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Rewind Vintage

Mark — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:44:19 +0000

Rewind is a new vintage shop online selling Haute Couture clothes and accessories.
Their motto: ‘If you have fallen out of love with your once- favourite luxury piece, we will give it a second chance at love by finding a new loving home for it!
www.rewindvintage.co.uk/

Faile at Lazarides until March 19th

Mark — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:42:45 +0000

Faile are a Brooklyn-based collaborative duo and pioneers of the contemporary street art movement. Their partner for this show, long-time collaborator BAST is a fellow Brooklyn native, and an elusive character who has rarely been seen in public and whose very existence has been debated. For this show they produced an environment of 80s nostalgia with custom made arcade games.
Website:www.lazinc.com/

New Talent Jolis Paons

Mark — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:33:35 +0000

Discovering new products is part of my job and looking for unique product makes my heart beat faster. I truly believe that we are entering an era of collectable products.
Great example: Jolis Paons form the US, 21 years old, very talented…..CULTURELABEL would love to sell your work.
Website:jolispaons.blogspot.com/

Louise Bristow: Platonic

Mark — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:01:09 +0000

Louise Bristow is a Brighton based painter who regularly exhibits her work in the UK, Japan and Germany. Her most recent project, Platonic just showed at the KALEID Gallery in Redchurch Street, Shoreditch.
And she is currently in a group show at Artists Residence Hotel Brighton.

Bristow’s paintings are landscapes with a difference; she constructs careful tableaux, rich in both formal composition and narrative play, using found imagery of other places, primarily in Northern and Eastern Europe, book covers and hand-made maquettes of real architectural features or fantasy structures. Her arrangements of condensed and re-imagined landscapes evocative of stage sets are often presided over by a geometrical element, recalling Cezanne’s exhortation to ‘treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone’. These forms of assumed perfection betray nostalgia for Modern ideals replete with utopian aspirations that never came to fruition. With Platonic, Bristow has taken this geometric rationalisation one step further. Each arrangement, overlaid and cut with a Euclidean net, offers instructions to fold and stick. Once assembled, each page is transformed into one of the five Platonic Solids: tetra, hedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.

KALEID’s in house book critic, Redchurch Idler comments on the work; “Louise Bristow evokes the anodyne world of corporate management, its hegemony concealed behind glass facades and atrium art. Assembling her platonic forms i.e cube, tetra-/icosa-/octa-/dodeca-/hedra from cardboard templates, a rudimentary task that involves folding and sticking a series of flaps, mocks the executive decision-making which shapes social reality for the multitude, whilst implying that outcomes, the artificial hives and insane systems mankind has built, are universal default structures. The De Chirico like atmosphere depicted via boardroom toys suggests mankind has become a mere frome in a totalitarian business machine, desperate to recompose the given, to recollect the womb.”

Website:www.louisebristow.com/

Cocaine&Heroin Shakers by David Shrigley

Mark — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:29:00 +0000

As a managing partner of CultureLabel.com we are always on the quest for new, innovative products for the museum world. Some of our partners have amazing products in their shops (ie the Salt & Pepper or Cocaine&Heroin Shakers by David Shrigley at the Saatchi Gallery) and Tate is pushing the envelope even further with us. We are looking for the next generation museum shop product, ideas and designs can be submitted at our competition website Release and the winner will be in the Tate shops in Q4 2010. This is not only a huge opportunity for newcomers to the design world but also perhaps a great new product for collectors who love to shop in museum shops.

Website:www.culturelabel.com/release