credits: www.todayandtomorrow.net

The artist Jenny Odell creates art works out of Google Earth ©. Baseball fields, swimming pools and parking areas are some of her themes. She deals with details of our every-day environment which she cuts out of a satellite view and pastes them in new masterpieces. Jenny Odell looks the world throughout the satellite and makes a connection between the virtual reality and the real life.

She names her works “The Satellite Collection”: It’s a kind of “a top down view” in which she pieces together terrestrial images like a mosaic to express feelings like vulnerability, nostalgia and smallness. In this way, a modern web technology gets a new  aesthetic and becomes art.

plasticando

Navigando sul web abbiamo scoperto questo negozio online molto interessante: www.plasticando.biz. Plasticando si occupa della vendita online dei prodotti in acrilico e policarbonato, dei complementi di lavorazione e degli accessori acrilici e offre un impeccabile assortimento di lastre in PMMA, come le estruse trasparenti e a specchio o le colate colorate e bisatinate, di tubi in PMMA, come i colati cast continued o gli estrusi satinati e opal, di accessori come i pomelli, le sfere e le cupole in PMMA.

The light-cement is a compact cut stone of cement which is produced in blocks. The material is called Litracon (Light Transmitting Concrete). The aesthetics is really unique because of the light-transmissive surface it has. It is possible to see colored scale, colored light and forms too. Since September 2006 is realized a series production with a particular stuff for a new manufacturing process.

The first experiment that would combine cement and transparency was started by Mrs. Sabine Theiskrömer at the university in Germany at the beginning of the nineties.

Facades, stairs, ground floors and casings inspire creative people’s imagination. The purpose is to produce bigger sizes in the future given that light-cement represents the solution for designer, planner and architects in cooperation with substructure executive producers. The light-cement is one of the last discoveries of our time.

credit: www.die-welt-der-schuhe.de

Acrylic glass is one of the greatest discoveries of 20^th   century. The applications of this material, like interior decorations, facades, design objects, hand rails or roofs, give a new style to everyday life. The transparency, the brilliancy and the stability of acrylic glass are guaranteed for years.

Acrylic glass has been used by fashion designers, too since 1941. During this period a world competitive fashion show was organized in Frankfurt. Shoes for women with bench made of acrylic glass were presented; they had to indicate a new type of woman. The exclusive design model was thought only for the high society because it represented luxuriousness and elegance. Margarethe Klimt was one of the most famous fashion designers at the time.

Nowadays, stylists like PRADA or FENDI design shoes with acrylic plateau and acrylic bench and complete their exclusive shoes range with elaborated acrylic designs. The new trend is successful and many stylists design a new line of shoes adding acrylic benches in order to valorize the product.

credit: www.hessen-nanotech.de

Die auf der Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung in Frankfurt präsentierte Smart Forvision soll das Auto der Zukunft werden. Smart hat für dieses Concept Car mit BASF kooperiert. Dabei setzt die Entwicklung auf Leichtbau dank spezieller von BASF entwickelten Kunststoffe, nutzt Energie besonders effizient und soll auch beim Temperaturmanagement neue Wege fahren. Allein an der Karosserie hat Smart durch die Verwendung von Kohlefaser statt Metall nach eigenen Angaben fast 150 Kilogramm gespart. Um das Gewicht weiter zu drücken, sind Kunststoffräder und dünne Sitzschalen montier. Das Dach ist mit transparenten organischen Solarzellen versehen, die zugleich als OLED für die Innenraumbeleuchtung genutzt werden können. Sie produzieren genügend Strom für die Komfortbeleuchtung, das Infotainmentsystem sowie für drei Lüfter, die das Auto mit Solarkraft an sonnigen Tagen zusätzlich kühlen sollen. Viele der erwähnten Innovationen, wie die Kunststoffräder, werden schon in zwei oder drei Jahren in die Serienproduktion eingehen, sagte Smart-Chefin Annette Winkler. Doch viele der Materialien und Technologien seien noch Zukunftsmusik, räumt Winkler ein. Der Weg für das Auto der Zukunft ist frei.

Unaltered Marine plastic objects found on the UK coast between 1994-2010 collated and created to reflect the mean temperature of the UK official summer of 2010. Made by Steve McPherson. A great example of intelligent recycling and sustainable Art.

http://www.stevemcpherson.co.uk/

Variables – Patterns

In 1964 Pistoletto showed a group of seven works at the Galleria Sperone. Amazing is the work “Double Stairs”, which is made of two acrylic glass sheets with the photographs of two ramps. The wise artist explained the same year: “A ‘thing’ is not art; but the idea expressed by that same ‘thing’ may be.”

The artists work had been showed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in two exhibitions lately and will hopefully be available to the public soon.

photo courtesy of the artist

http://www.pistoletto.it/eng/crono.htm

I came across his work “Hommage à Olaf Römer, Hommage à Isaac Newton, Hommage à Johannes Kepler”, which consits of three acrylic pieces. The first is a short cylinder. The second, which represents Newton, is a cube, and the third a pyramid. The choice of these three geometrical forms is repeating in Bruchs language. For example, in 2006 he realized a similar idea as a drawing in black, red and white.

His next exibition opens February 25 th at the Atlanta Gallery in Dresden.

Enjoy!

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