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Triple bill

Yesterday was another busy night.
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First, it was the opening of Barbican's new (triple) exhibition around the notion of conflict and its visual representation. The ground floor is dedicated to "
On the Subject of War ", a collection of thoughts around the idea of war in Iraq and Afghanistan and its visualisation.

I have to say i got really impressed by Omer Fast’s "The Casting" (2007) piece. Between fiction and documentary, video and photography, "The casting" asks disturbing questions about images, reality and narration.

The upper floor is dedicated to Robert Capa and Gerda Taro works. Amazing pictures, amazing stories. (very interesting to see some of the picture as they were taken, and then how they were edited for magazines/newspapers).
Overall the set design, and particularly the font design, give the exhibition an appropriate look and feel, while still being consistant with the Barbican's identity. Good job.

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For the second part of the evening, we headed to Hoxton Square for the opening of Yvon Lambert's new gallery. After Paris and New-York, it's in London that the talented people from Yvon Lambert decided to settle down. A very cool new space for art in the neighbourhood. The first to inaugurate it is mexican artist Carlos Amorales. Make sure you see his sculpture of a shattered bird at the first floor of the gallery. Impressive.

Art Orgy

Yesterday was the opening of the famous Frieze Art Fair.
I feel like i've flicked through a 5000 pages giant art book at once. Some quality art pieces though.

Mad fonts

Interesting post about fonts used throughout Abc serie Mad Men.

Aussies

Yesterday evening was Pivot's gig at the 100 club on Oxford street. Very good gig indeed, intimist venue, and apart from some bass amp issues, the sound was generally good.
Although Pivot was brilliant, i got really impressed by Snowman's performance. Energetic, dark with a punkish taste. Nice.
Snowman - We Are The Plague

3 in 1

Monday evening was the private view of the Warhol exhibition at the Hayward gallery. But it was really a 3 in 1 as you could also see Robin Rhode's work at the 1sr floor and Cyprien Gaillard's works at the Project Space.
One must admit that the set design throughout the Warhol's area is fantastic. Very nice materials, nice use of the space. Although, you do want to allow yourself a reasonable amount of time to see everything: there are loads of videos (Warhol tv is a must see), sound recordings etc... The exhibition lasts until the 18th January. Link here.
At the 1st floor, Robin Rhode displays different kind of work: photography, installations, videos...Personally, i'm not very found of Robin Rhode's work. I do think it is a little bit "dry" and that the poetical feel doesn't make it up for the the lack of depth.
Finally, Cyprien Gaillard's work is located in the Project Space (small exhibition space at the very entrance) of the Hayward gallery. Also, one of the piece is located in the basement of the Gallery. Interesting approach, interesting work.
The later artist will be competing with 8 other young artists for the Prix fondation d'entreprise Ricard on thursday 9th October. Amongst them, my parisian artist friend Julien Discrit will be running for this. Fingers crossed Julien! Make sure to check his work here.

White nights

I really like this year's identity of french festival Nuits Blanches,
designed by atelier trois.

Tut

A very clever tutorial for all of you who want to learn
all the ropes of the Pen tool in Illustrator.

Chou-chou