Opinion | $686

I just got sent an e-mail about this from Vogue,,,,,,,,,

I find it utterly amazing.
I have to say well done to Marc Jacobs for his reaction first time around, which is detailed below, and leaves me eagerly awaiting to see if the same action is going to be taken this time around! 

I think most of you will already know what I am showing you, but those of you who don't....

"MARC JACOBS has been the target of another graffiti attack, this time covering his Paris store. French graffiti artist Kidult tagged the shop windows with "$686" in neon green paint.
The numbers reference the first run-in that the label had with Kidult in May last year, after he sprayed Jacobs' New York Soho store with the word "Art" in bright pink. Not one to miss out on an opportunity, and himself a huge art fan, Jacobs printed a photograph of the work onto a line of T-shirts and sold them for $686 (£446). Kidult's latest efforts are his personal way of fighting back against the designer - who the artist describes as a "capitalist thief".
"680? 689?...686?! How much are you going to sell this for? #kidultarmyparis #thisisnotart," Kidult tweeted about his work." http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2013/06/26/marc-jacobs-paris-graffiti-attack-by-kidult

Heres the T-Shirt,

Kidult has to be the worlds biggest hater of fashion and as you can see on his website here is is very erm,,,, how do you put it... evident?
I must admit as much as I adore Marc Jacobs, my inner appreciation of street art and graffiti (which has been fully evident here on my blog) has led me to admire Kidults perseverance.

 "Kidult is the problem child who paints in a righteous, primary and no-limit way with the use of an extinguisher.
I try to remain the 14 years old kid who paints his truth in a brutal and free-minded way. I aspire to keep the creativity, the honesty and the impertinence of a kid in spite of my age to send a disturbing message in a simple, efficient and no polishing way.
Societies and cities are always evolving and as a graffiti artist, I got to adapt myself to these evolutions of my surroundings. Efficiency is one of the most important traits in a graffiti artist’s skills. It starts from a concern that I have and I send a message to everybody by intellectualizing my reasoning and finding the best spot to be the most efficient.
no matter what other people are doing or what is considered “in”, and bring something new, ugly or not."

“All these retail outlets have once used graffiti as a commercial tool to get more money and be “cool” without knowing anything about the culture.

I didn’t simply say “hello” to them. If they really like graffiti, I just gave them what they love.”

www.kidultone.com

 

What do you think about all this........ should Marc Jacobs hit back with another t-shirt?
Possibly something more elaborate....
Or will this need to be settled on a more serious level?

I also would like to hear what you guys make of Kidults beliefs and ideologies?

And so since I wrote this post I have found this out on Twitter!

Hooray,,,, for it turns out Marc Jacobs also has rather good perseverance in dealing with Kidult.........

p.s. If you read all that,,,, you must be wondering the same thing as me.... where does this leave Eine?
(If you don't know what I'm talking about have a quick look here)

Style | ACNE Studios - Taurus glittered jelly and leather pumps

These Acne shoes are just incredible.

Happy Tuesday 30th April and *also* Happy 21st Birthday to me :)

On Sunday I took a trip to The Other Art Fair as you would have seen in my last post, and afterwords we took a trip to Oxford Street.
Firstly, I saw these incredible shoes in red satin and trotted around wearing them in +Selfridges for a while and completely adored them.

They are ridiculously comfortable, clarified by +NET-A-PORTER 'A comfortable statement shoe is hard to find and +Acne Studios has you covered with these 'Taurus' pumps.'

But then in +Liberty London were the black leather ones. Simply in LOVE.
Also rather superstitiously called 'Taurus Satin'.

They were gaining quite a lot of attention on the stand in Liberty and I managed to get the last pair in my size!
They also seem to be sold out pretty much everywhere, but you can find some sizes here on Net-A-Porter.
There are also some other incredible variations on the Acne Website, www.acnestudios.com
 and you can spot them all in action below on the video of Acne S/S13 runway show! Enjoy X

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Project | Textures of the City.

Firstly I would just like to point out that this post is a continuation of my post, Project | Question Everything. Since that last post I have been working on making project more focused. As I mentioned in that post I was looking at street culture and its meaning. I wanted to somehow use our project 'Future Fashion' in order to portray an idea that as fashion evolves, people will want (as I explained with the Punk Revolution) clothing that is self-expressive and reacts to its environment.

We have had our exhibition showing our 'body pieces' that we developed from triangular pieces, which you can see here, Δ . I was/am so disastrously unhappy with mine (hence why I haven't shown you all!), I am prepared to hide it away forever (burn it after the year is over / chuck it under a train / send it into space / drown it in a river) and I want to create a much better constructed and executed piece piece in the next two weeks while we are on holidays!
(Most definitely NOT using plastic. Plastic is a Bitch.)

In the pictures above you can see the four mood-boards (you can click them to make them bigger) we were asked to create in order to easily show the aesthetic influences of our ideas. I was having massive difficulty focusing my ideas and these boards have slightly helped me in trying to focus on some clear aesthetic points. But I am still massively underwhelmed with my creative output, lets just say...... I have a lot of work to do! 

POP | James Rosenquist

So, after the epic magnificence of a visit to Tates Lichtenstein retrospective I began to think about what other artist would I love to see such a grand exhibition. My first thought was Andy Warhol, his work has had a massive influence on my turn to textile printing as apposed to fashion design ( and I admit to many thoughts of wanting to turn my hand to fine art printing). Perhaps another exhibition from Banksy would be an amazing treat? Although I do gain much more pleasure out of hunting Banksys stencils out on the street rather than seeing it on the white walls of a gallery. But, then I came to the conclusion that I have seen a pretty vast number of Warhols, perhaps some exposure to another big pop art player is in need. And so, my thoughts went towards James Rosenquist, I believe I have seen one or two of his paintings during my life so far, and was first introduced to his work during an art history class. So, here is my visual homage to Rosenquist, in the hoping that a magnificent London exhibition is in his future plans!

Time stops the face continues, 2008.

Speed of Light Illustrated, 2008.

The Stowaway Peers Out at the Speed of Light - Speed of Light. 2000.

Campaign. 1965. Lithograph

Untitled, 1980

I Love You with My Ford, 1961.

Landmark (Detail), 1965.

 

Berlin | Tacheles "The theft of a work of art"

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Like most people interested in street art I have always been incredibly interested in visiting Tacheles, and when I booked up to visit Berlin it was one of the first places I began to research. I have seen pictures and videos of Banksy's Flower Bomber stencil, Robbo's piece for Yelling To The Sky and loads of pictures on the web showing some of the amazing exterior and interior works of art.  And it looked like a truly inspiring, incredible place.

But then I found this out;

"Berlin's iconic Tacheles arts centre has been cleared after decades of bureaucratic wrangling over the debt-ridden building. The massive warehouse in the Mitte district was occupied by artists after the fall of the Berlin Wall and became a major tourist attraction.

But the dilapidated complex has been hampering local redevelopment plans. HSH Nordbank, currently in charge of the Tacheles, requested the clearance as part of plans to sell the centre. Situated in what used to be East Berlin, when the city was divided by the wall, the building stretches over 1250sq m (13,455sq ft) and houses a theatre, cinema, restaurant, as well as a maze of galleries and workshop areas.

Before police arrived, two black-clad artists played a funeral march but bailiffs were able to clear the building without resistance, the AFP news agency reported. "This is the theft of a work of art, supported by the police," Tacheles spokesman Martin Reiter told a small gathering of supporters and journalists outside the building. The five-storey building has experienced a tumultuous history since it first opened its doors as an elegant shopping arcade in 1909.

When the department store went bankrupt in 1928, it was sold to the German engineering company AEG. Shortly afterwards, the Nazi Party took over the building and turned it into a central administrative office. Prisoners of war are said to have been held in the attic for interrogation purposes during World War II. Decades later, East German authorities tore down large chunks of the building in the 1980s but were unable to start new construction due to a lack of funds.

One part of the original Tacheles complex remained and was taken over by squatting artists who had resisted eviction efforts - until now. The address quickly became a thriving hub of alternative culture, which drew stars like choreographer Sasha Waltz and musician Peaches who regularly rehearsed and performed there. For sustainable urban planning expert Dr Daniel Dahm, this "artistic colonisation" of East Berlin's empty spaces is a healthy development.

"There are approximately 200,000 empty houses and flats in East Berlin as a result of German reunification," he said. "The Arthouse Tacheles is an example of self-motivated work by citizens who decided to proactively stand up for their ideals." Taken from the BBC News

What a complete disaster! 

But when we were nearby, we paid a visit to see what had been left behind, and the exterior of the building has a few newer editions but really only showed worn traces of its past life. We had a look in to see some abandoned materials including a range of silkscreens. The original entrance to Tacheles was closed, but there was some stuff at the back of the building, which you had to wall through the car park to gain access to and you can see it in the pictures below. It was also a shame that the Banksy and Robbo pieces were only visible from a distance through the wire railings, although it you were desperate to have a better view they would be pretty easy, given appropriate footwear and clothes to climb over.  

I would have loved, much like the Ice Factory from a previous post (Take Three Berlin | The Eisabrik), to have an exploration of the building!

Banksy's Flower Bomber stencil and Robbo's piece for Yelling To The Sky

You can see some interesting pictures of the buildings interior here

And, as ever I urge you to share what YOU think!? Do you agree do you diss-agree with Tacheles as an  "artistic colonisation", and in your opinion was the eviction fair on the community and on the artists? 

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Berlin | The East Side Gallery

"The East Side Gallery is an international memorial for freedom. It is a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall located near the centre of Berlin on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.

The Gallery consists of 105 paintings by artists from all over the world, painted in 1990 on the east side of the Berlin Wall. The East Side Gallery was founded following the successful merger of the two German artists' associations VBK and BBK. The founding members were the speche of the Federal Association of Artists BBK Bodo Sperling, Barbara Greul Aschanta, Jörg Kubitzki and David Monti.[1][2]

It is possibly the largest and longest-lasting open air gallery in the world. Paintings from Jürgen Grosse alias INDIANO, Dimitri Vrubel, Siegfrid Santoni, Bodo Sperling, Kasra Alavi, Kani Alavi, Jim Avignon, Thierry Noir, Ingeborg Blumenthal, Ignasi Blanch i Gisbert, Kim Prisu, Hervé Morlay VR and others have followed."

To continue from my previous post Take Three Berlin | The Eisfabrik, we ventured over Schillingbrücke Bridge to check out the East Side Gallery which is located along Mühlenstraße. As described in our handbook we were very much looking forward to walking in the sand behind the wall and grabbing a refreshment from one of the beach huts and also checking out the happenings of Yaam. But, I guess it must all also be pretty seasonal and if your heading there in the colder months, don't expect much. 

But the art on the wall was really interesting and it is definitely worth having a look on the beach side of the wall for a lot more art and graffiti (and in my mind slightly rougher and much more interesting) on Wikipedia they have also referred  to some of the 'art' on the main side facing the road to have been "badly damaged by erosion, graffiti, and vandalism", and the East Side Gallery website states, "The Artist Initiative East Side Gallery e.V. for several years has been making an effort to preserve the East Side Gallery. The colorful images created in 1989/90 are today hardly recognizable. The paintings and the wall are in an extremely deteriorated condition through weather, air pollution, vandalistic collectors, and simply time. Yet there still is hope for the now gray East Side Gallery." 

First are the pictures taken of the side of the wall at the road and second are the pictures from the side facing the river,,,,

Andrej Smolak - Untitled

Mary Mackey - Tolerance

Susanne Kujappu-Jellinek - Curriculum Vitae

Hanns-Peter Dürhager, Ralf Jesse - The Weary Death (Detail)

Peter Russel - heaven and Viewfinder 

Margaret Hunter, Peter Russell - Untitled

Thierry Noir - A Tribute to the Young Generation

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