Posts Tagged ‘ Art ’

Stolen meets Jovian Lim and Melvin Ong in Alliances Vol. 01

16 Mayo, 2013
By Tamara Martin
Stolen meets Jovian Lim and Melvin Ong in Alliances Vol. 01

Remember the photoshoot we did with that beautiful dress by Stolen? Well, I am so excited to bring you some news about the brand once again. Specially when the news are about its new campaign and -even more- specially when the campaign is this beautiful! Singapore-based designer Elyn Wong has teamed this time with local...
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Pulp Art Book – Exhibit & Signing at Space 15 Twenty

4 Abril, 2013
By Tamara Martin
Pulp Art Book – Exhibit & Signing at Space 15 Twenty

Remember Pulp Art Book, that super cool project in which Neil Krug took pictures of Joni Harbeck with a very cinematographic mood? We talked about it in here two years ago (does time also fly for you that fast!?) when they were just presenting it in New York and today they will be opening...
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photo L.A. – International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition

6 Febrero, 2013
By Tamara Martin
photo L.A. – International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition

It recently took place in Los Angeles the 22nd edition of Photo L.A. -an international photographic show that gathers more than 300 exhibitors and which includes seminars and conferences- that takes place every year in this Californian city since 1992. A great chance to discover some new talents behind the lens and to reencounter...
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Animate Objects – Opening Weekend

1 Febrero, 2013
By Tamara Martin
Animate Objects – Opening Weekend

The Sacred Door is this space, located at some point of Lincoln Blvd. when it crosses Venice, where last Venice Bazaar took place. If you are new in town, as I am, you have probably gone by with your car a hundred times without even realizing about it but now that I have discovered...
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Aurèlia Muñoz – Endless investigations. Fibers, textures and space

22 Enero, 2013
By Tamara Martin
Aurèlia Muñoz – Endless investigations. Fibers, textures and space

The prolific work by artist Aurèlia Muñoz well-deserves being mentioned within the Catalan contemporary textile scene. Joining a forward-looking creative will with a traditional and artisanal creative process, her pieces dilute the limits between art, design and craftsmanship, managing to insert works of textile art in space. Through next Sunday, January 27th, Museu del Tapís...
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Beauty meets tragedy in Lissy Elle’s photography

11 Enero, 2013
By Tamara Martin
Beauty meets tragedy in Lissy Elle’s photography

The greatness of Lissy Elle’s photographs lies in the fact that they are as simple -and yet as complex- as the daydreams of a child. As simple as that piece of linen that, all of a sudden and with one or two little tricks, becomes a tent in which to live a thousand amazing adventures,...
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Bruno Bisang – Exposure and 30 Years of Polaroids

8 Enero, 2013
By Tamara Martin
Bruno Bisang – Exposure and 30 Years of Polaroids

Hauser + Hauser, this online gallery that we had already talked about in here when they held one of their first exhibitions, is presenting now Exposure and 30 Years of Polaroids; a show that gathers some of the most significative works by Swiss photographer Bruno Bisang. Up to next February 24th you can visit...
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Sierra – Printed Silk Scarves by Las Coleccionistas

11 Diciembre, 2012
By Tamara Martin
Sierra – Printed Silk Scarves by Las Coleccionistas

Sierra is the name of a collection of printed silk scarves created from four images that Las Coleccionistas took exclusively for this project. Hand- sewn and produced in a limited quantity, the scarves will be available this weekend at El Festivalet, this fair of handmade little gems that you can’t miss if you happen...
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Wonderwork by Josef Hoflehner

19 Octubre, 2012
By Tamara Martin
Wonderwork by Josef Hoflehner

Whatever it is the city you are in, I can’t think of a better plan for a rainy day than mind-traveling to remote universes through a good exhibition. Here, in L.A., it doesn’t rain at all, so we feel kind of forced to go to the beach, one Sunday after another, to enjoy this...
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Judit Piñol: Across the World

25 Junio, 2012
By Tamara Martin
Judit Piñol: Across the World

My most recent discovery, talking about self-taught talents, is Judit Piñol; she combines her job as a model with her passion for photography. You can read more about Judit in my latest article for Absolut Mode Society. ———- Mi último descubrimiento, en lo que a talentos autodidactas se refiere, se llama Judit Piñol y compagina su...
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Through Yumna Al-Arashi’s Lens

16 Abril, 2012
By Tamara Martin
Through Yumna Al-Arashi’s Lens

Images by New York-based photographer Yumna Al-Arashi represent an heterogeneous cocktail with the combination of fashion, politics and sexuality. With a degree in Politics and Middle East and being a self-taught photographer, Yumna explores her roots and her cultural legacy in her daily life and in her trips and shares her experiences and discoveries...
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Frank Horvat – A Trip Through A Mind

20 Marzo, 2012
By Tamara Martin
Frank Horvat – A Trip Through A Mind

Frank Horvat’s work goes further than fashion and publications like Vogue, Stern or Harper’s Bazaar; during the more than 60 years of career of this member of the prestigious Magnum agency his work has also comprised fields like nude or travel photography. The Italian photographer presents now Horvatland, an special application for iPad with...
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‘Lilit’ by Judit García-Talavera

13 Marzo, 2012
By Tamara Martin
‘Lilit’ by Judit García-Talavera

If you are in Barcelona next Thursday, March 15th, you can’t miss ‘Lilit‘, the solo exhibition by illustrator Judit García-Talavera en Arte Aparte (C/Bruniquer, 9 Premise 4) where she will show, till next April, 15th, a sample of her personal work. ———- Si estás en Barcelona este jueves 15 de Marzo no puedes perderte la inauguración...
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Girlcore Magazine

21 Febrero, 2012
By Tamara Martin
Girlcore Magazine

Girlcore is a London-based female collective created with the intention of promoting creatives and talents worldwide which includes among its members artists like Aëla Labbe, Ellen Rogers or Ina Jang, among many others. An exhibition at The Orange Dot Gallery, in London, presents the first edition of Girlcore Magazine, the new collective’s art book,...
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Nadal Collective at Galería Espai [b]

16 Diciembre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Nadal Collective at Galería Espai [b]

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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Simple is Rare

13 Diciembre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Simple is Rare

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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Winter’s Children by Jim Mangan

9 Diciembre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Winter’s Children by Jim Mangan

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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The Best is Yet to Come

28 Noviembre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
The Best is Yet to Come

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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Black Mirror by Doug Aitken

4 Noviembre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Black Mirror by Doug Aitken

The first solo exhibition by North-American artist Doug Aitken, in these last eight years, can be visited till next November 12th in Victoria Miro gallery in London. Despite having also worked with photography and sculpture, since mid 90s’ Aitken has been developing multi-screen installations with surrounding sound systems. The exhibition in London includes, among...
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Prada by Marcela Gutiérrez

1 Noviembre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Prada by Marcela Gutiérrez

Based in Barcelona, artist Marcela Gutiérrez is one of those multidisciplinary figures that gathers in her curriculum a little bit of architecture, a little bit of graphic, some more of fashion and, above all, a lot of talent. After having published her illustrations in magazines like Harper’s Bazaar or having contributed to brans like...
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