i certainly don’t post about cars very often as i find the whole subject slightly boring, this is an exception however: a very rare one-off BMW ‘spicup’ cabriolet in metallic jade green designed by bertone back in 1969 and since two years in the hands of a dutch collector, breathtaking…
(via my mate ‘eric wie’ who does like talking about cars)
a fascinating series of site-specific ‘trompe l’oeuil’ installations from brazilian artist regina silveira
last week i spent a few days visiting the latest (and much criticised) edition of the (5 yearly) ‘documenta’ art festival in kassel, germany
some of the works which i apparently found interesting enough to photograph (and therefore blog about) included these books, the damaged ones (above & below) are from the archives of the city museum in kassel and are priceless old manuscripts and bibles which were irreparably destroyed by the british RAF during bombing raids at the end of the second world war… more art than history but still oddly beautiful to look at as artefacts
the lower image is from an installation containing several hundred beautiful ‘organic’ books made from solid sections of tree, all neatly ordered in an antique cabinet… unfortunately i cannot recall the name of the artist involved
of course writing about these project doesn’t come anywhere near to the experience one undergoes when actually seeing them (see also these previous related entries here)
intricate book sculptures seem to be very much in vogue at the moment, for example: canadian artist guy laramee and american artist brian dettmer
(links via my ex intern ‘joris van megen’)
the ubiquity of photography means that comparisons to other people are often difficult to avoid, ‘irving penn’ springs directly to mind for example when i met and saw the portfolio of young graduate rein janssen earlier this week, he is a still-life photographer with a hunger for experimentation and some beautiful projects under his belt already, one of the nicest books i have seen in a while and one to watch…
