Treasure! Treasure!

Treasures are not hard to find these days. You just need to keep your eyes and heart open.

One of these is Snowshill Manor. Not exactly on a popular touristic circuit but then again that's what preserves it's charm and what's a treasure without some traveling to be discovered?

Mr. Charles Paget Wade, a British architect started collecting things in 1890, when he was 7.

In 1911, he inherited a part of the sugar family business in West Indies and after his service in World War I, he bought and renovated an estate and its gardens. The estate has a large apple orchard, a garden, the manor and a smaller house. Charles Wade used the manor as a place to host his massive (22000 objects) collection while living in the small cottage in the garden.

Wade gave the estate to National Trust in 1951.

An opportunity to think about what drives us when we buy things, what's inspiring about them and if they're worth preserving.

Boxes, bicycles, musical instruments, costumes, samurai armours, little houses, paintings, keys, kitchen utensils, books, toys, furniture and your imagination can run wild.



The manor is a dark maze where you walk through 3D dutch paintings, carefully laid out, abundantly detailed for your eye to discover. The collection is insufficiently catalogued but the guides are there to answer your questions.

The lighting is minimal, clothing the collection in mystery, inviting your curiosity to expand.

The garden's elaborate layout resembles outside rooms of a house. Ponds, a miniature sea village, pigeons, vegetable garden, all continuing the explorative nature of the manor. 

Last four pics via google.

*****

I very much like this piece by Adrian Paci.

"A video installation following a piece of marble getting carved out of a rock in China and traveling to the exhibition space in Paris. On the boat, during the trip, the marble stone gets transformed into a classical column by Chinese sculptors. The column is then presented outside of the exhibition space, while the video of the journey is presented inside."

Perjo si McQueen

No comment. De aici.

Imi place

CoLar

incotro

In sfarsit lansat. Imaginea ma face sa ma gandesc la guma Turbo si la faptul ca abia astept petrecerea Raspiua.

Kinder Surprise

Vlad a facut o lucrare tematica. Very nice.

Koons in Versailles

The perfect place for Koons. He is the King of Pop in a Baroque way. Saw his stuff before but in Versailles it's just perfect. It should stay there as permanent exhibit.

Miroslav Tichy

Because I recently remembered about him and his photography.

vlad nanca deseneaza frumos

Am fost azi la galeria noua, unde domnul Vlad Nanca locuieste cu familia lui.

Timp de 2 saptamani. Revers la Home Gallery ( un proiect al lui Vlad in care casa artistului era din cand in cand galerie )

Dar nu stiam ca Vlad deseneaza asa frumos.

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To prove my theory that techmology itself is boring and what's intresting about it is how people use it here it comes:

"The SMS Guerilla Projector is a home made, fully functioning device that enables the user to project text based SMS messages in public spaces, in streets, onto people, inside cinemas, shops, houses… or limousines!"
This comes from London-based art and design practice Troika.





























via pingmag

dacia me and nobody else in the world

For those who don't know, Vlad Nanca's latest project is about dacia.
There is another romanian artist who made a video in 2003 about dacia 1300.
Well, the second one stefan constantinescu wrote a letter in which he says that he was the first to take the subject and that he thinks" it's dangerous that somebody is trying to impose a monopol on the subject (dacia) forging the art history for personal purposes"
oh dear...
well i don't think nanca tried to impose a monopol so dear stefan constantinescu what would you say if i'm starting my own project about dacia? called dacia me and nobody else in the world

prada in the middle of the desert

via dragos platon

art

great video by josh azzarella
via dragosh

mircea fa-te ca lucrezi !

a project by Dragos Platon.
real objects stenciled with " mircea fa-te ca lucrezi !"
this translates : "mircea pretend you're working" , is the one line said by Caramitru to M.Dinescu without knowing they were on the air.Romanian Revolution by TVR. 22 december 1989

casting bucharest

stefan cosma's polaroid exhibition opening tomorrow at swatch instant store.
starting from 21h

future by siemens

"With its "Pictures of the Future" approach, Siemens takes a long look into the future: 10, 20 or even 30 years, depending upon the area of activity. The goal is to identify promising technologies and future consumer wishes and to discover new business possibilities. The result is a coherent vision of tomorrow's world. Here are the important future trends:"
and tring to be funny illustrations.
i can't decide if i like it, somehow it reminds me of anticipatia, old romanian sf magazine.
and stiinta si tehnica, another ro magazine















pic from latrecut

Yasumasa Morimura goes political

one of the contemporary artist that i like goes political, which means changing gender.
"Art is basically entertainment" says Yasumasa Morimura, "Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun."




















For more than two decades, Yasumasa Morimura, one of Japan's most internationally celebrated artists, has inserted his own face into iconic paintings by van Gogh, Manet and Rembrandt, as well as portraits of stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Vivian Leigh. With his elaborate, hilarious and often gender-bending self-portraits, Morimura has both commented on Japan's complex love-hate relationship with Western culture and investigated the ambiguity between male and female identities.
But his latest series, "Season of Passion/A Requiem: Chapter I," which will be revealed in a solo exhibition at Tokyo's Shugoarts gallery in November, is something different. In "Season," he impersonates the men in photographs of some of the most memorable, politically charged postwar incidents: author Yukio Mishima in his failed 1970 call for a coup d'etat at the Self-Defense Force (SDF) headquarters; Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby in 1963; and 17-year-old rightwinger Otoya Yamaguchi stabbing Japanese socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma in 1960. In a video piece included in the new series, Morimura delivers an impassioned speech based on the one Mishima gave just before he killed himself -- but instead of confronting Japan, Morimura attacks the art world. He protests that art today is "dancing to the tune of the mass media . . . drunk on global strategies and commercialism and selling itself out."

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this comes from the architects commissioned by lexus to create a mysterious installation to be revealed over the course of 5 days.
it's called party wall

fear

what is fear? a collection.
and fear fighter by textual healing.
in the meantime bbc announces that "Volunteers at the Fairground: Thrill Laboratory from 17 October will help researchers analyse what makes such rides fun."
i just think that we need fear.fight it and then make new fears.

took a walk and found banksy

here