For the launch of the Stephen Sprouse collection in San Francisco, Louis Vuitton has commissioned artist Reyes of the The Seventh Letter crew. The large scale artwork combines the artists style, as well as the classic Louis Vuitton monogram pattern in the background.
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One & Other will provide a fascinating portrait of the UK in the twenty-first century. Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days, a different person will take their place on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, in a continuous representation of themselves, their families, or their communities. The 2,400 participants will be chosen at random from the many thousands that are expected to apply.
Participants can use their time on the plinth as they like – to perform, to demonstrate, or simply to reflect. Antony Gormley is inviting people, aged 16 and over, from across the UK to participate in the creation of a unique living monument on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. One & Other will run for 100 days from 6 July – 14 October 2009 and will involve 2,400 people from all over the UK who will stand on the plinth for an hour each.
Anyone interested in participating can register their interest and find out more at the newly launched project website
Deitch Projects presents VB64, Vanessa Beecroft’s first public performance in New York since 2000 and an accompanying exhibition of new sculpture at Deitch Studios on the East River in Long Island City. The sculptures from the performance along with a video projection of the performance, will be on view through Sunday April 12th. An exhibition of new wax and gesso sculptures will also be on view in the adjoining gallery.
Vanessa Beecroft works in the space between painting, sculpture, performance, and real life. In VB64, she introduces a new element into the work, gesso sculptures cast from live models, resting on coffin-like bases. The twenty live models in the performance will be in white body make up and at the beginning of the performance will be indistinguishable from the sculptural casts. VB64 pushes Beecroft’s deliberate confusion between sculpture, performance and real life into a new realm, the tension between life and death.
The exhibition runs until the 12th April, 2009
Deitch Projects
4-40 44th Drive
Long Island City
USA
This exhibition includes 100 works by contemporary international artists utilizing 1:1 scale authentic prop replicas of the Darth Vader helmet used in the Star Wars films.
Each helmet was a blank canvas for the artist to paint, design, and customize. These iconic helmets of the notorious movie villain were created by some of the biggest names in today’s pop surrealist and underground art scene including Shag, Peter Kuper, Attaboy, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Dalek, Paul Frank, Ron English, Jeff Soto, Michelle Valigura, Frank Kozik, Wade Lageose, Joe Ledbetter, Alex Pardee, Suckadelic, Cameron Tiede, Michelle Valigura, Sunich, Mister Cartoon, Marc Ecko, Amanda Visell, and many more. The Vader Project was curated by Dov Kelemer and Sarah Jo Marks of DKE Toys, one of the largest designer vinyl and art-toy distributors in the world. In addition to The Warhol’s grouping of these iconic helmets, approximately 15 works will be on view at The Carnegie Science Center during the duration of the exhibition.
The exhibition runs until the 3rd of May 2009
The Andy Warhol Museum
117 Sandusky Street
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
15212-5890
Paper has been used in fashion in various cultures and historical periods, but it is still a little known and little studied phenomenon.
With the exhibition, PAPER FASHION, the Fashion Museum in collaboration with Atopos Cultural Organisation, reveals this exceptional niche in the history of fashion. Beginning with a unique collection of 1960s’ paper dresses from the Atopos collection, PAPER FASHION focuses on the use of paper and related materials in modern and contemporary fashion.
The exhibition runs from the 6th of March until the 16th of August 2009
ModeMuseum Province of Antwerp – MoMu
Nationalestraat 28
B-2000 Antwerp
Belgium
Gerhard Richter Portraits is the first major exhibition to show a selection of Richter’s portraits across the entire span of his career. (Opposite Gilbert and George by Gerhard Richter 1975) Dating from the 1960s to the present, it includes important early black-and-white paintings made from magazine photographs, works based on private snapshots, a special installation of his celebrated series 48 Portraits, and a never-previously exhibited portrait of his daughter Ella.
Richter is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, a complex figure whose work from the early 1960s has moved between photographically derived figurative imagery and brightly coloured abstract painting.
From the outset portraiture has been a key aspect of Richter’s art but until now exhibitions of his art have focused on the wider sweep of his activity including his abstract work and, as a result, the richness of his portraits has been neglected. This exhibition represents a major advance in the understanding and appreciation of the artist’s achievement by examining his portraits in detail. The exhibition will comprise around 35 key paintings lent from major international public and private collections. Organised chronologically, Gerhard Richter Portraits will also highlight particular themes that focus on the sources of Richter’s imagery in order to draw out the artist’s principal preoccupations and main lines of development. These themes include The Most Perfect Picture (which focuses on Richter’s early use of photographs from newspapers and magazines), Devotional Pictures (which examines his use of amateur photographs from family albums), Persistent Uncertainty, (the exhibition’s central section in which the photographic sources of Richter’s imagery are progressively obscured and manipulated), Art History, (focusing on images of Richter’s associations within the art world), and Private Images, Personal Portraits (in which the artist’s preoccupation with his family and his own image take centre stage).
The exhibition runs until May 31st 2009
The National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London
WC2H 0HE
