Always one for the amalgamation of music and visual arts, James Lavelle has endeavored to blur these boundaries since the early 1990s… from bringing Futura’s work to a wider audience in the early days of Mo Wax, through Jonathan Glazer’s iconic video for Rabbit In Your Headlights, right up to John Hillcoat’s Ray Winstone starring promo for UNKLE’s latest. It’s no surprise then, that Lavelle is taking his dual passions into an exhibition space, and from Friday 27 to Monday 30 August London’s Haunch of Venison will play host to a unique exhibition where an inspired selection of contemporary artists will create a brand new artwork inspired by new music composed for the project by UNKLE. Innovative, challenging and multi-sensory… it’s all Lavelle knows.
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Daydreaming with… James Lavelle
UNKLE inspired, unique multi-sensory exhibition...
August 19th, 2010
Late last year we wrote about German artists Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk and their darkly beautiful ‘False Friends‘ limited edition toy/art figures. Since then, the artists have been going from strength to strength and produced some astonishingly exquisite new sculptures along with a selection of photography, prints and objects which now comprise a solo exhibition at Chicago’s Rotofugi Gallery until August 8th. Dark, menacing yet always terrifyingly beautiful, Landwehr and Waschk’s work is something we’re sure you’ll be seeing more and more of…..
The Doors ‘When You’re Strange’
London photography exhibition coincides with new film release...
July 22nd, 2010
Coinciding with the theatrical release of the highly lauded “When you’re Strange” documentary, Shoreditch’s brilliant Idea Generation Gallery, in conjunction with Morrison Hotel Gallery, is currently playing host to a mesmerising collection of photographs – iconic shots alongside more personal reflections – by Henry Diltz, Joel Brodsky, Bobby Klein and Ken Regan, who all documented the sensationally controversial, and quite brilliant, band at the height of their popularity – and notoriety. Showing until 27th August at 11 Chance Street, this is a must for anyone with even the slightest interest in rock history…..
Lianes by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
inspiring lighting project from in-demand French brothers....
July 22nd, 2010
Designing for the likes of Vitra, Kvadrat, Kartell, Established and Sons, Ligne Roset and Issey Miyake, Breton brothers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec are quite possibly the biggest stars in industrial design to emerge from France since a certain Mr Starck. Alongside the design of big name products, the pair also keep themselves firmly on the side of experimental, with regular exhibitions that include pieces that push the envelope somewhat – and this beautiful creation of interconnected lamps, showing recently at Paris’ Galerie Kreo, is one of such innovations….
Famous for it’s radical graphic design and the ‘Swiss Style’ – or International Style – Switzerland, for all it lacks in size, has long been at the forefront of contemporary design, from print right through to architecture, just look at the international influence of Basel-based architects, Herzog & de Meuron or the undeniable legacy of Le Corbusier. A forthcoming exhibition at London’s ‘A Foundation‘ hopes to show that none of the Swiss gusto for creative excellence has waned as it presents 22 young designers and design studios who deliver “cutting edge aesthetic innovation”. Switzerland: Design For Life runs from 19th June – 1st July, showcasing the talented young Swiss designers in this feature, along with ‘Reinventing an Image’ – a mini-exhibition that will display 10 of Switzerland’s most influential and iconic vintage posters alongside 10 newly created works by some of the country’s leading design studios…..
Experimenting with the now familiar art of stencils, Italian duo Sten&Lex, meticulously create a unique stencil which is then gracefully destroyed – in the process, creating one-off artworks that are truly individual in their scene….. watch the video after the jump for step-by-step insight. Invited by some chap called Banksy to the latest Cans Festival in London, the Italian duo created a larger work than the man himself for the 56,000 visitors, firmly establishing themselves in the process as one of the globe’s prominent street art outfits. Running until 30th April at Rome’s CO2 Contemporary Art Gallery, if you’re in town this surely is a spectacle worth seeing….
Enchanted Palace Exhibition, London
Kensington Palace transformed by mystical art & fashion...
April 7th, 2010
In one of London’s most fabulously unique exhibitions of recent times, critically acclaimed theatre company, WILDWORKS, are casting a very special spell over the famous Kensington Palace, as it undergoes a massive £12m transformation during the next 2 years. Fashion, art and performance will be found in Kensington’s magnificent State Apartments until the refurbishment is complete in March 2012, enchanting visitors with tales of former royal residents through dreamlike installations, interactive theatre, intimate storytelling, soundscapes and haunting film projections. Installations come from leading fashion designers Vivienne Westwood, William Tempest, Stephen Jones, Boudicca, Aminaka Wilmont and illustrator/set designer Echo Morgan, whilst the performance elements, from the quite brilliant WILDWORKS, truly bring this atmospheric exhibition to life with ghostly and other-worldly mystique that has to be seen to be believed…..
AntiVJ Performance, New Songdo City, South Korea
startling audiovisual performance on freshly constructed building....
April 2nd, 2010
AntiVJ, a media performance group of European artists, recently took over the façade of one of New Songdo City’s recently constructed buildings, projecting onto it, an awe-inspiring audiovisual presentation. An inspired homage to technology and construction itself, Songdo is a futuristic masterplan city being built on 1,500 acres of reclaimed land in South Korea, along Incheon’s waterfront, and AntiVJ’s work explores a similar theme to the development, that of the “importance of technology, the coexistence of the ancient and the new and the presence of the sea as both a calming and menacing element”. Ambitious, beautiful and inspirational, AntiVJ’s Songdo performance throws down a gauntlet for all future multimedia installations, worldwide….
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