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FRANK GEHRY AT WORK on View in New York City
Sonderborg Kunsthalle project model, 2010. Gatorboard, microply, silver paper. 20 x 11.5 x 19.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Leslie Feely Fine Art, LLC. Photo Credit: Leslie Feely Fine Art, LLC.
Gehry fans in NYC, here's one for you: A selection of over 30 Frank Gehry process models is currently on display at Manhattan's Leslie Feely Fine Art. The exhibition FRANK GEHRY AT WORK opened in April and still runs until June 29. The gallery is located at 33 E 68th Street, 5th Floor.
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When you have the power, you can do whatever you want!...it's a no-brainer...
Looks like wrinkled pants.
glad to see this frank gehry guy is finally getting some attention
too bad its just models though
good luck ever getting this stuff built!
Actually, Spike, several of the models in the exhibition represent realized constructions: the IAC headquarters building in New York City, the Beekman Tower/New York by Gehry, the Barcelona Fish or Peix, and the California Aerospace Museum and Theater.
Back in 2010 I called these the 'shape of entropy'. Looking again at the forms, the fallen shapes, is there any doubt that the examples express visually states of collapse either symbolic of today's headlines or of overall anxiety , a sort of Zeitgeist for economic collapse.
Thanks Q. Collapse is the more accurate metaphor than entropy. The entropy line is from my comment on Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House which does come off as entropic blob. Just lazy in the morn.
http://archinect.com/news/article/103396/hadid-guangzhou
I think gehry owns the crumble - check germano celant's 'since 1997' - you can find
a crumple in the late 90's. I also think crumple is a better term: its less resonant culturally.
re:eisenman - the ground zero project seems like an attempt to move away from the curves of projects like the east river towers - from 'turning torso' type curves, from all the torquing and tweening.
more chamblerlain then Oldenburg, but that thought has more to do with gehry.
Hey LFFA - are you a meta-troll? or just kind hearted?
Q> morphology of an octopus...hmmm??
An invertebrate cephalopod. ...Fluid, spineless, and with a big head. I'm talking Octopus not Zaha
did you guys read this?
"is there any doubt that the examples express visually states of collapse either symbolic of today's headlines or of overall anxiety , a sort of Zeitgeist for economic collapse"? Yes. As Mr. Cyclone has noted, "- you can find a crumple in the late 90's". Remember de-con during the gogo late 80's? Like "Q" said, it's all just "architectural form making" that get's fitted with a good zeigheist metaphore, the better the fit, the better the sale. This project reminds me of all those crushed beer cans that form a mosaic in asphalt.
form follows function, crumble follows crumple.
gab_x
Dec 27, 10 3:54 pm
is there any need to compare Zaha Hadid with Libeskind, really?...
Orhan Ayyüce
Dec 27, 10 4:54 pm
sure. a gateway question if you will.
That was funny...
TD> "is there any doubt that the examples express visually states of collapse either symbolic of today's headlines or of overall anxiety , a sort of Zeitgeist for economic collapse"? Yes
Zeitgeist is a very broad brush to wash over anything. Its all, anything, everything, nothing this Zeitgeist. So where is this metaphysical Z thing? Its a shorthand to illustrate a metaphore, also not real, as in physical.
I have been around too many art historians to try and produce this Zeitgeist Z as a physical thing. I like this as interpretation. analogyies are such fun.
eric
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"Zeitgeist is a very broad brush to wash over anything. Its all, anything, everything, nothing this Zeitgeist" Personally, I lean towards the "nothing" interpretation, not becasue it dosen't exist, but becasue one can only really understand these things in retrospect. Afterall, every truly succesfull artist tells you to be in the moment, true to yourself, and worry about meaning latter. (Then again maybe being in a constant state of analysis is being true to oneself.) Ironically, it's only when one stops analyzing one's place in the culture that you truly represent the times, everything else feels forced, like a marketing strategy. Are you in, or are you out?
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Big Zeit, Little Zeit
There is some psychological point within the creative, artistic, problem solving process where it all comes together. A magic moment. Eureka.
For me it happens as I stop actively thinking, Moments, minutes later, the answer, the form, an understanding appears. Its a strange logic this phenomena. A different part of the brain processing perhaps, another aspect of the mind working.
I think this is the famous part about bei.ng in the moment. I will tentatively name this 'Little Zeit'.
The retrospective 'seeing of the spirit' the geist part of the Big Zeit, is as you say, understood in retrospect. That how it works with me.
eric
Quondam do you mean this commercial parody>? also the point between crumble and crumple is a subtle one i had not thought much of before.
as for the Sam Jacobs piece, I enjoyed the phrase "its cultural ingredients, in other words" and how this perspective was used to deliver a description of contemporary design culture.
i would read that thread...
I would just like to point out, that sam jacobs practices neo-venturian frivolity.
They're only on board for the cheap ride, shedding brain cells along the way.
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