An amazing collection by Paris based Australian stylist Catherine Baba for pâte de verre (poured-glass) jewelry house Gripoix - presented during Paris Fashion Week the Parisian restaurant Lapérouse. Models included taxidermied owls, peacocks and even a horned and winged baboon.
Illustration by G.B. Jones.
Raymond Unger, born in Hamburg, Germany, who comes from a family of well known painters and is well know for his fantastical, palette knife style, stands in front of his painting Paradise Lost which won the 2011 International Lucas Cranach prize. The painting will be on view as part of a group exhibition of the winners of the prize which is awarded every three years. The theme for 2011 was "human images" and dealt with societal satire and surreal alienation. The exhibition will be on view from March 9 to May 13 at the Cranach Foundation in Wittenberg, Germany.
American-Venezuelan artist Leslie Gabaldón writes poems & mathematical equations on rose. The Dot Fiftyone Gallery in Miami will display the exhibition “Ink on Roses” from 10 March to 20 April 2012.
In the upcoming week, more than 100 volunteers will join artist Cai Guo-Qiang to create three gunpowder drawings in preparation for his exhibition, Cai Guo Qiang: Sky Ladder, which opens on April 8 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. On Saturday, Cai and his studio set up camp at the museum to meet their volunteers and run tests of the gunpowder. Since this is the first time that Cai’s has made gunpowder drawings in Los Angeles, the artist needed to find out how the gunpowder would react to the local climate, particularly inside the galleries at the Geffen. The chemical composition, color, and shade (once it has been burned) of gunpowder vary slightly depending on the manufacturer and the region in which it is produced, and Cai wanted to know how the powders supplied by the fireworks company Pyro Spectaculars by Souza would fare.
Quality control – Enigmatic Oliver Maxwell Kupper inspecting t-shirts ready for delivery.
“What do I see in Picasso that makes him Picasso?” wondered Edward Quinn, who took a large number of pictures of the Andalusian artist. Besides Quinn, many other photographers – some of whom were great names in the history of photography – Man Ray, Brassaï, Robert Doisneau, Dora Maar, Irving Penn, Edward Quinn, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michel Sima, Richard Avedon and André Villers – also shot portraits of the famous artist, offering their own angle on his work and personality. The result is a profusion of portraits of Pablo Picasso that have become part of our collective imagery and which have contributed to building up a myth around the artist, his life and his work. MemyselfandI, Photographic Portraits of Picasso has been jointly organized by Museo Picasso Málaga and Museum Ludwig, Cologne and will be on view until May 10. After its run at MPM, it will travel to Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, where it will be on display from 2nd August to 28th October 2012.
It will be exactly 18 years in April since Kurt Cobain took his own life in the green house of his Seattle home in 1994. Last month he would have turned 45. Marking the occasion, two founding members of Cobain's mostly semi-lucid widow Courtney Love's band Hole will be releasing a book and a film surrounding the relationship with Kurt, the band, and the life style of drugs, and the consequences of rapid fame. Firstly, Eric Erlandson, guitarist for Hole, will will releasing a book, entitled Letters to Kurt, which is a collection of poems and free association reflecting on his suicide and its emotional ramifications. Secondly, Patty Schemel, who helped develop Hole's sound and who lived with Kurt and Courtney during some of the more tumultuous times, is releasing a film about her life. Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death of Patty Schemel is the "portrait of the hell-and-back life of Patty Schemel" and tells the story of her terrible addiction to drugs and how it nearly destroyed her career and life. Schemel is "a true survivor of what we now know was the disaffected 'slacker' generation, Patty found herself, like her friend Kurt Cobain, embraced by the dark side. An unprecedented and unflinching inside look at one of the 90s most crucial and controversial groups." Eric Erlandson's Letters to Kurt will be released April 8th on Akashic Books. Hit So Hard will be premiering this year - first at Cinema Village in New York on April 13, with more dates to follow.
Jena Malone in Los Angeles - behind the scenes - photographed by Adarsha Benjamin for the next issue of AUTRE (the print edition of Pas Un Autre). Stay tuned for the next issue of AUTRE - out in only a few weeks – with Jena Malone and many pages of amazing, talented, magical people. Sign up for the newsletter to find out first where to get a copy.
Very cool London label Fanny & Jessy just released their fashion film, directed by Danny Sangra, which premiered at the Canon Cinema as a part of London Fashion Week at Somerset House. "Fanny and Jessy is a womenswear brand that has an underlying sense of androgyny that is more sexed-up than feminine. The brand reflects the duo’s intrinsic rural Somerset upbringing united with London’s experimental and confident youth culture."
Aoi Kotsuhiroi, famous for using hair, beads, bone and other such extraordinary elements in her accessories, and who uses chapters - like in a book – to release new pieces from a collection, brings to a close a multiple chapter fashion fantasia entitled Exotic Regrets which Pas Un Autre has been following all along the way. With the epilogue to Exotic Regrets, we are very curious what will come next from the talented Aoi Kotsuhiroi.
Wakefield Press just sent over their newest publication, entitled The High Life, by cult author Jean-Pierre Martinet (1944–1993) who was virtually unknown during his own lifetime, but is now considered "an overlooked French successor to Dostoyevsky." The book tells the tale of the ultimate and bizarre consequences of a man's unbelievable avoidance issues. Originally published in 1979, The High Life, translated with an introduction by Henry Vale, is an introduction of Martinet's work into English and deals with the regular themes for which Martinet is known – "the terrors of loneliness, the grotesque buffoonery of sexual relations, the essential humiliation of the human condition, and the ongoing traumas of twentieth-century history." The book is due out this May by Wakefield Press.
Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—will fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. With a roster of artists at all points in their careers the Biennial provides a look at the current state of contemporary art in America. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.
Prepping silkscreens for new Pas Un Autre tees.
David Lynch's first solo show in New York with be on view starting March 6 at the Tilton Gallery. The show will feature gold-framed paintings with gold frames à la Francis Bacon, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and a 42-second film. Tilton Gallery is located at 8 East 76 Street.
White Cube Gallery Hong Kong's inaugural exhibition London Pictures is a disturbing examination of sex, violence, power and death through the medium of Britain's tabloid billboards, collected over six years from newsstands near the artists' home in East London. For five decades, to international acclaim, Gilbert & George have been making art that is visionary, shocking, relentless, moral and richly atmospheric. London Pictures is on view March 2 to March 5, 2012.
Deana Lawson, Dash Snow, and Al Steiner are all three part of a group of contemporary New York artists who express themselves through photographs and videos inspired by their way of life: punk, rock, sex, drugs, hip hop. The Hélène Bailly gallery in Paris will introduce these artists in an exhibition, AestheticSexAmerica from March 16 to April 14, 2012.
Photograph by Kurt Prinz
The Art Gallery presents the Australian premiere of Allegoria Sacra by the internationally celebrated artist collective AES+F. This spectacular video work is, in essence, a digital painting which seduces and overwhelms the viewer through its visual and aural splendor. Allegoria Sacra is inspired and named after a painting by the Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, which is believed to represent purgatory. In purgatory all souls wait for the Last Judgment. For AES+F, the modern international airport, as a place where people are suspended in time and place, is the contemporary allegory for purgatory. Allegoria Sacra (see trailer after the jump) is now on view until June 3, 2012 at The Art Gallery of South Australia.