Art

It previously took place in Paris, Milan, Tokyo and Mexico, but last week it arrived to Barcelona the first edition of the festival A Shaded View on Fashion Film celebrated in this city, together with the shows of 080 Barcelona Fashion. The event, created and organized by Diane Pernet, aims to promote the audiovisual form...
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Lots -lots- of years ago, it came into my hands a video about Naomi Campbell’s career; yes, it was so detailed it even talked about her bright incursions in other fields beside the modelling one; read, the literally and the musical ones. I saw it, I saw it more than once, I must confess,...
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With a new edition of the -recently renamed- Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid about to start in a few hours, Estel Vilaseca from “it fashion and colleague in the project Absolut Mode Society shares with us a very especial interview with the designers of three of the most promising shows of this season. In...
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Dance, Womantree swing your imaginary body in impossible millimeters of moments. (…) Close your eyes, do not blame them, only feel how the wind caresses your body in the fall. ———- Baila mujer árbol, columpia tu cuerpo imaginario en milimétricos segundos imposibles. (…) Cierra los ojos, no los culpes, sólo siente como el viento acaricia tu cuerpo al caer. Pics & Poem (fragment) by: Sebastián Portillo Tweet This Post
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Once again Espai Gallery in Barcelona holds a collective exhibition to celebrate the end of the year and the holiday season. Since gathering with friends and family is the expected these days, they have decided to got there first and invited them all this evening to the opening of the exhibition Nadal 2011 ...
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VUU is a New York based collective -although it also includes members from Berlin, Sweden or Finland- that aims to spread the word about the work of different emerging artists. With this purpose they organize this year, for second time in a row, the exhibition VUU II in K&K gallery in Brooklyn, including works...
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Eight artists work around the idea of how complex is actually the reality that surrounds it, for simple it may seems sometimes. Pieces by Ahmed, Alexander Dahmen, Clemens Behr, Dominik Wieschermann, Herr Orm, K 110, Robert Matzke and Sabrina Karakatsanis give shape to Simple is Rare, the exhibition that started last Friday in Neurotitan...
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Simple is Rare opens today in Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin; a group exhibition that gathers the works by Clemens Behr, Dominik Wieschermann o Sabrina Karakatsanis, among others and which, through different formats like painting, video-art, photography and illustration, give shape to a giant collective installation. ———- Simple is Rare abre esta tarde en Neurotitan Gallery en...
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Jim Mangan is an American photographer that, after a long professional career in the skateboarding scene decided, instead of chosing, joining both of his passions. This election has recently given place to his latest book named Winter’s Children, which is a beautiful collection of images aiming to show the true spirit of this sport....
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Definitely, if there is an incombustible couple in the fashion industry, it has to be Rodarte sisters, who not only design their own collections but, if necessary, they can also create the attires for the ballet in Black Swan, an special collection for Opening Ceremony or even release a book. Rodarte. Catherine Opie. Alec...
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If the work by Icelandic photographer Saga Sig is, on one hand, exceptionally amazing and, on the other hand, the one by her compatriot designer and illustrator Hildur Yeoman is so, too, what could be the result of the union of these two talents? The answer is named Hamskipti, which means metamorphose in Icelandic,...
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Rob is a twenty-something guy who lives in Brooklyn and who has recently broken up with his girlfriend. Well, it actually has been his girlfriend the one who has broken up with him, that’s why he can’t get used to the idea nor finding his own place on the peculiar -but always exciting- single...
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With the idea of capturing the most significative daily moments of his Belgian compatriots, photographer Stephan Vanfleteren traveled all over his country portraying people and landscapes; a touching homage that takes shape in the forty images of the exhibition Belgicum which can be visited through next February in Hilaneh von Kories Galerie in Hamburg....
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My mind tends to disperse sometimes. No, lots of times, I must state. I try to find some remedy, try not to get lost in ramblings but, every day I go to bed thinking that tomorrow I will lose time no more. Always tomorrow, but, what should I say? I have only achieved to...
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Gallery Project Basho in Philadelphia has opened, for fifth year in a row, their call for submissions to take part in ONWARD Compé, a contest for new photographers which aims to increase the exposure of their work. The deadline has been extended one more week, till tomorrow December, 5th so, in case you are...
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This weekend takes place in Barcelona (Pl. dels Àngels 5-6) a new edition of El Festivalet, a craft fair with handmade products in which you can find from the amazing bijoux by Après-Ski or Elena Cruz to miniature mosses by The Clorofilas, delicate garments by Sietedelonce, mini bags by Dumbo and embroidered pieces by Bylina...
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Once again, italian brand Prada presents its winter collection with an amazing look-book named Real Fantasies AW 11 which, escaping from digitalization and vanguardist technologies, chooses to realize a photomontage in a more artisanal and intuitive way. Resorting to traditional and literal cut and paste, the production takes shape through collages and cutouts, creating...
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The plasticity with which Nina Nolte -this artist born in El Salvador but based in Germany at the moment- portrays her aquatic scenes is almost alive and it is just this quality of almost-but-not-really what makes them even more intriguing; what are the lives of the women portrayed in her series The best is...
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Sofie Olejnik is a young photographer who lives in a city in North Germany and who belongs to that new and recent wave of girls who photograph girls, joining forces to redefine new feminities escaping from stereotypes. Sofie takes pictures as beautiful as these ones and, besides, she also sells them here. ———- Sofie Olejnik es...
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The exhibition of Polaroid images by German photographer Helmut Newton, which is taking place since last June in the foundation named after him, here in Berlin, has just been extended till May next year. The editorial house Taschen, besides, has just released an amazing book compiling all these images which you can buy here. Christmas...
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