PLACES | The New Psychology

The New Psychology  is the title of the first European exhibition of Mexican artist José León Cerrillo, presented until May the 10th at Andréhn-Schiptjenko in Stockholm.

Cerillo's work is based on pure volumes defined by metal structure that seem to cut walls and space. His work is minimal, essential but with a playful side given by the colour treatment of the structures that, as Ruben Modigliani says, reminds of De Lucchi's work within the Memphis Group.

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MONDAY CRUSH | La Grande Bellezza

Some of you may know by now that La Grande Bellezza by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards yesterday. Far from being a cinema specialist, I must confess the movie touched something profound in me and a complex series of feelings summed up one onto the other in this Italian heart. The beauty of Rome (i.e. the movie is dedicated to The Great Beauty), its art, the urban environment; that very specific hedonism that escapes from the city, yet almost lost in its ruins and past. And the Present. 

Robbie Collin of the  The Daily Telegraph  likened it to Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City and Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita in its ambition to record a period of Roman history on film. "Rossellini covered the Nazi occupation of 1944; Fellini the seductive, empty hedonism of the years that followed. Sorrentino's plan is to do the same for the Berlusconi era," he wrote. I felt a sense of heart rending emptiness when the movie came to its end. And I am not ashamed to admit I felt like crying, for centuries.

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happy sunday // Ann Hamilton

The event of a thread | Ann Hamilton | New York

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Catarina Carreiras II

Caterina Carreiras II. There is always a good reason to do some paper volumes. Again, cannot agree more.

Catarina Carreiras I

Catarina Carreiras enjoys losing herself in the world looking out for shapes, colors, places: ideas. Graduated in Communication Design from Faculdades de Belas Artes de Lisboa, she has been working with Sam Baron since 2008, in Fabrica's design department, the Benetton's communications research centre (Treviso, Italy). Her approach is playful, ironic, unexpected. Like this work with paper: wouldn't you love to have one of this light weighted sculptures? I would.

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Artists' home

The place pictured today belongs to the owners of Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters,based in Eindhoven, the author of the work I talked about here. It was used during the Dutch Design Week as a gallery to present their work and give the visitor a more relaxed, almost familiar experience. The house is not especially beautiful for its interior design, though we all can recognize some good pieces here and there, but I'm sure you all agree with me it has got a very special atmosphere. Again, I love their work: those herbaria are gorgeous. I'm in a very botanic mood these days.

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Like marble

As soon as I saw these images, I thought it was such a cool idea to use a piece of marble as a work of art. Then I realised it was not marble at all: nature inspired these works by Dutch Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters who used polyester and special pigments to capture the beauty of the weeds floating in the sea. I am absolutely in love.

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Artist Şakir Gökçebağ

All works by Şakir Gökçebağ. Via and Via