Photographs 1946 - 2004 from 07 01 2008 until 09 28 2008 Musée du jeu de Paume in Paris

Twiggy, coiffure de Ara Gallant- studio de Paris, janvier 1968 - Photographie Richard Avedon - © 2008 the Richard Avedon Foundation

Organised by the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek with the cooperation of the Richard Avedon Foundation, this exhibition surveys the whole of Richard Avedon’s career, starting with his first steps as a fashion photographer at the end of the Second World War.
Avedon continued to photograph the creations of the big Parisian couture houses up until 1984, working first for Harper’s Bazaar and then for Vogue. Finding fashion photography too static and stuffy, he transformed it by introducing movement and photographing his models in public spaces.
He also made many portraits of celebrities from the worlds of literature, art and show business, always taking care to shatter the icon in order to reveal the true personality behind the public image.

In the 1960s, Avedon also ventured into photojournalism, covering such hot subjects as Civil Rights campaigners in the American South (1963), the Ku Klux Klan, patients in a mental hospital and the Vietnam war — both in the country itself, where he photographed military officers and napalm victims, and back home, where, a pacifist himself, he covered the hippie protests against the war.

In 1974 Avedon exhibited a series of his father, then dying of cancer, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During this decade he continued his fashion photography and reportage, and also produced a series of 73 portraits of America’s political elite for Rolling Stone.

The early 1980s saw Avedon produce a long series of 700 portraits of middle class and poor Americans from the 17 western states. As if to refute the myth of the American West, these portraits, all taken outdoors against a white ground, show closed, tense and introverted faces with an intense but subjacent emotional power. At the end of the decade, a commission from the French magazine Égoïste gave Avedon the chance to cover the fall of the Berlin Wall.

MUSAC presents on May 17 the project that the artist Hedi Slimane has produced ex professo for the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. Through a publication and an installation created expressly for this occasion, Slimane continues his personal exploration of youth aesthetics in relation to music as a factor of construction and transformation of identity.

In May 2007 Hedi Slimane was invited by MUSAC and Maraworld—the company that promotes the International Festival of Benicàssim—to portray with his camera the 18th edition of the major musical event. For the four days of July during which thousands of young people from all over the world concentrated on the shores of the Mediterranean to attend their annual date with music, Slimane unceasingly pursued with this camera those beats so characteristic of his own aesthetic. Now, almost a year later, the reflection of that work is presented in a project that, through an installation in Leon’s museum space, and a publication, puts the French creator’s aesthetic universe into perspective.

As regards the installation, Slimane once again exhibits the connections between musical celebration and fans, and, definitively, the constructive reciprocity of both identities through the exchange promoted by live music. Thus, visitors to the exhibition will find a display of all the iconography intrinsic to a concert: an empty stage and the young members of the audience. The artist thus ultimately proposes an inversion of the habitual role of the spectator—or fan—as the visitor is allowed onto the stage to experience the rock star’s overwhelming sensation when before the masses who expectantly await the appearance of their idol, whom they venerate, and with whom they identify.

Undoubtedly, this is an installation that goes beyond photography and in which Slimane resituates the audience inside the action, as it is both an active and passive subject of a moment that is frozen.

Exhibition Title: HEDI SLIMANE_MUSAC
Artist: Hedi Slimane
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Coordination: Marta Gerveno
Venue: Hall 1
Dates: May 17—September 7, 2008
With the support of Maraworld

www.musac.es

The Graphic and Typographic Design work of Lebanese-Dutch designer Tarek Atrissi will be exhibited at the De Levante Foundation in Amsterdam- the leading institute for Oriental Culture and Arts in the Netherlands- from May 2nd 2008 until the 22nd of June 2008.

The Exhibition will feature a varied selection of Tarek Atrissi’s work developed over the last ten years in Lebanon, New York, Dubai, Qatar and The Netherlands- for commercial and non-commercial projects & commissions around the world. The Graphic Design work displayed will include Posters, Visual Identities, Typographic and Calligraphic Work as well as interactive design work; a selection of work which is often distinguished by a strong cross cultural flavor and often described as a modern Arabic Graphic Design Language.

Beirut Born Tarek Atrissi is one of the best recognized Arab Designers in the World and is the recipient of several international prestigious design awards. His Work is Precise, elegant and often typographically driven, and has played a visible role in cultural image-making; Particularly across the Arab world and in Holland- where he runs his Design Studio (www.atrissi.com).

The last few years in Holland have witnessed a great interest in cross cultural design work which became a reflection of the ever changing multi-cultural society of the Netherlands; and which is considered by many to be the new cosmopolitan face of Dutch Design.

More info on the exhibition is to be found on the website of Platform De Levante (www.delevante.org).

May 7, 2008 - June 22, 2008 . Opening May 2, 2008 at 20:30.
Stichting DeLevante, Amsterdam.

‘Made In London’ an exhibition of photographs by Babette Pauthier..! in Paris
Vernissage / opening -  the 28th of February. at 7.00 pm at le 66

on 66 Champs Elysees 75008 Paris

Le 66 - new concept store in Paris.

www.le66.fr

Jim Houser is a skateboarder who works around this universe, he creates his installations like maps of what he has in mind. His paintings are inspired by science-fiction, animals, plants, travels and…secrets and he lists images and sounds catching his attention. Exhibition from January 28t until February 23rd.

Illustrative is a international forum for contemporary illustrative art, allowing established and emerging artists from the UK, France, Germany and other European countries to showcase their works. Its home base is Berlin, where Illustrative is held every year in September for three weeks followed by a further Illustrative in Paris.

Showcasing a variety of themes, styles and techniques, the show captures the status quo and the newest developments in illustrative arts. Each edition of the event is composed of a main exhibition and a series of thematic sections dedicated to specific topics and approaches (book art, fashion illustration, animation, set design, young talents, etc) . In addition to the exhibition, a series of events, discussions and lectures are held around contemporary illustration and associated areas.

Here is some cool stuff from the some of the emerging artists featured in the ” Young Talents ” section in the last Paris edition :

( From Cedric Quissola )

( From Didier Blondeau )

www.illustrative.de

Christian Louboutin, one of the world, the most fetishised shoemakers, has just collaborated on a photo series with David Lynch, one of the world‚ the most fetishistic filmmakers. The resulting photographs are quite astounding: nothing short of nihilistic, mysogynistic, absolutely stunning pictures that are, in fact, fetish-inducing pieces of art in their own rite.

The exhibition shows five limited edition pairs of shoes by Louboutin alongside five signed photographs of the shoes by Lynch.
www.galeriedupassage.com

The objective of the cultural department of 080 is to bring closer the culture of fashion to a wide range of public by means of programming different free-entrance activities related with the world of fashion.Crossing project propose to cover the different areas of the fashion world and addressed a general public, curious and interested in fashion, as well as national and international fashion professionals‚ press and buyers.

CROSSING PARTICIPANTS:

CATHLEEN NAUNDORF (Germany, 1968) - Photographer
AURELIE MATHIGOT (France, 1969) - Photographer.
COCO (UK) - Illustrator.DANIEL RIERA (Barcelona) - Photographer.
DAVID URBANO (Barcelona, 1973) - Photographer.
DODI LECHIQUE (Mexico City, 1985) -Illustrator.
GAUTHIER GALLET (France, 1971-2003) -Photographer.
GERARD UFERAS (France, 1954) -Photographer.
JD FERGUSON (New York, 1968) -Photographer.
JORK WEISMANN (Austria) - Photographer.
LEILA MENDEZ (Buenos Aires, 1972) - Photographer.
MIGUEL VILLALOBOS (Venezuela) - Photographer.
RAUL VAZQUEZ (Lleida, 1981) - Illustrator.
SILVIA PRADA (Ponferrada, 1969) - Illustrator.
TXEMA YESTE (Barcelona, 1972) - Photographer.
XEVI MUNTANVA (Barcelona, 1977) - Photographer.