Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and Peace, and Joy, and Prosperity, throughout the New Year. May all your sessions be as good or better than you dream, and may that perfect wave roll throughout your life in 2009.

colette “Le Chalet”

During the month of December, colette decided to turn its store into basically a “cabin” of knitted projects.  It’s the Winter season, so knitting only seems fitting. Three main groups/people decided to participate in this project. They include Wool & The Gang, Ketty Sean: Doll & Plush, and Aurelie Mathigot. 

WOOL & THE GANG
Wool and The Gang offers knitted designs for women, men, children, animals, the home, and more, which follow the seeasons but especially, the gang’s inspiration. For each collection of unique pieces, muses from all walks of life are invited to inspire Wool and the Gang. Each design is sold as a complete project which includes everything you need, the yarn, needles and pattern through to unique customisation accessories. Each pattern presents the option of making the basic model, or your own unique customised version using watg’s exclusive patches, or ribbons, different coloured yarn, bits of old denim or t-shirt… the possibilities are as infinite and crazy as your imagination. KNITTING HAS NEVER BEEN MORE FUN, COOL OR EASY!

Ketty Sean: DOLL & PLUSH
Ketty was born in 1977 in Saint Germain-en-Laye, in France. She used to live in Paris’ Suburbs for a long time and studied fine arts at la Sorbonne university. She loves candy, cats shoes, hip hop music and of course plushes. Ketty shows and sells her creations in Paris, London, Berlin, Brussels, etc. She lives and works in Paris. For a part of the new collection, Ketty Sean collaborated with Studio Patrick (Anaick Moriceau and Nicolas Peuch), the talented couple of serigrapher and graphic designer from Brussels. The decision to work on the theme of nature and the forest gave birth to new unic creations like objects and clothes in limited editions. All pieces are handmade. From this way of working depends slight irregularities in the knitting and in the forms cut out of felt. This give to all pieces uniqueness and more value. All plush are not suitable for children.

AURELIE MATHIGOT
Aurélie Mathigot’s work is largely inspired by the notion of recovery and the necessity of talking about everyday life in another – new – way. Several preoccupations recur throughout her work: like the will to hide, the need for isolation and for being overwhelmed by the textile material.
Like an endless thinking about time flowing, out of anyone’s control.
Like the desire to fix reality in another dimension to preserve it from leaving us, and to look in all things, by all means, what can remind us a presence.

One artist that is missing from this exhibition is the Israeli winner of “The Big Brother” Shifra Kornfeld who did some great knitting work  on a tree…

Yoshitomo Nara Opening at Blum & Poe

Yoshitomo Nara’s solo show at Blum & Poe opened this weekend, with a nice array of large scale sculpture’s being showcased along with a series of new paintings that focused on Nara’s signature pastel-colored girls.  The biggest part of the showcase was a prairie-style wagon created by YNG, a collaboration between Yoshitomo Nara and Japanese design firm Graf. Within the wagon, Nara exhibited a surprise batch of works in progress and handpicked everyday items.

“All Gone” – The Finest of Street Culture 2008

Created and published by La MJC Agency, the All Gone series displays the greatest products released all over the world for that year.  Every product is sorted in the book by release date, month by month.  Each product is featured with a descriptive card, as they are highlighted by famous photographers or by original artists such as Thomas Lagrange and Sol Sanchez.  Every year, the All Gone book features a new, vibrant cover.  This year’s edition comes in a bright red cover, and runs 256 pages.  All Gone is very limited, just like the products that are offered in the book.  Only a lucky few will be able to receive a copy, as it’s only being produced in 1000 copies.

Takashi Murakami “© Murakami” Exhibition Frankfurt

After having settled down in Los Angeles and New York, Takashi Murakami’s exhibition entitled © Murakami, makes its way onto European soil for the first time, landing in Frankfort at the Museum of Modern Art. The show features a whimsical showcase of all things Murakami, including life-sized interpretations of his infectious characters and countless paintings. © Murakami will remain open until January 4th, 2009.

Chanel Cancels Mobile Art Tour

For those hoping to catch a glimpse of the impressive Chanel Mobile Art Tour, will be sorely disappointed as Chanal have pulled the plug on the costly project. A number of big cities are still yet to see the Zaha Hadid space aged creation and one that has really provided a new basis of creativity for architects and fashion houses. “The decision comes amid snowballing bad economic news and Wall Street scandals, and reflects a new sobriety for luxurious endeavors”.

Gen Art Vanguard New Contemporary Art Fair

First seen at art Art Basel, Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art will now present the Gen Art Vanguard New Contemporary Art Fair in their gallery in Los Angeles for the rest of December. This is anexciting prospect for those who did not make it out to Miami with a number of talented artsist who will work with the gallery during 2009.

 

Utilising paper, canvas, wood and found objects in a variety of media artists come together from 6 different countries and various backrounds culminating in a diverse collection of works.
Artists include; Alex Hornest, Cena7, Charming Baker, Chris Stain, Dan Baldwin, Eine, Fefe Talavera, Flavio Samelo, Flip, Guy Denning, Ian Strawn, Know Hope, Labrona, Mark Jenkins, Sesper, Sixeart, Thais Beltrame, and Will Barras.

“Cornbread, the Godfather of Graffiti”

Next Up In Battered Art Market: Christie’s To ‘Reorganize’

“Christie’s International will announce a ‘reorganization’ in January, the auction house said yesterday in an e-mailed statement, as the financial crisis continued to dampen demand for art.”

Via: Bloomberg