The art collection belonging to the couturier Yves Saint Laurent - died on 1 June this year - and its companion Pierre Bergé will be auctioned in February 2009. Led by the auction house Christie’s in association with the auction house Pierre Bergé, the sale will take place in Paris. The collection of both art lovers together objects of primitive arts, enamels, statuettes of the Renaissance, Art Deco furniture and a range of contemporary artists and Old Masters that includes Picasso, Warhol, Mondrian, Matisse and Goya.. Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé had 40 years to collect these works.
Yves Saint-Laurent by Andy Warhol (1928-1987/American)
With immediate effect the participation for illustrators, graphic artist and designers in the „Young Illustrators Award“ of the ILLUSTRATIVE is now possible!
The 20 winners will be shown at a separate section at the coming ILLUSTRATIVE, the international festival for contemporary graphic and illustrative art as well as integrated into the artist selection of the Illustrative. To one laureate being determined at this year´s ILLUSTRATIVE in Zurich, is given the possibility to creat one new „Limited Edition-watch“ for Swatch – great opportunity to join the ranks of artists such as Kiki Picasso, Tadanori Yokoo and Keith Haring. The other laureates can look forward to prices such as the possibility to exhibit their work, contracts with agencies as well as publications in magazines.
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Illustrative Zurich October 2008
Exhibition Center
Hall 9
Thurgauerstr. 11
8050 Zurich-Oerlikon
Opening: October 2008
Exhibition: October 2008
Tickets: 20 Franks (12 EUR)/ Reduct: 15 Franks (9 EUR).
Titus Matiyane is a sculptor, artist and musician who lives and works in Atteridgeville, a township near Pretoria, South Africa. He is one of many artists whose relationship to township life and the expanding urbanism of the modernist capitals of South Africa produced a particular fascination with both the growth and the transformation of these urban environments.
Exhibition: Titus Matiyane. Cities of the World
National Museum of Mali, Bamako, Mali
May 27 - July 31, 2008
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Mass Studies, founded in 2003 by Minsuk Cho in Seoul, Korea, has produced some great examples of this. Among them is Ann Demelmeester’s store in Séoul. It is one of only four concept stores showcasing the fashions of the Flemish designer.
Beautiful illustration of Cecilia Carlstedt
www.ceciliacarlstedt.com
We work for and love this 2 designers, Anne Valerie Hash and Naomi Filmer. For her third show Haute couture, Anne valerie choose Naomi Filmer to create a beautiful set of accessories. Those objects, about the body itself, explore and celebrate, rather than decorate. Visual impression remains integral however. To illustrate ideas with clarity there must be simple elegance and beauty.
www.naomifilmer.co.uk
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