Turkish restaurant in R'dam

Mahir last nite took me to beautiful Turkish restaurant, 'Dunya' (which stands for 'Worl' :D.I fell in love with the bar counter's mosaics.

First sights of chistmas decorations...can't wait!!! :))

Your Space

Scrap

Rotterdam harbur awsome shop of recycled stuff coming from industrial use
http://www.miniscrap.nl

Aladin Chair

Brilliant seat at the central library in Rotterdam! Like sitting on a floating home carpet :)

Rotterdam Textures

Here is a collection of textures and materials of the city of Rotterdam
photos by Fleur Sabbe, Wendi Dines, Bart Sasim, Melina Prado Ferreira and me

Art Street Festival

preparation for human clock photoshoot











My school gallery! :))) Willem de Kooning Academie http://wdka.hro.nl/

http://www.festivalwww.nl/english#!english/home

I had a great weekend in my new town, going around the Witte de Withsstraat in the center of Rotterdam and descovering all the architectures, fashion designs, performances, installations, sculptures, objects and fun ideas young European artists designed for this 3days festival on the street.
I felt this event fit perfectly in the city of Rotterdam sice it has always been a constant site of building, demolition, change and re-adjustment.

pleinbioscoop

Last night we all grabbed our foldable chairs and head down to the harbor to watch a movie under a starry sky. We watched Metropolis by Fritz Lang, on a huge screen 25m x 15 while the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev played the film with beautiful live music.
http://www.pleinbioscooprotterdam.nl/

Picknick

http://www.picknickrotterdam.nl/

Fabbrica

Went to Fabbrica restaurant with a friend the other day here in R'dam, lovely location on the harbor, designed by Tjep.
http://www.fabbrica.nl/home.php

Infernopolis

An old submarine wharf in the port of Rotterdam has been turned into an exhibition space where artist Van Lieshout produced the spectacular exhibition called Infernopolis. In the 5000m2 space he has created a terrifying setting in which skulls, skeletons, giant sperm cells and body organs are the main elements. I was reading one of his interview where he was saying:' I think it's time for a new terrible tragic event, like a war or revolution." The curator of the exhibiotion describes the latest installation of the artist, 'craddle to craddle', as our position as human beings in eternity; 'we are no more than what we consume and emit'. I find his work a mix of bizarre/distrubing and functional.

http://www.ateliervanlieshout.com/ http://www.boijmans.nl/en/ http://www.portofrotterdam.com/en/home/ http://www.submarinewharf.com/EN/

Maurizio Cattelan @ Museum Boymans van Beuningen

At Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam I was surpized to see Cattelan's figure coming out of a hole in the floor into the classics gallery . He looks in a sharp way at a painting of the 19th century master Koekoek and the obvious solemn authority of the Old Art is ironised in a subtle way.
This is the most expensive work of the living artist, worth 7,92 million dollars. The work was showed for the first time in 2001.

Containers Restaurant

Went to this waterfront restaurant made of light blue shipping containers...how could it be more Rotterdam style!
http://www.wijnofwater.nl/