// CALVIN KLEIN FW17 IN LIVE STREAMING //
// AMERICAN CLASSICS //
Our exclusive first look, Raf Simons unveiled his new Calvin Klein campaign SS17, shot by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo.
// BOUNDARIES //
Most of us might know Harley Weir through the striking images she’s created for AnOther Magazine, i-D, Dazed & Confused, or the campaigns she shot for renowned fashion brands such as Maison Martin Margiela and Calvin Klein.
But the young photographer, who only graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from London’s Central Saint Martins College in 2010, has since also created a remarkable body of personal work characterized by a poetic approach on intimacy and beauty, and an eye for detail.
It is this personal aspect - always intriguing and esthetic, sometimes politically involved and charged but refraining from statement making and finger-pointing - that forms the center of the first solo exhibition of Weir’s work at FOAM Amsterdam.
Harley Weir - Boundaries
FOAM
Amsterdam
2.12.2016 – 19.2.2017
© Harley Weir. Courtesy the artist and Foam.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// RAF X ROBERT //
First look, Raf Simons unveiled his latest SS17 campaign, shot by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo.
// ANGELS REBELS //
First look at the new Saint Laurent menswear FW17 captured by Collier Schorr and accompanied by a film directed by Nathalie Canguilhem which sees actor Lukas Ionesco play director.
// BY APPOINTMENT //
In the midst of men’s Paris fashion Week Calvin Klein and newly appointed designer Raf Simons revealed just a tip of the iceberg.
“By Appointment” is the first collection by Simon’s hand made public. It celebrates women, all women, and has the objective to make the brand accessible to all. Hence the campaign images, that are paired with the brands iconic underwear.
Quiet and delicately the drop of the collection happened. In the same way they announced the collaboration of the designer and the brand, after months of speculation last year. Less is more, both parties understand that, and that might just be the thing that makes this partnership a graceful match.
14 looks, photographed by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo, that’s all we get, and that’s all we need.
/ by Gaelle Van Lede /
// HERMES FW17 IN LIVE STREAMING //
// LOUIS VUITTON FW17 IN LIVE STREAMING //
// WILD CATS //
First view on the latest GUCCI SS17 campaign captured by Glen Luchford.
// CHLOE S. //
First view on the new J.W Anderson SS17 campaign captured by Jamie Hawkesworth , styled by Benjamin Bruno and featuring the iconic muse Chloë Sevigny.
// SPEED POWER TIME HEART //
After two key exhibitions at Gladstone Brussels, both five years apart and marking beginning and ending of a creative outcome surveyed in the forthcoming monograph “Dark Incandescence”, American artist Elizabeth Peyton now presents a series of new paintings at the gallery’s New York counterpart.
Truthful to the modest scale, palette and sensitivity of her intimate (self-) portraits of artists, musicians, historical figures, and friends that brought her critical acclaim in the early 1990s, Peyton offers a new understanding of her broad personal interest and passion for both the historical and the contemporary through the inclusion of still lifes, photographs, video-stills and text fragments.
Elizabeth Peyton – Speed Power Time Heart
4.11.2016 – 21.12.2016
© Elizabeth Peyton. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone 64.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY //
Over the course of 25 years (1979-2004) and through numerous cities (New York, London, Berlin, and beyond) photographer Nan Goldin closely followed and documented the daily life and encounters of the friends, family, and lovers that she would come to describe as her ‘tribe’.
“There is a popular notion that the photographer is by nature a voyeur, the last one invited to the party.But I’m not crashing; this is my party. This is my family, my history.”
In what would become a visual diary of urban life throughout the eighties, an era scared by AIDS and drug addiction, she acurately lay bare issues of gender roles, the insatiable longing for intimacy and understanding, and the struggle between independency and interdependency within the concept of the couple and relationships.
“In my family of friends, there is a desire for the intimacy of the blood family, but also a desire for something more open-ended. Roles aren’t so defined. These are long-term relationships. People leave, people come back, but these separations are without the breach of intimacy. We are bonded not by blood or place, but by a similar morality, the need to live fully and for the moment, a disbelief in the future, a similar respect for honesty, a need to push limits, and a common history. We live life without consideration, but with consideraition. There is among us an ability to listen and to emphasize that surpasses the normal definition of friendship.”
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was first published in 1986 as a series of images and stories and has, through the experience of change and loss, become into a visual imprint of a memory, one story without an end.
The installation currently on view at the MoMa presents a slide show of some 700 portraits sequenced against a music soundtrack prepared by Goldin’s friends, from Maria Callas to The Velvet Underground
Nan Goldin - The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
New York
11.6.2016 – 12.2.2017
© Nan Goldin. Courtesy the artist.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// EVENING //
On November 25, 2016 La Maison Yves Saint Laurent reveals its new campaign dedicated to the first release of the Summer 2017 collection - Evening Part 1 - by Anthony Vaccarello.
Filmed in October 2016 in New York, the film features a group of young people. Nothing can stop the night. Especially not Freja, Jourdana, David, Josh, Hiandra, Cara, Selena, Sasha and Mileshka, the sensual and sensational cast of this campaign shot by Collier Schorr and filmed by Nathalie Canguilhem.
The film’s soundtrack features the voice of Freja Beha Erichsen reading a text by Andy Warhol over Beethoven’s Symphony n°7.
// FASTBEAT //
While the whole world is trying to figure out where fashion is going right now, Paul Franco thinks 10 years ahead and creates a short film. It is built around the interview he had with leading designer Demna Gvasalia.
As fashion is merely an expression of a generation, Franco chose Demna, because who better to ask, than the one that dresses that generation?
In an effort to comprehend today’s youth, he did not rush in to things but took a year to shoot this video, starring Ukraïn’s ultimate bad boy Sasha Melnychuck in Paris. He later accorded the images with fragments of Demna’s interview.
Depicting life is not an easy task but combining the fast movement of the images with the slow pace of artist Mark Borthwick’s music is brilliant. We can not only see, but actually feel what it’s like to be young in this day of age.
The only way to fully grasp something is to take a step back, and Paul Franco just did that for us.
// TRACK CHANGES //
With his solo-exhibition at Gallery Van der Mieden abstract painter Alain Biltereyst brings his bigger in-situ work to Belgium for the first time. Presented alongside his better-known wood panel paintings of a much smaller scale, they are a continuation of his humble research into the graphical character of geometries that can be found in advertising and the urban environment that surrounds us.
Alain Biltereyst - Track Changes
Van der Mieden Gallery
Antwerp
06.11.2016 – 03.12.2016
© Alain Biltereyst. Courtesy the artist and Van der Mieden Gallery.
Installation images © Van der Mieden Gallery.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// NEVER SAY GOODBYE //
Four years ago, Benoît Béthume started his project, Mémoire Universelle. It would have 9 volumes and aims to capture human nature, however cruel or beautiful it might be, with each volume addressing one facet of our conduct.
The two first volumes, Oh, l’amour & Manimalisme were greatly influenced by Manuela Pavesi, friend, mentor and grand source of inspiration for Benoît. He never thought that she would not live to see the end of this project.
Unfortunately disease got the best of her, and the great lady is no more. But he did not give up on the project. Instead, he dedicated a whole volume of his work to her. His latest issue, Never Say Goodbye, is all about experiencing loss.
Using fashion, art, literature, photography, film or even philosophy to express it.
If you don’t know how to say goodbye to someone, you don’t have to, you let that someone lead the way.
Never say goodbye will be in stores in Paris on the 7th of November, and the launch party will be hosted by Hunting and Collectingin Brussels November 18th.
// THE AESTHETIC OF DISAPPEARANCE //
Hungarian born artist Rita Ackermann presents her most recent series The Chalkboard Paintings alongside a selection of early works that first gained her widespread acclaim in the New York art scene of the early 90s.
In the drawings, collages and paintings on display, the artist continues her trademark superposition of images, characters and narratives, whilst adding a new layer of erasure. Rendering nearly invisible the overall image, the nymphetish girls who have featured in her paintings since the very beginning remain ever so desirable and enigmatic as our favourite objects of desire.
Rita Ackermann - The Aesthetic of Disappearance
Malmö Konsthall
Malmö
22.10.2016 – 22.01.2017
© Rita Ackermann. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// LOUIS VUITTON SS17 in LIVE STREAMING //
// THE COMPANY OF MEN //
In his series The Company of Men, currently on display at The Ballery, young Swiss photographer Alexandre Haefeli continues his ongoing personal work centred on an intimate representation of the male body.
Through a selection of over 70 recent works, the viewer, at once reduced and elevated to the status of the voyeur, looks in on scenes that range from intimate studios portraits to elaborately staged interactions between male - or in this case often androgynous – ‘subjects’.
“Torn between romanticism and open sexuality, between suggestion and revelation, the spectator is invited to look, to imagine and to desire”
Hovering between suggestive and explicit, Haefeli’s body of work remains highly coherent in the differences that exist between its composing images. Often set against an idyllic natural backdrop these come both in extremely vibrant colours and in black and white, are either raw and untouched or highly manipulated, and are either of a transcendent or direct nature.
Alexandre Haefeli - The Company of Men
30.9.2016 – 30.10.2016
© Alexandre Haefeli. Courtesy the artist and The Ballery.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// THE GREAT AMERICAN WEST //
In 1956, at the age of 18, Ed Ruscha left his home in Oklahoma and drove a 1950 Ford sedan to Los Angeles, where he had been accepted to Chouinard Art Institute. His trip roughly followed the fabled Route 66 through the Southwest, which featured many of the sights that would provide him with artistic subjects for decades to come.
Currently on display at San Francisco’s de Young are over eighty works revealing the artist’s fascination with the evolving landscape and iconic character of the “American West” in symbolic, evocative, and ironic renditions. Key to several of his best-known paintings and prints, these include works depicting gasoline stations, others commenting on LA and the film industry, as well as those in which a word or phrase is the sole subject.
Independently of the exhibition but released coinciding with it, Los Angeles’ MOCA has commissioned a short-length documentary about Ruscha’s extraordinary body of work: Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words.
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
16.7.2016 – 09.10.2016
© Ed Ruscha. Courtesy the artist and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
/ by Kim Poorters /
