Thomas Grünfeld
Woody van Amen, Taxat 2010, LED lighting, 2m wide. Image coutesy of C-Space Beijing.
About 2 months ago myself Paul Barton and Karolin Schnoor completed a website project for the Hidde Van Seggelen Gallery. The website is ticking over nicely and there are some brilliant pieces of work by the artists represented by Hidde Van Seggelen in Chelsea London. Some of these are featured above but you can view more by clicking here.
Spending an hour a day in the Leeds Art Gallery and Henry Moore Institute reading Sven Berlin… good times. The Elm wood sculptures by Henry Moore are absolutely gorgeous.
I recently watched the Janet Street-Porter episode of ‘The Genius of British Art‘ on 4OD and absolutely loved it! The episode begins and ends in St Ives Cornwall, one of my favorite places in the world not just for art but for surfing and it’s beautiful setting. Janet begins her exploration of modern British art by introducing St Ives as the place that she first fell in love with British art, I could quite easily say the same for myself. The episode also ends with Janet talking about ‘The Dark Monarch‘ exhibition in the Tate St Ives at the end of 2009. The image above is of Janet stood in the entrance hall in-front of Patrick Heron’s large stained glass permanent feature and Damien Hirst’s unicorn piece which in my opinion was the perfect magical way to start the ‘The Dark Monarch‘ exhibition. The Dark Monarch is also the title of a book by Sven Berlin, since reading it I have become almost obsessed with his other works which give a great insight into the transformation of British Art in the mid 20th Century and of the artist himself.
Today was a fine sunny November Sunday and I wandered into the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds City center. There were some lovely and interesting pieces in the latest undone exhibition.
I already loved Arcade Fire and their new album ‘The Suburbs‘ before I stumbled upon this brilliant interactive video by Chris Milk and I love them even more now! Incorporating the viewers own home town imagery with the Arcade Fire track ‘We Used To Wait’ playing over the top really makes the subject matter and lyrics much more relevant. Visit: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ to see what I’m on about.
Zeitguised – Peripetics from Blink on Vimeo.
Crazy weird and beautifull video commisioned by the Swiss Zirkel Gallery, “Peripetics“is a great exporation into computer graphics as art.
This is a 'Design blog', well kind of! I use the term loosely as not all the posts are design related, apart from being posted by me, a designer! Some posts are my work but most will be work by others discovered by endless searching of the web. Anyway hopefully you will find a feast of visualy exciting links and posts here. My email is: info@jeffreyshield.co.uk
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