List of Monumental sculpture projects 2015

  • 1 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/02/sunday-robot-play.html
  • 2 http://shuengitswannjie.blogspot.fr/2015/02/interactive-reading-room-tea-house-2015.html
  • 3 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2014/06/neo-ming-bed-luxembourg.html
  • 4 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2013/02/yuzi-paradise-tell-moon.html
  • 5 http://swannbb.blogspot.com/2011/09/12th-changchun-international-sculpture.html
  • 6 http://www.saatchionline.com/Shuen-git

Friday 29 November 2019

Quirky Title "MobileMusic"

Quirky Title "MobileMusic"

Just saw an article on the "MobileMusic 10%" which was written in June. 
There was a query on the title, quirky title, the writer Simon Hewitt says. Actually the "MobileMusic 100%" is designed as a landmark, what we see in Etretat (go see! it will be closing soon!! it will be moved to another park afterwards)is a full scale "model" of the 100% house. 
This 10% full scale model has been commissioned by Etretat owners. 
Looks v beautiful in the garden. 
Now the full size one "MobileMusic 100%" is on course. 
Here is the orginal design conceptual sketch, created in the virtual world and coming to the real world.
Scenario in Secondlife by China Sim creator. Aston Leison. 
The sim is one of the most popular as it is a Chinese ink painting style, only you could actually walk around in it. Beautiful.

https://swannbb.blogspot.com/2013/02/huahui-huakui-mobile-music-house.html











Thursday 28 November 2019

MobileMusic 10% - press by Simon Hewitt (jpeg)

MobileMusic 10% - press by Simon Hewitt 

https://www.artdependence.com/articles/3-d-day-in-normandy/




"MobileMusic 10%", press by Simon Hewitt

https://www.artdependence.com/articles/3-d-day-in-normandy/

3-D Day in Normandy

By Simon Hewitt - Wednesday, June 26, 2019
3-D Day in Normandy
"Outdoor sculpture is hardly an over-reported area of the Art Market so, when I heard that an international selling-show was taking place this Summer on top of a Normandy cliff, I set off to investigate. Not just any old cliff: the cliff in Etretat where Claude Monet painted his famous Impressionist seascapes in the 1880s.".

OUTDOOR SCULPTURE is hardly an over-reported area of the Art Market so, when I heard that an international selling-show was taking place this Summer on top of a Normandy cliff, I set off to investigate.
Not just any old cliff: the cliff in Etretat where Claude Monet painted his famous Impressionist seascapes in the 1880s.


The sculpture show is being held in Les Jardins d’Etretat, which began life in 1905 as a holiday homefor a wealthy Parisian couple. In those days Etretat had the appeal of Sorrento or St-Tropez, and you could get there from Paris by train. Times change. The last train arrived in 1951. These days the train leaves you in Le Havre, 30km away – facing a 75-minute bus-ride or a 75-euro taxi. The nearest airport is Gatwick.


When Moscow landscape architect Sasha Grivko and his partner Mark Dumas (below) bought Villa Roxelane (above) in 2015, its three-acre garden lay in ruins. It occupies a plot of land like an isosceles triangle, 250 metres long by 50 metres deep, on a slope so steep it would be hors catégorie in the Tour de France. The slope demands technology’, reveals Dumas,before claiming mysteriously that ‘the plants are fed by artificial soil.’


The Villa’s newlook ‘experimental garden’ – described by Dumas as a ‘conceptualized living sculpture’ – opened to the public in 2017. Although it contains trees, bamboo and the odd flower, its salient feature is a labyrinthine array of severely trimmed hedges, snaking their way down the hillside like inflated intestines – ‘nursed’ as Dumas puts it ‘by six full-time gardeners.


The hedges are interspersed with contemporary sculptures, some of them installed on a permanent basis – like Raindrops, a series of outsize resin heads by whimsical Catalan sculptor Samuel Salcedo (above), or Until The Word Is Gone, a terracotta sound installation by Russian duo Sergei Katran and Willi Melnikov.
Dumas, who trained as an opera singer, believes gardens are a sort of music’ and calls sculptures an accessory – an aid to the gardens,’ noting artfully that ‘both sculpture and gardens are created by Man.’
This year, as a promotional ploy, Les Jardins d’Etretat have launched an International Sculpture Prize with the title Man and Nature: Double Game.There is a Jury Prize of €10,000 and a Visitors’ Award of €5,000. Results will be announced at the end of October when the Gardens close for Winter. Dumas also promises that Les Jardins will purchase the work with the ‘most original concept.’ That could be the most lucrative prize of all. All 24 works on show are for sale, for prices ranging from €10,000 up to the €50,000 Rome’s Paola Grizi is asking for Into The Future, a giant bronze book incorporating a human face, and one of the few sculptures to descend into kitsch.


Half of the sculptors are from France, as you might expect given the transport logistics. Reflecting the owners’ Russian nationality, there is also a significant presence from the former Soviet Union, also including Buryat sculptor Dasha Namdakov, with a giant Buddha in Meditation (above)Kiev’s Nazar Bilyk with a resin, glass and fibre-glass figure entitled Rain; and Moscow-born, Paris-based Dasha Surovtseva, with an Untitled porcelain creation from her series Archives of Vegetation (below).


Armenia’s Gevorg Tadevosyan is represented by two works, notably Summer, with two bronze figures walking in opposite directions – one within an iron circle, the other on top of it (see top)According to Angelina Cebotari, the glamorous Moldovan dealer who represents Tadevosyan, his works are priced in London at around £30,000. Les Jardins provided a loan to cover his production and shipping costs from Yerevan (by plane to Paris, then lorry to Etretat).


A colourful beer-carton sculpture by Hong Kong’s Shuengit Chow, quirkily known as MobileMusic 10% (above)was reportedly acquired by Dumas & Grivko at the exhibition opening. A spokeswoman for Les Jardins says they also intend to buy Gianna Dispenza’s steel figure The Space Between – having already covered its £7,500 production and shipment costs.


London’s Hywel Pratleyset many visitors talking (if not singing) with his bronze half-figure Disperse/Dissipate (above) – an unexpected blend of Nigel Farage and Peter Gabriel’s ‘Slipperman’ figure from The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (below).


The works displayed in Double Game were imaginatively chosen by a jury that includes Pauline de Laboulaye (from the Fondation Antoine de Galbert in Paris) and maverick British arts impresario Anthony Fawcett (one time assistant to Yoko Ono). But the selection procedure seemed a bit ad hoc and in need of organizational refinement – as cerebral Croatian minimalist Deša Vlahutin found out. She was asked by Les Jardins curator Irene Kukota to provide Double Game with a 2 x 2 metre version of her Fibonacci Fragment, a sculpture that already exists in a smaller, fibre board indoor version. Vlahutin advised Kukota she would need to use metal and wood to make a new outdoor version, but the proposal came to nothing due to a misunderstanding about costs and deadlines.
The official opening of Double Jeu saw a brass band at the top of the Gardens and a seafood buffet down at the bottom, on a wooden stage that also hosted a spectacular choreographic performance starring seven spritely female ‘knights’ clad in gleaming armour made from silver-mirror polysterene (below) and clutching spades, shears and watering-cans to embody ‘protective garden spirits.’


The effect of their extraordinary Avant-Garde costumes – conceived by Dumas and Moscow-based fashion designer Venera Kazarova – was part Joan of Arc, part Victory Over The Sun.
The soft-spoken Dumas also delivered an inaudible welcoming speech that was drowned out by a specially composed, ecological version of the Marseillaise, beginning Allonsensemble en Normandie! and ending:
Aux arbres, citadins!
Sortez de vos voitures
Marchons, marchons
Qu’un peu d’air
Abreuve nos poumons
Abandoning your car to fill your lungs with fresh air sounds like sound advice but, although the Greens ranked a decent third in France’s recent E.U. elections, the chances of this winsome ditty becoming the new national anthem seem remote.
Just outside the exit at top of the Gardens, providing an unintended but inspirational coda to the sculpture tour, is a striking concrete monument to hapless aviators Charles Nungesser and François Coli, last seen on 8 May 1927 above the cliffs of Etretat – hours after taking off from Paris on what was billed as the first-ever transatlantic flight. Huge crowds congregated for their intended landing in New York next day. They never made it.
The monument (below), designed by Gaston-Henri Delaune in 1963 (to replace one destroyed by the Nazis in 1942), is 25m high and inclined at an angle of 60°. It bears an uncanny resemblance to the larger Conquerors of Space monument erected in Moscow in 1964.


Let’s hope Delaune’s masterpiece portends soaraway success for the Dumas/Grivko sculpture initiative. Despite Etretat’s inaccessibility and iffy accommodation – hotels are mostly small, creaky and two-star – Mark Dumas is adamant that Les Jardins can become the same sort of ‘destination venue’ for sculpture-lovers that the out-of-the-way Dutch town of Maastricht has become for antiques buffs.                                  





Simon studied History of Art at Oxford University under Francis Haskell before moving to France in 1985 as Paris correspondent for Antiques Trade Gazette and Art+Auction. Since 2008 he has worked as an investigative journalist based in Switzerland and Budapest – his 2018 Art Newspaper exposé of a fake Russian Avant-Garde exhibition in Ghent led to the sacking of the museum director – and pursuing a journalistic and curatorial interest in the contemporary art scene in Central and Eastern Europe. He has also written about wine, travel, soccer and classical music, while his photographs have been the subject of gallery shows. His work Leonardo da Vinci and The Book of Doom, exploring the art of illumination in Renaissance Milan, will be published in October 2019.

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Wednesday 27 November 2019

wooden staircase

https://m.zhuangyi.com/zixun/1623245.html

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macro snow flake photogrpahy w homemade rig

https://www.boredpanda.com/snowflake-macro-photography-diy-alexey-kljatov/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

As fascinating as macro photography is, most of us think we can’t do it because it requires specialized equipment. Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov, however, is an inspiration to aspiring amateur photographers everywhere – he created a home-made rig capable of capturing stunning close-up pictures of snowflakes out of old camera parts, boards, screws and tape. His pictures give us an enchanting close-up view of snowflakes that we could never hope for without specialized equipment.
The wonderful thing about snowflakes is that no two are alike. Their extraordinary diversity diversity stems from the many small changes in temperature and humidity that they experience while freezing on their way down to the ground. Their six-sided symmetry occurs because the crystalline structure of ice is also hexagonal. All of these many factors come together to create beautiful shapes that are almost always unique.
Kljatov’s rig creates the sort of photos that might otherwise require lenses or other equipment worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. And the pictures he creates with this rig look absolutely amazing. For more information about how he did it, check out his blog post.

Kljatov uses a Canon Powershot A650 and a reversed 44M-5 Helios lens from an old Russian Zenit camera. For more information about the equipment used and the rig keeping it all together, check out his blog postUPDATE: Kljatov also drew a simple schematic of his homemade rig, so if you’re serious about trying it out, you can find more information here.



Thursday 21 November 2019

real baby (giphy)


via GIPHY

This is heaven.
Joy, sleep, loved, and not yet able to hardly hold up a big big head... :)
Doesnt matter, after a few more snoozing... see you later

Sunday 17 November 2019

film vue: Madame de Sévigné


Secrets d'histoire - La marquise de Sévigné, l'esprit du Grand Siècle (Intégrale)

at 52mn02 the letter of Grande Mademoiselle

clipping on Etretat Gardens: https://etretatgarden.fr/en/press/metalocus

https://etretatgarden.fr/en/press/metalocus

Metalocus. Spain

2019-08-15

An extraordinary garden. Man and Nature: Double Game, in Les Jardins d’Étretat

An experimental public garden Les Jardins d’Étretat (LJE) in Normandy, France, celebrated the summer season and the sculpture exhibition (and competition) Double Jeu (Man and Nature: Double Game) that will continue until 31 October 2019.
The exhibition explores interplay, interdependence and interconnectedness of man and nature. The garden is conceptualised as a living sculpture and an architectural composition made up of live, constantly growing and changing trimmed plants.
The goal of the exhibition is to explore how the natural environment shaped by man correlates with sculptural forms and artistic ideas and enter into a dialogue leading to the transformation of natural garden space.

Oscar Wilde at the turn of the 20th century believed that what is found in life and nature is not what is really there, but is that which artists have taught people to find there, through art. Les Jardins d’Étretat has invited sculptors from various countries to interpret this in their work.
Founded by French actress Madame Thébault in 1905, Les Jardins d’Étretat have been recently revived and expanded by the Paris – based landscape architect Alexandre Grivko, (Il Nature). He has reimagined much of the planting, added striking topiary to the 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) space integrating contemporary art installations. Influenced by designer and architect Vito di Bari’s 2007 ‘Neo-Futuristic City Manifesto’, which calls for the blending of art, technology, ethical values and nature, the garden is an experimental, avant-garde space open to the public since 2017.
Les Jardins d’Étretat is a creative experimental laboratory and an open-air museum of contemporary art, whose display consists of permanent and temporary expositions. Artworks are an indispensable core of the garden. Traditionally, there are known five major types of the garden: regular French, landscape English, formal Italian, as well as Asian and Oriental gardens. Experientially, Alexandre Grivko, develops new unique, sixth, garden style which he envisions as the garden of the future.
Les Jardins d’Étretat offer an iconic view over La Manche that once inspired artists, such as Claude Monet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène Delacroix and Edouard Manet.
The exhibition is truly international in scope and showcases sculptures by 24 participants. The results

The exhibition is truly international in scope and showcases sculptures by 24 participants. The results of the sculpture competition will be announced in October 2019.
Cyrille André (France)
Karen Papacek (Australia)
Fabienne Bonneau (France)
Hywel Pratley (UK)
Chris Bazireau (France)
Daria Surovtseva (Russia)
Cristina Ataíde (Portugal)
Paola Grizi (Italy)
Nazar Bilyk (Ukraine)
Ghislaine Vernaujoux (France)
Jean-Marc de Pas (France)
M.P.C.E.M (France)
Adrienne Jalbert (USA)
Félix Valdelièvre ( France)
Shuengit Chow (China)
Philippe Desloubières (France)
Nicolas Lavarenne (France)
Béatrice Bizot (Spain)
Gianna Dispenza (USA)
Andrée Goudron (France)
Gevorg Tadevosyan (Armenia)
Erlend Van Landeghem (Belgium)
Renaud Matgen (Belgium)
Félix Valdelièvre (France)
Dashi Namdakov (Russia)


The Jury members were; Pauline de Laboulaye (art historian, curator, administrator of the Foundation Antoine de Galbert in Paris), Sebastien Montabonel (director of the Foundation Art Institutions of the 21st Century in London), Jérôme Félin - Plastic Arts Councillor at the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Rouen (France), Maria Rus Bojan - Founder of MB Art Agency, international contemporary art curator and advisor (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Anthony Fawcett (curator and art critic, London, UK).


Friday 8 November 2019

« Love at First Sight » Dreamcatcher, Beauceart International Sculpture Symposium, Canada. 2020


« Love at First Sight » Dreamcatcher, Beauceart International Sculpture Symposium,  Saint Georges, Quebec, Canada. 2020  (New Material research-creation)