Diary 080210

C-AW1011 design diary photo entry: Robe Manteau

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary 080210

Erika Hock conceptual objects and pressure

“Weil ich es sage” (Because I say so) is an installation by the German artist Erika Hock. The title of the work reminds one of the conceptual writing piece by Robert Rauschenberg ( This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so). But ,looking at the other works and their titles in the series (how to love a bomb, gebeugt, es musste sein), Hock links more to the fact that she is challenging the resistance of a “strong, seemingly unmovable obstacle or barrier”,physical as well as mental. She increases the pressure with a belt on a “virtual” solid wall or block to a point where it  bends and breaks, she drops a large solid cube so it damages by the impact but also under its own weight. The rigidness object reveals its weakness, its smooth skin cracks, it’s authority flows away and it becomes fragile. The clean and sharp geometry gets affected, distorted and damaged. Forged by pressure, a concept which also can be seen in and linked to the Imploded Sculptures by Ewerdt Hilgemann. In these sculptures Hilgemann used also external pressure, in his case created by a vacuum inside the object, to reshape large stainless steel geometric bodies.  But where Hilgemann uses these real rigid materials for his objects, Hock basically creates the illusion of a rigid objects by using wood, gypsum cardboard, latex foam and adhesive polishing plaster. This fact adds yet another layer to the conceptual content and meaning of her works.

Hock has made a strong statement with this series of interesting conceptual pieces.

Photos: Erika Hock | Conceptual Installations

Body moulds & cloned in black

Body moulds and cloned in black. Conceptual objects: exact tailored copies of the bodies of Warmenhoven & Venderbos translated into a rubber coated fabric and black leather.

From the WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS archives | Body moulds

Video Interview with Suzy Menkes on Fashion Blogs

An interesting Video interview by Mary Sherpe that was presented at the Premium Exhibitions in Berlin about Fashion blogs versus the traditional Fashion Media. Suzy Menkes, the Head fashion Editor at the Herald Tribune as well as Yvan Rodic from Facehunter, Jennie Tamm from The Coveted, Julia Knolle and Jessi Weiss both from LesMads where asked to share their opinion on fashion bloggers and  fashion media.

Video : Mary Sherpe | Lois Kainhuber | Vimeo

W&V Spring summer 2010 campaign online

The Warmenhoven & Venderbos website has been updated with the online spring/summer 2010 campaign which is featuring  fragments from the S/S 10 collection.

“Some conceptual keywords and key-phrases for the collection are: Imprints of skin , imprints of garments , imprints of sizes. Distortion of or between translation results in distortion between the layers. Meaning and shape are redefined. Shape follows individual body and mind.”

Find all campaign images here on the W&V website. 

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Website: campaign S/S 10