Wafrica, Serge Mouangue, 2008; BMW Art Car, Esther Mahlango, 1991
If you are lucky enough to be in in New York before the 15th May, don’t miss the truly inspiring exhibition on at the Museum of Art and Design, The Global Africa Project. If you can’t head out to the Big Apple, then check out their website for comprehensive images and information.
Il corpo Cameleon; il corpo Storico; il corpo cittÃ, Polimoda
During the Pitti fashion fairs in Florence, January 11-14 2011, Polimoda is staging a video-photography exhibition of future fashion concepts by students in the Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing departments.
Alter Nature: We Can; Shiki 1, Azuma Makoto
Alter Nature is a series of four exhibitions, a symposium and other events, held in Hasselt Belgium on the theme of bioscience and art. Working across galleries Z33 and CIAP, plus the Hasselt Fashion Museum.
The exhibition shows that although mankind has been changing nature for its own ends since the dawn of time, in the last decade developments in bioscience and biotechnology have given this evolution new momentum. Z33 hosts two of the exhibitions, starting with Alter Nature: We Can, curated by Karen Verschooren which looks the manipulation of fauna and flora in nature through the work of over twenty international artists.
The Shed, Design Event
As part of Design Event 2010, The Shed opened up its doors to its 36 creative businesses, wanting to encourage members of the general public, other fellow designers and organisations to engage and discover the talent based with this incubation project. Presenting ‘Lost In Translation’ a small exhibition by 12 of The Shed’s businesses, looking at the absences and silences of conversation, stories and literal and literary approaches to design across a their range of disciplines including installation, ceramics, film and sculpture.
Billa Baldwin, Mr Hartnett, Suzy Del Campo
Calum Ross takes in the opening party for the Noughtie Nightlife photo retrospective at Rich Mix in East London.
freshfacedandwildeyed2010; Özant Kamaci, Pause, January 2009
The Photographers’ Gallery holds an annual exhibition of photography by UK graduate and postgraduate students who have completed their studies in the past year. This year’s exhibition starts May 14 2010.
Amnesty International, Quelque part partout, 1978; Chaque jour 15 personnes sont victimes du non respect des feux, Sécurité routière, 2002
La Publicité au secours des grandes causes – Advertising coming to the help of worthy causes – at Paris’s Les Arts Décoratifs shows a major collection of posters and films made for French NGOs and institutions to get across their messages.
The 300 posters and films in this exhibition show how how advertising has helped raise and shape public awareness, from the late 60s through to today. The exhibition covers six major themes: human rights, humanitarian aid, ecology, health, social exclusion and social aid, education and civic awareness.
Syndrome Stendhal, Josine Visser
During Paris Fashion Week the latest ArtEZ Fashion Masters graduates took over the Galerie Joseph in the city’s 3rd arrondissement for two days to showcase a new form of presentation featuring photography and multimedia.
Edenias, Rebecca Litchfield; LCF MA Fashion Photography
Last week saw the MA fashion photography from the London College of Fashion on show at the city’s Mall Gallery. The work of the graduates appeared around the room and in the pages of a giant book, that needed two people to turn the pages.
Ilse Bing Danseuse-Cancan, Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1931;Voila, May 4, 1935; Hans Bellmer La Poupée (The Doll), 1934
New York’s International Center of Photography is currently showing Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris; an exhibition that explores the impact of Surrealism on photographers working in Paris in the 20s and 30s.
