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Naoko Yoshimoto | conceptual clothing sculptures

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 Silent voice | 300×240×45cm | used white clothes

 

Japanese artist Naoko Yoshimoto began her career studying psychology at the University of Kyoto but moved gradually after it more into art. Her main medium are clothing and textiles. She creates very interesting and strong conceptual sculptures and installations made from garments like for example dresses, tops and trousers.

In the early days as she began collecting these clothes she saw them a bit as symbols of the people living in the places where she met the clothes. She imagined the histories behind them. Touching these used garments, gave her the idea she gained a feeling for the memories of these people and their everyday lives which the garments used to touch, a feeling that could not be communicated by words. But after while this gave her an uneasy feeling as she realized that she could imagine the people and the everyday life of the place she visited, but that she could not directly touch them. There was a feeling of distance and uncertainties. These thoughts had great influence of her current work and made sure she shifted even more towards a conceptual approach in her work.

In some of her current works like for example ” silent voice”, “shadow portrait” or “history behind clothes” she removes the colour of garments by bleaching or uses white coloured garments and compresses and condenses these “white shaded” clothes and transforms them into building blocks for her conceptual sculptures. These works depict conventional as well as more abstract objects and give an interesting social commentary which is created by the medium and its carrier.

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | designer fashion blog | Naoko Yoshimoto | clothing sculptures

 White coffin | 205×85×65cm | used white shirts

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | designer fashion blog | Naoko Yoshimoto | clothing sculptures

 White coffin detail | 205×85×65cm | used white shirts

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | designer fashion blog | Naoko Yoshimoto | clothing sculptures

 Shadow portrait | 40×640×12cm | used white clothes

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | designer fashion blog | Naoko Yoshimoto | clothing sculptures

 White coffin | 205×85×65cm | used white shirts

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | designer fashion blog | Naoko Yoshimoto | clothing sculptures

Shadow portrait | 40×640×12cm | used white clothes

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | designer fashion blog | Naoko Yoshimoto | clothing sculptures

 White coffin | 150×130×180cm | used white shirts

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | designer fashion blog | Naoko Yoshimoto | clothing sculptures

 River of oblivion detail | bleached clothes

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | designer fashion blog | Naoko Yoshimoto | clothing sculptures

 River of oblivion | bleached clothes

 

Photos Naoko Yoshimoto | conceptual clothing sculptures

Tobias Rehberger – flat: Posters, Poster Concepts and Wall Paintings

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Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: Tobias Rehberger Exhibition

The conceptual artist Tobias Rehberger is generally known for his 3D installations, this exhibition of 2D work marks a departure for the German artist; it is the first time he shows his wall-based posters and paintings at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst In Frankfurt, The city where he is also professor of sculpture at the Städelschule.

The selection of works in the exhibition will range from posters the artist designed of his own accord for products of personal significance to him – whether sportswear manufacturer “Adidas” or the farmer “Bauer Mann” in the Frankfurt Kleinmarkthalle – to his wild postings as integral elements of exhibitions.

Rehberger has replicated the logos exactly rather than subverting them by altering the iconography of the brands or products. He takes the view that these images stand as his own works of art simply because he has chosen to create them and believes that it is his aesthetic choice, and the subsequent materialisation and destination of the work, that prevents the posters from being viewed as marketing or advertising. This idea is one that Rehberger has explored repeatedly, notably with his installation of a working cafeteria as his contribution to the 2009 Venice Biennale, which won the Golden Lion Award.

As with these posters, he was posing the question “what can be considered art and why?”

The exhibition in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt will run until the 2nd of May, 2010

 

 

Photo top: Tobias Rehberger, “Was Du liebst, bringt dich auch zum Weinen”, Detail Mixed Media, Venice Biennale 2009 Courtesy: Galerie Neugerriemschneider Berlin; shot by: Wolfgang Günzel, Offenbach | Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt

Pipilotti Rist: A la belle étoile

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Warmenhoven & Venderbos designers fashion blog: Pipilotti Rist: A la belle etoile

“A la belle étoile” is a huge and impressive audio/visual projection installation by Swiss conceptual artist Pipilotti Rist. In contrast to many other conceptual artists, her colourful and musical works transmit a sense of happiness and simplicity.

“A la belle étoile” was screened in 2007 on the slight slope of the Piazza in front of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Currently it is part of the exhibition titled: elles@centrepompidou, in which the selection of the “the Centre Pompidou’s collections is focused on female artists from the 20Th century to the present day.” The exhibition will run until February 2011.

The below video gives an impression of Pipilotti Rist’s “A la belle etoile”.

 

Warmenhoven & Venderbos designers fashion blog: Pipilotti Rist: A la belle etoile

 

Pipilotti Rist | Photos: Georges Meguerditchian | Video: reel aesthete Vimeo channel | Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective

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The NRW Forum in Düsseldorf has organised a major retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs. Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) dominated photography in the late twentieth century and paved the way for the recognition of photography as an art form in its own right. Both during his life and since his death, Mapplethorpe’s work has been the subject of much controversial debate.His radical portrayals of nudity and sexual acts were always controversial; some of his photos caused a stir and frequently resulted in protests outside exhibitions. Above all, Robert Mapplethorpe developed his own photographic style that paid homage to the ideals of perfection and form.

 ‘I look for the perfection of form. I do this in portraits, in photographs of penises, in photographs of flowers.’

 The fact that the photographs are displayed on snow-white walls underpins this view of his work and consciously moves away from the coy Boudoir-style presentation of his photographs on lilac and purple walls a dominant feature of exhibitions of Mapplethorpe’s work for many years and opens up the work to a more concept-based, minimalist view of things.

The exhibition in the NRW Forum covers all areas of Mapplethorpe’s work, from portraits and self-portraits, homosexuality, nudes, flowers and the quintessence of his oeuvre the photographic images of sculptures, including early Polaroids. It will run until 15 August 2010.

 

Trailer of the film Robert Mapplethorpe “Shapes”  by Ralph Goertz | IKS-Medienarchiv

 

 

Top photo: Robert Mapplethorpe at his Whitney Retrospective 1988 by Jonathan Becker, Vanity Fair

Photos by Robert Mapplethorpe | Top Photo by Jonathan Becker, Vanity Fair | Video by Ralph Goertz