creative identity and innovative thinking: July 2017

THREE DESIGNERS I ADMIRE THEIR WORK:

LE CORBUSIER (Switzerland 1887- France-1965)

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He he constructed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America.

Le Corbusier was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, like the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several buildings there.

He wrote different statements: "Space, light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as bread or a place to sleep"; "Modern decorative art has no decoration" ;"Why call bottles, chairs, baskets and objects decorative? They are useful tools….Decor is not necessary. Art is necessary." He declared that in the future the decorative arts industry would produce only "objects which are perfectly useful, convenient, and have a true luxury which pleases our spirit by their elegance and the purity of their execution, and the efficiency of their services." He described the future of decoration in these terms: "The ideal is to go work in the superb office of a modern factory, rectangular and well-lit, painted in white Ripolin (a major French paint manufacturer); where healthy activity and laborious optimism reign." He concluded by repeating "Modern decoration has no decoration".

The piece I like:

Chaise Longue - LC4 is a chaise longue designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier and French architect Charlotte Perriand. (1927–28), with a covering of cowhide, which gave it a touch of exoticism.

It is built in a shape designed for relaxation. The designers put man at the centre of their design, taking the idea that form and function should be at the service of relaxation, creating a perfect balance between its geometric purity and its ergonomic intent.

The stability of the frame – for any angle of inclination – is guaranteed by the friction through rubber tubes that cover the cross bar of the base.

I love:

I find it beautiful and invites me to relax. I love its shape, the materials still and cowhide, the style and most of all that is extremely confortable

I don´t like that though he was very smart and creative, apparently he was also "militant fascist", anti-Semitic and a fan of Hitler.

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)

The piece I like:

STEVE JOBS (1452-1519)

The piece I like:

From the aesthetic point of you would be the iMac ´98

FROM THE TATE BRITAN I WAS TOUCHED BY:

CERITH WYN EVANS (WALES 1958)

Cerith Wyn Evan’s artistic practice focuses on how ideas can be communicated through form. His conceptual work incorporates a diverse range of media including installation, sculpture, photography, film and text.

Wyn Evans began his career as a filmmaker producing short, experimental films and collaborative works but since the 1990s has created artworks that focus on language and perception, with a precise clarity towards their manifestation in space. He employs strategies of exhibition making that are often site-specific, viewing exhibitions as a catalyst to produce a reservoir of possible meanings and discursive experiences.

Wyn Evans' work attempts to rupture existing systems of communication – either through the practice of subverting certain given material forms, disrupting spatial-temporal coordinates, or adopting a communal rather than singular authorial voice.

The piece I like:

"Forms in Space...by Light (in Time)

I love:

It is a piece of work that everybody sees and spends some time examinating it. Its structure in three parts that emerges from a single an simple neon ring tha focus the complex installation, and in the central section are three discs, reminiscent if the diagrams opticians use for eye tests (Marcel Duchamp also included them in one sculpture). I love the maze of complex lines that trace the trajectory of alignments, gestures, folds and orientations .

I don´t like that it is only for very special spaces and that it must consume a lot of energy. I also find it too complex to install.

WITH WHOM WOLD I SHERE AN EXHIBITION:

ANDY WARHOL

NORMAN ROCKWELL

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THREE DESIGNERS I ADMIRE THEIR WORK:

LE CORBUSIER (Switzerland 1887- France-1965)

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)

FROM THE TATE BRITAN I WAS TOUCHED BY:

WITH WHOM WOLD I SHERE AN EXHIBITION:

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