Absence

Mary Corse

Untitled  (White Inner Band, Beleived)

2008

Glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas

244x366 cm

 Sergej Jensen

Curtains

2004

Chlorine bleach on linen

75x50 cm

Cement floor pattern 

White Cube Gallery 
Bermondsey

Sparkling glassbeads, silver- and gold leaves, muted, frayed fabric of recycled old shirts all appliqued on huge canvases above the glittering cement floor mirroring the neon lights of the ceiling with the aggressive "contemporary" sound of an installation - there is a real feeling of absence and emptiness here.  

In the White Cube's new exhibition Structure and Absence at their new minimalist Bermondsey Street building structure is absent, there are only surfaces.

What You See is What You See

 La penna di hu 

1987-2009

Wire frame construction

 Detail 1

Detail 2

Colourful structures without meaning and purpose - Frank Stella's new 3D works combining weight and solidity with a musical fluidity don't present any meaning or story - they only present monumental, colourful, structures:  "what you see is what you see". But what a joy to the eye and the senses, what a refreshing energy and dynamism.

Skin and Bone

Office Building in Bucharest

North Elevation

I am creating my website, and found some nice drawings worth putting here in the blog. This is a statement elevation of an Office building in Bucharest, Romania I made in 2008 that is about the separation of the skin and the bone of the structure. The elevation layer is like an envelope, independent of the structure and the function of the building, with its own meaning, its own artistic quality.

Landmark Monster

Anish Kapoor: Orbit Tower

Today's British sculptors and sponsors have a scale-megalomania. The bigger the better, they intend to dominate entire landscapes, towns and now Anish Kapoor London.

This time he even decided he is an architect! His second-hand Eiffel Tower mixed with the DNS spiral twist to be built as the artistic centrepiece of the 2012 Olympic Park is a cheap misunderstanding of architecture, structure and sculpture even with the help of the brilliant structural engineer from Arup Cecil Balmond.

With the Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal's generous offer of the total steel material needed and the mayor Boris Johnson's enthusiasm to leave a sign of his reign in London the project unveiled yesterday seems to be an April Fools joke, a shameful monster of anti-art dilettantism.

Kaleidoscope and the Model of the Universe

E8, Garetti Lisi's New View of the Universe

Garetti Lisi's model of the universe places all known particles and the four fundamental forces of nature (electromagnetic, the strong force, the weak force and gravity) onto an exceptionally complex eight-dimensional 248-point mathematical model known as E8 that was formulated in the late 19th century.

Since E8 is perhaps the most beautiful structure in mathematics, it is very satisfying that nature appears to have chosen this geometry. Elegant simplicity and complexity combined with the inherit reflective qualities of our world; natural forms repeat themselves over and over, the fundamental structure of the universe is incredibly beautiful.

Patterns as seen through a kaleidoscope tube

The beauty of the colourful mirrored systems is the base of the geometric imagery of the kaleidoscope - a finite box containing an infinite vision that creates the sensation of being part of infinity. You feel like the whole universe is a hall of mirrors: reflections reflecting reflections.

Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession 2004

In today's art there is a progressive effort to move towards defocusing, in which no single element of the composition is given more importance than any others: there is a desire to break down the hierarchy of the elements.

Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese contemporary artist has an obsession for infinity. She perceives the world as an array of infinitely repeating patterns, which she has termed infinity nets. Her work is the expression of these visions. You are drawn into Kusama’s world like the centerpiece of an echoing, infinite landscape and experience the dissolving into the world around you.

Kusama currently lives in a mental institution in Tokyo by choice while creating her infinity works. For a normal brain to imagine infinity seems to be impossible.

The Music of Life

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre, London

40 zebra finches are exploring an aviary for three months at Barbican Centre on amplified guitars and cymbals installed on sandy islands planted with grass. The spontaneous everyday activity of the beautiful tiny feathered creatures on the sensitive strings makes a complex soundscape from the speakers around the gallery.

There is no composition, structure and melody in this music. This is the music of the self-abandoned, free life, the repetition and interference of the patterns of continuous everyday activity.

Arranging the twigs, toddling on the strings, the different types of arrival: the gliding stir and tumbling throb; the light and dynamic variations of departure, the positioning and preening - these are the continuously flickering patterns without any compositional intent which have a comforting, captivating effect on the visitor.

There is a joyful aesthetic contrast between the tiny soft animals with their beautiful coloured feathers and the masculine, professional instruments: the sight and the sound together gives you a lightweight happiness.

A meditative experience.

E-static shadows

There is a hidden electrostatic world around us, surrounding our everyday interactions.

A young textile artist Zane Berzina is working on intelligent textile systems, which would be capable of detecting this energy and translating it into dynamic audio-visual patterns. She also studies the possible translation of e-static energy into other types of energy such as light, sound and motion.

Equipped with tiny LED lights, transistors and woven electronic circuits integrated into the electronic textiles structure, the material is able to create transient shadows on the textile display in areas which detect a presence of electrostatic fields.