First view of the lookbook & short film of Nicolas Guesquière's LOUIS VUITTON Pre Fall 16 collection, directed by Karim Sadli.
/ images & video by Karim Sadli /
Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
/ by M.M /
// LVPrefall16 //
// BLANCO //
Awoiska van der Molen starts off the new year at Foam, where she presents Blanco, her first major museum-based solo exhibition showing a broad selection of her hand-printed gelatin silver prints.Parallel to this, Purdy Hicks presents their first solo exhibition of the Dutch photographer.
The series of monochrome landscape photography she has been working on since 2009 is the result of long periods of isolation in which she penetrates into the remote world in which her photographs are created. Hushed and devoid of people, her work remains shrouded in mystery.
Awoiska van der Molen
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22.1.2016 – 3.4.2016
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12.2.2016 – 12.3.2016
© Awoiska van der Molen. Courtesy the artist.
// A PALM TREE IS A PALM TREE IS A PALM TREE //
GALLERY FIFTY ONE opens today with the first solo show by Belgian photographer Bruno V. Roels, featuring his latest work which gravitates around photographic repetition, variation and meaning.
Using analogue photographic techniques such as solarisation, under- and overexposure, Roels turns a single moment in reality into intriguing compositions of an unlimited, endless, exponentially growing amount of variations of that one image. He refuses to choose, he shows all possibilities.
Antwerp
19.2.2016 – 2.4.2016
© Bruno V. Roels. Courtesy GALLERY FIFTY ONE.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// CEREMONY //
Ceremony is the second book by Alasdair McLellan, following Ultimate Clothing Company of 2013. It celebrates the tenth anniversary of his photographic interviews with many of the ceremonial troops of the British Army, and is still one of the highlights of all projects undertaken by the photographer.
It is released in a strictly limited and numbered edition of 2000 Copies only.
photographs by Alasdair McLellan
edited by Jo-Ann Furniss
designed at M/M Paris
© Alasdair McLellan.
/by Kim Poorters /
// HERMES / BACKSTAGE FW16 //
Take a look at HERMES FW16 backstage during the last men's Paris fashion week.
/ photo by Edouard Caupeil /
/ by M.M /
// LACOSTE / BACKSTAGE FW16 //
// EYES OF HEDI //
A inside-backstage of the latest Saint Laurent FW16-17 collection, through the eyes of Hedi Slimane himself.
/ by M.M /
// LOST DOWNTOWN //
The Peter Hujar exhibition features over twenty portraits by the late photographer, predominantly in black and white and taken with a medium format camera in the intimacy of his studio or familiar indoor spaces where he could quietly compose his pictures in a one-on-one with his models.
Ranging from casual acquaintances to close friends and intimate lovers, his portraits offer a fascinating glimpse into New York City’s downtown scene of the late 70’s and early 80’s, a coterie of artists, performers, drag queens, misfits, writers and musicians living on Hujar’s Lower East Side blocks.
“That Downtown is forever gone. Time, gentrification, disease and death took their toll. But before it vanished, its extravagant cast sat for Peter Hujar’s camera – and is now alive again in front of our eyes.”
// NO LIFE LOST //
De Bruyckere’s largest and most ambitious work to date, created in collaboration with novelist J M Coetzee for the Belgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Biennale in 2013, travels to New York. The darkly beautiful ‘Kreupelhout – Cripplewood, 2012 – 2013’ forms the centrepiece of an exhibition of recent sculptures and works on paper by the acclaimed Belgian artist.
Working with casts made of wax, animal skins, hair, textiles, metal and wood, she renders haunting distortions of organic forms, wounded and scarred, reflecting on man’s fundamental search for transformation, transcendence and reconciliation in the face of mortality.
Parallel to the exhibition and inspired by the works created for it, contemporary dancer Romeu Runa presents the performance piece ‘Sibylle’, his second collaboration with Berlinde De Bruyckere. After meeting at Belgian choreographer Alain Platel’s company les ballets C de la B in 2010, Runa went from posing for a sculpture to an unanticipated and intimate performance, adding another dimension to De Bruyckere’s series of sculpture and drawing with ‘Romeu, my deer’ in 2013.
Berlinde De Bruyckere – No Life Lost
New York
28.1.2016 – 2.4.2016
© Berlinde De Bruyckere. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Pictures of Runa’s performance ‘Romeu my deer’, 26th October 2014, S.M.A.K, Ghent, by Kim Poorters.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// THIS IS ME, THIS IS YOU. //
Albeit offering a fairly broad overview of her oeuvre, the Roni Horn exhibition at De Pont focuses on the artist’s more recent work from the past ten years, and more specifically on a number of photographic series and recent glass sculptures.
Androgyny isn’t two things, it’s everything. It’s synthesis; not this and that. It’s a state of integration.
Often working in pairs, her portrait photographs are reminders of the early iconic photo series and reflect on recurring interests in Iceland’s enigmatic landscapes, mythology, androgyny and youth. The cylindrical sculptures in blue, green, brown and white glass contrast with her photographs, drawings and texts in their minimal appearance and careful arrangement.
// MOTEL //
A.P.C. unveiled the new SS16 campaign captured by Collier Schorr with Xavier Buestel & Steffy Argelich.
/ by M.M /
// EGOS //
A play - or rather an artistic experiment - on masculine and feminine, that balances on the edge of private and public.
Casey Spooner’s new book "Egos" proves to be an interesting study on the morphology of characters, relationships and spaces. Set in his own apartment (but, more important, in a hyper sexualised world) ‘Egos’ gives the readers the opportunity to look at the same people from completely different angles.
A reflection of narcissism, as Spooner puts it himself. In a brilliant way, we’d like to add.
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// CLUB KIDS //
Unexpected collaboration between the legendary photographer Nan Goldin & McQ.
Goldin capture the raw spirit of London nightlife via a series of photos that place the models in party mode for the new McQ SS16 campaign.
/ by M.M /
// BY THE SEA //
Surfer Robin Kegel is the new icon of the Acne Studios SS16 campaign, captured by the genius David Sims.
/ by M.M /
// PARIS MFW16 //
LOUIS VUITTON
DIOR HOMME
PAUL SMITH
RAF SIMONS
A.P.C.
LANVIN
VALENTINO
AMI
ACNE STUDIOS
SACAI
HERMES
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER
DRIES VAN NOTEN
MAISON MARGIELA
Y/PROJECT
OFFICINE GENERALE
GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY
OFF-WHITE
CARVEN
COMME DES GARCONS
GIVENCHY
LOEWE
RICK OWENS
JUNYA WATANABE
KENZO
KOLOR
LEMAIRE
3.1 PHILLIP LIM
SANDRO
WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK
// NAKED HEARTLAND //
Deep blue, raw, pure. And very Belgian.
Cult fashion photographer Willy Vanderperre worked for several years on this new project, his debut short film about teenagers trying to create connections that go beyond the online world.
And his efforts pay off. Constructed like a series of portraits, Vanderperre moves away from his camera and creates this beautiful art piece together with Nicolas Karakatsanis, who he calls one of the most talented directors of photography around.
And we won’t argue with that. Naked Heartland is spine-tingling, violent and grand at the same time. Just as the limited edition book featuring stills from the movie, available at Idea Books - Dover Street Market London, New York and at Comme des Garçons Trading Museum in Paris.
Not to be missed !
Still from "Naked Heartland"
Courtesy of Willy Vanderperre
// XYZ //
Part of a series in which the gallery invites guest curators to rediscover the photographer’s work, Thaddaeus Ropac has invited architect and designer Peter Marino to bring forward his personalized vision on Mapplethorpe, following such curators as Sofia Coppola (2011) and Hedi Slimane (2005).
Working in close collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation based in New York, Marino has selected some 17 Polaroid’s and 60 photographs to revisit themes he believes fundamental to the photographers’ work: X for sex, Y for floral still lives, and Z for male nudes.
curated by Peter Marino
Thaddaeus Ropac
Paris
28.1.2016 – 5.3.2016
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// COURRÈGES / first CAMPAIGN //
First look at COURRÈGES' conceptual SS16 campaign under new creative directors Sébastien Meyer & Arnaud Vaillant.
/ by M.M /
// X.D for L.V //
Xavier Dolan, once again, is the face of LOUIS VUITTON for the SS16 campaign captured by Alasdair McLellan.
/ by M.M /
// INTIMATE //
First look at the Tim Coppens new SS16 campaign captured by Robi Rodriguez & styled by Tom Van Dorpe.
/ by M.M /
