Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

'God has a voice, she speaks through me'

Brigade Mondaine

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IF I SHOULD LOOSE YOU BY VINCENT GAGLIOSTRO

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Vincent Gagliostro and you can see that I am not in NIGERIA asking for your help.

Zoltan Gerliczki As people bought the images they put a post it in it's place and wrote down something that they lost.

Douglas Gordon with Chicks On Speed
Vincent Gagliostro

Diane Not in Nigeria and DO NOT SEND MONEY TO WESTERN UNION IT IS A NIGERIAN SCAM

Satch Hoyt at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas

Dear Shaded Viewers,

THE 8 TRACK SHACK CURRENTLY ON VIEW IN BLACK LIGHT WHITE NOISE AT
THE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM HOUSTON TEXAS

BBC news artricle on Satch Hoyt

image and text taken from the BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6240690.stm

Sugar cube sculptures go on show

The artist made sugar cube portraits of five black heroes
Life-size portraits of black heroes made from sugar cubes are going on display to mark 200 years of the abolition of the slave trade.
The exhibition at St Paul's Cathedral in London, titled For Love of Sugar, showcases five personalities from 18th and 19th Century Britain.

Artist Satch Hoyt has also created two slave ships from sugar, to be displayed at the museum in the Docklands.

George Bridgetower, a violin prodigy, is among those featured.

The exhibition runs until 12 July.

Arnhem Fashion Biennale - Capricious Launch and the concerts

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Dino Dinco at Capricious Caroline Niemant , guest editor this month.

DJ's and on the far right -Editor and Publisher, Sophie Morner

Anouk Kruithof

Wendelien Daan and Dino with Carmen and Elle

Frank Bruggerman, he designed the floral arrangement and people tell him that he looks like Bernhard Willhelm. Jessica Gysel of Best.

I don't know how we did it but we missed the opening act for the music concerts, red face.... What we did see, we loved. Final Fantasy was amazing, I want to see more and hear more from him in the future, Au Revoir Simone , I enjoyed when I heard them perform at the Robert Normond show in Paris and the final act of The Dirty Projectors, JOFF considers to be the next huge hit. COnsidering that two years ago JOFF had Anthony and the Johnsons perform for the first Arnhem Mode Biennale , I think that we can say that he is a very good barometer to what could easily prove to be a future success. A few pics to follow,

Diane

Vive La Fête - La Route (Jour de Chance first video

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Vive La Fête - La Route (Jour de Chance first video)

Today the new Vive la fete LP is out in store! Els the singer is wearing aka Fade by Olivier Bobin
on the cover and the huge wedding dress in the video!!!

They will be performing live at l'elysées montmartre this friday.

album cover photo by Alex Salinas styled by Marine
Braunschvig

The video called "la route" is realised by Julia bidermann

Later,

Diane

LES NUITS DE LA PLEINE LUNE

LES NUITS DE LA PLEINE LUNE
Dancing........ Mercredi 23 mai 2007 de 21:00 à 02:00
Laughing....... O'KUBI 219, rue Saint Maur 75010
Drinking......... Yagos Koliopanos et David TV aux platines
Loving........... entrée libre

Maria de Medeiros in concert at Theatre des Bouffes du Nord

DANCE ARCHITECTURE CINEMA AND MODERNISM

WALKING AROUND

Paris Art scene in half day. end of January 2007. Special tour guide, Michael James O'Brien, photographer.

Perrotin, Xippas. Les nouvelles galeries du Marais. (When I used to live in Paris 7 yrs ago there was nothing...Ot maybe I didn't know all this)

Kréo, Jousse, Air de Paris... le quartier Louise Weiss (little sad, nut nice objects on sale).

Barnaby Barford for Nymphenburg Porzellan at Joyce Gallery, Palais Royal. Beautiful.
You can read the whole illustrated story on Kult magazine, march issue.  Thanks  to Alessandra Pellegrino, fashion director, who saw my drawings on Iqons.

Beniamino Marini (and the "Art à Paris" comix)

Kinky Sights / Kinky Sounds

Click flyer to make it bigger....(if it were only so easy for everything in the world....)

- Dino Dinco

Fashion meets Web 2.0: Press Conference to launch IQONS Time: 9 a.m. – 10 a.m., Date: Tuesday 13 February 2007

Dear Shaded Viewers,

IQONS.com: FASHION SET FREE

Fashion meets Web 2.0: Press Conference to launch IQONS
Time: 9 a.m. – 10 a.m., Date: Tuesday 13 February 2007
Venue: The Hospital, 24 Endell St, London WC2H 9HQ

IQONS (iqons.com) is a new on-line fashion community that aims to have the same impact on Fashion as MySpace had on music.
IQONS is a free on-line community focused on fashion and style for everyone from star designers, stylists and fashion photographers to fashion fans and consumers. It has rich, timely content generated by its members and has a structure committed to providing support to new talent around the world in partnership with established fashion leaders.
The site has had a ‘soft launch’ over the last two months with events in Paris and New York and has already attracted thousands of members. These members have already found, and connected with, fashion retailers, models, factories, and like-minded friends around the world.
To coincide with London Fashion Week, this Press Conference will mark the official launch of the site globally. You will hear from IQONS members on how the site is transforming the way they connect to the fashion world and you will get to know the key features of the site:
Fashion Icons: Each month, celebrated fashion writer and biographer Colin McDowell invites highly influential fashion industry figures to become a guest ‘IQON’. The guest IQON will search the site for emerging fashion stars and announce their selections on the IQONS homepage. The first three guest IQONS - iconic global fashion designers – will be announced at the press conference.
IQONS Projects: IQONS goes beyond the web into the real-world through events, parties, projects and competitions in collaboration with partners in the fashion industry. The first three IQONS Projects will be announced at the press conference.
Please RSVP to Nick Galletti : nick@iqons.com Tel: +33 6 70697689

IQONS.com: FASHION SET FREE

Yves Klein performance at the Centre Pompidou

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Today at the Centre Pompidou the 50th birthday of Yves Klein's Aerostatic Sculpture was celebrated with the release of l001 blue balloons. The Yves Klein exhibit closes on February 5th. Thursdays and Fridays the museum is open until 23h.

David Gil was there with his dear friend Axelle de Buffevent

Later,

Diane

McDermott & McGough Please Don't Stop Loving Me at Galerie Jerome de Noirmont

Dear Shaded Viewers,

After I left my beautiful Australian friends I went off with David Gil to the opening of my old NYC friends, McDermott & McGough. Their opening was amazing, the show is practically sold out. I never went to an opening and saw so many red dots.

Now After All Those Things You Told Me, l965, 2006

I love these titles:

No Bluer Was He Than I, 1965, 2006

Because of Him, 1965, 2006

Romance can die like a cigarette, 1965,2006

The Night That We Called it a Day, l965, 2006

Love Bloomed Like a Flower and Then The Petals Fell, 1965, 2006

How Could it End Like This? 1965,2006

There Wasn't a Thing Left to Say, 1965, 2006

This is David signing my book, Peter was off being filmed. How great is it to see rooms full of red dots.

McDermott & McGough Please Don't Stop Loving Me! 19 January - 15 March l965*
Galerie Jerome de Noirmont
38 Avenue Matignon 75008

Later,

Diane

*2007

The catalogue written by David Buckley is a treasure. The Time Project explained and an intimate interview with the two artists, David McDermott and Peter MGough written by another artist, David Bukley who knows the two very well. It's the man/woman struggle explained and how at an early age film noir saved them from the boredom of suburban life.

Capricious Young Photographers 21 Jan - 4 March at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Capricious. Young photographers

January 21 – March 4 2007
Opening: January 20 5 – 7 p.m.

Melanie Bonajo-Bondage
Melanie Bonajo (b. 1978) was for some time the co-editor of Capricious. Her photographs often arise from prompted, staged situations. A series of Polaroid bondage photos was created with a wink at the kinky erotic genre. For ‘Action Heroes’ Bonajo also got family, friends and acquaintances to shamelessly assume the craziest poses. That Bonajo’s absurdism goes hand in hand with great intimacy will become clear from her presentation in SMBA

The title of the exhibition ‘Capricious’ in Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam is derived from the Amsterdam/New-York periodical of the same name which functions as an open podium for up-and-coming photographers who work autonomously. As a counterpart, SMBA presents six young photographers, some of whom have also previously shown work in the periodical: Katja Mater, Marianne Vierø, Melanie Bonajo, Paulien Oltheten, Linda-Maria Birbeck and Sema Bekirovic.

The magazine Capricious gives photographers six to twelve pages to show one photo on each page. Each mat-finished page is detachable. This arrangement makes it clear that Capricious is not so much a magazine but a periodically appearing collection of autonomous works from which everyone may assemble an exhibition at home, to their own taste.
In fact, in this manner the magazine rather simply does what museums often do in the form of elaborate exhibitions, in which the autonomy of the work shown is generally underscored by the format and the amount of white space around them. But why do what a magazine can also do? Would it not be better to experiment in an exhibition with photography, a flexible medium par-excellence, and try to open up the great potential of its presentation possibilities?
For its group exhibition ‘Capricious’ the SMBA has chosen work by six photographers who are searching for an alternative way to handle the medium – a way that is not only expressed in their choice of subjects, but especially in the manner in which they present their photography. Content and presentation cannot be seen as separate from one another.

Marianne Vierø
Marianne Vierø (b. 1979) is still best characterised as a still-life photographer, for whom the physical still-life is sometimes just as important as the photograph of it. The photographed object can have the character of a sculpture or installation, as we encounter them in a museum, or, much more often, as reproductions in art books. Vierø shows installation and documentation as one inseparable entity

Sema Bekirovic

During the exhibition Sema Bekirovic (b. 1977) will be presenting her photo essay Koet, which will then be appearing in printed form from Veenman Publishers. In her photos Bekirovic concentrates on visualising the confrontation between nature and culture, something which is often most clearly manifested in an urban area. For Koet she followed a pair of coots for months as they built and maintained a nest in Amsterdam. She tried to influence this process by ‘feeding’ the animals with flashy odds and ends, strips of celluloid film and photos clipped from art magazines and other sources. The animals indeed incorporated these in their nest. In their way they channelled the concept of ‘visual culture’ by giving a new significance to all sorts of things that had first been the personal property of the photographer, who attached a totally different value to them.

Later,

Diane

MIAMI BASEL DAY 3 - Business

Dear Shaded Viewers,

unfortunately I had no time to do any drawings for this post, but there will be enough artwork...

Day 3 - Art Basel Miami Beach.

In the lobby, I meet by chance "Useless" editor and publisher, talking with one very special bookseller from New York city:

The Fair: Two hundred galleries from all over the world. Trying to sell the most commercial and published contemporary art pieces to big collectors from all over the U.S. and Latin America. Let's have a quick look at some prices...

The little Pope by Maurizio Cattelan was sold at Marian Goodman gallery for 450,000 $

The tattoed pork skin by Wim Delvoye was sold by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin for 72.000$

This photo of Matthew Barney's "Drawing Restraint" movie was sold by L.A. gallery Regen Projects for 74,000$

Still at Regen Projects, this photograph by Gillian Wearing (a self-portrait disguised as her grandmother) was sold for 60,000$

An Andy Warhol "Mao" sold for 2,200,000$ at NY-based L&M Gallery...

This Yinka Shonibare photo of the series "Un Ballo in Maschera" (which is VERY Marie-Antoinette) is on sale at Stephen Friedman Gallery (from London) at 5,500£

It's not a mouse, but a Marlboro Lights' pack flying around in Gavin Brown's booth for 160,000$

This tryptic by Zimmermann at Michael Janssen Gallery is on sale for 120,000$

Design Miami @ Moore Building. Some more prices...

"Lockheed Lounge" chair by Marc Newson. 1,000,000$ (SOLD)

Chair-desk from Renault's headquarters (late 1930s): 50,000$ (SOLD)

Long chairs by Johanna Grawunder @ Galerie Italienne (from Paris). 20,000$

A sofa-bed by Osvaldo Borsani (1950s): 30,000$

This is it. More art without money later on.

"People" pic: Gallerist Barbara Gladstone (number 2 in N.Y. after Larry Gagosian) looks like she made a deal.

At the end of the day we went to photographer Jack Pierson's last book launch party ("Desire-Despair") at the Raleigh Hotel for a drink...

(A "fake" Jack Pierson's photographic self-portrait)

and then to the big party hold in the Wynwood district by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, where I met these two gentle persons (they flew all the way from Paris)

Best,

BM

Henrik Vibskov rehersal in MID_E

Sun 03/12/2006 19:02 DianePERNET(3304)

GO GENETIC! INSPIRATIONS BY THE ST ETIENNE DESIGN BIENNIAL, A REPORT BY BENIAMINO MARINI

Everybody is talking about man designing nature. Even L’Uomo Vogue, in this month’s cover, features a story by Steven Meisel of men with gas masks doing genetic experiments in a post-catastrophe garden and a serious essay by transexual author Fran Lebowitz about global warming.

Last week, with my friend Federica, who works in Paris in the design field, I visited the St. Etienne Biennale du Design (near Lyon, France) and the best  exhibition was “Eden ADN” (ADN means DNA), curated by Anthony Van Den Bossche. It questions man’s manipulation of nature and the “increasingly fraught overlap between object and living thing which results from such manipulation”.
The most interesting works was the artwork by dutch group “Idiots” (they seem to be loved by Walter Van Beirendonck too...), like this gold and leather lion.

I also saw the softest genetically designed rabbit, called Orylag®. Maybe those who work in the furcoat industry know it very well. I was impressed. I could trade my two cats for one of those!

The rest of the Biennale was a little boring. Old stuff and a lot of schoolworks.
We went to the best restaurant in town - wondering how the cheap ones could be - and met the city mayor dining with Matali Crasset, who, to me (I never go to the french countryside), looked like Joan of Arch.

Later on, we went to the only bar that was open after 11pm and met all the parisian design crowd. My friend knew everybody, I was just looking around. Chantal Amaide, editor in chief of Intramuros magazine, was there, reading press releases.

The following morning I had a nice surprise visiting the Cheval Noir hotel, a 2 stars ugly space downtown St Etienne, completely redone by the design group “Domestic” with their vynil stickers. They became famous couple years ago selling wall decorations chez Colette. At the hotel they created a fantasy greenhouse with experimental life forms all over the lobby walls and furniture.

That’s all.
Best,

BM

The photo call of Matthieu Laurette on TF1

Dear Shaded Viewers,

You might enjoy a visit http://blog.strategies.fr/ to see Matthieu Laurette's contribution to the week of Publicity at Palais de Tokyo.

Later,

Diane

Mario Canal: PASSAGE SOUTERRAIN.

Dear Diane, dear shaded viewers,
Let me show you a nice image of the Passage's exterior.

best>>>m<

Mario Canal: PSJM strikes the Passage Souterrain.

Dear Diane, dear shaded viewers,
Profiting from the fact that Pablo and Cynthia, the two members of art collective PSJM -www.psjm.es-, were in Paris, we've did an intervention at the Passage Souterrain_Guerrilla Gallery. It was as easy as that.
They brought their latest work, a mural showing a demostration of consumers.

Actually, all their work is about logos, brands and democratization of art. No more no less. And well, I have to say I've always been a big fan of theirs and it is funny how life goes but now I am their gallerist -well, somehow-.

Pablo posted the mural in the underpass pedestrian way that I use as an art gallery -www.theartpalace.com/ps.htm-. You can visit it at the corner of Rue de la Manutention and Av. de New York, just behind Palais de Tokyo.

Pablo and Cynthia...

Cynthia and me...

Pablo and me...

Well, next artist should be Zevs, I will tell you about his intervention.

best>>>>m<

Voin Voinov at the Melbourn Arts Festival with THe public of Ideas

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Voin sent me these images from his video about one month ago but then I was without internet so, by now his month in Australia is over and he will be back in Paris but...here are the images none the less.

He opened his show at the Melbourn Arts Festival

Later,

Diane

Mario Canal: Le jour noir du Passage Souterrain

Dear Diane, dear shaded viewers,
Yesterday night I stayed at home -who wouldn't with that Nuit Blanche-, so I felt in shape this morning to do a little bit of High Art.
This means I took the stencil made for the Passage Souterrain by spanish artist Fernando Sanchez Castillo, who's just showing a funny piece about Franco and democracy in Barcelona -Centre D'Art Santa Monica-, and then I went to Palais de Tokyo for my own private Jour Noir.
This is the way the graffiti looks.

Ex Manibus is a phrase founded in the Roman Coliseum, and its meaning, more or less, was something like "Do you see all this power, all this magnificent buidings and beautyness? Well, we didn't move a finger to construct it. Thanks gods we have slaves, here and abroad" -this was the Cesar speaking-.
You see? Ex Manibus: no hands!
Fernando Sanchez Castillo was just thinking about Paris, the Palais de Tokyo and the Universal Exhibition when came with his graffiti piece.

>>>m<

Art Kitchen and Idiots

After Show Massive Attack Paris Paris tonight

David Gil/79934321 at the Palais Royal

photos by Antoine Asseraf

We Want your shorts - YOU WEAR IT WELL

Dear Shaded Viewers,

The deadline for your postmark is the 30th of June. You might be allowed a few extra days since Dino will be in Paris for a job. What that means is that the jury viewing will be pushed back a few days. We are totally in love with the films that we've seen till now.

logo designed by Pierre Marie Agin

We want your shorts.

Later, Diane

NN reports on Carlos Amorales at Yvon Lambert

carlos amorales by nn
this week was the opening of carlos amorales' exhibition at yvon
lambert. the best part of the show is the two animation videos. carlos
has created in mexico an animation studio with graphic designers,
media researchers, musicians, the oppposite of the very happy and
disney with videos that represent very dark symbolic figures,
intriging silhouettes of wolves, strange pregnant women, bodies with
no faces and a soundtrack that mixes pyschedelic sounds and
anticiption gimmick music. nn

The Blood Value of the Banana at Blackblock and Monk-e-mail

Black Block invites yu to the opening of Vuk Vidor Thursday 8th from l9h30.

I had dinner last night with my friend Donald and we got to talking about the nightmare that is called spam. When I don't find it totally annoying, I have to laugh at the amount of "It's been a long time since we've seen each other.." signed by a dozen different names. I often wonder what happens when you click delete forever, how do these mails slip back again into your mailbox? Monk e- mail is something else altogether. YOu choose the monkey of your choice, dress them up and give them your voice and then you send off your monk-e mail. It's a holiday today in France, amuse yourself with monk-e mail.

Later,

Diane

Dream Machine Rythm is a silence Voin de Voin 1-15 June Joseph Marzolla Vasadisko

Sayoko

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photographs by Josef M. Schomburg
http://www.jm-schomburg.com

Sayoko solo performance at opa 27 mai. +info www.Sayokoparis.Net

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