This week on the blog we discovered the designers Antoine Philippon and Jacqueline Lecoq; saw the first exhibition at Del Vaz Projects; listened Dayvan Cowboy from Boards of Canada; visited the new show of Mark Leckey at Wiels: Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials and the show of Jonathan Binet and Martin Laborde at Gaudel de Stampa: Yellow Cabin Saturday Night Remittent Fever.
Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials is the largest exhibition to date of Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey. Taking his title from a letter by Guillaume Apollinaire, where he claims that he and the filmmaker Georges Méliès ‘lend enchantment to vulgar materials’, Leckey identifies a similar impulse at the heart of his own practice. That is precisely what the exhibition highlights by bringing together new and older pieces in each of the media in which the artist has worked. Spread across two floors of WIELS as well as the auditorium, the exhibition features nearly all of the artist’s videos, including his 1999 video of dance hall youth culture, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, and others that have been rarely shown, alongside key sculptural works from the last decade, providing a long overdue survey of Leckey’s remarkable oeuvre.
(photo: Sven Laurent)
(photo: Sven Laurent)
(photo: Sven Laurent)
(photo: Sven Laurent)
(photo: Sven Laurent)
(photo: Sven Laurent)
(photo: Sven Laurent)
(photo: Sven Laurent)
(photo: Sven Laurent)
Mark Leckey was born in 1964 in Birkenhead, England, and currently lives and works in London. The 2008 Turner Prize winning artist studied at Newcastle Polytechnic, is a reader in fine art at Goldsmiths, London, and served as professor of film studies at the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main from 2005 to 2009. He works in sculpture, sound, performance and video. His influential body of work, from his earliest videos made in the late 1990s to his most recent performances and installations, combs the iconography of popular culture, its brands and its products, as it explores the affective pull they have on us.
Mark Leckey: Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials
Curated by Elena Filipovic
26.09.2014 – 11.01.2015
Wiels
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
Dries Van Noten final show, 2014
This week on the blog we visited Bex & Arts, a Contemporary Sculpture Triennal in Switzerland; saw Bertrand Bonello at Centre Pompidou; passed by Peter Lindbergh at Gagosian Paris and Yoko Uhoda Gallery in Liège to see a show curated by Christophe Daviet-Thery; and finally ended with Neïl Beloufa at ICA in London.
A proposal by Christophe Daviet-Thery at Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Liège
19 September – 31 October, 2014
This proposal apprehends this aspect of Richard Prince’s work which encompasses books and the question of the collection.
The display of the show is in relation to the way used by Richard Prince to present books in his own publications like American/English or The Good Life in which he photographs covers of books from his collection, reducing the book to an image, a simple surface.
rue blanche has been appealing to women since 1987, directed by Marie-Chantal Regout.
3 years ago, the young designer Céline Collard joined her and their collaboration is beautiful!
The next fall-winter collection is online, and I love it.
Stylish, boyish, tender.
Clothes – which are fun, luxurious yet minimalist – fit in easily with their wardrobe, becoming steadfast companions in their everyday life.
A rue blanche creation is tactile and sensual.
Vivid colours, soft fabrics and timeless designs characterize the collection. Rather than a total look for special occasion, they like to mix garments and accessories, revealing the individuality and essence of each woman.
