Taking A break

One of my really old drawings, I found somewhere on my computer. I really like this one so I wanted to share :)

Hello guys, what's up :) First of all I want to wish you happy new year, although its a bit late for that, but on the other hand, it's never too late to wish you all good health, happiness, love and lots of other nice thing. 
I just wanted to tell you that I'm taking a little break from a blog, for couple of months,  something like that. I really want to be serious with this blog, but I really don't have time to do that at the moment. And I guess sometimes I'm lazy for it (which I hate definitely) I want to focus on my work with studio Krishka, btw. you can follow us there, we will try to post as often as we can. Tijana is doing all the work at the moment, but I will join her definitely. There's other private things I have to think about, nice things luckily, but I will tell you about that when I come back. 
Thanx a lot all of you who follow me, comment, I really appreciate that a lot.
'till next post, stay well and colorful. Kisses
Barbara

I feel little bit sick these days, but luckily, I'm good to draw all day long. But I miss work in a studio, that's for sure. As you can see, I've also opened shop at society6, but I'm keeping shop on BigCartel. I like society6 because you can buy prints with frame. There's more prints coming these days.

Venice biennial part III

The brazil pavilion, curated by Lauro Cavalcanti, features two distinct architects: urbanist lucio costa who is responsible for the conception of brasilia in 1960 and the ideology of brazilian modernism, and film director and architect marcio kogan of studio mk27, who is considered to create some of Brazil's most iconic contemporary houses. the first room displays a technically exhaustive look into several projects realized by the two participants, followed by two opposing halls exhibiting their unique installations in an interesting juxtaposition of past and present.

Curated by Tariq Al Murri, Egypt, Motion Rotation and Ascent explores brick as a common element in the civilization of mankind. The exhibition recognizes the first mud brick as created by an early Egyptian. This moment is symbolic of the beginning of architecture consciousness. The pavilion contains brick structures representing the first domes and arches as important moments in building development. Singular bricks exist throughout the pavilion and allow the spectator to create their own structures.

"Solution that we offer is a table which with the surface of its plate almost entirely fills the pavilion. By denying or inverting the scale we wanted to bring the object to its extreme meaning i.e. the universal, indivisible, sculptural, banal.
Its size translates it into a surface. Its height relates it to the notion of table. We occupied the interior of the pavilion with one designed gap. The solution is sculptural as one of its dimensions is emphasized i.e. enlarged to a monumental size. We wanted to emphasize a term – large empty area. 
The relationship between the table surface and the volume of the pavilion creates tension and defines its value. Perception is the theme that arises and that belongs to the atmosphere the most. Simple is associative and is subject to diversity in perception. Impossibility of perceiving the object as a whole and its transition to the surface is what makes it beautiful. Large surface is pretty. Immense surface is beautiful."

Those are few words from the authors. I must say I liked our answer to this year biennial theme. The table really looks imposing and I like the message that authors wanted to send.  I'm glad that authors, Aleksandar Ristović, Janko Tadić, Marija Miković, Marija Strajnić, Marko Marović, Milan Dragić, Miloš Živković, Nebojša Stevanović, Nikola Andonov and Olga Lazarević got their chance to exhibit here and I can't wait to see future projects.
But, since this is my country pavilion, I feel free to say a few bad things I've noticed. First of all, there was no electricity for a few days, which is very important because table is interactive. When you touch the surface of it, it produces the sounds. There were no catalogs, or someone who actually worked on a project or someone who cant speak little bit more about whole project. I just wanna say that I'm not writing this because I'm hater, but because I want to see our pavilion in a perfect light. 

The installation shifts the perception of buildings and concentrates on those who live in them. No buildings are to be seen, but rather figures, digital figures or digitally animated body surfaces.Taken as the starting point of the project was the accelerated technological development in the past decades and the associated scientific insights, especially in the “processing” and “forming” of the human body by medicine and in the natural sciences. As the “object” of research, the body and the so-called mind indeed entailed that scientific progress shaping our everyday lives which is, in reality, uncircumventable from a knowledge theory perspective, but leaves fundamental questions about the future of humanness open. The exhibition raises issues of the possible impacts of these developments on architectonic thinking and the production of space.

                 Me at the entrance of Australian pavilion                  //                    Mom at the entrance of Serbian pavilion

Really nice decorated coffee shop. Better then some pavilion ;)

Curated by AWJGGRAUaDVVTAT, The Ambition of the Territory outlines a conceptual framework to reimage the future development of Europe given its current financial, ecological and political crisis. The focus is on reinventing and redistributing dynamics, power and wealth between the traditional west and emerging markets. The goal of the project is to determine welfare systems as redundant and foster a growth in prosperity.
Various architects, urban planners and designers present their work through a series of drawings, documentation of research and design studies. The exhibition seeks to question contemporary society by making the spectator aware of their own imperfections.  Maps and images re-consider the definition of territory via inventive, efficient and productive means as opposed to the traditional zoning principles.

I love this drawing!!

Again, drawings are fantastic!

Layers

The pavilion brings together the work of seven teams of active Spanish architects who strongly defend their vocation for innovation, and who have built personal worlds outside styles and fashions, not without professional risk. The exhibition opens an indiscreet window onto each of these world, revealing the scientific processes that seek a balance between ideas and their necessary realisation, and transcending the finished products to provide access to the reasons and emotions that have made then possible, to the incomplete versions, to the reference of which they are fed, to the findings, and – why not? – to the errors as well. The works appear then as crystallization points of continuous research processes that are displayed as raw information, without dressing, exposed in a space under construction, like a laboratory of an architect office; which invites visitors to read between the lines and seeks to provoke learning.

So nice!

Curated by Juulia Kauste, New Forms in Wood highlights the importance of wood as Finland’s preferred building material. The exhibition highlights nature and the forest as an enduring source for inspiration in art and architecture.
The pavilion highlights the work of 5 young Finish architects as they re-image the use of wood and explore its future potential. Beautify constructed timber models communicate various possibilities.

The Thailand Pavilion, titled “Common Collage”, presents 100 ideas that can provide people with a common ground. The exhibition, curated by Apiradee Kasemsook, Nuttinee Karnchanarporn and Tonkao Panin, presents 40 boxes of equal size, volume and weight. The boxes were designed by different Thai architecture firms, designers, lecturers and students. Each one intends to speak within its own logic.

The Kosovan Pavilion takes a step back to reflect on the current state of their urban landscape, asking important questions on how architecture will effect the future of Kosovan identity and, more importantly, the emotional state and behaviors of the individuals that inhabit its cities. With the exhibition, The Filigree Maker, visitors and participants world-wide are given the opportunity to help shape the future Kosovo by sharing their emotional response to images of existing architecture. Find out more and learn how you can participate, after the break.

 

That's it guys. Sorry for this long post, but I hope you enjoyed it :)