GALAKSIJA!!!

' GALAKSIJA was a  monthly magazine popularizing science and science fiction, published in Yugoslavia from 1972-1990s.

In other words lots of spacematic artwork, how I wish I had a copy? go check!!!

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'Things that have not yet happened, things that will never happen again'

Zanis Waldheim

'Incredibly complex systems turn out to be governed by few and very easily comprehensible rules, where the complexity is totally invisible until the system is examined as a whole'

Artist, philosopher and thinker Zanis Waldheim 1909-1993

Alexandro Garcia.

UFO-inspired works of Uruguayan artist Alexandro Garcia.

All hail Fischinger!!!

Oskar Fischinger was born in Gelnhausen, on June 22, 1900. He studied organ buildung and then mechanical engineering in Frankfurt, successfully completing his studies in 1922.

Fischinger devoted his major energies throughout his life to abstract animation and radical experiments in non-objective imagery — from sliced wax to multiple-projector light shows. 

Fischinger synchronized his abstract films to phonograph records and live musical accompaniments, because he found that the analogy with music helped audiences to grasp and accept the nature and meaning of his “universal”, absolute imagery. Oskar never meant to illustrate music, and often screened his “sound” films silently.

Stills from Fischinger's animations.

Islamic Indian Architecture

 

From the 1970 book Living Architecture: Islamic Indian by Andreas Volwahsen

Brodsky and Utkin

“Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin are the best known of a loosely organized group of Soviet artists known as Paper Architects, who designed much but built little in the early days of Glasnost in the late 1980s.”

Brodsky and Utkin worked at the same time as Lebbus Woods and Zaha Hadid, but rendered their work using the techniques of older papertects like Boullée or Ledoux.

Dan Slavinsky

 'Elevation of the Absynthe Bar'

 'Chandelier- Cornish Ornament'

'The Architectural Possibilities of a Stairway' 

All illustrations by Dan Slavinsky.

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Hilma af Klint

The swedish artist Hilma af Klint, 1862- 1944,  belonged to a group called 'De Fem' (The Five) who strove towards self-knowledge and mystical thought through messages from future higher beings.

She was an active member of many spiritual associations and, after an involvement with Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical movement, became a member of Rudolph Steiner’s Anthroposophical Society.

After ten years of practice with De Fem, in 1906, af Klint was singled out to embark on a solo project to pursue occult knowledge which they described as ‘all the knowledge that is not of the senses, not of the intellect, not of the heart, but is the property that exclusively belongs to the deepest aspect of your being. the knowledge of your spirit’

Her experiments with automatic drawing, a method developed by the surrealists as a means of expressing the subconscious, lead her towards an inventive geometric visual language capable of conceptualising invisible forces both of the inner and outer worlds.

She continued adding to her prolific body of work, amounting to over 1000 pieces, until 1941. She requested that it should not be shown until 20 years after the end of her life.

Eduardo Paolozzi!!

I must confess Eduardo Paolozzi was my first love, so much so that I stole a book of his from my school's library, even though it was in French. Who would have thought he was Scottish hey!

Vernor panton

I always forget Vernon Panton... but never again!!!

Sounds more like an estate agents but oh so much better!

Weaving at the Bauhaus!

Gunta Stölzl born 1897.

Following her studies at Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Munich between 1913-16, and then serving in WW1 as a voluntary red cross nurse.

Stölzl continues her studies at the Bauhaus Weimar in autumn 1919. in 1923 she establishes dyeing facilities in the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus. By 1925 she was appointed craft master of the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau.
 

Her first large knotted carpet is sold at the first Bauhaus exhibition in 1923. The new owner has a room especially built for the carpet, “some place in France”. The whereabouts of the carpet are unkown.

Bauhaus Fest  

29.11.1924

 Gunta Stölzl seated in the middle.

Utopian Dreams

Dymaxion House, 1929 (above) by Buckminister Fuller, an architectural visionary who's geodesic designs offered practical solutions for an efficient and sustainable future. 

The staggering array of designs and inventions - many of which were to be realised, were far ahead of their time in terms of ecological awareness, for example integrating inspired features such as water recycling systems.

 

Anon.

One of Archigram studio most famous visions from the 1960s is for a city that perambulates across the countryside ... they meant for their cities of the future to be monstrous walking machines, strolling from one part of the world to the other.

Sliding pavements - and the Depth-scraper! 1931