BEHIND THE BLINDS'
100 favorite gifts for Xmas.
/ by MICHAEL MARSON & KIM POORTERS /
// SHERO //
Pirelli shot the female hero. Once naked, now dressed in the 2016 Pirelli calendar. The shero is here to stay. She was admired for her measurements. She will be known for her achievements. The shero is on fire. She inspires an uprising we are invited to join. There is no stopping her.
May the force be with us.
// MUSIC TEE by A.P.C. //
A.P.C. has a long association with music. A record label called A.P.C. (Section Musicale) was created soon after the brand’s inception and a recording studio was built at the head office at rue Madame in 1998. It is fitting that for Fall-Winter 2015 A.P.C. collaborate on a collection of print T-shirts with the following four musicians: Nicolas Godin, Étienne Daho, Paradis and Flavien Berger.
Available now in A.P.C. stores worldwide & on apc.fr.
/ by Michael Marson /
/ thanks to Sanel from Ulla Models /
// PARTICLE MIST //
Legendary photographer Bill Henson has released a new book featuring a collection of previously unseen photographs taken in 1976.
The series shows Henson’s recognised and celebrated style, capturing the delicacy, magnetism and celestial nature of the ballerinas, that is both bewitching and disturbing. When photographing the dancers, Henson found himself fascinated by the faces, which were ‘lost to the world, absorbed in the dance’. He was drawn to the idea of a spirit of an individual in a space.
// YELLOWBLUEPINK //
With yellowbluepink, Ann Veronica Janssens launches States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness, a year-long investigation into the experience of human consciousness.
Invading the gallery with coloured mist - an ongoing experiment since her first fog-sculpture in 1997 - any detail of surface or depth within the space is blurred, and the viewers’ attention drawn to the process of perception itself through the medium of light and colour.
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“Nothing is more beautiful than a person’s own perception. I try to push it to its limits."
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On the occasion of the planned installation of two permanent sculptures for the City of Ghent, S.M.A.K. invites both the Brussels based artist and her Turkish counterpart Ayşe Erkmen to elaborate on their proposals in a duo exhibition.
Ann Veronica Janssens - yellowbluepink
London
15.10.2015 – 3.1.2015
© Ann Veronica Janssens. Courtesy the Artist and Wellcome Trust.
Ayşe Erkmen and Ann Veronica Janssens - .A
Ghent
31.10.2015 – 14.2.2016
/ by Kim Poorters /
// GENESIS //
Alexandra Beirnaerdt is a real art and fashion aficionado and for the last 20 years she has been involved in a creative partnership focusing on reflection, conception and creating visibility.
This partnership resulted in a large number of successful campaigns in the most diverse areas and today she adds another string to her bow by combining the photographic works of two artists, Ruben Tomas (US) and Gert Motmans (BELGIUM), into one exhibition "Step One".
Step One
Opening / 26 November 2015 / 7.30 pm // Exhibition 27-28-29 November 2015 2pm-6pm
Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 17
2018 Antwerpen
/ by Michael Marson /
// A.P.C. SS16 Resort //
A.P.C SS16 campaign , shot by Collier Schorr.
// COMFORT //
Louis W. for A.P.C. has released a new short film “Comfort”, which revolves around a relationship involving two girls. The film, directed by Grant Curatola & Louis Levy, is inspired by François Truffaut’s classic 1962 hit Jules and Jim. “Comfort” stars Sasha Frolova, Zaga Skerletovic and Bruno Dicorci, all of whom have appeared in previous campaigns for Louis W. for A.P.C.
// PHREATIC ZONES //
Cristina Iglesias brings the city plaza and London’s river Thames into Marian Goodman’s Gallery with three new horizontal sculptures, lined with bas-reliefs cast in weathered aluminum.
After large scale works in the public realm with Deep Fountain in Antwerp in 1996 and Tres Aguas in Toledo in 2014, she continues to explore the concept of the underground and the well as an allegory of life, sex and death in the contemplative setting of the gallery.
Cristina Iglesias – Phreatic Zones
London
30.10.2015 – 19.12.2015
© Cristina Iglesias. Courtesy the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// LACOSTE X PEANUTS //
After the success of their 2010 collection, Peanuts and Lacoste return with another collaboration for a seasonal set of the brand’s signature polo shirts in multiple colorways including Snoopy and Charlie Brown, interacting with the iconic Lacoste crocodile.
// LATE PAINTINGS //
In its third exhibition of his work, Gagosian New York presents over twenty-five paintings made by Bacon in London and Paris during the last two decades of his life.
Different from his visceral brushwork of the 1940s to 1970s, Bacon sprayed his paint to add a chiaroscuro and refinement to his familiar figures, forever caught in a sense of primal fear.
Francis Bacon – Late Paintings
New York
7.11.2015 – 12.12.2015
Study from the Human Body, 1981
Triptych, 1991
© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. / DACS, London / ARS, NY 2015.
Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// OLFACTORIES by PRADA //
No sex, no seduction. Only memories and surreal images in the new exclusive Olfactories series by Prada. I’m so glad the German Prada perfumer Daniela Andrier, also known for the refreshingly green signature Margiela Scent Untitled, speaks fluent Prada, the language of Miuccia. Get ready for a chemical trip down memory lane, through parallel universes. To great scents.
// PLATYPUS //
After the Bear, Eric Croes introduces a panoply of animals and random objects to his playful and totemesque reinterpretation of the Surrealists’ exquisite corpse drawings.
The Platypus, once mistaken for a mythical assemblage of different animals in itself, leads the way.
Eric Croes - Platypus
Brussels
30.10.2015 – 19.12.2015
© Eric Croes. Courtesy Albert Baronian.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// Y/PROJECT SS16 //
// TIM COPPENS / First Campaign //
Photographer T-Bone Fletcher brings Tim Coppens’ F/W2015 collection to the streets of Harlem.
The Belgian designer’s streetwear aesthetic blends in naturally with the city’s backdrop in this first campaign.
// ICONS OF THE SIXTIES //
After the Royal Academy’s 2014 ‘The Lost Album’ exhibition, Paris based gallery Thaddaeus Ropac draws our well-deserved attention to a lesser-known aspect of the creative production of Hollywood’s enfant terrible, the late Dennis Hopper.
At the centre of the exhibition sits a selection of 35 vintage photographic prints signed by Hopper, all of which were taken between 1962 and 1967, one of the most creative periods of his life.
Dennis Hopper – Icons of the Sixties
Paris-Pantin
21.10.2015 – 9.1.2016
/ by Kim Poorters /
// YOUTH HOTEL by Gosha Rubchinskiy //
A portrait of Russia's next generation, the new book YOUTH HOTEL by Russian designer/photographer Gosha Rubchinskiy comes in a limited edition run by IDEA books.
Youth Hotel ll be out on October the 15th @ Dover Street Market London, NYC, Tokyo and Paris.
All images are courtesy of Gosha Rubchinskiy.
// WAR FAR //
Ryan McGinley was the first of his generation of artists to explore the nude figure within the American landscape. With a fresh set of eyes, he embarked on an on-going series of images that were shot during months-long summer road trips cross-country.
His new book "War Far" ll be out the 20 October @ Rizzoli.
It's just poetic & terribly beautiful !
// #5 NYC WFW SS16 //
Behind The Blinds' top 5 favorite shows from NYC women's SS16.
ALEXANDER WANG / PROENZA SCHOULER / LACOSTE / CALVIN KLEIN / GIVENCHY
// INSIDE / SERIES 3 //
London is THE city for this "Series 3" 's exhibition who retraces Nicolas Guesquière's FW15/16 collection for Louis Vuitton. Behind The Blinds invite you to discover his creative process and secret influences.
