Jordan Wolfs, Female Figure, 2014 and Colored Sculpture, 2016, Installation View In a recent interview Jordan Wolfson artist traced a cycle of works produced since 2009 back to a moment of eye-contact: “It is something that became clear to me in Your Napoleon (2009) […]. For that work, I kept trying to figure out how… Continue reading Artist: Jordan Wolfson
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Hood By Air Menswear Spring 2017, Paris
Hood By Air Menswear Spring 2017, Paris Hood By Air makes things difficult. These images were shot days after its Spring 2017 show in Paris, a frenzied cruise in semi-darkness through a gay sauna in a seedy part of the Marais that culminated in a synchronized swim in the hammam’s subterranean pool (don’t think: Busby… Continue reading Hood By Air Menswear Spring 2017, Paris
Vetements Spring 2017 Ready To Wear, Couture Season Fall 2016, Paris
Vetements Spring 2017 Ready To Wear, Couture Season Fall 2016, Paris The Gvasalia brothers, Demna, the designer, and Guram, the business brains behind the Vetements phenomenon, pulled off a coup for the fashion credibility of Paris with a show in the Galeries Lafayette tonight. On many levels, it was an event which satirically contravened half… Continue reading Vetements Spring 2017 Ready To Wear, Couture Season Fall 2016, Paris
Raf Simons Menswear Spring 2017, Florence
Raf Simons Menswear Spring 2017, Florence Earlier this year, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation contacted Raf Simons. They asked if he’d like to work with them on something. He said yes. That’s the shorthand version of the story behind the collection he presented at Pitti Immagine Uomo, perfectly chimed with a duo of Mapplethorpe exhibitions at… Continue reading Raf Simons Menswear Spring 2017, Florence
Gosha Rubchinskiy Menswear Spring 2017 Florence
Gosha Rubchinskiy Menswear Spring 2017, Florence A change of scenery, a change of pace. The menswear designer invited by Pitti Immagine to stage a show in Florence for Spring 2017 is Gosha Rubchinskiy. Moscow born, based, and somewhat obsessed, his collections thus far have unraveled his Soviet identity, nostalgically harking back to the time… Continue reading Gosha Rubchinskiy Menswear Spring 2017 Florence
Tim Coppens Menswear, Spring 2017, New York
Tim Coppens Menswear, Spring 2017, New York Remember clubbing? Do people still do that? You know—roll deep, head to some warehouse where the music is so loud it obliterates all reality, and emerge busted at sunrise to face the city you left behind the night before. That kind of clubbing. Tim Coppens remembers those… Continue reading Tim Coppens Menswear, Spring 2017, New York
Christopher Kane Fall 2016, Ready To Wear, London
Christopher Kane, Ready To Wear, Fall 2016, London “Our mum used to embarrass us when she picked us up from school wearing one of those plastic rain hats,” said Tammy Kane, Christopher Kane’s sister. The very private world of the Kanes and their memories of growing up outside Glasgow in the ’90s will always inform Christopher… Continue reading Christopher Kane Fall 2016, Ready To Wear, London
Balenciaga, Ready To Wear, Paris, Fall 2016
Demna Gvasalia for Balenciaga, Ready To Wear, Paris, Fall 2016 “How do you persuade a woman to wear a two-piece suit who is not the German Chancellor?” asked Demna Gvasalia, who has spent the last six months looking into the Balenciaga archive and methodically thinking through how the essence of Cristóbal Balenciaga can be relevant… Continue reading Balenciaga, Ready To Wear, Paris, Fall 2016
Martine Syms, Fact and Trouble, ICA London, Exhibition
Martine Syms, Fact and Trouble, Lessons I-XXX, 2014, Motivational Text Message and Installation View of Fact and Trouble, 2016 Fact & Trouble is an exhibition by American artist Martine Syms that examines the space between lived experience and its representation. Syms’s video series Lessons (ongoing), on view at the ICA, is a long, incomplete poem in… Continue reading Martine Syms, Fact and Trouble, ICA London, Exhibition
This is Exile: Diaries of Child Refugees, 2015
Mani Yassir Benchelah, This is Exile: Diaries of Child Refugees, Film stills, 2015 Over the course of a year, Emmy-award-winning director Mani Yassir Benchelah made this intimate portrait of Syrian refugee children forced to flee from the violence of civil war to neighboring Lebanon. The documentary allows the children to tell their stories in their… Continue reading This is Exile: Diaries of Child Refugees, 2015
Sarah Abu Abdallah: You Will Never Have Full Custody of Your Life
Sarah Abu Abdallah, The Salad Zone, 2013, Saudi Automobil, 2012 and Video Still from The Salad Zone, 2013 Sarah Abu Abdallah works primarily with video and film as a medium. She grew up in Qatif, Saudi Arabia has an MFA in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent participations include include Prospectif Cinema Filter Bubble… Continue reading Sarah Abu Abdallah: You Will Never Have Full Custody of Your Life
Lars Laumann
Lars Laumann, Season of Migration to the North, 2015, Kari & Knut, 2009-2010 and Duett (Med styrken i vår tro i en sang, i en sang), 2010 The exhibition Kompendium with the Norwegian artist Lars Laumann features a selection of video works from 2006 until today. By filming, editing, and juxtaposing a mix of… Continue reading Lars Laumann
Nordeste, 2005 by Juan Diego Solanas
Nordeste film is a 2005 Argentina-French drama-thriller film directed by Juan Diego Solanas. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Felix Monti’s widescreen cinematography shows drop-dead views of the misty green countryside that seems to stretch out endlessly. This is a story about a childless Frenchwoman who travels… Continue reading Nordeste, 2005 by Juan Diego Solanas
Painting: Max Schmidtlein
Max Schmidtlein, Hallo, 2014 and Head and Shoulders, 2015 Max Schmidtlein’s solo exhibition Detox Plus is a highly contemporary painting exhibition. ‘Not another “contemporary” painting show’, you might say. Yet more painting that wants to do everything differently. Painting that acts oh so aware of media issues and its own implication in the mechanisms of both on-… Continue reading Painting: Max Schmidtlein
Artist: Carl Mannov, Low Man on the Totem Pole
Carl Mannov ,Motorcycles and flames 7, 2015 and i’m_too_sad_to_tell_you.fla, 2015 Carl Mannov is a trolley. C-A-R-L-M-A-N-N-O-V. The letters are sprayed in black. Wooden floor. Metal frame. Sturdy wheels. It would be disappointed if merely left with the task of wheeling paintings around. This trolley has other talents. This trolley is able to carry that weight. This… Continue reading Artist: Carl Mannov, Low Man on the Totem Pole
Sculpture: Zuzanna Czebatu
Zuzanna Czebatu, Happy-Go-Lucky-No I – III, 2016 and Within Meadows And Rolling Hills, 2016 Zuzanna Czebatul (born in 1986, Miedzyszecz) lives and works in New York. She graduated from the Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main in 2013. She is currently working towards her MFA at Hunter College, New York, as Fulbright Fellow. She is also a recipient of the 2015… Continue reading Sculpture: Zuzanna Czebatu
Rosetta, 1999 by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Rosetta is a 1999 French-Belgian film written and directed by the Dardenne brothers. It is about a seventeen-year-old girl (played by Émilie Dequenne) who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother. Trying to survive and to escape her situation, she makes numerous attempts towards securing a job allowing her to move away from… Continue reading Rosetta, 1999 by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Offside, 2006 by Jafar Panahi
Offside (Persian: آفساید ) is a 2006 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, about girls who try to watch a World Cup qualifying match but are forbidden by law because of their sex. Female fans are not allowed to enter football stadiums in Iran on the grounds that there will be a high risk of… Continue reading Offside, 2006 by Jafar Panahi
Post-Capitalism: The End of Capitalism Has Begun
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian. he red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek… Continue reading Post-Capitalism: The End of Capitalism Has Begun
Thomas Tait Spring Summer 2016
Thomas Tait Spring Summer 2016 Thomas Tait’s show this afternoon was one of those odd outings that don’t seem at first to be up to much, but then accrue in force as the looks accumulate. The impact of Tait’s latest collection generated from the ways the clothes forced your engagement, whether via the play of… Continue reading Thomas Tait Spring Summer 2016