Thursday, January 27, 2011

Cuando la muerte es una inspiracion artistica -acerca de la obra de Teresa Margolles

Yvonne Amour había hecho una gran carrera como galerista mexicana en Paris. Pierre Raine y sus socios habían abierto un espacio que era la "movida" en Monterrey y Teresa Margollles y el Doctor del grupo Semefo estaban haciendo en ese entonces estragos en la sociedad artística de Mexico: sabanas recuperadas de la morgue con sangre de los muertos víctimas del narcotráfico, objetos recuperados de las guerras entre narcos esculpidos en una placa de cemento presentada en una de las ultimas bienales del Museo de Monterrey y vaya que lastima que lo hayan cerrado por la ambición de vender un poco mas de cervezas, ay!, el alcohol tan ligado a la violencia -al menos en Mexico ya que en Paris es una tradición cultural-.

Me acuerdo cuando habían cerrado el Museo Monterrey que yo estaba fotografiado en toda la prensa mexicana con lagrimas en los ojos por tan grande perdida: el museo había albergado piezas increíbles como la bola de plastilina de Gabriel Orozco que ahora esta en exhibición en el centro de arte Pompidou, de Paris.

Teresa y yo propusimos una vez una instalación para el Palais de Tokyo de Paris que consistía en mojar a los asistentes con agua con la cual fueron lavados los muertos en la morgue, muertos resultados de la guerra entre narcos en Mexico. No se hizo!

Ayer -27 de Enero del 2011- cuando la inauguración de la Insoportable levadad del ser (exposicion inspirada en Kundera), en la Galeria Yvon Lambert de Paris, me volví a encontrar a Teresa: que emoción!, cuantos recuerdos!, cuantas aventuras vividas!: un día estuvimos corriendo detrás de Yvonne para que le devolviera una pieza que era nada mas y nada menos que una lengua disecada y con un peercing que pertenecía a un chico involucrado en el narcotráfico y que ella habia recuperado de la morgue. Unos meses antes habíamos expuestos juntos en una exposición curada por Marco Granados y que se llamaba Narcochic Narcochoc en el Museo de Artes Modestas de Sète en Francia y donde yo habia presentado mi obra Love in Drugs Traffic, que habia ganado el Salon de la Fotografia de Nuevo Leon.

El trabajo artistico de Teresa no es una celebracion a la muerte sino una critica: ya basta de violencia en Mexico!, algún día todos podemos terminar disecados como piezas de museo o ver esos horrores como sus sabanas llenas de sangre.

Teresa viajo en esto últimos días para presentar su pieza en Paris, tenia la grasa recuperada de un cuerpo muerto víctima del narcotráfico en Mexico plasmada en una toalla. La obra casi paso desapercibida ya que estaba en un pasillo pintado de blanco -y pues la grasa casi no se ve!-, nadie se dio cuenta, yo al pasar sentí esa decadencia que vive mi pais actualmente. Yo se, y repito, puede ser chocante pero como decía un presidente: ya basta!!! ya basta de violencia!!! ya basta de vivir en mundo de burbujas de color donde todo es hipocresía y amor propio!!! Y donde todo es violencia!!! -El hombre es violento por naturaleza-

Gracias a Dios que existe el arte, que es el único medio para escapar a nuestras emociones y donde la violencia solo existe como inspiración…….

Sabanas manchadas de sangre de muertos del narcotrafico. Obra de Teresa Margolles

LʼInsoutenable Légèreté de lʼêtre

Yvon Lambert presente lʼexposition de groupe: LʼInsoutenable Légèreté de lʼêtre, qui a lieu dans les deux espaces de la galerie à Paris et à New York. Lʼexposition comprend les oeuvres de plusieurs artistes, tels que Marina Abramović, Dennis Adams, Saâdane Afif, Ghada Amer, Carlos Amorales, Robert Barry, Jean-Charles Blais, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Stefan Brüggemann, Mircea Cantor, Yoan Capote, David Claerbout, Larry Clark, Gregory Crewdson Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jason Dodge, Sam Durant, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Gloria Friedmann, Anna Gaskell, Douglas Gordon, Loris Gréaud, Shilpa Gupta, Karl Haendel, Julieta Hanono, Mona Hatoum, Joseph Havel, Isabell Heimerdinger, Ferdinand Hodler, Jenny Holzer, Joan Jonas, Idris Khan, Anselm Kiefer, Barbara Kruger, Bertrand Lavier, Claude Lévêque, Teresa Margolles, Paul McCarthy, Theo Mercier, Jonathan Monk, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Kaz Oshiro, Bill Owens, Giulio Paolini, Elizabeth Peyton, Pablo Picasso, Jack Pierson, Yuval Pudik, Martha Rosler, Vittorio Santoro, Andres Serrano, Nick van Woert, Francesco Vezzoli, Bill Viola, Ian Wallace, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Tom Wesselmann, et Cerith Wyn Evans.

Lʼexposition: Lʼinsoutenable légèreté de lʼêtre reprend à la fois le titre et les thèmes de lʼouvrage éponyme écrit par Milan Kundera en 1984. Kundera confronte dans son ouvrage les experiences de la vie de lʼhomme, quʼelles soient intelectuelles, émotionnelles et artistiques, à sa quête incessante dʼharmonie et dʼéquilibre.

Les artistes présentés dans cette exposition explorent les différents aspects de la condition humaine tels que lʼamour, le bonheur, le désir, la solitude et le désespoir. Les oeuvres exposées reflètent dʼune certaine manière toutes les gammes des émotions humaines. La galerie devient alors un espace de réflexion mental, où le spectateur peut ainsi sʼinterroger quant à la place de son existence dans le Monde.

Cette exposition, en quête de sens, montre la vie à la fois dans tout ce quʼelle a de plus terrifiant et dʼétrange, mais aussi dans tout son aspect contemplatif, sublime, et spiritual.

Installation from Julieta Hanono

On aura tout vu

Toutes les lignes qu’ils imaginent, empruntent cette même veine du détournement et de la fantaisie, cette envie de jouer avec les objets, la lumière, les couleurs, afin de toujours confondre le vrai et le faux….

et si c’est le faux qui était dans le vrai ? se dit la reine en plongeant dans le miroir. puisqu’au pays merveilleux, il n’y a que la vérité qui blesse la beauté…

Photos by Alfredo Salazar

Gaultier refocused

by alfredo salazar


Gaultier refocused.

Son vrai métier : la couture; sa passion, sans doute: le music-hall

Un Gaultier festive: une cancan couture!!!!

Un tableau de Toulouse Lautrec!!!!

Un show digne d'applaudissements!!!!

Une heure d’attente pour pulvérisée en quelques minutes d’éblouissement dans l’intensité de la voix de Deneuve qui fait inventaire des passages numérotés, baptisés avec esprit Veuve joyeuse, Viens poupoule, Bateau lavoir.

Effets feuilletés pixélisés, ligatures savantes sur un corset, silhouette noire en ombre chinoise vertigineusement mat, chic, coupée au cordeau, effets de bretelles suspendues sur tulle invisible barrant les épaules, volants cancan en tulle de soie blanc, marinière étirée en fourreau d’organdimarine et bleu à la texture meringue…

Bien sûre, Farida, égérie goudienne, punk dans l’âme, déménage en pantalon et miniperf all black. Pas de brouillage, pas de bande-son, pas de chahut, juste l’énergie des trouvailles Gaultier, de sa « main » libre, inventive, joueuse, qui, au-delà de son amour de la scène, livre une qualité irréprochable.

Vive la vie a Paris et son Glamour!!!

Photo courtesy Jean Paul Gaultier

Living inside a Comic - about the last ACNE collection- by Alfredo Salazar

A friend always tells me go to Sweden, when you're there it seems that you are living inside a Comic. People are fantastic. The Fashion House and Acne Creative Collective from Sweden presented it's first men collection with a show that I can only say wonderful. The street wear line of course but full of color and creativity, very simple, but elegant and sophisticated.

Models come out as a comic and dresses in colors pop. Freshness!!

Acne creative director Jonny Johansson made his debut on the Parisian catwalk with the label's youthful touch.

"It's just a feeling, you know," creative director Jonny Johansson shrugged after the show. "All the tailoring—I thought that was in the moment, something fresh. I'm tired of all this heritage, the older models or whatever. It's time for something young."

A parade of celebrities.

As expected a good show for to close the Men Fashion Week Paris. Now we can say that the last shall will be first.

A party at the Fidelité for celebrated the big success ....

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Damir Doma: A super male geometry

A super male geometry

Damir Doma 2011-2012 Men Fashion Week, Paris

The music plays with the fluid and architectural lines of clothing created by Damir Doma in his last show. It took only two colors to design a line full of forms almost ephemeral as it may be suddenly the architecture. The show a real taste to eyes. Although only dominated the black and white atmosphere of one future seemed very conceptual, very comfortable and at ease.

Damir Doma’s collections seem lit by a soft, melancholic quest for fluidity. Inspired by identity’s multiple expressions and the link with the fragile, ephemeral quality of the body, he creates pieces that explore interpretations of contemporary masculinity.

Damir Doma is a fashion designer based in Paris. According to the Berlin based high-fashion Magazine, Achtung-Mode, Damir Doma is 'considered as the most important German fashion designer of his generation'. He was born in Croatia but grew up in southern Germany near the lake Chiemsee where his mother has a clothing atelier. He calls his mother an influential person in his own development.

On aura tout vu aime détourner la mode et le glamour

On aura tout vu aime détourner la mode et le glamour.

Les vêtements, accessoires de tous les jours, sacs, lunettes, bijoux….

mais aussi les téléphones mobiles, les souris d’ordinateur, les clefs USB et autres gris-gris de notre quotidien super actif et branché.

A coup de paillettes et de strass, d’éclat de cristal et de matières merveilleuses, l’esprit des designers de on aura tout vu « ré- habillent » notre vie, et nous rend sous de nouvelles facettes sa scintillante préciosité.

toutes les lignes qu’ils imaginent, empruntent cette même veine du détournement et de la fantaisie, cette envie de jouer avec les objets, la lumière, les couleurs, afin de toujours confondre le vrai et le faux….

et si c’est le faux qui était dans le vrai ? se dit la reine en plongeant dans le miroir.

puisqu’au pays merveilleux, il n’y a que la vérité qui blesse la beauté…

brand history

once upon a time…the “asp” company was founded in 1995. the brand evolved in 1998 to become on aura tout vu, a french expression meaning “you think you’ve seen it all”.

On aura tout vu made its name at first by creating and producing exclusive fashion accessories, embroideries, buttons and garments for various haute couture brands before starting its own brand collections of ready-to-wear, accessories and couture clothes, home design, fragrances end make-up…

On aura tout vu was creating and producing accessories for various haute couture brands such as Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Givenchy,…. and ready to wear brands like: Yves Saint laurent, Guy laroche, Paco Rabanne, Nina Ricci, Rochas, John Galliano, Groupe Garella, Sym Georges rech…

Over the years, on aura tout vu’s skill and experience resulted in a strengthened presence in the fashion sector and enabled it to become less production-oriented for other haute couture and ready-to-wear brands and more creation and market driven for its own brands.

in light of its growing international prestige, on aura tout vu management came up with a plan that was based on expanding its product range, repositioning its offer and selectively developing a retail distribution network.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

ALFREDO IS BLOG-BOY
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All about art, fashion, design, photography
Interviews, photos, reports.....
LIFE AS ART

The international adventure and experience from a photographer!!!!

That confusion: Agnès B or Patty Smith and Because the Night

I did not know if Agnés B was inspired by her collection in Peru, or if some pieces were from Uniqlo and had only changed some materials or colors. Or if you could suddenly have a touch very England!, very Vivienne Westwood but such madness. No more crazy ideas!!!! Perhaps nothing unusual, may be some "kitsch" poses of models. Only champagne and macarons for to live a sweety moment. The video of "Fréderick" from Patti Smith were it not for the end of show I had forgotten totally the show!!!!!!

The genius is dead and the story of my blue small crystal ball and the pleasure of designs of Gustavo Lins

When I first came to Paris, all time I had with me in my bag a blue small crystal ball, gift from a photographer friend from Cuba. I kept it as a child, the small ball was my treasure. At the same time my friend Rebeca Solano find me a invitation for go to one show of Givenchy, where the designer -was curiously- Alexander McQueen. I was so excited, so much that i fell my crystal ball and surprised!! the person was found it was Alexander, What moment !!! There are some importance events that caused by accidents. Some day, a photo stylist was preparing a photo-shoot for me and the magazine Velvet and accidentally she brooked a necklace-sculpture of Gustavo Lins manufactured in ceramic of Sèvres. I had always wanted to meet Gustavo Lins. And since this was the moment. A very experience to visit his design studio and find his wonderful pieces that are an incredible manufacturing. The presentation of his latest collection is a great pleasure to the eye and touch. For a long time since I not had this feeling, which does not happen me with a lot of those new or emergents designers. Grandisimo Gustavo!!! Bravo!!!

Gustavo Lins by Alfredo Salazar

ISSEY MIYAKE AUTUMN WINTER 2011 Pen by Dai Fujiwara


What are your thoughts ?.....quick ! Take out your pen and write them down.

The simple act of taking out a favorite pen from your breast pocket or bag and writing down your thoughts and ideas will never be lost, even in our age of mobile electronic communication. A pen can influence the shape and placement of a pocket, the fabric and the gesture itself.

The relationship existing between clothes, people and their favorite pens is an intimate one.

ISSEY MIYAKE AUTUMN WINTER 2011Collection is one that draws.

Creative Director: Dai Fujiwara

Art direction : Roy Genty - Laetitia Goffi

Music : Sacha Gattino

General coordination : Fathi Dafdouf - David Y

Photos: Alfredo Salazar

Roy Genty - Laetitia Goffi

Take out your pen and write them down

Dai Fujiwara

Thursday, January 20, 2011

When I was in NY cried in front of the shop displays of Yamamoto



He was so young and one of my dreams was to be part of that world of fashion and being in such famous Parisian catwalks. To become a very important fashion photographer too!!!

When I was in NY cried in front of the displays because I always seemed so pure line design of Yamamoto and to have all his clothes.

I just go home after see his last show and thanks to God was full of elegance and great color details!

The most interesting is that the casting was fabulous: very very old men and very very fat models!

Thanks for letting us see a different look than we can be a model!!

Thanks for making us more accessible the fashion world and keep us out of our own stereotypes!!!!!

A grand show, a grand musical parade, to end the first day of Paris Fashion Week 2011

I love Yamamoto and I want always to cry but of happiness!!!

The family reunion or funeral and a break with Suzy Menkes


The family reunion or funeral and a break with Suzy Menkes

ISSEY MIYAKE -MEN PARIS FASHION WEEK 2011-

At the end, I decided to go for the Men's Fashion Week in Paris, even I did not sleep last night. First I decided to go see the show of Issey Miyake, now created by Dai Fujiwara.

I put my hat Reinhard Plank and invited my friend Luisa Saenz model and actress to come with me.

After Christmas holidays and the beginning of the new year is fun to go back to the ritual of running from one show to another and seeing people known and not.

I'm always so curious to see the creations of Dai.

A buyer and a journalist friend greets me and just another time another comes and tells us that good to see you again!!!, it seems that we were on a family reunion or it could be a funeral!!!!

And this commentary can be so stupid but it's true, everyone working in the profession we are in a fashion show, we are very loving greetings, and there everything was finished as ephemeral as a Christmas dinner with your family.

Well, the show starts and the designer shaw the collection relied on a story of a Paris writer who writes a love letter .... A poetry collection…….

And then was to congratulate him and that time I wanted to cross a word with Suzy Menkes that disappeared faster than a ghost. I could only say very fast hi to Dai too! Luisa and I ate some apples.


Monday, January 3, 2011


New Frontier

2011 Sundance Film Festival

Miners Hospital

1354 Park Avenue, Park City

January 20–January 29, 2011

Salt Lake Art Center

20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City

January 21–March 25, 2011

www.sundance.org/newfrontier

www.slartcenter.org

The program, celebrating its fifth year, brings together established and emerging artists from film, art, performance, gaming, and new media technology. It provides the artists a film festival environment in which to share their work, and Festival audiences a place to explore the latest in cinematic innovation and transmedia storytelling. Sundance Film Festival senior programmer and curator Shari Frilot writes, "Today's media environment assumes three-dimensional realities in time and space. Mobile networks, electronic gadgets, wireless Internet, and surveillance technologies now encrust our bodies, creating an electroskeleton that structures our modern lives, affecting our ethics and our decision making. As this evolution intensifies, New Frontier explores how storytelling and independent cinematic expression can exist at this forefront to compel audiences to engage with one another in ways that fortify our humanity."

2011 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier artists and projects

Blast Theory, A Machine to See With

Mark Boulos, All That Is Solid Melts into Air

The Bruce High Quality Foundation, We Like America and America Likes Us (The Corpse)

Daniel Canogar, Spin and Hippocampus 2

James Franco, Three's Company: The Drama

Avish Khebrehzadeh, Theater III + Edgar

Braden King, HERE ( THE STORY SLEEPS )

Lynn Hershman Leeson, !Women Art Revolution and RAW/WAR

Takehisa Mashimo, Akio Kamisato, and Satoshi Shibata, Moony

Miwa Matreyek, Dreaming of Lucid Living and Myth and Infrastructure

Milk + Koblin (Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin), The Johnny Cash Project and The Wilderness Downtown

OpenEnded Group and Bill T. Jones, After Ghostcatching

Squidsoup, Glowing Pathfinder Bugs

Deke Weaver, ELEPHANT

Lance Weiler, Pandemic 1.0

www.sundance.org