April 23, 2007
KORITTKE FOR DAA
Man kann nicht oft genug auf das Thema Aids aufmerksam machen! Das dachte sich auch Schauspieler Oliver Korittke und posierte für uns in seinem kurz zuvor erstandenen T-Shirt von Designers Against Aids (DAA) vor der Kamera und für den guten Zweck. Das Motiv designte Stardesigner Rogan Gregory und steht Oli, unserem Hero des Tages, ausgezeichnet.
Foto von Sophie Bunge
Ãœber DAA:
Designers Against Aids (DAA) ist ein Projekt/eine Modelinie, die von der Non-Profit Organisation Beauty Without Irony gegründet wurde. DAA wurde ins Leben gerufen, um die Aufmerksamkeit der internationalen Medien auf das Thema Aids mit Hilfe von designten T-Shirts berühmter Modedesigner, Musiker und Künstler wieder herzustellen.
Mehr Infos: www.designersagainstaids.com
April 22, 2007
OTHER SCENES CURATED BY AARON ROSE
An art show with: Rita Ackermann, Raymond Pettibon, Ryan McGinley, Gusmano Cesaretti, Daniel Higgs, Becca Mann, Daido Moriyama, Jockum Nordström, Gee Vaucher. Exhibition Other Scenes at Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, April 21st - May 26th
Other Scenes presents an eclectic group of emerging and established artists all of whom share disturbing yet romantic visions. In these artist’s works, a discreet form of protest exists; a desire to find love amongst the ruins, beauty in the shadows. Aaron Rose is an independent curator currently living in Los Angeles. He is co-curator of the museum exhibition, Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture which opened in March 2004 at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and will tour the world through 2008. Rose is also a publisher, writer and co-editor of ANP Quarterly, a free arts/lifestyle magazine.
www.robertsandtilton.com
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exhibition catalogue at: www.nieves.ch
Rita Ackermann (b.1968) is an artist born in Hungary, trained in Budapest and Vienna, and currently working in New York. Her work first became prominent in the mid-1990s as the result of her seductive paintings of semi-autobiographical nymphets and her close association with musical groups such as Sonic Youth. Over the years her style has evolved to include more metaphysical themes, still populated by svelte waifs, fashionable nymphs, and other girlish sprites combined and recombined in an almost serial fashion, albeit with a very contemporary take.
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