"Real heroes don't wear cape", a powerful image by Uğur Gallenkuş

Real heroes don't wear cape.

     The history of medicine shows how societies have changed in their approach to illness and disease from ancient times to the present. Early medical traditions include those of Babylon, China, Egypt and India. Sushruta, from India, introduced the concepts of medical diagnosis and prognosis. The Hippocratic Oath was written in ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE, and is a direct inspiration for oaths of office that physicians swear upon entry into the profession today. In the Middle Ages, surgical practices inherited from the ancient masters were improved and then systematized in Rogerius's The Practice of Surgery. Universities began systematic training of physicians around 1220 CE in Italy.

    Invention of the microscope was a consequence of improved understanding, during the Renaissance. Prior to the 19th century, humorism (also known as humoralism) was thought to explain the cause of disease but it was gradually replaced by the germ theory of disease, leading to effective treatments and even cures for many infectious diseases. Military doctors advanced the methods of trauma treatment and surgery. Public health measures were developed especially in the 19th century as the rapid growth of cities required systematic sanitary measures. The mid-20th century was characterized by new biological treatments, such as antibiotics. These advancements, along with developments in chemistry, genetics, and radiography led to modern medicine.

     Louis Pasteur is one of those heroes. Pasteur is French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. The person who laid the foundations of modern microbiology. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases, and his discoveries have saved many lives ever since. He reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. via Wikipedia

      Mustafa Kemal Atatürk once said, "if one day my words are against science, choose science.". I loving this strong statement. 

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"5 minutes with..." an art project by German based artist Ralf Pytlik

"5 minutes with ..." is an international art project of the German based artist Ralf Pytlik. In five minutes people are used as a "model" to create a new artwork. You have to know that the character will not be presented as a caricature or kind of photorealistic rather the artist captures those people and creates a new high-level work of art within 5 minutes. The outcome of this is that Ralf Pytlik will release an art book in collaboration with a publishing company. More updates, please visit 5 minutes with on facebook.

NaDD Award

In order to be able to renew with a simple idea of modularity obtaining the re-use of waste materials, the ability to connect to all Neapolitan of intelligent adaptation to the occasions of life and furnishing. Third prize for “Able“ to arch. Anna Lisa Pecora and arch. Ugo Falanga.

For versatility and adaptibility of the object, for the ability to characterize the urban fabric with an element that retains the impertimence of an “accent“ without sacrificing the technological research and material. For innovative thinking on the subject of the arrest and urban how they interact with the environment. Second prize for “Urban Empty“ to arch. Chiara Cassese.

For the accomplished synthesis of intent sculptural, functional, communicative capacity of the project. For the ability to include in the urban elegance of expression, for renewed reflection with creative design a purely functional object and it made itself the object of furnishing. First prize for “Emme“ to arch. Andrea Fiore.

The Format Versus Award

Filippo Ianniello was the winner because of its strong feature of experimenter and innovator in the use and production of environmentally friendly materials and natural, even though they were already used in history through an innovative and unique creative, has given rise to a new material with aesthetic amazing. Without resorting to artificial materials and work only hand the lands of the volcano – lava, pozzolana, lava and ash – are reunited, and date in different shapes and colors for trays, frames, benches, tables and floors.

NaDD Cake

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Napoli Design Week 2013

Napoli Design District (www.napolidesigndistrict.it) is a territorial-marketing action, its goal is promoting artistic and designer’s excellences through local networks, and improving Naples’s cultural offer mixing creativity, tradition and innovation. The NaDD Award was born by the desire to explore the creative energies of the city in a simple and direct way: without any limitation of training. The theme this year is “At Green”: Outdoor Design. The title is on ironic tune with the current global economic times; the participants have been called to produce one or more prototypes of objects included in the category of Outdoor Design. The winner is the ability to combine the power of local tradition with the culture of contemporary design. 

Naples Design Week (www.napolidesignweek.it) is exposure 1/8 April 2013 from the best picks NaDD Award. The prototypes rewarded or not leaving the studios, laboratories and drawers and propose to the city and to the general public: the design objects leave the tunnels and go to propose in stores and showrooms looking for a direct contact with the public and the market, creating a display circuit that involves an area of the city, where culture mixes shopping and entertainment. Then activates a circuit virtuous citizen, a path in the creative and innovative dimension dell’handmade-design ideas, experiences and moments of analysis that no shortage of thrill and surprise the visitor, the tourist, the artist!

This second edition involving different cultural operators (associations, organizations, clubs, etc.) Each with its own offer creative, self-managed and self-funded auto-promoted in: art, culture, design, photography, music, etc. A collaboration « participated » to present to the public a package of special creative services during Design Week. It works so that the contacts with the « Design Week » abroad create a continuous exchange of information and turn into a fruitful collaboration. Have named the week of exposure with the words « Napoli Design Week » was a challenge: we know that the weeks of Design in Italy and abroad themselves of contributions and public and private organizations, collaborations and prestigious organization a series of cultural events that constitute the intellectual armor of those occasions. In Naples, a lot has been done in terms of debates, discussions, lectures and keynote valuable. We humbly we wanted to take the lead, hoping to be able to count on the support and contributions to intellectual and creative that this initiative is always with great enthusiasm, wide open.

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Christian Awe Web Show on ART WEB RADIO

Visit the entire exhibition on www.artwebradio.com in partnership with "votreART" & "Arts, Artists, Artwork": For me music plays a very important role. It gives my work composition through rhythm and beats. Guru’ Jazzmatazz and Jamiroquai keep me awake at night. Hip Hop legends like Nas and Tupac help me pump energy onto the canvas. Travelling and discovering new music keeps me inspired, therefore Artwebradio's vibes give me the flow to continue my creative process. Christian Awe for Art Web Radio All Rights Reserved.

About the artist...

Christian Awe began his painting career as an urban expressionist painter on the streets of Berlin in the early 90s. At the Berlin Universität der Künste he studied under Georg Baselitz and received his “Meisterschüler” in 2006 under Daniel Richter.

Awe's paintings oscilate between figuration and abstraction and astound with expressive color. He employs spray paint and acrylics, ink and water-colors, markers and oil pastels. Through scraping, ripping or even digging out entire chunks of color, he exposes hidden layers resting beneath, allowing them to resurface, thereby creating poetic pictoral spaces that possess an inscrutability of depth. Upon closer examination delicate details – tiny bursts of color and stenciled forms - speak of Awe’s artistic journey, while from a distance, his compositions evoke associations not dissimilar to cloud formations.

As artist-in-residence at Princeton University, Awe taught experimental painting in Princeton in 2011. In recognition of Awes dedication to art education, he received 2012 the “Art connecting Cities” Award for social projects from the city of Perm, Russia. There he conceived a live-performance with the youth ballet and the installation “what you feel inside art”. Awe's large scale mural at the Pedagogical University now symbolizes the inspirational side of public art in Perm.

Last year Awe’s works were shown at the Orlando Museum of Art, the Permm Museum of Contemporary Art in Russia, at the Art Dubai and Art Cologne, and in 2012 in exhibitions in Berlin, Paris and Vienna. At the moment Awe is preparing a 500 sqm public art installation to be realized in Berlin in the summer 2012.

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'Continuum of Consciousness' Installation Made of Crystal Glasses by Linda Sim Solay

     In this life I believe that people who devote himself to the positive things, and do it consciously, having an invisible light that emanates from the body, either downward (into the earth) and up (to the sky), no end. But I do not know how to visualize it until I saw an exhibition pamphlet, mentioned Continuum of Consciousness by Linda Sim Solay.

Source: http://fatumbrutum.blogspot.com/

With great curiosity, I decided to come to the exhibition held in the auditorium of the Institute Français Indonesia (located in Bandung, West Java - Indonesia), 12-25 October 2012, to see if this is the visualization of what I mean.

At the entrance I met the curator, Roy Voragen from Roma Arts. He gave me a leaflet containing information about the work being exhibited in the room. I intentionally do not directly read the details of this installation, just to make sure I will react spontaneously and not "intimidated" by what is supposed to be felt. A room with dim light around. Immediately my mind focused into crystal glasses which are glued together, forming a pillar in front of me. Flanked by two round mirrors on the top and the base with pieces of broken glass around, complementing this arrangement as if it's endless. The light shines in the glass at the base, with a particular dynamics.

”The created space can be perceived as a continuum, allowing for both focus and contemplation of its personal experience, without sensory starting- or endpoints. Notably, the very nature of a continuum lies beyond intellectual analysis.” -Linda

If I am allowed to describe what I see beyond what I have seen, this installation lock both energy derived from the material used, the room around, or even the energy carried by the visitors. It feels like there is a vortex of energy, such as fog, in the room that surrounds the pillar as its center. Me myself imagine that pillar is a man meditating with high concentration within, constantly sitting in the middle of a dynamic vortex energy. Physically, this installation makes me a little headache, probably due to the effect of scent, or perhaps even the existence of discrepancies in the energy that we both have. 

Source: http://www.lindasim.com/

At the end of my visit, I realized the existence of the benches around me is part of the installation. Take a sit and dwell on it, become one with the energy in the crystal glasses to feel the effect in more optimal, and you will not have a headache as I have. Well, whether this is a visualization what I mean or not, this 'Continuum of Consciousness' installation has given a spiritual experience, even though for just a moment.

About the artist...

Linda Sim Solay is a Swedish-Austrian artist whose practice in fine art photography and installation focuses on psychological evolutionary thematics and contemporary physics. Her work is orientated around shaping audience-internal atmosphere and potential for perceptive immersion. She has exhibited internationally in numerous solo, collaborative and group exhibitions; framed by extensive travels and artist residencies. Linda earned her BA in Media Arts from RMIT in Melbourne under Dr. Les Walkling in 2005 and is currently studying for her MA researching Scent Art at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore. http://www.lindasim.com/

EVENT: SP-Arte/2013

Photo of SP-Arte/2012

São Paulo International Art Fair

New Dates  : April 3–7, 2013
Preview      : For VIP/Press, Wednesday, April 3, Noon–10pm

Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo 2222
Parque do Ibirapuera, Portão 3
São Paulo, Brazil

Hours         :
Thu–Fri, April 4–5, 2–10pm
Sat–Sun, April 6–7, Noon–8pm

Applications
- Galleries that are interested in participating in SP-Arte, are invited to apply, please visit www.sp-arte.com for the online application.

- A complete gallery list will be announced in January, 2013. The deadline is November 15, 2012.

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