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Hyères Festival 2012

kvdb — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:05:54 +0000

The finalists of this year’s Hyères Fashion & Photography Festival have been selected from almost 300 hopefuls. The lucky ten are Jasmina Barshovi (Switzerland), Narelle Dore (Australia), Daniel Hurlin (France), Ragne Kikas (Estonia), Elina Laitinen, Siiri Raasakka & Tiia Siren (Finland), Maxime Rappaz (Switzerland), Paula Selby Avellaneda (Argentina), Lucas Sponchiado (Belgium), Steven Tai (Canada), and Kim Wilkins (UK). Once again this major international festival, which each year launches a new wave of fashion talent, boasts a jury on par with its ambitions, this year presided by Yohji Yamamoto, and with Marc Ascoli, Alan Bilzerian, Terry Jones, Pascale Mussard, Olivier Saillard, Jules Wright, Paolo Roversi, Christophe Honoré, Irène Silvagni. The winners will be announced during the festival in April.
Fri 27-Mon 30 April.
www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/leblog/

Hyères Fashion & Photo Festival opens tomorrow

kvdb — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:39:51 +0000

France’s prestigious annual fashion festival, which takes place in a Mallet-Stevens villa down on the Côte d’Azur, opens tomorrow. This year the jury is presided over by none other than Mr Raf Simons, and includes other heavyweights like Cathy Horyn from the New York Times, Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez from Proenza Schouler, Tim Blanks of Style.com or Christopher Kane. They’ll be trying to identify the next big thing from among 10 emerging fashion designers and 10 photographers. Following the festival this weekend, an exhibition of the work continues until the end of May.
29 April-2 May.
www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/leblog/

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Sapporo Pre-Biennale International Art Proposal Competition

kvdb — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:11:50 +0000

‘Sapporo and Hokkaido are open to you. What will you create?’ Artists, Japan-ophiles, sharpen your pencils! You have one week left to submit your proposal for an art work which could be realized in the city of Sapporo, or throughout the island of Hokkaido in Japan. Get inspired by the region’s natural environment, the local cuisine, or agriculture. Art projects could involve participation from neighborhood markets, indigenous industries, and of course the local communities… Short-listed proposals will be displayed at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art from 2-10 April 2011. And the first prize winner will be invited to the inaugurual Sapporo Biennale in 2014 to exhibit/perform their work. For further entry requirements please go to the official website.
Deadline: midnight, 25 March 2011, Japan Standard Time.
www.sapporo-biennale.jp

Festival d’Hyères 2011 finalists announced

kvdb — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:04:15 +0000

France’s prestigious annual fashion festival, which takes place in May in a Mallet-Stevens villa on the Côte d’Azur, and this year presided by none other than Raf Simons, has announced the finalists for this year’s competion:
Céline Méteil / France
Léa Peckre / France
Oriane Leclercq / Belgium
Michael Kampe / Germany
Maryam kordbacheh / Holland
Emilie Meldem / Switzerland
Juliette Alleaume & Marie Vial / France
Mads Dinesen / Denmark
Oda Pausma / Holland
Janosch Mallwitz / Germany
http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/leblog/

Mads Dinesen

Oriane Leclercq

Cannes Film Festival opens today

kvdb — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:14:03 +0000

The Cannes Film Festival opens tonight with Hollywood blockbuster Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe. Another out-of-competition Hollywood premiere is Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, starring Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas. Jury president Tim Burton is presiding over films in competition including new works from Mike Leigh, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Takeshi Kitano and Alejandro González Iñárritu, with perhaps the most mainstream offering from Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Other notable films screening out of competition include Woody Allen’s latest, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, starring Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and Josh Brolin, and Tamara Drewe from Stephen Frears (The Queen) based on a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds… Everyone’s now just crossing their fingers that renewed activity in Iceland‘s Eyjafjallajokull volcano doesn’t get in the way of proceedings.
Until 23 May.
www.festival-cannes.fr/

Centre Pompidou-Metz opens today

kvdb — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:48:04 +0000

The provincial French town of Metz, 1.5 hours east of Paris on the TGV, is France’s latest art destination thanks to the opening of a ‘branch’ of Paris’s Pompidou Centre, marking the first decentralisation of a French public cultural institution. Like its Paris sibling, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century art, displaying works culled from the Pompidou Centre’s collection. And until 16 May, you can visit the museum’s inaugural show Chefs-d’œuvre? for free, as well as discover the incredible new 10,700 m2 building designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban with Jean de Gastines, and with Ingo Maurer as lighting designer. The architecture is as exciting as the art inside it, flaunting a roof inspired by a woven bamboo chinese hat. SM
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/

Centre Pompidou-Metz

kvdb — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:54:24 +0000

The provincial French town of Metz, 3 hours east of Paris, is soon to become a new art destination thanks to this spring’s opening of a ‘branch’ of Paris’s Pompidou Centre, marking the first decentralisation of a French public cultural institution. Like its Paris sibling, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will be dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century art, displaying works selected from the Pompidou Centre’s collection. And from 12-16 May, the contemporary art-loving public will be able to visit the museum’s inaugural show Chefs-d’œuvre? for free, as well as discover the incredible new 10,700 m2 building designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban with Jean de Gastines, and with Ingo Maurer as lighting designer. The architecture is as exciting as the art inside it, flaunting a roof inspired by a woven bamboo chinese hat. SM
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/

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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in New York

m.billaud — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:09:26 +0000

French videaste Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has been active on the New York art scene since 2008. After participating in a group exhibition ‘theanyspacewhatever’ at the Guggenheim last year, she’s now presenting her first major solo show in the US – Chronotopes & Dioramas – at the Hispanic Society of America (until 18 April 2010). Commissioned by the internationally renowned NY Dia Art Foundation, this project creates an annex to the Society’s library with three ‘dioramas’ inspired by the Americas, their geography, climate and contemporary literature. The scenes have been modeled according to traditional techniques of museum display, however they depict contemplative and ruined landscapes, almost like science-fiction; the artist likes to explore the boundary between reality and fiction. In Paris, you can experience, in a more commercial context, Gonzalez-Foerster’s world at the Balenciaga store (10 avenue George V, 75008), designed in collaboration with Nicolas Ghesquière.

Hotel Ermitage, St Tropez

kvdb — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:03:09 +0000

The inimitable, ubiquitous André has expanded his empire to the Côte d’Azur, with a sun-drenched, pétanque-playing cousin to Paris’ wonderful little Hotel Amour, the Ermitage Hotel. The low-key, 27-room hotel is scattered with unique vintage and designer furniture, including rare pieces by Mathieu Matégot, Jean Prouvé and Ettore Sottsass (all personally selected by André), and with a strong emphasis on late 1950’s design. Original prints by photographer Irina Ionesco hang alongside more contemporary (yet equally edgy) photographers such as as Terry Richardson. The erotica theme sets the mood for a hotel boasting telephone and TV free rooms, as well as black laquered corridors with leopard print carpet! As with the Hôtel Amour, each room is unique and has been given its final touches by André’s friends, including artists and designers like Marc Newson, Jean Pigozzi, M/M, Christian Louboutin, Paul and Chloe Sevigny; there’s even a spécial ‘Purple’ room by bad-boy Olivier Zahm. The ground-floor Belvedere suite is fully equipped with its own bar, and Snoop Dogg apparently had a ball there this summer. Located right at the entry to St Tropez, a 5 minute walk to the beach, or to the Senequier for coffee and brioche, the hotel is a good time machine; whether round the piano and fireplace in winter, or looking over the garden to the bay from the back terrace, with a glass of champagne in hand, in summer. Thanks Chichi for the sneak preview.
(High season rates start at 260€)

the view

a print by Irina Ionesco hanging on a red laquered wall

the ‘Pogozzi’ room