Serpentine Pavilion 2021

If you are in London, UK, you must go and see the Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park. This year, the pavilion is simply gorgeous. Designed by Counterspace and directed Sumayya Vally, it’s built of reclaimed steel, cork, timber covered with concrete, and took inspiration from migrants hotspots such as markets stalls in Whitechapel or domestics porches in Brixton. It is not big, but somehow, she managed to create a space which works for groups, medium size audiencebut also for one to one conversation with a friend. Lots of texture, pillars, lovely shades of pinks and browns which all expose even more the lush park around (and with the rain we had lately, the park is really green).

What a peaceful place (music was really cool too!).

More info here.

All pics below by me.

Keita Noguchi and its FLOWER Series

It is Easter Weekend, at last.

Therefore, to celebrate Spring and the start of a 4 days weekend, I am sharing today, some of the beautiful FLOWER series of Keita Noguchi.

There, the cloudy blue sky is blurred, uncertain and each flower or plant emerges from it, like floating in the air, igniting the viewer to feel a lightness but also witnessing an unsettling time freeze as you cannot stop to think that the flower will drop at some point and therefore been knocked down by gravity.

In a way, the artist managed with this simple frame to show us the purity of nature, and its fugitive beauty.

You can see more of the series here, on Artsy.

Keita Noguchi, FLOWER#1 (Rose), 2016

Keita Noguchi, FLOWER#8, 2019

Keita Noguchi, FLOWER #4 (Japanese Rose), 2016

Rashid Johnson, Run, 2018

Lazy post here. Because I really need to stop faffing and just get up and go for this run.

Rashid Johnson, Run, 2018 Softground etching printed in black

@ Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York