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Helmut Newton Polaroids
The Berlin based Helmut Newton Foundation has been showing 'Helmut Newton Polaroids' since 10th June of last year. The exhibition has been visited by more than 70.000 visitors so far. For this reason, the exhibition will be extended until 20th Mai 2012. With more than 300 photographs, a representative overview of Newton's legendary polaroids is displayed. Since the 1970's he had used this technique excessively, especially during his fashion shoots. The reasoning behind this was, that Newton himself always wanted to know right away, how the situation would be displayed on a picture. The polaroid functions as a sketch and a light meter at the same time.
Helmut Newton, Thierry Mugler, Monte Carlo 1998, Polaroid © Helmut Newton Estate
Helmut Newton, Paris Match, Monte Carlo 1985, Polaroid © Helmut Newton Estate
Helmut Newton, Stern, St. Tropez 1978, Polaroid © Helmut Newton Estate
In 1992, Newton published an extraordinary book, solely showcasing his polaroids. The book was close to his heart, yet highly controversial. Critics had claimed, the photographs were not perfect enough. The photographer himself defended his work, by stating, that he saw the beauty in just that: The imperfection, the spontaneity. He put little handwritten notes on the polaroids - comments regarding the model, the client, the location – which makes the exhibition an intimate view into the sketch book of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century.
Helmut Newton Foundation, Jebensstraße 2, 10623 Berlin.
www.helmutnewton.com
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Ziervogel & Kunze
This month Contemporary Fine Arts displays two very similar, yet very different artists. For one there is Ralf Ziervogel. His drawings are a matter of the extreme: They often go on for several pieces of paper. Those - sometimes 5 meter long - drawings are a close study of the human body, preferably the male one. He creates physically challenging situations, which create a sort of prison for the human body. As painful and masochistic as those postures may seem, they are a far cry from simple fantasies of violence. The drawings rather constitute a metaphysical question mark on the issue of reality. In his recent 'Deklinationen am Koerper' he uses a heavy and thick ink stroke. Those drawings fill up the entire exhibition space in their dimension and depending on the spectators distance to the piece, body parts turn into ornaments that seem to have neither beginning nor end.
Ohne Titel, 2011, Ink on Paper, 151 x 146 cm, Photograph: Gunter Lepkowski
There is also painter Michael Kunze. His paintings are filled with literary, philosophical, artistic and architectural references. He manages a transition from those into mysterious, irrational sceneries, architectural constructs as well as utopian landscapes. On the surface the connection between the different elements and the deeper meaning can not be grasped, contradicting elements provoke an intense dialogue with the painting itself. He displays works from his cycle 'schwarzorange' as well as from 'Narkaden'. 'Schwarzorange' displays architectural compositions under a cloudy sky, which bathed in a theatrical light. The works are dominated by a multitude of contrasts on all levels. In “Narkaden” which is a word creation the artist associates with a paralyzed traveler he again spirals the subject matter ad absurdum.
Schwarzorange II, 2011, Oil on Canvas, 280 x 230 cm, Photograph: Jochen Littkemann
All images are courtesy of Contemporary Fine Arts.
From 3rd January - 4th February 2012 at Contemporary Fine Arts, Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 Berlin.
www.cfa-berlin.com
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The Man from Delft
For his new exhibition in Amsterdam, Folkert de Jong removed the body of a man from Delft from his coffin, the Dutch prince William of Orange and suspended it, leaving it hovering subtly in a gallery space.
The artist transforms materials with the same facility as meanings: he turns the airy polyurethane foam into a solid construction, he displays the material remains of the production process as chance elements that have been factored in. His drawings are accumulations of rapid, energetic strokes with coloured felt-tip pens and areas of colour that interact and challenge each other in different ways. De Jong presents art as the ultimate transformation.
From 26 November -14 January at Gallery Fons Welters, Bloemstraat 140, 1016 lj Amsterdam.
www.fonswelters.nl
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Platform
It is the first time that a bestseller book wasn't made into a film but an illustrative book. Dutch artist Joep Neefjes photographically recorded the 2002 published success and scandal roman Platform from Michel Houellebecq.
Being inspired by each page of the book, Neefjes picturized text parts as well as units of meaning. In this process, 312 pages orginitated, which retell indeed Platform's fiction of paying homage to sex tourism and villainizing the Islam.
All photographs were therefore made on location: in the Normandy, the suburbs of Paris, Cuba and Thailand.
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4th Fotofestival
The 4th edition of the Fotofestival is the biggest curated photographic Biennale in Germany and is taking place from September 10 to November 6, 2011. It bears the title "The eye is a lonely hunter: images of humankind". The festival takes as its point of departure a humanist perspective in the tradition of documentary photography. It will showcase a variety of practices that are situated at the intersection between documentary and artistic photography, practices that are characterised by a strong sense of visuality but also a keen sense of sociopolitical awareness.
This year the Fotofestival is curated by Katerina Gregos (GR/ BE) , who conceived the Danish Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale, and Solvej Helweg Ovesen (DK/ DE), who worked as a curator at the Kunsthalle Friedericianum and curated a number of international exhibitions including the first Copenhagen Quadrennial.
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Basic Instincts
from 12:00 to 19:00 hrs
Iris van Herpen - by Zach Gold
Emerge by Sil van der Woerd
for Anne de Grijff
Untitled by Joost Vandebrug
for Monique van Heist
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Riding the Hoods
with Maripol
From May 18th, Maripol, the french-born New York art-director and stylist behind Madonna’s iconic Like a Virgin tour, who never left home without her 70?s Polaroid camera, presents a series of limited edition prints at Clic Gallery New York.
The photographs from New York’s underground scene portray legends like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Deborah Harry and of course Madonna. Alongside the exhibition, Clic Gallery will release the book Riding the Hoods with Maripol that documents Maripol's adventures in the 1980's Downtown NYC.
Clic Gallery & Bookstore
424 Broome Street, NYC
www.clicgallery.com
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Anton Corbijn Inwards & Onwards
From June 23rd till September 1st 2011, the Amsterdam-based photography museum Foam will show Anton Corbijn's most recent photographic project Inwards & Onwards. For this project, Corbijn aimed his camera at a few of his favorite artists, including Gerhard Richter, Alexander McQueen, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Lucian Freud and many more.
Anton Corbijn, who has been mainly known as the director of feature films such as Control and The American, is interested in how artists struggle with the creative process: the pain and the drama of the act of creation. His monumental black-and-white portraits blend austerity and aesthetics and attract attention because of the deliberate and exacting way they capture the character of the person being portrayed.
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La Quête du réel
On May 5th 2011, Louis Vuitton and La Quinzaine Littéraire will be publishing an original work, the first in-depth consideration of the itinerary and thinking of Annemarie Schwarzenbach.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, born in 1908 in Zurich, studied history and literature and published her first novel in 1931. A friend of Klaus and Erika Mann, she shared their anti-fascist stance and from 1933 onwards travelled as a journalist through Spain, Russia and the United States.
For the most part unpublished, the texts selected, introduced, and translated by Dominique Laure Miermont and Nicole Le Bris take us on a discovery of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, an iconic figure from the Lost Generation of the interwar period. The work is illustrated with about forty photographs taken by Annemarie herself.
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Paper Cut Project
Amy Flurry and Nikki Salk's custom-made paper art installations are fueled by a love of fashion and an appreciation of the grace and nuance of this humble material.
Paper Cut Project is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and its debut installation was for Jeffrey New York, back in January 2010. In April, Hermès commissioned a 30-piece collection of animal masks that models wore to open new boutiques in Europe and Asia. The pieces shown here are a few from the duo's latest project, a collection of wigs (Marie Antoinette meets 21st century) for the holiday windows of Toronto luxury retailer, The Hudson Bay Company.
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Tick
Michael Kunze - Tick
November 20th - December 18th
Opening Friday, November 19th,
18:00 hrs - 20:00 hrs
CFA (Contemporary Fine Arts)
Am Kupfergraben 10
10117 Berlin
Germany
www.cfa-berlin.com
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COS Frieze Film
COS marks its partnership with Frieze Art Fair with an art concept film. Produced by the highly acclaimed and recently awarded film writer and director Karan Kandhari, the project visualises the special connection between COS and the art world.
Kandhari’s initial inspiration for the film being the COS Fall/Winter 2010 collection and COS’ instinctive, organic relationship with the arts. “It has been a fun experience to develop the concept as COS has encouraged creative freedom allowing me to put my stamp on the piece,” says Kandhari.
Watch the COS Frieze film here.
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I LOVE USA
Hedi Slimane’s fascination with American youth culture continues. His latest venture is a chrono-photography video project called I LOVE USA, produced with online fashion boutique thecorner.com. Dedicated to showcasing cutting-edge fashion, thecorner.com is also devoted to cultivating art and encouraging the creative process with talented artists in the world of fashion, art, and music.
I LOVE USA, which debuted on October 10th, is the second installation in thecorner.com’s fashion film series. It follows Portent, last year’s collaboration with SHOWstudio and visionary photographer Nick Knight.
The project I LOVE USA will be included in a soon-to-be- released book and is also the name of an exhibit of Slimane’s work to be held in February 2011 at the Galerie Almine Rech in Paris.
www.thecorner.com
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Never Odd or Even
Never Odd or Even is an exhibition based on a project by Mariana Castillo Deball. The project is both a performance and a book consisting of 30 fictional book covers for non-existing books created by various authors and illustrators. Never Odd or Even is a text based exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde. Displayed are word-sculptures, word-images, wall texts, “write-along” animation films, mind maps and the likes. The subtext of the exhibition is the written word's ability to activate an inner imaginative world for the spectator. It also engages in an architectural interaction with the museum space.
From 14th January until 8th of April at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Stændertorvet 3D, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
www.samtidskunst.dk
www.bomdiaboatardeboanoite.de
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Beck’s Green Box Project
VIDEO - Becks Green Box Project
It was Wednesday the 7th of December when one of the upper floors of Soho House Berlin offered only a few wooden seating areas and some staff that hustled. The only clue to the nights purpose were fridges filled with Beck's beer bottles and a green illuminated box with the red logo of the German brewery: Beck's launched its German showcase, presenting its collaboration with artists of various fields.
After already displaying the results of the above mentioned alliance in the USA, United Kingdom and Italy, it will from now on be Berlin, Germany that will be doused in the facets of digital art.
Invisible for the unaided eye but visible with the help of technology, Beck’s sets a benchmark by asking artists, designers and musicians to visualise their ideas with the help of AR, Augmented Reality.
Escaping from common rules of space to present art works, Beck’s therewith showcases art works on a new, avant-garde way: Instead of a physical space that facilitates the work, it is a smartphone’s display that replaces the art space.
Passing by a Beck’s Green Box with the Beck’s Key App installed on one's iPhone, iPad or Android, the user will be alerted to stop and take a look on his screen. Key holders Nick Knight and Sam Spiegel chose to collaborate and showcase the work of artists such as Mark Jenkins, Hussein Chalayan, LuckyMe, Sage Vaughn, Shaniqwa Jarvis or Reed + Radar.
Until 2nd January 2012, there will be two Green Boxes at the Appel Design Gallery as well as the Brandenburger Tor, which will function as intra-urban platforms for the digital art works.
VIDEO - Becks Green Box Project
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CFA Berlin
Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to present the exhibitions of Thomas Kiesewetter and Norbert Schwontkowski in Berlin.
Norbert Schwontkowski staged in his paintings mostly short stories, which are showing different, melancholic moods. Again and again, fascinated by the undefined, vague landscapes where the viewer can only guess where you can find the protagonists in the image.
Thomas Kiesewetter presents in the current exhibition two large-scale sculptures made of polished stainless steel. The sculptures are made up of various geometric shapes, which were bound together randomly.
Date:
October 8 - November 5, 2011
Location:
Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin
Am Kupfergraben 10
10117 Berlin
www.cfa-berlin.com
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Robin Rhode
Galerie Fons Welters is proud to announce the first solo exhibition of the South-African artist Robin Rhode in the Netherlands.
Combining the rich variety of media such as photography, film-animations, drawings, sculptures and performance the artist has created diverse art works, which in a subtle manner all refer to the subject of what he calls probabilities in human life.
During the opening at 19.00 Robin Rhode will do a special performance.
Galerie Fons Welters
22 October – 19 November 2011
Opening:
Saturday 22 October, 17:00 – 19:00
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday, 13:00 – 18:00
www.fonswelters.nl
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Sounds of Dogs
and Youth
A skilled and imaginative storyteller, Klara Kristalova’s figurative ceramic sculptures are influenced by myths and old folk tales, and address themes surrounding oppression, anxiety and the sub-conscious. Exuding both an innocence and horror, Kristalova’s uncanny sculptures portray adolescent girls and boys, often marked with exaggerated features or in the midst of transformation, and bring to mind memories of childhood fantasy, dreams and nightmares.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery presents Sounds of Dogs and Youth, Klara Kristalova’s first solo exhibition in New York, on view from October 27th until January 28th 2012 at 540 West 26th Street.
www.lehmannmaupin.com
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Exactitudes
BERLIN-WEEKLY
Linienstraße 160
Berlin
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CAPTURED at MADE Berlin
On May 5th and 6th, MADE presented the project Captured, A homage to Light and Air. The brothers Prof. Sven Völker, graphic designer and professor of communication design and Nils Völker, machine-artist, came together to create an installation, capturing the beauty and intangible nature of air and light.
Nils Völker's engineered and animated field was framed by Prof. Sven Völker's graphic-art works. Four large format walls, structured like books showing all pages simultaneously, organized the installation into chapters, dedicated to terms such as The Volume and The Ephemeral. The installation invited the audience to dive into a poetic and sensual dreamscape to experience the fascination of the intangible.
MADE is a Berlin-based 430m2 space, offering creative minds a free platform to exchange ideas and work together on interdisciplinary projects. Founded by artist tadiROCK with the wish to make unusual collaborations possible, MADE brings together artists from various fields and encourages them to work outside of comfort zones and daily routines.
www.made-blog.com
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Hermès Furniture
From April 12th to 17th 2011, Hermès took part in the Milan International Furniture Show for the first time. In a space specially conceived by Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines at La Pelota, on Via Palermo, Hermès presented a comprehensive range of designs for the home, including its first line of contemporary furniture, an extensive range of furnishing fabrics, wallpaper and carpets.
The collections will be available from September 2011 at selected Hermès stores around the world.
www.hermes.com
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Albert Watson Retrospective
Albert Watson has shot over 200 covers of Vogue around the world and more than 40 covers of Rolling Stone since he started his career as a photographer in the 1970s. Apart from that, he is renowned for his work in fashion, celebrity and art photography. Being featured in galleries and museums worldwide, the photographs of the native-born Scotsman, who is blind on one eye, are considered as timeless and iconic.
Kahman Gallery will show 30 black and white photographs taken from the oeuvre of Albert Watson. The exhibition will take place from May 20th until July 9th 2011 in Amsterdam.
Lindengracht 35
1015 KB Amsterdam
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PUMA.Creative
Isaac Julien - Mazu, Turning
(Ten Thousand Waves)
PUMA.Creative and the Bass Museum of Art have announced a three-year partnership as part of the launch of the Creative Caribbean Network, an initiative dedicated to promoting the work of Caribbean artists.
Isaac Julien, Stefano Tonchi
and Jochen Zeitz
© Alex Markow, worldredeye.com
To launch the initiative, the Bass Museum of Art and PUMA.Creative to present a solo exhibition of work by the celebrated artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien in a project entitled Isaac Julien/ Creative Caribbean Network. Presented from December 2nd, 2010 through March 6th, 2011, this exhibition will open to the public concurrent to Art Basel Miami Beach.
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Lonely Fruit
Lonely Fuit
A solo exhibition with Alastair Philip Wiper
Opening Thursday, November 18th from 18:00 hrs - open end.
SOTO Berlin
Torstr. 72
10119 Berlin
Germany
aliwiper.wordpress.com
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Persona
Persona, a collection of work by Hadley Hudson is a series about the other side of the fashion industry... A side that one seldom sees. It is an inverse view into the private spheres of the models who we normally see in the most public way - magazines, advertising, tabloids and reality TV.
Hadley Hudson has taken her camera to Paris, New York, Berlin and London and photographed models in their 'natural habitat' - their bedrooms and private spheres. From model apartments, to squats, to their parents’ apartments, each photograph tells the story of an individual struggling to 'make it' with their beauty in an industry notorious for consuming and disposing of 'new faces.' It is a poignant and very personal view into an otherwise unseen world.
FotoDoks
Aktuelle Dokumentar Fotografie
October 14th - 17th, 2010
Vernissage
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
From 19:00 hrs
Puerto Giesing (Ex Hertie)
Tegernseer Landstrasse 64
Munich
Germany
puerto-giesing.de
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STROKE.03
STROKE.03 in Berlin
October 7th - 10th
STATION-BERLIN
Luckenwalder Strasse 4-6
10963 Berlin
Germany
www.stroke03.com
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Exactitudes
Ruttkowski 68 is a contemporary art gallery in Cologne, Germany. Founded in 2010 it shows domestic and international artists.
Starting on 3rd February the gallery will show the exhibition Exactitudes, which is a long-term photo project by photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek. It is a systematical documentation of social groups and their appearance. Each of their series is strictly structured and shows twelve similar persons, visually reminding of the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Some of the groups belong to subcultures, others don’t, yet they all share a characteristical dress code and usually the same poses.
From 3rd February until March 18th. Mon-Fri 15-20h, Sat-Sun 17-20h, Tue closed and by appointment. Bismarckstrasse 68, 50672 Köln.
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Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century
The Groninger Museum will present an exhibition entitled Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century. It displays the most fantastic Alaïa fashion creations of the last ten years. Tunisian-born Alaïa is one of the last major couturiers still active and one of the most important fashion designers of the last decades. His name stands for glamour, sensuality, style, cut, self-confidence, comfort and, of course, sex appeal.
During the exhibition period, the Groninger Museum will organize special step-in guided tours on the theme of Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century. The exhibition has been compiled by curator Mark Wilson.
Azzedine Alaïa, Summer-fall 2003, Photo: Robert Kot, ©Azzedine Alaïa.
Azzedine Alaïa, couture winter 2011, Photo: Robert Kot, ©Azzedine Alaïa.
From 11th December 2011 to 6th May 2012 at Groninger Museum, Museumeiland 1, 9711 ME Groningen.
www.groningermuseum.nl
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My Quiet of Gold
Gestalten is proud to present My Quiet of Gold by Cooper & Gorfer, a striking photographic journey documenting the stories of love, sorrow, and betrayal from rural Kyrgyzstan.
The artist duo Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer work at the intersection of contemporary photography with painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Their photographic installations move fluidly between reality and imagination, technical and artistic interpretation, and collective myth and personal narrative.
For their exhibition My Quiet of Gold, Cooper and Gorfer traveled to the rural areas of Kyrgyzstan to collect sagas and stories in conversations and interviews with local inhabitants.
Out of these tales, the duo created striking photographic portraits that go far beyond mere documentation to tell and visually interpret romantic-melancholy stories in completely new and non-linear ways.
Date:
October 27, 2011 - November 27, 2011
Vernisage:
October 27, 2011, 18:00 - 21:00
Location:
Gestalten Space
Sophie-Gips-Höfe
Sophienstraße 21
10178 Berlin
Germany
www.gestalten.com/space
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RAPPORT
A fascinating experiment with space
The exhibit “RAPPORT. Experimentelle Raumstrukturen.” (‘Repeat Pattern. Experimental Spatial Structures’) offers new insights into Jürgen Mayer H.'s interdisciplinary mindset and his approach to design. His team developed a walkable installation for the 10-metre-high lobby at the Berlinische Galerie.
The walls and floor are fitted with carpet printed with black & green data backup patterns. The highly magnified repeat pattern creates a kind of ‘continuous flicker’, the lobby is transformed into an interesting scenario composed of shapes and structures that flow into and away from each other.
The perfectly sized 800 m2 carpet from Vorwerk acts as a fundamental element of the spatial architecture thereby. Visitors explore, sense and grasp the space via the carpet.
photos by Ludger Paffrath, Berlin
From the 16th of September, 2011 to the 9th of April, 2012 at Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128, 10969 Berlin. Daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Tuesdays.
www.berlinischegalerie.de
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Transmission 1
Raf Simons, famous for his eponymous menswear label and his work as head designer at Jil Sander, recently curated the project AVANT/GARDE DIARIES Berlin, during the three-day festival Transmission 1. Not only because of his work and his collections, but also for his choice of music, his unique vision and the artists he is working with, he sets himself apart as one of the most talented people of our generation. The idea of the festival initiated by Mercedes-Benz, was to invite the international avant-garde as well as the general public and offer a creative platform for the discussion of social and contemporary issues relating to art, fashion, music, culture and the automobile.
Transmission 1 was presented in Berlin's Congress Hall (BCC), a striking example of Herman Henselmann's post-war architectural work that sets itself apart through transparency, clear forms and interesting details. The showcase included a performance by Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark who, together with his company, performed one of his famous pieces to the music of David Bowie.
Dutch artist Germaine Krup showed two gigantic art installations, converting a space into a stage on which the visitor becomes an actor. The program also included work art director Peter Saville, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, writer Jo-Ann Furniss and performances by electro rock band Goose and These New Puritans. Cinema-lovers could watch some of Raf’s favorite movies during the three-day festival, including one of Zoo Magazine's favorites: Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.
www.theavantgardediaries.com
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Swatch MTV Playground
Dedicated to creativity, Swatch MTV Playground, has taken the freshest, most creative aspects of fashion and music and brought them together in a series of exciting and vibrant digital conversations, which give a fascinating insight into how the two influence and interact with each other. Launched on March 22nd, Swatch MTV Playground has lined up a series of leading fashion industry figures. First is iconic fashion photographer Rankin, who shot some of the biggest names in music, fashion, film and politics such as Madonna, Jay-Z, Colin Firth and Prince William.
During May designer Alex Noble and prop and accessory maker Fred Butler, creative minds behind some of Lady Gaga's outfits will join as guest editors.
Alongside interviews with designers and artists, news, reports and exhibition preview, the site will feature the Editor's daily blog and guest editor weekly blogs
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Gestalten Space
Committed to put out work that pushes contemporary creative expression to new frontiers, Gestalten published over 400 books that embody the zeitgeist and anticipate vital design movements, thereby serving up cutting-edge creativity for design aficionados. In addition to that, Gestalten now openend Gestalten Space, an expansive, multifaceted, 350 square-meter space located in the heart of Berlin-Mitte, incorporating both shop and gallery to present exhibitions and a platform for exchange.
A selection of recent books from their comprehensive collection, as well as coveted, hard-to-find archive titles will be on sale alongside designer toys and a striking selection of handpicked products by designers, presented through their publications.
For their opening show, Gestalten Space presents Cutters Edges, assembled by American artist and curator James Gallagher. Bringing together over 50 international artists and showcasing more than 160 works, Cutters Edges illustrates the range and depth of inspiring work, celebrating a new heyday of contemporary collage.
Sophie-Gips-Höfe
Sophienstraße 21
10178 Berlin
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Rotor presents Ex limbo
Ex limbo, the project presented by Rotor at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, is an investigation of the architectural and scenographic elements realized for the fashion show sets designed by Prada and OMA for more than a decade. After being used, they returned to a status of raw materials and were placed in storage at different locations. The starting point of this project is a curiosity for the materials used, the reasons why they have been conserved, and how this was practically managed.
Rotor’s work consists in bringing forth the ‘remnants’ of a world that after a moment of meaningful splendor is discarded and put in limbo, inviting a second look at the forgotten. The Fogazzaro exhibition space hosts a labyrinth of elements that bear witness, simultaneously, to the amount of work involved in producing each fashion show, and to the silent existence of its materialization beyond the event: ex limbo.
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Ilias Ernst
While finishing his studies of Product Design and Engineering, Ernst Koning is already realizing his own work. His interior design products capture attention as they are surprising and beautiful but also functional and ready for production at the same time.
“Make the world a more beautiful place with my designs and surprise people with them” is Ernst's mission and the motivation to move on with the company ILIAS ERNST that he just founded.
For him, interior design is an art form. Ernst tries to put his inspiration that he gets from his environment and experiences in daily life into a wider conext. When he looks at a nail, he transfers this simple product into a new one with a completely different use. To stick to the example of the nail, the result is the lamp nail cloud.
www.iliasernst.nl
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Rock Diary
Introducing Sam Adams / Hedi Slimane Rock Diary
www.hedislimane.com
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Hugo Boss
Prize 2010
Winner Hans-Peter Feldmann, Claus-Dietrich Lahrs / CEO and Chairman Hugo Boss
On Thursday night, November 4th, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Hugo Boss announced that the German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann is the recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize 2010.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The continuity and success of Hugo Boss' support for the arts is reflected in the Hugo Boss Prize, which has now been an art world institution for 14 years. Administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the award was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art every second year. Hans-Peter Feldmann, who will receive a stipend of USD 100,000, was selected by an international jury of museum curators and directors. A solo exhibition featuring the artist’s work will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum from May 20th through September 5th, 2011.
www.hugoboss.com
www.guggenheim.org
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BLOOOM
From October 29th to November 1st 2010, BLOOOM opens its doors for everyone whose creativity can’t be pressured into a rigid genre. Synchronized to ART.FAIR 21 - Fair for 21st Century Art - both will take place at the Staatenhaus am Rheinpark.
Location
Staatenhaus am Rheinpark, Auenweg 17, 50679 Cologne
Schedule
Friday, October 29th to Monday, November 1st 2010
Friday to Sunday from 13:00 to 21:00 hrs, Monday from 12:00 to 20:00 hrs
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DAA:
The First Decade
Frank Horvat, 'Mona & Malte'
Ten years ago Designers against AIDS was born, introducing remarkable campaigns like ‘Fashion against AIDS’ in collaboration with numerous fashion companies, the best photographers, designers, pop- and rockstars and artists, who all commited to DAA’s goal to bring more awareness on HIV/AIDS, in a positive and constructive way. Creating beauty as a substitute for the negative, stigmatized image that comes with being seropositive.
Eva Vermandel, 'Cli, After Swimming'
Douglas Friedman, 'Jellyfish'
After this first decade there is still a lot of work to be done. Founder Ninette Murk of art collective Beauty without Irony (the parent company of DAA) was asked to translate her no-nonsense message of beauty, positivity and tolerance into a book and Designers against AIDS: The First Decade became a fact.
Ali Mahdavi, 'My Baby'
Taking you back to the ten first years of the organisation, the book highlights defining moments in the different campaigns and initiatives of DAA and shows the most beautiful pictures. Next to founder of DAA and Beauty without Irony Ninette Murk’s story, Peter Piot -former chairman of UNAIDS- and philosopher-writer Alain de Botton contribute to this book.
Publishing date: October 29th, 2010
Softcover / English / 25 x 13 cm / 160 pp. / 29.90 euro / ISBN 978-90-5544-841-8
www.designersagainstaids.com
Olaf Breuning, 'Clouds'
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Chloe Piene
New York and Berlin based artist Chloe Piene will be displaying her second solo exhibition 'Eiserne Frau' at the Barbara Thumm Gallery.
Piene is well known for her range of materials and subject matter. Taking a deeply philosophical stand in all of her work, she manages to create meaningful as well as extremely energetic pieces. Even by drawing a silhouette on black silk paper, a sense of calmness yet urging is conveyed by Piene's work.
Chloe Piene, © Chloe Piene
Chloe Piene, Octohand Wax, 2011, Wax, 50.8 x 38.1 x 27.9 cm, variable, Photo: Jens Ziehe
Chloe Piene, Nix, 2011, Chalk on Black Silk Paper, 127 x 50,8 cm, Photo: Jens Ziehe
From 14th January - 3rd March 2012 at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Markgrafenstrasse 68, 10969 Berlin.
Opening hours: Tue – Sat 11am to 6pm.
www.bthumm.de
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Goudemalion
Les Arts Décoratifs organised A Retrospective of the Life and Work of Jean-Paul Goude. The first exhibition of Jean-Paul Goude depicts the retrospective and creative vision of his work, encompassing all his areas of activity, from fashion and photography to advertising and the live event. The career of this pioneering artist and image manipulator spans his work as an illustrator, art editor, photographer and filmmaker, in media ranging from the press to music and advertising. He is above all a creator who has succeeded in inventing a style, a universe, and even, as this exhibition’s title humorously evokes, his own personal mythology.
From 11 November 2011- 18 March 2012 at Les Arts Décoratifs – Nef, 107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris.
www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr
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Carte Blanche
Four times a year, Club Silencio will invite an artist to spend a week programming the club's various artistic worlds. The artist will be given a 'Carte Blanche' to curate the club: from a literary, cinema, and music selection, to a culinary program and special bar menu. Each guest artist will also produce a work of art to commemorate the 'Carte Blanche' at Silencio.
The first week-long Carte Blanche event will take place between October 21 and 27 and will welcome David Lynch, the multidisciplinary artist who designed Club Silencio.
A limited edition of the Wire Chair designed by David Lynch will be exhibited in the window of Colette. During this period, this limited edition of 25 will be exclusively sold at Colette.
www.silencio-club.com
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Stamped Objects
For over 15 years Paul Smith has been intrigued by the mysterious ‘Stamped Objects’, that he has received through the post from an unknown admirer.
The ‘Stamped Collection’ includes a large variety of everyday objects that have been stamped and posted to Paul. The objects first started arriving in the mid 90s, without packaging, from the United States.
The stamped objects are usually housed in Paul’s office alongside the quirky curios that he has collected from around the globe. However, they have gained notoriety amongst Paul’s fans after a much celebrated exhibition at the Daelim Contemporary Art Museum which took place in Korea last year. This was the first time that the entire collection had been displayed for all to see. It was a wonderful occasion for people to share in Paul’s intrigue.
Starting from 13th October, for the first time in Europe, a large part of Paul’s collection will be exhibited in the Paul Smith shop in Antwerp.
Paul Smith - Kelderstraat 2-3,
2000 Antwerpen
Exhibition dates:
13th October - 11th November 2011
www.paulsmith.co.uk
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Desire is WAR
From July 7th until 31st, the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal National Museum in Romania presents the group-exhibition Desire is WAR. The exhibiton questions the social perception of queer culture in Romania, a country in which sexual morality remains under the heavy domination of religion, exaggerated discourse and facile mythologies.
Even though the degree of tolerance towards sexual minorities has increased recently, understanding, respect, and real political acceptance of minorities are far from being widespread. Therefore Desire is WAR sheds light to the problems of the queer community, its dilemmas and possible solutions of transforming gaps between heterosexual and queer norms into forms of expressions and ways of understanding cultural and sexual difference.
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The Pain of Desire
Known for her refreshing and alternative approach on fashion photography for leading publications around the world, British artist Wendy Bevan will exhibit an entirely new collection of painterly femme fatales in her first UK solo show, opening on June 16th at Cob Gallery, Camden.
Entitled The Pain of Desire, the exhibition will explore the theatricality of female desire, and the inner pain suffered through the pursuit of prescribed and aspirational notions of identity and success. At once beautiful yet haunting, nostalgic yet timeless, Bevan’s surreal staged moments are captured on Polaroid. Each hand-printed, Bevan’s intimate, otherworldly studies of mysterious female characters will be displayed in found, antique frames sourced by the artist, the frame an extension of the piece.
www.cobgallery.com
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Inspiration Dior
After presenting his first collection at Avenue Montaigne on February 12th, 1947, Christian Dior entered a triumphant decade, providing women with regal bearing and a sublime look. A Dior flower-woman blossomed in the post-war era was soon to conquer the world with infinite grace.
The exhibition Inspiration Dior at the Pushkin Museum Moscow from April 28th to July 24th 2011, demonstrates how inspiration has nourished the heart of Dior for decades. This journey guides the visitor through the Dior artistic creative sources of fashion and its links to history, nature, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and film.
The key themes of the Dior legend – past and present – are presented on a grand scale in original fashion, set against unique works of art. It is a journey of corresponding elements and magical synergies, where the new look is echoed in works by Picasso, Modigliani, Renoir, Cezanne or even Gauguin.
www.dior.com
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It Was Once
A Paradise
For many decades now, Nobuyoshi Araki’s central themes have been sex and death. According to the 71 year old photographer they have always co-existed, depended on each other: there can be no lust for life, without the threat of death.
The exhibition It Was Once A Paradise, that will take place in Galerie Alex Daniels – Reflex Amsterdam from April 23rd until July 16th 2011, is an unprecedented array of stunning new work of the world famous photographer. In this as-yet-unseen collection of devastating new works by the world-famous Japanese photographer, it is not so much death he is concerned with, but grief. In each of these 40 diptychs, he addresses the complex relationship between loss and desire, which translates as despair and hope, separation and symbiosis, the internal and the other.
www.arakinobuyoshi.com
www.reflexamsterdam.com
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Ulalume
The paintings of Yesim Akdeniz Graf (Izmir, Turkey, 1978) can be read as mysterious stills from a film. A narrative that slowly unfolds in the successive parts of a series, but that never fully reveals itself. Akdeniz Graf derived the title and dramatic composition for her third solo exhibition at Galerie Fons Welters from the poem by Edgar Allan Poe, whose persona wanders forlorn through an October night – 'The skies they were ashen and sober; / The leaves they were crispèd and sere.'
Yesim Akdeniz Graf
Ulalume
Galerie Fons Welters
March 5th until April 2nd
Opening: March 5th, 17:00 - 19:00 hrs
Opening hours: Tues - Sat, 13:00 - 18:00 hrs
Galerie Fons Welters
Bloemstraat 140
1016 LJ Amsterdam
www.fonswelters.nl
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Shadowplay
Louis Vuitton presents Shadowplay by Hans-Peter Feldmann.
In a unique event organised in cooperation with Louis Vuitton, the artist Hans-Peter Feldmann will be showcasing his famous light installation, entitled Shadowplay, on a screen on the site fence in front of the new Louis Vuitton Maison in the former Munich Residenzpost building. From the November 19th, 2010 until the end of January, 2011, the art project will be on display for the public from dusk onwards.
The original of the artwork, which was filmed in advance for the installation at the old Residenzpost building, will be presented at the Pinakothek der Moderne as part of the artist’s exhibition from the 19th of November 2010 until mid-February 2011.
www.louisvuitton.com
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John Baldessari at Fondazione Prada
The Prada Foundation announces the forthcoming exhibition, devoted to the artist John Baldessari, which will be held at Via Fogazzaro 36 in Milan, until December 31st, 2010.
Couresy of the artist and Fondazione Prada
Photography Roberto Marozzi
The California artist has conceived an entirely original project for the Prada Foundation, titled The Giacometti Variations. It consists of a series of huge figures 15 feet tall, inspired by the imagination of the Swiss sculptor, which will be clothed and outfitted with garments and objects designed by Baldessari himself, thus forming a hypothetical, though immobile, fashion show. It captures an idea of integration and dialogue between art and fashion, where the osmosis between model and sculpted figure becomes a declaration of mutual attraction and communication.
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Stag Film
Steven Klein: Stag Film
Book release, Fall 2010
JMc & GHB Editions announce its latest publication Stag Film, by photographer Steven Klein. This is Klein’s second photographic artist book, following his 2003 collaboration with Madonna, X-STaTIC PRO-CeSS. In Stag Film Klein reproduces and sequences 60 black-and-white images culled from a larger photographic series on horse studding produced by the photographer. The process of horse studding has fascinated Klein, a well known horse enthusiast and competitor, and in Stag Film he trains his camera on the horse breeding routine involved in collecting a stallion’s semen for implanting in mares.
Stag Film is issued in an edition of 2000 copies and a limited, signed edition of 100 copies. The limited edition comes with an original, framed black & white photograph, signed by Klein. The frame is a traditional portrait frame procurable at your local department store. With it, collectors can add Klein’s horse to their extended family album. An additional deluxe edition is planned of 10 copies, with a custom box, a signed print, and a horse condom laid in.
The trade edition is priced $50.
The limited edition is priced $1250.
The deluxe edition is priced $7500.
To order copies of Stag Film, contact the gallery at +1 212-754-5626 or info@johnmcwhinnie.com.