World # 29
© Ruud van Empel
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Sabine Pigalle: Timequakes, a Reinterpretation of Ancient Paintings
Sabine Pigalle is a visual artist, born in France in 1963. Most of her work concentrates on the reinterpretation of myths. Religious history, mythology, Flemish primitive painting and also mannerism provide both the varied sources of her inspiration and the raw materials for artistic explorations. Sabine Pigalle produces hybrid photographs in different series, mainly dedicated to the art of portraiture, that combine the contemporary with references to ancient art.
The Timequakes series expresses the chaos witnessed by the artist during the Japanese earthquake of March 2011. Transposing material destruction into a temporal pileup, Sabine Pigalle mingles painted court portraits from the late 15th, 16th and early 17th century with contemporary photographic portraits.
Brought into collision by the lights of the modern city, they expose the layering of different eras, like a collage.
The artist recycles and mixes her own photographs, originally shot and compiled as a source of future works, (paintings, portraits, and Tokyo lights). These hybrid portraits create a bridge between painting and photography, figuration and abstraction, past and modern art.
Timequakes, beyond an aesthetic and precious first dance, is treating of the temporal sedimentation of our cultural patrimony, misappropriation and lure.
The Timequakes series expresses the chaos witnessed by the artist during the Japanese earthquake of March 2011. Transposing material destruction into a temporal pileup, Sabine Pigalle mingles painted court portraits from the late 15th, 16th and early 17th century with contemporary photographic portraits.
Brought into collision by the lights of the modern city, they expose the layering of different eras, like a collage.
The artist recycles and mixes her own photographs, originally shot and compiled as a source of future works, (paintings, portraits, and Tokyo lights). These hybrid portraits create a bridge between painting and photography, figuration and abstraction, past and modern art.
Timequakes, beyond an aesthetic and precious first dance, is treating of the temporal sedimentation of our cultural patrimony, misappropriation and lure.
Timequakes
After Leonardo Da Vinci
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Jan Van Eyck
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Petrus Christus
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Pisanello
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Gerard de Saint Jean
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Lorenzo Di Credi
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Jan Van Eyck
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Piero Di Cosimo
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Rogier Van Der Weyden
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Lucas Cranach The Elder
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
Courtesy the artist and Louise Alexander Gallery
Timequakes is on exhibit at Art Paris Art Fair, 2013, Grand Palais
March 28 - April 1, 2013
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March 28 - April 1, 2013
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Photo of the Day
Manucure, 2012
by Joana Vasconcelos
Courtesy Galerie Natalia Obadia
@ Paris Art Fair
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Peter Lindbergh for American Vogue April 2013
Tobey Maguire and Carolyn Murphy reprise the classic Hitchcock film to bring the theatrical fifties thread - something woven throughout the new season's collections - out into the world.
Photographed by Peter Lindbergh
Photographed by Peter Lindbergh
Courtesy Peter Lindbergh, Vogue US and 2b management.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Andrew Yang's Couture Dolls
New York based artist and illustrator Andrew Yang has been creating haute couture fashion rag dolls for leading design houses since 2008. His latest project, Couture Dolls, is a collection of five exquisite dolls, cut from a pattern, sewn into muslin, and meticulously stuffed and attached by hand. The faces are all hand painted, and the dresses are created using luxurious fabrics and couture sewing methods.
Andrew spent his childhood in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he grew up around his mother's collection of Madame Alexander dolls and eventually acquired his own collection of high-end fashion dolls. His hobby was put on hold when he moved to New York to pursue fashion, an industry he worked in as an assistant designer for several years.
" I did not know my career in fashion would lead to a career in dolls, but one day I began to play with my own work, and that was the day that many successes opened up for me. After my first few dolls, a chance meeting led to an appointment at the Vogue offices, where Anna Wintour brought my work to the attention of Barneys NY. At the same time, through the wonders of the digital era, Joyce Boutique in Hong Kong commissioned me for their 40th anniversary.
This led to my work being shown in Showstudio in London, doing a charity collaboration with Mo&Co where the sales of my work contributed to the opening of two schools in central China, opening the Fukuoka Barneys Japan store, and being invited as the first American artist to create the puppets for the legendary Christmas displays of Galeries Lafayette Paris. The journey has been wild and fun and I'm looking forward to more exciting projects along the way."
~~~ Andrew Yang
Blanca
Elbana
In Alexander McQueen
Andrew spent his childhood in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he grew up around his mother's collection of Madame Alexander dolls and eventually acquired his own collection of high-end fashion dolls. His hobby was put on hold when he moved to New York to pursue fashion, an industry he worked in as an assistant designer for several years.
" I did not know my career in fashion would lead to a career in dolls, but one day I began to play with my own work, and that was the day that many successes opened up for me. After my first few dolls, a chance meeting led to an appointment at the Vogue offices, where Anna Wintour brought my work to the attention of Barneys NY. At the same time, through the wonders of the digital era, Joyce Boutique in Hong Kong commissioned me for their 40th anniversary.
This led to my work being shown in Showstudio in London, doing a charity collaboration with Mo&Co where the sales of my work contributed to the opening of two schools in central China, opening the Fukuoka Barneys Japan store, and being invited as the first American artist to create the puppets for the legendary Christmas displays of Galeries Lafayette Paris. The journey has been wild and fun and I'm looking forward to more exciting projects along the way."
~~~ Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
Couture Dolls
The Red Empress
The Vizier
The Gold Queen
Andrew Yang's other stunning fashion dolls
Ingrid
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Lisa Tomasetti: Behind the Scenes with the Australian Ballet
In her first exhibition at James Makin Gallery, renown photographer Lisa Tomasetti presents a series of images of the Australian Ballet, having been granted exclusive access to photograph the Ballet over several years on their international tours to Tokyo, New York, and Paris. Taken out of their usual context the Ballerina's dance, pirouette and leap through the gritty city streets, as Tomasetti creates riveting images that fuse high gloss performance with coarse urban reality.
With an eye for unconventional juxtapositions, Tomasetti has cast her athletic subjects in a new light, that of the urban everyday. The works also display her almost classical sensibility toward the qualities form, composition and light through photographs that nonetheless retain their essential spontaneity.
~~~Marguerite Brown, Gallery Curator, 2013
Lisa Tomasetti is a highly acclaimed photographic artist, and also film stills photographer capturing iconic images of films such as Shine, The Saphires, and Star Wars Episode II. Her visual art is in major national collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and many more.
NYPD, Reiko Hombo, 2013
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
The Highline, Amber Scott, 2013
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Time Square, Reiko Hombo, 2013
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Cygnets, 2013
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Downtown Tokyo, 2013
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Imperial Palace, Amber Scott, 2013
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Shinagawa Station, 2013
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
With an eye for unconventional juxtapositions, Tomasetti has cast her athletic subjects in a new light, that of the urban everyday. The works also display her almost classical sensibility toward the qualities form, composition and light through photographs that nonetheless retain their essential spontaneity.
~~~Marguerite Brown, Gallery Curator, 2013
Lisa Tomasetti is a highly acclaimed photographic artist, and also film stills photographer capturing iconic images of films such as Shine, The Saphires, and Star Wars Episode II. Her visual art is in major national collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and many more.
Lisa Tomasetti
Behind the Scenes: The Australian Ballet on the International Stage
Cygnets on 6th Ave, 2013
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Courtesy the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
Lisa Tomasetti
Behind the Scenes: The Australian Ballet on the International Stage