exhibition - Devious Creations

21 Apr

One Beam Of Light – The Exhibition

This week, the finalists of the One Beam Of Light competition were exhibited at London’s ICA.

Organised by Light Collective & Concord, and open to the public, just over 360 images were initially submitted to the project. This was then whittled down to a shortlist of 100 by the project’s Curation Panel. This shortlist can be seen on-line, in the printed newspaper that was available as a free hand-out at the Institute of Contemporary Art from 16 – 20 April and as a PDF for download from the website. The publication guides visitors around the exhibition as well as giving readers an insight into the people who created each image and their inspiration.

31 images made it through to the final curation. In addition to the exhibits, GNI Projects created a fantastic light sculpture as a centrepiece for the event. The opening was a great success, with many members of the lighting community coming together to see the …

25 Nov

Hyper Japan 2012

Here’s a few photos taken from yesterday’s Hyper Japan Expo at London’s Earls Court. Billed as the UK’s biggest Japanese Culture event, visitors are met with a vibrant clash of eastern food, traditional & contemporary fashion, j-pop & manga.

Live performances of ”battodo” by martial art group Fudokan, Samurai sword artists KAMUI, traditional tea ceremonies, and all things Cosplay with both the WCS & ECG enabled people to see this culture in action. There was also the chance to learn from the masters in Sushi Workshops, as well as taking a Sake Tasting Experience..

07 Oct

Digital Sizzle 6

Angela and I recently attended the Digital Sizzle 6 Exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery. Devised by The 3 Beards, Digital Sizzle aims to fill the social gap when it comes to London’s growing tech start-up and wider creative agency scene.

The subject of the Sixth event was to Create Art From Data. The source was entirely up to the participants. A 48hr Hackathon weekender brought together around 80 people, who worked round the clock at Mozilla’s London HQ to produce their masterpieces. The results were then judged by the organisers, before being shown at the exhibition.

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3rd place went to Stef Lewandowski’s Data Necklace, representing Twitter feed data as dimensions and features that were then used to laser-cut jewellery pieces from acrylic & felt.

2nd place was awarded to the RSVP Network; Taking the Twitter usernames from the Whitechapel show guests, they created a visualisation that “depicts the connections and influence of the attendees as a vast, …

25 Sep

100% Design 2012

This past Thursday, I went to the 18th annual 100% Design exhibition at London’s Earls Court. The event is a prime calendar date for all things interior, with lighting, furniture, surfaces and materials taking centre stage. Highlights included the unveiling of Yo! Home, and the new Mercedes Concept Style Coupe. “Read More” for further pictures & video inside!

13 Aug

Out of This World…

I recently attended the British Library’s latest exhibition “Out of This World“, in which the realms of science fiction are represented by the icons and key players of its medium, and alternative ideas & answers to our own reality’s theories are explored. Who are we? What does it mean to be human? Are we alone? What is reality? Can a truly perfect world exist?..

The space is divided into six “visions”, and examines literary worlds from the Alien, Future, Virtual, Parallel, Perfect and Apocalyptic.

Throughout history, people have sought solutions to such questions, and others have created their own via science fiction & imagination. From Bishop Francis Godwin’s earliest recorded Sci Fi tale in 1638, where his character Domingo Gonsales travels to the moon aided by geese, to classics such as HG Wells, Isaac Asimov & George Orwell & modern icons such as Ian M Banks, the exhibition highlights many great authors past & present, and their attempts at realizing an existence that provides such solutions…. often not without consequence.

The exhibition is free, and open until 25th September 2011.

08 Aug

Takashi Murakami @ Gagosian London (nsfw)

Last weekend, I went to see Takashi Murakami’s latest exhibition at the London Gagosian Gallery.

The prolific Japanese contemporary artist, famed for his mixture of fine art, oversized (and over-sexed) sculptures and “Superflat” media has put together a collection of work which highlights the exaggerated sexualisation present in modern culture such as anime. More to the point, it’s this “enduring obsession with sexuality in contemporary human society” which has become more common place.

Centre stage to this analysis are the two large figures “Nurse Ko2″, and the pendulous over-proportioned “3-Meter Girl“. Accompanying these are Mr Big Mushroom and Miss Clam, genitalia edifices with cartoon-like characteristics.. the subject of taboo given a cutesy remodeling is somewhat amusing & compelling as a testament to Takashi’s message.

In a stark contrast to the central showpieces, around the outside of the room are a series of Triptychs honoring the artist Kuroda Seiki. Kuroda was responsible for bringing yōga or Western-style painting to Meiji- period Japan, and “promoted the genre of history painting, as well as the validity of the nude figure as a subject for art.” His own Triptych Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment expresses the female form almost as an anatomical study, void of any sexual overtness, but rather natural beauty. Murakami takes this and re-produces the realism in a modern manga-like illustrative series of paintings. Each of his own Triptychs attempt to improve on the last, getting closer and closer to a typically classic fine-art nude. It is this complete opposite of the central exhibits’ sexual appearance which hits home the artist’s viewpoints on modern society, and completes his analysis on sex & media.

“I think the Japanese male sexual complex originated in the two-dimensional world –animation, games and so on – which then transferred to small three-dimensional sculptures. But before my sculptures Miss Ko (1997) and My Lonesome Cowboy (1998), it had never been represented life-size. “
–Takashi Murakami

The exhibition was then finished with 2 examples of Murakami’s detailled superflat artworks, involving multiple skull shapes engulfed by colour and patterns, as well as a giant sized “cardboard toy” big blox pko2…

Artist’s Website : Kaikai Kiki

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