Brickism III

14 August 2009

Saturday was the opening of the Brickism show at Wood Wood Copenhagen. It was a nice sunny day, people were smiling and nothing fell apart. Thanks to everybody who came by.

The genereal idea was to have some grown-ups play around with Lego bricks and see what would happen. We had defined a fixed set of rules such as size, colours and types of bricks, but I think the builders really succeeded in translating each artist´s individual style into the geometric system of Lego.

As mentioned before the sculptures will be auctioned off for the benefit of Save The Children.

Delta INC, Amsterdam

HuskMitNavn, Copenhagen

So Me, Paris

Will Sweeney, London

All sculptures will be up on eBay soon, but if you are interested or have any questions you can contact Morten directly at brickism@woodwood.dk.

Innocent When You Dream

6 August 2009

Thought I´d let you know about this show opening tomorrow at my friend´s gallery in Stockholm.

Marcus Oakley, Stefan Marx, Jens Andersson, Jan Tomson, Tuukka Kaila,Timo Vaittinen, Karri Kuoppala,Tatu Engeström

Date: 7 – 21 August 2009

Opening reception Friday 7th of August 18 -22

Brian SS

Brickism II

1 August 2009

A few more details about the Brickism project:

We invited 4 artists from 4 different cities to contribute to this project.
Each artist was asked to come up with sketches for a sculpture to be built in Lego bricks. We then connected the artists to Lego Fans in each country, who is responsible for the actual building.

Participating artists are:
HuskMitNavn / Copenhagen
Delta / Amsterdam
Will Sweeney / London
So Me / Paris

The sculptures will be shown in each of the 4 cities starting with Wood Wood, Copenhagen in August,
followed by
Colette, Paris in September,
Goodhood, London in October and
290 SQM, Amsterdam in November.

All sculptures will be auctioned off to benefit Save The Children.

Here are a few early images from the builders:

Klaas Meijaard

Lasse Deleuran

Duncan Titmarsh

When we first initiated this project we had no idea how this would turn out, and we are still looking forward to seeing the final results. Hopefully everything will come together and be ready for next saturday where we will host the opening of the exhibition at Wood Wood Copenhagen.

Brickism
Lego sculptures by Delta, HuskMitNavn, So Me and Will Sweeney
Curated by Wood Wood, built by Lego Fans.

Opening August 8 at 15:00 – 18:00
Wood Wood, Krystalgade 7, Copenhagen

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Brickism

22 July 2009

We are excited to work with Lego on a new collaborative project. To me Lego is one of the strongest brands out there, and it’s interesting to see how they maintain such a positive company profile in this day and age.
The Lego brick is such a simple but genius object that incites to creativity, and for this project we have invited a few artists to come up with artwork that is to be build in bricks by builders from the Lego Fans network.
I’m really looking forward to see how the artists´ sketches will translate into 3D.
More on this soon.

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Paris

29 June 2009

Thanks to visvim for a fun evening with old friends, and delicious frogs.

Jörg and Michael

Andrew

Lucca and Massi

Sarah, Guillaume and Matthew

Me and Hiroki

KARL.

Tokyo tonight

17 June 2009

I am in Tokyo for a few days to visit friends and business relations.
It’s fascinating how this city can be so loud and quiet at the same time..

BRIAN SS

Handpaint

14 June 2009

KARL.

More furniture

12 June 2009

Piet Hein Eeek:

E-15:

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Furniture

12 June 2009

Uncle chair by Franz West:

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LEGO

5 June 2009

Speaking of LEGO, yesterday I visited their global headquarters which is located in a small town called Billund in the countryside of Denmark. Amazingly most of the production is still kept here, and everything from designing, modeling, software development, packing and press is done here as well. Unfortunately I was not allowed to take photographs.

Like so many others I have been a fan of LEGO since I was a kid and it was a great experience to have a look inside the company. I love the idea of the basic bricks and the infinite possibilities they propose.

Next time I hope I will have time to check out the archives.

BSS