Below you see three pictures Wolfgang-Tillman’s upcoming exhibition at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Berlin. The gallery will be showing an installation of Tillmans most recent works, which in the invitation is describes like this: “After his last exhibitions which were characterized by abstract pictures and object-like aspects of photography, his gaze is now directed to the ”outside” again. Less focused on his immediate social environment, these new works were to an increasing extent done during the artist’s travels, combining urban and rural life in an apparently globalized world dominated by technology.” The opening of the yet untitled exhibition will take place at October 1st.
Manon Kündig is today featured in Dazed Digital’s “The Joy Of Six”-series curated by Walter Van Beirendonck, who has picked out some of his favourite students from the Royal Academy of Antwerp. “Teddy Beard” is Kündig’s 2nd-year-collection, you find the complete shooting over at DD.
Spoek Mathambo is part of two awesome electro-rap-duos from Johannesburg called Sweat X and Playdoe and has just released his solo-record “Mshini Wam”. Below I posted a little portrait of Mathambo filmed by photographer Shawn Mortensen as part of Nike’s AM90 Sound project and his latest videos “War On Words” and “Mshini Wam”. You can also download a pretty cool mixtape by Mathambo recorded as part of Nike and The Fader’s “Pitch Perfect” – collaboration. He also has a nice blog.
I posted a couple of pictures of Norwegian artist Erik Tidemann by photographer Linn Heidi Stokkedal in April. This time you get a little insight on of Tidemann’s own works – here are two of his latest paintings which I found on Sang Bleu a few days ago. This is how Tidemann himself described the pictures to me via Facebook:
“The first one is part of a series both fictional and based on real people, it’s a series of the tattoists in my city by memory as I can remember their tattoos and appearance. That goes for the mustached sailor one. The black guy is all fictional called “Portrait of Sadiiq Al Rashiid, Somalian Pirate”. It was a good way to do really strong black one liner drawings on top of the brushed first layer of the paintings. So you have the spontanity that is uncorrected on something that could be the opposite.”
Check out his MySpace page and Google for more of Erik Tideamann’s works.
The September issue of Dazed & Confused pays tribute to Walter van Beirendonck. The magazine features an interview with the fashion designer about the contexts of his work, his inspirational sources and his work as a designer as the Antwerp Royal Academy. The also present a photo shooting by Scott Trindle and Robbie Spencer, which shows a selection of the designer’s past creations. The interview can also be found on the Dazed website, which is also worth visiting, because in reference to Van Beirendoncks’s former membership in the avant garde fashion group “Antwerp Six” the page currently presents profiles of six of his most promising students and some more pictures of his past collections.
Here’s are the pictures of the shooting shown in the printed version of the magazine (the picture on top is also part of it). The complete feature can be found on Live Is Not A Rehearsal.
Second part of the feature. Click here for the first one.
“TJ”
“I met TJ one early afternoon on Adam4Adam, a gay hookup website. I went over to his place near the University of Minnesota campus. His roommates weren’t home; when I got there he started sucking my dick right away. Then we moved to his room, just so that we wouldn’t risk getting walked in on. He mentioned that he was still hung-over from the night before, so was I. We 69’d on his mattress; I ate his beautiful ass while he sucked my dick. I had set my glasses aside, near the mattress, as we changed positions TJ managed to step on my glasses, new glasses at that. So after he shot a large load on his stomach I asked if I could take his portrait. I got the impression that he didn’t want to but did so because he had just broken my glasses. My camera was in the other room. As I reached for it someone, his roommate was getting home and I think he caught a glimpse of my bare ass as I scurried back into the bedroom with my camera. Adrenaline was running high. So I quickly put on my broken glasses and tried to focus my camera at the same time. Snapped a few shots, had him sign a model release and then said goodbye. It all worked out, this is one of my favorite shots.”
After Alexaner Kampe and Astrid Andersen here’s another finalist of the ITS#Fashion competition. Niels Peeraer, a graduate of the Hogeschool Antwerp, is the winner of the RA award which is offered by RA, a concept store in Antwerp where is collection is going to be presented. Here are some pictures of a shooting of Peeraer’s 3rd year collection by a photographer called Dirk Alexander. You find the whole shooting on Alexander’s website and some Catwalk pictures of the collection on changefashon.net.
+++ Barbara Panther is going to release her “Empire E.P.” on September 10th. The record was produced by Matthew Herbert. You can stream it here, it’s pretty exciting stuff I think +++
+++ This is Fever Ray’s cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street” (unfortunately no longer downloadable). Click here if the Soundcloud doesn’t appear in the post on your blog reader.
+++ I’ve recently fallen in love with “Congo Cut Cut”, a completely crazy track produced by Young Cream (picture on top), a side project of Salem’s Jeff. Here it is:
“Black Swan” is a thriller set in the New York City ballet scene. It features Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder and Vincent Cassel and will have its world premiere as the opening film at the Venice Film Festival in September 2010. The official release day will is December 1st, although it’s been announced that the film will only be shown in “select cities“, whatever this is supposed to mean.
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Hard Ton are Max and Mauro, a duo from Venice that manages to melt together three decades of dance music: While in their tracks they mix disco and italo disco with nineties house and chicago house, singer Max’ outfits and his stage appearance make you instantly think of queer icons such as Divine, Leigh Bovery and even Rob Halford (Judas Priest). The guys have recently gotten a lot of attention for the cover of their “Selfish”-E.P. – a remake of Grace Jones’ “Island Life” album cover (remember?). For PICK 5 they have put together a nice collection of their favourite webclips. But see yourself…
1. Phyllis Nelson – I Like You
“It’s the perfext party track… since 1985″
2. Stefano e Bene Feat. Hard Ton – “Why Your Love”
“This is our lastest collaboration. Stefano & Bene are not Italians but they love italo disco. You probably know them by another nickname… but we should keep it a secret.”
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