Coup de coeur pour le travail d’Antonio Vicentini, un réalisateur et animateur brésilien. Avec l’aide de BIlly Brown pour les illustrations, ce dernier nous propose de découvrir l’évolution des appareils photos à travers une vidéo en pixel art du plus bel effet.
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Mongolian sartorialists and military simplicity in an avant-garde collection
Decoster Concept is a new design project created by Ziggy Chen (Chinese: Chen Xiang), a well-known fashion designer from Shanghai and founder of Decoster. Decoster Concept is a high level, conceptual label launched in the second half of 2011. The creative research behind the project, the attentive selection of fabrics and the limited number of pieces for each garment make Decoster Concept one of the most exclusive brands in China.
In a new, dark, warehouse-like space in Beijing’s North Village, contemporary minimalism is mixed with different sources of inspiration: Inner-Mongolia’s desolate, windy grasslands and sartorial culture meet the austerity of military uniforms. Monks, herders, soldiers—all icons of a strict simplicity that breaks the often baroque standards of commonplace Chinese style. Colors disappear and give way to a game of light and darkness that recalls the concept of taoist duality and interdependency.
At the same time, in the lines and carefree look of the garments lies the concept of traveling, wandering to remote lands and the inspiring power of vast empty places. This trend to simplicity and a specific inclination to fine craftsmanship seems to be the key elements of what could be the future of Chinese style, a style with ancient roots that has been covered by a century of turmoil and by decades of frenzied development.
See more of Decoster Concept in their SS12 Collection runway show.
Decoster Concept
224/2F No.6 Building
123 Nong, Xingye Rd
Luwan District (xintiandi), Shanghai
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NLG-01, 02, North Village
No.11 Sanlitun Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing
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Artifacts collected from Doug Aitken’s cinematic installation
Following his lauded MoMA installation “Sleepwalkers” (2007), Doug Aitken has just released a limited edition box set of materials related to the project in collaboration with Princeton Architectural Press and DFA Records. The original piece turned MoMA’s multiple courtyard facades into an interactive multiplex, simultaneously screening eight vignettes that each starred a different character. For fans of Aitken, the 1,000 numbered box sets—which cover the video project, music and stills—bring a new life to his ambitious project, providing insight into the process behind the work.
Accompanying the DVD of the installation are two audio CDs and a vinyl disc, both of which are covered by original artwork by Aitken. Designed specifically to be spun at 33rpm, the record comes to life with an animation when played. The CDs act as soundtracks to Sleepwalkers, and the record includes three unreleased tracks by Broadcast in addition to an opera from Aitken entitled “The Handle Comes Up, The Hammer Comes Down”.
An interview on the DVD between architect Jacque Herzog and Aitken anticipates the installation of Sleepwalkers on the soon-to-open new location of the Miami Art Museum, which was designed by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. As with all publications from Princeton Architectural Press, the box and components are meticulously bound to create a visually striking collection.
The look of the original exhibition at MoMA is replicated in miniature form in two flip books in the set, and Aitken provides a double-sided poster as well—one side original artwork, the other a collage of movie stills and inspiration. Aside from the film itself, the most compelling piece is a book that shows the creation of Sleepwalkers through images and text. All told, the collection marks a testament to the artist’s prolific range and talent across mediums.
The Sleepwalkers Box is available online through www.sleepwalkersbox.com for $300.
Four standout unorthodox artists
Known for its avant-garde, outsider artwork and selection of smaller independent galleries, the Fountain Art Fair can easily be likened to the rebellious kid sibling amongst the Armory Show’s satellite art fairs. Despite being in a new location this year—the 69th Regiment Armory building (renowned for housing the original 1913 Armory show)—Fountain’s 60-plus galleries and exhibitors reliably showcased the same punkish, boundary-pushing attitude that has become the show’s trademark. Here are four artists whose work caught our eye and lingered on our minds after a dizzying day of art-spotting.
To create her larger-than-life drawings, Brooklyn-based artist Leah Yerpe photographs dancing subjects prior to composing a photo collage of the bodies in contorted postures, which she then replicates in magnificent detail with charcoal on plain paper. Void of any background, Yerpe’s work conveys a beautiful state of uncertainty as the tumbling bodies could either be in a state of combat or joyful movement.
A newly-formed collaboration between Ray Sweeten, a sound and visual artist, and artist and set designer Lisa Gwilliam, DataSpaceTime only debuted its first artworks this past fall. Their collection at Microscope Gallery is composed of modern-day portraiture that reflects its subjects not only through the eyes of the artist, but also in terms of how others portray him or her.
The duo calls on technology to create and enhance portraits composed from thousands of unique QR codes. Once viewers download a show-specific smartphone app, scanning any one of the QR codes will link to further interactive data pertaining to the portrait’s subject. Several of the codes from a portrait of Mitt Romney connected to YouTube videos about the presidential hopeful.
Street artist gilf! tests the eye and delivers a potent wake-up call with her spray-painted metal dialogues, presented in the style of classic optometry exams. At first disorienting, it’s nearly impossible to walk by without stopping to read her rousing messages about using one’s eyes, from “Take off your blinders,” to “Stop looking the other way.”
Best known for her recent work “The Birth of Baby X”, in which she actually gave birth to her first child in an art gallery, Marni Kotak reprises the theme of childbirth and its postpartum aspects in three different performance pieces. The first focuses on her own personal experience with postpartum depression, featuring a bedridden Kotak surrounded by authentic items from the episode, as well as her own writings and audio-recorded memories. The second and third pieces incorporate her child Ajax, who acts as both subject and collaborator as he is outfitted with a video camera of his own throughout the show.
Fountain Art Fair runs through the Sunday, 11 March, 2012.
Nicholas Tee Ruiz a eu l’excellente idée de penser cette collection d’objets insolites. Sous le nom de “Bow Tie Collection“, cet artiste nous propose de découvrir des noeuds papillon avec des assemblages de bouchons, de legos ou encore de pilules. Plus dans la suite.
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Portraits of women in the wild offer a striking exploration of femininity and nature
In her new book Rewilding, Cass Bird exuberantly dances around the defining lines of femininity, sexuality and the human connection to nature. Shedding gender definitions, and, at times, their clothes in the hilly countryside of Tennessee, Bird’s models are perfectly atypical. Without commentary, the photos themselves vigorously pose questions of androgyny, leaving the answers up to the viewer.
With the typical charm of Bird’s photos—energetic, young, enigmatic—this collection presents an exceptional set of characters and locations. Cast from friends, colleagues and the streets of New York City, Bird’s subjects are both the definition and antithesis of femininity. The women take their rightful place among the flora of the South, running wild in the outdoors and creating scenarios historically romanticized for men with complete and total ease. This line between the feminine and masculine, the borders set by society defining the place and role of genders, is elegantly smudged by Bird’s portraits, in which those ideas melt away completely.
Though distinctly ambiguous and casual, the photos still maintain the rampant sexual energy present in the subjects’ youth, and each one reveals a little more about the universally attractive cast. Stylistically, the book falls in line with her other work, but the narrative seems unique for Bird and we are truly excited to see what she has up next.
Signed copies of the book and limited edition prints are available from the artist’s website.
Une série de photographies pensée par l’artiste Peter Lippmann qui a parcouru depuis plusieurs années des campagnes perdues pour trouver des voitures anciennes envahies par la flore. Les clichés obtenus impressionnent par leur poésie et leur beauté. Plus dans la suite.
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L’artiste Niege Borges Alves a eu l’idée de créer une série d’illustrations mettant en avant les chorégraphies et les scènes de danse les plus connus du cinéma et de la TV. Visuellement réussis, ces images sont tirées de Pulp Fiction, Arrested Development ou encore Napoleon Dynamite.
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Voici aujourd’hui le lancement de la collection de lunettes de vues et de solaires Fubiz. Conçue en collaboration avec Jimmy Fairly pour des paires en édition limitée à 100 exemplaires. Découvrez un shooting complet réalisé par Bertrand Bruandet dans la suite de l’article.
Les lunettes de vues : Fubiz Black Edition / Fubiz White Edition.
En versions solaires : Black / White. Shooting par Bertrand Bruandet.
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