A#20 curator Pierpaolo Piccioli incited a monumental artistic dialogue for the Valentino Haute Couture AW2021-22 collection, inviting 15 artists to create garments directly linked with works of contemporary art.
Christopher Smith’s Surreal Self-Portraiture is on show at Acne Studios’ new Paris address
Before its unexpected return, Acne Paper’s past themes are reimagined by the South African art photographer in a series of self-portraits in Paris.
Emerging from the Primordial Soup, Again: An interview between Alice Bucknell and DEEP
At the Russian Federation Pavilion in Venice, the American writer and artist Alice Bucknell’s film Swamp City imagines the Florida Everglades as a luxury nature resort for high-tech eco-tourism in a near future reality of severe climate disruption.
‘Interior (Evening)’ by Christopher Page at Blue Mountain School, London
In a new site-specific work for the multi-hyphenate cultural space, the British artist brings the Ancient Roman art of trompe l’oeil fresco hurtling into the 21st century with his singular approach to contemporary painting practice.
‘What Artists Wear’: Clothes as Tools of Expression
The British writer Charlie Porter investigates a recent history of contemporary artists through their wardrobes, dissecting the practical and stylistic nuances of clothing as an extension of an artist’s aesthetic and philosophy.
Who The Bær — Simon Fujiwara’s Playful Existentialism at Fondazione Prada, Milano
A cardboard labyrinth demarcates Fujiwara’s exploration of the Sun bear, an immaterial character born from the artist’s questioning of the consumerism, ownership and authenticity of image.
Technologies of the Self, Los Angeles
Curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan, the four-person show ‘Technologies of the Self’ at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, is a catacomb of sorts — a room ‘decorated’ with coffins or chrysalises, depending on one’s perspective.
At Dries Van Noten Los Angeles, Len Lye and Viviane Sassen’s Chromatic Movements
The Belgian designer ushers in a triangulation of colour and light for SS 2021, calling upon the early film works of a pioneering New Zealand artist.
Alessandro Michele’s Mosaic of a Century
Gucci Aria was a hybrid sartorial time-lapse, with traces of the past and present scattered with possibilities of what may lie ahead.
At Geneva’s Musée d’Art d’Histoire, Jakob Lena Knebl ‘Walks on the Water’
The Musee d’Art d’Histoire de Geneve is radically rethinking its image and exhibition programming, starting with the intervention of the Austrian artist and designer Jakob Lena Knebl, who has reimagined the ‘body’ of the museum at the crossroads of gender.
Apollinaria Broche’s Imaginary Friends
Exploring the fragility of emotion through ceramics, the Franco-Russian artist Apollinaria Broche added her subversive feminine nuance to Acne Studios’ AW 2021-22 collection.
A#1 MMM as seen by Keisuke Otobe
Milan-based Japanese artist Keisuke Otobe reinterprets a series of images from inside (and outside) the 2021 limited edition reprint of A Magazine Curated By Maison Martin Margiela.
Cortina Cross-Country: Miu Miu AW2021-22 by Zora Sicher
As is often the case in Miuccia Prada’s universe, any easy reading of narrative or reference was thrown off at every turn with her Autumn Winter 2021-22 collection for Miu Miu. Brooklyn-based photographer Zora Sicher documented the lookbook and film project in an exclusive portfolio of behind-the-scenes imagery revealed here.
Windows to the Clouds, by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
In a new show at Berlin’s Museum Frieder Burda, Paris-based artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy creates portals into not-quite-other worlds: scenes, landscapes or events tied to our present or past reimagined.
Watanabe-san’s Glam Rock Girls
In Tokyo, Comme Des Garçons’ Junya Watanabe staged a faux rock concert for his Autumn Winter 2021-22 women’s collection, collaborating with Versace on archive rococo prints.
Wrap / Up
A further look at the methodology of styling itself, in a visual portfolio by Paris-based stylist Imruh Asha photographed by long-time collaborator Carlijn Jacobs.
Via Jonathan Anderson, An Homage To Joe Brainard (1942-1944)
By unearthing the all but forgotten works of the American artist and writer Joe Brainard, Jonathan Anderson presents a trio of insightful dialogues ft. Jim Jarmusch, Paul Auster and more, complementing Loewe’s Autumn Winter 2021-22 men’s collection with nostalgic memories from the New York School.
MPP, MÊME PAS PEUR
Detached from traditional purpose, everyday objects find new meaning in the hands of artists and designers. Discover their subtle takeover of a Milanese apartment curated by Italian artist Davide Stucchi.