El próximo 20 de mayo se inaugurará la nueva exposición de la galería de arte murciana Gatos de Marte, dónde habrá recopiladas fotografías de Julian Garnés García, Ana Himes y Carlos Albalá.

Next May 20th will be open new exhibition of Murcia based gallery Gatos de Marte, where it will compiled photographs of Julian Garnés García, Ana Himes and Carlos Albalá.

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Can’t believe it’s taken me so long to post this! Not My Type is an awesome exhibition featuring 35 different Birmingham-based artists, designers and illustrators (Claire Hartley, Jon Burgerman, I Love Dust, Jonathan Cherry, Nath Monk, Lee Basford etc..) The exhibition is currently running at the Created In Birmingham store in the Bullring and will be ending this weekend. If you’re in the area check it out while it lasts!

Organised and curated by Jonny Costello and Charlotte Audrey Owen-Meehan, Not My Type: An Out of Character Experiment runs until May 23rd and all the artworks are available to buy, each in an edition of 10, as digital prints at A4 size, for £35 from Created In Birmingham’s store in the Bullring shopping centre.

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Los chicos de ROJO®artspace Barcelona nos cuentan algo más sobre su nueva exposición de mayo:
James Roper, artista ingles nacido en 1982, imita la compleja estructura corporal encontrada dentro de la naturaleza, a partir de la construcción de cuerpos abstractos formados por múltiples elementos. Máquinas biológicas tales como el cuerpo humano procesan y retienen energía, y algunos de sus procesos, ubicados bajo restricción, resultarán en una intensificación de su eventual liberación. La obra intenta retratar el estado intermedio, así como, el control que da origen al abandono caótico y la transición que ocurre de un estado al siguiente.

ROJO®artspace Barcelona wrote us to comment about their new exhibition:
James Roper, english artist born in 1982, mimics the complex bodily structures found within nature by constructing abstract bodies formed from multiple elements. Biological machines such as the human body process and retain energy and any processes placed under restraint will result in an intensification of it’s eventual release. The work attempts to portray this intermediate state as control gives way to chaotic abandon and a transition occurs from one state to the next.

Gracias Pilar

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The Btek – Interpretation centre of Technology by ACXT Architects consists of two apparently uninterrupted pyramid-shaped volumes that connect below ground level. The building is located on one of the highest points of the Vizcaya Technology Park and close to the Bilbao airport’s flight path for takeoffs and landings. It aims to create a landmark in its landscape.

+ Project description courtesy of ACXT arquitectura

BTEK is an interpretation centre for new technologies, aimed at student visitors.

The Centre’s promoter, Parque Tecnológico, S.A., (Technology Park) set out the following as the most important guidelines:

• Create a very flexible and varied exhibition space, able to accommodate all types of exhibitions.
• Installations should be highly energy efficient (geothermal systems for climate control) and that use renewable energy sources (a building-integrated photovoltaic system connected to a 60kw network).
• The geometry of the covering where the solar panels are integrated should be triangular—similar to the shape of Technology Park’s logo.

The site’s location, on one of the highest points of the Vizcaya Technology Park and close to the Bilbao airport’s flight path for takeoffs and landings, helps with the aim of making the building a landmark in its landscape.

The building consists of two apparently uninterrupted pyramid-shaped volumes that connect below ground level.

• The first is a heavy, black volume that emerges from the earth; it is enclosed by three metallic facades and completely covered with solar panels that form a patterned network.
• The second volume, contrasting with the first, is formed by two facades of curtain walling with an artificial grass-covered roof that starts off as an extension of the terrain and continues on to cover the entire site.
• Artificial grass also covers the below-ground-level connection, allowing it to merge with the site and its surroundings.

The five galleries are designed to be visited sequentially. In order to serve for a wide variety of possible exhibitions and contents, the galleries have been designed with very different characteristics: from those with ceilings at a conventional height to galleries with variable-height ceilings, reaching up to 16 metres of clear height, and with or without natural lighting.

A wide ramp for vehicular traffic has been designed near the pedestrian entrance, allowing access to the car park and installations rooms, as well as allowing for direct access to the exhibition galleries if large pieces need to be placed.

The pedestrian entrance is formed from the first volume, the fold on a corner marking the building entrance and access ramp. As the visitor descends, a metallic projection covers the arrival path and gathers the visitor in.

Called “The Ravine” for its narrow dimensions and 18-metres of clear height, the reception space marks the initial passage into the building. The sense of squeezing through is emphasized by the narrowing of the path and the ceiling heights that become lower as the visitor moves along.

The building’s exhibition set-up is arranged on three floors terraced in arrangements parallel to the site’s steep slope, so that the ground floor and the second floor have direct street-level access to the exterior. The three floors are connected by large stairways and ramps that follow the geometry and the volume of the whole so that the building is experienced as a single, undivided space.

+ Project credits / data

Project: Btek – Interpretation centre of Technology
Location: Derio, Bizkaia, Spain
Client: Parque Tecnológico S.A.
Building contractor: OHL

Architecture: ACXT Architects
Project Architect: Gonzalo Carro
Collaborators Architects: Javier Pérez, Carlos Miguel Guimaraes
Project Management: Gonzalo Carro

Costs: ATHOS (Pedro Berroya + Aitziber Goikoetxea)
Structure: Javier Eskubi, Amaia Oyón, Ángel Gómez
Environmental Engineering: Francisco José Sánchez, Jon Landaburu, Luis Alberto Ribacoba, Begoña Sánchez
Public Health Services: Luis Alberto Ribacoba, Begoña Sánchez
Lighting: Susaeta iluminación

Photographers: Aitor Ortíz, Gonzalo Carro (construction process)

+ About Gonzalo Carro López, ACXT Architects

Getxo 1974. Architect project manager in the team from Bilbao. Member of the Society of Architects ACXT (IDOM Group).

Winner of the architectural competition for the construction of the Basque Historical Archive Building and Hospital de Cruces General Services Building, finalist in the competition of urban planning and housing typological proposals, Europan 6.

Btek Project Architect Project Manager, interpretation centre of technology, a project that is scheduled for the 8th BIA Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale 2009 and obtained an honourable mention in the AR awards 2009. He was also responsible for projects such as District Heating buildings in Zorrozaurre and Bolueta neighbourhoods in Bilbao and Antondegui neighbourhoods in San Sebastian or Zierbena rowing club. He currently works in the KAM museum, Kultur Atea Museum in Bilbao.

+ All images and drawings courtesy of ACXT arquitectura

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May 1st 2010, is the grand opening day of Shanghai Expo 2010. The Danish Pavilion at Shanghai’s World Expo 2010 designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group opens to the public today.

Also see the previous post of Denmark Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010.

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BIG celebrates the grand opening of the Danish Expo Pavilion 2010

The Danish Pavilion at Shanghai’s World Expo 2010 designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group opens to the public today.

The Danish pavilion at EXPO 2010 will give visitors the opportunity to try some of the best aspects of Danish city life themselves. Through interaction, the visitors are able to actually experience some of  Copenhagen’s best attractions – the city bike, the harbor bath, playground settings, a picnic on the roof garden and the opportunity to see the authentic H.C Andersen’s Little Mermaid.

When we visited the World Exhibition in Zaragoza, we were stunned by the artificial content. State propaganda in paper maché. The Danish Expo pavilion 2010 is the real deal, and not just endless talking. You can ride the city bike, take a swim in the harbor bath, and see the real Little Mermaid

Founder of BIG, Bjarke Ingels

The pavilion is designed as a traffic loop created by the motion of city bikes and pedestrians tied in a knot. Over 300 free city bikes located upon the roofscape, offer the visitors a chance to experience the Danish urban lifestyle which includes biking everywhere. The loops are connected in two places. Coming from the inside, the visitors can move out onto the roof, pick up a bike and re-visit the exhibition by bike as the outdoor cycle path slips into the interior and runs along the entire exhibition before exiting onto the EXPO grounds. The sequence of events at the exhibition takes place between two parallel facades – the internal and external. The internal is closed and contains different functions of the pavilion. The width varies and is defined by the programme of the inner space. The pavilion’s external façade is made of perforated steel. In the evening time, the façade becomes a sequenced instrument of interactive light illuminating the passers-by.

The exhibition can be experienced in two speeds, as a calm stroll with time to absorb the surroundings and as a dynamic bicycle trip, where the city and city life rush past. Like a Danish city, the Danish pavilion is best experienced on foot and by bike. This way, the pavilion’s theme Welfairytales (Welfare + Fairytales) re-launches the bicycle in Shanghai as a symbol of lifestyle and sustainable urban development. When the Expo closes, the pavilion can be moved to another site in Shanghai and could function as a transfer point for Shanghai’s new city bikes.

Sustainability is often misunderstood as the neo-protestant notion “that it has to hurt in order to do good”.

You’re not supposed to take long warm showers – because wasting all that water is not good for the environment.

you’re not supposed to fly on holidays – because airtraffic is bad for the environment.

Gradually we all get the feeling that sustainable life simply is less fun than normal life. If sustainable designs are to become competitive it can not be for purely moral or political reasons – they have to be more attractive and desirable than the non-sustainable alternative. With the Danish Pavilion we have attempted to consolidate a handful of real experiences of how a sustainable city – such as Copenhagen – can in fact increase the quality of life.

Founder of BIG, Bjarke Ingels

The pavilion is a monolithic structure in white painted steel which keeps it cool during the Shanghai summer sun due to its heat-reflecting characteristics. The roof is covered with a light blue surfacing texture, known from Danish cycle paths. Inside, the floor is covered with light epoxy and also features the blue cycle path where the bikes pass through the building. The steel of the facade is perforated in a pattern that reflects the actual structural stresses that the pavilion is experiencing making it a 1:1 stress test. The blue cycle path and white concrete surfaces will further define the arrival and exit areas.

Sitting in the harbor pool at the centre of the pavilion is the real Little Mermaid from the harbor of Copenhagen. As one of three of H.C. Andersen’s fables, who is affectionally known in China as An Tung Shung, which is read by every child in China, this will be seen as a gesture of cultural generosity between Denmark and China. While the mermaid is in Shanghai her place in Copenhagen will be replaced by Ai Wei Wei’s multimedia artwork, including a live broadcast of the statue in Shanghai. Other artists include Jeppe Hein from Denmark, who designed a ’social bench’ that will run alongside the bicycle lane and adapts to its environment elastically by incorporating different functions including a bar for food and drink. The works of Martin De Thurah and Peter Funch are also included in the exhibition areas.

Throughout the design and realization of the Danish Pavilion a wide range of disciplines, such as architecture, engineering, lighting design and art installations meld together to create a single structure that plays like a finely tuned instrument.

Leader of Danish Expo Pavilion 2010 and Partner in BIG, Finn Norkjaer

+ About BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

BIG currently comprises a group of architects, designers, and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research, and development which are comprised of over 20 nationalities. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, Asia and North America. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes, not least due to the influence of multicultural exchange, global economic flows and communication technologies that together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. In all our actions we try to move the focus from the little details to the BIG picture.

+ Project credits / data

Project: Danish Pavilion at the EXPO 2010
Size: 3.000m2
Client: EBST
Collaborators: 2+1, Arup AGU, Arup Shanghai, Tongji Design Institute, Ai Wei Wei, Jeppe Hein, Martin De Thurah, Peter Funch
Location: Shanghai, China

Architect: BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group
Creative Director: Bjarke Ingels
Partner-in-Charge: Finn Norkjaer
Team: Tobias Hjortdahl, Jan Magasanik, Claus Tversted, Henrick Poulsen, Niels Lund Petersen, Kamil Szoltysek, Sonja Reisinger, Anders Ulsted, Jan Borgstrom, Pauline Lavie, Teis Draiby, Daniel Sundlin, Line Gericke, Armen Menendian, Karsten Hammer Hansen, Martin W. Mortensen, Kenneth Sorensen, Jesper Larsen, Anders Tversted
Photograph: Iwan Baan

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From “Adventures In Immediate Unreality.“, 2010 by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum.

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»Retired Compositions«, 2009, installation view, by David Maljković.

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onedotzero submissions are now open. Deadline is June 30th.

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Oriol Miró expone sus obras en la Sala Tretze (Banyoles) el próximo 28 de abril. ¿Te gusta la caligrafía? esta es tu oportunidad para ver las magníficas piezas de un gran artista. A parte podéis ver sus obras aquí y aquí. Espero que os guste!

Oriol Miró will be showing his work at Sala Tretze (Banyoles) next 24th of april. Do you like calligraphy? this is your chance to see great works from an awesome artist.  You can also check his work here and here. Hope you like it!

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Scott Hove es un artista autodidacta afincado en el área de la bahía de San Francisco que ha creado estas impresionantes y asustadizas esculturas. Me gustaría verlas pero, mamás, no permitan que sus hijos vean esta exposición.

San Francisco bay area-based self-taught artist Scott Hove has developed this amazing and scares handmade sculptures. I would like see them but, mums, don’t allow their children to visit this exhibition.

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