Curve Art Drawings

Well, atleast the seating plan looks "normal". But the other images shows that Schabus explored about not only aircrafts' seatings, but also about rollercoasters and maybe "wheel-theatre". He really intersect between architecture and sculture in a humorous way, yet making one to question and look at every day things differently.

Curve art defying laws of gravity?

Barbican arts centre is supposedly the largest in UK to have all arts under one roof, so it was not a suprise to find chairs defying laws of gravity. Hans Schabus's Curve art is arguably one of those ideas he could have got from the kids playing around and might have overheard them fantasising about a vertical theatre or something. This might have been long coming, considering that his previous monumental installations include a flooded gallery filled with boats (The Rendezvous Problem, 2004)and some other crazy ideas like a mountain constructed over an existing building.


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His new commission NEXT TIME I'M HERE, I'LL BE THERE, Schabus has mounted 461 chairs onto the wall, (not floor) and to make it even more interesting, the wall is curving. According to the leaflet published on occasion of the exhibition, by Margit Emesz, The 80-metre semi-circular wall reflect that of a large aeroplane's floor, so i guess in the gallery, it showed the plane turning, hence the vertical bolting of chairs, which were borrowed from all over the Barbican's offices, stores, art spaces and backrooms. Teh arrangement is quite pleasing to the eye, with similar chairs arranged together with respect to colour and type, to imitate the seating of an aircraft.

"Britain's largest public art commission"

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A winner is to be chosen among five designers bidding to win the £2m Ebbsfleet Landmark commission, to sit near the Ebbsfleet International station between Dartford and and Gravesend (North Kent).The five contenders are artist Mark Wallinger's giant white horse, Racher Whiteread's craggy mountain, Daniel Buren's tower of cubes, Richard Deacon's nect of steel latticework and Christopher Le Brun's monumental wing and disc.

Skin + Bones: Parallel practices in fashion and architecture

Well, i must admit the minute i saw the title, skin and bones, i thought its all about bony models and exposed skins to promote some expensive designer clothes, and accessories like colognes, but guess what, i was wrong!


Somerset house is the final venue on the Skin + Bones international exhibition tour.
Both fashion and architecture share the main basic need of man of providing shelter and protection for the body, and what the exhibition shows is how both can be used to create space and volume out of flat, 2D materials.