CHRISTIAN LEMMERZ – HYPNOSIS

Posted on 2010-09-20

For his first solo exhibition in China, the German-born sculptor Christian Lemmerz has created a large installation entitled Hypnosis, which seeks to confront us directly with our own life – and not least our own death.

Christian Lemmerz always engages with the major conditions of our existence in his art – life, death, love, religion, freedom, oppression – and his works are usually executed such that they try to stimulate a reaction from or a relationship with the viewer. Art should function as a provocative confrontation, thinks Christian Lemmerz.

In a grid from the ceiling hang hundreds of skulls in front of which the viewer can stand – one viewer to each skull. The skulls revolve and function as a fixation for the eye, while a hypnosis-inducing voice speaks slowly and penetratingly into the space and urges us to think about our lives – and about the inevitability of death, about death as a release. The question is of course whether the viewer dares to remain standing through-out the countdown from ten to zero

Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2010

Faurschou Gallery Beijing
798 Art District
NO.2 Jiuxianqiao Road
Chaoyang District
Beijing
China
100015

www.faurschou.com/beijing

  

MURAKAMI VERSAILLES

Posted on 2010-09-20

After Jeff Koons and Xavier Veilhan, this year contemporary Japanese artist Murakami will be bringing his super bright art to Louis IX’s opulent abode.
The Takashi Murakami Versailles retrospective art exhibition
places some of Murakami’s most iconic works in the hallowed halls of the Chateau de Versailles.

Opposite – Tongari-Kun (Mister Pointy)

Exhibition runs through till December 12th, 2010

Palace of Versailles
Place d’Armes
78000 Versailles
France

www.chateauversailles.fr

  

SOREL x COLETTE – CARIBOU BOOT

Posted on 2010-09-20

Rich and supple full grain leather, removable wool and felt lining, a sheepskin collar and a waterproof vulcanised rubber shell is fused perfectly with the colette blue topstitching. Each pair comes with 2 sets of laces in blue and brown.

Officially launched in 1962, Sorel has become a major success as the first brand to develop winter boots that combine leather uppers, 100% waterproof vulcanised rubber shells and removable felt linings. The Caribou is the Canadian brand’s flagship model.

The Sorel x colette Caribou is limited to 50 pairs only, available from the colette store.

www.sorel.com
www.colette.fr

  

VISVIM KIEFER HI MAYAN SUEDE

Posted on 2010-09-20

The latest sneaker to drop from the visvim Spring/Summer 2010 Collection is the Kiefer Hi Mayan Suede. The high top sneaker comes with a suede upper, leather toe cap and Mayan embroidery details around the ankle.

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VANS COLORED BY CRAYOLA COLLECTION

Posted on 2010-09-20

Vans “Colored by Crayola” Crayola Footwear Collection, which is part of their Fall 2010 offering. The uppers of Vans classics, including the Era, Sk8 Hi, Authentic and Slip-On, have gotten the Crayola treatment.

www.vans.com

  

TALES OF RESISTANCE AND CHANGE

Posted on 2010-09-20

The exhibition “Tales of Resistance and Change. Artists from Argentina” presents works by twelve contemporary Argentine artists and artist groups that conceive their socio-political environments as a field for reflection and action. Starting from a diversity of contexts, their works are to be understood as processes of research in which the present, traditions and recent history are combined. The geopolitical complexity of the country influences these productions in which urban and rural rhythms, immigrant and native heritage, transformations and political conflicts are perceived.
“After the economic crisis of 2001–the curator, Rodrigo Alonso, points out–Argentine artists started to question and examine their reality reactivating critical practices that had been inactive during the previous neoliberal period. Some of them interacted with the new political militancy, others approached several communities and others created social inclusion projects with sectors of the population that had been particularly affected by the financial conflict”.

Opposite – Gian Paolo Minelli, 2003 From the series – Zona Sur – Barrio Piedrabuena

Exhibition runs through till October 31st, 2010

Frankfurter Kunstverein
Steinernes Haus am Römerberg
Markt 44
60311
Frankfurt
Germany

www.fkv.de