My favorite artist Adam Stennett made a new painting for the exhibition curated by Marc Straus which opened yesterday at Ana Cristea, 521 W 26th Street, NYC. Above his new work Soothing Syrup with two Poppies… Other artists in the exhibition are Marc Bijl, Zsolt Bodoni, Michael Brown, Joe Diebes, Tim Eitel, Daniel Pitin, Serban Savu, Andrew Sendor and Richard Wathen.

Designboom shared this beautiful project by london based designer Tithi Kutchamuch and frequent collaborator Nutre Arayavanish. ‘The Housemates’ is a collection of 6 unrare hidden lives in our house, caterpillar, ant, spider, fly, fruit fly, cockroach, inspired by collectors of rare insects and can be worn as brooches. Available here >

Not new, but happy AnOther/Loves shared it again. We very much love this art project by Konstantin Grcic. Package is a stack of 2000 Din A4 sheets of plain white paper wrapped in pink craft paper with this quote by Charles Eames printed on the face of the package.

“What you do really with paper can never quite come up to with what the paper offers. It’s something about that broken package, in the way carton is torn, sort of invites you to come in. There’s something about taking out that first sheet, that sort of changes that thing.” — Charles Eames, the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1971.

Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, former editors at the design magazine I.D. started the online publication Sight Unseen focusing on people and creativity.
They’ve already shared some very interesting views behind-the-scenes at design studios and factories as well as some nice book reviews and ‘city guides’ by creatives. As they can say it best ‘Sight Unseen uncovers the stories, inspirations, and obsessions of people who love to make things.’
A ‘must subscribe’ blog full of inspiration. And hopefully Sight Unseen and Anothersomething will collaborate somehow somewhere in a near future. To be continued…

After a long time living and working in the US Peter Schuyff moved back to the Netherlands and is now exhibiting his work at Gallery Gabriel Rolt. Passing by quite often I was attacked by these hand carved baseball bats. These two contrary emotions both in one work of art – the aggressive icon of the bat hand carved into something extremely fragile – is absolutely stunning! Definitely worth a visit >

Lovely new work (video and paper) by my favorite artist Adam Stennet at Schuebbe Projects in Düsseldorf.

Now showing in Berlin at Jiri Svestka, ‘Relics of the Afterfuture’ by Ioana Nemes. Beautiful works decorated with traditional motives with traditional techniques from historical objects from different parts of Romania, brought back in a new light and in a new story… ‘What we have is no longer history but rather the fragments of such, cut off and fashioned to serve the new politics of information and development. The Afterfuture is a reference to a chronology that starts where this future ends and stops at the beginning of a new primitivism.’

New treasures in the new Blend nr 45 featuring Marijn Akkermans, the Gentleman’s Cap by Rapha, our favorite new danish label Libertine-Libertine and the Le Labo candle Petit Grain 21. Enjoy Blend (dutch) here > and the treasures here >

Ed Ruscha’s visual interpretation of autumn. “Fall All Leaves All Fall” (2009). Courtesy Ed Ruscha and Gagosian Gallery. Via NYT

Jaakko Pallasvuo is studying at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and makes some really nice work.

Here’s a new project by our favorite photographer Pablo Delfos: Sentimentale. A performance by Ivan Hennetin with Opus 51 by Tchaikovslky played by Janine Jansen. It resulted in this beautiful short movie and a fantastic series of pictures.

Last week we met talented creatives and reviewed their portfolio’s at the Blend New Talent Night. We were very excited to meet such passionate and talented people and so we left Pakhuis de Zwijger with a fresh dose of inspiration.

Our favorite was definitely last years graduate from the HKU Ashkan Honarvar with his dark, horrifying but lovely collages and paintings. His former classmate, Sylvia Stølan, creates more poetic and sparkling collages and illustrations and did some nice projects here in Utrecht.
More illustration; Hedof caught our eyes with his very nice screenprinted posters – a lovely style.
Adriane Galijasevic overwhelmed us with her energy and enormous amount of stories she put in the jeans she creates.
Promising talent Renata Sifrar showed us a mix of graphic, photographic and illustrational works…
And last but not least: Les Ponies Lilas. Three young girls with a shit load of energy and positivity writing, illustrating and photographing all things they like (dutch only). They’ve made some very nice t-shirts (soon online) and made a very nice illustration of Bas en myself as a present for us – How nice! Keep an eye on all these talents!

Axis of Power is an installation by David Spriggs, exhibited at the Sharjah Biennial 9, United Arab Emirates 2009. ‘In a gesture to freeze time, David Spriggs jams the film projector to create a new type of machine that transfers the principles of cinema into the axioms of sculpture. Freeze the frame. Cut the filmstrip. Stack the negatives. The narrative of cinema morphs into the suspension of sculpture—both backlit with mental projections from the spectator.’ (excerpt of David Spriggs: Archaeology of Space, Catalogue text, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Rodman Hall Brock University, 2009) I’m inspired and blown away by the power and aesthetic of it. Thank you Robin for sharing.

Number two of a selection of beautiful finds by Anothersomething and Tenue de Nîmes. Enjoy after the click. Read the rest of this entry »

I wanted to post this quite some time ago but lost the story between all the others on my desktop. If you’re in Geneva these days this is a must see. The solo show by Robert Longo at Galerie Saks (until november the 7th). The work of Robert Longo is often described as dark, violence and destructive and because of his defined use of charcoal on big sized paper it looks almost photographic and cinematic. The drawings explore the iconography of popular culture accompanied with scenes from nature (like above’s Et In Arcadia Ego) – makes me think of the pictures on Hedi Slimane’s fashion diary.

I very much love this rocking hot dog by Jaime Hayon and Nienke Klunder who are now showing their collaborative work at Spring Projects in London (until october 22nd). The beautiful mix of materials like fiberglass, aluminium, leather, maple wood and chromed metal made this ‘fun to ride’ Hotdog highly aesthetic. It is produced by a formula 1 manufacturer and made in an edition of 8. If you’re around, this exhibition at Spring Projects is really worth a visit. (found at designboom)

Christian Nyampeta, an artist and researcher born in Rwanda, naturalized in the Netherlands and currently based in London, emailed me to share his work and stories with Anothersomething. This very inspiring artist creates installations interwoven with performances, living and working spaces with room for exercise, play and eccentricity. I really love the Stunts 1 piece and the work-in-progress looks promising for the future! be sure you’ll download the work-in-progress pdf. Thank you Mr. Nyampeta for sharing!

Kimberly Lloyd just emailed us to say they released the first Qompendium Print Publication. Qompendium is an evolving and ever-changing platform for philosophy, art, culture and science, represented by a series of print publications: magazines, books and monographs. Furthermore, it is enriched by a real gallery concept, a workshop and a fast-moving online portal.
Volume 1 is a selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules featuring an array of exceptional pictorial essays, unabridged interviews and supplementary brand editorials by an impressive list of contributors.
Get a preview here >

At Anthem, we’re all book lovers but in different ways. I personally tend to find myself diving into novels, nonfiction tomes, and, yes, comic books of all shapes and sizes, while others within our editorial family veer more towards the art side of the spectrum, gobbling up coffee table volumes and artist monographs every chance they get. Our mass-market preferences aside, though, we all lovingly support anyone bold enough to try their hand at small press. From ‘zine publishers to pamphlet printers to digital distributors, the independent book-lovers of this day and age inspire us―and pique our curiosity.

For the first installment of Another Anthem, we’ve chosen three such entities that share nothing more in common than a deep-seated passion for the smell of heavy ink mixed with thick paper, the sensation of turning the pages of a yet-to-be-broken-in creaky spine, and, of course, the excitement that one wells up upon discovering a new novelist, illustrator, poet, painter, or what have you. Independent publishers, like us, are indiscriminate as long as the content they carry is top-notch.

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Influenced by cubism and constructivism Moscow based artist Evgeny Parfenov creates beautiful illustrations for magazines like Rolling Stone, GQ, Forbes, a.o. Although his influences are quite obvious, his use of color is much more positive than the propagandistic works of the past century… Love it! (via the artist and his model)