Afterparty by MOS

This year's visit at MoMA's P.S.1 wasn't as exciting as last year's (seeing Olafur Eliasson’s retrospective, especially in that context).
We entered into nearly empty gallery with only one exhibition worth seeing, celebrating the tenth year of the Young Architects Program. This year’s winner of the 2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Program was MOS an interdisciplinary practice engaging in architecture and design, based in Massachusetts.
Their installation Afterparty (widely published), is to serve as a “cooling escape” and “urban shelter” at the heart of P.S.1's Warm Up music series.
Here are few photographs I took of this tent -like "chimneys" that made me feel uncomfortable at times, probably because of that dark skin and hair...

Manhattan As We Know It

Here are few photographs taken along the Central Park South Street, defined on one side by Central Park and on the other by typical for this part of Manhattan luxurious apartment blocks. In each of the buildings were portieres in white gloves, waiting to open entrance doors to elegant women getting into their black limousines. On the other side tourists taking a horse carriage ride, all in the typical for the City hustle and bustle. The whole scene, that was very much like from a film, brought some special sounds into my head…
Many times walking in Manhattan, especially in the evening, I was remembering melancholic tunes sang by Billie Holiday that made those moments complete.
Here one of my favorite "My Man" as a soundtrack to those few images, enjoy!

The Cardboard Gallery

As I said before we helped our friends build the Cardboard Gallery that was opened for the Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn last weekend.

The gallery was/is an alternative space for exhibiting art constructed out of local cardboard, wood and plastic, designed by architect and our dear friend Marta Gazicka. The Cardboard Gallery is an initiative of the Gemini Corporation TM, "experimental art consulting team" established and lead by Vesna Krstich and Nikolas Drosos who through this project tried to question how artists can forge alternative venues in the present economic recession.
The gallery hosted a video Barter by Ukrainian artist collective SOSka Group about the perception of art value in the minds of Ukrainian farmers.

You can read more about the project here. Meantime I hope you'll enjoy some of the photos I took during the preparation for assembling the structure for the festival in Brooklyn.

Thank you guys for getting us involved in this project and most of all for such a great time!

Studio in Brooklyn

During our visit in New York we were helping our friends in preparing an installation for the Art Under The Bridge Festival in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Here are few photographs I took in the rented studio where we were preparing components for the Cardboard Gallery.
I will tell you more about the project soon!

Grand Central - Oyster Bar

Yes, I had my first oysters and must say I really enjoyed them :)
We went to the famous Oyster Bar at Grand Central, recommended by my brother and had a great time!
There are so many beautiful memories, thoughts about the City, visited architecture and experienced art. Everything documented with many, many photographs (we didn't carry 6 cameras for nothing ;)).
We will share it all soon and forgive me if I'm chaotic. Just need some time to gather some thoughts, prepare and develop films.

Holiday

It was a magical time, more photos soon!!

New York, New York :)

"Chapter one. "

"He adored New York City.
He idolised it all out of proportion. "

Uh, no.
Make that "He romanticised it all out of proportion. "

"To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. "

Uh... no.

Let me start this over.


I'm off to New York on Saturday and just can't wait to visit the City again :)
I don't think I'll be posting anything from there but I'm sure I will flood this blog with photographs (also taken with my new camera!), observations and new discoveries in two weeks time.
I couldn't resist putting the Manhattan opening scene.
Obvious, I know, but that romanticising and idolising tone seems just right to me..