Dance like a fool, walk like a king

Dance like a fool, walk like a king
solo show by Alejandro Vidal

April 5 until May 3, 2008

PLAY is delighted to present the solo show by Alejandro Vidal, including the two new video-works Dance like a fool, walk like a king, 2007, and Pushing up the Power, 2007. The works are in exhibition at PLAY until the end of April.

Short biography of the artist Alejandro Vidal was born 1972 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Alejandro Vidal recently had solo exhibitions like One second burns for a billion years, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Sabattique (with Saadane Afif) , Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Blackout for Death, Kling&Bang Galleri,Reykjavik; Demons Dance Alone, Galerie Adler, New York / Frankfurt; Aesthetics of Violence, MOT, London; Dance like a fool, walk like a king, Play Platform for film & video, Berlin; Material Dust, Fundaci€ La Caixa, CaixaForum, Barcelona (Espai Montcada); Un tiro a todos los Diablos, Galleria Artra, Milan, Italy; A pas de Loup, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
His work has also been included in recent group exhibitions like Time Code at the Mambo_Museo di Arte Moderno di Bologna, Agression at the Kunsthalle Winterthur in Switzerland,System Error at the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, Italy , Repeat All at the Matucana 100 in Santiago de Chile, Busan Biennale in Korea, Youth of Today at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Crime and punishment at the Tallinn Kunstihoone in Estonia, Naked life at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan and Personne niest innocent at Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers, France.

PLAY platform for Film & Video Berlin ::

soft corps

SOFTCORPS is a brand of playful realistic weaponry made of colourful wool, felt, and fleece. Constructed by hand with patience and care in contrast to their molded metal counterparts, every SOFTCORPS weapon includes a fun detail like a rattling grenade or the removable clip of an AK-47.

images on flickr photos/softcorps/

softcorps.ca

see Staetim festival

Landscapes/ Fast Fade to Grey Grey

Landscapes/ Fast Fade to Grey Grey Grey.
Shows from Levi van Veluw & Laetitia Gendre :
Ron Mandos nl:

"Levi van Veluw's photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third object of great visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object."

"Laetitia Gendre is very interested in playing with these notions. Questions abound: What is real in the experience of representing? What layers of reality does it refer to? Meaning arises from the assembly of different elements into a kind of rebus. They are taken from different contexts: art, history, films, found images or personal archives."

Bloedmooi

Bloedmooi / Bloody Beautiful - Group show
Historical Museum Rotterdam - October 4, 2007 - March 30, 2008

Silvia B. selecteerde voor Bloedmooi werken van: Alexander McQueen (GB), Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek (NL), BLESS (DE), Charlotte Dumas (NL), Cindy Wright (BE), Eduardo Sourrouille (ES), Edward Lipski (GB), Eric Klarenbeek (NL), Frido van der Weij (NL), Happy Famous Artists (BE), Hulya Yilmaz (NL), Idiots (NL), Jan Fabre (BE), Jean-François Fourtou (FR), Jean-Paul Gaultier (FR), Koen Hauser (NL), Koen Vanmechelen (BE), Les Deux Garçons (NL), Maison Givenchy (FR), Maison Martin Margiela (FR), Maria Hees (NL), Mark Fairnington (GB), Merijn Bolink (NL), Nadège Mériau (GB), Nagi Noda (JP), Philip Treacy (UK), Risk Hazekamp (NL), Roswitha van Rijn (NL), Silvia B. (NL), Ted Noten (NL), Thomas Grünfeld (DE), Tinkebell (NL), Violette Müller (NL), William Wegman (US) en Wim Delvoye (BE).
Tentoonstellingsontwerp: Wieneke van Gemeren (IT).

historischmuseumrotterdam.nl

Manif d'art 4

TOI / YOU
RENCONTRES, LEURRES ET DECHIRURES

De multiples outils et modes de communication, développés au cours des deux dernières décennies, nous confrontent à des rapports interpersonnels inédits. La médiation électronique marque ainsi nos rapports humains induisant, du même souffle, une mise en question de l’image de soi et des liens jadis usuels qu’entretenait le sujet contemporain à son environnement. Car si nos modes antérieurs de mise en contact maintenaient l'idée de distance et de territorialité, l’Internet et la transmission instantanée de l’information entraînent un bouleversement spatio-temporel inédit où les concepts de solitude et d’échange sont profondément réinventés. Qu’en est-il, donc, de nos zones d’affinités, de nos tentatives de proximité ou de dialogue ?

Manifestation internationale d'art de Quèbec

Thomas Engelbert

Thomas Engelbert

www.myspace.com/microspazio

Footnote

Footnote.com
The place for original documents online

MUSAE

MUSAE Museo Urbano Sperimentale d'Arte Emergente

MUSAE è un appuntamento inedito per gli artisti, che intendono promuovere le loro opere e trovare nuovi spazi in un museo urbano itinerante, e per i cittadini, che accedono in maniera inconsueta e non mediata all’arte contemporanea.
La città del MUSAE è al contempo luogo ideale e libero contenitore creativo: qui il dialogo tra l’Istituzione e la collettività si sviluppa per favorire la realizzazione delle espressioni artistiche.

MANIFESTA 7

Nel 2008 Manifesta giunge in Alto Adige e in Trentino. Accanto alla Biennale di Venezia e a Documenta di Kassel, che si tiene ogni cinque anni, Manifesta è una delle più grandi e importanti esposizioni d’arte contemporanea. Manifesta, la “biennale” europea dell’arte contemporanea, è nata a cura dell’International Foundation Manifesta (IFM). Dal 1996 l’IFM, con sede ad Amsterdam, organizza questa biennale che si svolge sempre in luoghi diversi. Finora è stata allestita a Rotterdan (1996), Lussemburgo (1998), Ljubljana (2000), Francoforte (2002) e a San Sebastian (2004). Manifesta 6, che sarebbe dovuta essere allestita a Nicosia, è stata annullata per motivi politici.

Manifesta intende promuovere nuove idee e forme dell’arte. A tal fine effettua una ricerca del territorio intellettuale e geografico di tutta Europa per un confronto tra le caratteristiche specificamente culturali e artistiche e il vasto contesto europeo in una società in evoluzione. Manifesta è un work in progress in continua rigenerazione: essa infatti cambia ogni due anni sia il luogo espositivo che i suoi curatori.

http://www.manifesta7.it

Adobe - Photoshop Express online

Adobe - Photoshop Express (beta)

PHOTOSHOP online : Do what you want with your photos.
Give them cartoon colors. Distort them. Go nuts. Turn average photos into jaw droppers with options like Pop Color, Sketch, Hue, Black & White, Tint, and more.

Virginia Tech designers in Milan

"Experimental furniture will be showcased by 12 Virginia Tech students who were invited to the annual Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy, this April."

via CollegiateTimes.com - Tech designers to visit Milan furniture fair:

more here : archdesign.vt.edu/

From Here to There

From Here to There: Design Research Symposium:

"Crafted to maximize interaction, the symposium will include plenary sessions with ample time for conversation, as well as afternoon workshops to deepen understanding of specific methods and topics. The intended audience is anyone who is curious about the practice of research within the context of design."

BIENAL DE DANZA DEL CARIBE

Danza Caribe:

"BIENAL DE DANZA DEL CARIBE
27 marzo al 01 de abril del 2008"

http://www.cubarte.cult.cu/
http://www.cubaescena.cult.cu/