Armé de marqueurs noirs, l’artiste japonais Yosuke Goda parvient à donner la vie à un organisme impressionnant sur des murs blancs. Dessinant du plancher au plafond, il a dessiné un monstre avec des détailes sublimes. Une création très réussie à découvrir dans la suite.
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L’artiste Tony Orrico compose des oeuvres en très grand format. Lui prenant souvent plusieurs heures, il utilise son corps pour créer des dessins impressionnants, ses performances semblent proches d’une chorégraphie. Plus de visuels de ses différentes oeuvres dans la suite de l’article.
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Avec cette vidéo réalisée par Rogier Wieland, la marque Moleskine cherche à montrer qu’elle propose aussi des sacs au delà de leurs fameux carnets. Une vidéo utilisant le dessin à main levée, le stop-motion et d’autres techniques. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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This exhibition designed by Gitta Gschwendtner for London’s Somerset House displayed fashion drawings on gauze-covered boxes.
Designed to showcase work by 20th century illustrator René Gruau for fashion brand Dior, the exhibition opened with a collage of posters featuring Gruau’s work, incased in a eight-metre box with a timber frame and coloured gauze covering.
Similar structures were used to hang works in the exhibition itself, while smaller stacked boxes spelled out the exhibition name.
Grey netting was used to cover a vaulted alcove housing a selection of Dior Haute Couture dresses.
The exhibition, called Dior Illustrated: Rene Gruau and the Line of Beauty, took place 10 Nov 2010 to 9 Jan 2011.
See also: Drawing fashion at the Design Museum by Carmody Groarke
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‘Dior Illustrated: Rene Gruau and the Line of Beauty’ at Somerset House
‘Dior Illustrated’ celebrates the renowned illustrator René Gruau, who created some of the most iconic fashion images of the 20th century. This exciting exhibition showcases groundbreaking artworks including original illustrations for Christian Dior Perfumes, vintage perfume bottles, sketches and magazines, as well as a selection of Dior Haute Couture dresses.
The challenge for the exhibition design was to create a spatially stunning environment for the predominantly two-dimensional works. Furthermore, the Embankment Gallery with its vaulted ceilings and stone coloured render required a design that complements its unique architecture.
Gitta Gschwendtner’s design solution creates a stunning installation of timber frame boxes covered in coloured gauze. These light three-dimensional structures form the main exhibition build for the hanging of the prints and object display.
On entering the exhibition the visitor encounters an 8 meters long gauze box containing a collage of Dior advertisements. This exhibit introduces Rene Gruau’s prolific work prior to seeing the original illustrations that form the basis for the advertisement prints upstairs.
Further along a large-scale installation of red gauze boxes showcases the exhibition title while introducing the concept of the transparent exhibition structures to the visitor.
In the main gallery gauze boxes are staggered in the space loosely following the shape of the vaulted ceiling. The transparent gauze creates layers of colour in the space, with each section custom dyed in a different shade to compliment the work. The precious couture dresses are dramatically lit behind a screen of grey gauze, protecting them from visitors touch and giving them an ethereal quality.
Exhibition Design: Gitta Gschwendtner
Graphic Design: Studio Frith
Photography: Sorted
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| Drawing Fashion at The Design Museum by Carmody Groarke | Drawer Kitchen by Gitta Gschwendtner | Lik+Neon by Gitta Gschwendtner |
L’artiste Mehmet Ozgur parvient à donner un aspect esthétique à ses compositions en photographiant de la fumée, pour ensuite manipuler ces matières, et les réutiliser pour en faire des éléments de ses créations. Un style sombre et en contraste, à découvrir dans la suite.
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Des illustrations très impressionnantes par l’artiste Sagaki Keita basé et vivant à Tokyo. Ces oeuvres sont composés de milliers de personnages et de dessins en tout genre, formant alors une image principale. L’ensemble de ses travaux sont à découvrir dans la suite.
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Exploring the limits of greyscale in a group show
With a mission of reinvigorating Chelsea’s once youthful and vibrant art scene, Mallick Williams (daughter-in-law of actor Robin Williams) launched Mallick Williams & Co. in November of 2010. In the short time since opening, the upstart has already drawn attention for its ability to connect big-name artists to high-profile young collectors and shows no signs of stopping with their first official gallery show, cleverly titled “Hueless,” opening tomorrow.
An exploration of the possibilities of grey scale, “Mallick Williams & Co. carefully curated pieces from both artists who normally work in black and white (in mediums such as graphite, charcoal, paper cut and photography) alongside work from artists who are stepping out of their traditional colorful palette to create something uniquely hueless.” At the core of the group show is a roster of heavyweight street artists, including Shepard Fairey, Eric Haze, Skullphone and Russel Young. These more established artists will show alongside lesser-known talents like Marissa Textor and Sam Ske.
Young’s piece, “Fifteen Minutes With You; Well I Wouldn’t Say No”, consisting of acrylic paint enamel and diamond dust screen-printed onto linen, creates an ethereal manifestation of a memory without falling into the abstract (pictured below left). Another portrait, “Drawn Face V” (above left) by Dirk Dzimirsky aims to “not only portray the physical attributes, but more importantly the subjects inner presence of life. I chose drawing over painting as this allows me to create many layers over layers of lines and dots which react to each other in order to create a vibrant texture with directions and movement.”
On the darker side thematically, Marissa Textor’s piece “An Outlet for Pent up Forces,” (also graphite on paper, like Dzimirsky’s) breathtakingly depicts volcanic rock in photorealistic detail. Nicholas Forker takes on a “shattered sense of community in the face of capitalist driven isolation” with a greyscale drawing representing an artist informed by a globalized marketplace of ideas.
“Hueless” runs through 15 April 2011. Visit the Mallick Williams & Co. website for the full list of artists.
Artist Erik Foss reshapes the alphabet with smutty cut-outs
Co-owner of one of downtown NYC’s more notorious bars Lit Lounge and the similarly lowbrow-inspired Fuse Gallery, it most likely comes as no surprise that Erik Foss‘ “Word” series consists of pin-up girls “artfully arranged” to create a very sexy alphabet. We had the chance to see the series in person in Miami, at the Anonymous Gallery booth inside Scope. With the Art Basel bonanza going strong, Foss’ works stood out for their minimal, elementry school-style take on the risqué subjects.
But staying true to Foss’ provocative style, the entire assortment of all 26 letters of the alphabet collages some of the most naughty bits of 70’s pornography. The patchwork characters are a mix of hips, legs, butts and busts. While some letters like “V” are pretty straightforward, others such as “W” are a an intricate tangle of torsos and calves. Naturally our favorite letter was “O.”
None of the letters would be suitable for work or small children, but the enticingly intimate series is an interesting, semi-erotic way to reconnect with the tools we use to construct language. If you want to own any of Foss’ “Word” pieces, the series is available for purchase as a whole or as individual letters. For a more brazen approach, you can pick up a limited edition t-shirt with your favorite letter printed across the chest from the Anonymous gallery shop.
Dave Eggers’ clever new book of drawings
Dave Eggers, author and founder of the indie publishing house McSweeney’s recently unveiled yet another creative talent: the knack for drawing. His oversized “It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings” arrives in McSweeney’s book release club members’ mailboxes this week and his first collection of drawings.
Packaged in a delightful cardboard portfolio, it consists of 26 posters on heavy and regular stock in three sizes of animals Eggers drew with China marker in the late hours of the evening at the end of 2009 into this year. Most are accompanied by nonsensical sayings as imagined by him, an attempt to put words to the animals’ staid-to-confused expressions.
Eggers explains in the enclosed booklet that his drawing background stretches back to his childhood days, when he aspired to become a painter after his hero Manet. He later made extra money through his illustrations. The pictures he’s drawn of animals are simplistic, but the detail lies in the fur. Strokes upon strokes create a coat that you can almost feel with your eyes.
For non-subscribers, “It Is Right to Draw Their Fur’s” official release date is 1 October 2010, but it’s already available from McSweeney’s online store or from Amazon.
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