The design of the Andre Citroën Park, its characteristics & its features, composing the main axes on which most of the second part of the tribute is being developed, in this remarkable postmodern architectural landscape creation of the French capital (… of Rome?).
Living and creating away from his home country of Cuba, the expatriate visual artist Jorge Mayet builds small three-dimensional meteoric landscapes, where the usual protagonist is one or more trees – sometimes partly, sometimes totally uprooted. The following article presents some of his greatest artworks in a critical way.
The French capital has been decorated since 1992 by Parc Andre Citroen. The approximation of its key features, as well as its design concept and functional dimension, will be the key themes of a series of related articles. Article number one? Its critical (& highly subjective) presentation.
With raw material the flowers, the British artist Rebecca Louise Law manages to create colourful spatial compositions that are fragrant. But with the action of time, the installations lose colour & fragrance, leaving in place the pure & powerful sculptural structure of the perishable & consumable ephemeral artworks.
Henrique Oliveira, a Brazilian-born sculptor and painter, creates three-dimensional constructions using materials of little value that transform the real into a dreamy space and the imaginary into a tangible one. In the following article we go through some of these places by way of the Henrique Oliveira’s installations.
When an excellent idea is implemented by a gifted artist the result is always marvelous: the Dutch Wageningen University commissioned the sculptor Frank Plant to create a work that will artistically represent what the University represents. And Frank Plant did it. He gave a wall-mounted large scale sculptural composition entitled ‘Grow’.
The use of the material, where third-party rights are not mentioned, is absolutely free. Its sharing, possibly, useful.
Great and ancient the ceramic art. And constantly renewed and evolving, when it is – literally – found in the hands of experienced and inventive masters. Yo Se Yeon from the city of Icheon, South Korea, does not have such ambitious goals. But he is such a master. And simply and humbly, as a continuator of a 5,000-year tradition, he devotes us some of his time and some objet d’arts.
The turfgrass sod that is rolled and installed in the garden, for the creation of an instant lawn, is the main object of the article, where reference is made to the basic characteristics of the sod, the advantages and disadvantages, the certification and specifications, as well as new forms of ready-made lawn.
Participating the “Kalliergeia” in the festive – strictly at home – atmosphere of theese days, presents from the Sex Pistols on board concert on the river Thames of the year 1977 – the celebration year of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II – the tender ballad of the band entitled “God Save The Queen”.
The ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia) or Zanzibar Gem Plant is one of the most beautiful and robust plants indoors and outdoors – where climatic conditions allow. Zamiokoulkas zamiifolia – its planting, care & propagation – is mentioned in a series of “Kalliergeia” articles with the ambition to one day be completed.
The design of the Andre Citroën Park, its characteristics & its features, composing the main axes on which most of the second part of the tribute is being developed, in this remarkable postmodern architectural landscape creation of the French capital (… of Rome?).
Living and creating away from his home country of Cuba, the expatriate visual artist Jorge Mayet builds small three-dimensional meteoric landscapes, where the usual protagonist is one or more trees – sometimes partly, sometimes totally uprooted. The following article presents some of his greatest artworks in a critical way.
The French capital has been decorated since 1992 by Parc Andre Citroen. The approximation of its key features, as well as its design concept and functional dimension, will be the key themes of a series of related articles. Article number one? Its critical (& highly subjective) presentation.
With raw material the flowers, the British artist Rebecca Louise Law manages to create colourful spatial compositions that are fragrant. But with the action of time, the installations lose colour & fragrance, leaving in place the pure & powerful sculptural structure of the perishable & consumable ephemeral artworks.
Henrique Oliveira, a Brazilian-born sculptor and painter, creates three-dimensional constructions using materials of little value that transform the real into a dreamy space and the imaginary into a tangible one. In the following article we go through some of these places by way of the Henrique Oliveira’s installations.
When an excellent idea is implemented by a gifted artist the result is always marvelous: the Dutch Wageningen University commissioned the sculptor Frank Plant to create a work that will artistically represent what the University represents. And Frank Plant did it. He gave a wall-mounted large scale sculptural composition entitled ‘Grow’.
The use of the material, where third-party rights are not mentioned, is absolutely free. Its sharing, possibly, useful.
Great and ancient the ceramic art. And constantly renewed and evolving, when it is – literally – found in the hands of experienced and inventive masters. Yo Se Yeon from the city of Icheon, South Korea, does not have such ambitious goals. But he is such a master. And simply and humbly, as a continuator of a 5,000-year tradition, he devotes us some of his time and some objet d’arts.
The turfgrass sod that is rolled and installed in the garden, for the creation of an instant lawn, is the main object of the article, where reference is made to the basic characteristics of the sod, the advantages and disadvantages, the certification and specifications, as well as new forms of ready-made lawn.
Participating the “Kalliergeia” in the festive – strictly at home – atmosphere of theese days, presents from the Sex Pistols on board concert on the river Thames of the year 1977 – the celebration year of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II – the tender ballad of the band entitled “God Save The Queen”.
The ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia) or Zanzibar Gem Plant is one of the most beautiful and robust plants indoors and outdoors – where climatic conditions allow. Zamiokoulkas zamiifolia – its planting, care & propagation – is mentioned in a series of “Kalliergeia” articles with the ambition to one day be completed.
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