Managing creative environment
Japanese artist’s Kyoichi Tsuzuki’s home and office in Tokyo. Tsuzuki is
an artist, journalist, editor, art curator,
nightclub designer, book publisher and latterly, photographer, he has made it
his life’s mission to reveal and define creativity as it manifests itself
outside ‘high’ or mainstream culture (The
Photographers' Gallery, http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pxid=129).
Abigail
Ahern is now heralded as one of the
hottest designers in the UK. She works with the interiors, furniture and
decotation, brand development. She is known for glamorous and multilayered,
colourful style (http://www.atelierabigailahern.com/).
Artist‘s studios and the whole environment is creative,
if they feel the lack of ideas they cam grab anything they need from the shelf
and start generating ideas. The environment is also very personal, collection
of books, journals, toys, decorations, stationery, paintings, artwork,
computers – everyting we can see is useful, everything seems to have place in
almost overloaded interiors. Memories, new stuff, information, they just have
to grab it if they need any of these, but every single thing is important,
nothing is there wothout a purpose. Collection of books also help to generate
new ideas, to rest from old work, to charge yoursef. It gives more cosiness to
the room, more intimacy and artistic mess. Maybe for other people half of the
stuff could seem to be totally unuseful rubbish, but in the artist‘s hands it
becomes more than this, it becomes start point of ideas, of job, it becomes
inspiration and grows into something huge, something that you can not be
apathetic.
Restating problems
Horacio Salinas – amazing artist, a conceptual still
life photographer, currently based in New York. His work is stunning,
surprising, full of research and is very gamesome. The artist looks at things
in an unconventional way, he creates the whole story from the most simple
things, solves problems in most unbelievable ways and his works can have so
many meanings, for example the Feather
spray can. For ones it can seem as a graffiti art promotion, for others it can
tell the story about harmless paint, about the love between spray and the wall,
story about flying.. His work is designed for the visually-thinking man, for a
smart, intellectual viewer, who could understand a metaphor and irony in his
works. Every single peace is inspiring, it makes you think of how has he
actually came to this conception, how has he stated and restated the problem?
It looks amazingly simple, but at the same time you understand that it might
take ages to create such a picture. The works are extremely technical,
inspirational and contemporary. Composition, lightning, placing of things, every single object has it‘s
place, form and meaning. Works are not overcrowded, we can say they are
minimalistic. Unpretentious background of the picture lets the viewer concentrate
on the main object, which is carefully chosen and integrated into the whole
concept. His work is not just to be admired yet to be challenged. It makes you
think, makes you want to create something your own, something simple, but
stunning.
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