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MASH GALLERY – Impermanence, Silence, Beauty & More…

Schedule your calendar for an evening of aesthetics, October 14th. Located in the design district of West Hollywood, owner and artist Haleh Mashian of the Mash Gallery extends an invitation to an exhibition celebrating impermanence, silence, beauty and more…

Seven artists offer a whimsical approach to modernity and expression in their creations. Ramona Stelzer, David Kupferman, Haleh Mashian, Andy Harwood, Bonita Helmer, Jill Daniels, Anthony Liggins, whisper their mantra out of fully fledged ideologies, brought to their audience in beauty.

Ramona Stelzer finds the transformation of flowers in her work by the creation of lifecycles. David Kupferman the son of two artists has grown with art as his philosophy, capturing a fusion of Eastern and Western art, he explores the light in inner and outer landscapes. Haleh Mashian, blends reality with an insightful guide into the imagination, with colour, texture and a play between positive and negative space. Andy Harwood, an Australian painter with fifteen years of exhibitions behind him layers his paintings with translations of geometrics and non-representational form. Bonita Helmer, makes a relevance between science and art and tools with ideologies of our universe in her paintings through physics, astronomy and existence. Jill Daniels,  an Alaskan artist, has exhibited worldwide and has been a feature in publications across the globe. Daniels is a two time Emmy winning Art Director and works for an array of prosperous studios. Anthony Liggins, a widely acclaimed artist has his work in over 700 public and private collections. He says that his paintings reflect a spiritual journey of the enlightened mind and bind people together through appreciation of the language that his art is grounded in.

To become a part of this masterfully curated exhibition follow this link to RSVP between 6 & 9 PM on October 14th https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impermanence-silence-beauty-more-tickets-709863891007?aff=oddtdtcreator

Francesca Liberatore – Runway SS 2024

As one of the first collections showing at Milan Fashion Week, Francesca Liberatore presents an entirely leather collection. Manipulated by different techniques the fabric is made from sustainable and reused fabrics, born into a style that becomes a collection for spring summer 2024.

The designer has focused on the productivity of creation in her collection and has mentored seven talented students from Brera Academy of Fine Arts during the course of the design.

The collection will continue to show in the Palazzo Diamanti Museum in Ferrara and will follow onto Macao in China and then New York City.

Jenkins Johnson Gallery – Evolving Visions

Jenkins Johnson Gallery is presenting a trio of thought-provoking artists in Evolving Visions. Ben Aronson, Scott Fraser, and Julian Opie fuse their visions of the world through contemporary landscapes, still life, and portraiture.

Ben Aronson’s realism is in his work as he creates city landscapes that depict everything from drizzly sidewalks to glimmering window screens on cars. His colour palette and brush technique skills leave a quality that can be confused with photography. Aronson, a member of the National Academy, has been represented by Jenkins Johnson since 2001 and his awards include National Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, the Pleissner Memorial Award for Painting at the National Academy of Design in 1992.

Scott Fraser is one of America’s leading modern realist still life painters who has had his work featured in major exhibitions including at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the De Young Museum in San Francisco; the Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa.

Julian Opie is one of the UK’s finest artists who uses his skill to illustrate, sketch, paint or incorporate graphics through computer software. His work is shown in The Tate Gallery, London, and the Museum of Modern Art. His work has been radically sold in the past through means such as catalogues and he is a sole representative of Western Art.

Images are courtesy of the artist and Jenkins Johnson Gallery.  Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am- 6pm.

Rosewood Bermuda – Biodegradable Hat

Rosewood Bermuda have partnered with a former editor of Elle Décor and Town and Country, Sarah Bray-West, designing a biodegradable sun hat: with 20 percent of the proceeds going to plant an indigenous tree, the Juniper Tree.

The Juniper Initiative is named after the Bermuda native trees’ namesake and this nature was largely decimated during the island’s colonial period, to aid the formation of ships and early houses.

Rosewood runs this project in correlation with Bermuda National Trust, to restore an environmental stewardship program that restores heritage sites and museums across the island.

For every $200 spent a tree will be donated to this project. The hat that is part of a commitment to stop non-essential waste is available if you visit https://sarahbraybermuda.com/products/vintage-juniper-ribbon-benefitting-bermuda-national-trust

Seoul Box Unboxing

Seoulbox have defined how to get to know more about Korean culture. The legendary company started by Suji Sohn and Raj Sathi is what you can portray as a real-life experience, boxed in a cultural case. The collection gives you over 18 treats along with a magazine and K-Pop and K-Beauty take homes. Shipped directly from Korea this magnitude of goodies gives a perfect insight into what a Korean loves. Three types of box are available including the Signature box, which changes monthly, The V box with the same but designed for Halal and Vegetarian consumers and Life Box, sharing Korean merchandise. Get to know the site and enlist on this Korean experience.

A View from Japan – Michael Kenna

A resident of Seattle, he started life in Lancashire. Michael Kenna is a unique photographer, who has his own dark room where he develops his work with old-school techniques after sitting through a vision of still life in a manifesto of different countries.

Having first visited Japan in 1987, Kenna has brought to life a combination of nature and man-made Japanese sights.

His work has led to being a part of over 500 exhibitions worldwide and his diary is full with events to partake in throughout his calendar.

Sometimes using twelve hour takes of his recorded phenomena, Kenna has had many a trip to Japan to depict its timeless ancestry of nature. He waits by night and by early light, he is a nocturnal mastermind of his own work.

Bare Tree, Toya Lake, Hokkaido, Japan. 2009 ©Michael Kenna
Ronald van der Kemp, Overcoat, The Mind Vaccine collection, Fall 2021 (Look 34), felt made from textile trash, Courtesy of RVDK Ronald van der Kemp, Photo: Marijke Aerden

Fashion Fictions

Vancouver Art Gallery

Running through the progression of design from street style to haute couture, there is a labyrinth of mysticality of how the concept of design is rendered. Vancouver Art Gallery is showing over 50 international and national designers breaking the codes of fashion design envisioning the future.

This explorative mantra is fielding three different patterns: Material Futures, exploring technological and scientific innovations, Aesthetic Prophesies, the fusion of cultural traditions, and Responsible Visions, the importance of sustainable discourse in fashion culture.

“Fashion Fictions is a timely and urgent exploration of the intersection of design, art and personal agency, in the tradition of numerous Vancouver Art Gallery exhibitions that broaden the public’s understanding of visual culture,” states Vancouver Art Gallery CEO & Director, Anthony Kiendl.

The exhibition is accompanied by a coffee table book of fashion and is available to see at Vancouver Art Gallery until 9th October 2023. Tickets are on sale now.

FEATURED DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS

1017 ALYX 9SM, Barry Ace, adidas, Anta, Jason Baerg, Himikalas Pamela Baker, Balenciaga, Balmain, Catherine Blackburn, Comme des Garçons, Crocs, DRKSHDW, Orlando Dugi, Eytys, Ying Gao, Taskin Goec, Goomheo, Craig Green, Grounds, Infinited Fiber Company, Iris van Herpen, Shaya Ishaq, Jontay Kahm, Ronald van der Kemp, Helen Kirkum, Julia Koerner, Li-Ning, Chet Lo, Maison Margiela, Material Matters, Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Moncler, Caroline Monnet, Tony Murray, nat-2™, New Balance, Nike, Off-White, Jamie Okuma, Wendy Owusu, Neri Oxman, Celeste Pedri-Spade, Mimi Plange, POST ARCHIVE FACTION (PAF), Alice Potts, Pyer Moss, Stina Randestad, Christopher Raxxy, Reebok, RTFKT, SCRY, Marine Serre, Alexandra Șipa, Skawennati, SOTA, Adrian Stimson, Studio PMS, Modern Synthesis, Maiko Takeda, The Fabricant, threeASFOUR, Angus Tsui, Undercover, Valentino Garavani, Vetements, Junya Watanabe, Anouk Wipprecht, Robert Wun, Scarlett Yang, Yimeng Yu, YUIMA NAKAZATO, among others.

Harry Styles, 31st May 2022 by David Hockney. Acrylic on Canvas . 1219.2 x 914.4 mm. © David Hockney. Photo Credit: Jonathan Wilkinson , Collection of the artist

David Hockney – Drawing from Life

Tickets are on sale to see Harry Styles  not in performance but through the eyes of the world-renowned artist David Hockney. Styles was one of the subjects to sit for Hockney ahead of the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which is set between two dates from 2nd November 2023 to 21st January 2024.

Thirty-three new portraits were created between 2021 and 2022 at Hockney’s Normandy Studio. These will be accompanied by other works featured in a 2020 exhibition making up to 160 works featured from loans of collections from across the globe.

Rendered in pastel, pencil, ink and watercolour the portraits were created using a straight-to canvas technique and were completed in two to three sittings. Life drawings come back after a period of landscapes set around Normandy. The artist is returning with a chorus of talent.

Tickets are currently on sale at www.npg.org.uk

Armando Santos

Oslo based designer Armando E. Santos is a textile artist in design who covers museums and art galleries just as much as catwalks. Santos works with various pleating techniques in his work and started out his lines by recycling old jeans and denim garments which he cuts into strips and artfully pleats into dresses, tops, skirts and bags. After working with denim he has moved on to other materials and techniques, always with a focus on small detail.

He is holding his third exhibition this year at Galleri Format, a renowned art gallery in Bergen. It must then be fair to say that he has made quite an extraordinary impression on the textile art and fashion world of Norway.

For more details of the exhibition contact +47 55 30 48 90.

 

Cacharel

According to village press reports in the UK, one of the main international entities in the luxury goods sector, announced they have signed a long term partnership agreement for the development of the prêt-à-porter womenswear collections under the Cacharel brand. Massimo Ferretti, Chairman of the AEFFE Group, who already manufacture and distribute for brands including Alberta Ferretti, and Jean Paul Gaultier said ” I am convinced that thanks to this partnership between Cacharel, with its history full of successes and renewed in its creative identity, and the AEFFE Group, known for its know-how, for its focus on high quality production and excellent customer service, we will be able to make the most of the Cacharel project “.

This article was given by Village Press

The A-Z of Dogs

Artist Robert Clarke exhibition, THE A-Z OF DOGS is on at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London from 1st -21st April. The collection features a series of portrait paintings of British dog breeds, each representing a letter of the alphabet, which will be followed up in New York City with a “toy” American feel showing Boston Terriers to doll sized Chihuahuas.

The Central Saint Martins trained artist is synonymous with his observations of nature, which first showcased at the Paul Smith flagship store in Sloane Square, which led to a complete series of bird paintings being put on exhibition at the Zetter Space

This collection was designed by commissioning 26 different dogs to take part in different sittings, while the artist captured the subjects characteristics in a “a voyage of canine discovery”.

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10 corso como

Since opening on March 28, 2008 in lively Cheongdam-dong, 10 corso como Seoul has become an enigmatic emporium of cultural cool and sophisticated style. The space provides the virtual narrative of a magazine layout, allowing shoppers to promenade through fashion, art, design, and literature, snapping up Kelly bags, Galliano frocks, and poetry along the way.

The fashion boutique, bookstore, design studio, and Italian garden restaurant feature a top-floor gallery space for temporary photography and couture and vintage clothing exhibitions. The stunning three-level design features 10 corso como’s trademark circle motif, resin floors, and eye-popping art by American artist Kris Ruhs. 10 corso como founder and former Italian Elle editor-in-chief Carla Sozzani chose Seoul as the concept store’s first international location because of the city’s unique dynamism and her admiration for partner Samsung Group’s philosophy and attitude towards culture and art.

Image Credits: Vanni Burkhart