Beautiful Beasts: With Murderous Intent
At first glance, Walton Ford’s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear, and others of the colonial era. But a closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic universe, full of symbols, sly jokes, and allusions to the ‘operatic’ nature of traditional natural history themes. The beasts and birds populating this contemporary artist’s life-size paintings are never mere objects, but dynamic actors in allegorical struggles: a wild turkey crushes a small parrot in its claw; a troupe of monkeys wreak havoc on a formal dinner table, an American buffalo is surrounded by bloodied white wolves. The book’s title derives from The Pancha Tantra, an ancient Indian book of animal tales considered the precursor to Aesop’s Fables.

This large-format limited edition includes an in-depth exploration of Walton Ford’s oeuvre, a complete biography, and excerpts from his textual inspirations: Vietnamese folktales and the letters of Benjamin Franklin, the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and Audubon’s Ornithological Biography.

Ford’s paintings have been color-separated and reproduced in Pan4C, the finest serigraphic technique available, providing unequalled intensity and color range. The book includes 12 horizontal and 4 vertical foldouts that look awesome when you stand over them. And you will.
Available in an Art and a Collector’s Edition, Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra is signed by the artist and presented in a custom clamshell box.

Collector’s Edition
(No. 101–1,600)

• Limited to 1,600 individually numbered copies, each signed by Walton Ford
• Printed on archival-quality paper
• Finished in book cloth with a leather spine and corners with gold embossing
• Packaged in a clamshell box covered in Luxor book cloth

Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra
Buford, Bill / Ford, Walton / Buford, Bill
Hardcover + Box, 37.5 x 50 cm (14.8 x 19.7 in.), 354 pages
£ 1000.00
ISBN: 978-3-8228-4386-4
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German

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Short film presentation for the new spring summer 2010.

Zoo Magazine number 24 is available from all good shops now. The autumn fashion issue is spread across 190 pages and flaunts editorials by renowned photographers including Aneta Bartos, Dancian, Philip Gay and Axel Hoedt.

One of the mag’s highlights is a shoot and interview with actress Renée Zellweger. The Hollywood actress shows off her legendary versatility in this season’s hottest outfits for photographer Bryan Adams.

The famous French department store opened its doors after hours and hosted an event for the Fashion and provocative photographer, Guy Bourdin is famous for his glamorous image, where the perfect beauty of the models is more porn chic than rustic lunch. It is during these very special sessions that the 15 films shown at the Bon Marche were shot from the 60’s to the 80’s. Shootings or more personal moments in the life of the photographer are all gathered under the canopy of the 2nd floor of the store in a dark and mysterious ambiance. Until October 31st.

« Guy Bourdin, his films » – until October 31st 2009
Bon Marché Rive Gauche
24, rue de Sèvres
75007 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.44.39.80.00
F. : +33.(0)1.44.39.81.19

After collaborating with several brands in Europe such as Rue du Mail and Blumarine, Yazbukey have been working this season alongside fashion darling Zac Posen, designing a line of jewellery accessories in their trademark plexiglass pop style. You can find several takes on these designs for sale online from their website

http://www.yazbukey.com/

Super cute display of Yasmine Rizvi at White Showroom in Milano. She is presenting her work as well as her  collaboration with the forget me not scarves (from illustrator coco) for who she realise all head pieces and turban.

The showroom is from Sunday the 27th until Tuesday the 29th of September 2009.

Mor informations on http://www.rizvimillinery.com/ & http://forget-me-not.me/

Stunning monotone photographs of wildlife in Africa by photographer Nick Brandt.

The english photographer presents ‘A Shadow Falls’ a series of incredible photos from East Africa. These are all the more valuable as nature seems to be fighting a loosing battle, and is loosing more with everyday that passes. This follows his critically acclaimed first series ‘On This Earth’.

His work is more than Animal Photography, his protagonists come across as far too human, carefully captured in cinematic settings. Those that wish to help Nick protect this unique living environment should click on TUSK.ORG

Nick Brandt - A Shadow Falls
8 September - 3 October 2009.
Atlas/Air Gallery, 32 Dover Street, London, W1S 4NE
Mon- Fri: 10.00 - 18:00; Saturday 11.00 - 18.00

Photographer Sophie Delaporte (*1971, Paris) studied Photography and Film at the Louis Lumiere School in her hometown. After graduation she moved to London and began attracting attention through her first editorials in the early 90s for i-D . Her work can now be admired in magazines ranging from Vogue to Another Magazine.

On the 17th of September, to coincide with New York fashion week, the Michele Filomeno agency are launching an exhibit that’s a must-see if you love fashion photography and you happen to be in NYC…

It’s called Early Fashion Work, and it’s a photo exhibit of some of the most emblematic works by fashion photographer Sophie Delaporte. It’s the first exhibit dedicated exclusively to Delaporte, and it’ll be open until the 30th of October in the Sous Les Etoiles Gallery.

Sous les Etoiles Gallery
560 Broadway #205 NYC
10012

After Liselotte Watkins and Sara Singh, coco is now collaborating with Sweden’s ELLE since June on a monthly double spread with the latest news in fashion.
more illustration on www.cocopit.biz

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 6 p.m.
Gallery talk with the artist: Saturday, September 12th, at 2 p.m.

Duration of the Exhibition: September 11th to October 09th, 2009

Credit: Tina Berning: THE PASSENGERS III, 32 x 23,5 cm, Ink and Gouache on paper, 2009

Tina Berning
100 Girls On Cheap Paper + The Passengers

Gallery Hanahou is celebrating the release of Tina Berning’s new edition of her sold out classic book ‘100 girls on cheap paper’. At the same time the gallery is presenting the second solo show of the renowned artist in New York: ‘The Passengers’. ‘This body of works has its origins in Tina Berning’s 2009 solo exhibition in Munich titled ‘The Listeners.’ The works from that show have grown and evolved as they travel to New York, becoming ‘The Passengers’.

With ‘The Passengers’ Tina Berning continues to explore the relationships between conditioned aesthetics and supposed subjective ambition in the canon of contemporary visuals. The drawings formulate the artist’s own images of the human body, its inadequacy and its fundamental relation to self-determination. Tina Berning releases figures out of their heteronomous, medial contexts and shifts them into an interplay between voyeurism and exhibitionism. She uses her paintings and drawings as carriers to extricate subjects from the contemporary alienated incapacitation. Codes and matrices blanket faces, streaks of colour lie like shadows over the delicate silhouettes. Interventions that follow Tina Berning’s study to open the plainness of shemes into the ambiguity of expression. She makes subtle corrections to the standard, uniform face and figure, enabling a look of physical expressiveness to return. Even when they appear fragile and vulnerable, the faces and images of the people take on a form that is more resistive.

gallery hanahou is delighted to welcome you to the exhibition opening on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 6 p.m.

gallery hanahou will also host a talk with the artist open to the public on Saturday, September 12th, at 2 p.m.

More of Tina Berning’s new artistic work may be found at: www.galleryhanahou.com

gallery hanahou
CWC International, Inc.
611 Broadway, Suite 730
New York, NY 10012

001 646 486 6586
info@galleryhanahou.com
www.galleryhanahou.com

Opening hours: Mon – Fri from 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.