Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin @ Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
Delfine - Ad Campaign for Balenciaga in collaboration with M/M Paris 2001 © Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin & Anastasia, 1994 © Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Pretty Much Everything, Foam, Amsterdam, 2010, image courtesy of Foam
Pretty Much Everything, Foam, Amsterdam, 2010, image courtesy of Foam
“Foam shows 300 photographs spanning 25 years of the duo’s career. Art, fashion and portrait works all exist next to each other. By disregarding any chronological order the combinations of images are based on personal, formal, social, political and intuitive associations that show the way the artists have lived with the images for 25 years.
Inez van Lamsweerde en Vinoodh Matadin launched their international career with the publication of ten pages in the British magazine The Face in 1994. It was here that for the first time in a fashion series the models and the backgrounds were photographed separately and subsequently combined into a single image by use of a computer. The series typified van Lamsweerde and Matadin’s hyper-realistic style and was made to celebrate and subvert fashion within the context of a magazine.” Quoted from Foam’s Press Release. Full text here.
Me Kissing Vinoodh (Passionately), 1999 © Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Untitled (Head 1), 2008 © Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin & Antony Fantastic Man, 2006 © Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Björk - Poisson Nageur, 2000 © Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Delfine in my apartment
A special edition newspaper was created for the exhibition. Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin ‘Pretty Much Everything’ 1985-2010: 25 photographs + 25 posters with M/M (Paris). Image from Foam website. Newspaper for purchase via Foam website!!!
Fantastic Man Issue no.6 Autumn and Winter 2007-2008
- Fantastic Man Issue no.6 Autumn and Winter 2007-2008
- Fantastic Man Issue no.6 Autumn and Winter 2007-2008
VM: Inez directs the model or the subject and I always shoot from a different angle, capturing the same moment from another perspective. Mine see to be more unfinished pictures. Theyre more voyeuistic; they show a completely different sensibility. The people in Inez’s pictures are always looking into the camera. They’re aware of the picture being taken at that moment. Inez is like the lead singer. We always say that it’s like a band, we play together and she’s the voice of our band…But when we’re actually shooting we go with the flow, follow our intuition and feed on the exchange between model and photographer..”
On the beginnings of their work and development:
“OZ: Your idea was to develop work that had both an artistic side and a commercial side?
VM: Yes, we always said to ourselves that our pictures should be in magazines and also in galleries. We were young and we had very strong opinions, and in a way we were also quite cynical. Which I think is good. We thought we knew everything. I think at first people really had a hard time understanding what we were doing. They thought we were making a parody of fashion. But we loved fashion yet we also wanted to be critical.
OZ: I think your work has a parody side to it, but also a dark side. Something that you don’t understand immediately. It’s funny how you started experimenting with digital possibilities and then later you went into more classical photography.
VM: It was a logical first step for us to do everything on computer and then manipulate everything. But at some point you see that people are following you, doing the same thing and making it worse- over-retouching and making it really bad. So you get the impulse, “Let’s destroy what we’re doing.” We started making rough collages on the computer. Putting a horse face where it doesn’t belong, on top of the image. Or leaving part of the image as a rough cut out. Not making everything perfect and over-retouched because we didnt think that was really interesting. After that we moved to classical photography because it’s so iconic and direct.
OZ: And beautiful.” page. 92
Presented by Ecstatic Peace Library at Partners & Spade
Last Sunday evening, Ecstatic Peace Library held a pop up event at Partners & Spade on 40 Great Jones Street. The brainchild of Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti, Partners & Spade is half curiosity shop/half design consultancy, providing a perfect venue for Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz’s Ecstatic Peace Library publishing imprint. This was the final event in a series of promotional nights for EPL, promoting Kim Gordon’s latest book, Kim Gordon, The Noise Paintings. I narrowly missed Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore performing as Mirror/Dash the night before at another event space Thirty Days NY. Fortunately I captured Thurston & Daniel performing which you can watch at the very end of this post.
Ecstatic Peace Library Newspaper
Multicolored Harp
Reading (Over the shoulder)
Partners & Spade
If you don't know, just ax somebody
Absinthe Punch by Eva
I am adding some stills from the performance, in case you can’t sit through the whole thing (it’s 20 mins). But it’s seriously awesome so why wouldn’t you? Many thanks to Partners & Spade and Ecstatic Peace Library for their generosity in providing a wonderful end to the weekend.
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Documents of Transient Art
A studio visit from graphic designers and proprietors of Specter Press — based in Seoul, Korea.
Sulki & Min Choi stopped by to show us some of their work and talk about their recent activities. It was really great to meet graphic designers who are operating with such a strong conceptual approach to their work. They also shared a range of books and posters from their imprint Spector Press. Both are Yale MFA Grads and were researchers at JVE prior to establishing a permanent practice in Korea. They are really great people and great designers so check them out and order some books.
Min & Sulki
Many nice things to look at
Sasa 44: Annual Report 2006
Cover Sasa 44: Annual Report 2006
Perspecta 35, Excercise in Modern Construction part 3, Our Spot: New York
1/4: Oriëntatie
SKMoMA Highlights — a ghost publication that mirrors the form of a true MoMA Highlights catalog. Featuring the works of Korean contemporary artists, for the fictitious South Korea Museum of Modern Art.
SKMoMA Highlights — spreads mirroring each other
Catalog for Hyungkoo Lee’s solo exhibition at the Korean Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, 2007.
stills from slideshow
stills from slideshow
stills from slideshow
stills from slideshow
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thanks to sulki & min