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// RICHARD & ANDY //

Gagosian pairs works by Richard Avedon and Andy Warhol, whose most memorable images, produced in response to changing cultural mores, are icons of the twentieth century.

The works of both Avedon and Warhol are juxtaposed throughout the exhibition, emphasizing such common themes as social and political power, the evolving acceptance of cultural differences and minorities, the inevitability of mortality, and the glamour and despair of celebrity.

Avedon Warhol

Gagosian Gallery

London

9.2.2016 – 23.4.2016

 

 

© The Richard Avedon Foundation.

© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// DONOGOO TONKA //

SMAK Ghent opens tonight with the latest solo exhibition by Rinus Van de Velde in which the artist shows a series of nine new, monumental drawings on canvas, based on the 1920’s screenplay ‘Donogoo Tonka, ou Les miracles de la science’ by French writer Jules Romains.

 The museum space is transformed into a giant décor with the story of the geographer who actually ends up building the phantom city he claims to have discovered visualised through a nine-sequence storyboard of image and text in which the artist himself portrays the protagonist of the story he aims to tell the visitors.

Rinus Van de Velde - Donogoo Tonka

S.M.A.K.

Ghent

5.3.2016 – 5.6.2016

 

 

© Rinus Van de Velde. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// GOLDSTEIN HOUSE //

The 1963 John Lautner-designed Sheats-Goldstein house has been donated by fashion and basketball aficionado James F. Goldstein, owner since 1972, to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

 With the donation of the exceptional home, its content and the surrounding estate, including a James Turrell Skyspace set in the tropical gardens of the property, opens a new area of collecting for the museum, which envisions using the house for fundraisers, exhibitions and conferences.

 

John Lautner - Sheats-Goldstein house

LACMA

Los Angeles

17.2.2016

 

 © Tom Ferguson Photography. Courtesy LACMA.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// NEW PAINTINGS //

Foam shows New Paintings by Belgian photographer Vincent Delbrouck, a meditation on the beauty of bright colours, simple objects, plants and the human body, as encountered during his travels.

 “We wander confused through the landscapes of our own minds, sometimes thinking about nature and art so seriously that we forget to observe their beauty.”

 Inspired by painting, he brings together form and colour in print and collage to create new, associative compositions through his photography, photobooks and installations.

 Vincent Delbrouck – New Paintings

Foam 3h

Amsterdam

5.2.2016 – 13.3.2016

 

 

© Vincent Delbrouck. Courtesy STIEGLITZ19.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// PHOTOGRAPHS //

The first exhibition devoted to Ellsworth Kelly’s photography opens today at Matthew Marks, featuring over forty gelatin silver prints of his photos taken between 1950 and 1982. Kelly finished preparing the exhibition shortly before his death last year.

 “I’m not interested in the texture of the rock, or that it is a rock, but in the mass of it, and its shadow.”

 The artist’s enthusiasm for the visible world and the compositional possibilities within it is clear.Unlike his sketches and collages, his photographs were never part of the process of making a painting or sculpture, but simply a record of his vision.

Ellsworth Kelly - Photographs

Matthew Marks Gallery

New York

26.2.2016 – 30.4.2016

 

 

© Ellsworth Kelly. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// LVPrefall16 //

 

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 /

// 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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FOAM – Amsterdam

22.1.2016 – 3.4.2016

&

Purdy Hicks – London

12.2.2016 – 12.3.2016

 

 

© Awoiska van der Molen. Courtesy the artist.

Sequester, van der Molen’s first photobook, was published in September 2014.

 

 

/by Kim Poorters /

// 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. 

Bruno V. Roels

GALLERY FIFTY ONE

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.

Ceremony

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 //

Have a look to last LACOSTE backstage FW16 in NYC.

 

/ by M.M /

// 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.”

The exhibition’s catalogue, Lost Downtown, is published by Steidl.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// 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

Hauser & Wirth

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.

Roni Horn

De Pont

Tilburg

23.1.2016 – 29.5.2016

 

 

© Roni Horn. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// 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.

...

Courtesy of Casey Spooner.

 

/ by Glynis Procureur /

// 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 //

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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

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