Added: Oct 7, 2011

From: tinkyfilms

Duration: 6:23

Visit Tinky.com Sponsored by RELIQE www.RELIQE.com In Episode 2 of Tinky.com ART AND DESIGN WORLD we hear from Tom Vanderbilt at the BMW Guggenheim Lab. We survey the Art Nouveau collections at the MOMA and Met. And we explore Carlito Carvalhosa's Sum Of Days. BMW GUGGENHEIM LAB BMW is sponsoring the Guggenheim Lab which is touring around the world. Author Tom Vanderbilt - writer of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), was invited to speak on the topic of commuting as it pertains to the New York experience. ART NOUVEAU COLLECTION, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK The Museum of Modern Art in New York has an ongoing collection entitled Shaping Modernity which illustrates the initiation into Modernity which took place beginning in the second half of the 19th Century. Art Nouveau objects are featured prominently. Works by Louis Majorelle, Hector Guimard, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are displayed among later pieces of 20th Century artistic innovation. Also on display is a poster from 1900 by Emmanuel-Joseph-Raphael Orazi from the theatre of famed Gilded Age American dancer Loie Fuller for whom a special pavilion was built by Henri Sauvage at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Louis Majorelle's Table Lamp circa 1900 shone as an outstanding example of the style, Hector Guimard's patent trace was evident in his pottery and furniture, and Charles Mackintosh's Side Chair from 1897 was featured with an image of it in its original surrounds. A quote was featured from Adolphe Rette, La Plume: "We are living in a storm where a hundred contradictory elements collide; debris from the past, scraps of the present, seeds of the future, swirling, combining, separating under the imperious wind of destiny." ART NOUVEAU PERMANENT COLLECTION, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK We also visited the Permanent Collection of Art Nouveau at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. A more eclectic group of objects by mostly French, Belgian, and German designers, the collection contains a rare example of aestheticist pottery by Ernest Chaplet. The Fireplace Surround attributed to Desire Muller shows the gaudier side of Art Nouveau. A Cabinet-Vitrine from Gustave Serrurier-Bovy's Paris showroom centres the collection. An armchair by Henri Desfontaines, and exquisite vase by Alexander Sandier, and Rene Lalique pearl-studded neck chains demonstrate the impressive decorative prowess of the movement. A monstrously luxurious vase by Georges Hoentschel completes the collection and integrates marine motifs such as fish, crustaceans, and seaweed under a mottled green glaze. SUM OF DAYS, CARLITO CARVALHOSA, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA), NEW YORK As written by MOMA, SUM OF DAYS is "an environmental and participatory installation by the Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa,; a complex elliptical network of pathways through a structure of translucent white fabric. The sheer volume of this engaging structure in relation to the defined architectural limits of the Marron Atrium, and the experience of immersion it creates, evoke a heightened perception of the surrounding space. The maze of material incorporates a system of microphones that hang at various heights and record ambient noise; each day's sound is combined with the previous days' recordings and played back through several speakers inside the structure." TENTACLES APP, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA), NEW YORK Also on display at the MOMA was the Tentacles App for iPhone.

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