Category Archives: Art
LINDA JACKSON
For over 40 years Linda Jackson pioneered a distinctly Australian approach to fashion design, by continually pushing the boundaries between fashion and art.Bush Couture is currently showing at the Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square in Melbourne, featuring her seminal pieces created between the period of the ’70s to ’90s. The exhibition showcases and incredible variety of Jackson’s works through garments, print work and video.
This is the first major solo exhibition of Jacksons work, and is definitely worth checking out.
26 Jan 2012 – 09 Sep 2012 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square Fashion & Textiles (Gallery 12) Level 2 – Free Entry
Joey Ahlbum
A week ago I revisited Charlie Ahearn’s 1983 masterpiece the infamous Wild Style. There are so many different characters, one liners and influential scenes in the film but the stand out sequence for me is most definitely the animated title sequence in the beginning. It actually took me over an hour to get past the five minute point of the film for all the freeze framing and scrolling back and forth, so after watching the film I decided to get my research on and find out who the animator was behind it.
Numerous searches led me to initially believe that it was solely animated by graffiti king Andrew ZEPHYR Witten, but knowing that the animation process is quite complex I suspected that there must have been an actual animator involved to hold it all together and bring it into reality, so I continued and found the name Joey Ahlbum, a New York City born and based animator. It was time to reach out and touch somebody. Here are some extracts from our recent email banter.
“Yes indeed I did animate the opening titles along with Zepher. Of course Charlie Ahern the director had a big part in the concept. I don’t really remember how I got to meet Charlie Ahern. I do remember that I showed him my thesis film from SVA and I think he liked the fact that it was colored with magic markers.”
“It’s been a few years but as I recall it was a real collaboration with Zephyr mostly doing key frames and then I would do inbetweens but some key frames as well and I think we all worked on coloring it in magic marker.”
“This was back in the days of film and cels so for some sections we would cut out the paper and mount it on a cel so we could have the same background. I remember for one section Zephyr did a whole bunch of random spray paint back grounds which we changed every four frames or so. Then I shot the sequence on an oxberry animation camera on film.”
“It was a blast and I got to meet the artists from the film like Fab Five Freddy and go to some great parties too.”
“Zephyr and I became friends and we worked on some other projects for MTV. Years later Charlie put out a coffee table book about Wild Style and Zephyr wrote a very nice blurb about me. I really appreciated that. Thanks for reaching out and saying hello.”
Joey is still living in New York City and is still very active in the animation world. Check out his website HERE.
Numerous searches led me to initially believe that it was solely animated by graffiti king Andrew ZEPHYR Witten, but knowing that the animation process is quite complex I suspected that there must have been an actual animator involved to hold it all together and bring it into reality, so I continued and found the name Joey Ahlbum, a New York City born and based animator. It was time to reach out and touch somebody. Here are some extracts from our recent email banter.“Yes indeed I did animate the opening titles along with Zepher. Of course Charlie Ahern the director had a big part in the concept. I don’t really remember how I got to meet Charlie Ahern. I do remember that I showed him my thesis film from SVA and I think he liked the fact that it was colored with magic markers.”
“It’s been a few years but as I recall it was a real collaboration with Zephyr mostly doing key frames and then I would do inbetweens but some key frames as well and I think we all worked on coloring it in magic marker.”
“This was back in the days of film and cels so for some sections we would cut out the paper and mount it on a cel so we could have the same background. I remember for one section Zephyr did a whole bunch of random spray paint back grounds which we changed every four frames or so. Then I shot the sequence on an oxberry animation camera on film.”“It was a blast and I got to meet the artists from the film like Fab Five Freddy and go to some great parties too.”
“Zephyr and I became friends and we worked on some other projects for MTV. Years later Charlie put out a coffee table book about Wild Style and Zephyr wrote a very nice blurb about me. I really appreciated that. Thanks for reaching out and saying hello.”Joey is still living in New York City and is still very active in the animation world. Check out his website HERE.
DFA PARTY SYDNEY
This Saturday March 10 James Murphy and Pat Mahoney will be curating the DFA after party in Sydney, serving up some of the best DFA records have to offer. YUM!Hot hot sets from:
-James Murphy & Pat Mahoney
-Juan Maclean
-Benoit & Sergio
-and sexy locals Softwar & Slowblow
Woo hooo
To grab tickets go here. More info go here.
DFA Party at the Metro Theatre Saturday 10th of March.
*95 Preview
*95 (In Paris, the Outsiders Are Officially In)
Comme des Garçons Spring / Summer 1995
Nick Relph
VNECK RASCLAAT JUMPER CASHMERE TING CARDIGAN, 2010
Collage
29 x 22 1/2 inches
Courtesy Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Nick Relph
Talking to the Main Road Slowly, 2010
Color Photograph
43 1/2 x 33 1/4 inches
Edition of 10
Courtesy Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Nick Relph
MONEY AR GO RUNN FOR EARS WITH NO Y, 2010
Collage
20 x 18 inches
Courtesy Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
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*95 (IN PARIS, THE OUTSIDERS ARE OFFICIALLY IN)
IAN HUNDLEY, MARC HUNDLEY, NICK RELPH
ORGANISED BY RAINOFF
07 MARCH – 31 MARCH, 2012
OPENING THURSDAY 08 MARCH, 6-8PM
NEON PARC
1/53 BOURKE ST.
MELBOURNE 3000
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly was one of the most stylish and remembered women of the 20th century, this was due to not only her incredible acting talent during the ‘Golden Age of film’ but also her title as Princess Grace of Mocaco as she married Prince Rainier in 1956 following a chance meeting in Cannes. Sadly, Kelly’s life was drawn to abrupt close following a car accident in 1982, which devastated Monaco and her fans.Grace Kelly: Style Icon, highlights the wardrobe of Grace Kelly and features dresses from films such as High Society and the gown she wore to accept her Oscar in 1955 for ‘The Country Girl,’ as well as gowns from her favourite couturiers Dior, Balenciaga, Givenchy and Yves Saint Lauren.
Sunday 11th March, 2012 – 17th June, 2012 at the Bendigo Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
A Darker Shade of Dark
A while back Radge interviewed his good mate Dan Boyd for us and they talked about bureaucracy, Patrick Swayze and how they met over a pallet of beer Dan won by getting a half-court shot in at an NBL game in Canberra. Dan has a new show opening at Roslyn Oxley Gallery on Thursday night in Sydney which by all accounts is very good.A Darker Shade of Dark
Roslyn Oxley Gallery 8 Soudan Lane (off Hampden Street) Paddington NSW 2021 Sydney Australia
Opens Thursday March 8, 2012 from 6pm-8pm Continues until March 31, 2012
*95 Curated by Rainoff
If you are in Melbourne next week, up the Paris end of the city, come to the opening of Rainoff’s show at Neon Parc.
*95 (IN PARIS, THE OUTSIDERS ARE OFFICIALLY IN)
IAN HUNDLEY, MARC HUNDLEY, NICK RELPH
ORGANISED BY RAINOFF
07 MARCH – 31 MARCH, 2012
OPENING THURSDAY 08 MARCH, 6-8PM
NEON PARC
1/53 BOURKE ST.
MELBOURNE 3000
Yo No Hablo Español
Next week sees the launch of a new publication by Christopher Morris.
Yo No Hablo Español
In 2011, photographer Christopher Morris returned to Central North Mexico, capturing the banality of the everyday and giving it a sense of dignity. In his forthcoming book, Yo No Hablo Español (I Don’t Speak Spanish), he reveals the resolute pride of landscapes and life in a parched Mexico rarely glimpsed.
This exhibition will see a selection of framed photographs featured in the book and will be the first exhibition at Gallery 2010, a new exhibition space in Sydney’s Surry Hills run by pals of Izrock Pressing’s.
Launch Event + Exhibition
Thursday 8 March, 2012
6:00 – 8:00pm
Gallery 2010
69 Reservoir Street,
Surry Hills
52 Pages
245mm x 210mm
Perfect bound
Full colour
Edition of 100 signed and numbered
$40
You can purchase the book at the opening or pre-sales through Izrock Pressings
Figure and Ground
Utopian Slumps will be opening Figure and Ground curated by Melissa Loughnan and Jane O’Neill next Thursday 8 March. The exhibition will feature work from eight local and international artists: Marco Chiandetti (UK), Sarah Crowest, Rebecca Delange, Misha Hollenbach, Claire Lambe, Rob McLeish, Sanné Mestrom and Stephen Ralph.
Figure and Ground will investigate the use of earthware in contemporary art practices, particularly concerning intersections between ceramics and collage, the human figure and abstraction.
The exhibition presents a curatorial interpretation of an archaeological dig by juxtaposing mounds of earth, lumps of clay and fossilised artefacts. The result will be the culmination of a diverse range of processes relating to the texture of clay and ceramic objects that at times allude to the figure, and at others reference kitsch ornamentation, utilitarian objects or pure sculptural abstraction.
Marco Chiandetti’s work explores performative processes and interactions with the body. Sarah Crowest’s current PhD inquiry, An Unaccountable Mass: bothersome matter and the humorous life of forms, is concerned with the manipulation of synthetic and natural materials into nebulous forms. A central point of departure for Rebecca Delange’s sculptural and installation work is its being in a constant state of flux; new materials join the debris of previous works in their creation and recreation. Misha Hollenbach’s recent ceramic works explore a fascination with both epic and humble architectural monuments, on and in the ground. Claire Lambe’s sculptural practice combines reverence, violence, pleasure and curiosity with a fascination for traditional modes of museum display, where Rob McLeish’s work explores notions of excess, banality and desecration. For Sanné Mestrom, it is the intervention of the viewer that is the key to resolving odd juxtapositions of form and their components. And Stephen Ralph’s sculptures combine contemporary and archaic references with keen sense of spatial awareness and precision of gesture.
This predominantly floor-based, intimately-scaled exhibition will offer the viewer the opportunity to explore the textural and thematic intersections between these artists’ practices in a celebration of handmade processes that gravitate towards and around contemporary ceramics.
