Beautiful Rick Genest - Vogue Japan

Victoria and Albert Museum features an exhibition about Yohji Yamamoto

This exhibition explores the work of idiosyncratic and ground-breaking designer Yohji Yamamoto. Fabric, he said, 'is everything'. This deep interest in textiles is at the heart of his approach to design.

Yamamoto became internationally renowned in the early eighties for challenging traditional notions of fashion by designing garments that seemed oversized, unfinished, played with ideas of gender or fabrics not normally used in fashionable attire such as felt or neoprene. Other works revealed Yamamoto's unusual pattern cutting, knowledge of fashion history and sense of humour. His work is characterised by a frequent and skilful use of black, a colour which he describes as 'modest and arrogant at the same time'.

This retrospective, experienced through a series of site-specific installations throughout the V&A and beyond, includes Yamamoto's menswear for the first time. The main exhibition space houses over 60 creations and a multi-media timeline which reveals Yamamoto's wider creative output. 

More info on: http://www.vam.ac.uk

Tate Modern's Gabriel Orozco

The Tate Modern Museum in London presents Gabriel Orozco a creative, playful and inventive artist. Gabriel Orozco creates art in the streets, his apartment or wherever he is inspired. Born in Mexico but working across the globe, Orozco is renowned for his endless experimentation with found objects, which he subtly alters.

His sculptures, often made of everyday things that have interested him, reveal new ways of looking at something familiar. A skull with a geometric pattern carefully drawn onto it, a classic Citroën DS car which the artist sliced into thirds, removing the central part to exaggerate its streamlined design, and a scroll filled with numbers cut out of a phone book are just some of his unique sculptures.

Orozco’s photos are also on display, capturing the beauty of fleeting moments: water collecting in a punctured football, tins of cat food arranged on top of watermelons in a supermarket, or condensed breath disappearing from the surface of a piano show Orozco’s eye for simple but surprising and powerful images.

His art also shows his fascination with game-playing, for example a billiard table with no pockets and a pendulum-like hanging ball, or Knights Running Endlessly, an extended chess board filled with an army of horses, both of which are well-known games to which he has added an element of futility. This kind of unexpected twist makes Orozco’s work interesting to both contemporary art lovers and also anyone who wants an unusual and captivating art experience.


Until 25 April.

More info on: www.tate.org.uk

27 works, 18 artists at the Fundació Suñol in Barcelona

As you know, I am based in Barcelona and recently has opened at the Fundació Suñol an interesting show. It is an exhibition of 27 pieces from the Josep Suñol Collection to help expand visitors’ knowledge of 20th-century art. It comprises works by 18 artists who played a key role in the field of visual arts in recent years, marked by a shift away from previous conventions of representation.

The Andy Warhol's portrait of Mao is certainly the highlight but interesting paintings include Antonio Saura's Sera painting from 1960 or the very sexual Nino Longobardi's Sense titol's canvas where hidden sexual acts are nicely covered by an innocent table with fruits and vases... very funny! I recommend this show.

Yves Saint Laurent Fall 2011

I love this look!

Aphex Twin: Window Licker (Original, Short Version)

POPSET: the Colours' Attack Contest

Are you ready to colour your life?

(London - March 2011) C-Myk [noun - See-myke] is no longer just a technical printing term but a little paper creature devised by Japanese graphic artist Shin Tanaka to launch an extension of the vibrant Pop’Set premium recycled paper range from Arjowiggins Creative Papers. In collaboration with D&AD, the paper manufacturer is challenging all paper users to create their own C-Myk as an expression of their originality and imagination. The Colours’ Attack competition engages designers of the paper toys in friendly competition with peers worldwide and supports UNESCO’s Promoting Art Through Education programme.

"Colours’ Attack Contest", is an imaginative and quirky competition that will challenge your good mood and your creativity. 

To participate it's easy: create your very own CMyk. If your C-Myk is selected, it will be flying off to London to take part in the international Design exhibition organised by D&AD New Blood, a creative festival for emerging talent held in June.

During this event, your C-Myk could be displayed alongside other C-Myk created by Shin Tanaka, the Japanese graphic designer who comes from the urban street graffiti culture and the brain behind this concept. Celebrities will also attend this very special show... 

"C-Myk is a very special entity. Born from the sunlights he came on Earth to make our lives more coloured and more pop." said Shin Tanaka.

Join it!

More info on: http://www.popsetpaper.com/  and http://www.facebook.com/ArjowigginsCreativePapers