Hedi Slimane is the new artistic, creative, and image director of Céline, and will oversee—among other things—couture, ready-to-wear, menswear, and fragrance.
See Vanessa Friedman’s take: nytimes.com/celine-hedi-slimane
Hedi Slimane.
The Hammer Museum and curator Aram Moshayedi invite you to AN EVENING WITH BLESS, a conversation and presentation with Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss, founders of BLESS, the Paris- and Berlin-based house of conceptual fashion and domestic design.
Wednesday, January 10, at 7:30 pm.
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.
Above: Bless hammock and rug.
Below: Bless, 2017. Swimmingtogether postcard. Images courtesy Bless.
“Something happened to midcentury modernism in the last couple of years: It got boring… And shifting taste is making it possible to reassess the creativity and innovation of designers too long overshadowed…
“Pierre Paulin (1927-2009) was the standout designer of Les Trente Glorieuses, as the French call their country’s vigorous 30-year postwar era, and his sinuous, hedonistic furniture, notably his stretched-fabric chairs, was esteemed enough to decorate the apartments of the presidential palace. Now, after years in the shadows, mod is back.” — Jason Farago*
A year before he died, Pierre, his wife Maia, and their son Benjamin founded PAULIN, PAULIN, PAULIN, which preserves and oversees reproduction of the great modernist’s furniture.
Pierre Paulin, Little Tulip chair, 1965; and Déclive sofa, 1966.
CONDEMNED TO BE MODERN, curated by Clara Kim, is a PST: LA/LA exhibition that “brings together the works of twenty-one contemporary artists who have responded critically to the history of modernist architecture in Latin America.”*
CONDEMNED TO BE MODERN, through January 27.
LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.
From top:
Runo Lagomarsino, ContraTiempos, 2010. Courtesy of the artist, and Nils Staerk, Copenhagen; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo; and Francesca Minini, Milano.
Alexander Arrechea, Havana, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo.
Clarissa Tossin, Ch’u Mayaa (Maya Blue), 2017. Choreography and performance by Crystal Sepúlveda, cinematography by Jeremy Glaholt.
The year 2019 will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, and the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin is getting things off to an early start with their first centenary exhibition, NEW BAUHAUS CHICAGO—EXPERIMENT FOTOGRAPHIE, curated by Sibylle Hoiman and Kristina Lowis.
“Eighty years ago László Moholy-Nagy founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago, thus providing American photography with a decisive creative impulse. Photographs, films, publications and documents from the legendary school of photography, whose teachers included György Kepes, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Arthur Siegel, bring this exuberantly experimental workshop atmosphere back to life.
“An illustrated catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition. NEW BAUHAUS CHICAGO—EXPERIMENT FOTOGRAPHIE looks at eighty years of photography from Chicago, [portraying] the institutions and decisive figures who have inspired and created photography, collected it, and presented it to the public since the New Bauhaus’s founding in 1937.”*
NEW BAUHAUS CHICAGO – EXPERIMENT, FOTOGRAPHIE, FILM, through March 5.
BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, Klingelhöferstrasse 14, Berlin.
* bauhaus.de/en/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen/2371_new_bauhaus_chicago
NEW BAUHAUS CHICAGO—EXPERIMENT FOTOGRAPHIE, ed. by Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin 2017. German & English editions, 200 pages, 150 color illustrations, hardback.
Curriculum diagram from the 1937 New Bauhaus school catalogue. Image credit: ©2016 Bauhaus Chicago Foundation.
