Alberto Burri:Form and Matter_Gallery Talk: Materia_@Estorick Collection_25.Feb.2012

Alberto Burri:Form and Matter_Gallery Talk: Materia, by Rosalind Mckever_25.Feb.2012

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I went Gallery Talk at Estorick Collection near Highbury and Islington tube station(Victoria Line). There is an exhibition "Alberto Burri" so it was mostly about his work but also his inspiration from other artists' work and futurism. 

Fig 1) Sack, 1954 / Alberto Burri

Mckever mentioned that the gallery curates Burri's work by chronological order so we can see how his work changed by time. It was interesting to see what the material he used changed by the time – tar, sack, burns away plastic etc. All the different materials but he used in the same way – I mean, not exactly same way of making process but the same way that understanding of the material and than just follow the right way to use of the material. 

Italian word "materia" means both material and matter according to her talk. I think it gives a sense of what I mentioned above. Material and matter are couldn't really be separate. So it is important to understand the matter of the material when he do his work. 

He used mainly 4 different materials for his work by time to time but all different way?(Mckever)

Rather than what material he used and what he made, i think how he made it with understanding the material properly is more potential. Whatever material he used, the way of using material might be followed by the material's matter. 

Fig 2) during the talk, we went upstairs, Gallery 4: Futurism, to see other earlier artists' work such as Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, and many others. In the photo who is leading the talk is Rosalind Mckever. @Gallery 4.

Fig 3) Giacomo Balla(1871–1958) The Hand of the Violinist ( La mano del violinista), 1912
We can see the movement hand is quite impact. @Gallery 4.

Fig 4) Gino Sererini(1883–1996) Quaker Oat-Cubist Still Life, 1917.
This work located opposite side of the Balla's work looks like collage but it's fake collage because it's painting.(Mckever) 

Fig 5) Cretto, 1974.
For me this work was punched. Because of its scale and randomly shaped by using the material.

 

Fig 6) Untitled, early 1990s. 
 

Fig 7) Shamedly I forgot the name of this work. But it looks like experiment material book something. Anyway interesting as it looks. . 

 

 

 

 

conversation series: Neville Brody, Terry Jnes, Giorgio De Mitri, Erik Kessels

conversation series: Neville Brody, Terry Jnes, Giorgio De Mitri, Erik Kessels. Fantastic.

Click here, or

http://www.lebook.com/connections/reportLondon08/conversation/making_history_conversation/

Talk by John Paul Flintoff :How to change the world.

Talk by John Paul Flintoff_ D&AD Lesson 2: How to change the world.

Watching a lecture by John Paul Flintoff on D&AD website. 

 

 

'How to change the world'. Every designer seems to change the world I suppose. 

For me as well. It could be nicer, if I could change the world doing what I want to do. But HOW?

Well, here's summary what he said as I expressed. It's simple and always forgotten. 

"Do little step rather than big thing." i.g. what can you don next 24 hours?

Useful talk on D&AD. Well, easy to say, hard to do. However worth to think about it.

Untitled

21. Feb. 2012. St.Brides.Talk.Life.After.Counterpunch Fred Smeijer

Good things for me:

1. It was my first time to visit St Brides Foundation.

2. Nice typography Lecture. More about Counter and Punch.

Speaking about counterpunch. Fred's talk was rather difficult to me. Because I never thought about counter and punch – I didn't even know about them as a matter of fact. So it was worth to be there and hear about them. 

 

It was about more practical thing that making metal type by hand which is essancial to know. 

Quite impressive thing to me was how people made types that small, very accurately.

 

Thanks to Phil for letting us know about the talk.

 

31. January. 2012 Ahn Sang Soo: Design Lecture

31. January. 2012 Ahn Sang Soo: Design Lecture @CSM

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Very luckily, designer Ahn Sang Soo – with no doubt, the best typographer and graphic designer in Korea – came to CSM to have lecture. 

Although, his English is baby English as he mentioned( actually I have no right to say that since my English is not different to baby English), it was absolutely fascinating. 

After the lecture we could have a time to having chat with him and having signing time which was fun.

Appreciate his kindness and fun. 

 

 

Ahn Sang-Soo was in 2007 with the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig awarded. In the Klingspor Museum in April 2008 was held a retrospective of his works.

Alain de Botton lecture in National Portrait Gallery

Alain De Botton lecture in National Portrait Gallery : 01. March. 2012

 

I am so glad that I check facebook and I found information about the lecture by Alain De Botton at National Portrait Gallery. So happy I got the ticket for it – it was quite hard to get a ticket because of annoying online system at National Portrait Gallery.

On the day, well It was horribly tired day because of the final crit BUT I decided to go and see Alain de Botton. I am a huge fan of his book. I bought and read most of his books in Korea.

And in London, I bought some of his books. And on the right side red book is his newest book! Exciting!

After lecture, there was a time for chat with him and signing.I brought 2 books – one was his new book and another was my favourite! And middle one is signed limited edition.

From his lecture, I liked that he mentioned this

"Only stupid people read self-help book."

because I totally agree.

That kind of book doesn't help anyone at all!