Diary 310111 | Autumn Winter 2011|2012

Posted on 31/01/2011 by W&V

Designer diary photo (snapshots) entry | Autumn Winter 2011|2012 collection

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary 310111

Diary 280710

Posted on 28/07/2010 by W&V

Designer diary photo (snapshots) entry.

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary 280710

Aras Karimi | light as a playful actor

Posted on 10/07/2010 by W&V

Aras Karimi, a Los Angeles based artist, looks at photography as a relationship between light and film: light as a playful actor and film as a serious recorder. He sees it as his job as a photographer to write the best scenario for this one-time instant play. Light itself, is the main subject of his works. He is interested in light as the story teller. In fact the scenes in his works are the medium to picture light, its mood on different surfaces and its personality in different spaces.

Photos Aras Karimi | Untitled works about light

Diary 200610

Posted on 21/06/2010 by W&V

Diary photo (snapshots) entry

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary 200610

Naoko Yoshimoto | conceptual clothing sculptures

Posted on 14/06/2010 by W&V

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.