Michelangelo Foot Sketch

Michelangelo, studio del piede della Sibilla Libica nella Cappella Sistina.

Dim. 13,5 x 11,5 cm

27,2 milioni di $ - Battuto all'asta ieri a NY

Laurie Anderson: Advice to the Young

 

Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson - Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Didier Fiúza Faustino - "Architecture for disquiet bodies"

L'atelier di Didier Fiuza Faustino ha appena completato un edificio residenziale a Leira in Portogallo, il Martires Housing Complex. Si tratta del suo primo progetto di forte impronta architettonica e urbana. 

In realtà questo progetto si inserisce in uno dei più interessanti e personali percorsi di ricerca attivi sul panorama internazionale, che Faustino prosegue dalla fine degli anni '90: una sperimentazione radicale nell'ambito del rapporto tra corpo umano e spazio. Una ricerca a cavallo tra architettura, arte, impegno sociale, installazioni e spazi multisensoriali. 

"LAMPEDUSA" 2015, MAXXI, Roma

Didier Fiúza Faustino is a French - Portuguese artist architect, working on the relationship between body and space. At the crossroad of art and architecture, his practice is multi-faceted, ranging from installation to experimentation, from the creation of subversive visual art works to multi-sensorial spaces. His projects are characterized by their critical perspective and their ability to offer new experiences to the individual and collective body.

from BUREAU DESMÉSARCHITECTURES

Bureau des Mesarchitectures _ Martires Housing Complex, Leira 2024
Photo by Francisco Nogueira

MARTIRES HOUSING COMPLEX, 2024

"The project, which consists of seven apartments, is set within a renovated house and a new, semi-circular extension and seeks to disrupt domestic rituals to question everyday behaviours. The building makes manifest and negotiates some of the major tensions of urban housing, such as the interplay between protection or introspection and openness. It aims to reframe how bodies inhabit the city through our domestic structures. To a certain extent, its large windows and bold façade put the act of living on a stage – one performance alongside all the dramas of the city unfolding at once."

Martires Housing Complex - Photo by F. Nogueira 

Martires Housing Complex, Leira 2024 - Photo by F. Nogueira

With Mésarchitecture (2002) in Paris and his office in Lisbon (2018), he is developing projects of multiple scales: interventions in public space, mobile architectures, as well as interior designs and buildings, among which French artist Jean-Luc Moulène’s studio.

Several projects and works are part of the collection of major institutions: MoMA, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Serralves Foundation, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Musée National d’Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou, MAXXI, MAAT, FRACs Centre - Val de Loire et Grand Large - Hauts de France.

"LAMPEDUSA" - Foto Guillaume Viaud. Courtesy dell’artista, galleria Michel Rein e Galeria Filomena Soares

Il progetto "Lampedusa" [2015] appare 15 anni dopo "Corpo in transito" [2000]. È l'eco contemporaneo. Questo pezzo, una sorta di di faro o ancora di salvezza, si riferisce direttamente al dipinto La zattera della Medusa, di Théodore Géricault. È la rappresentazione di un dramma, un fermo immagine per esprimere umanità e disumanità e farci riflettere su questo momento di transito che è anche a momento di transizione, mutazione e trance. _ Didier Fiúza Faustino

from CNAP - Centre National Des Arts Plastiques

"BODY IN TRANSIT" - Photo curtesy galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris

"BODY IN TRANSIT"

"THE SHOW MUST GO HOME"

ONE SQUARE METER HOUSE, 2001 - 2006

Housing prototype
By reducing living space to its smallest unit, the square metre, the “One Square Meter House” prototype promotes a critical view of land speculation. Beyond this, it subverts the notions of habitability, adaptability and evolutivity. A body-trap that takes contemporary narcissism to its most absurd, “One Square Meter House” makes public space the only possible terrain for social interaction.

Photo: David Boureau / Florian Kleinefenn

"ONE SQUARE METER HOUSE" - Photo: D. Boureau / F. Kleinefenn

"For Didier Faustino, the process of the architect, artist, or designer must preserve an engagement with political, social, and cultural issues. Since founding his Bureau des Mésarchitectures in 2002, Faustino has developed an expressive multidisciplinary practice in art and architecture that highlights the complex relationship between the body and the spaces it inhabits. By challenging the boundaries of these spaces, his work explores the precarious equilibrium between public and private space, publicity and intimacy. Faustino’s work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions and has received several prizes, including the Académie d’Architecture’s Dejean prize for lifetime achievement in 2010. He currently divides his time among architecture (in Spain, Mexico City, Portugal), art (with exhibitions in Grenoble, London, and Rome), and teaching (AA School, Diploma Unit 2); and he is also editor-in-chief of the French architecture and design magazine CREE."

from Harvard University - Graduate School of Design - "Building Intimacy"

"FIGHT CLUB _ Le stade itinerant"

"In parallel to symbolic works such as Corps en transit, Faustino also develops objects designed to concretely disturb public order. They are benches, shelters, and lampposts to be installed in streets and to foster all manner of clandestine meetings and gang gatherings. Among these structures Fight Club (2004), a boxing ring surrounded by bleachers and closed off by fences, constitutes a “real space of deregulation,” “like a closed zone of non-law where the rules are determined by its users.”As an echo to this project, in a publication presenting his work as a series of booklets, Faustino (in the first booklet) cites a book on the Red Army Fraction, RAF Guérilla urbaine en Europe occidentale, 2006, in which the authors Anne Steiner and Loic Debray themselves cite this observation by Andreas Baader: “Illegality as the ‘only liberated territory inside metropolises’."

from ESSE - "Of Sabotage in Architecture" Didier Faustino’s Anti-Projects. by Vanessa Morisset

"FIGHT CLUB _ Le stade itinerant"

"FIGHT CLUB _ Le stade itinerant"

"Dans cette vidéo, l’artiste Didier Faustino nous présente le processus d’élaboration de sa pièce «Opus Incertum», hommage à la célèbre photographie «Le saut dans le vide» (1960) d’Yves Klein. Surmontée de la phrase «You are invited to try me out» (« vous êtes invités à m’essayer »), cette sculpture participative invite à la fois le spectateur à rejouer l’histoire de l’art mais et aussi à se réapproprier l’œuvre. Architecte de formation, Didier Faustino place le corps au centre de ses projets qui mêlent architecture, art et design. Il interroge ainsi les limites du corps et de l’espace."

from CNAP - Centre National Des Arts Plastiques - Didier Faustino à propos de sa pièce Opus Incertum

"COSMOGONIE" - Hermès International - Photo by David Boureau

Bruno Munari 1944 "Seeking comfort in an uncomfortable armchair" / Bruce McLean 1971 "Plinths I" / Didier Faustino 2009 "Opus Incertum" + "Autos Satisfaction"

Yves Klein

Opus Incertum

"DOUBLE HAPPINESS"

"DOUBLE HAPPINESS"

DÉCORS ET DÉSASTRES, 2013

Scenography - Göteborg, Sweden

Client: Göteborg Opera

Stage design for the show “The world to darkness and to me” by Richard Seagal choreography 

"STARWAY TO HEAVEN"

"STARWAY TO HEAVEN"

"SOLO HOUSE", Creta

https://didierfaustino.com/

https://www.instagram.com/didier.faustino/

David Spriggs

David Spriggs | First Wave, 2021, Acrylic paint on layered transparencies, lightbox, framework

"The artwork of David Spriggs lies in a space between the 2 and 3 dimensions. In his work he explores phenomena, space-time and movement, colour, visual systems and surveillance, the strategies and symbols of power, and the thresholds of form and perception. Spriggs is known internationally for his unique large-scale 3D ephemeral-like installations that use a technique he pioneered in 1999 layering transparent images."

- from David Spriggs website

Art from i/o - David Spriggs & Peter Gabriel

‘Black & White’ is David Spriggs’ new addition to his large-scale ‘Stratachrome’ (layered colour) installations, each exploring the contemporary symbolism of colour and their aesthetic, perceptual and psychological implications. 

The installation is made with spray-painted pigment on 90 transparencies layered through the architectural space. The title of the work refers also to the psychology of ‘black and white’ thinking or splitting; a destructive thought pattern of thinking in absolutes. Spriggs separates the colours into visually opposing entities that lead the viewer to navigate centrally between them and observe the artwork from multiple viewpoints.

Video Music by Jonathan Fitas 'New Land - Ingenuous Extended Remix'

Curator: Dorothy Di Stefano

David Spriggs | First Wave, 2021, Acrylic paint on layered transparencies, lightbox, framework

David Spriggs | Stratachrome Green

Rothko, No. 210/No. 211 (Orange)

 

"How is it possible to touch the spiritual in our modern age"

Alphonse Mucha

 Study of a drapery , 1900 Alphonse Mucha

Christo

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (13/6/1935 – 31/5/2020)

Paul Klee _ Revelation

Paul Klee, Kairuan 1914 - cm 8,4x21,1 

"Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me forever. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall"

Paul Klee - 1914, Tunisia

30 Nodi @ Saatchi Gallery _ London

"30 Nodi" _ © Fabio Barilari

Great news. 
"30 Nodi" has been selected by Saatchi Gallery in London, to be shown on "Saatchi Screen" exhibition.
Should you be in London, it will start from tomorrow.
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Ottime notizie.
"30 Nodi" è stato selezionato da Saatchi Gallery a Londra, per essere esibito nella mostra "Saatchi Screen".
Se siete a Londra, l'evento comincerà domani.

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A Double Bill

Due appuntamenti importanti - e gratificanti - in questo mese:

Il primo è a Pisa:

Fabio Barilari Architetti è tra gli studi selezionati alla
BIENNALE DI ARCHITETTURA DI PISA - II edizione

Sez. REFRESH - “La Città e l’Acqua. Un laboratorio verso il futuro”
19 / 28 novembre 2017
Inaugurazione 19 novembre h.14,30
PADIGLIONE PISA (Bastione Sangallo), Lungarno Fibonacci 2, Pisa.
Un ringraziamento particolare a #LPP ed #AIAC per il loro interesse nei confronti del nostro lavoro.

Il secondo, a Roma:

MOSTRA COLLETTIVA | ARCHITETTI ARTISTI

Venerdì 24 Novembre, ore 19.00, alla Casa dell'Architettura 

Ordine degli Architetti di Roma | Piazza Manfredo Fanti 47

In questo caso il ringraziamento va alla Casa dell' Architettura di Roma e, in modo particolare, Emanuela Petrone, ideatrice e curatrice, con ALOA, di tutto l'evento e del relativo catalogo.

A short, intense art history

 

Heroes / Helden _ David Bowie (*)

In the beginning, Warhol created The Factory.

Then he created the Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Then he produced first Velvet Underground album.
It was in New York, and it was 1967.

Sunday Morning was the opening act of the band.
Warhol imposed Nico on the band, and they didn't want her.
Then Lou Reed had a story with Nico.
That was after her story with Brian Jones.

And Nico acted in La Dolcevita, playing herself.
Brian Jones founded the Rolling Stones and died at the age of 27.
The slide guitar intro in No Expectations was his last testament.

Then David Bowie saved Lou Reed from self destruction.
And Bowie produced Transformer
And Lou Reed wrote Walk on the Wild Side.

David Bowie and Debbie Harry were friends.
And Blondie and Basquiat were friends as well.

Basquiat occasionally earned money as a male prostitute.
He appeared in Blondie's Rapture video, at min 1.53.
Rapture was the first rap to top the charts.
Then Basquiat founded a Noise Rock band called Gray.

Basquiat met Andy Warhol at a restaurant.

Basquiat "SAMO" and Keith Haring were both street artists and friends of Warhol.
Then Warhol made Oxidation: a denigrating urine portrait of Basquiat.

And Basquiat died at age 27 for overdose.
And then Bowie performed Andy Warhol in the film "Basquiat".

Lou Reed wrote beautiful poems about whores, transvestites and heroin.
Then he met Laurie Anderson and later became a Tai Chi master.
Then he married Laurie Anderson, for good.

Bob Dylan didn't like Warhol and The Factory.
He had a story with Warhol's muse, Edie Sedgwick.
Edie was the Factory Girl before Nico.
And inspired poems such as Like a Rolling Stone and Just like a woman,
And inspired Femme Fatale.
Then she committed suicide at age 28.

David Bowie saved Iggy Pop as well.
That was from a psychiatric hospital.
That was after The Stooges.
Then he produced his first album.
Then Iggy Pop wrote Lust for Life with his friend.
And Bowie, Iggie and Reed shared the same flat in Berlin
That was in 1976.
And Lou Reed wrote Berlin.
And Bowie wrote a german Heroes for Christiane F.

Everything started in NY in the late 60's.
And there was much more.

Then Lou Reed wrote New York.


Post Scriptum:
Later, Laurie Anderson presented Diller&Scofidio and their "Aberrant architecture".
At that time, Diller&Scofidio was the most advanced interdisciplinary design studio in NY.
And today, together with Renfro, they are transforming NY.

Post Scriptum #2 (*):

It's interesting to notice this constantly increasing level of censorship along the media, so that the powerful, beautiful, dystopian version of "Heroes" by David Bowie, coming from the multi-awarded, generational film "Christiane F", which I choose to act as the intro of this post, has been nowday considered destibilizing for our young generations.

Andy Warhol

Lou Reed and Nico

Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico at Le Bataclan

Nico

Basquiat

Basquiat and Keith Haring

Lou Reed

Debbie "Blondie" Harry and David Bowie

Basquiat

Debbie "Blondie" Harry

David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed

Iggy Pop, David Bowie and ladies

Iggy Pop and Lou Reed

Keith Haring

Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan (and Elvis)

Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan