An Evening of Alluring Batik Composition

Oh..how I love batik day on October 2nd… endless Batik events all over the town… Last night Edwin’s Gallery held an exhibition collaborated with Alleira Batik. The event was titled La Composition Seduisante (Alluring Composition), featuring artworks using batik fabric and fashion show by Manda Rahardjo.Curated by Herra Pahlasari and Sudjud Dartanto.

Designer Adrian Gan officiated the show

the talented young designer Manda Rahardjo

Artist Caroline Rika talks about terrorism and peace in the form of origami headpiece and face

 

John Martono's work, which uses weaving patcwork as canvas for Marilyn Monroe drawing

Laksmi Rahayu Husin's work of a strand of a thousand birds for her hopes and dreams

Lie Fhung with hanging family portraits of patchwork intertwining one another

Me, Mirna Rivai and curator Sudjud Dartanto under the chandelier bu Sagi, who was inspired by the collage drawing of Peter Blake

Batik enthusiasts

Copenhagen bookstore jaunt-Boghandel Books and Museum Shop

Not just an ordinary giftshop housed in a museum, this is actually a branch of the Arnold Busck bookstore (which I have posted earlier here). With all white interior and statue decoration, this bookstore is very modern and chic, not to mention the collections! Well-stocked collection of Danish and foreign books, periodical arts, artists and histories, including the museum’s catalogs. This is also a nice place to get artsy souvenirs; from postcards, painting supplies, art books for children. The Statens Museum for Kunst itself is also very beautiful, I will post the detail trip on a separate post. Therefore, don’t forget to spare at least half day when visiting this place!

Arnold Busck bookstore in Statens Museum

Arnold Busck

Statens Museum for Kunst
Sølvgade 48-50
DK-1307 København K

Steel Sculpture by Korean sculptor Park Chan Girl

“Korean sculptor Park Chan Girl constructs metal sculptures from thin metal layers he calls “sliced images” that resemble three dimensional topography charts. He also meticulously welds thousands of small steel nuts into a delicately textured skin, moulding it into human and animal forms.” via whudat.de Who would’ve thought steel could look this graceful?

Park has a BFA in Sculpture from Chungnam National University and an MFA in Fine Arts from KyungHee University.  He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Korea and China.

Copenhagen bookstore jaunt

Before exploring the independent bookstores, usually I like to start by visiting the biggest and most popular ones, just to get a glimpse on the popular titles at the current moment. My first visit was Arnold Busck, located in Købmagergade, a side street to Strøget, the most populat tourist area. This bookstore has an American bookstore feel, with wood and green interior and signage, similar to Borders and Starbuck’s. Therefore I only spent a few minutes here, browsing all 3 floors within 10 minutes. There is a small cafe, Baresso by the corner, where customers can sit facing the window, enjoying their books and people-watch.

The Bookshop is located in a 3 floor building and it has been a central part of the city atmosphere since the beginning of the 1900s. Here, you can find a great assortment of books on arts, architecture and photography, interesting books on food and wine, as well as children’s books, audio books, tourist guides and maps. You will also find a wide range of literature in the Danish language as well as English and many many other. Also, there is a famous coffee bar called Baresso on the second floor of the building.

I wish to be the girl who sit by the window sill, watching the passerby while reading and sipping coffee on such a glorious sunny day

Købmagergade 49
1150 København K
33 73 35 00
Mon-Thur 10-18 Fri 10-19 Sat 10-16

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby movie – 3D version

I think I will have the greatest birthday gift on June 2012, as it will be the release date of one of the greatest novel in history, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Wonderful choice of casts too, I can’t believe it has so many of my fave actors, from Leonardo Di Caprio as the charming Jay Gatsby ( who else with such persona to play as a young, mysterious millionaire?), the darling beauty with a wit Isla Fisher as Myrthe Wilson, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and….. ( I really didn’t expect she would be the chosen one) the cute, smart, hypnotizing Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan! She is the reason why I watched ‘An Education’ more than three times… Doesn’t she look like someone who stepped out directly from 1920s era ?
The movie itself will have a setting in Australia, and rumoured to be in 3D. I can’t really imagine how a 1920s era movies will turn out in 3D though..but we’ll see. In the meantime, I think I will re-read the novel and play these images in my head =).

The filming, we’ll see the remake of these:

By these new casts =) :