LUCKY DIP: Edward Enninful: S/S 2013 THE EDIT

Spring is nearly upon us and to get us into the mood for flirty bare legs and peaking at boys over the top of our sunnies, I asked Edward Enninful to select his favourite eight shows of the Womens' Spring / Summer 2013 catwalk collections. This was an edit for the students of the school of Media and Communication at London College of Fashion who I am currently working with. He has selected two shows from each city and in addition offered brief captions to each.  

Edward is currently Style Director for W Magazine. At 18 he became the Fashion Director for i-D magazine making him the youngest ever fashion director for an international publication. Soon, he became known for his edgy elegance and much of his inspiration came from the streets: "We British have to customize our clothes, we have to be more creative, informing who you are—and I am still obsessed with the streets." He has also been a contributing editor to Italian and American Vogue, Creative Director for many brands including, Comme des Garçons, Christian Dior, Dolce and Gabbana, Celine, Lanvin,Mulberry, Giorgio Armani, Valentino, Jil Sander, Calvin Klein, Fendi, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Gap, Hugo Boss, Missoni   

  

Enjoy! CT

NEW YORK 

Marc Jacobs Perfect Graphic Play

7:12 


Proenza Schouler Triumph of Juxtaposition 

 

08.32

 

MILAN 

Marni Couture interpretated as Couture 

 09:32

 

Jil Sander Minimalism At it's Best

09:32

 

PARIS 

 

Miu Miu 1940s Glamour and Elegance

14:25

 

Balenciaga New Proportion Play

09:59

 

 

LONDON

Christopher Kane Modern Origami

04:17

  

Jonathan Saunders Futurism for Today

05:34

OPEN: Claes Oldenburg 30/10/12-17/02/13 @MuseoGuggenheim

Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties 

PRESS RELEASE COURTESY GUGGENHEIM BILBAO

With his humorous and profound depictions of everyday objects, Claes Oldenburg is one of the most important and popular artists since the late 1950s. Not only has he been a major figure in performance art, installation art and pop art, but he has also, through his partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, had a profound influence on public art with their monumental large-scale projects. One central point of reference in Oldenburg’s oeuvre is the industrially produced object—the object as commodity, which in continuous metamorphoses of media and form becomes a conveyer of culture and a symbol of the imagination, desires, and obsessions of the capitalist world.

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Claes Oldenburg talks about his beginnings as an artists, the early 60s in NY, at MUMOK Vienna on Feb 4, 2012. (duration 26.37)

Overview of the exhibition. (duration 2:53)

CLOSED: Fischli & Weiss 10/10/12-10/11-12 @spruethmagers, London

Walls, Corners, Tubes 


PRESS RELEASE COURTESY SPRUETH MAGERS

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present new works by Peter Fischli and David Weiss in London. The solo exhibition consists of sculptures created between 2010 and 2012 and are connected to the group of works in unfired clay which the artists displayed at the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011. 

In the current exhibition, Fischli and Weiss continue their ongoing observations of the unspectacular, everyday world with objects of unfired clay and black rubber. Their oeuvre consists of sculptures, photographs, films and videos, materials they have been working with since the early 1980s. For example, in the Rubber Sculptures (since 1986), the artists create true-to-life, rubber casts of natural objects and typical items of everyday use, while in the series Plötzlich diese Übersicht ("Suddenly This Overview," 1981) they imaginatively re-enact a revised history of humanity through several hundred sculptures of unfired clay. READ MORE

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The Point of Least Resistance, 1981 (duration, 3:29)

The Way Things Go, 1987 (duration 3:13)

TEXT INTERVIEWS

Frieze, 2006

Art review, 2009

BOOK

Afterall's book, Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go, Jeremy Millar 

OPEN: Leigh Bowery 19/10/12-03/02/13 @KunsthalleWien, Vienna

Xtravaganza Staging Leigh Bowery 

PRESS RELEASE COURTESY KUNSTHALLE WEIN

“I think of myself as a canvas,” Leigh Bowery once said about himself. This statement most probably provides the crucial formula for understanding the enfant terrible. Presenting himself in garish ways and stylizing himself as a walking work of art, Leigh Bowery stirred up London’s sub-culture of the 1980s. He skillfully staged his ample body with way-out fashion designs and materials such as paint, tulle, sequins, and satin. He was sure to draw applause on the international club culture catwalks, the everyday stage of the street, as well as in talk shows and at performance events in art galleries. Leigh Bowery’s eccentric presentations between performance, fashion, and music are still a source of inspiration for numerous artists, photographers, and film makers today.

Relying on a lot of humor and a bad taste attitude, Leigh Bowery tested individual expectations and social conventions: “I like doing the opposite of what people expect.” Holding a mirror up to the dictatorship of the conformists, he reveled in exposing them as other-directed.
Leigh Bowery was born in Sunshine, Australia in 1961 and died from AIDS in 1994.

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Sue Tilly talks to Gregor Muir at the ICA about Leigh Bowery (2011) - see her book on Bowery

The Legend of Leigh Bowery, a film by Charles Atlas (2004)

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Leigh Bowery with Bananarama, 1980(?) 

OPEN: Doug Aiken 15/09/12-13/01/13 Tate Liverpool

Doug Aiken, The Source

PRESS RELEASE COURTESY THE TATE

What is the source of a creative idea? Where does it start and how is it realised? Musician Jack White, British actress Tilda Swinton, artist Mike Kelley and many other celebrated cultural figures discuss the root of their creativity with leading contemporary artist Doug Aitken in Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken – The Source.

Aitken’s first public realm installation in the UK, The Source will showcase the artist’s pioneering approach to public art. Creative visionaries of all ages and backgrounds, working across different art forms, will consider two questions: where does the creative idea start and how is it realised? Participants sharing their thoughts with Aitken include David Adjaye, Devendra Banhart, Beck, Thomas Demand, Liz Diller, William Eggleston, Jacques Herzog, Mike Kelley, Lucky Dragons, James Murphy, Philippe Parreno, Richard Phillips, Jack Pierson, Stephen Shore, Paolo Soleri, Tilda Swinton, Ryan Trecartin and Jack White.

Aitken said:

This project is about the roots of creativity. Many of the people in this project are working in very diverse mediums and it’s that common thread that I’m interested in. The project is very much about the empowerment of the viewer. I want the installation at Tate Liverpool to be a destination: a place that one can go to and walk into this field of ideas. It will be a celebration of the power of the individual and the forging of a borderless new creative territory – I’m incredibly excited.

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Aiken gives as lecture on his work as part of the UC Berkeley, Art, Technology and Culture Lecture series. (Duration, 77.22) 

Art and Architecture In the Public Sphere of the City. Exploring art and architecture in the public sphere, and unorthodox ways of engaging the public. The panel featured Anne Pasternak, president and artistic director of Creative Time, New York; Los Angeles based installation artist Doug Aitken; and Peter Zellner, Los Angeles-based architect and founding principal of ZELLNERPLUS. (2009, duration, 2:17.52)

The Spectacle of Contemporary Perception, MoMa. (2004, duration 17:10)

http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/5/197

IN PRINT 

Doug Aiken in conversation with Ed Ruscha for Frieze, 2004

Interview by Dazed Digital, 2010