Bring the world with you

In one of the more imaginative collaborations we’ve seen of late, Christian Louboutin and David Lynch have locked heads and created a show, Fetish, which opens today in Paris in Pierre Passebon’s Galerie du Passage. The exhibition shows five limited edition pairs of shoes by Louboutin alongside five signed photographs of the shoes by Lynch. As if Louboutin’s day-to-day footwear weren’t fetishistic enough, the pair together has taken the theme to an entirely new level.

As with so many collaborations, things moved very quickly. The process began when Lynch commissioned Louboutin to make shoes for an exhibition he was hosting at the Cartier Foundation back in March this year. The pair quickly became friends and when Louboutin wanted to push the notion of extreme fetish in his work, by creating shoes and then playing with their creative representation in two-dimensional images, it was clear Lynch would be the man to translate his vision.

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Madness Reign Geocities Site

The title of this exhibition, taken from an early B-side by Belle & Sebastian, is more than just a piece of poetic musing. McGinley does, in fact, know where his summers go. In the summer of 2007, for example, he traversed the United States with sixteen models and three assistants, shooting 4,000 rolls of film. From the resulting 150,000 photographs, he arduously narrowed down the body of work to some fifty images, the best of which are on display here at the gallery.The inspirational images for the project were culled from the kinds of amateur photography that appeared in nudist magazines during the 60s and early 70s. McGinley would sit with his models and look through all of the ephemera of the period that he had collected, discussing with them the mood that he was hoping to capture that day. McGinley had chosen a very specific itinerary that would bring his troop through the incredible range of landscapes that are available across the US and carefully planned a battery of activities, sometimes orchestrating the use of special effects. He has always been quite fond of fireworks and fog machines and in this new work they play a major role.The very artificial constructedness of the project allows for situations in which the models can both perform and be caught off guard. The resultant pictures of nude young men and women playing and living in the great outdoors are innocent yet erotic, casual yet calculated. 

Team Gallery

Directed by Aaron Rose, Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. In the early 1990’s a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the “establishment” art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture. Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, including Geoff McFetridge, Ed Templeton, Barry Mcgee and Thomas Campbell, Beautiful Losers focuses on the telling of personal stories…speaking to themes of what happens when the outside becomes “in” as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today’s youth.

Toronto’s best film festival scores again with another amazing schedule this year. Beautiful Losers will be screening on April 19th & April 21st at Cumberland Theatre. For details, see here.

Beautiful Losers

Just what I’ve been looking forward to since Invasive Exotics - more dark, weird psych jams. From Indian Jewelry’s upcoming album, Free Gold:

Indian Jewelry - Swans
Indian Jewelry - Temporary Famine

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Indian Jewelry Myspace

Original Filmscript, with 22 Photographs by Rachel Korine and Brent Stewart
144 Pages, Softcover, 11.2 x 17.8 cm, b/w Offset, First Edition, 2008

Available here.
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HBO: Why make art in the first place?

JEANNE-CLAUDE: Well, we want to create works of art of joy and beauty. And like all true art, it has no other purpose than being a work of art. One should look at it and enjoy it. But in the end, it’s just a piece of art.

HBO: The Gates took you over two decades to complete. Where do you get the patience?

JEANNE-CLAUDE: When we’re asked that question, we always answer that it is not a matter of patience, it is a matter of passion.

CHRISTO: Of course it’s not an easy ride. Some of the projects we’ve proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people’s ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads. And if a project is refused, there are two possibilities. The project remains in our heart and we try very hard to do it, like twenty-five years to wrap the Reichstag in Berlin, or twenty-six years for The Gates. Or a project is refused and it is no longer in our heart and we abandon it. Why should we do it if it is no longer in our heart?

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