Gallery espai in Barcelona opens today their last exhibition of the season, a very varied and heterogeneous group show under the name of Summer collective that includes works by Carina Giserman, Laia Riera, Valeria Pesce or Felipe Rivera, among many others and with which they say goodbye till the end of summer....
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Within the framework of the exhibition Museum of parallel narratives, which shows and analizes the contemporary art scene in the Eastern European countries, MACBA in Barcelona organizes these days a film programme in which will be shown experimental Yugoslavian films from the ’60s and ’70s.
Today’s evening from 7 p.m. will be devoted to...
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Growing up around a small family-run clothing business that my mother has always owned, sewing machines have been part of the decor at home throughout my whole life. To this day I still have one of her machines, a relic of Spanish make that I love, that I still use sometimes for small projects...
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The mysterious, the esoteric and the divine are still a constant in the new collection by jewelry brand Bjørg, as they have always been since they first introduced themselves a little more than a couple of years ago.
Fully loaded with symbolism and mythology, their latest collection takes as stylistic reference the idea of...
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Who, obviously, did not miss the latest edition of Primavera Sound in Barcelona was our already regular musical contributor Andrés Aguilar, this time with his friend Derek Robertson. Derek brings the words today and Andrés the image and together the share with us what they saw in there.
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Quien, obviamente, no se perdió la...
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Sometimes I find it hard to admit that there may be R&B songs that I like, it’s not my preferred style of music, actually I don’t generally find myself dancing it in clubs, but I must confess that last Friday I was given the opportunity of watching Katy B close up in concert. And...
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London-based gallery Danziger Projects is exhibiting till next Thursday, June 30th, The Kate Moss Portfolio and other Stories a visual journey through the already twenty-three years of professional career of one of the most iconic British models. Eleven images selected by the gallery and Moss herself, and taken by photographers like Juergen Teller, Annie...
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During the ’50s and ’60s the Raval neighbourhood in Barcelona became Joan Colom’s spontaneous object of study who, armed with his camera, wandered the streets with the aim of portraying moments of life; fragments of a reality that, in order of keep intact and faithful to its nature, he sometimes captured withouth even looking...
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Let me confess you that I couldn’t get used yet to this kind of accelerating hustle and bustle that seems to move lots of things these days. We’ll talk about fashion, because it is what concerns us in here, but I have the feeling this reflection could be extended to many other fields, slightly...
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In the works by Laura López Balza the colours are disturbingly and confusingly mixed, like in a perturbing dream, a hen can be blue and a little fawn coral: “…Once the composition is done, I add the colours, working very freely, in a ludic and instinctive way, letting myself go by what the shades...
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Some years ago I spent a few summer days in London, it was fine and I used to hang out all the time. Crossing the border of Soho, heading to the subway, I went through the record store where I used to find musical ideas to surprise my friends in Barcelona. I have...
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Can you feel it coming? Summer’s already around the corner. I know it, you know it. And I’m sure in Nasty Gal they know it, too, that is why they’ve done these beautiful all-in-white pictures. Because white is all you need this summer.
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¿Lo notas? El verano ya está a la vuelta de la...
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Oh, perfect! So now, I need and iPad. Or is there any other way to justify the necessity of having the new case for the aforesaid that The Beta Version girls have recently included in their latest collection Pixelfolk?
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¡Oh, perfecto! Ahora resulta que necesito un iPad. ¿Cómo si no justifico yo la necesidad de...
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The immediacy of Polaroid pictures became, by the ’70s, the perfect allied to Helmut Newton’s impatience, as he once confessed in an interview. Being capable of seeing the image in real time satisfied his necessity of knowing how framing, composition and light were working together, hence that he always used this method as experimental...
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Visual Diaries / Girls is a group exhibition, curated by Argentinian photographer Florencia Serrot whose work can also be found in the show.
Together with her, another ten artists from different countries -from England to China, from Finland to Mexico- all of them women, give shape to these visual diaries exhibited till next Saturday...
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Primavera Sound 2011 in Barcelona has just finished, and me and my friend Iván were both covering the event, each one in our own way, trying to convince one to the other to go and see different bands. By chance, on the third day, after having wasted a lot of patience, having taken long...
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“My pictures involve a kind of wasted beauty – that’s always been a thread in my work.”
R. Phillips
The Massachusetts-born New York-based artist Richard Phillips has decided to breathe some life into his hyper-realistic portraits and for his first incursion in the video scene he has just shot a portrait in movement, as a short...
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By 2007, between chats and glasses of wine, Stefan Brüggemann portrayed one evening her friend Isabella Blow in her house, while she showed him the already mythical acquisitions she made at the Alexander McQueen graduation show.
The images of that spontaneous session are compiled now in the book Isabella Blow by Stefan Brüggemann published...
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- Look, look, a video with some girls skating!
And then I think: Mmm, aha, see, some girls skating…
Because when the Perfect Man talks about skating girls many, many things come to my head but, really, nothing like this video. I know that he had his rolling moments before and, watching the amazing video Juan...
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