Uncoiled Rope Sprawls Across Canvases and Open Spaces in Organic Forms by Artist Janaina Mello Landini

“Ciclotrama (expansão)” (2019), 4 Ciclotramas of “expansion” series with varied sizes, black and blue ropes, 270 x 600 x 400 centimeters. Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Gui Gomes. All images © Janaina Mello Landini, shared with permission

Janaina Mello Landini (previously) unbraids lengths of rope to create fibrous labyrinths that breach canvases’ edges and crawl from floor to ceiling. Including both sprawling site-specific installations and smaller pieces confined to a few dozen centimeters, the São Paulo-based artist’s body of work is broad. All of her projects, though, explore tension and space as they spread into arboreal forms or perfectly round networks.

Her recent works include a massive tree-like installation that fans out across Zipper Gallery’s floor and walls into delicate, tape blossoms. Another is a smaller, numbered piece (shown below) that was born from the artist’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.  “My days are quite slow now, no more assistants around, but I’m still working and thinking a lot,” she shares with Colossal. “At the beginning of the pandemic, I did Ciclotrama 177 (Fibonacci)… Imagine a planet-scale Ciclotrama. It starts from the first contagion and expands, forming the actual course of infection of millions of people who were catching and transmitting the disease. And keeps going…”

Since 2010, Landini has been contributing to her Ciclotrama series, a moniker that defines each piece. “The social cartography of individual networks shows the infinite interconnectedness of personal trajectories throughout a system, society, and the world as a whole. The movement of bodies (ropes) and the relationship between rhythm and time are also fundamental aspects of these series,” she says.

To dive further into Landini’s work, check out her Instagram or Artsy, and take a virtual tour of her recent show at Zipper Gallery.

 

“Ciclotrama 177 (Fibonacci)” (2020), cotton threads and acrylic pen on canvas, 1.7 x 1.7 meters. Photo by Lucas Cimino

“Ciclotrama 177 (Fibonacci)” (2020), cotton threads and acrylic pen on canvas, 1.7 x 1.7 meters. Photo by Lucas Cimino

“Ciclotrama 141 (épura)” (2019), 20 meters of handmade cotton rope diameter 24 centimeters and 2880 meters of paper tape, 700 x 800 x 1600 centimeters. Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Gui Gomes

Left: “Ciclotrama 153 (aglomeração)” (2020), rope on canvas, 43 3/10 × 43 3/10 inches. Right: “Ciclotrama 124” (2018), Dipado rope sewed on natural linen, 78 7/10 × 78 7/10 × 2 inches

“Ciclotrama 141 (épura)” (2019), 20 meters of handmade cotton rope diameter 24 centimeters and 2880 meters of paper tape, 700 x 800 x 1600 centimeters

“Ciclotrama (expansão)” (2019), 4 Ciclotramas of “expansion” series with varied sizes, black and blue ropes, 270 x 600 x 400 centimeters. Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Gui Gomes

“Ciclotrama (expansão)” (2019), 4 Ciclotramas of “expansion” series with varied sizes, black and blue ropes, 270 x 600 x 400 centimeters. Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Gui Gomes

“Ciclotrama 141 (épura)” (2019), 20 meters of handmade cotton rope diameter 24 centimeters and 2880 meters of paper tape, 700 x 800 x 1600 centimeters

“Ciclotrama 141 (épura)” (2019), 20 meters of handmade cotton rope diameter 24 centimeters and 2880 meters of paper tape, 700 x 800 x 1600 centimeters

“Ciclotrama 174 (impregnação)” (2019), 50 meters of black nylon rope 40 millimeters diameter and 4.200 black nails, 6 x 7 x 5 meters. Photo by Gui Gomes

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Images of the new Apple Store in Singapore feature in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features Instagram images of the soon-to-open Apple Store in Singapore.

Foster + Partners has designed a spherical Apple Store on the water alongside the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore and social media users have posted images on Instagram ahead of its opening.

The Apple Marina Bay Sands store is surrounded by water so that it appears to be floating and will be accessible via a footbridge from the waterfront promenade.

Ten architect-designed swimming pools for cooling off at home

Other stories in this week's newsletter include architectural swimming pools around the world, a scaffold-covered house and news of Richard Rogers' retirement.

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Brandon Tauszik’s Pale Blue Dress examines the subculture of reenactment groups

After years spent with Civil War re-enactment groups, the photographer offers a look inside the re-enactors’ “fabricated mental and physical realm”.

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Translucent Sculptures of Segmented Glass by Artist Jiyong Lee Evoke Single-Celled Organisms

“Green Cosmarium Segmentation” (2018), hot sculpted, cut, color laminated, carved, glass, 7 1/4 × 10 × 7 1/4 inches. All images © Jiyong Lee, shared with permission

Fascinated by the organisms found in the sea and bodies of freshwater, artist Jiyong Lee (previously) sculpts semi-transparent artworks that evoke the various forms of algae and other microscopic creatures. The segmented pieces, which are composed of smooth, matte glass, create both organic and geometric shapes. Part of an ongoing Segmentation Series, the composite works consider the evolution of a single cell, which Lee expands on:

I work with glass that has transparency and translucency, two qualities that serve as perfect metaphors for what is known and unknown about life science. The segmented, geometrical forms of my work represent cells, embryos, biological and molecular structures—each symbolizing the building blocks of life as well as the starting point of life.

Lee is based in Carbondale, Illinois, where he teaches at Southern Illinois University, and many of the pieces shown here will be part of a group show at Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis from September 12 to October 17, 2020. The artist also was chosen as one of 30 artists for the Loewe Foundation’s Craft Prize, which will bring him to Paris for an exhibition in the spring of 2021. Until then, explore more of Lee’s biology-informed sculptures on Artsy.

 

“Mitosis”

“Diatom segmentation”

“Black and White Diatom Segmentation” (2020), hot sculpted, cut, color laminated, carved, glass, 8 × 12 × 8 inches

Left: “Gray Diatom Segmentation” (2018), cut, color laminated, carved glass, 5 1/4 × 12 1/2 inches. Right: “Yellow Orange Diatom Segmentation” (2020), hot sculpted, cut, color laminated, carved, glass, 7 1/2 x 10 x 8 1/2 inches

“Green Yellow Diatom Segmentation” (2020), hot sculpted, cut, color laminated, carved, glass, 5 3/4 × 12 × 12 inches

“White Green Diatom Segmentation” (2020), hot sculpted, cut, color laminated, carved, glass, 8 1/2 × 10 × 8 1/2 inches

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Thomas Heatherwick and Ab Rogers to speak at virtual Workplace Wellbeing by Design conference

Dezeen promotion: Workplace Wellbeing by Design is a week-long online event taking place during this year's London Design Festival, which explores the complex relationship between design and wellbeing in the workplace.

The event, which will take place from 14 to 18 September 2020, includes talks by leaders in the architecture and design industry, including Thomas Heatherwick, Ab Rogers and HOK senior director of WorkPlace, Kay Sargent.

Thomas Heatherwick will be speaking at the Workplace Wellbeing by Design event

These creatives will be joined by more corporate figures such as Bruce Daisley, who developed Twitter for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Cees van der Spek – communications director for EDGE – and workplace theorist Jeremy Myerson.

Other speakers include biometrician Nikita Mikhailov, who will discuss new data-driven biometric techniques for employers and employees, as well as Maaind founder Martin Dinov, who will outline how AI can be harnessed for workplace wellbeing.

Ab Rogers will be speaking at the event about his Maggie's Centre design

Over the course of five days, five 75-minute sessions will explore the issues of workplace design from a range of viewpoints including technology and diversity, as well as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Each session will be hosted by author and design commentator Aidan Walker and will be split into three sections: a keynote, a practical case study and a Q&A session.

Maggie's chief executive Laura Lee will explain the organisation's architectural philosophy

Day one – the Well Workplace – will begin with a talk between Rogers and Heatherwick about their work for Maggie's Centres.

While the two architects discuss how they have tried to use the built environment to influence the psychology of its inhabitants, Maggie's chief executive Laura Lee will explain the organisation's architectural philosophy.

Bruce Daisley will also be speaking at the event

Day two, led by Dinov, will focus on the smart workplace and the impact of technologies like AI on wellbeing. EDGE's van der Spek will also uncover the ideas behind the brief for the firm's existing project in Amsterdam and its new one at London Bridge.

"People have been talking about – and designing for – psychological diversity, as well as the individual's control over their physical environment for a generation now," said Walker.

"Sensor technology has given a whole new meaning to the smart building and the impact of artificial intelligence is just around the corner," he continued. "It's time to take stock and Covid-19 has added currency and urgency to the discussion."

Speakers will also discuss the impact of office design on mental and physical health

Day three – the Human/Humane Workplace – will be led by Swann, whose book The Human Workplace explores interior and behavioural design.

Swann will be joined by architect Giuseppe Boscherini, Mikhailov and director of Chapmanbdsp design consultancy Ian Duncombe to discuss "psychosocially supportive design".

Day four, led by HOK's Sargent, will concentrate on creativity, productivity and diversity in discussions with Ricoh's workplace services director Simone Fenton-Jarvis and MoreySmith principal Linda Morey Burrows.

Real estate company CBRE's Kate Davies and Art Acumen CEO Catherine Thomas will also join the talk.

Workplace theorist Jeremy Myerson will be part of a discussion about the future of work

Day five considers the future of work, led with a keynote by Myerson from the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art and the Worktech Academy.

This will be followed by a discussion with Mike O'Neill, former director of global research at Haworth, Guy Smith, founder of COSU and former design director of WeWork, and Frances Gain, associate of strategy at M. Moser Associates.

The conference has been organised by the creators of the MAD World Summit with Dezeen as the media partner.

Registration is £25 for all five sessions, with profits donated to cancer support charity Maggie's.

For the full agenda, visit the event's website.

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