Event-Coverage: Art Installations and Objects for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Exhibition @ Bloodgroup+ Space (April 16-21)

From Boxed Curio items to Babelfish-Translators, from yarn-robots to cross-stitch atomic mushroom-clouds, from papercraft galaxys to "Don't Panic" towels, from a game of scrabble, to the ultimate answer to life and the universe ~ CLICK THRU for a detailed look at 3-dimensional and/or relief based artwork and installations done for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Exhibition" ~ currently on display at BloodGroup+ Space (32 Aliwal Street, 02-02, Singapore) with the last day of exhibition being today, April 21st, 2010.


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Artsit: Fleecircus [www.fleecircus.com]
Title Of Artwork: "Clairvoyance Curio"
Medium: Mixed Medium
Concept-Story: Curio Items galaxy hitch hikers collected along his journey.



Artist: Michael Ng / Mindflyer [www.mindflyer.com]
Title Of Artwork: "Mock BabelFish"
Medium: Acrylic/ canvas/ reclaimed cover & paper from old books.
Concept-Story: mindflyer's intepretation of the babelfish as a product.


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Artist: Ric Treweek / Wrecker Tike [wreckertike.blogspot.com/]
Title Of Artwork: "BABELFISH"
Medium: ...
Concept-Story: "I created two Babefish, one was young and not so bright and cost very little since it could not translate so many languages. The other on the other hand was old and smart and could speak many universal languages making it much more expensive!" [via]


Artist: Yel Low (www.mightyellow.com) + Adeline Tan
Title Of Artwork: -
Medium: Coloured Yarn.
Concept-Story: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat(knit) idea.


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Artist: Terence Lau / wyxmm [wyxmm.tumblr.com]
Title Of Artwork: "Scrabble"
Medium: Wood.
Concept-Story: Not much of the end product but of the actual creation process to relieve the experience of Arthur Dent when he was stuck on Earth. Through some bizarre random coincident, these are the pieces left when he lost most of them and it was pulled out in the exact order. Though the final outcome is impossible with a standard set of Scrabble, which contains only two Ys.


[Installation by Larry Seow]

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Artist: Steve Lawler / Mojoko [www.mojoko.net]
Title Of Artwork: "Home Sweet Home" (above) / "Babelego" (below)
Medium: Cross-Stitch and Lego.
Concept-Story: Construction of Destruction.
[Previously Featured on TOYSREVIL]


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Artist: Firdauz Aziz
Title Of Artwork: "Lot 42"
Medium: Silkscreen on Terry Toweling.
Concept-Story: Gotta bring a towel for intergalactic space travel, so why not the ubiquitous "good morning towel" reedit. =)


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Artist : James Teo / ampulets [ampulets.com]
Title of Artwork : "In 10 million years"
Medium : light / film.
Concept-Story : "Our work is a lamp that has two film shades rotating in opposite directions - the text "Get the right answer" was screened on one, and "Ask the right question" was screened on the other. Switch it on and you might just get the ultimate answer to the ultimate question." [More via inside.ampulets.com]


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Artist: Shawn Lim / XOTL [xotl.genderchildren.com]
Title Of Artwork: "Platonic Galaxy"
Medium: Papercraft (260gsm)
Concept-Story: The interpretation of the galaxy based on Plato's Theory of Forms.


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"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Exhibition" sees 42 Singapore-based artists interpret and showcase their intergalactic visions in a series of artworks inspired by the famous science-fiction novel [Full event-details blogged]. Participating Artists include: Mojoko / Adeline Tan / Sharim Grubels / Jonathan Leong / Micheal Ng / Shaun Soh / Zahir Zanossi / Rick Treweek / Eric Foenander / Mriz Sidah / Nazneen Aziz / Sheryo / Pamm Hong / Andy Yang / Oats & Sparkle / Antz / Brian Chia / Shawn Lim / Mystic Vintage / Colin Faulks / Djohan Johari / Kelvin Lim / Drayson Phua / Winnie Goh / Aik Beng / Mr. B / Fleecircus / Kuatnth / Brandon Tay / Sean Dunston / Race krehel / Kristal melson / Twistii / Stanley Yap / Cherie Tan / Speak Cryptic.

[Select individual artwork with descriptions viewable via my Facebook album of the event]


Disclaimer: I may not all the necessary information with regards to artist/s and artwork-titles. Please do leave details in this comments section or email me direct at toysrevil [at] yahoo.com OR facebook me info at the album-link given above ~ Thanks!