(Things we're doing and stuff we like)
Japanese architecture and design group Nendo have transformed New York gallery Friedman Benda into a visually stunning interior landscape yet again. Thirty-five identical scatter shelves crafted from thin black acrylic create an alluring optical illusion when viewed from the periphery and a stark geometric maze when you wander amongst them. It’s a beautiful counterpoint to Ghost Stories—Nendo’s 2009 exhibition in the gallery—in which forty cabbage chairs made of gauzy white waste material from Issey Miyake’s pleats-making process were installed amidst thousands of delicate white strings hung throughout the space.
Dazed & Confused is celebrating its 20th birthday with an exhibition at Somerset House until 29th January 2012. It is worth a look to see their continued success through controversial photography, fashion and popular culture. Each room celebrates a decade of the magazines style, through to its current era. Rankin and Jefferson brought a new attitude to the British Press, which has continuously produced inspirational content for many creative fields. Dazed & Confused can truly be described as explosive.
Written by Camron staff member Lisa McMillan.
Situated in the heart of Shoreditch, at the Rochelle School, an exhibition titled ‘Ghosts of Gone Birds’ has emerged to raise awareness of extinct and endangered species of birds. Using artists of different genres, an eclectic mix of sculptures, paintings and prints have been produced to highlight a serious conservation issue. Ceri Levy, the curator of the exhibition, writes that the aim was to ‘…breathe life back into the birds we’ve lost…’.Each artist involved has interpreted extinction in a unique way which has created a truly fascinating exhibition.
Written by Camron intern Segi Adewusi.
An installation by British artist Grayson Perry is on show at the Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison Exhibition Space, coinciding with his exhibition ‘The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman’ at the British Museum (until 19 February 2012), where he explores themes connected with craftsmanship and sacred journeys – from shamanism, magic and holy relics to motorbikes, identity and contemporary culture. At the store, a specially commissioned trunk is a shrine to both Alan Measles – his 50 year old teddy bear, dictator and God of the artist’s imaginary world – and the dresses he is famous for wearing.
Photo © Mark Makela.
As London grew a little darker and rainier this week, we paid a visit to the beautiful exhibition of Atkinson Grimshaw’s evocative moonlit scenes at the Guildhall Art Gallery. We could not help but closely inspect and get lost in every detail of his incredible Victorian Era paintings capturing the suburban lanes, docks and gas-lit urban landscapes of nocturnal Leeds and London. Even Whistler admitted: “I considered myself the inventor of Nocturnes until I saw Grimmy’s moonlit pictures.” A moody and stunning show definitely worth a visit.
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