Christian Louboutin, Design Museum London
May 18
01 May – 09 July, 2012
The Design Museum presents iconic French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, celebrating a career which has pushed the boundaries of high fashion shoe design. This exhibition celebrates Louboutin’s career showcasing twenty years of designs and inspiration, revealing the artistry and theatricality of his shoe design from stilettos to lace-up boots, studded sneakers and bejewelled pumps. Be taken on a magical journey of style, glamour, power, femininity and elegance.
New Britain Museum of American Art presents Oscar Berger's The Presidents
May 17
The New Britain Museum of American Art is pleased to embrace the spirit of election year through the display of presidential caricatures by Oscar Berger (1901-1997). Beginning on May 8 and continuing through July 15, 2012, the Museum’s Low Illustration Gallery will be transformed into a parade of playful, mildly-satirical portraits of our nation’s first 37 presidents. From Washington to Nixon, the collection of caricatures was first published in Berger’s 1968 book, The Presidents.
“Kagirohi”- B/W-photographs by Toshio Enomoto, MICHEKO GALERIE| Munich | Germany
May 16
13 April – 15 June 2012
Toshio Enomoto exposes the Japanese Soul in his photographs
Toshio Enomoto, born 1947 in Tokyo, belongs to the generation of Japanese after-WWII-photographers such as Shomei Tomatsu or Imei Suda, just to mention two of the most prominent representatives. We would stretch this blog a bit too much if we would write extensively about Enomoto’s complete photographic oeuvre so far, so we will concentrate our post on Enomoto’s visual language and its effects on our western viewing habits.
In Art and Artificial Life: Vida 1999-2012
May 15
Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Calle Fuencarral 3, Madrid
Exhibition from May 10, 2012 through January 6, 2013
Chico MacMurtrie / Amorphic Robot Works
Skeletal Reflections, 2000-2008
Art and Artificial Life: Vida 1999-2012 is a retrospective exhibition organized by Fundacion Telefonica presenting a selection of 23 works out of 1500 proposals submitted to the Art & Artificial Life International Competition: Vida. Vida awards every year artistic projects using technological mediums offering innovative approaches to research into artificial life. Created in 1999 by Fundacion Telefonica to promote artistic creation based on the new technologies, Vida is today one of the most prestigious art prizes dedicated to the combination of art, science and technology.
Schiaparelli and Prada: impossible conversations, @ The metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
May 14
May 10–August 19, 2012
Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. Inspired by Miguel Covarrubias's "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, the exhibition features orchestrated conversations between these iconic women to suggest new readings of their most innovative work. Iconic ensembles are presented with videos of simulated conversations between Schiaparelli and Prada directed by Baz Luhrmann, focusing on how both women explore similar themes in their work through very different approaches.
‘Through the Looking Glass’ by Lamya Gargash Emirati Artist @ The Third Line, Dubai
May 11
Through the Looking the Glass investigates how we constantly view ourselves in comparison to an ever elusive standard, prompted by the constant bombardment of media imagery dictating ‘how we should look’. Minor defects become drastic, resulting in even more drastic measures undertaken to reach that ideal standard of beauty. Our self-perception, and subsequently our identity, becomes indistinct; as if viewing ourselves through a distorted looking glass.
Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, @ the MOMA
May 10
May 2–September 3, 2012
Taryn Simon. Chapter XVII from A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII (detail). 2011. Pigmented inkjet prints, 84 x 241 7/8" (213.4 x 614.4 cm). Courtesy the artist. © Taryn Simon
This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon's (b. 1975, New York) photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, @ the MOMA I–XVIII. The work was produced over a four-year period (2008–11), during which the artist travelled around the world researching and documenting bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the 18 “chapters” that make up the work, external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance.
IllustratorDanny Roberts face to face with Gabriel Ruas Santos-Rocha
May 08
Hailed by magazines like Elle, Teen Vogue, Vogue Italia and Vogue Spain as "the one to watch" in fashion illustration, Danny Roberts is very humble about his accomplishments. To him, being recognized by something he does purely out of love is surreal and a blessing; but to the fashion world, it is seen as well deserved.
Slow iis goood ERNESTO NETO at Tanya Bonadkar Gallery NYC
May 07
14 Apr 2012 - 25 May 2012 Tanya Bonadkar Gallery NYC
For his exhibition “Slow iis good”, Ernesto Neto presents a series of vibrantly colored installations of crocheted polypropylene and polyester cord that hang from the ceiling, hovering several feet above the ground. These new works continue Neto’s practice of using gravity, weight, and tension to dictate form as plastic balls in different shades provide a counterweight for the crocheted sheets. Stretching the crocheted membranes taught, the balls form a floor for the labyrinthine, tunnel-like structures of alluring color and inviting texture that the gallery visitor is meant to enter and explore.
“Shadow-lands” Australia
May 04
A study of visual agency in art and architecture
April 18 – May 19 2012 Curator: Gavin Keeney
Deakin University Exhibition Gallery, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
ULA EINSTEIN
The exhibition presents and combines different media (photography, drawings, prints, and short videos/film-essays)that illustrate the central focus of the PhD study “Shadow-lands,”
a study of visual agency in Art and Architecture,inclusive of the dual concerns of subjectivity and political agency.
KEN ROSENTHAL Photographs 2001—2009 & VOJTECH V. SLAMA Wolf's
May 03
Honey Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC March 9—April 20, 2012
Ken Rosenthal, Ghosts #MMTH-7, 2003. Courtesy of Klompching Gallery
From 2001, Ken Rosenthal’s subject has been an over-arching study of time, collective memory, fiction and cultural iconography; as seen through a somewhat brooding re-interpretation of historic negatives and photographs—specifically imagery from his own family album. He presents exceptionally crafted photographs—bleached, split-toned and blurred—that bring together a range of associations that seem at once shared yet highly personal, unknowable yet familiar. Like memory, his photographs are ethereal and ambiguous.
Claiborne Swanson Frank , American Beauty
May 01
Claiborne Swanson Frank Michelle Oullette (left) American Beauty (right) 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Lu Magnus
The more you stare at Claiborne Swanson Frank’s portraits of women the more you wonder who these women are? Where did they come from and what about themselves were they trying to convey when they sat for these portraits? An image that initially seems banal on further investigation begins to tell a story. The “larger picture” could come from something you already know about that person or speculation about a life that solely lives in your imagination.
Danh Vo | Vo Danh Kunsthaus-Bregenz, Austria
Apr 27
21 | 04 - 24 | 06 | 2012
In his objects, installations, photographs, and works on paper Danh Võ combines personal experiences from his childhood in Vietnam with the story of his family, their flight to Europe, and questions of colonialism, migration, and cultural identity. A no less important topic of his works are same-sex relationships and, generally, a questioning of standardized patterns of behavior both in society in general and in the art context in particular. Over and over he succeeds in creating works of iconic power.
Herb-Ritts L.A Style, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
Apr 26
