© by The Avant/Garde Diaries / Production Callie Barlow / Creative Direction Gordon Harrison Hull / Filming, Photography Fridolin Schoepper / Interview Kitty Bolhoefer / Sound Alexander Hankoff / Editing Konterfei / Music Walter Jones
»Olaf Breuning’s work ranges from photographs to installations to, most recently, film. Glanced at quickly, his art is colorful and quirky, but upon closer examination a devastatingly nuanced cultural commentary is revealed. Humor is often his primary lens to view the world, and this tendency dovetails with the costumes, wigs, and body paint that turn his subjects into works of art themselves. ›Home 3,‹ the most recent film by Breuning, has it all. Brian Kerstetter, the film’s main character, embodies the quintessentially clueless and uninformed spectator in present-day New York City. In the end, the film not only serves as an astute observation of current consumer culture, but also as a document of early twenty-first-century New York. The Avant/Garde Diaries traveled to Olaf Breuning’s getaway house in upstate New York where the artist finds time to breath fresh mountain air and take a load off from the hustle and bustle of the contemporary art world.«
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ARENA HOMME PLUS ISSUE AUTUMN/WINTER 2012/13 / OUT NOW! / PREVIEW & TEASER BY DANIEL SANNWALD
© by Arena Homme + / Photography & Direction Daniel Sannwald / Styling Max Pearmain / Model Max Rendell / Hair Panos Papandrianos at CLM / Music Mimi at Streeters
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GESTALTEN PRESENTS ALEX BINNIE & DUNCAN X / THE ART OF PAIN »FOREVER: THE NEW TATTOO«
»A new tattoo underground has emerged in recently years and their cutting-edge visuals go far beyond the tattoo mainstream. Visual artist Alex Binnie is a legend within the international tattoo scene and his Into You studio that he’s been running for 19 years in East London continues to foster countless talents and innovators including Curly, Thomas Hooper, Nick Schonberger and Duncan X to name but a few—all featured in Gestalten’s new Forever: The New Tattoo book. We met Duncan and Alex in London to talk about the current mass appeal of tattoos, its uniqueness as an art form and the ›holy trinity‹ of tattooing styles. Don’t miss our Forever release event on September 22, 6:30pm–9:30pm at Gestalten Space, for an evening of talks by renowned tattoo artists Alex Binnie and Duncan X, as well as by heavily tattooed art historian Matt Lodder, author of the book’s preface and a tattooing session by Rafel Delalande.«
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HEDI SLIMANE DIARY UPDATE / SIXTY-ONE »CITIZENS«
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THE BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK OF PHOTOGRAPHER KAI MÜLLER
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»M TO M OF M/M (PARIS)« CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF WORKS BY M/M (PARIS) / RELEASE: OCTOBER 2012
© by M/M (Paris) / Editing Emily King / Foreword Hans Ulrich Obrist / Design Graphic Thought Facility
Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak originally established M/M (Paris) as a graphic design studio in 1992. Their close associations with the music, fashion and art worlds have led to their becoming one of the most distinctive and acclaimed creative voices of their generation, within graphic design and beyond.
Published to mark their twentieth anniversary, this is the definitive monograph. It records hundreds of their mind-blowing projects, each represented in illustrations and photographs and arranged alphabetically from ‘M’ to ‘M’. While print, drawing, photography and an unconventional approach to typography lie at the heart of M/M’s work, they have also produced films, objects or interiors. ‘Our work is about expressing the idea of a dialogue. We transfer elements from fashion to music to art and back again, and keep using different mediums,’ they explain. Each work they produce is unique, but certain elements recur and reverberate — leitmotifs that draw their output, despite its range, into a unified whole.
The monograph features collaborations with the finest from a spectrum of creative worlds, including fashion works with the likes of Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs and Yohji Yamamoto; music works with Benjamin Biolay, Björk, Kanye West and Madonna; magazines such as Vogue Paris, Arena Homme+ or Interview; art projects and exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern and Guggenheim Museum.
Interviews with some of their closest collaborators — such as Björk, Nicolas Ghesquière, Pierre Huyghe, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Sarah Morris or Glenn O’Brien, as well as Amzalag and Augustyniak themselves, tell M/M’s story. These texts reveal their areas of interest, define their position both within graphic design and beyond and shed new light on the duo’s creative process. Internationally renowned art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist contributes a preface, while contemporary artist Philippe Parreno offers an essay about their joint projects.
These multiple conversations and recollections of shared experiences paint an overview of the evolution of the creative world since the early 90s. This ambitious monograph is a rare document and unparalleled insight into the work and minds of Europe’s most thoughtful and influential image-makers.
M to M of M/M (Paris)
Paperback, with plastic dust jacket
Over 1.000 illustrations all in colour
35 x 26 cm, 528pages
£42.00 — October 2012
English version published by Thames & Hudson
Version française publiee par les Editions de la Martiniere
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