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Vectorfunk Rorschach Poster Series
Matt W. Moore of MWM Graphics has just released new Vectorfunk Rorschach Poster Series. It’s a series of three 18″x12″ posters. Printed on heavy stock, signed & numbered (x/100). The graphics are inspired by classic Rorschach Tests with hyper-colorful and psychedelic twists. When people are asked “What do you see?” everyone has a different response.
The Hunter sculptural coat hanger
The Hunter series is a new series of sculptural coat hangers, in which Godspeed is hunting for clichs, decay, beauty and rawness between left-overs in an urban environment. Collecting raw scrap wood and scraping the streets and bins, for new materials and ideas, The Hunter is a result of a cut-copy-paste research. With this series, Godspeed tries to emphasize on that aspect and combines kitsch iconography with sculptural art and functionality. Artist signed edition of 16 unique ‘deer heads’, various sizes.
Tod’s Launches Second iPad App
“An Italian Dream” is the second app for the iPad launched by Tod’s. “My Life is in This Bag” was their first app which was unveiled in August. It celebrated the world of Tod’s and allowed the visitors to browse collections and view virtual themed lifestyles. Now, you can discover the Tod’s new application “An Italian Dream’ “” an artistic celebration of the quality and tradition of “Made in Italy” craftsmanship. Dancing on Teatro alla Scala’s famous stage and throughout the theatre’s balconies and corridors, thirteen ballet dancers from Teatro alla Scala interpret the passion and creative talent of the Tod’s artisans. The result mirrors the exclusivity, quality and iconic creativity that goes into the multiple phases of making a Tod’s product.
Assouline Leather Trunk by MCM
This custom-made trunk was created in collaboration with the famous craftsman MCM specially for Assouline. Each trunk houses 40 of Assouline’s signature Memoires on fashion, art, and design, making it the ultimate in chic “” $4,995.
Scholarship to Lars Englund
The board of The Visual Arts Fund have granted the artist Lars Englund this years big scholarship of SEK 300.000.
Lars Englund builds his objects from equable parts that are connected to make up complex undulating shapes or spheres. The experimental streak in his artistry is always apparent. The elements and materials are renewed, the parts can look different, change, improve or be simplified. The seemingly simplest element consists of a stick where the holes or the attachment points are crucial to how the larger form can be built. The creative movement from notion, idea and outline to construction of a complex, but still very obvious spatial structure, is always perceptible in all its width. There is an odd invitation in Lars Englund’s works, to take one step further, to push towards the edge, the desire to open up the room anew, as if it was the first time.
The Visual Arts Fund’s big scholarship is rewarded active visual artists who, with a very high artistic level and quality, has been and are influental to new generations of artists. The Visual Arts Fund is part of The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the authority which distributes public funding to working artists within fields such as visual arts, music, theatre, dance and film. Englund has over decades been one of Sweden’s most prolific and innovative sculptors. His works has been shown in a number of museums and galleries in Sweden as well as internationally over the years. In 2005, Moderna Museet in Stockholm granted him a large retrospective exhibition.
Picasso treasure trove surfaces in France
Hundreds of unknown Pablo Picasso works worth tens of millions of euros have surfaced in France in the hands of a 71-year-old retired electrician who says they were gifts from the master. Dating from the first third of the 20th century “” considered Picasso’s most fertile period “” the 271 pieces are valued by experts at more than 60 million euros. And the new-found drawings, paintings and studies are now at the heart of a legal tug-of-war between the electrician, Pierre Le Guennec, and the artist’s heirs who believe they must have been stolen and have filed for charges. “No one can seriouly believe that the artist made these gifts, it’s completely crazy,” the Picasso family’s lawyer Jean-Jacques Neuer told AFP on Monday. “This electrician, who claims to have been a long-time friend, has never been heard of despite the fact we now know every detail about Picasso’s life.” The Picassos all date from between 1900 and 1932 “” from the artist’s years as a struggling youth freshly arrived in France from Barcelona, up until the first major retrospectives of his work.
Xu Lei Designs Mouton Rothschild’s Label
Mouton-Rothschild has asked a Beijing artist, Xu Lei, to design the label for its 2008 vintage, in the footsteps of Georges Braque, Salvador Dali or Joan Miro. The Baroness’ father Philippe first enlisted an artist to design Mouton’s label in 1924, and every label since 1945 has featured a new work of art. The artists receive 10 cases of wine in lieu of money for payment. Xu, 47, is the art director of the Today Art Museum, a major Beijing contemporary museum.”It’s above all else a personal choice rather than a commercial choice,” Herve Berland, managing director of Chateau Mouton Rothschild, told AFP.
The 2008 vintage, still resting in Mouton’s cellars in Pauillac in France, will arrive on shop shelves in France in January and in Asia and America in February. Originally resold on the futures market in the spring of 2009 for approximately 150 euros per bottle, the wine currently sells for 600 euros in France.
Sergio Rossi Boots By Claude Viallat
Sergio Rossi has teamed up with French painter Claude Viallat to design three sets of six pairs of boots, each of unique style and beauty. The collection has been presented in Paris during an exclusive event at Bernard Ceysson Gallery in conjunction with Fiac, Parisian contemporary art fair.
$49 million Matisse sets new record
A large bronze sculpture of a woman’s back by Henri Matisse sold Wednesday for nearly 49 million dollars, setting a new record for the French impressionist. Measuring 74.5 inches (189.2 cm), “Nu de dos” was the star of the auction at Christie’s in New York. It went under the hammer just a day after rival Sotheby’s auctioned an Amedeo Modigliani painting for a record 69 million dollars. A record was also set at Christie’s for Juan Gris, whose cubist oil on canvas painting, “Violon et guitare,” sold for 28.6 million dollars. The painting had been estimated to sell for between 18 and 25 million dollars.
The stunning Matisse sale injected high energy into an often muted auction, where the 231 million dollars total haul came in at the lower end of the pre-auction estimate of 198.3 to 286.6 million dollars. Aside from Matisse, Gris and a few other standouts, there were a number of disappointments for Christie’s. Two paintings by Picasso, another by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, one by Edgar Degas and an Auguste Rodin sculpture were among the works that failed to sell. Many other lots were sold at below their pre-auction low estimates or at barely within the estimates, while those exceeding expectations were comparatively rare.
New Record for a Modigliani at Sotheby’s
A painting of a nude by Amedeo Modigliani fetched nearly 69 million dollars at a Sotheby’s auction in New York, setting a new record for the Italian painter. The circa 1917 canvas, titled “Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine),” had been estimated before the auction to go for more than 40 million dollars. Five bidders on Tuesday competed over what Sotheby’s called the “iconic” and “stunning nude,” driving the final price to 68,962,500 dollars.
The massive sale highlighted the first of the autumn art auctions in New York at Sotheby’s and rival Christie’s, with both houses predicting a surge in demand. Another highlight of Tuesday’s auction was 24.7 million dollars paid for “Le Bassin aux Nymphƒas,” by impressionist Claude Monet in his iconic water lilies series. Modigliani’s “Jeanne Hƒbuterne (au chapeau),” one of the first portraits he did of his main muse in late life, sold for 19.1 million dollars.
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