Design with a smile - part 1 - in the kitchen

Before going to the Jazz Festival we decided to visit the exhibition Design with a Smile at the Design Museum in Ghent. Most of the objects displayed I had seen before in magazines, on blogs or in shops, but put together this way is quite fun. And I only post pictures I've taken myself.

Strainers - 2007 - StauffacherBenz - Switserland

Throwzini - 2005 - Joöerg Adam & Dominik Harborth - Konstantin Slawinski - Germany

ooops, missed the information on this one

Fruitbowl - 2000 - Gijs Bakker - Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer - Netherlands

Milkmoments (bowl) - 2006 - Laura Strasser & MiliaSeyppel - Frenchknicker - Germany

BIB (table-runner) - 1992 - Anita Evenepoel - Decopur - Belgium

Evlan - 2008 - Tous les Trois - Ligne Roset - France

Eplaff - 2008 - Tous les Trois - Ligne Roset - France

HEREDrink Tray - 2008 - Martino D'Esposito - Ligne Roset - France
S-XL Cake - 2007 - Ding 3000 - Konstantin Slawinski - Germany

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back on monday

I'm off to a Jazz festival

sculptures - humans

more Kunst op het Hof 2008

sculptress Annie Andriessen at work and one of her stunning statues

work from Czeck artist Hana Purkrabkova

and these irresistible sweet cartoon like figures by Toon Thijs

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floral art - fiber art - vegetal art

more from the art tour Kunst op het Hof

Sabine Bolk

a rice (and lentils and corn) carpet by Dutch artist

Rita van Gansbeke put up an installation with potatoes in one (of three) of the huge potatoe cellars. The very long table dressed with red Franceline potatoes leads to a giant circle of salt with dried peels in the center. 5 collums are dressed with jewelry ...

fabulous textures by fiber artist An Lanckman

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and what about the potatoes? here they come ...

work with dried potato peel from the Floweracademy

As a tribute to the many potatoe-peelers in this former colony of vagabonds and homeless people,

... made of dried parts from the potato plant

by expert floral designer and master florist Rita Van Gansbeke

At the end of the long table 6 lights made with ordinary jars, inside a photo of potatoes. The look on the face of the girl in the shop when I said I just wanted to take pictures of potatoes !!!
I will now replace the pictures with ones of tomatoes, peas, beans, asparagus .... to make them colourful and I will hang them over my dining table.


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chairproject - exhibition

Dialoog - Dialogue

the current political situation in Belgium

I wanted a big cactus with huge needles in the center part of the work but I could not find one in such a short time.
SOLD

set in the large stables of the former colony

4 of my chairs are SOLD

more HERE

the chair project supports the Palestinian Circus School

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Good Mood Gallery

Kunst op het Hof

where 30 artists exhibit their works in farms

during three days

this year's theme : eating and drinking

Peeping through the window of the former potato-cellar of the colony where in a recent past 7.000 people where located (imagine the amount of potatoes needed to feed them all).

an estimation of 5.000 visitors did visit the art tour

some of my latest works - hard to photograph

The tour was 32 KM long and our site was at the end of it. A lot of tired faces, but once they came into the cellar all the faces started to smile and laugh. Good Mood Gallery is the right name for this work.
Too tired myself now to give a decent resume of what I saw. After sorting more than 500 pictures I'll post a few on the other artists.

It was a very tiring weekend (and the weeks previous to it also), but we met some amazing people (more about that later) and had very good contacts with other artists. It definitely was worth the trouble and problems encountered.

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will be back on monday

setting up

The location of the art tour is quite a special one. Set in the former farm of a colony that housed thousands of vagabonds and homeless people.
After waiting for several hours to get the electricity connected, we could finally start the set up. Before leaving I had to cover all the pieces as there is an awful lot of dust and dirt from years and years in this former potato-cellar. The room wasn't cleaned as promised and doing it the same day as the set up would only cause the dust flying around everywhere and settle on the lights later.
When hundreds of people will walk through this room, the problem remains. I'm desperate.

hmmm ... I quite like it this way too

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ready to move

7 free standing and 6 hanging lights all packed

5 wall panel lights with custom build boxes for transport

and a last minute idea, still not sure if it will work - the electric parts work but I'm talking about the set up. it has to illuminate someone else's work that I have never seen, this is a wild guess. anyway, I already found a good use for it after the exhibition; some minor adaptation and it will be just what I want.
and what about the potatoes ... no I have not forgotten ... I also have to wait to see if it was useful.
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packed and ready for transport

18 chairs wrapped, packed and sealed ... ready for transport
tomorrow is the setup for the exhibition and these are for the chair project

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