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ArchitecturAl Selection 18.05.07–08.07.07 installation Dragonfly, Sci-Arc Gallery, los Angeles, the uSA, www.sciarc.edu

and consists of a mobile house with many rooms, parts of which are connected to one another with a monorail. All signs of luxury can be seen in the house, such as a gym, a karaoke room, a musical studio and a patio. The paradoxical thing is that the house itself is made of papier-mache. Having learned the idea of a house as a microcosm from her father, Misaki embodied it in her works. The architectural sense of space mixed with components of Western pop- culture allow for the artist to both create reduced-scale replicas of something existing in reality and express her philosophic attitude to things happening in the world, to its being divided into the inner and the outer, into the structure and the chaos, into the micro- and macrocosm. as the name hints, highlights the problem of globalization, which influenced a dozen of world megalopolises including Mexico City, Los Angeles, London, Shanghai, Tokyo and others. It thrills the minds of the leading world architects and artists, such as Saha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Nils Norman, Nigel Coats, Fritz Haeg and Richard Wentworth, whose works were a core of the exhibition. The subject was first developed at the Venice biennale in the curator’s project pavilion, where numerous photographs, diagrams, reports, and table summing up some intermediate results of megalopolises development. The central object of this exhibition in the Tate gallery is London and it is compared with other nine cities. Exploring the five main aspects, which are size, speed, density, form and diversity of the cities, the curators created a socio-economic and geographic «portrait» of each of the cities. Artists from these cities have added their subjective interpretations to these portraits – photographs, video, and installations. GlobAl ApproAch 20.06.07–27.08.07 Global cities, exhibition, tate Modern Gallery, london, Great britain, www.tate.org.uk The Global Cities exhibition,

In nature dragonfly wings do not always look the same in their structure and do not always correspond to refined formal variations. Morphology of this process cannot be traced in some specific bio-mathematical area, but can rather be presented as a result of numerous biological systems of patterns, which emerge depending on the strength of air flows and other conditions. Dragonfly installation, performed by EMERGENT architectural bureau and an internationally known Buro Happold, an engineering company, investigates the relation of structure and form and in some way is an experiment in the fluid feedback of design sensibility, engineering innovation, and

the logic of digital fabrication. EMERGENT, which has been in operation for 8 years already, was english version

turned into a sort of a testing ground for technology and biomorphism. And this installation consisting of dispersed linear structural elements became of field of infinite variations and adaptations developed with the help of special software imitating the natural selection.

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28.03.07–08.07.07, exhibition «MoMentuM 7: Misaki Kawai», institute of contemporary Arts, boston, the uSA, www.icaboston.org The MOMENTUM exhibition is a sort of laboratory of contemporary art. Being held for the seventh time, the exhibition became a good testing ground for contemporary installators, and for Misaki Kawai from Japan in particular. Her work is half a diorama half a doll’s house

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