Museum of Evald Okas, Haapsalu Estonia

July 1st, 2010

Absolutely worth of seeing museum, maybe something is boiling for me for the next year… Right now besides Evald Okas permanent collection on the second floor, on the first floor there is an exhibition of Hungarian contemporary art- 2 photographers and 2 painters.

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Back to my Mexico trip coverage! Pulqueria

June 27th, 2010

Pulque is a milk-colored, somewhat viscous liquid that produces a light foam. It is made by fermenting the sap of certain types of maguey (agave) plants. In contrast, mescal is made from the cooked heart of certain agave plants, and tequila, a variety of mescal, is made all or mostly from the blue agave. There are about six varieties of maguey that are best used for the production of pulque.^[1]^[2] The name “pulque” is derived from Nahuatl. The original name of the drink was “iztac octli” (white wine), the term pulque was probably mistakenly derived by the Spanish from the “octli poliuhqui” which meant “spoiled wine”.^{[5] (According to Wikipedia)}

Amazing Pulqueria we visted in the suburbia of Mexico City, thanks to Jorge again. There was sawdust on the floor, because pulque is kind of smooth and slimy and when it “falls” on floor and you may step in.., you can easily brake your legs. Not so long time ago ladies were not allowed to visit pulquerias. We had 3 glasses, one original, one with pineapple and an other one with pepper and tomato flavor. Pineapple was my favorite. Well, it was a great experience, although I was told that there is hardly any alcohol in pulque, I felt really jolly later on!

I hope you all had fabulous Midsummer Night!

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Contest_EXHIBITION ART IN MINIATURE

June 18th, 2010

Majdanpek 2010, Serbia,

International Exhibition of The call will be open

from 1. February 2010 to 30. June 2010

www.majdanart.com , e-mail: mitart@nadlanu.com

EXHIBITION CATEGORIES.

1 – Painting, Drawing, Graphics, Mixed media…

2 – Sculpture, Relief , mosaic…

3 – Ceramiks, glas, porcelan, terracotta, …

4 – Design jewelry, ( drawing and 3D models in all materials )

5 - Digital Art and Photo – Photo/Digital Art

6 - A short documentary on the CD / DVD to 3 minutes.

Topic: “creative treatment of reality”

DEADLINES:

The contest is open from 01 February to 30 June 2010. year,

The decisions of the jury will be published by 31 July 2010 year,

Exhibition opening: 11 September 2010 at 14 hour.

The exhibition runs from 11 September to 11 October 2010 year.

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Smart textiles from young Estonian designers

June 18th, 2010

Yesterday we had inside of the permanent exhibition of the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, the opening of the exhibition: WAKE-UP! the world has changed. There are interactive textiles made by the 25 textile design students of the Estonian Academy of Arts, all supervised by Kärt Ojavee(the beautiful girl on the second picture, counting down from above). She is doctoral student both in EAA and in the Technical University and is working with the same subject. Absolutely worth of seeing, try to follow black lines on the floor in order to find the works among the Estonian history of applied art and design. The show will remain open until 19.09.2010.

We almost have a festival of textile in the museum, as today there was a little conference dedicated to the textile artist Ellen Hansen, who is celebrating her 100(!!!) birthday tomorrow.

And last Friday we had the opening of museums this years “Classic” exhibition- textile artist Mall Tomberg. Amazing works and beautiful design for the exhibition by Jaana Jüris.

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Estonian new design in Helsinki

June 17th, 2010

Lately I have been drowned under loads of work, not really unusual situation…

On Tuesday I was in Helsinki, setting up the exhibition of Estonian fresh designers. Here are some pictures from the exhibition VÄRSKED VÕTTED, I designed in the Estonian Embassy, Helsinki Finland. I had really great day with warm and lovely people, it felt like a week.

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A Nadie le Amarga… Dulcería de Celaya, Avenida Cinco de Mayo Centro Histórico, Mexico City

June 12th, 2010

In the traditional and old candy shop there was a tiny exhibition of Felieke van der Leest and Laura de Alba during the WGA symposium.

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Cafe Tacuba, Mexico City

June 12th, 2010

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Tanel Veenre solo exhibition in the GALLERY IIDA, Tallinn

June 12th, 2010

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Contest: pocketluck

June 7th, 2010

POCKET LUCK – Ninth International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea

We are pleased to announce that is now possible to participate in the ninth edition of the International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea which is promoted by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee under the patronage of the C.E.I. (Central European Initiative).

The competition deadline is August 31^st, 2010. The entry is free. Designers from 23 Central Eastern European countries are called to submit a project for a new pocket lucky charm/talisman.

You can read more about the provided prizes and check the competition notice on www.triestecontemporanea.it

For further information please contact our Committee: e-mail tscont@tin.it, telephone +39 040 639187.

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