I don’t typically post work from art aliases, but I really love simplistic complexity in this collection. Devised and executed by the French artist BI67, these canvases, entitled, Prices, are made with stickers and the accompanying titles share the total sum of the canvas. To view more of his work, click here.
I’ve always been a wheat paste poster fanatic. I love the freshness in the graphic design, the fleeting nowness of pop culture and the way it merges into urban environments- usually a construction site or run-down corner. I love that it’s illegal, but not really, and that it keeps the general population in the know about current events beyond the internet. This collection, by Project Projects, caught my eye.
The graphic campaign centers around an invented symbol derived from the significant Chinese character, “Ei” — the first letter in the Chinese word for “Eiffel Tower,” and an ideogram often used in the phonetic transliteration of foreign (non-Chinese) names. Although it may appear Chinese to a Western viewer, the new symbol functions as a two-fold abstraction: a simulacrum and a fiction of the functioning of language.
Project Projects’ creative campaign is an extension of Intercourses, the Danish Pavilion’s five-channel video installation by artist Jesper Just for the 55th Venice Biennale. The pieces parallel ideas of doubling, dislocation, and the illusion of communication.
Looking art in the face with this week’s choice gallery picks!
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1. Addressing the human condition and its collective social existence through a series of unique works and a site-specific installation, Know Hope’s exhibition questions the ubiquitous notion of the “abstract and the very real”, the weight and burden of which though universally apparent is often unidentifiable to most at Lazarides
2. Adam Feibelman’s works are meditations on what we ask of others, what we ask of our surroundings, and how these questions guide not only our ever-changing city sculpture, but also our relationships to each other. The process of making these works echos this sentiment, where each cut is a decision based on utility at Guerroro Gallery
3.Alvaro Ilizarbe depicts landscape imagery on topographical tectonic plate shaped panels. The amorphous sculptural wall structures lead through a passageway of patterned wallpapers portraying the elements in the earth’s stratum at Martha Otero
4. Gabi Trinkaus and the Things to Come at Claire Oliver
5. John Van Hamersveld has been producing images that have defined the visual representation of surf and rock ‘n’ roll culture for over 50 years at .T.F.R. Gallery
6. Entropy is ASKEW ONE’s first international solo exhibition. Through this new body of work Entropy further refines Askew’s unique method of portraiture where the medium and portrait’s subject become a metaphor for a much bigger conversation.at Inner State Gallery
1. Wendy Van Santen’s fabulously quirky photography via Trendland
2. A whole lot of fabulous nail art via U Don’t Need a Man. U Need a Manicure
3. Guy Catling’s patterned collages via The Jealous Curator
4. Lovely little boxcar planters via Design Crush
5. The Funnel Tunnel by Patrick Renner snakes through Houston via Colossal
6. How about a veiled hat for this winter? via Style Bubble
7. Shampoo on mirrors via present & correct
8. Digging this “eroded” cabinet by Lisa Berkert Wallard via design-milk
9. DIY strappy star sandals via Honestly WTF
10. Interview with artist Skye Jeffreys via The Design Files
11. Gorgeous editorial shoot by Jeneil Williams for Vogue Germany via Miss Moss
12. Neato yarn banner via Creative Bug
Contributed by Emily Gup
You know who’s up their game? The folks at Baggu and the creative team at Herschel Supply. It almost looks as though they’ve taken a visit to Tokyo and have absorbed the product design and innovation abroad, as both brands have incorporated serious technical upgrades this coming season. Last year we did a Japanese bag round up, highlighting our finds at Tokyu Hands, Beams and Porter, and the latest bags seem like a merging of decorative worlds- in terms of zippers, pouches, patterns and collage. If J.Crew’s version wasn’t so small (aka, built for kids), I’d be wearing it all winter long.
No one’s complaining about the heat today. We all know it’ll be ending soon, and this last bit of summer is the perk of the season. The breezy nights, the refreshing jog at the end of the day, the back-to-school wardrobe consisting of jackets, jeans and sandals…these swinging temperatures usher in Fall.
Which brings me to a textile trend that’s an interesting one. It can be difficult to assemble, but once you have your patterns and your placements down, it’s extremely cool in execution: photorealism and landscape textiles. Morgan Carper’s Fall Collection reflects her travels to California’s Big Lagoon, while Mary Katrantzou’s Resort Collection is a dichotomy of urban and country dwelling. Both have voyeuristic vibes and surrealist moods. I’m very much a fan, what do you think?