HOMO FABER—an extensive exhibition in sixteen discrete spaces celebrating European crafts(wo)menship—is on view through the end of the month.
The show is presented by the Michelangelo Foundation, founded by Johann Rupert and Franco Cologni.
HOMO FABER, through September 30.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Lo Squero, Venice.
All images courtesy of Homo Faber.
The new print issue of PARIS LA—a tenth-anniversary special devoted to fashion and writing—is now available.
PARIS LA 16 includes interviews with Hilton Als, Chris Kraus, Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss of Bless, Tisa Bryant, Florence Müller, Malik Gaines, Q.M. Zhang, Commes des Garçons’ Adrian Joffe, Anelise Chen, and Bice Curiger and Jacqueline Burckhardt of Parkett.
Massimiliano Mocchia di Coggiola contributed an essay with artwork on dandyism, Ramon Hungerbühler and Fabian Marti talk about skate brands, there are pieces on Setsuko Klossowska de Rola, and Pierre Davis and No Sesso, Anne Dressen has written about contemporary jewelry…
… and portfolios and portraits by Cédric Rivrain, Cassi Namoda, David Benjamin Sherry, Wyatt Kahn, Tobias Madison, Item Idem, Jean-François Lepage, Todd Cole, Marie Angeletti, Will Benedict, and Katerina Jebb—who created the Michèle Lamy cover and a poster of Marisa Berenson—grace the issue.
Also: a reprint of Iris Marion Young’s landmark essay “Women Recovering Our Clothes.”
PARIS LA 16, published by DoPe Press.
Above: Inside covers, production PDF.
Below: Front and back covers, production PDF.
“Antonio didn’t record—he rendered.” — Joan Juliet Buck
ANTONIO LOPEZ 1970—SEX, FASHION & DISCO—an exquisite time capsule directed by James Crump—takes viewers back to the would-be golden age of the early 1970s for an exploration into the lives of artist Antonio Lopez (1943-1987) and his personal and creative partner Juan Ramos (1942-1995) as they navigated the art and fashion worlds of Manhattan and Paris.
With the flashy exuberance that characterized Antonio’s life as well as his drawings, the documentary features extensive on-screen interviews with Antonio discoveries Pat Cleveland, Donna Jordan, Jane Forth, Patti D’Arbanville, Jessica Lange, and Corey Tippin.
Editors Grace Coddington, Joan Juliet Buck, and Bob Colacello explain Antonio’s various entanglements within the distinct yet overlapping Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld “families,” and the late photographer and Lopez-Ramos confidante Bill Cunningham walks away with the film, giving the last word on Lagerfeld’s final betrayal and Oscar de la Renta’s heroism.*
ANTONIO LOPEZ 1970—SEX, FASHION & DISCO
Through Thursday, October 4.
Laemmle Royal, 11523 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles.
Through Thursday, September 27.
Laemmle Playhouse, 673 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena.
Post-screening Q & A with director James Crump, Corey Tippin and artist and Lopez estate-director Paul Caranicas
Friday, September 21, at 7:30 pm.
Laemmle Royal
bookdepository.com/Antonio-Lopez-Instamatics
* See Alicia Drake, The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris for an in-depth look at the Antonio Lopez–Juan Ramos–Karl Lagerfeld saga.
From top:
Antonio Lopez in Paris, 1970. Photograph by Bill Cunningham.
Corey Tippin, Donna Jordan, Jane Forth, and Jay Johnson in Paris, 1971.
Lopez in the Jardin du Luxembourg, 1971. Photograph by Juan Ramos.
Cunningham and Lopez. Photograph by Ramos.
Jessica Lange. Photographs by Lopez.
Lopez, Tippin, and Jordan.
Image credits: The Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos, and Film Movement.
In conjunction with the exhibition Artists and Their Books–Books and Their Artists, printer and publisher Ken Botnick—in search of a “contemporary visual metaphor expressed in design, material, and print” of Denis Diderot’s advocacy of “transparency in society, with a call for less mystery and more mastery”—conceived the DIDEROT PROJECT.
This week at the Getty Center, Botnick will discuss how his project about Diderot’s Encyclopédie “evolved over time into a multi-voice conversation on the nature of craft, tools, memory, and imagination, while provoking questions about authorship in artists’ books.”*
KEN BOTNICK—THE DIDEROT PROJECT: TRANSPARENCY AS METAPHOR
Thursday, September 13, at 7 pm.
ARTISTS AND THEIR BOOKS—BOOKS AND THEIR ARTISTS
Through October 28.
Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.
Above: Jean Antoine Houdon, Denis Diderot, 1773, marble. Image credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Below: Diderot Project, page spread introducing the section “Imagination: The Senses,” Ken Botnick, 2015.
Image credit: Getty Research Institute.
Carl Fieger (1893–1960)—initially a draftsman in the office of Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer—made architectural history with his first building. “Though the single-family house of 1924 remained an experimental building, the circular building (a Wohnmaschine, or machine for living in) had an immense effect on the professional community and future architects. It was an important contribution to the search for new standards in housing construction.”*
CARL FIEGER—FROM BAUHAUS TO BAUAKEDEMIE brings together the architect and designer’s original drawings, architectural models, furniture, photographs and works produced as a student. His versatile artistic approaches “retain the multifaceted character of the Bauhaus in its role as a school of design.”*
CARL FIEGER—FROM BAUHAUS TO BAUAKEDEMIE
Through October 31.
BAUHAUS DESSAU, Gropiusallee 38 Dessau-Rosslau.
Above: Carl Fieger, Haus Fieger, Dessau, 1927.
Below: Carl Fieger, drawing Haus Fieger. Image credit: Bauhaus Dessau.
