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Graffiti of the Week – Street Art Nr. 203
Vogue 100: A Century of Style – National Portrait Gallery
Fashion may be fickle, but the fashion photographer’s lens is also a mirror. ‘Vogue 100: A Century of Style’ is as much a reflection of a hundred years of our history as it is a celebration of the original glossy.
Born in 1916 during WWI, when shipping the US magazine became impossible, British Vogue has always been more than a fashion mag. And this exhibition is so much more than a collection of pretty models in pretty clothes – JG Ballard and Aldous Huxley have both written for Vogue. A pre-fatwa Salmon Rushdie has shared an issue with John Galliano, years before the latter’s fall from grace. Both Queen Elizabeth and her boozy mum have appeared. And, of course, most of the century’s best photographers have shot for its pages.
In this thoughtfully arranged show, at the National Portrait Museum in London it’s the little details that make the difference – from the cocktail style menu of credits in the 1930s room to the wall of seemingly disparate portraits of actress Helena Bonham Carter, milliner Stephen Jones and model Ben Grimes-Viort – united by a colour scheme of feathery pink. A side room shows a series of slides from the ’40s to the ’90s; as though you’re in the cutting room, you watch images go from picture to page.
Graffiti of the Week – Street Art Nr. 202
Graffiti Of The Week – Street Art Nr. 201
Uniforms for the Dedicated – Beautifully Swedish
Uniforms for the Dedicated is a bit like Vetements but founded a bit earlier. Born in 2007 in Stockholm as a collective of creatives, resulting in a playground of talent that provides the influence and inspiration Uniforms for the Dedicated rugged yet relaxed clothing collections. Musician José González models Uniforms for the Dedicated’s Fall/Winter assortment, largely made of recycled premium Italian recycled cashmere and wool. The collection features comfortable yet impeccably tailored jackets, trousers, coats and parkas, in beautiful colorways like blue-gray and basil green.
Graffiti Of The Week – Street Art Nr. 200
Laurent Moreau And His Gift To Mankind
A quick leaf through any one of Laurent Moreau’s many filled sketchbooks and you’ll see that he finds inspiration in nature. Laurent enjoys more down-to-earth pleasures, gardening, sitting in fields, and it shows in his work. His images are full of decorative plants and animals drawn by someone who clearly has a passion for them. It is something he says emanates from his youth growing up in the French countryside.
There’s obviously nothing wrong with an artist working digitally, but it’s interesting to see someone who works almost exclusively in traditional materials and still creates something fresh and modern. Laurent prefers to work by hand, whether painting or printing. The experience of working in these materials is important to him, the smells of the ink, the tactility of the paper. It’s an intuitive way of working that really pulls out some beautiful results.
Dans la foret des masques is one of the most beautiful books I have ever seen. Not just for kids but for everyone who is still left with some imagination. A book that can make you happy – very happy. Available in all languages – the German version has just been published.
Graffiti Of The Week – Street Art Nr. 199
Manifesto By Julian Rosefeldt – With a Little Help By Cate Blanchett
Julian Rosefeldt’s new thirteen-channel work Manifesto questions the role of the artist in society today. Australian actor, Cate Blanchett, performs the manifestos as a series of striking monologues.
The installation in the amazing Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin – a part of the Nationalgalerie – draws on the writings of Futurists, Dadaists, Fluxus artists, Situtationists and Dogma 95, and the musings of individual artists, architects, dancers and filmmakers. Passing the philosophies of Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, Kazimir Malevich, André Breton, Elaine Sturtevant, Sol LeWitt, Jim Jarmusch, and other influencers through his lens, Rosefeldt has edited and reassembled a collage of artists’ manifestos. This is probably the most powerful exhibition TrendEngel has seen in years. Mind-blowing and life altering. Honestly.