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// 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

de Young

San Francisco

16.7.2016 – 09.10.2016

 

 © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy the artist and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// ORDER TO CHAOS //

ROSEGALLERY presents a solo exhibition by Belgian artist Dirk Braeckman, his first on the US West Coast.

Focusing on ordinarily unobserved details that are often lost in shades of gray, Braeckman’s photographs reflect an atmosphere of sensual ambiguity and intimate solitude. His images are characterised by the use of black and white, analogue photography and are part of a lengthy process of post-production manipulation in which the photographer prints and re-photographs his images. Deviating from conformal darkroom techniques, the artist continues editing the images’ surface through the use of different resources, such as brushes and sponges to spread the developer in stripes and planes across the paper. The resulting photograph is a unique piece.

 “Photography is, for me, an almost obsessive attempt to scan, in my own way, everything around me, everything I meet, driven by the desire to give order to chaos. With or without a camera.”

 Dirk Braeckman has recently been selected to represent Belgium at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017.

Dirk Braeckman

ROSEGALLERY

Santa Monica

13.4.2016 – 13.8.2016

 

 © Dirk Braeckman. Courtesy ROSEGALLERY.

  

/ by Kim Poorters /

// SOIXANTE HUIT //

The new A.P.C. Louis W. collection explores the world of rebellion, called Soixante Huit, it references the late 60s, early 70s clothing worn by teenage demonstrators. Louis was particularly inspired by the aesthetic of the participants of the May ’68 riots in France, when the youth sought to claim their right to expression through asserting their individuality. 

The campaign is captured by Bruno Staub & three different boys were cast in order to convey the feeling of teenage camaraderie.

// CIUDAD JUÁREZ PROJECTS //

David Zwirner presents Ciudad Juárez projects, an exhibition displaying a group of recent works by Francis Alÿs. Made in and about Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a once prosperous border city that in recent years has been devastated by drug-related violence, the artists’ works on display date between 2010 and 2015.

 Home to the Belgian artist since 1986, Mexico City has since provided a rich setting for his varied actions and works which are often characterised by a distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility towards anthropological and geopolitical concerns, and centred around observations of, and engagements with, everyday life.

  In the works on view the artist does not offer solutions, but rather poses open-ended questions, in particular related to the role of the artist in a time of a national crisis in an area affected by violence and crime.

Francis Alÿs - Ciudad Juárez projects

David Zwirner

London

11.6.2016 – 5.8.2016

 

© Francis Alÿs. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London.

 

  / by Kim Poorters /

// 82 PORTRAITS AND 1 STILL LIFE //

The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of recent portrait paintings by David Hockney, executed over the last couple of years in the artist’s Los Angeles studio. Considered by Hockney to be seen as one single body of work, each portrait is painted on the same sized canvas, in the same time frame of three days, and shows his subjects seated in the same chair, against the same vivid blue background.

  An intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed his path over the last two years, his sitters include friends and family, office staff, fellow artists, curators and gallerists such as John Baldessari and Larry Gagosian.

David Hockney - 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life

Royal Academy of Arts

London

2.7.2016 – 2.10.2016

 

 © David Hockney. Courtesy the artist.

 

 / by Kim Poorters /

// Long Live Punk //

2017 marks an anniversary, and not the least. It’s been 40 years since PUNK knew its heydays.  London will celebrate appropriately all year and Sir Paul Smith kicked it off with an exhibition with Derek Ridgers, music and event photographer at venues like the Roxy or The Marquee in the late seventies.  

He captured the essence of this movement in his book and on this shirt designed by Paul Smith himself in honour of this exhibition.

Self expression is key and Punk did just that.

 

"Forty Years of Punk"

Paul Smith, 9 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BL

From 10th June 2016 to 13th June 2016

 

 

/ by Gaelle Van Lede /

 

 

// #ICONS //

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

// THE PERFECT MEDIUM //

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

LACMA & J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles

20.3.2016 – 31.7.2016

 

 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.

 

  / by Kim Poorters /

// TOKYO FEVER //

Take a ride to Tokyo with the new GUCCI FW16 campaign captured by Glen Luchford.

 

courtesy of Gucci

// WANDERLUST //

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

 

// SPLIT ME //

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.

 More about @bessnyc4, have a look on the interview we did few months ago. >>X<<

 

/ by Michael Marson /

// DARK SKY //

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 /

// NEVER LOOK BACK //

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 /

// A RETROSPECTIVE //

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

FOAM

Amsterdam

16.6.2016 – 4.9.2016

 

 © Helmut Newton / Helmut Newton Estate.

 

  / by Kim Poorters /

// IMITATION OF LIFE //

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 /

// WONDERMOOI //

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 /

 

// LET'S GO TO RIO //

 

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! 

/ © LOUIS VUITTON /

 

/ by Michael Marson /

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