Behold the “Ziggurat of Flavor” where you go fruit clouding, thus inhaling one of your 5 a day. This project comes from Sam Bompas and Harry Parr whom reside in London. Witness how this experience comes about, and how they play with jelly.
The Italians know romance, especially when it comes to food. They’ve already come up with a sumptuous combination of caffeinated cake, cream and cocoa layers in Tiramisu. This literally means ‘pick me up’ and it is said that Venetians ate this for the energy to make love all night. Children of the world have been exposed to Disney’s animated film Lady and the Tramp. And we still envision long strands of spaghetti joining two hungry lips. What else have they come up with to ameliorate those ravenous nights of unfulfilled dreams?
Art and design crashed into the food mix and they said to one another, “Sei la mia anima gemella.” You are my soulmate.
Marry the essence of these three sparks that permeate our very existence, throw them together into an institution with the minds of Vito Gionatan Lassandro and Gabriela Cistino and we celebrate the birth of a foxy child, FOODAM. The Food Design and Art Museum launches its first project exhibition, entitled Food For Future, this Spring.
“Based on the view that relations exist between food, design and the arts: one gives the opportunity for the manifestation of the others. In a world characterised by a surplus of information, there is no such thing as food without design or imagination without product. Food and nutrition, are among the most appropriate subjects for reflection on society…The analysis goes beyond the body to the very centre; just as with food: we ingest substances to create culture.”
A call for entries
Any visionary can apply and submit a project for potential exhibition until March 4, 2011. It’s free!
“It could be a product or a prototype, a book or a infographic, a website or a process, a taste or a scenario, a restaurant or a recipe. Food talks about our life. Its future will change our world.”
Binn Buameanchol, a recent LCF Fashion Photography master graduate, lately presented his enthralling series “Flower’s Period”, an anti-fashion piece focused on Youth Culture based on 80s and 90s fashion styles. Flower’s period rests on raw, straightforward images and the “pureness” of teenager’s minds over clothing and accessories.
The artist created a depiction of adolescence with a touch of raw energy to reveal love in the age of fluid sexuality, romanticism, stupidity, fun violence, and childhood problems. The photos portray youth as a period of craziness, a period of willingness, a period altogether ephemeral which, in many ways, resembles flowers blooming in their beauty and existence.
This celebration of youth exhibited, as well as having received a good deal of positive feedback has been seen by many viewers as provocative, leading the public to either love or hate the series.
Last week in Brazil I had the chance to see the Ibere Camargo Foundation. Camargo was a Brazilian painter and engraver.
His foundation was designed in 2008 by a Portuguese architect named Alvaro Siza.
The museum is a large rectangle with white concrete structures. When first entering the building, you discover a huge central space after pushing a big glass door. Two colors: white for the concrete and the brown of the wooden parquet floor. The museum acts originally: you first go up an elevator before progressively coming down as you visit, with a system of banisters that alternate, expressing themselves in facades. Contrarily to the classical museums, showrooms are visually connected with the big empty central space.
These banisters act as transitions from one floor to another: the bright sequences alternate between the Zenith light and the view of Guaiba bay. These spaces completely disconnect the visitor from the central space, only allowing a few open angles to give some visual breakaways to this center space.
The museum is a structure built away from concrete. An incredible piece of work form Siza, expressing both traditional architectural style and an amazing work on light at the same time.
- Simon Blanjoie
