tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91015528876578522572024-03-12T21:06:28.974-07:00Jonathan Velardi | BlogJonathan Velardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11621068696597399219noreply@blogger.comBlogger417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101552887657852257.post-31114493474288147302015-09-30T11:00:00.000-07:002015-09-30T11:00:11.672-07:00Outside The Lines, Too<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Since the launch of her first publication in 2013, earning her the title of New York
Times bestselling author, LA-based art enthusiast <b>Souris Hong</b> has been busy
rallying yet another stellar line-up of creative masterminds for the sequel of
her celebrated colouring book <b>Outside The Lines</b> (</span><a href="http://creativesafari.com/book-review-outside-lines/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">October</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> 2013).</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dig
out your crayons and markers again – though shame on you for ever putting them
away – because <b>Outside The Lines, Too</b> drops with over 100 fresh line drawings
commissioned by international contemporary talent, ranging from artists,
graphic designers and illustrators to photographers, street artists and
filmmakers. <b>CLAW MONEY</b>, <b>devngosha</b>, <b>Jack Black</b>, <b>Kevin Lyons</b>, <b>Charles and Ray
Eames</b>, <b>POKETO</b> and <b>ThankYouX</b> are a handful of innovative new contributors
that make up the diverse scope of styles and context in this alternative colouring book. </span></span></div>
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<b>Dalek</b>’s optical lines or the playful doodles of <b>NIARK1</b>, there is something for
everyone and anyone with a mission to rid all 256 pages from its monochrome
state. Evolving from the original title, the latest publication now features
individually perforated pages for when you want to exhibit your very own unique
artwork collaboration - not to mention useful for those times when kids of all
ages just don’t want to share.</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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and old(er) will unite over this uber hip paperback bursting with potential
technicolour and conceptual imagination as well as thrive on an unconscious education in the exploration
of art and design from emerging and established artists from around the world
– a critical ingredient to Hong’s success to date and vision for the accessibility
of contemporary art </span>beyond conventional audiences to a
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #666666;">Outside The Lines Too</b><span style="color: #666666;"> will mark a West
coast book launch at </span><b style="color: #666666;">MOCA Los Angeles</b><span style="color: #666666;"> this weekend, Saturday 3 rd October at
3pm – visit </span><a href="http://www.moca.org/program/book-launch-outside-the-lines-too-an-inspired-and-inventive-coloring-book-by-creative-masterminds" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">MOCA Stores</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> for full details.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big, brash and attention seeking are adjectives
commonly used to describe hoardings, let alone a city that is reflected in the
very make-up of its landscape. The <b>Los Angeles</b> skyline is famously known for
its billboard culture across its sprawling topography with a rich history of
roadside temptations aimed at residents and transients alike. Nowhere is this
vie for attention more prolific in the city than on <b>Sunset Boulevard</b>, which cuts
through L.A. from East Downtown to the Pacific Ocean on the Westside.</span><br />
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neighbourhood of Silver Lake, French artist <b>Vincent Lamouroux</b> will transform
the skyline this April and May with a unique site-specific intervention at the
former Sunset Pacific Motel. The site, located on the corner of Sunset
Boulevard and Bates Avenue, has been the scene of much unrest in the community
for over a decade. Having earned the unfortunate moniker of the ‘Bates Motel’–
less for its address and more for its reputation </span><span style="background: white;">à</span> <span lang="EN-GB">la
Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ during its neglected course – the three-storey building
has been boarded up and fenced off since 2002. With all of its shortcomings
however, there remains much nostalgia for the motel, which retains its original
futurist sign topped with decorative antenna globes. Development is rife across
L.A. and the residents of Silver Lake are no different to other neighbourhoods
who are voicing concern when applications for new development tread on
community conservation. Demolition of the motel was granted in 2009 and the
future of the site is in its final stages. In the meantime, Lamouroux will
shroud the motel and its adjoining accoutrements of billboard, vegetation and
palm trees in a lime whitewash, in what will be his most ambitious work of art
to date: <b>Projection</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">The Paris-based </span><a href="http://www.vincentlamouroux.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">artist</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> has known the site for nearly
fourteen years, witnessing its dilapidation year after year. He began to think
about creating an artwork in L.A. inspired by his minimalist practice that used
the ecologically-safe and biodegradable solution of a limewash, previously applied
in several public artworks in France, such as in a forest with ‘Aire 23’ in
2010 as well as interior interventions in ‘Attenuate’ and ‘Passage’ in 2014. “This
particular site was the best place to conceive the ideas that encapsulated
everything that interested me: this city and its landscape; the idea of space
and driving your car; these elements in conjunction with the building, the palm
trees, Sunset Boulevard and the Sunset Pacific Motel sign”, explains Lamouroux.
Familiarity, perception and ephemerality are key elements to the work. He
continues, “we are constantly looking for symmetry and something we can connect
with in the past: something we already know”. The action of whitewashing is a
conceptual means for the artist to, “free the landscape in time and space… to
make something appear in the middle of the urban landscape”. ‘Projection’ will
be the first time he will work with an exterior architectural space – “when I’m
working in an interior space, there is a frame: the walls, the floor and the
ceiling. On this project I am outdoors but the concept of the frame remains:
the horizontality of L.A., the fence around the motel. The frame is something
that I will define myself by playing with these physical properties”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Lamouroux believes the palm trees on the site, which
line this entire section of the boulevard, will draw the eye of drivers and
passersby down to ground level to reveal not only the extraordinary matte white covering in full
but of a building that has lost its power to engage since its all too familiar,
neglected state. The platinum palm trees against the famously blue L.A. sky
will interrupt the horizon and create an impressive visual amongst their
natural counterparts. While the whitewash invites a revaluation of our
surroundings, it also performs a negative gesture of erasing the appearance of
the familiar. Nicolas Libert, co-founder of curated space </span><a href="http://www.meltingbutter.com/curators-dtla-eyes-vanguard-concept-store-please-not-enter/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Please Do Not Enter</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">
in Downtown L.A., who is producing the installation with the support of
</span><a href="http://creativemigration.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Creative Migration</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, illustrates how ‘Projection’ represents the story of Sunset
Boulevard: “all the businesses try to catch your eye with huge signs,
billboards, neons – Vincent’s simple manipulation on the appearance of the
building with this whitewash will result in generating a greater statement than
all the other distractions on Sunset. It’s more powerful than any advertising
strategy. This negative gesture will celebrate the architecture and the old way
of life in the city of L.A.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The artist’s intentions are honestly declared in the artwork’s
title. Inspiration, aspiration and hope are all concepts to be projected onto
the blank architectural canvas. Lamouroux cites society’s unease with change or
transformation as a means of positively reengaging with the greater public – “most
of the time we don’t want to see transformation, but it’s always happening.
Looking at the motel today, it’s definitely not the same as it was fourteen
years ago. It’s degraded in time. I’m trying to beautify this site – to inspire
what is now a lost site”. On why the site is lost to begin with and its future
as a redevelopment, the installation is decidedly apolitical in motive and any
symbolism linked to an all-white surrender, truce or silent statement around
the long-term cultural context of the motel is not to be misinterpreted. “When
Vincent talks about how transformation and change is hard to accept, this is
what is happening now, especially in the Silver Lake community as well as
across many communities of L.A.” Libert explains. “The work is able to be read
in so many ways. Vincent is not taking a position on these issues, but he is
pointing out the idea of appearance and disappearance. ‘Projection’ implies a
screen that one can project what is on one’s mind: one’s dreams, expectations,
nostalgia – it is inevitable that viewers who are struggling with the change in
the community will project a political layer on the artwork”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Lamouroux, ’Projection’ is about “something you
carry in your mind”, whether it be passing in your car for a brief moment or
walking and experiencing the building head-on. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After two weeks the lime whitewash will gradually
fade, leaving a limited window for visitors to project onto the motel’s all-white
surface. Until then, the site will unquestionably emit a curiosity never before
seen along Sunset Boulevard under the bright Californian light, casting crisp silhouettes. When the sun sets on Sunset, the
artist recognises his artwork’s vitality, avoiding any spectacle come nightfall
– “Sunset Boulevard is saturated with signs in this 24/7 commercial landscape. I
like the idea that the building has to sleep in order to dream. It’s the same
for us; in order to dream we need to rest and this is very much how I want the
building to function”. </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little separates entertainment and escapism apart. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As 'Projection' wakes from its daily slumber, Lamouroux will take comfort in the fact his work will have plenty of day dreamers in the land where dreams come true. </span></div>
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Silver Lake, Los Angeles from 26th April to 10th May – viewing is available
around the perimeter of the fenced site on Sunset Boulevard and Bates Avenue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sunday 26th April </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jmvelardi" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">@jmvelardi</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and on Instagram
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">A new quarterly magazine hits the streets
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that launched earlier this week in the capital. </span><b style="color: #666666;">Soho Journal</b><span style="color: #666666;"> is a well curated lifestyle </span><a href="http://www.sohojournal.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">publication</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> that will feature people, business and
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profiles and destination reviews in the famed hedonistic quarter and includes
my business profile on the <b>Photographers’ Gallery</b>, devoted to its namesake
medium for over four decades. From its founding in 1971 in Covent Garden to </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">embedding itself in the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘world’s most creative square mile’, according to the gallery’s Director, Brett Rogers, OBE,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> with its
ambitious relocation in 2012 on Ramillies Street</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, I also investigate the art world’s return to the West End with a host of native and international commercial galleries favouring an address in the area over one in the now-gentrified East End.</span></div>
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copy of Soho Journal - featuring bespoke tailor and cover boy Mark Powell - for free in a number of hotels, galleries, coffee shops,
eateries and retail locations in the W1 area.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My interview with Nicolas Libert and Emmanuel Renoird, founders of Downtown LA’s enticing concept store – </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please Do Not Enter</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> – has dropped at New York-based wanderlust guide </span><a href="http://www.meltingbutter.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Melting Butter</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. ‘The Curators’ is a collection of interviews with vanguards from around the world who share their insight about their city and creative environs. After visiting the curated space of </span><a href="http://www.jonathanvelardi.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/please-do-not-enter-los-angeles-downtown-discovery.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Please Do Not Enter</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> last year, Nicolas and Emmanuel kindly shared their cultural and culinary hotspots of Downtown LA with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">As well as staging an ambitious </span><a href="http://www.pleasedonotenter.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">programme</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> of
events at their Pershing Square headquarters alongside the collection of unique
and limited edition luxury products, their personal guide proves Downtown LA is
one of the of the most enterprising neighbourhoods in the city worthy of exploration – the stylish
duo recently swapped the cultural capital of Paris for the City of Angels after
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Google to tell you anything goes on the internet. Add a hashtag to that
anything and you find yourself sympathising with a global online community
hungry for expression in as few and witty characters as possible. So to the
recent buzz this week that has been reported by the likes of </span><a href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/23537/1/what-the-hell-is-heelconcept" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Dazed & Confused</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/heelconcept-meme-mum-misty-pollen-explains-it-all" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">i-D</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.papermag.com/view/gallery/54d52dabb6de826879fc0b36#2" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">PAPER Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on the curious hashtag that is </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#heelconcept</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Punch
this meme into Instagram and behold a collection of arched feet, precariously
balancing atop resolutely lo-fi objects from the sublime to the ridiculous to
create the illusion of a high heel shoe.</span></div>
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As DIY footwear floods our Instagram feeds, we ask the meme’s creator about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HeelConcept?src=hash">#HeelConcept</a>: <a href="http://t.co/nAflSa2nUx">http://t.co/nAflSa2nUx</a> <a href="http://t.co/yev2vzrZ84">pic.twitter.com/yev2vzrZ84</a><br />
— i-D (@i_D) <a href="https://twitter.com/i_D/status/565427580619075584">February 11, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First recorded by the grammer </span><a href="http://instagram.com/m.sty/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">@m.sty</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in December of last year, who stood on a bronze figure performing autofellatio against the backdrop of a cutting mat, the hashtag has since inspired hundreds of avant-garde prototypes as a means of alternative self-portraiture. </span><br />
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Ladies, step aside. The men are coming up with their own <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/heelconcept?src=hash">#heelconcept</a> [SUB REQ.]: <a href="http://t.co/00jNCTbAKQ">http://t.co/00jNCTbAKQ</a> <a href="http://t.co/i5q6VUBbB5">pic.twitter.com/i5q6VUBbB5</a><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High fashion, contemporary art and a generous helping of irony at its most fabulous come together in an amalgamation of DIY beauty and anti-aesthetic style, which has left trend forecasters head over heels. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666;">Perhaps because on closer inspection #heelconcept has been attracting both sexes with fashion journal WWD headlining ‘Ladies step aside: </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #666666;">The men are coming up with their own #heelconcept</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666;">’, with their respective hairy limbs en pointe, including that of my own. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666;">Having come across the phenomenon on my feed last week I couldn't resist raiding the kitchen cupboards to channel the lexicon of none other than pop culture supreme Mr Warhol, by putting my toes to werk.</span></span><br />
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complete without a few hours page-turning in arguably one of the world’s finest
bookstores. <b>Arcana: Books on the Arts</b> has been the go-to purveyors for
specialist, out of print and collectible publications on twentieth-century visual
art, architecture, design, photography, film and fashion since 1984.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2012, </span><a href="http://www.arcanabooks.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Arcana</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> founder Lee Kaplan relocated from Santa Monica to Culver City’s landmark Art Deco complex at <b>Helms Bakery</b> - a former bread bakery from the 1930s, now transformed into LA’s interior design district.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If book shops are for bookworms, Arcana is for butterflies. The atmosphere is elegant and serene yet electric with every book unleashed from its plastic sleeve, revealing high-quality imagery produced by the world's leading publishing houses. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From little and large to minimal and extravagant, Arcana’s vast range of visual page candy is unparalleled to the bookshelves of even the grandest of museum gift shops and is a testament to its strong client base from the creative worlds of entertainment, design and fashion who visit the shop for inspiration, guided by Kaplan’s comprehensive expertise on the old, the new and the beautiful.</span></div>
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where I explored the alternative art and design scenes across the city here
on the </span><a href="http://www.jonathanvelardi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">blog</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, my </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jmvelardi" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Twitter</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/jonathanvelardi" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Instagram</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Ding-dong December is here and my Christmas gift guide drops for
another year with ten ideas that will guarantee culture points under the tree this Holiday season. Inspired from the worlds of art and design that have caught my
eye on my travels or have been featured here on the </span><a href="http://www.jonathanvelardi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">blog</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and on my </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jmvelardi" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Twitter</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">
throughout the course of the year, follow my curated countdown of discerning
gifts for the naughty and nice…</span></span></div>
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public art work, </span><i style="color: #666666;">Tree</i><span style="color: #666666;">,</span><span style="color: #666666;"> erected in conjunction with his <i>Chocolate Factory</i>
exhibition at </span><a href="http://www.monnaiedeparis.fr/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">La </span></a></span><a href="http://www.monnaiedeparis.fr/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Monnaie de Paris</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> this year. A
souvenir of the work is being produced by the artist and French chocolatier </span><a href="http://www.mademoiselle-chocolat.fr/chocolat-noir/a-tree-chocolate-factory-paul-mccarthy-1904.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Mademoiselle Chocolat</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> during the exhibition. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Haute-stationery from Japanese papermaker ITO Bindery for the aspiring curator – the recycled Memo Block is available at
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Forgo the wood fire and turn up the heat over Robert Lazzarini’s distorted <i>Puzzle</i> series featuring images from 1970s porn - the limited edition of 50 jigsaw puzzles per design are produced by Brooklyn-based creative platform </span><a href="http://www.thegreyarea.com/shop/porn-puzzle-robert-lazzarini-x-grey-area" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Grey Area</span></a></span></span></div>
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</span><a href="http://www.jonathanvelardi.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/stick-your-neck-out-bandana-fashion.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">square</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> with this UNIQLO SPRZ NY X Keith Haring art bandana – available at </span><a href="http://sprzny.uniqlo.com/uk/products/haring/#/01364H074A" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">UNIQLO</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">
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no-socks-for-Christmas code with these ‘Original Dot’ 3M reflective performance pair ideal for the urban athlete – available at </span><a href="http://icnysport.com/collections/reflective-socks/products/white-dotted-half-calf-3m-reflective-performance-sock" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">ICNY Sport</span></a></span></span></div>
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Martin Margiela with these alternative </span><i style="color: #666666;">Fortune Eggs</i><span style="color: #666666;"> for a prosperous and stylish new year – by </span><a href="http://eboutique.maisonmartinmargiela.com/gb/design-objects/fortune-eggs_cod46348052oc.html?dept=Bjcts" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Maison Martin Margiela</span></a></span></span></div>
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neighbourhoods from East to West across the city. Contemporary art and design
activity have been attracting much attention in recent years with artists and
designers relocating to LA’s expansive environment of not only matter, but of
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been fitting only a few years ago when little life could be found in Downtown
after working hours, let alone life-style. Riding the wave of the district’s
renaissance, French founders </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nicolas Libert</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmanuel Renoird</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> established
their boutique-cum-gallery earlier this year and have been tempting customers
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">The conceptually pragmatic blog for
travellers and OCD-ers alike, <b>I Am Packed</b> recently
featured the contents of my luggage before I headed to <b>Los Angeles</b> earlier this
month. The site features an array of global travellers represented by their
effortless compositions of belongings. From the monochrome to the multicoloured,
</span><a href="http://iampacked.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">I Am Packed</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> is more methodical beauty rather than last-minute packing madness. Not to mention a little shameless display of one's wares - yes, that is a Jeff Koons beach towel. </span></span></div>
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LHR and LAX at </span><a href="http://iampacked.com/jonathan-lax" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">I Am Packed</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and look out for
future posts </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reporting on </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my visit to LA where I explored the alternative art and design scenes across the city</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> here on the </span><a href="http://www.jonathanvelardi.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">blog</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, my </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jmvelardi" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Twitter</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.instagram.com/jonathanvelardi" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Instagram</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #666666;">Amidst the </span><b style="color: #666666;">Frieze</b><span style="color: #666666;">
furore of last week that reverberated across all corners of the capital, the
stylish tranquillity of </span><a href="http://www.keepershouse.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">The Keeper’s House</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> at the Royal Academy played host to
an intimate evening in conversation with the artist and Royal Academician,
</span><b style="color: #666666;">Frank Bowling, OBE</b><span style="color: #666666;">. Ahead of the abstract painter’s major exhibition opening
this week at the </span><a href="http://spritmuseum.se/en/home-page/exhibition/upcoming-exhibitions/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Spritmuseum</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, Stockholm – home of the Absolut Art Collection -
guests had the pleasure of being introduced to the exhibition’s curator </span><b style="color: #666666;">Mia
Sundberg</b><span style="color: #666666;">, art historian </span><b style="color: #666666;">Courtney J. Martin</b><span style="color: #666666;"> as well as critic and long-term friend
of Bowling, </span><b style="color: #666666;">Mel Gooding</b><span style="color: #666666;">.</span></span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Traingone</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> will
showcase works produced in the artist’s New York and London studios between
1979 and 1996. The exhibition marks a resurgence of global attention that
Bowling has received after his solo exhibition, </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Focus Display</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> at </span><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/focus-frank-bowling" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Tate Britain</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">FrankBowling in convo <a href="https://twitter.com/royalacademy">@royalacademy</a> Keeper's House ahead of major exhib opening nxt wk <a href="https://twitter.com/Spritmuseum">@Spritmuseum</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Stockholm?src=hash">#Stockholm</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/art?src=hash">#art</a> <a href="http://t.co/DrfgHtNerJ">pic.twitter.com/DrfgHtNerJ</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">— Jonathan Velardi (@JMVELARDI) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMVELARDI/status/521697522629509120">October 13, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">The evening
covered the artist’s colourful career that is famously reflected in his
large-scale canvases. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1962,
Bowling left London for New York with a “longing to be in literary things” and
found his feet within the contemporary literary scene of poets and writers resisidng in the metropolis. It
was there Bowling first met fellow Brit Gooding who developed an interest in the
artist’s work and his inspiration, which was rooted in the works of great English
painters such as </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Gainsborough, Constable and Turner</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">. Gooding
described Bowling at the time of possessing, “an inner knowledge of the works
of American artists as a British outsider” while armed with classical foundations.
This quality allowed Bowling a freedom to experiment on the canvas unseen
before on the New York art scene that saw various influences of geometry and
plastic materials manipulated to create sculptural relief on the surface.
Charismatically, Bowling describes his practice as being “intent on making competitive imagery”,
which has seen his poetically titled works go on display in a
number of prominent international exhibitions and collections throughout his career.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Lauded by Gooding as a “master of Colour Field painting’, Bowling’s
kelaidescopic-scapes attract the viewer with colour and entice in contextual
dynamism – a formula that has proved Bowling’s foresight and endurance in
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<i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Traingone</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> by
Frank Bowling, OBE RA opens at the </span><a href="http://spritmuseum.se/en/home-page/exhibition/upcoming-exhibitions/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Spritmusem</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> in
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Jonathan Velardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11621068696597399219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101552887657852257.post-28599771314543341702014-10-17T18:20:00.000-07:002014-10-18T02:07:35.175-07:00ICA: Off-Site - The Last 3 Years and the Future<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">he Institute of
Contemporary Arts returns to The Old Selfridges Hotel for another year and
brings with it a host of international guests for its </span><b style="color: #666666;">ICA: Off-Site</b> <a href="http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/ica-site-old-selfridges-hotel" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">programme</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">. The concrete carcass of the
former residence that sits on the west wing of the luxury department store on
Orchard Street sets the scene for an electric schedule of live performance
across the mediums of music, art, dance and debate to coincide with </span><a href="http://londoncalling.com/features/frieze-london" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Frieze</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As well as
highlights starring </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabel Lewis</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hans Ulrich Obrist</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rhizome</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, last Thursday’s
highly anticipated collaborative set between </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Korakrit Arunanondchai</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and
</span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">boychild</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> with </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AJGvojic</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> commanded block-long queues for the late evening
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and the Future</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> comprised of four video works accompanied by a live performance
centred around a stage that had been decorated with Arunanondchai’s trademark
bleached denim canvases. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scene in The Old Selfrdiges Hall reflected the current state of young performance art that the Bangkok-born New York-based artist is affiliated with: an unashamed aesthetic clash and sensory overload that parallels our virtual demeanour for information and speed. </span></div>
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works that span between 2012 and 2014 were collaborative in their construct –
another emerging signature of new-age performance art – to create a complex
overlapping of narrative and context shot over specific lengths of time and rooted
in the artist’s heritage. </span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Future</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (2014) – the last in the four-part series – is an ongoing feature film shot this summer in collaboration with boychild: an intensely captivating chameleon and performance artist based in Los Angeles. Clips of popular culture television such as talent shows and news feeds are spliced together with cultural landscapes and digitally manipulated imagery over a dynamic score that set the scene for the anticipated live element of the performance. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The theatrics of strobe lighting and smoke machines - designed by
Serbian AJGvojic - created an impressive climax through the various sets to a
break in its pace. Arunanondchai and his smoking, denim-clad posse handed over the stage to boychild’s exhilarating body-centric display. A remix cut of
TLC’s 1999-hit </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unpretty</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> accelerated as the metamorphic artist produced gender-bending shapes and convulsions that played on notions of beauty,
androgyny and anarchy shrouded in an apocalyptic haze. </span></div>
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Arunanondchai’s denim canvases to boychild’s body-as-canvas and AJGvojic's canvassing of the environment with texture and sound, </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last 3 Years and
the Future</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was a stimulating experience to behold of 'live surface' expression and an exciting insight in the radical directions and influences being explored within contemporary performance art.</span></div>
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and video from the performance </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last 3 Years and the Future</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Korakrit
Arunanondchai and boychild with AJGvojic </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on my Tumblr page </span><a href="http://hashtag-highlife-lowlife.tumblr.com/tagged/icaoffsite" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">hashtag-highlife-lowlife.tumblr.com</span></a></div>
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to 18th October 2014 </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at The Old Selfridges
Hotel, above Selfridges Food Hall</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">– click </span><a href="https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/ica-site-old-selfridges-hotel" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">here</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> for a full schedule of live events.
</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Korakrit Arunanondchai’s
denim paintings may be viewed at</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the ICA on The Mall in</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> the group exhibition </span><a href="https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/beware-wet-paint" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Beware Wet Paint</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> through to 16th November 2014.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With <b>Frieze
London</b> now in full swing, it may be impossible to find a tin of white paint anywhere
in the capital. With over 160 contemporary galleries featured at this year’s
fair, that’s a lot of stands to be transformed into white cube utopias with the
prospect of dangerously entering ‘once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all’
territory. If you’re looking for an art fix with a difference, head off-piste
from the white-capped surroundings of Regent’s Park with my pick of 5
alternative spaces to view contemporary art set in the surroundings of zoos, hotels and office spaces across the capital during Frieze
week:</span></div>
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better location than Victoria to reflect London’s expanding growth – it’s
sheer speed perhaps represented by the wind swept public art sculpture by Yinka
Shonibare, MBE – aptly titled <i>Wind Sculpture</i> – that resides opposite the vacant
commercial space-</span></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">turned-temporary backdrop </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the international group exhibition</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paradigm Store</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Spread across five floors and 80,000 sq ft, <i>Paradigm
Store</i> presents an impressive display of new and recent works by seventeen artists selected
by curatorial partnership Tina Sotiriadi and Alistair Howick of </span><a href="http://hsprojects.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">HS Projects</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Untitled: No Inside</i>, 2014 by Simon Bedwell - variable dimensions</span></div>
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exhibition explores issues of the decorative and the functional, incorporating
a variety of mixed media works that are concerned with the relationship between conceptual art and
design. Visiting the exhibition is by appointment only and provides an
exceptional opportunity to be personally guided by </span></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sotiriadi and Howick</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> through the compelling
installations by artists such as Claire Barclay, Ulla von Brandenburg, Cullinan
Richards, Simon Bedwell and David Shrigley.</span></div>
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continues through to 5th November 2014 at 5 Howick Place SW1 1BH – viewing appointments may be arranged with Allison
Thorpe at Sutton PR - allison@suttonpr.com</span></span></div>
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concrete carcass of the former Selfridges Hotel in Mayfair plays host to
another </span><b style="color: #666666;">ICA Off-Site</b><span style="color: #666666;"> programme from the capital’s pioneering </span><a href="https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/ica-site-old-selfridges-hotel" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Institute of Contemporary Arts</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">. This year’s event will encompass a dynamic schedule of
performance, music, art, dance and discussion presented by both London-based creative platforms and international artists. </span></span></span></div>
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</span><a href="https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/ica-site-occasion-hosted-isabel-lewis" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Isabel Lewis</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> will launch the week-long event that will feature the
collaborative performance <i>The Last 3 Years and the Future</i> between New
York-based artist </span><a href="https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/ica-site-korakrit-arunanondchai-boychild-and-ajgvojic-last-3-years-and-future" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Korakrit Arunanondchai</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> with </span><a href="http://instagram.com/boychild" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">boychild</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and </span><a href="http://instagram.com/trend_reznor" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">AJ Gvojic</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> as well as
the discussion of art’s function and circulation in our internet age conducted
by online arts platform </span><a href="http://rhizome.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Rhizome</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">.</span></span></span></div>
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world’s ever-increasing affinity with the luxury sector through collaborations
and limited editions, it is no surprise one of the world’s most prestigious
motor car manufacturers want to ride the successful art-luxury formula.
<b>Rolls-Royce Motor Cars</b> have commissioned celebrated artist and Turner
Prize-nominee <b>Angela Bulloch</b> to create a new work derived from the properties
and scale of the marque’s equally celebrated <i>Phantom</i> model. <i>Cipher
of L.</i> is materialised in the artist’s ‘Pixel Box’ aesthetic, emitting coloured
light that reflects the manufacturer’s bespoke 44,000 hue-option pallet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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commissioned installation, </span><i style="color: #666666;">Cipher of L.</i><span style="color: #666666;"> by Angela Bulloch will be on show in
the </span><a href="http://www.rolls-roycemotorcars-london.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Rolls-Royce Motor Cars</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> London showroom, 15 Berkeley Square W1J BDT </span></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">until 23rd October 2014.</span></div>
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opportunity to view the conceptual works from the </span><a href="http://www.danjumacollection.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Danjuma Collection</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> will be on display within the Georgian splendour of 33 Fitzroy Square, near to
Regent’s Park, throughout the month of October. Founded by London-based
collector Theo Danjuma in 2008, the collection includes over 400 works by
established and emerging artists including Wade Guyton, Alex Israel and Dahn
Vo. <i>One Man’s Trash (Is Another Man’s Treasure)</i> will explore the idea of found
material employed by the artists represented in the collection. Contemporary
African art will also feature, providing a unique landscape
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Evans</b> presents his contribution to this year’s <b>Frieze Projects</b> within ZSL London
Zoo. The multisensory neon intervention will be installed in the zoo’s Snowdon
Aviary, designed by Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), Cedric Price and
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year’s Frieze highlights and new programmes on the Frieze London schedule in my
article for </span><a href="http://londoncalling.com/features/authors/jonathan-velardi" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">London Calling</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> available to read </span><a href="http://londoncalling.com/features/frieze-london" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">here</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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of activity in preparation for the twelfth edition of </span><b style="color: #666666;">Frieze Art Fair</b><span style="color: #666666;">. Over 160
leading contemporary galleries and over 1000 artists from around the world will
be showcased under a temporary white cube mothership, designed by </span><b style="color: #666666;">Barber & Osgerby</b><span style="color: #666666;"> of London-based </span><a href="http://www.universaldesignstudio.com/projects/exhibitions/180/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Universal Design Studio</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">.</span></span></span></div>
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f</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lâneur</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’s paradise for not only high quality art but the spectacle of
artists, curators, collectors and members of the art cognoscenti who peruse statement gallery stands and jaunt from country to country – travelling as
locally between West and East London to as far reaching as the contemporary art
quarters of America, Asia and Europe, all within a few stylish steps from one
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Discover my guide
to this year’s schedule at </span><a href="http://londoncalling.com/features/frieze-london" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">London Calling</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the latest platform where I will be contributing arts and culture-related highlights in the capital. Plan your visit to Frieze with my</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> breakdown of the five programmes taking place between
15th and 19th October. From the annual </span><a href="http://www.friezeprojects.org/index.php?/commissions/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Frieze Projects</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> commissions that will be
popping up across several locations on- and off-site to the popular </span><a href="http://friezelondon.com/sculpture-park/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Frieze Sculpture Park</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> featuring
international public art works in Regent’s Park as well as old guard creations at
</span><a href="http://friezemasters.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Frieze Masters</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> - there is something for every eye at Frieze.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Between the towering cranes and
construction that envelope the landscape of East London, a super-sizing of
quite another sort may be found behind the walls of </span><b style="color: #666666;">Victoria Miro</b><span style="color: #666666;">’s Wharf Road
gallery. In my latest blog entry for </span><a href="http://blog.ohhdeer.com/blog/review-yayoi-kusamas-pumpkins" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Ohh Deer</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, I visit a new body of work by
visionary artist </span><b style="color: #666666;">Yayoi Kusama</b><span style="color: #666666;">. A series of three oversized pumpkins lie on the
gallery’s enviable water garden – a fitting synergy with the Japanese artist’s
longstanding intrigue of the natural world.</span></span><br />
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has worked with bronze on this scale, ranging from knee to head height. The plant has played a prolific role in the eccentric
artist’s career – first making an appearance as early as 1948. After over five
decades, Kusama affirms there is much more fantasy to be explored with this bulbous
form, reinterpreted in her trademark Pop aesthetic that has been revered in major international exhibitions to commercial collaborations with luxury fashion house <o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Louis Vuitton</b>, under the direction of Marc Jacobs, as well as t-shirt graphics for Japanese
retailer <b>Uniqlo</b>.</span></div>
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now available to read on the Ohh Deer </span><a href="http://blog.ohhdeer.com/blog/review-yayoi-kusamas-pumpkins" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">blog</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">.</span></span></div>
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artist during <b>Frieze London 2014</b> at </span><a href="http://friezelondon.com/sculpture-park/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Frieze Sculpture</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://friezelondon.com/sculpture-park/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"> Park</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> in the English Garden
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<!--EndFragment-->Jonathan Velardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11621068696597399219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101552887657852257.post-18372656963919957882014-09-29T11:14:00.000-07:002014-09-29T11:14:43.965-07:00Introducing: Melting Butter<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it just me or do time and travel never seem to get
along? There’s never enough time while you’re away exploring new sights and sounds
and when you get back it feels like a lifetime waiting until the next adventure
can begin. Despite much technological advancement – of which time travel is not
one – if you’ve ever precariously perched out of your hotel window to catch
free Wi-Fi out of thin air and punched the words ‘what to do in’ while you’re
away from home, then you’re doing it all wrong. Lose the generic travel guides
and reviews and by all means get lost; just get lost in the right places. After
accumulating a fair amount of mileage on my travels, wandering the streets with
only my eyes, ears and sensibility, I’ve amassed an international cultural log of
art and design must-sees that I’ve not known what to do with - until now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666;">I’m very excited to announce I have joined the
correspondent team at lifestyle hub </span><b style="color: #666666;">Melting Butter</b><span style="color: #666666;">. Founded by fellow
globetrotter </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jennynoowyn" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Jenny </span></a></span><a href="https://twitter.com/jennynoowyn" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Nguyen-Barron</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, Melting Butter is a traveler’s ultimate digital companion, offering a curated online guide from dawn to dusk for explorers in search of the most inspiring and aspiring hotspots in New York and around the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> favourite previews on the design calendar
is the Heal’s Autumn Collection presented in its London flagship on Tottenham
Court Road. As one of the leading furniture emporiums in the country for more
than two centuries, the brand continues to provide high quality, accessible design
for the contemporary home. Celebrating its 10th </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">anniversary this
year, the <b>Heal’s Discovers</b> programme continues to work with emerging talent,
promoting innovative design from the drawing table to the shop floor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; text-align: justify;">Heal's Discovers 2014: Ester Comunello, Tom Parfitt, Josh South and Sam Lloyd</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ahead of its official launch at the </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">London Design Festival</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in September, I previewed this year’s Heal’s Discovers designers who are all alumni from traditional furniture making and product design universities from across the country. Kirsty Whyte, Heal’s Product & Design Manager, explained to me the importance of design ethos that had been considered in choosing both the university and its subsequent graduate for the programme. Craftsmanship and material are at the core of the designers’ varied practices and this is reflected in the British-made values that Heal’s maintains for its in-house collections. Kirsty and her team mentored each designer through the stages of concept to viable product and worked closely with specialist British manufacturers for their production.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cargocollective.com/estercomunello" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Ester Comunello</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> introduces her </span></span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turn Collection</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> – comprising of a coffee table, floor lamp and mirror – as a response to society’s detached relationship with product design. The Brazilian designer and graduate from Bucks New University based her concept around dexterity and craft when designing the range, which requires easy hands-on assembly without the nuts and bolts of flat pack counterparts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The screw mechanism and ridges allow owners to engage directly with the piece using their hands; defining its shape and form, even offering the ability to clamp onto existing pieces of furniture or architecture. The result is a highly dynamic range that is made in Norwich using beech wood.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">details: <i>Turn</i> coffee table (above) and <i>Turn</i> mirror (below)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Modernist architecture was the principal inspiration behind </span><a href="http://www.tomparfittdesign.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Tom Parfitt</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">’s</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b>Maya</b> side table. The Rycotewood-graduate hails from a wealth of industry experience at British furniture brand Benchmark before developing new skills and methods while studying for his degree. The side table - manufactured in Cheltenham - boasts the impressive credential of being made from over 90% recycled material. Equally impressive is its finish and physicality – smooth polished concrete and minimal lines. The solid form features triangular voids that make for just enough decorative intrigue as well as functional storage.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Aluminium and oak come together for the <b>Sand Cast</b> range by Kingston University-graduate </span><a href="http://www.sam-lloyd.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Sam Lloyd</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. A bar stool and low stool are presented in an angular style with an aluminium seat - manufactured after its namesake - upon three legs available in natural or fumed oak. A variety of manufacturing techniques are involved in its production that include aluminium casting from South East London to the hand-turned timber from Whitstable.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Design duo </span><a href="http://luscombeandsouth.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Luscombe and South</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> met at Northumbria University where they established their collaborative studio. Philip Luscombe and Josh South introduce their first fully realised project together in the multi-functional <b>Rickard Stool</b>. After a series of prototypes – a making process favoured by the designers rather than sketching - the stool evolved to be suitable for sitting and standing as well as for display as a side-table. The natural and fumed oak components of the two-tiered stool are highlighted with contrasting dowels along its curved surface.</span></div>
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designers, the 2014 Autumn Collection looks to six new ranges by established
designers and studios that include ‘Future Craft’ and ‘Modern British’ takes on
minimal Nordic and Japanese aesthetics through to reinterpreted silhouettes of
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">The Heal’s Discovers 2014 range from all five designers will launch on 13th September 2014 at the </span><a href="http://www.londondesignfestival.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">London Design Festival</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> and at </span><a href="http://www.100percentdesign.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">100% Design</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> between 17th and 20th September 2014. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">For more information about the range and collections featured in this post visit </span><a href="http://www.heals.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">heals.co.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> or view in-store at 196 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7LQ and nationwide from next month.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Work No. 1086, EVERTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT</i>, 2011 - Martin Creed</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For
unnerved Londoners who make the two-hour journey to the historic town of <b>Bruton</b>
from the capital, where white walls and polished concrete floors maketh a
contemporary art gallery, Martin Creed’s </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work No. 1086</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> welcomes them into the
farm yard surroundings of </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hauser & Wirth</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’s new </span><a href="http://www.hauserwirthsomerset.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Somerset</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> outpost with the neon words, <i>EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT</i>. Whether you
need the reassurance or simply appreciate the humour, visitors to <b>Hauser & Wirth Somerset</b> need not fret. There are no cattle grids to get your Louboutin
heels stuck in and the paved paths around the green verges will avoid any soggy
suede soles. As refreshing as the country air, Hauser & Wirth Somerset is
not to be mistaken for a gallery exclusively catering for London-centrics on the weekends. While
Bruton may seem a little out of place on Hauser & Wirth’s roster of
international outposts in London, New York, Zurich and soon-to-be Los Angeles,
there is more than meets the eye to this rural enterprise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hauser & Wirth is an influential player in the contemporary art world, which represents a collection of major league international </span><a href="http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">artists</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the estates of late modern masters. Iwan and Manuela Wirth are the successful power couple behind the commercial gallery and after moving to the UK from Switzerland in 2005, they subsequently discovered Somerset and the Dursdale Farm estate on the outskirts of Bruton. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Untitled</i>, 2008 - Subodh Gupta</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dursdale was a working farm for more than a thousand years and its history spans from the medieval and aristocratic through to the cinematic, serving as the location for Lasse Hallström’s 2000 film, <i>Chocolat</i>. After extensive local consultations, works began on restoring the dilapidated barns, stables, outhouses and neo-Gothic Grade II-listed farmhouse into a commercial gallery, art centre and restaurant across several buildings, all </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">conceived by Paris architects </span><a href="http://www.luislaplace.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Laplace</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and built by local firm </span><a href="http://www.b2architects.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Benjamin + Beauchamp</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Spider</i>, 1994 - Louise Bourgeois </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">The result is a beautifully executed
setting where contemporary art and lifestyle meet through a middle-of-nowehere
guise that is adventurous as it is familiar. Familiar, because there is arguably
an air of the lifestyle destination that roving middle classes have come to relish of late. It also follows the growing trend of displacing contemporary art
into alternative environments. This formula is nothing new. Works by the
world’s leading artists can be found in isolated sculpture parks or converted
factories and warehouses from Yorkshire and Upstate New York to islands off mainland Japan, respectively. Gagosian Gallery’s
niche space in a converted hangar at Paris’s </span><a href="http://www.gagosian.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Le Bourget</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> airport has been
attracting visitors since 2012. The concept may be de rigeur, however the
Wirth’s objectives in Somerset are distinct and faithful to the local community. This is
reflected in the appointment of Alice Workman, director of Hauser & Wirth
Somerset, who hails from Roche Court’s </span><a href="http://www.jonathanvelardi.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/between-lines.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">New Art Centre</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> in Salisbury and
Southampton City Art Gallery in the South West. Workman therefore understands
the subject of art accessibility outside of the M25. The surrounding cities of
Bristol, Exeter and Southampton simply cannot compete with the cultural
saturation that London so easily attracts. S</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">omerset
County has also endured severe cuts to its arts funding and suffered a
devastating flooding crisis last Winter. Far from being a vanity project,
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is a cultural and economic lifeline for this area
of South West England. Business is after all what commercial galleries excel
at. Provincial attitudes are alien in a globally nomadic twenty-first century -
t</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he new gallery will
introduce international art to the region in as much as introducing the region
to international artists who will exhibit or take up artist residencies at the
new space.</span></div>
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of Hauser &a Wirth Somerset features several large-scale outdoor
installations by </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul McCarthy</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thomas Houseago</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Louise Bourgeois</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anri
Sala</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> – statement works that create an extraordinary juxtaposition amongst the
agricultural landscape. </span><a href="http://www.oudolf.com/piet-oudolf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Piet Oudolf</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -
garden designer behind major public commissions including the <i>High Line</i> in
Manhattan, New York, Chicago’s <i>Millennium Park</i> and the <i>Queen Elizabeth Olympic
Park</i> on the site of the London 2012 Olympic Games – also contributes with a sinuous
garden design over a 1.5 acre meadow that will open to the public on 14th
September.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">British sculptor </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phyllida Barlow</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> inaugurates the gallery’s exhibition programme with an ambitious new body of work, titled </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GIG</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Four galleries house the artist’s sculptural forms in her inimitable style of organized chaos and liberation from any concern for health and safety – in the best possible way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">untitled: postscorral</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">, 2014 - Phyllida Barlow</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following Barlow’s colossal commission </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dock</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> in Tate Britain’s </span><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/100979216619547447/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Duveen Galleries</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, </span></span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GIG</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> comprises of several works that were created in response to the architecture and surrounding landscape. The network of these spaces – a Piggery, Pigsty and Threshing Barn – maintain their original beams and features, and include one positively white cube space – a nod to the gallery’s distant Mayfair sibling. </span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">untitled: grinder</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: justify;">, 2014 - Phyllida Barlow</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The installation, </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">untitled: postscorral</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, showcases a series of
supersized upturned matchsticks in Barlow’s signature materials of timber,
cement, scrim and wire netting. Visitors circumvent the edges of the space and
encouter other gravity-defying works on the walls and ceilings. </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">untitled:
grinder</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is an energetic sculpture that seemingly ploughs through the walls of
the Pigsty with its static cogs or fluting, each candy-striped in a
multi-coloured palette of pinks and yellows. A free-standing horseshoe-shaped
sculpture neighbours the space with its apertures running from top to toe along
its edge. The Threshing Barn displays an explosion of textural pompoms
suspended from a frame that mirrors the barn’s joists at different heights.
These piñata-esque creations made from colourful fabric and paper are attached
by cord whose ends hang in touching distance to the ground, tempting visitors
to unravel its ties and release the pompoms from the air. They surround a
stage, <i>untitled: pianoframeandcover</i>, with abstract representations of the
work’s namesake that roots Barlow’s </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GIG</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in a visual cacophony of colour, form
and scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: xx-small;"><i>untitled: holder</i>, 2014 - Phyllida Barlow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: xx-small;"><i>untitled:GIG</i>, 2014 - Phyllida Barlow</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Charm is
not often used to describe the clinical spaces of contemporary art galleries,
however Hauser & Wirth Somerset has it in bucketloads – cue </span><b style="color: #666666;">Subodh Gupta</b><span style="color: #666666;">’s
supersize replica – from architectural preservation and sympathetic
restoration, to the bespoke canvas smocks worn by the invigilators and the
exposed kitchen displaying farm-to-fork produce in the </span><a href="http://www.hauserwirthsomerset.com/roth-bar-grill" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Roth Bar & Grill</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">. The
lifestyle elements of the gallery complex include the walking trails through
Dursdale Farm up to the impressive sixteenth-century Dovecote that looks down
upon Bruton and the vales beyond. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">The on-site restaurant and bar, operated by award-winning
local hotelier and restaurateur Catherine Butler of </span><a href="http://atthechapel.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">At the Chapel</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> in Bruton, is
a dynamic curation of gastronomy and contemporary art. Dieter Roth’s son and
grandson, <b>Bj</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ö</b></span></span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rn and Oddur Roth</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, have designed the former cowshed into a visual
feast for informal dining that serves breakfast through to dinner. Hauser & Wirth
manage the late artist’s estate and continue a collaborative relationship with
the Roth family. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An eclectic array of salvaged materials and objects from
reclamation yards from the surrounding area of Bruton echoes Dieter Roth’s own aesthetic during his lifetime. The variety of materials, textures and layers make for a unique sensory experience when paired with the hearty, seasonal menu
that is sourced from the estate itself, local farmers,
gamekeepers and gardeners. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dining room is decorated with works from Hauser
& Wirth’s entire artistic family alongside pieces from the private
collection of Iwan and Manuela Wirth. The unpretentious lunch menu offers a
selection of chicken, lamb and beef accompanied with a generous selection of
green leaves, edible flowers and vegetables du jour chosen by the chef. The
monumental bar is well stocked and will make barmen from any capital jealous of
the vibrant energy that has been achieved here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In its
opening week, Hauser & Wirth Somerset is already a fine-tuned</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cultural centre with an exceptional
level of customer service that can be found wanting in many already established institutions. Its balance between art, community, land and lifestyle also guarantees its
attraction to non-traditional art audiences in the South West of England with a
burgeoning educational agenda and an unprecedented programme of exhibitions by
international artists to come. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visitors
can judge for themselves whether Creed’s prediction that <i>EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT</i> is
a modest understatement of an ambitious gallery that is unleashing </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">contemporary art beyond the white cube metropolis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Hauser & Wirth open their </span><a href="http://www.hauserwirthsomerset.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Somerset</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> outpost today, adding the rural town of <b>Bruton</b> in Southwest England to its line-up of galleries in
London, New York and Zurich. The site will act as both commercial gallery and
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programme of exhibitions by international contemporary artists from its books
as well as a residency and educational programme throughout the year. British
sculptor </span><b style="color: #666666;">Phyllida Barlow</b><span style="color: #666666;">, who joined the Hauser & Wirth family in 2010,
will inaugurate the gallery with a new body of work, titled </span><i style="color: #666666;">GIG</i><span style="color: #666666;">,
executed in her inimitable style of organised chaos. The exhibition will
coincide with Barlow’s colossal commission, </span><i style="color: #666666;">dock</i><span style="color: #666666;">, launched earlier this year at
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">In my latest blog
entry for </span><a href="http://blog.ohhdeer.com/blog/words-art" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Ohh Deer</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, I attend the opening of </span><b style="color: #666666;">Modern Art Oxford</b><span style="color: #666666;">’s highly
anticipated exhibition of new and iconic works by </span><b style="color: #666666;">Barbara Kruger</b><span style="color: #666666;">. The
internationally acclaimed artist brings her signature lexicon of monochrome
words and imagery to the historic city - a coup for a gallery beyond London’s
Zone 1, let alone the M25. In addition to Kruger’s seminal ‘Paste-ups’ from the
Eighties and video works that have never previously been exhibited in the UK,
Modern Art Oxford is privileged to present a breathtaking site-specific
installation in its Upper Gallery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barbara Kruger: WE ARE NOT WORTHY <a href="https://twitter.com/mao_gallery">@mao_gallery</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oxford?src=hash">#Oxford</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/allhail?src=hash">#allhail</a> <a href="http://t.co/scQxJmGc7C">pic.twitter.com/scQxJmGc7C</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">— Jonathan Velardi (@JMVELARDI) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMVELARDI/statuses/482584119315300352">June 27, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kruger’s practice
may resonate with today’s digital culture of endless self-promotion and
commodification, however these very themes were being explored at the beginning
of her career and before the age of the internet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barbara Kruger <a href="https://twitter.com/mao_gallery">@mao_gallery</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/art?src=hash">#art</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/text?src=hash">#text</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/emoji?src=hash">#emoji</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/highlife?src=hash">#highlife</a> <a href="https://t.co/D7eiYcSR34">https://t.co/D7eiYcSR34</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">— Jonathan Velardi (@JMVELARDI) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMVELARDI/statuses/482587968964939776">June 27, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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Kruger’s manifest – identity, power, consumerism and sexuality contribute to a
provocative body of work that is as potent today as it was over three decades
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read my full review <i>Words of Art</i> on the Ohh Deer </span><a href="http://blog.ohhdeer.com/blog/words-art" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">blog</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cornered | Barbara Kruger <a href="https://twitter.com/mao_gallery">@mao_gallery</a> <a href="http://t.co/8N3fDSDGjj">pic.twitter.com/8N3fDSDGjj</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">— Jonathan Velardi (@JMVELARDI) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMVELARDI/statuses/482582352045305857">June 27, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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</span><a href="http://www.jonathanvelardi.com/writing" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">jonathanvelardi.com/writing</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> for a selection of my published writing and follow
</span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jmvelardi" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">@JMVELARDI</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> on Twitter and </span><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/jmvelardi" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Pinterest</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> for the latest from the worlds of art and
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<!--EndFragment-->Jonathan Velardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11621068696597399219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101552887657852257.post-66845494771639832132014-07-08T08:23:00.000-07:002014-07-09T01:23:19.203-07:00Ain't Nothing Normcore About Rudeboys<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Earlier this year
New York-based trend forecasting group </span><a href="http://www.khole.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">K-HOLE</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> introduced
</span><b style="color: #666666;">normcore</b><span style="color: #666666;"> into the dictionary of streetstyle (<i>The New Normal</i> - The New York Times, </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/fashion/normcore-fashion-movement-or-massive-in-joke.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">April 2014</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">). Waist-high white wash jeans, over-sized
tees and non-descript sneakers were being spotted on fashion packs around the
world. The look is post-aspirational, mall-in-the-middle-of-nowhere get up. Think
out of office hours Obama, the late Steve Jobs or American tourists in Europe
from the Nineties. Rarely do the words </span><i style="color: #666666;">normal </i><span style="color: #666666;">and </span><i style="color: #666666;">fashion</i><span style="color: #666666;"> meet in the same
sentence, however this neologism - borne from its distant metaphorical relation,
</span><i style="color: #666666;">hardcore</i><span style="color: #666666;"> - continues to trend amongst hipster boys and girls who want everyone
to know they could give </span><i style="color: #666666;">zero fucks</i><span style="color: #666666;"> about Yeezys or Yves Saint Laurent.</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This summer
</span><a href="http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/return-of-the-rudeboy" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Somerset House</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> presents the antithesis of normcore. </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Return of the Rudeboy</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is an original
exhibition showcasing the sartorial subculture that bridges the swagger of the
1950s in Kingston, Jamaica to the sharp tailoring of London’s Savile Row. Unlike
the peacocks that were parading down the King’s Road or Carnaby Street during
the Swinging Sixties (</span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sex, Drugs & Fish n’ Chips</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.jonathanvelardi.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/reading-rooms-v-began-run-up-to-london.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">September 2011</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">),
Rudeboys (or Rudies) didn’t dress to impress but dressed for themselves. Caribbean
immigration to the United Kingdom during this time led to a revival of dapper
dressing between young rebels influenced by punk and reggae music of
the era. The movement is an extraordinary insight of an attitude towards
menswear that until only recently is being acknowledged by fashion
commentators. The confidence demonstrated in recent seasons of male <i>sprezzatura</i>,
or nonchalance, when it comes to one’s threads, borders on the aesthetics of Rudeboy
culture. It is the routine and attention to detail reflected in the
collaborative nature of the exhibition however, which firmly define the Rudeboy
as much more than superficial swag from head to toe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Central to the
Rudeboy look is putting a twist on its heritage and this is successfully echoed
by the visual mash up of garments and styling objects displayed in the
neoclassical opulence of Somerset House’s South Wing Terrace Rooms. Creative
director Harris Elliott and photographer Dean Chalkley, curators of Return of
the Rudeboy, feature a host of bespoke contributions beside the quintessential suited
and booted mannequins, that include objects by box maker </span><a href="http://www.kittyfarrow.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Kitty Farrow</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and luggage maker </span><a href="http://www.alstermobruk.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Alstermo Bruk</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Hats, shirt collars and even hair combs are given their very own custom splendour in exquisitely designed
travel cases, perfect for the Rudeboy on the move. And how does a Rudeboy get
around town? On an </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opus Dopus</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> freestep by Paul Gaba, paired with a tasseled
pair of <i>KIL-LER</i> kicks by </span><a href="http://www.mrhare.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Mr Hare</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of course.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/style?src=hash">#style</a> mix frm <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RudeboysReturn?src=hash">#RudeboysReturn</a> exhib <a href="https://twitter.com/SomersetHouse">@somersethouse</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/London?src=hash">#London</a> June13 - Aug25 2014. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/doyathinkimsexy?src=hash">#doyathinkimsexy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fashion?src=hash">#fashion</a> ... <a href="https://t.co/VDteCVOmdA">https://t.co/VDteCVOmdA</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">— Jonathan Velardi (@JMVELARDI) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMVELARDI/statuses/477407145499959296">June 13, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">The Rudeboy
lifestyle embodies everything from the accoutrements of fashion to the sounds
that put a kick in one’s step. Alongside the large-scale photographic portraits of over
sixty influential Rudeboys and Rudegirls on the scene today, a playlist of
tracks selected by each subject to capture the spirit and soul of the Rudie
philosophy offers a sensational experience through the multi-media galleries. The
dynamic curation continues with the installation of a ‘grooming station’ from
</span><a href="http://www.johnniesapong.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Johhnie Sapong</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> X </span><a href="http://www.wearecuts.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">We Are Cuts</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> that offers hair cuts and beard maintenance, by appointment only, in a fresh pop-up
barber shop. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Rudeboy is one of those exhibitions visitors will think twice about what to
wear before leaving the front door. You have been warned: <i>ain’t nothing
normcore about Rudeboys</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rudeboy</b></span><span style="color: #666666;"> runs to 25th August 2014 at Somerset House London. Visit </span><a href="http://www.returnoftherudeboy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">returnoftherudeboy.com</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> for details of special events and film screenings throughout the
duration of the exhibition. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Jonathan Velardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11621068696597399219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101552887657852257.post-72207520329166107622014-06-17T15:17:00.000-07:002014-06-18T02:57:20.113-07:00County Mayo<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One should </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">never underestimate the benefits of a long weekend getaway for mind, body and soul and when I could have equally opened this post with, “three Englishmen and an Irishman board a plane”, a good dollop of humour is also never too far behind. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #666666;">County Mayo </b><span style="color: #666666;">in Western Ireland played handsome host to three friends and I for an English escape across the Irish Sea to the dynamic terrain of Mayo. One of the largest counties in the country, Mayo boasts a rich social history in its western corner and is home to </span><span style="color: #666666;">Croaghaun</span><span style="color: #666666;">, the highest cliffs in Ireland and second highest in Europe; the largest island of </span><a href="http://www.achilltourism.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Achill</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> on its westerly coast as well as fine salmon fishing, outdoor pursuits and spectacular viewing points out to the Atlantic Ocean from <b>Ballycastle</b>, which was to be our base during our stay. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Irish luck was on our side as the weather spared us from the usual downpour and blustery winds that are known to batter the area and shape its low-lying, boggy landscape. Fortunately it was sunshine and performing clouds as we ascended Downpatrick Head towards the stunning natural horizon that frames the sea stack of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Dún Briste</span><span style="color: #666666;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The allure of the Atlantic not far from any given point across the county guarantees impressive vistas at road trip finish lines. Mass tourism is few and far between the network of provincial towns, surrounded by picturesque farmland and a sprinkling of remote cottages, providing both authentic and isolated adventure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">For the historically inclined </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HennigansHeritageCentre" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Hennigan’s Heritage Centre</span></a></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in Killasser, near Swinford, is a great start to understand Mayo life throughout the centuries. Tours are conducted by owner, historian and local legend <b>Tom Hennigan</b> whose family had resided in the three-room stone cottage since the nineteenth-century, now preserved as it would have been circa 1870s. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While both its exterior and interior exude charm from every pointing and is ironically on-trend by today’s fashions, the reality of events within the cottage’s four walls through Tom’s charismatic oration and personal memory will command deep reflection. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From family life and politics to craft and superstition, Hennigan’s is a unique experience that far exceeds the knowledge and collections of any similar institution, which is worthy of a visit to its rural location in uninterrupted countryside. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contemporary culture may be found in the area’s renowned talent of woollen manufacture. </span><a href="http://www.foxfordwoollenmills.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Foxford Woollen Mills</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in <b>Foxford</b>, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">famed for its throws and blankets,</span><span style="color: #666666;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is a luxury emporium of homewares and fashion, housing an equally stylish caf</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">é</span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> serving homemade savoury and </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sweet treats. Set within the mill’s original work rooms, the space is decorated in an effortless white-wash with feature wall to wall library of textile samples, travel books and vintage National Geographic issues available for customers to lose themselves in (over a large slice of pecan pie perhaps - highly recommended). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Mayo's diverse outdoors offers anything from a relaxed walk along the sandy beach of </span><span style="color: #666666;">Ballycastle Bay</span><span style="color: #666666;"> to a bike ride along the longest off-road trail in Ireland, the </span><a href="http://www.greenway.ie/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Great Western Greenway</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">– a converted railway line from <b>Westport</b> to <b>Achill</b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">After all that exertion there was no better time or place than to reward ourselves with food and drink. Whether it’s contemporary cuisine at </span><a href="http://www.marketkitchen.ie/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Market Kitchen</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> in <b>Ballina</b>; at one of Westport High Street’s continental bistros – </span><a href="http://labellavitawestport.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">La Bella Vita</span></a></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">or </span><a href="http://www.sagewestport.ie/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Sage</span></a></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- or</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> delicious catches of the day and local delicacies at </span><a href="http://www.achillislandhotel.com/bar.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Alice’s</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> in Achill; Mayo caters for all tastes - including fellow lovers of soda bread - with impressive quality and service. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">& the beat goes on... @ J. McGing <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Westport&src=hash">#Westport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Mayo&src=hash">#Mayo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Ireland&src=hash">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23irishmusic&src=hash">#irishmusic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23craiclife&src=hash">#craiclife</a> <a href="https://t.co/eg8HYtA54s">https://t.co/eg8HYtA54s</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">— Jonathan Velardi (@JMVELARDI) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMVELARDI/statuses/475686893225795584">June 8, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A big thank you
to our Mayo-girl and tour guide </span><a href="https://twitter.com/colettemunnelly" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">@colettemunnelly</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who not only surprised us with a 32km bike ride but also took to the wheel for
epic road trips and shared her beautiful family seat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">The first</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666;"> images
to come out on the opening day of <b>Marina </b></span><b style="color: #666666;">Abramović</b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666;">’s </span><i style="color: #666666;">512 Hours</i><span style="color: #666666;"> exhibition at London’s
</span><a href="http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/marina-abramovic-512-hours" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Serpentine</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> was from art critic </span><a href="https://twitter.com/SearleAdrian" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Adrian Searle</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, who tweeted the morning queue
before doors opened at 10am outside the gallery in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park. <i>512 Hours</i> is the latest work by </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Abramović</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666;"> since her celebrated performance at </span><a href="http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/965" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">MOMA</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">,
New York in 2010 – </span><i style="color: #666666;">The Artist is Present</i><span style="color: #666666;"> invited visitors to gaze into the
artist’s eyes for an undetermined amount of time and this process was repeated
everyday for three months. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">The role of body as both object and subject is central
to </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abramović</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’s forty-year practice, as is the relationship
between artist and audience that is explored though various workshops at the </span><a href="http://www.mai-hudson.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marina Abramovi</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ć</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Institute</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Four years after what was an
unprecedented moment in the history of contemporary performance art, the
Serpentine will host </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abramović</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for another durational performance, its
length after its namesake, through to August.</span><br />
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Queue for Marina Abramovic <a href="https://twitter.com/SerpentineUK">@SerpentineUK</a> <a href="http://t.co/n1PgOOo2kL">pic.twitter.com/n1PgOOo2kL</a><br />
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the exhibition’s hashtag #512hours throughout the morning, I arrived at the
Serpentine Gallery a little after noon to a queue that ran the middle length
between the gallery and Exhibition Road. A gallery assistant handed out a
leaflet listing information - or rules depending on how you read it - about
what to expect once visitors get inside. Dubbed ‘The Marina Show’ by the press,
‘visitors’ turn ‘participants’ once over the gallery threshold; relinquishing
belongings, technology and even timepieces in an anteroom of lockers as well as
agreeing to being filmed and photographed for the </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Institute’s archive.</span><br />
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rules, rules, rules... <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MarinaAbramovic&src=hash">#MarinaAbramovic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23daboss&src=hash">#daboss</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23512hours&src=hash">#512hours</a> <a href="http://t.co/hR3S6pwAFo">pic.twitter.com/hR3S6pwAFo</a><br />
— Jonathan Velardi (@JMVELARDI) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMVELARDI/statuses/476691841560367104">June 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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are allowed inside on a one-in one-out basis. The activity of those in the
queue and those coming out of the gallery is a voyeur’s dream. Other
distractions include the exhibition’s official marketing poster, which features
a portrait of the artist, eyes closed, striking a pose that I can only describe
as a telepathist-cum-90s trance album cover. The line was moving at a good pace
and after less than an hour – now in Abramovic’s third hour of performing – I
entered the gallery with a stamp on my wrist and a cynical feeling of pending
anticlimax. The last 'celebrity' performance I attended was Joan Jonas’s <i>The
Shape, The Scent, the Feel Of Things </i>a few years ago at </span><a href="http://www.diaart.org/programs/main/14" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Dia:Beacon</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. This was to
be my first interactive performance experience conducted by a celebrity artist
and a part of me had hoped Jay Z would swing by and reciprocate an invitation
as Abramovi</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ć</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> had for his first foray into the art world at Pace Gallery last
year (</span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Picasso Baby: Art History?</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://jonathanvelardi.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/picasso-baby-art-history.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">July 2013</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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line moving rather quickly = how short people can be without their phones? <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23512hours&src=hash">#512hours</a> <a href="http://t.co/8Xh2UBRkRV">pic.twitter.com/8Xh2UBRkRV</a><br />
— Jonathan Velardi (@JMVELARDI) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMVELARDI/statuses/476692635252690944">June 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the double doors of
the gallery lies the locker room – grey and white and very clinical – I choose
locker number 13. The silence beyond the partition wall in the main gallery
space takes time to hit me. Gentle footsteps are remarkably the only noise one
hears. The bright light that floods the space is ethereal and guarantees both
artist and participants are camera-ready – installed on opposite corners in the
main gallery. Several folding chairs and a MDF platform make for low-fi props. Abramović
is immediately recognizable as she works the room at a slow pace. Her dark navy
outfit – a knitted blazer over a white crisp shirt, blue skinny trousers and
soft leather brogues - resembles something out of a </span><a href="http://www.cosstores.com/gb/Fashion" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">COS</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> lookbook. A handful of assistants
are dressed head-to-toe in black - <i>normcore</i> in art world standards - and replicate
the artist’s pace while meandering around the public. Within a minute of
entering the gallery Abramović approaches the corner I’m standing in and takes
the hand of another nearby. She leads the woman to the centre of the space,
taking her hand and carefully interlocking their fingers. The pace is painfully
slow however in time I too find myself adopting a similar lethargic walk as I
explore the adjacent rooms. Artist and participant walk up onto the platform and
stand side by side. For women with long hair she will gently brush it back over
your shoulder and whisper into your ear. For men, she will place her hand on
your shoulder or caress your back. In contrast to the scenes outside, inside
makes for a voyeur’s nightmare and the reality that I may be approached to
engage in any sort of interaction becomes all too real. Some participants are
positioned on chairs, some on the platform and others face the wall to be left vulnerable
as the rest of us watch. My body language of folded arms and wearing my locker
key on my little finger wasn’t attracting Abramović or her assistants. I continue
to observe. If she likes what you’re wearing she’ll give a tug on your lapel
before holding hands and repeating the process. The gallery to the left of the
main space is exposed to the park through French doors with members of the public
able to look in. Abramović gives them a wry smile, a mental break perhaps from palpable
levels of concentration in the gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Approximately 10 minutes in
and I feel more at ease in the space and my initial surprise at the range of
people in attendance – far from the usual art pack stereotype – was about to
settle until I distinguish Abramović’s burly security detail in civilian
clothing who follow her at a distance. Another 10 minutes or so pass and just
about as I mentally content myself in not knowing what Abramović
and her assistants are whispering to the </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">chosen</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, I lock eyes with one of the
black clad assistants. She walks nearer to me and I realize my guard is down;
my arms unfolded and hands hanging at my waist. She offers me her hand and I
oblige. Our shoulders touch and we walk hand in hand to another corner of the
room. So familiar now with the silence and immune to the visuals of the space,
the experience is exclusively physical. I am positioned to face the bare wall
and breathe in unison with the assistant. After what feels like minutes, she
lets go of my hand and whispers into my ear, “keep breathing and look at the
wall for as long as you want”. Nothing but white entered into my peripheral
vision and for a moment I embrace the meditative nature that I had previously
watched those chosen to adopt. I would love to detail how I went into a trance
or how I was overwhelmed by the physicality of it all, offering of my body for
the art, but frankly that wasn’t the case. When I’m ready I naturally slowly
turn around; I slowly make by way back to the main gallery for one last moment
of being in the same room as Marina Abramović and another 159 people, followed
by a slow exit back to the locker room.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
The Marina Show | <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23artvictim&src=hash">#artvictim</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23512hours&src=hash">#512hours</a> <a href="http://t.co/w7DGXlhFW9">pic.twitter.com/w7DGXlhFW9</a><br />
— Jonathan Velardi (@JMVELARDI) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMVELARDI/statuses/476739395463446528">June 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visitors are ‘invited to
stay as long as you wish in the exhibition’. Had I looked at my phone before
entering I would have known how long I was in there for. I assume the people
who felt it appropriate to take their shoes off were in it for the long haul.
Time is fundamental to performance art – the indulgence of context versus endurance, put in crude terms. Undoubtedly Abramović has created one of the
most serene corners in Hyde Park, if not in the capital.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As with many works of
performance art that use the value of time to shroud weak substance, I question
how much of <i>512 Hours</i> – its very title rooted in time - actually requires 512 hours to express what it is trying to do? Had I stayed longer would I have witnessed new revelations in the dynamic? Felt a shift in energy amongst the art struck crowd or even </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abramović herself</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">? Is there </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">method</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to the
Marina Abramović madness? Only time will tell. </span><br />
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has endured 16 hours of performing. 496 hours remain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="color: #666666;">512 Hours</i><span style="color: #666666;"> performed by
Marina Abramović runs to 25th August 2014 at the </span><a href="http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Serpentine Gallery</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">. Entry is
free between the hours of 10am and 6pm – visit </span><a href="http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/marina-abramovic-512-hours" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Serpentine</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> for full visitor
information.</span></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Jonathan Velardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11621068696597399219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101552887657852257.post-28667844767815782222014-05-09T03:38:00.000-07:002014-05-09T04:03:16.887-07:00Stick Your Neck Out<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">long-awaited
farewell to Winter may mean parting ways with our hats, gloves and scarves for yet
another season, however neckwear is here to stay this Spring in the shape of
the versatile <b>cotton square</b>. The handkerchief is understood to have been
invented by Richard II of England in the fourteenth century and has since successfully
transcended styles over the centuries. Most notably worn by labourers and
revolutionaries throughout history for its utility and symbolism respectively, the
revival for Americana in the late-twentieth century parodied its cowboy and rebel
culture heritage and was subsequently adopted by a new generation of subcultures. Originating from the
Hindi word <i>bandhana</i>, meaning ‘to tie’, the cotton square continues to be manufactured in 100% cotton and decorated using a variety of traditional printing processes. From screen
print to discharge and fast colour techniques, the trusty <i>handkerchief</i>,
<i>neckerchief</i> or <i>bandana</i> balances beauty and design detail with practicality.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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cotton squares – clockwise from top:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.labourandwait.co.uk/collections/accessories/products/multi-spot-handkerchief" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Labour And Wait</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.uniqlo.com/uk/store/goods/127425" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">UNIQLO</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">
SPRZ NY X Keith Haring, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.barbour.com/All-Collections/Mens/Accessories/Spotted-Handkerchiefs---Boxed-Set/p/MAC0008MI111?breadcrumbs=mens&breadcrumbs=mens-accessories" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Barbour</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.hilditchandkey.co.uk/Accessories/Handkerchiefs-Spotted-Hanks-Sold-Seperately.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">Hilditch & Key</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">I have
been collecting bandanas for many years. There is something so understated and
poetic-like about its construct – its often complex design only fully revealed
when unfolded – giving great satisfaction to its wearer. They are my souvenirs
on my travels – a few of my favourite global pit stops are the Roman
institution for vintage </span><b style="color: #666666;">Omero e Cecilia</b><span style="color: #666666;">; </span><b style="color: #666666;">RRL</b><span style="color: #666666;">'s metropolitan ranch</span><span style="color: #666666;"> on </span><a href="http://www.ralphlauren.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=11757743&ab=global_men_rrl" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Bleeker Street</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, New York;
</span><b style="color: #666666;">American Rag</b><span style="color: #666666;"> in </span><a href="http://www.amrag.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Los Angeles</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and </span><a href="https://www.seilin-intl-eshop.com/en-itn/productslist#!item:41&variation:2&imagesize:1&pageno:1" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Daikanyama</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> emporium </span><b style="color: #666666;">Okura</b><span style="color: #666666;"> in Tokyo. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Prices vary from
dollar store to designer creations. The market for original vintage squares is
driven predominantly by Japan who have an affinity with the patterns and
symbols similar to their own <i>shibui</i> aesthetic. Rare commemorative or political
layouts incorporating stylised narratives surrounded by paisley or polka dot
motifs are highly sought-after and feature in the pages of men’s lifestyle
periodicals such as </span><a href="http://www.east-com.co.jp/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Free & Easy</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, for
the discerning gentleman. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">My personal fascination with the history behind the accessory
led me to design and print my own bandanas as contemporary artworks (</span></span></span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Devon’s
Political Archive Inspires Devon</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_9358000/9358051.stm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">BBC 2011</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) using the customary visual codes and allegory to create new contemporary
dialogue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Louis Vuitton Menswear SS14</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">For Spring/Summer 2014, </span><b style="color: #666666;">Louis Vuitton</b><span style="color: #666666;"> and </span><b style="color: #666666;">Saint Laurent</b><span style="color: #666666;">
showcased the menswear accessory of the season. Kim Jones for </span><a href="http://www.louisvuitton.co.uk/front/#/eng_GB/Collections/Men/Show-Spring-Summer-2014" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Louis Vuitton</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> incorporated the luxury label’s iconic flower emblems into decorative bandanas.
Worn as loose cravats, they deformalised the suits and business wear that they
had been paired with down the runway. The theme continued with patchwork paisley packing a
punch, emblazoned on oversized </span><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/100979216617899763/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">shirting</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">.
At </span><a href="http://www.ysl.com/corporate/en/saint-laurent-collections/menss14/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Saint Laurent</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, Hedi
Slimane’s rockabilly-inspired collection presented a more familiar image of cardinal
red squares in cashmere and silk-blend, tri-folded around the neck in bandit
fashion topped with slick, pomade hairstyles. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Accent indigo or denim workwear with examples of my classic spot squares in fresh hues of green and blue (top). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666;">Channel countryside dandyism with
spotted compositions by </span><a href="http://www.labourandwait.co.uk/collections/accessories/products/multi-spot-handkerchief" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Labour And Wait</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, </span><a href="http://www.barbour.com/All-Collections/Mens/Accessories/Spotted-Handkerchiefs---Boxed-Set/p/MAC0008MI111?breadcrumbs=mens&breadcrumbs=mens-accessories" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Barbour</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and </span><a href="http://www.hilditchandkey.co.uk/Accessories/Handkerchiefs-Spotted-Hanks-Sold-Seperately.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Hilditch & Key</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> in timeless primary colours. For a more contemporary take </span><b style="color: #666666;">UNIQLO</b><span style="color: #666666;">’s latest
artistic collaboration with MoMA for its </span><a href="http://www.uniqlo.com/us/men/ut-uniqlo-t-shirts/sprz-ny.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">SPRZ NY</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> capsule
collection includes trademark designs from the art foundations of <b>Jean-Michel
Basquiat</b> and <b>Keith Haring</b>. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.drakes-london.com/online-shop/pocket-squares?composition_filter=280&p=4" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Drake's of London</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> produce a
range of modern and eccentric interpretations in multiple colourways - I
particularly like this graduated spot print (below). </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twist or tie the square around the neck or pop into a breast pocket for an effortless look.</span></div>
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large silk </span><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/100979216619676693/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">squares</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, worn nonchalantly on necks and shoulders - the neckerchief is very much here to stay. Square up to style and stick your neck out.</span></div>
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County Council and Double Elephant Print Workshop</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #666666;"> in this series of related </span><a href="http://jonathanvelardi.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Politics%20in%20Print" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">blog posts</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and read its full press release </span><a href="http://www.jonathanvelardi.com/JVELARDI_PiP-PressRelease.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">here</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Cameron Heads To Lanzarote Holiday On Ryanair <a href="http://t.co/y2Jpas8VqP">http://t.co/y2Jpas8VqP</a><br />
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