ART BASEL AT FULL THROTTLE !

AT ART BASEL SWITZERLAND, DEALER  JOHANN KÖNIG, FOUNDER OF GALERIE JOHANN KÖNIG, (BELOW LEFT, PHOTOGRAPHED IN BERLIN IN APRIL 2013) IS ALREADY COUNTING DOWN TO LONDON COLLECTIONS:MEN.  OR IS HE? BUYERS ARE ADVISED TO CATCH UP WITH JOHANN AT HALL 2.1 / J6 WHILE HE IS STILL THERE .    BELOW RIGHT: J.W ANDERSON A/W 2014 .   BEGÜM SEKENDIZ BORÉ

BELOW : BILDUNGSBÜRGER!  REPRESENTED BY GALERIE  JOHANN KÖNIG AT HALL 2.1 / J6, MICHAEL SAILSTORFER PARTICIPATES AT ART BASEL WITH MAZE 69 - ACRYLIC SCREEN PRINT AND  ACID ON COPPER PRIMED CANVAS, 120 X 100 CM, 2013. BEGÜM BORÉ

                                 JIL IN BASEL    I    COUNTING DOWN TO ART BASEL SWITZERLAND WITH  LE CORBUSIER

BELOW:  SELF PORTRAITS AT LE CORBUSIER'S MAISON LA ROCHE-JEANNERET, PARIS 75016.   DRESS JIL SANDER A/W 2007/2008.   THIS FEATURE TIES THE SWISS ARCHITECT LE CORBUSIER AND THE AMERICAN ARTIST CARL ANDRE TOGETHER USING  COPPER THREADS BY JIL SANDER.  AT ART BASEL SWITZERLAND, CARL ANDRE'S  2X18 CYPRIGENE ( 1994, 36 COPPER PLATES, 1X 100 X 900CM, AS SEEN BELOW ) IS  REPRESENTED BY KONRAD FISCHER GALERIE AT  HALL 2.0 / B6 .  BEGÜM SEKENDIZ BORÉ

  

                                    JIL IN BASEL !  I  COUNTING DOWN TO ART BASEL SWITZERLAND   PHOTO BEGÜM BORÉ

    

INTERLUDE BY WOLFGANG TILLMANS 3  /  JIL ON JIL ON JIL,  "THE TRICK IS PILING IT ON ARTFULLY"

BACKGROUND WOLFGANG TILLMANS, 1997.  SWEATER  AND PANTS BY  JIL SANDER       FOREGROUND JIL SANDER A/W 2014    BEGÜM

INTERLUDE BY WOLFGANG TILLMANS 2 / ENOLA GAY, IS MOTHER PROUD OF LITTLE BOY TODAY?
WOLFGANG TILLMANS,   RACHEL AUBURN AND SON, 1995,  AND  JIL SANDER  S/S 2002 CAMPAIGN

EPILOGUE  /  INTERLUDE BY WOLFGANG TILLMANS 1

WOLFGANG TILLMANS, YOUNG MAN, JEDDAH, 2012   AND JIL SANDER A/W 2012. BEGÜM

             THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS    I   COUNTING DOWN TO THE VENICE ART BIENNALE

THIS FEATURE TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE  2010 ITALIAN FILM THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS:  RENDERED EVEN BY THE DESIGNERS THAT ACCOMPANY THEM, ARTISTS  OF THE VENICE ART BIENNALE THAT TAKES PLACE EVERY TWO YEARS ( IN ODD YEARS ) ARE NO LONGER ALONE.

BELOW IS A GLANCE AT THE LAST TEN EDITIONS OF  THE VENICE ART BIENNALE. BEFORE WAVING THE AUDIENCE GOODBYE, YOHJI YAMAMOTO AND RODNEY GRAHAM ALSO COME UP WITH A  LITERAL REPRESENTATION OF THE SCARS OF ALICE AND MATTIA, THE TWO PROTAGONISTS FROM  THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS THAT WAS NOMINATED FOR THE GOLDEN LION  AT THE 67TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. BEGÜM BORÉ

                                             


                                                                                        2013
RICHARD MOSSE, THE ENCLAVE (STILL), 6MM COLOUR INFRARED  AND  HELMUT LANG A/W 2001

                2011

                                                                                                                                                       VANESSA BEECROFT MARBLE SCULPTURE AND JIL SANDER A/W 2009 CAMPAIGN 

2009

ELMGREEN & DRAGSET, THE COLLECTORS  AND CAROL CHRISTIAN POELL S/S 2004 PRESENTATION IN NAVIGLIO GRANDE, MILAN

2007

MARKO MÄETAMM, BEAR  AND  J.W ANDERSON SS 2013

2005

MARK WALLINGER, SLEEPER  AND MONCLER GAMME ROUGE A/W 2014

2003

PATRICIA PICCININI, GAME BOYS ADVANCED, AND  YOHJI YAMAMOTO CAMPAIGN 1991

2001
RON MUECK, BOY, AND JIL SANDER  S/S 2007 CAMPAIGN

1999

MAURIZIO CATTELAN, LA NONA ORA, AND JIL SANDER S/S 2000 CAMPAIGN  

1997

RODNEY GRAHAM, VEXATION ISLAND (STILL), AND YOHJI YAMAMOTO S/S 2013 CATWALK MAKE-UP

  

                        1995

                                                        DORU COVRIG, HANDS  AND YOHJI YAMAMOTO S/S 2009

HELMUT LANG KEEPS IT COMING !   CROWN BASQUIAT  X CROWN HELMUT

 HELMUT LANG A/W 1997   AND  BASQUIAT, GRINGO PILOT (ANOLA GAY) , 1981,  WALKING TO OMD 'S ENOLA GAY INDEED. BEGÜM

SCHON WIEDER !   INTERLUDE BY HELMUT LANG 3

BASQUIAT AND ANDY WARHOL, FELIX THE CAT, 1985  X  FELIX THE CAT T-SHIRT, HELMUT LANG, S/S 2003. BEGÜM BORÉ

JULIAN SCHNABEL  ➠  JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT  ➠  THE CROWN   ➠  MARTIN MARGIELA

BASQUIAT IS A  1996 FILM BY JULIAN SCHNABEL ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE NEO EXPRESSIONIST  JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT.  THE CROWN (SEEN ON THE TWO HELMETS BELOW)  SYMBOLISES BASQUIAT'S AMBITION AND UNDERSTANDING OF ART HISTORY: LIKE THE ROYAL TITLES ADOPTED BY AFRO-AMERICAN MUSICIANS AS NICKNAMES,  BASQUIAT USED THE CROWN TO ENNOBLE HIMSELF AND HIS ICONS.  HELMET 1 MARTIN MARGIELA, 2009.  HELMET 2, BASQUIAT, 1981. BEGÜM BORÉ

           MARTINE & MARTIN, 2 INTO 1  (2)   (FOREVER I AM A PART OF YOU AND ME)
           JULIAN SCHNABEL , MARTINE , 1987. OIL, BONDO, AND CERAMIC PLATES MOUNTED ON PANEL. (185.4 x 135.8 x 20.3 CM)    MARTIN MARGIELA BROKEN PLATE WAISTCOAT ,  A/W 1989. BEGÜM BORÉ

          FISCHER ACCOUNT

TOP LEFT GORDON MATTA-CLARK, CONICAL INTERSECT, 1975  TOP RIGHT EWAN MCGREGOR,TRAINSPOTTING, 1996  BOTTOM LEFT URS FISCHER, KIR ROYAL,2004 BOTTOM RIGHT JIL SANDER  S/S 

2013, MANIFESTO MARCH 2013   BOTTOM URS FISCHER,  DAYLIGHT PILLOW, 2004. BEGÜM 

INTERLUDE BY HELMUT LANG !

LEFT EBERHARD HAVEKOST HIMSELF AT GALERIE MIRCHANDANI + STEINRUECKE IN MUMBAI, WEARING A FELIX THE CAT  T-SHIRT, 2012  RIGHT FELIX THE CAT T-SHIRT, HELMUT LANG,  S/S 2003. BEGÜM

RECTO VERSO
TOP LEFT- BOTTOM RIGHT EBERHARD HAVEKOST, SPIEL 2 - SPIEL 1 , 2004 . TOP RIGHT MARTINE ROSE A/W 2012 BOTTOM LEFT RAF SIMONS A/W 2012 . BEGÜM

                             

 VIS-A-VIS  LEFT NICOLA L , ISIS AND OSIRIS, 2005  RIGHT RAF SIMONS A/W 2013 

       

EPILOGUE TO KEITH HARING INVENTED RAF SIMONS:   NEU !  COME AND PLAY HALLOGALLO FOR VINCENT GALLO

 NEU !   HALLOGALLO   (PLAY ON HALLIGALLI - GERMAN SLANG TERM FOR 'WILD PARTYING')

Having broken off from KRAFTWERK, Rother and Dinger quickly began the recording sessions for what would become Neu!. The band was christened Neu! by Dinger (Rother had been against the name, preferring a more "organic" title) and a  POP ART style logo was created, featuring italic capitals NEU!  Dinger recalls about Neu!'s logo:   "...it was a protest against the consumer society but also against our "colleagues" on the Krautrock scene who had totally different taste / styling if any. I was very well informed about WARHOL , POP ART , CONTEMPORARY ART.  I had always been very visual in my thinking . "