Leap of Faith: Fabric Masterpieces, Do Ho Suh

It's Mid-Autumn festival today so, Happy Mid-Autumn to all the people who are celebrating out there! Not exactly my first year not celebrating this festival, but I think I've been missing out for quite a few years already every since..... Architecture stepped into my life :/

Colourful Chinese lanterns are on display for sale prior to the mid-autumn festival at a shopping mall in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia

Haih, so nice everyone celebrating back home, and I'm stuck here doing ntg except googling some pulley systems for studio project, fml. Missing the laterns leh, eventho grow up already but I still really enjoyed strolling arnd the neighbourhood with laterns after dinner or even just merely lighting the candles at the house garden with full of melted wax everywhr the next morning, hahaha! On the side note, I actually paid 8GBP just for a mooncake which I can get a box back home.

THIS MOONCAKE BETTER BE GOOD!

I'm gonna take loads of picture and savour every bits of the cake to make every pence count! But like my flatmate said, you just gotta pay for that bit to fix your cravings and I dont see why not? Since we only get to celebrate this once a year, and another flatmate of mine actually brought chinese tea leaves all the way from home, just missing the cups and kettle for tea, hahaha.

So somewhr last week (I think), we've decided to go walk arnd town and explore Millenium Square, which is a quite famous tourist attraction in Bristol. I'm not really sure what is it famous of actually haha, just that this image is quite a hit in Google! But well, at least part of my list of attraction checked.

Colours of Autumn.

So this solar panel structure is actually located right opposite that giant ball, which is actually a bench for you to sit, and the structure is actually an energy tree which generates electricity from the solar panel and enables you to charge your phone with the electricity generated! While waiting for your phone to charge, you can actually browse through the net by using their free wifi, how cool is that?!

See? But sorry cable is self provided, hhaha. But still, how cool is that la?

Later on we headed to the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery since its free entry anyways.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Queens Road, City of Bristol

BS8 1RL, United Kingdom.

I think its quite worth to pay a trip there since they have quite a number of exhibitions there, for those who are interested in China Dynasty, dinosaurs, Bristol animals and aquatic creatures, Egyptians and others. Just pay a trip there if you are there, unless you have already visited other museums in other countries (like me) which I felt that the displays are more or less the same, always about the Chinese, Egypt, Islamic....

Therefore, the exhibition that I look forward most is this art installation by Do Ho Suh. It actually caught my attention when I was still back in Msia, and I really wanted to go have a look what is this art installation about.

and WOW. It really blew my mind when I saw his artwork, never imagine that someone would actually produce this kind of artwork through wire and fabric mesh.

So a little introduction about the artist before introducing some of his other works from which I Googled.

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About the artist (taken from brochure):

Do Ho Suh's work takes many forms, from painting, drawing and printmaking, to sculpture, installation and video. His father was the famous South-Korean ink-painter Se-Ok Suh who established the Mungnimhoe art movement in the 1960s, which promoted Modernism in South Korean art.

Suh was born in 1962 and studied Oriental Painting at Seoul National University before moving to America to study painting at Rhode Island School of Design, then sculpture at Yale School of art in 1997. Leaving Seoul for United States was an intense experience and huge culture shock for him, and has had an enduring effect on Suh's art.

The use of cloth is a reference to a bespoke, (handmade, individually-tailored) garment, what Suh calls 'a perfect fit' : 'Clothing, as that which protects and covers me most immediately, as the minimum space which confines my body'. Whilst at Rhode Island, Suh undertook courses in clothing and pattern-making, along with architecture. In turn, the cloth fabrication makes the room transportable to other locations, as the artist has said, it is as though as he is carrying embodied memories of place with him in a kind of architectural 'ready-to-wear'.

Suh's art hovers between the Minimalist concern with the personal space of the individual, and immersive installation. With Suh's soft architecture the line between physical and imagined spaces is blurred.

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This art piece was exhibited in Bristol, titled "New York City Apartment", consisting of a corridor, ground floor plus staircase.

Exhibition view. 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA - Apt. A, Corridors and Staircases (Kanazawa version), 2011-2012. Collection of the Artist © Do Ho Suh

Image from http://theartoftravel.net/magazine/culture/read-culture/perfect-home

I think this is the full picture of how his imagination "Perfect Home" is? Because the one that was exhibited in Bristol was only the ground floor. Waa, seriously very mind blowing leh, seeing how detailed the whole installation was, every small nitty-gritty details were taking into account and carefully constructed out!

We were even allowed to walk through the corridor to catch a closer glimpse of the artwork, but one person at a time, and no bags allowed cuz the installation too delicate, hahha afraid that the visitors will accidentally destroyed it or smtg, lol.

Overall view of the installation:

Little details of the installation:

Here's a link if someone's every interested of what this installation is about, New York City Apartment, Bristol

Other Artworks:

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Image from http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/leigha/do%20ho%20suh/1054.jpg

Image from http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andrea/do_ho_suh/home_within_home/lehmannmaupin10.jpg

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Specimens Series:

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