Busy week
Last weekend we closed off the Design Week over here with the Too Much Fun Club party at skatepark Area51. And a big party it was…sold out and the crowd and myself got loose! My own picts are awful but I’ll drop some later on.
First as promised some images from a couple of expos and evenings I enjoyed last week! First of all the new project ‘Melt and Destroy’ from my girlfriend Hilde she showed at MU gallery. It’s part of the NAT expo (see previous post) and all artists were asked to create a new piece that changes over time. From the MU website: “MU has challenged ten of these designers, all of them with a proven track record in successfully integrating living nature into their work, to develop a new work for NAT. They are free to make use of grass or bacteria, wind or earth, flowers or animals, food or water. And as these are living elements, there’s a good chance that a number of works will develop in a natural way during the three-week exhibition in MU. They grow, proliferate, or rot before your very eyes. To facilitate these processes as organically as possible, we have made sure that there is plenty of moisture, heat, and light. This means that the exhibition space will contrary to the normal state of affairs, feel like a ‘wet area’.”
So, Hilde was triggered by the transformation of a clinical white landscape into a bright coloured image and frooze coloured liquids and hang these above a large salt bath. Every day she places a new row of coloured balls that melt and slowly the white landscape destroys and changes into an image. So this installation acts as an enlarged inktjet printer…long story but check the picts:
Then The Little League / HeyHeyHey hosted three expos in one week in their shop at the Vestdijk, for this event called Hellshop instead of Shellshop. Good atmosphere over there, like the second expo by Erosie and Phet. It was a cold night and Wildstyle was shown in a temporary outside cinema:
Nice work by two of Eindhovens heroes, who have been around for a while!
Check their work online: http://www.erosie.net and http://www.phetworld.com
Some screens by Eros (one of these will be featured in the new Sixpack collection):
New work by Phet:
Later that night we went to Area51 to see Biz Markie. At the entrance some new Cosmic Crack gif animations..
Nobody beats the biz!!
The next day we had diner in La Bolleur; this is an old whorehouse that’s been amazingly transformed into a restaurant/bar. The interior is great; you have the feeling you’re inside an 80’s pornhouse, but the food and music is perfect. Now it’s closed down…luckily we could get a reservation in the last week!
That evening Bob Copray and Eric de Haas launched their new furniture label called ‘Person-A’. Instead of a standard presentation they organised a very graphic performance that showed their new chair:
Hellshop part 3: Timemachine with the Magnificent Zelda and Cosmic Crack. Busy and mad night with some DIY tools and dope tshirts, check em:
Every day this caravan travelled from opening to opening, interviewing and recording all designers and artists:
Cosmic Crack and Zlda live:
Erik and Elske HeyHeyHey:
Then there was this highlight from the artist Aeneas Wilder at De Fabriek: http://www.defabriek.net/
Who built this wooden structure without any nails, glue or whatever, just stacked on top of eachother. At the last day of the expo he kicked at one side of the structure and the Grand Final was the overwhelming and beautiful destruction of this sculpture:
That’s it for now…nice week and I’ll drop some end party picts soon.
Bye, R
