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Time Out London Magazine launches its new issue for April 2010, featuring the work of highly regarded street artist Banksy. Aside from the cover art, Time Out London caught up with Banksy for a lengthy interview among other interesting features. The magazine can be purchased through Time Out online, including an exclusive poster with purchase.
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New York-based artist Ryan McGinness created a three-part showing for his exhibition in Madrid titled Studio Franchise. With La Casa Encendida playing host, the parts included a replication of his New York studio, a second gallery with works in progress and finally a third space which included finish paintings. To accompany the exhibition is a book done with design studio Base called the “Studio Manual” which brings together the commercial approach to re-creating Ryan McGinness. The whole exhibition’s over encompassing theme “… is a logical extension of Warhol’s factory sarcasm, the Koons/Murakami/Hirst factory sincerity, and the artist-as-brand reality of today.” The exhibition will conclude on April 4th, 2010.
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Space is very important for me but in a more abstract way. Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe. I read a picture not for what’s really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.
–Andreas Gursky
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Andreas Gursky to inaugurate the newly expanded Beverly Hills gallery, designed by Richard Meier & Partners.
In the two adjacent main galleries, Gursky will present a new series of large-scale works as well as a grouping of subjects that he has selected from the last twenty years, from the landscape Műlheim an der Ruhr, Anglers (1989) to the empty scene of Untitled XV (2008).
Gursky has demonstrated that a photographer can make or construct—rather than simply take—photographs about modern life and produce them on the scale of epic painting. Just as history painters of previous centuries found their subjects in the realities of everyday life, he seeks inspiration in his observations of the human species in the world, whether firsthand or via reports of global phenomena in the daily media.
The resulting pictures have a formal congruence deriving from a bold and edgy dialogue between photography and painting, empirical observation and artfulness, conceptual rigor and spontaneity, representation and abstraction. In pursuit of his aim to create “an encyclopedia of life” Gursky’s world view fuses the flux of reality with the stillness of metaphysical reflection.
From initially using the computer as a retouching tool, he began exploring its transformative potential, sometimes combining elements of multiple shots of the same subject into an intricate yet seamless whole, at other times barely altering the image at all. Over time his subjects have expanded to map and distill the emergent patterns and symmetries of a globalized world with its consensual flows and grids of data and people, architecture, and mass spectacle.
In the new Ocean series, Gursky has for the first time relinquished his position behind the camera to work with satellite images of the world as his raw material, creating contemporary mappe del mondo on a scale befitting the cosmic grandeur of the subject. In their darkly nuanced surfaces, he has worked to reconcile the division between the machine eye and the human eye, continuing the debates and practices begun in the nineteenth century regarding photography and the issue of artistic expression versus objective science.
Andreas Gursky: Long Shot Close Up (2009), a documentary directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre (German with English subtitles), will be screened continuously in the rear gallery for the duration of the exhibition.
The catalogue in two volumes, featuring essays by California-based art historian Norman Bryson and German art historian and curator Werner Spies, is forthcoming.
Andreas Gursky was born in 1955 in Leipzig, former East Germany. He attended Folkwangschule, Essen (1978-1981) and Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf (1981-1987). Recent major museum exhibitions include “Werke-Works 80-08″, Kunstmuseen Krefeld (2008, touring to Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Vancouver Art Gallery in 2009); Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2007); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2007, touring to Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Sharjah Art Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow in 2007-2008); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2001, touring to Reina Sofia, Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2001-2002). His work is included in important public and private collections throughout the world.
GREYCON4 from brandon blommaert on Vimeo.
A mesmerizing an animation about a scientist in a computerized cave.Ffrom Brandon Blommaert, this can be seen as a part of the Cartune Xprez animation tour.
Census "Living Mural" DK from Bryce Wymer on Vimeo.
Digital Kitchen NY steps up to the plate and cracks a grand slam with a seamless blend of sexy live action and hand-drawn animation in “Living Mural,” created for the US Census and agency Globalhue.
Directed by Rama Allen and Bryce Wymer, the Dk’ers also enlisted the helping hands of animating team, Augenblick Studios, to solidify the hand drawn, frame-by-frame process.
This process video gives great insight into the work flow and some of the action on the street.Alberto Mielgo is an artist’s artist. It is a particular distinction, suggesting not mere talent, but a quality of rebelliousness, one whose appeal is contingent upon his unique role as both a painter and animator — refining his style as an art director, but most importantly, an artist.
You’ve seen his work before, but may not know it. The influence of Mielgo’s style can be detected in the production design for The Beatles Rock Band cinematic, where he was given creative freedom to channel his trademark style, and produce color keys and layout for the first (2D) half of the masterwork, directed by Pete Candeland. Licensed with a gift for painting, today, Mielgo has earned himself legitimate entry into the ranks of art direction for the animation industry, but in truth, it didn’t start out that way. Originally a 2D animator, Mielgo struggled to find his niche when most studios disavowed pencil and paper for CG. With his back against the wall, Mielgo —self-taught— began to paint, creating concept art for the commercial and film industries before hitting the gallery circuit, and when push came to shove, making a living off of his painting.
By any measure, Mielgo’s work is restless, graphic and defiant — the work of an artist entering into a sophisticated maturity — one who has earned such a command of painting that he feels the dogged urge to break the rules, and in the artists case, return to form. Today, Mielgo is striking out on his own, thumbing his nose at CG, and coming home to animation in Pinkman.tv.
The school of thought behind Pinkman.tv is simple: a laboratory to explore 2D animation through fine art and traditional methods. In other words, less emphasis on computers; more emphasis on what is handmade. With the launch of Pinkman.tv, Mielgo has served up a cluster of experimental shorts that set the painters sentiments into motion. Each piece deconstructs reality into blocks of color — extracting the chromatic details of everyday life into something rich and lurid that, depending on the piece, can be subdued or explosive. Either-or, the result is undoubtedly potent. This flexibility in style speaks to his mastery of color, while the frenetic brushwork and unabashed construction lines create an agitated balance that, when animated, tremble in motion. The result is intense, fierce, nearly feral.
In the four experimental shorts below: Pill, Kill Your Stress, 女孩陰毛, and PINKMAN, Mielgo maintains a rigorous connection to materials, and in the ethos of Pinkman.tv, keeps CG at arms length — the defining tenet of his artist-code. The first video —a Making-of— exposes the modus operandi of the artist, as well as a short Q&A that sheds light on Alberto Mielgo and the rebelisms behind Pinkman.tv.
Making-of and Q&A with Alberto Mielgo
For even more on Alberto Mielgo, check out AlbertoMielgo.com and his personal blog, AlbertoMielgo.blogspot.com.
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An in-depth exploration of jewelry design, “Fashion Jewellery: Catwalk and Couture” focuses on the designers and their working methods for creating distinct accessories for fashion shows and personal collections alike.
Author Maia Adams—a contributing writer for publications such as Vogue, Elle and Wallpaper—highlights 33 designers in all. Each gets their own chapter packed with an informative biography, insightful quotes, and a photo spread of their jewelry and sketches. While the styles and materials run the gamut, Adams chose each highly-skilled designer for their particular impact on the fashion industry and overall influence on 21st century fashion.
From the oft-bizarre ornate pendants by Yoshiko Creation Paris (pictured top right) to the equally subversive sculptural pieces by Florian (pictured above), each accessory's look is as intriguing as the process for its design.
Designer Natalia Brilli (above left) provides a fuller understanding of the effort that goes into her leather-wrapped necklaces. Taking at times two days to create, the Belgian works hard not only on each piece but on developing the full story, often leading to limited-edition jewelry that entertains both when worn and when on display at home. Also reinterpreting the classics, Australian designer Michelle Jank (above right) explains her dream client would be the Queen of England, for whom she would make "seriously big, elaborate diamond rings."
Fully defining jewelry envisioned for the runway, designer Naomi Filmer works between art and jewelry to create showstopping multi-dimensional pieces that expose her highly conceptual thought process. From gold-plated shoulder pieces (above left) to her hand manipulation piece (above right), Filmer regards jewelry as "an extension of our identity."
"Kooky, kitsch and prettily punk" well describes Yazbukey, a collaboration between two sisters using bright colors and unconventional shapes. With a rigorous process of research and an impressive history working with designers Christian Lacroix and Givenchy, Yazbukey creates well-crafted pieces that exude a carefree attitude. Previously highlighted on CH, their works include cartoon shapes of items like hot dogs, telephones, Jackie O and the Jetsons.
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