PHOTOGRAPHY by {DAVID LYNCH}
Posted by Karin | Filed under Art + Design, Photography
David Lynch, American director, screenwriter, producer and artist emerged in the late 1970s as a new creative force within the film world. Nominated for three Oscars (Elephant Man 1980, Blue Velvet 1986 and Mulholland Drive 2001) and winner several times at the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, Lynch has consistently created new departures in film making. FETISH sees Lynch in the guise of photographer, directing the models and composing visually arresting and extreme images.
Tags: Christian Louboutin, Christian Louboutin Shoes, David Lynch, Ecxhibition, Exhibition in Hong Kong, Fetish Photography, Hong Kong, Movie Director, Photography, The Cat Street Gallery
PAINTINGS by {JAMES WYPER}
Posted by Raoul | Filed under Art + Design
Mantra No. 6, Diaphragm
h 32″ x w 48″
acrylic on canvas
private collection
Paintings by James Wyper
Find more of James Wyper’s paintings at DaDe Art & Deisgn Lab
I’m doing my morning blog crawl and came across these beautiful paintings by James Wyper. James Wyper’s contemporary, organic paintings have been described as ‘doorways of luminescence and vibration’.
Tags: James Wyper
“WATER AND OIL” {CONTROVERSIAL VOGUE ITALIA PHOTO SHOOT}
Posted by lyle | Filed under Art + Design, Fashion, Photography
In Vogue Italia’s August additon, model Kristen McMenamy poses for photographer Steven Meisel’s camera in a 24 page spread dedicated to and inspired by the recent Gulf of Mexico oil-spill caused by BP. The images have stirred up quite a controversy on the blogsphere, with many questioning the motives of Vogue Italia. Some very valid questions are being asked. Is Vogue Italia bringing light to the situation, or are they just piggy-backing off of it, and exploiting the crisis? Are Italians close enough to the damage to really understand the detrimental impact this crisis has had on an already dis-enfrachised region? Is there even a place for fashion within social, economic, and environmental issues? I am inclined to support artistic experimentation and expression un-conditionally – but how in-touch Vogue is with this issue is un-certain.We at KARIN+RAOUL would like to know your opinion. Is this story totally un-tasteful or absolutely artistic. Please submit your thoughts, opinions, and rants as the case may be under our “comment” section. Thank you!
See the rest of the series here http://www.vogue.it/en/magazine/cover-story
Tags: Fashion, Photography, vouge
INTERVIEW W/ TARA DAVIS {JEAN MICHELLE BASQUIAT: A RADIANT CHILD}
Posted by lyle | Filed under Art + Design
Story by Julianne Escobodo Sheppard
“Tamra Davis was working in a Los Angeles gallery in 1986 when she filmed an interview with her friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat, by then the glimmering star of the art world. When he died in 1988 of a heroin overdose, she hid away the tapes in a drawer, devastated and unwilling to profit from his memory.
Twenty years later, after building a career directing brilliant cult comedies (including CB4, Half Baked and Crossroads), along with countless music videos, Davis was compelled to return to her past. Prompted by some inquisitive gallerists at MoCA in 2008, she began sifting through her old Basquiat footage, set about interviewing luminaries from the years he ruled downtown, and pieced together a beautiful documentary that comes off like a sweet paean to her friend. She named it The Radiant Child, after a career-defining piece in ArtForum that accurately named the luminous nature of his spirit. One of only a handful of on-camera interviews with Basquiat, Davis’ is the most intimate—and not just because it’s a close-up conversation between friends. In The Radiant Child, it’s all about the eyes: maybe because of Davis’ emotional proximity to her subject, she reveals the vulnerability of a legend through his delicate, sweet, sad and beautiful gaze.
Tags: Art, Interview, Jean-Michel Basquiat, painting
VAUNT PHOTOGRAPHED by {JOSEPH BALESTRA}
Posted by Raoul | Filed under Art + Design, Photography
Photography by Joseph Balestra feat. fashionista + designer Vaunt
Vaunt’s work is feminine, fetishistic, & occasionally funny. She creates ready-to-wear rubber and unusual headgear- more art than anything, they are installations for the body. Most of her work is inspired by tactile senses and sexual themes, and her designs are made in a free-form, organic work process.
Tags: Amy Fries, Designer, Headgear, Joseph balestra, Photography, Rubber, Vaunt
KARIN + RAOUL EXCLUSIVE {GARY BRECKHEIMER}
Posted by lyle | Filed under Art + Design, News + Events, Photography
Photography and words by Lyle Shanahan
Breckheimer at Paul Brown’s “The Space” Photography studio in the Chelsea Market building.
Gary Breckheimer can be a little intimidating upon first glance (he admittedly says he can “look scary”). But much like “The Dude” from The Big Lebowski (he does resemble Jeff Bridges) he comes off as a foul-mouthed but kind man whom you’d be proud to say is your friend. He relies on keeping his “edge” sharp to maintain the aesthetic for which he has become known, almost exclusively photographing nude women. But the emotion he evokes with each of his images is always fresh and unique. Breckheimer takes “90%” of his photos in the street – but does not solely rely on the unknown variables that come with street photography. Instead, Breckheimer calculates and plans every element of a shoot possible before executing an image – visiting a location numerous times to factor in potential hiccups: lighting situations, shadows, security issues, traffic, the demographic of an area at certain times, and so on. However, As one can imagine, once a naked woman is thrown into a public setting there are bound to be some results and consequences that one can simply not foresee . Breckheimer has dealt with a number of instances where the neanderthalic behaviors of men have become an issue while he is working with a female model in public. The severity of these scenarios vary from being followed in cars, to creeps masturbating from across the street (the latter didn’t seem to bother him). In one instance at on on-ramp in L.A, Breckheimer had to use the intimidation of his own bodily mass, and the mass of his Nikon F3 (approximately a 25lb camera) to ask some douche-bag in a Porsche to leave the scene of a shoot, kindly telling the persistent pervert “I think it’s time for you to leave”.
A duplicate of “Fresh meat” and “Numbers” shown side by side. You can find these (hopefully they’re still up) also at Washington between 13th and 14th st.
Tags: Gary Breckheimer, Nudes, Photography, street art
SENS PRODUCTION CHOREOGRAPHY by {NOEMIE LAFRANCE}
Posted by Raoul | Filed under Art + Design, News + Events
Sens is a New York-based non-profit experimental arts organization founded in 2001 to produce the site-specific work of choreographer Noemie Lafrance. Their mission is to produce innovative site-specific dance performances and films that explore the dynamics of movement in public spaces, engage the public in spatial participation and uses the architecture of the city as a stage.
The performances, installations and films directed by choreographer Noémie Lafrance explore human movements in man-made landscapes, creating a performance language that interacts with the environment and the audience. Each creation uses an existing indoors/outdoors public site or piece of urban architecture as the setting and inspiration for the performance. The choreography constructs narratives through the movement of people in their real surroundings.
The material is choreographed and rehearsed on site with the participation of large casts of performers and collaborating artists. The creation process pursues the intrinsic meaning of place for its historical, symbolic and energetic values and explores how places are marked by the “life” of people and objects and vice versa. The final product is imbued with the atmosphere of the space and reflects on the enhanced possibilities of live work performed outside of the black-box theater. Between stage and reality, the performance unfolds as an intimate and unpredictable voyage for traveling viewers.
MELT performance
Seven dancers perched on a wall and wrapped in sculptural beeswax and lanolin costumes are slowly melting away, progressing in euphoria and exhaustion as if approaching the sun, melting until their souls escape their ephemeral bodies and disintegrate into light.
Dates August 19-22 & 26-29 2010
Site The Salt Pile (Pike Slip & South Street in Lower Manhattan)
Click here for more information
NUIT BLANCHE DIRECTED by {AREV MANOUKIAN}
Posted by Raoul | Filed under Art + Design, Film + Video
Arev Manoukian directs a dramatic and visual short film.
Nuit Blanche explores an experience many of us have lived before – a fleeting yet powerful connection with a perfect stranger. Set in a dark cobblestone street in the 1950’s, a man catches the gaze of a woman in a cafe across the street. This split-second moment becomes suspended in time, as the two gravitate towards each other in a hyper real fantasy where nothing can hold them back.
Check out the making of Nuit Blanche here
Tags: Arev Manoukian, Nuit Blanche, Short Films, Stellar Scene Pictures
THE JOIE DE VIVRE feat. RAQUEL ZIMMERMANN DIRECTED by {RUTH HOGBEN}
Posted by Raoul | Filed under Art + Design, Fashion, Film + Video
A film by Ruth Hogben Click on image above to view film.
Encapsulating all the dark glamour, divine decadence and hedonistic joy of the roaring Twenties, Gareth Pugh’s A/W 2010 collection is a stylised, silver and black Art Deco fantasy projected at breakneck speed into the twenty-first century.
Tags: Gareth Pugh, Raquel Zimmermann, Ruth Hogben
“NEAR the EGRESS” ANALOG/DIGITAL CIRCUS PERFORMANCE by {ANTONIO MARTINEZ}
Posted by lyle | Filed under Art + Design, Film + Video, Photography
Near the Egress by Antonio Martinez
Photographer, filmaker, and Professor Antonio Martinez has crafted one of the most impressive mergings of old and contemporary photo techniques I have ever seen. This beautiful stop-motion film took over four years to assemble and incorporates tintype’s (over 800), black and white film, and digital scans. The project was inspired by one of Martinez’s early childhood memories of the circus. Set to a moody original soundtrack that seems perfectly in sync with all of the fluttery imperfections of the stop-motion, Martinez has created something truly inspiring here.
Tags: Antonio Martinez, mixed media, Stop-motion, tin type
