Up A Creek!
Been keeping this under wraps for a while but the cat is out of the bag per say. This is one small part, one small teaser for Up A Creek, planned for Art Basel 2012 co-curated by Jon Porcelli and Jade Dressler. Art hotels. Predicaments. That there is an early “sketch” of a caviar bar with locally farmed Miami born and raised sturgeons to bed down with. Green Provocateur can say no more than that at this point.
If you thirst for more, contact us. Now.
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the news from sao paulo brazil:
pre-Brazil Imaging spins from Central Park, Jade Dressler photo
what: Architects, urban art interventionists and manufacturers convene in Brazil and on Twitter for the fourth edition of BOOMSPDESIGN, a series of conferences dialoguing on international design.
why: A catalyst for Brazilian connection to US and international business as vital to the global creative experience by bringing together designers and artists to showcase and discuss their work and passion.
who: Studio Dror, Matali Crasset, Paul Clemence, Cat, Harry Allen, Chad Oppenheim, Mount Fuji, with FriendsWithYou and moi, Jade Dressler with Green Provocateur adding the collaborative art meets urban/street setting element to the mix. Among the Brazilians, Brunete Fraccaroli, FGMF, Glauco Diogenes, Guilherme Torres, Sergio Matos, and Zoe Melo will attend.
pre-conference highlights.
are releasing a 3 new prints to celebrate their visit to BOOMSPDESIGN, launching at coletivo amor de madre on September 1st. The store window will get a dose of FWY giant prints as well.
BOOMSPDESIGN, Green Provocateur and Adroyt co-host a Twitter Design Chat on all things art and design and Brazil. Caipirinhas, sand, sun, samba are included. Adroyt is a social media consultancy specializing in online engagement for design and architecture clients.
To dive in on the chat between architects, designers, manufacturers, and art and design lovers get on Twitter, enter coordinates:
Paulo Werneck, Paul Clemence photo
Natury-patterned Soho Synagogue, Jade Dressler photo
exhibit. “reset .11.03.11 new paradigms”
contemporary Japanese architecture, Anywheredoor, Cat, Mount Fuji and Ryuichi Ashizawa. The projects shown will highlight a design approach intrinsically linked to human and territorial needs as a symbiosis of space and time; the limit of nature upon mankind. Anywheredoor is the group organizing the project, concept and curatorship.
Pororoca Design, Gustavo Camilo, Andre Cruz, Sergio Matos, Zanini de Zanine, Vaca Valiente, Zoe Melo, Tulio Tavares Glauco Diogenes.
DATES: August 31st to September 1st
Location: Centro Universit·rio Belas Artes de Sao Paulo
Rua José Antônio Coelho, 879 – Vila Mariana
Location: D&D Shopping – WTC Teatro
Av. das Nações Unidas, 12.555
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One Green Step for Mankind.
it’s up!
Green Provocateur landed! A badge of pride to become one with the neighborhood and be tagged the very next day!
Thank you to everyone who was part of the first landing of Green Provocateur! We also landed on the pages of GQ, Marie Claire and Stylepark; the dailies: Il Giornale, Corrieire della Sera, la Repubblica, Metro News; the all-important Interni magazine and wow! even William McDonough, the world re-known green czar architect and Time magazine’s ‘Hero of the Planet,’shared our Metropolis post on Isola with his Twitter fans!
Thanks to bloggers at Serox Cult and Saxon Henry at Roaming by Design; Claudia Zanfi, Green Island curator for the invitation, the creative agency PLANT., all our indiegogo.com supporters and thanks to Susan Szenasy, EIC of Metropolis for the opportunity to blog about the Salone, muse about green and the expanded spaces for urban art. (We have many people to thank, see them all here.)
Between Paul’s pro photos and my mobile phone documentation, we’ll have a number of posts, but this one…from my mobile camera is straight up from the beginning to the end. Enjoy!
What a mantra to find upon arrival! Caring about green, realizing dream projects, realizing our wall in a large part due to YOU, our fans and followers, the Wall is “Up to YOU!”…kinda cool.
I could write volumes on the magic of Isola, with it’s artisan, Bronx-like grit and graffiti, elegant historic buildings, hip spots and modern architecture world-mix…we wrote a lot about it for Metropolis…but this image hints at the magic at dusk exactly where our stairs live. Via Pepe is a major thoroughfare of cars, bikes, scooters and all kinds of people utilizing the rail station.
Paul and Jade…a little jet-lagged, a lot excited to start.
we had angels at every turn…underneath on the wall and in the flesh and blood to help us install. Specific angels were Frederico, an energetic artist, Andrea, a poetic playwright and Vilyus, a blond God who worked half-naked and whose designer pants could not be ruined.
the pants remain clean.
see all the wrinkles? just one of the challenges…
the mode of persistence prevailed.
by this time we were joined by Frederick’s adorable girlfriend who arrived on her bike and was sporting fuzzy golden lion ears.
Our friend, Dedi Salmeri of Alcos Comunicazione, arrives with her husband Alberto and their dog Tobias and Dedi gets right in on the action.
Left to right. Golden eared Elena, the mythic Vilyus, the artist Paul and Frederico, our angel anchor on the ladder.
the team.
golden angel # 10,076, Andreas arrives at 12 am, from his theatre passion, to lend a gentle and wise presence.
in the meantime…Isola sleeps.
Andreas gives me a ride on his bike and sings a song at 2:30 am winding through the streets to where taxis are to safely bring me home. He goes back and the boys share an hour of magic connection and talk after a night’s hard work.
in the morning, we begin again. can you believe the dedication?
an overnight tag from Mother Earth?
Frederico with cigarette (when not on the mobile) steers the boat.
Paul puts the finishing touch on the wall.
Martin, a designer, followed us from Germany, supported us on indiegogo.com and made a personal pilgrimage!
Augusto Cosimi, also from Alcos Comunicazione, a supporter of Green Provocateur all the way! Grazie!!!
integrated into the urban scape. Mission accomplished!
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Thank you Yoko!
Public art feels so retro somehow, plopping a sculpture in a location like it’s a cute playground object. Since the concept of “public art” began, we think it is taking baby steps to where we have always envisioned it…a community expression for healing and connection. Dare we say the words shaman and ritual?
Yoko Ono’s Wish Trees have been an inspiration to the Green Provocateur launch in Milan for Green Island during Salone del Mobile April 10-17th. In just 14 days we begin installation in Isola on the railway stairs. A seemingly small gesture of beauty, much like the wishes on Yoko’s wish trees.
As we face personal and global challenges, wishing while we participate is the basis of the Green Provocateur philosophy. Yes, we will garden, contribute to green causes, compost and recycle. But let’s also sing to Nature, celebrate her through art and simple things like attention to our daily paths and each other…even walking up to a train platform or looking at a tree in a new way…maybe it has feelings too? Wishes? Beyond just exchanging breath with you? What are they?
We invite you to share in the making of Green Provocateur, from this first seed to all its manifestations around the world. Celebrate with us (and get Paul Clemence art and your name on the walls of this project as our thanks) at indiegogo.com and thank you for sharing your precious wishing and realizing with us.
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When a Provocateur is waving and dancing in front of you, even though you want to go forward, one must pause, be quiet, listen and look back. Photographer Paul Clemence is a provocateur for architecture and design and one must stop and listen to him.
As Green Provocateur readies for its Milan launch, Paul waved his photo above in front of me insisting that we look at this project.
Indeed the Meek shall inherit the earth. The way a small green seed becomes a forest or a tiny voice for nature grows louder, Glavovic Studio‘s design for The Girls Club in Ft. Lauderdale, just outside of Miami is just such a whisper of power. The design plays with and pays homage to Florida’s sun and sub-tropical landscape as elemental forces in the design. Light, shadow of building surface and waving trees play with each other to stimulate shifts in perspectives in a space dedicated to community exchange of art, culture and discourse.
Margi Nothard’s design solution utilizing a sustainable resin-based façade as the skin wrapping the existing concrete block building and a cleared interior inspired Paul’s lyrical photographs of the space. Paul’s exhibit, “SKIN,” at Young Arts Pavilion, which was also designed by Glavovic, was the seed for this continued mutual collaboration.
Of the space, Margi says, “The feminist orientation is intentional, the collection of Francie Bishop Good, along with those of other local and non-local artists such as Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, and Nan Goldin will reinforce the contribution of women to the field of contemporary art. The mission of Girls’ Club is to educate the public, and to serve as a resource for art scholars, curators, and practicing artists.”
This building’s story immediately reminded me of a personal heroine of mine in Florida. At age 79, Marjory Stoneman Douglas took up the cause of the Everglades after writing her book, ”River of Grass,” seen as seminal in the environmental movement as Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.” “River of Grass” helped me survive the tiny, tiny provocateur mosquito bites of a week in the Everglades, one of the most fascinating wetland bio-spaces on Earth.
The Everglades bobcat which darted across the road one day in front of our car was another Green Provocateur which I will never forget. The mystery and force emanating from the cat’s leap across the highway was a rare glimpse, a symbolic call of the Wild and the call of Art. The call of Ecstasy and Action. One never destroys what one loves. Let’s keep talking to Green.
Listen to Francie Bishop Good at Art Talk at The Sagamore Hotel, Miami, on March 1st. Click the link to join Cricket and Martin Taplin host artist, Francie Bishop Good.
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Via Pepe, Isola, Milano
Green Provocateur will Plant upon the walls of Via Pepe, bordering Milano’s Garibaldi station, photographic images from the global travels of artist, author and well-known architectural photographer, Paul Clemence. Printed on paper, each photo will either be a world unto itself or part of the projects’ entire message, via sentences made of a vibrant mosaic quilt of windows of the walls of the station. Viewers can contemplate the work on the grand scale and also interact online to understand the deeper meaning behind the messages.
We seek to contribute to the active dialogue in Milano about the relevance of flora in the urban setting, timed for the confluence of the design world during April’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile.
GP will be part of Green Island @ Fuori Salone Isola, the satellite green design event, sponsored by AMAZElab, that has received press visibility for the eight years and hosted international artists, architects and designer groups, such as Droog and Designers Block.
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DesignersBlock party
Green Fashion Runway Shows in Isola
Fashionable Project Reflects the New Milan
Historically a manufacturing town, Milan has transformed itself in recent years into a global city defined by the three Fs: finance, fashion, and furniture. Porta Nuova, now a giant construction looming over the high street Corso Como, will reflect the new Milan. The 71-acre, mixed-used project is rising around the Garibaldi train station, at the foot of Milan’s arts district, Brera. When Porta Nuova, or “new gate,” is completed in 2012, a highlight will be Città della Moda e del Design, or Fashion City, which includes a 107,000-square-foot showroom building where fashion tenants will sell their wares, as well as a museum and school devoted to the subject. Porta Nuova isn’t all about glamour. The project weaves together the disparate neighborhoods Garibaldi, Varesine, and Isola with extensive pedestrian and bike paths surrounded by parkland. That green space also reaches skyward at Bosco Verticale, a residential complex designed by Stefano Boeri that comprises a 24-story and 17-story tower sporting a seemingly random arrangement of terraces. Approximately 900 trees and shrubs will be planted on these balconies, and irrigation will be delivered via a graywater filtration system. While all of Porta Nuova’s buildings will be submitted for LEED certification, Bosco Verticale is emblematic of the effort to make Porta Nuova as sustainable as it is trendy.
Architectural Record 2008
FASHION : The regeneration game
Corso Como, a quiet street in a no man’s land of urban mess in central Milan, is now the epicenter of Garibaldi Repubblica, a regeneration plan that will transform the city in five years. The extraordinary development will include municipal buildings as architectural wonders, a state-of-the-art green field park and, at its heart, the Città della Moda e del design — Fashion City. That will be both a stylish area of shops, hotel and residential apartments and a fashion center, Milan’s Mayor Gabriele Albertini and Gianni Verga, head of urban planning, and Salvatore Carruba, a cultural affairs official, are giving a seal of approval to…The regeneration is also organic, meaning that already Corso Como and its surrounding streets have witnessed that influx of an artistic, design-aware 30-something demographic group that characterizes an area on the upswing… the new arrivals:… a mix of antique and modern furnishings; the galleries and book shops.
Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune 2004
…funky Isola (Milan’s answer to New York’s Soho).
The New York Times 2004
It’s an old and striking industrial district, reborn in the last few years with a strong identity, thanks to the young artists, immigrants and craftsmen who keep it alive.
Milanunlike.net 2010
Hotspot: Isola, Milan.
A vast new ‘city within a city’ is about to transform this forgotten neighborhood, and create a focus for Milan’s fashion and furniture industries…. Called, Citta della Moda, by architect Cesar Pelli, it is intended as a city-within-the-city that will act as the institutional face of Milan’s fashion and furniture design industries.
CNBC Business 2008
Explore Milan: Italy’s style capital
The area around Garibaldi railway station is shedding its wrong-side-of-the-tracks image. On Via Maroncelli, kooky but quality emporiums are tempting fashion and design stylists away from Corso Como. Young artists and designers showcase their wares in the former steam factory known as the Fabbrica del Vapore. ….the arrival of the Blue Note jazz club and several excellent trattorie has transformed it into a night-time haunt. When the Città della Moda (City of Fashion) emerges out of the building site on Isola’s borders, the sun will set on this precinct’s low profile forever.
independent.co.uk 2009
With Milan Design Week 2010 barely underway, Mad Agency set the bar high with their celebration of Mark Newson‘s fourth collaboration with champagne house Dom Pérignon at their brand-new Mad House in the heart of Milan’s hip Isola neighborhood… A consistent can’t miss, Designersblock is always one of the hottest hubs of activity away from the main exhibition site. This year Designersblock joins Zona Isola, a new network of venues in Milan that will unite designers from all corners of the globe.
Coolhunting.com 2010
Isola is Milan’s new bohemian district and has recently become the city’s most talked-about area. It attracts young creatives in the same way as, for example, London’s Hoxton neighbourhood. Full of indie shops and artist’s workshops, it’s also famous among the locals for its crowded bars and interesting restaurants, and is the perfect place to spend a leisurely afternoon.
global-blue.com 2010
In Milan, 30 Green Designers will Show Spring 2011 Collections at Collective Fashion Week Event.
Treehugger.com 2010
One of the unmissable events for the design crowd is definitely the laboratory/exhibition organized every year by Designersblock. Active since 1998 and participating to the FuoriSalone since 2000, the collective… is meant to be an intercultural platform where young designers coming from the most diverse disciplines can gather…But the strength in Designersblock’s events doesn’t lie in designer and object selection only, but also in location choice. The privileged settings for their exhibitions are always liminal and semi-abandoned buildings, in more or less emerging neighborhoods. Such choice, together with a multi-level strategy and the invited designers’ creative power, is able to activate collateral urban renewal processes. For FuoriSalone 2010 Designersblock chose Revel Scalo d’Isola, a polyfunctional space in the heart of the Isola area, a new emerging neighborhood in the Milanese cultural scenario.
ymag.it 2010
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Stefano Boeri's Porte Nuova above Corso Como
Isola, Milano
As the city of Milano continues its growth, with the renovation of the Garibaldi station, development of the area around Isola as an adaptive urban experiment, Old Milano meeting the New and dreaming forward with the Expo 2015, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” the Green Provocateur project will to Plant “art seeds” to foster and stimulate the new conversation where the Urban space meets Nature.
Green Provocateur makes its first appearance in Milano’s avant-guard Isola neighborhood, at the invitation of Claudia Zanfi, director Green Island/Laboratorio del Paesaggio and AMAZElab, the Milano-based, nonprofit arts organization, whose focus is cultural production and social engineering in collaboration with national and international institutions to explore territorial, social change and new geographies in the public sphere and sustainability.
Isola is a bold, yet seamless, addition to the evolving urban fabric.William McDonough, William McDonough + Partners, architect
The great legacy of EXPO 2015 for Milan, Italy and for Europe consists in creating a prototype for a new form of peri-urban rurality: an exemplary place which is both unique and revolutionary, and which could also change the future for many other world cities. Stefano Boeri, Porta Nuova architect, former editorial chief, Domus and Abitare magazines
Held in April during the Salone del Mobile and the Fiori Salone Isola, Green Provocateur in Isola will feature the photography of Paul Clemence of the meeting of architecture and green, an urban intervention sponsored by PLANT.and curated by Jade Dressler in New York and Andrea Locci in Milan.
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