[REFINED] Roseanna Fall 2011
Paris based designers Anne-Fleur Broudhoux and Roxane Thiery, are the brilliant fashion duo behind their line Roseanna–named after a combination of their names. They describe Roseanna as "....a complete wardrobe with a nonchalant refined style." www.roseanna.fr
Sigmar Polke: Photoworks
Leo Koenig Inc. (NYC), in collaboration with Winckler Fine Arts, Berlin, presents the opening of "Sigmar Polke: Photoworks 1964-2000". "Widely acknowledged as one of the most important creative forces to emerge from post World War II Europe, Sigmar Polke was an artist of incredible unpredictability. From the very beginning, and throughout his career, Polke resisted the idea of an identifying “signature.” In his practice, the artist incorporated techniques borrowed from mass marketing and commercial realms into a proscenium of images that overlap and resonate over time. Over the course of his life, Polke made thousands of photographs and the selection of works for this exhibition keenly highlights the integral role that photography had played in the artist’s larger oeuvre. Also included is an eerie selection of photographs taken at the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, and a series of photograms in which Polke experimented with, among other untried techniques, the effects of radioactive materials on the photographic process. On view until September 3 at Leo Koenig NYC. www.leokoenig.com
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Television Personalities 'Diary of a Young Man'
Television Personalities - DIARY OF A YOUNG MAN
Self Portraits by Abbey Meaker
Let the blues run the game–an intimate moment with Abbey Meaker by Abbey Meaker in her new series of self portraits. Abbey's photographs have a supercharged romantic auto-erotism that beckons, in a sincerely unremorseful reflection of lust and loss, a visual treatise that summons grainy, black and white visions of a restless Eros in her boudoir. www.abbeymeaker.com
Text by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
THE ROAD OF HOPE - YOKO ONO
Photo: Annie Leibovitz
Congratulations to Yoko Ono who is the winner of the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize for her efforts in spreading world peace. An awards ceremony is scheduled together with an exhibition commemorating the presentation of the award to Yoko Ono at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. "It is greatly anticipated that this commemorative exhibition will help communicate, from Hiroshima to the world, the messages of Yoko Ono that are rich with the inspiration of the abolition of nuclear weapons and the creation of a world without war, and it is thought that the exhibition will have a great effect on garnering attention to this Hiroshima Art Prize across the globe." The 8th Hiroshima Art Prize: THE ROAD OF HOPE - YOKO ONO 2011, Saturday July 30th to Sunday October 16. www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp
[CLASSIC] Geronimo
Geronimo is a label from Los Angeles with collections that are both timeless and distinct. "Geronimo is Jenny Reyes' middle name....A Los Angeles designer with roots in Manila, she draws her inspiration from music, her grandmother who taught her how to sew, and the California sun." www.geronimocollections.com
[Photography] Joanna Pallaris
[MUSIC VIDEO] Caged Animals 'Girls on Medication'
Jersey born Vincent Cacchione, a.k.a. Caged Animals, has just release his music for his catchy tune Girls on Medication off the forthcoming album release Eat Their Own. Don't eat the gummy bears! Video directed by Drew Norton.
The Photographic Album of Joan Colom
Joan Colom was born in Barcelona in 1921. Following military service, he became an accountant in a firm where he stayed until his retirement in 1986. But at the age of 36 he also developed a passion for photography, joining the Photographic Association of Catalonia where he very quickly learnt the technical skills that helped him in his atypical career. Colom is considered one of the most important photographers of the 50s and 60s and one of the greatest documentalists of everyday life in Barcelona. With both passion and respect, his series gave expression to the spirit of Barcelona’s Raval district and became one of the most exceptional photography essays of the time. An exhibition at the Fundació Foto Colectania in Barcelona presents for the first time to the public an unedited album, which includes some of the author's favorite photographs, selected and arranged by him in a graphic sequence of great impact. On view until October 29 www.colectania.es
David Mushegain X Alia Penner
Some close ups of artist Alia Penner's collaboration with photographer David Mushegain for a collage at the Colette store in Paris. Alia also designed the invitation for the Autre launch party in Paris happening tomorrow at le Carmen. www.aliapenner.com
To Love the Glove....
Armor glove–a collaboration between jeweler Shaun Leane and Daphne Guinness–encrusted with 18-carat hand cut diamonds. Guinness: "The detail in its design is hugely symbolic. The birds with which it is embellished denote freedom from the material world. The gold from which it is molded was thought to have magical powers. Like the knights of my childhood daydreams, this beautiful glove is resilient and beautiful, strong despite its finery."
LIEKO SHIGA: CANARY
Galerie Priska Pasquer in Cologne, Germany presents the 'Canary' series by Japanese artist Lieko Shiga, for which she won the 'Infinity Award (Young Photographer)' from the International Center of Photography, New York, in 2009. In 'Canary', Lieko Shiga combines personal accounts of people and local myths with her own personal memories, feelings and experiences to create fantastic, often perplexing scenarios. The works interact to form a complex, dramatic tableau that vacillates between dreams and reality. On view until July 30. www.priskapasquer.de
M.I.A. Releases Unfinished Demo "27"
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, otherwise known as M.I.A., announced on twitter the release of an unfinished demo entitled 27, "I recorded this song B4 vickileekx and never put it out. its a unfinished demo....R.I.P. Amy." “ViCKi LEEKX” is a reference to M.I.A.'s 36 minute long Wikileaks inspired mixtape.
Watch "The Light Was Numbered"
Check out the new short film, "The Light Was Numbered" by photographer Amanda Zackem.
[INVITATION] AUTRE LAUNCH PARTY AT LE CARMEN IN PARIS!
If you are in Paris bring yourself to le Carmen this Tuesday for the launch party of the first issue of Autre Quarterly. rsvp: adarsha@pasunautreblog.com
Artist James Georgopoulos....
Photography by Oliver Maxwell Kupper at James Georgopoulos' solo show in Los Angeles. Check out his work in the first issue of Autre Quarterly.....
TOMOKO SAWADA: Reflection
Dear Fate (Jame's Portrait) by Dana Lauren Goldstein
The Spark by Dana Lauren Goldstein