Yesterday we attended the opening of the new exhibition at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.
Frozen in Time consists of over fifty extraordinary vintage photographs and multi-plate panoramas from pioneering mountaineer and photographer Vittorio Sella (1859-1943). Together they demonstrate not only Sella’s skills as a mountaineer but also his ability to give a real sense of the immensity and beauty of his subjects.
TheFrameworks is proud to sponsor the design of the Estorick Collection’s exhibition materials and website.
Frozen in Time runs from 25 June – September 2008. It’s a fantastic exhibition so be sure to check it out.
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Just strolling down the Southbank at lunchtime, you see some interesting sights! On the exterior walls of the Tate Modern at the moment is a new exhibition displaying street art from six internationally acclaimed artists.
The art will be up until 25 August and is obviously free to view, if you dare!
On Saturday I visited the latest exhibition at the Hayward Gallery on London’s Southbank. PSYCHO BUILDINGS brings together the work of artists who create habitat-like sculptures and architectural installations.
It included structures that you could enter and explore and also environments that you could engage with physically. The aim is to involve the viewer in a reconsideration of space and place, and for people to re-examine their ideas regarding the relationship between the body and its surroundings.
A popular installation was a boating lake, created by filling one of the Hayward’s outdoor sculpture terraces with water, allowing people to cruise around on small rowing boats ‚Äì very interesting! (see picture below). ‘Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture’ runs until 25 August 2008.
Our new location in London Bridge gives us a great opportunity to sample some of the stranger events that crop up in and around London’s South Bank.
Today saw the opening of a new installation called the Telectroscope, so a few of us here at TheFrameworks took the opportunity to pop down and have a look.
Located outside City Hall, the Telectroscope allows members of the public to watch and wave (in real time) to people in New York peering through an identical scope located near the Brooklyn Bridge.
It’s the invention of London-based artist Paul St George and uses a broadband internet connection to transmit video images between the two locations, giving the impression the two cities are connected via a telescopic device that makes use of ancient tunnels running underneath the Atlantic Ocean.
For £1 you look down the pipe and see New Yorkers looking back.
The installation was created by Artichoke, the creative company responsible for The Sultan’s Elephant that paraded through Central London two years ago, and runs until 15 June 2008.
Last night members of the TheFrameworks team attended one of the successful ‘STIR’ lectures run by Design London.
The lecture was about extreme design: From the MINI car to mega yachts, and was moderated by the BBC News Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. We heard from two fascinating designers: Gert Hildebrand, Chief Designer and Leader of the BMW MINI Design Studio in Munich and Martin Francis, the much sought after designer of mega-yachts for the super rich.
It was a great opportunity to hear from two designers at the pinnacle of their career and learn about the design processes related to both of their respective industries.
If you would like to find out more about the ‘STIR’ lecture series, visit www.designlondon.net
