Shot by photographer & filmmaker Tyrone Lebon, the Fall 2016 Calvin Klein global advertising campaign spotlights an evolved cast of talent that encompasses actors, musicians, cultural icons, athletes, fashion idols, social media heavyweights, artists, and professional and street cast models, including Kate Moos, Frank Ocean, Grace Coddington , ... - often paired together to create a dynamic and artful mix of visuals.
Courtesy of Calvin Klein
In collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the LACMA presents The Perfect Medium, a major retrospective examining the work and career of Robert Mapplethorpe with over 300 of the artist’s works on view.
0rganized in five thematic sections and galleries, the travelling exhibition brings an overview of Mapplethorpe’s early drawings and collages of the late 60’s, his first Polaroids of the 70’s pointing out a recurring interest in the (self-) portrait, from the provocative glimpse he offered throughout the 70’s and 80’s into an urban gay culture and an intriguing community of fetish and nudity, to the commissioned portraits from the mid 80’s onwards.
Rarely seen correspondence, books, and other ephemera demonstrate Mapplethorpe’s personal connections to his sitters, his ability to manage a successful studio, and his ambition to elevate photography to the status of art, and together with the works on display provide insight into such key genres as portraiture, the nude, and still life.
Independently of the exhibition but coinciding with it, HBO presents Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, the first feature-length documentary about the artist since his death, and the most comprehensive film on his life and work to date.
Robert Mapplethorpe - The perfect Medium
Los Angeles
20.3.2016 – 31.7.2016
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
/ by Kim Poorters /
Take a ride to Tokyo with the new GUCCI FW16 campaign captured by Glen Luchford.
courtesy of Gucci
Prada & Willy Vanderperre continue their creative collaboration in “Wanderlust”, a visual exploration of the key inspirations within the latest Prada SS17 runway collection.
Rooted in historic ideals of German Romanticism, today “Wanderlust” evokes the human desire for unbounded adventure and a searching spirit of optimism. “Wanderlust” recaptures the men and women from the Prada SS17 catwalk in the extreme, where the ethereal calm of backstage yields to the outdoors aglow in psychedelic light.
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Courtesy of PRADA
Appearing on Instagram, his exclusive playground, Doug Abraham’s art is based around découpage and the reinterpretation of images. Better known by his account alias @bessnyc4, the artist’s work mixes fashion campaigns and pop culture photographs.
Today, Diorsplit glasses are the subject of the artist’s reinterpretive vision, his use of superimposition echoing the play of lines and mirrors of the eyewear design that debuted in the ready-to-wear Spring-Summer 2016 show. In a series of five short films, Doug Abraham creates a mash-up of offbeat backstage scenes with photographs of the campaign by Patrick Demarchelier. His collages juxtapose contemporary images with several black and white shots of women posing in Dior in the 1950s.
Interferences and color saturations are the digital artist’s signatures.
First view on the new RAF SIMONS FW16 campaign captured by Willy Vanderperre, styled by Olivier Rizzo and featuring his muse as never Luca Lemaire.
/ by Michael Marson /
If there’s anything better than a myth brought to life, it is one brought to life in Gucci. Già Coppola created a series of short films for the brand in which she accurately depicts the old myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The tragedy of the story is translated by the excellent acting of Lou Doillon and Marcel Castenmiller. The beauty of it all by this gorgeous pre fall ‘16 Gucci collection.
Orpheus may have wished for a miracle, but it’s Gucci that got hers and it’s called Alessandro.
/ by Gaelle Van Lede /
Foam presents a major retrospective exhibition of the work of German artist Helmut Newton featuring over 200 of his photographs, ranging from monumental photos to vintage prints from the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin.
Influenced by the social change that took place in the 1970s, an era of female emancipation and looser sexual morality, the depiction of women and underlying themes such as power, violence, eroticism and desire became key to both his commercial work for French Vogue and the portrait photography for which he is best known.
All too aware that eroticism, seduction and desire primarily amount to a game of perception and of displaying an unattainable reality, his women are powerful, seductive, dominant, and often nothing less than intimidating.
Helmut Newton - A Retrospective
Amsterdam
16.6.2016 – 4.9.2016
© Helmut Newton / Helmut Newton Estate.
/ by Kim Poorters /
With close to 120 works drawn primarily from the Eli and Edye Broad collection, Los Angeles’ new contemporary art museum The Broad presents a comprehensive survey of the work of groundbreaking artist Cindy Sherman.
From early film stills to rear projections and films, the exhibition focuses primarily on the artist’s engagement with the stereotypes of 20th century popular film industry and of celebrity. Featuring as her own model playing out female stereotypes in a range of personas, environments and guises, the artist raises questions about identity, representation and the role of images in contemporary culture.
Cindy Sherman – Imitation of Life
The Broad
Los Angeles
11.6.2016 – 2.10.2016
© Cindy Sherman. The Broad Art Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures.
/ by Kim Poorters /
First view of the latest Anthony Vaccarello's FW16 campaign, captured by Inez & Vinoodh & styled by Alastair McKimm.
Totally Friday Crush !
/ by Michael Marson /
Just a while ago, fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck revealed his collaborative collection with Ikea. He encourages us to take the next step in the evolution of consciousness, in a world he feels empty of creativity and joy. In comes Glödande, a little universe located high in the sky. Its little creatures – WONDERMOOI - use magical cloud powder to bring back peace on earth and purity in our hearts.
Well, mission accomplished Walter, and dare we say warning: explicit beauty.
The collection will be available in stores starting June 7th and on ikea.com.
/ by Gaelle Van Lede /
A country: Brazil / A city: Rio de Janeiro / A place: The Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum, designed and constructed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1996.
The latest Louis Vuitton Cruise 2017’s collection captures the country’s vitality, energy, multiculturalism, freedom, urban futurism and romanticism — all the dynamic feeling the city inspires.
Let’s go for a ride!
On March 18, 2016, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the public opening of its new space dedicated to modern and contemporary art in Marcel Breuer’s iconic 1966 Whitney museum on Madison Avenue and 75th Street. The controversial upside-down ziggurat made of granite-clad concrete had undergone a careful renovation maintaining the building’s unique character and preserving the aesthetic of its weathered areas.
“Outside, it is expression; inside, only proportion. It stands back and lets you see the pictures.”
New York photographer Bill Jacobson has documented the building with the Whitney’s permission in late 2014, in the in-between days after they moved out, and before it was restored into The Met Breuer. His photographs are carefully composed into diptychs focusing on Breuer’s muted space stripped of its pictures: concrete walls, slate floors, cast-cement ceilings, bronze doors and fixtures.
Bill Jacobson - Lines In My Eyes
New York
2014
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© Bill Jacobson. Courtesy the artist and Julie Saul Gallery.
/ by Kim Poorters /
Lehmann Maupin and White Cube present ‘I Cried Because I Love You’, a joint exhibition by Tracey Emin taking place across both gallery spaces in Hong Kong and marking the artist’s first solo presentation in Greater China.
“I look at myself, and I paint myself, but they’re portraits of my mind, of my deepest thoughts.”
For this major project, Emin has envisaged a continuous exhibition of painting, embroidery, and neon across two spaces that reflect the diversity of her challenging and deeply poetic work across a wide range of media. She draws on subjects that are intimately bound up with her own biography, recalling events, dreams or emotional states in works that are starkly honest and personal, yet familiar and universal.
Tracey Emin - I Cried Because I Love You
Hong Kong
21.2.2016 – 21.5.2016
© Tracey Emin. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin and White Cube.
/ by Kim Poorters /
For the occasion of the 31st International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères, Julien Dossena (artistic director of the iconic house Paco Rabanne) lent his mind to Nudes. This is a project by A Magazine that aims to promote significant cultural events. In collaboration with Coco Capitàn, he curated his selection of nudes occasionally accompanied by some of Coco’s poetry, also occasionally dressed in some Paco Rabanne pieces.
The result is this magnificent visual story about nudity chaperoned by an interesting dialogue between Julien Dossena and Dan Thawley (editor in chief of A Magazine) that features nudity and eroticism in today’s society. This first edition of the project has already been labelled as collectors item, the second one won’t be here soon enough.
/ A Magazine by Julien Dossena /
/ by Gaelle Van Lede /
With the works of young Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota currently on show, Antwerp gallery Stieglitz19 presents a generation of artists who are radically experimenting with photography, bookmaking and other media.
Vertigo, a series of highly processed black and white images of skies, nudes and abstract buildings and rooms, originates from snapshots to which the artist applied various techniques and interventions to create deformation, imperfection, and visual noise: he photographs, develops, prints, photographs the resulting images again and again, and continues experimenting in his homemade darkroom by developing film in boiling solutions, leaking light, or leaving deliberate scratches.
Antwerp
3.4.2016 – 22.5.2016
© Daisuke Yokota. Courtesy the artist and Stieglitz19.
/ by Kim Poorters /
Paul Kasmin Gallery presents a selection of works by artist Robert Motherwell showing the unprecedented diversity of approaches in the artist’s lifelong exploration of the medium of the collage.
The works on display illustrate the harmonious coexistence of media and disparate techniques in the artist’s work, from intuitive tearing methods and the introduction of ready-made objects into the composition, to the layered painting of its underground. 27 of the plates on show are reproduced in an accompanying publication.
Robert Motherwell - The Art of Collage
New York
14.4.2016 – 21.5.2016
© Dedalus Foundation, Inc. Licensed by VAGA,New York, NY.
/ by Kim Poorters /
Currently on view at Museum M is a carefully curated selection of works by Brussels-based artist Aglaia Konrad. In this first major solo-exhibition both older and recent oeuvres are shown side by side to reveal a diversity of work, and a newly commissioned site-specific intervention by the artist and an accompanying book presented.
Spanning a production of over 20 years, the artist uses photography and film to document, and sculpture and architecture to translate her research into the modern city, its public space and buildings, and their transformation.Through extensive travels, she has brought together a vast archive of images documenting urbanity in such diverse cities as Sao Paulo, Beijing, Chicago, Dakar, Tokyo, Cairo or Shanghai.
Leuven
29.4.2016 – 18.9.2016
© Aglaia Konrad. Courtesy the artist and Museum M.
/ by Kim Poorters /
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