South Koren artist Yeonju Sung designs edible dresses crafting natural ingredients into spectacular silhouettes.
In her astounding series Wearable Food the artist knocks down the core meaning of clothing which is plainly the ability to be worn by creating pictures of unwearable garments made out of short-lived foodstuffs.
One of the most impressive video installations I have ever seen until now was showcased last night in New York.
The Everchanging Face Of Beauty is a project for W magazine, curated by Solve Sundsbo. What you don't know is that behind this indescribably beautiful work is a Greek artist and retoucher whose creative imput was enormous. His name is Jim Alexandrou and I feel honored to have presviously hosted him in an interview on my blog and of course I am incredibly happy for this new project.
I am not fond of shoe makers who exaggerate in terms of design but this capsule collection by japanese designer Masaya Kushino is just incredible.
One of the most renowned Swedish photographers worldwide, Anders Petersen, was invited by the New School Athens, to open a series of workshops in the Greek capital applied to creatives and professionals. I attended the last day of Mr. Petersen's presentation at the space of Ion Tsakonas with many international attendees having joined it. A lifetime experience, both the lecture and the fact that Petersen posed for me in the end.
Few weeks before the new show with David Koma whose presentation moves from London to the Paris Fashion Week, designer Sarah Angold took part to the Opera Preview, an event hosted at the English National Opera, with mini opera performances, audience sing along opera and hair/makeup/dress in a full operatic gear. She sent me some exclusive backstage photos of her for the eternal optimist.
The prestigious London and New York design agency Sheridan&Co will be hosting a series of creative shows in its London space this year. The first event scheduled to take place during London Fashion Week will show showcase the work of Hormazd Narielwalla. The exhibition entitled Dead Man's Patterns-Memento Mori features 7 three-dimensional sculls from a limited edition 50 accompanied by 7 two-dimensional artworks from the edition of 50, all exploring the remembrances of death.
I asked the artist to comment on his forthcoming show and he said "It is very exciting as my collages have moved into three-dimensional form and I have cut, stapled and pasted the dead men's patterns to create three-dimensional sculls. From this process of my imprint, I was left with remnants, rather precious to me. This prompted me to also create two-dimensional collages artworks where the awkward cut-out pattern pieces are pasted to create an outline of a scull."
As for the bespoke Savile Row patterns the artist says "They are divorced from the tailoring context. However they remain in the context of death".
The Ballet Du Grand Theatre de Geneve asked Greek choreographer Antonis Foniadakis to produce and present the Glory show, which opens tomorrow at BFM theatre of the Swiss capital. Designer Tassos Sofroniou sent me some pre-show images of the rehearsals.
I asked the Greek designer to comment on how he worked on this big project and he responded "I designed the costumes with an intense minimalistic baroque mood. Some of them are very long on the scene and others are light, so as to highlight the complex movement of the choreography without covering the dancers" and added "In several scenes of the show the lights function as extra elements that change the line of the costumes, hence creating new extreme baroque silhouettes".
Below are two sketches of the costumes that Tassos Sofroniou sent me exclusively for the eternal optimist
Choreography/scenography/production: Antonis Foniadakis,Music: Georg Friedrich Haendel, Composition/Musical Arrangement/Scenography assistant: Julien Tarride, Costumes: Tassos Sofroniou,Lighting: Mikki Kuntu,Assistant choreographer:Omar Gordon
Artist Vaggelis Lioudakis participated in "Art in the windows", a project hosted by the Municipality of Athens and the Athens School of Fine Arts. He presented two installations in two different stores in downtown Athens that were showcased until the 7th of January. For his "Man made of toys" (photo above) and "Luggage" (photo below) artworks, Lioudakis was recently granted with the first award by the Mayor of Athens Mr Kaminis.
ROOMS 2012 exhibition opened last night at St George Lycabettus hotel of Athens and I took some additional photos of the most interesting participants of the annual art event hosted by Kappatos gallery, starting with one beautiful installation by Nicoletta Antonakou, Virginia Mastroyannaki and Anastasis Stratakis.
Another interesting installation that cought my attention was the one by Nicky Tsachra and Agathi Tsoroni. (below)
I was very happy to see Efi Spyrou's new work of art as part of the exhibition. I always love what she does.
Last but not least, It felt weird in an interesting way to enter the room of Thanos Kyriakidis, curated by Alexios Papazacharias. The installation is entitled La Trophee de la Gloire.
Christina Kalli was invited at the press day at St George Lycabettus earlier today and gives us a sneak preview of some of the installations in the Rooms 2012 exhibition opening tomorrow.
A year of ritual repetition reached the limits of an almost sadomasochistic obsession but had as a result an astonishing artwork conceptualized by Ioanna Kasiki (photos above). A dress made by pins (weights almost 100kg) neutralizes individual elements and ends up exceeding and transmuting the material. A sculptural gown that symbolizes women's inner self, an icon of suffering, violence,unspeakable pain and unbearable loneliness hidden beneath.
"Sleep between my words, dream within my dreams.." Ianthi Aggelioglou is whispering her ineer thoughts, sharing her unspeakable truths with her installation. The bed linens of the hotel room function as the blank pages of a secret diary and visitors will be encouraged to write their own confessions on the transparent walls surrounding her bed.(above)
WAR PLAYS III was part of a project held in Rethimno couple of months ago. After being banned and excluded, artist Stella Drigiannaki installed it on the balcony of her private residence and hours later it was censored by the religious leader of the city. Religion comforts people, belief systems, world views, spiritual symbols, moral values and holy scriptures promise to save the world. But humanity still slaughters her babies, destroys vulgarly the future. The truth lies beneath.
