AUGUST 2018 FINDS
august 2018 finds comes on the last day of summer. 1. i love henri salvador. more in the summer, it seems. 2. get over the girl’s discordant perkiness and discover a good romanian song. implant pentru refuz is a nu-metal band from timisoara, romania. this sounds remotely like the unplugged version of freak on a leash...
POP ARTOONS BY THEODORU
pop artoons by theodoru is an exhibition that took place recently in atelier olschinsky, in vienna. i found out about it on facebook. that’s also where i met theodoru himself. i contacted him in english, he told me he was romanian. i asked him to send me some pictures from the show and he did....
STREET ART VIENNA
street art vienna is a selection of pieces i ran into during my not-so-recent-anymore trip. on the first day, while walking down gumpendorfer strasse, i found the rabbit eye movement gallery. i found out that it belonged to nychos, the austrian street artist, and that it had been launched in december 2012. so it happens that i have...
HOTEL DANIEL VIENNA
hotel daniel vienna is a modern 116-room hotel located in the up and coming neighbourhood of the newly-renovated westbahnhof. after visiting its 3 siblings in graz, i just had to see this new hotel in the austrian capital. especially that the building is topped with an artwork. i mean misconceivable, the work of viennese artist...
IF DOGS RUN FREE IN VIENNA
if dogs run free has been heavily featured recently on my facebook page. it’s because it quickly became one of my favourite hang out places in vienna! and how can one not like it? i mean, just look at it! the cocktail bar has 5 co-owners (an actress, a restaurateur, a graphic designer, and two...
MOOD BOARD NO 12
mood board no 12 is the result of my recent trip to vienna. check it out! i love to gather all sorts of interesting brochures, cards and posters. they somehow make me feel like the trip lasts longer since they make me think about my new finds. most of the cards you see below come...
MEETING WITH MY READERS IN VIENNA
my readers in vienna are just friends i haven’t met yet. i had recently decided to start meeting them. i was planning to start the meetings in my home town of bucharest. but a surprise trip to vienna changed the plan. as it turns out, i will be spending a few long-overdue days in vienna next...
THE VERY COOL 25H HOTELS
are you going to travel to frankfurt, vienna, zurich or hamburg soon? if the answer is yes, i may have already found the place you’re going to stay. i admit, it is a little presumptuous, but check this out: there are 6 25h hotels in the 4 above-mentioned locations (actually, the one in zurich will only...
HELMUT LANG. TODAY
do you ever wonder whatever happened to helmut lang? i do. i used to love his self-taught take on clothes circa the 90s: deconstructed outfits you’d expect to see on cool vienna kids. well, herr lang has long sold his brand to the prada group and dedicated himself to art. currently, lang is involved in...
VIENNA! FINALLY!
i’m very excited to be (finally) spending a couple of days in cool, modern vienna. insert garfield grin here… my research says that, even if my favourite mumok is closed until 9.09 for renovation, i still have a very wide range of options: – do you remeber h.r. giger? i was happy to find out...
ERWIN WURM AND HIS SCULPTURES
i discovered erwin wurm in a mumok show in the autumn of 2006. apart from the fat car and the endless series of one minute sculptures, there was a piece that was really not that usual…it was called house attack and it was a full size house attacking the museum. i remember reading that it was...
IN THE MEANTIME…
– tate modern welcomes miro between april the 14th and september the 11th. – albertina opens a new roy lichtenstein show called black & white 1961-1968. it opens on january the 27th and it ends on may the 15th. – last, but not least, anish kapoor has his first show ever in india. it opened...
