The Fondazione Prada is presenting its new exhibition space in Venice, the Ca' Corner de la Regina, a historic palazzo on the Grand Canal. From June the 4th the palazzo will open with an exhibition documenting the multiple activity of the Fondazione Prada, which since its founding in 1993 by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli has been a venue for the promotion of contemporary art.
The Fondazione Prada_Ca' Corner de la Regina exhibition will feature a wide range of works and installations collected over the years, with the collaboration of such museums as the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, the Fondazione Musei Civici of Venice, the Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Islamic Art of Doha.
21_21 Design Sight museum, the temple of contemporary design in the heart of Tokyo, always promoting the motto that “art and design are food for the soul”, is extending one of its most inspiring exhibitions by July the 18th.
Ettore Sottsass "Kachina" 2005-10
The exhibition features the work of two of the most important designers worldwide, Japan’s leading designer Shiro Kuramata and master of Italian design Ettore Sottsass. The deep friendship and collaboration of the two designers started in 1981 with the Memphis collective that brought groundbreaking impact into the design world, mixing two different elements: Kuramata’s Japanese aesthetics and Sottsass’ Western European ideology. The visitors are able to enjoy 65 pieces of Kuramata’s work after 1980 and 20 never-seen-before art pieces Kachina from Ettore Sottsass drawings created in his final years.
Japanese brand Yuge is featuring a simple, but wearable and feminine style for the upcoming season. Although the collection is quite small it consists of some really strong overalls, dresses with long or short hemline, pants and a couple of cool jackets. As for the colours, black and grey are a beautiful base for all the purples, blues and big patterns that are popping out.
Bogdan Zwir is an experimental photographer and visual artist from St. Petersburg Russia. His work is much inspired by his hometown, but features many Renaissance and Baroque characteristics as well, sometimes with a futuristic touch with dark, dreamy themes and absurd stories.
Bogdan whose pictures are a unique mix of photography and painting, is considered one of the most inspiring new surreal artists, has received several prizes, has been featured in high-art global editions and has taken part in great exhibitions worldwide.
Mater Suspiria Vision's Seduction of Armageddon Witches is coming out on early June and is accompanied by this awsome video, directed by Spanish video artist Diego Barrera. Inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Matthew Barney in combination with Catholic Church elements, this conceptual film is featuring all those magical spanish and mexican, with a gothic twist characteristics that make us almost hypnotized.
The Pappbrille placebo glasses are back with their second version! Made of cardboard and scrap paper in the craziest colours, these little funky items have already become #1 favourite fashion accessories.
The new collection is adorned with fine lace around the lens that offers absolute visibility in a mysterious style, available in 6 different designs for male and female.
Fashion stylist, journalist, art director and editor of LOVE Magazine, Katie Grand has just launched her online portfolio named Katiegrand.com. With a huge experience in fashion and service in the biggest magazines and Fashion Houses like Vogue, Self Service, POP, Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu to name a few, Grand has the biggest and most inspiring portfolio you have seen.
So, fashion is going animated..Here Tikaf Viper's Second Life - inspired animated short film for Finesmith Designs jewellery collection. Beautiful girls, extravagant designs, special scenery, what else?
Daria Endresen is a young photographer, model and digital artist from Oslo, Norway. Her images, mostly autoportraits, are true little diamonds, a fresh new suggestion on digital art, with great photoshop techniques, neutral light and cyber-like, imaginary concept.
There is not much info about Daria’s bio, as she prefers to speak only through her work. When I asked her to tell me a few things about herself or her inspirations, she answered with this beautiful quote from the Antichrist movie:
“Oaktrees grow to be hundreds of years old. They only have to produce one single tree every hundred years in order to procreate…The acorns fell on the roof then too…they kept falling and falling… and dying and dying.. And I understood that everything that used to be beautiful about Eden was perhaps hideous…Now I could hear what I couldn’t hear before – the cry of all the things that are to die.”