabulary have grown to the point where the boundaries between real life and make-believe are at the least blurred and at the greatest almost indecipherable. Artists included Andy Warhol, Rodney Graham, Tony Oursler and Kelly Richardson among others
I managed to see a bit of quality video mapping by collective Telenoika. Like the exhibition above, video mapping also blurs the boundaries between reality and non reality, it transforms a real space into an imaginary one. The projection of images onto the surface of the building totally transforms the visual landscape and it is really powerful to see this kind of work in the flesh - the scale and atmosphere of it with the sound effects is utterly absorbing.
This is a short clip from inside a dome-roofed room at the top of Casa Batllo. In the centre of the room is a mirrored hemisphere fountain with a light shining directly onto it. The effect, you can see, is of the water running down the walls of the interior and it was another inspiration point for me. Synaesthesia is a state of heightened sensory perception where the synaesthete perceives things that the rest of us just can't - "like a veil of unawareness" over our perception as one synaesthete describes it. In my view this installation captures that idea, as do other examples of inspirations I have posted here - they involve the notion of what is seen or unseen.
Outside of this room the roof of this building is all mosaic and curvacious, the audio tour describes the shape as being influenced by the story of St George slaying a dragon. You can hear Kal's take on the experience at the end of the clip!
Also I encountered some unusual examples of typography which caught my attention - whether because of the scale, the method of application, the labour involved in the production, the typeface or the sheer impressive nature of it. Below are just a few examples.
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