Hundertwasserhaus

Hundertwasser is a renowned Austrian painter and architect that had incredibly cool ideas in architecture and makes really nice paintings. Read more in wikipedia. We have been to his museum in KunstaHausWien and we have seen Hundertwasserhaus that is nearby Kunsthaus. In the KunstHaus we have also seen an exhibition of photographies of Annie Leibowitz. Apparently, this museum had the best exhibition we have been to in Vienna. Website of Kunsthaus Wien 10 points of 10. (-;

Kunsthaus from outside

View from the top floor

Firealarm. Stylish (-;

Inside café where we had Sacher and cafe (a must in Vienna)

Bottles

Backyard of Kunsthaus

Hundertwasserhaus

Hundertwasserhaus

Stolen in the train (-;

Designblok is an annual design exhibition that takes place in Prague. Pretty much every designer wants to be there. Sadly, lot of stuff it is quite shit as people just don’t care about quality of their presentation, but they prefer just to be there. Thus I’m not sure if it’s worth the time.

Geek’s workplace

At first, the organisation is quite shit – besides two main buildings, you have no idea where to go (it’s even hard to figure out those two buildings). The web is also quite shit – you have no idea where you should go, what is good and what is just crap. Information overcrowd… Secondly, there is not that much to see. Besides that, it’s quite commercial action. It looks like many companies and individuals just buy a place there to show their clothes or overpriced furniture by telling us just this is design, so it must be pricey… And then you make an idiot from yourself and go to the shop and you see what? Nothing… What more, as some exhibition halls are included in the project, they charge extra money for entry besides the money you paid for Designblok. It’s just some ridiculous money for one room with nothing – like DOX – I’m so glad I didn’t go there. Also lot of people dress like from advertisement to look cool (read as to look the same as most others there – young, promising, cool, modern, active, vital – append any modern cliche you can think of). Some people who came to exhibit probably prepared their works just a day before the exhibition. So at the end, you have a feeling that some works were cool, lot of ok design, but at some you ask yourself – what the fuck is this doing here?! The real question is a little different one – is this thing really worth the time? And I’m not really sure about that.

Kamča sleeping

Ok, it was enough of complaints! There were also some cool things!

Wall decoration

Porcelain

Modern flat must include a little bit of nature

Floor

Toasts

A small kitchen (-;

Cannot be open – wtf?

A light

A chair

Milano Centrale – finally some monumental thing

The next day we headed to Milano. We spent some time there, being in some museums, and then
we headed to Bergamo from where our plane took off back to Prague.

Milanese tram

A lion in some museum

Hall

A statue

Do you see it?

Chinese art in Italy? (-;

A picture

Duck

What is this?

Railways station

Outside of the station

A horse on the top

The entrance hall

Western ticket office

Ceiling

A little crowded…

The first aid

The next day we continued with La Biennale in Arsenale, and in some other buildings around the city. Arsenale wasn’t actually divided by countries, but more by artists. Sorry, I cannot present them, but you can perhaps find them in the catalog of La Biennale.

Textile decorations

I didn’t break any of those

Africa

Reich eagle

Bread

Cotton

Zeppelins

Cadillac

Bike tyres

Look into infinity

A pattern painting

Patterns

A pattern painting – detail

A pattern painting – a whole thing

Planes

Guy in the middle of a plate

Rock’n'roll

View to the garden

Unicorn

The first aid

A city

Mountains

Kamča watching glass balls with some pictures in it

The main reason why we went to Venezia were not the heaps of tourists. It was La biennale de Venezia, a modern art exhibition where many states exhibits its contemporary artists. It was really cool. However, I don’t know what to think about the czech presentation. Actually we still share our building with Slovaks. This year, there was nothing. Yes, nothing. Just some plants. Nothing else. We went through twice and we didn’t know what is it. Well, we haven’t seen nothing before. Ok, I like it as a joke. When I think about it, I really like it, but I don’t know if this is the best think to exhibit at the Biennale. Just a note that these are pictures from the first part.

Czechoslovakia (I have nothing against sharing building with Slovaks, but Czechslovakia is kinda over for more than 15 years!)

Anyway, I really liked building of Corea, exhibitions of Uruguay, Russia, Scandinavia, Denmark and Egypt. I think these were the best. Plus the cafeteria (-; Anyway, also have a look at the website of biennale – http://www.labiennale.org.

Canadian building

Australia (full of sucky videos like at every exhibition)

This guy was actually an animal

Germany

Emergency exit (-;

Scandinavia

Kamča

A Scandinavian classic

Russia

Like being a football player – really cool

This was not a part of exhibition

Venezuela or Columbia – not sure, sorry (-;

Virtual furniture

Denmark

Broken stairs

Gold is the colour!

I wouldn’t have a dinner here

Main building (no specific country)

A flower

Cafe

Cafeteria

Hungary

USA

Israel

I like their letters

On the island

Flower boat

Egypt

Egyptian cats

A locomotive

Jiří Bárta born in 1948 is renowned Czech animator. He studied at VŠUP and later he became a professor of animation at the same institution. His professional life was connected mainly with Jiří Trnka Studio where he did several important animated films. Some of the most important were Krysař, Golem, Poslední lup, or Klub odložených. You can find some more @ Wikipedia

Train platform

At the time we were at Anifest, there was an exhibition of figures of his movies. There is couple of pictures, so enjoy them!

House of head of the trainstation

This is him!

On the way

Party in a suitcase

Clouds

Train entering a tunnel

How will we masturbate:

How will we masturbate:

1. Choose a teddy bear. Cut it on pieces.
2. But then put him together again from pieces of other teddy bears
3. The winner of the most beautiful teady bear will be declared at 23:00

Migrating birds

Bar

After the beer garden I went with Matouš to some underground art exhibition at Hala C. We met there Matouš’s roommates and some other friends. So there are some pictures.

Matouš

Dorotka

Some people playing drums…

Drumers…

Seen through a hole in the floor

The bar

Everything cheaper!

Pink army – Matouš’s painting

Some newly made toys

Cars everywere

Birds

Shot by Ondřej

Last time Pavel was in Prague, we have visited also an exhibition of figural drawings of art schools. We went there with Lilbox, the other game guy, who had some bussiness in Prague as well. But what was quite funne – he had some issues with his orientation sense, so we drunk some more beers at Atmosféra bar in the afternoon waiting for him to come… The link for the exhibition: http://www.figurama.cz/. Anyway, there are some pictures.

Lilbox and Pavel

What do you think you are doing?!

Nikola

I went to visit Matouš’ school – VŠUP (Vysoká Škola Umělecko-průmyslová – Academy of arts, architecture and design). There were student’s works from the last semestra. I didn’t take many pictures, just in one room…

Klaus, Nikola and Matouš

Matouš and Tomáš and Tomáš

Accountant

Last week, Pavel visited me, and we went to exhibition of models for the animated movie Fimfárum. The exhibition was so nice, the models were so great, so I had to put here a couple of pictures. You can find the exhibition in new city’s town hall in Karlovo náměstí. It’s really worth to see.

Captain

At home

In a pub

Mikuláš

A gym

In a children’s room

Formula 1

Cow

Dog

Lot of emotions in the air…

This was, in fact, on the wall