TheArtGorgeous - Issue 6 Spring/Summer 2019 by TheArtGorgeous

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ISSUE 6 2019

WHY POP CULTURE LOVES BAUHAUS

FOOD FACE STICKERS

ART CLANS These Families Rule the Art World Plus Sciuraglam, Hein Koh, Dietprada & Jemima Kirke

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CONTENT Sciuraglam

#me #myart #myparents

STYLE p. 58

CANDY p. 74

Yummy! JUNGLE p. 34

Art Ba$ar p. 18

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Art Ba$ar Mr. Anotherfriendlymayoface `Grams to Escape the Art World Career Coach Ultimate Art World Template

JUNGLE 34 Yummy! 40 Art Clans

STYLE p. 18

Mr. Anotherfriendlymayoface p. 20

On the Cover Model: Marina Deserti Hair / Make Up: Martina Perticarà Photography / Styling: Sciuraglam Coat: Vintage Blouse: Brognano Jewellery: Salvatore Ferragamo / Vintage

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CANDY 74 #me #myart #myparents 82 The Simple Pleasures of Hein Koh 88 The Very Honest Gallerist 10 12 14 16

Thief in Tuxedo Sciuraglam Sisters of Bauhaus Art Gent Deconstructed

Content Imprint Editor’s Letter Contributors

IMPRINT Founder / Editor-In-Chief: Cordelia Noe Publisher: Christoph Noe Graphic Designer: Lavender Woo Photographers: Alex Hodor-Lee, Sciuraglam, Dan Bradica, Olaf Breuning Contributing Writers: Katya Lopatko, Peigi Mackillop, Mac McDonough, Kathrin Rettig Copy Editor: Melissa Ghidini For Advertising and Sponsorship Enquiries please contact: thegirls@theartgorgeous.com Special thanks to: Nadine Knotzer, Kathy Grayson, Allegra LaViola, Peter Koloff, Giulia Gelmini, Alice Stori Lichtenstein, Marina Deserti, Mirim Lee, Natalia Trejbalova Printing: Druck- und Verlagshaus Fromm GmbH & Co. KG; Osnabrück, Germany TheArtGorgeous Magazine is a publication by TheArtGorgeous Ltd. TheArtGorgeous. Issue 6, Spring/Summer 2019. © 2019, TheArtGorgeous Ltd. All Rights Reserved. See the magazine online at www.theartgorgeous.com. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or part without permission from the publishers. The views expressed in TheArtGorgeous Magazine are those of the respective contributors, and are, not necessarily shared by the magazine or its staff. The magazine welcomes new contributors but can assume no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or any other material. Contact: TheArtGorgeous is published by TheArtGorgeous Ltd., 340 Queen’s Road Central, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Email: contact@theartgorgeous.com Subscription Email: thegirls@theartgorgeous.com

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ello Gorgeous, Hip Hip Hurray - you know that we love to celebrate the arts and in particular, the art world’s female power, but this issue is here to celebrate much more. Besides two amazing artists, Jemima Kirke - yes, she didn’t stop with playing Jessa in Girls - and one of our new discoveries, Hein Koh (check out the iconic Instagram image of her, nursing her twins while working on the laptop) we want to toast to the Bauhaus sisters. Did you know that Jil Sander, IKEA and Balenciaga are all heavily influenced by its principles?

EDI TOR’S L ET T ER

We also celebrate the art clans, aka the families ruling, and most of all supporting, the art world across the globe. From Brussels to L.A., there are incredible examples whose names we should get on our radars. And talking about families: in line with our Instagram art world memes, we came up with a special “Best of Family” edition. Just for you, mum & dad. A few weeks ahead of Salone del Mobile, we also share with you our Milan insights and together with style authority @sciuraglam, follow the city’s most glamorous ladies to the trendiest art spaces in town. When you get hungry from all that celebration, a little cheat sheet about the best of art & food will leave you crave for more and thanks to the amazing artist Olaf Breuning, you can stick some of his signature food faces in your art world diary. Not enough? Come on, you are spoiled! But ok, to treat you even more, we have added some career boosters (including the ultimate press release template for the next gallery opening) and many other discoveries. We are thrilled to present you with this issue and are sure it’ll make you love the art world even more.

Founder / Editor-in-Chief cordelia@theartgorgeous.com

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Mac McDonough Mac McDonough is a writer and journalist based out of New York. He is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California where he studied Communication, Journalism, and Art History. His love for museum-hopping in his spare time inspired him to begin writing contemporary art criticism. He has contributed to various publications including TheArtGorgeous, Interview magazine, Cinema Thread, and DART magazine - an online publication that he established while in high school.

Olaf Breuning CON TR I BU TORS

Multi-media artist Olaf Breuning was born in 1970 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and lives and works upstate New York. He has had one-person exhibitions at NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Chisenhale Gallery, London, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway, and the Paul Klee Museum, Bern. He participated in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pompidou Center, Paris, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Jeu de Paume, Paris, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

@Sciuraglam

@Sciuraglam, is one of the most fashionable Italy bred Instagram accounts celebrating Milan’s rich and glamorous signoras. A brainchild from its founder Angelo, the account started to capture the city’s iconic women since late 2016. Since then, the account has gone from strength to strength and has garnered a cult following among the fashion scene - and beyond.

Peigi Mackillop

Peigi Mackillop is an events and marketing specialist and a freelance writer based in Hong Kong, who is about to move to London. On top of being an art enthusiast, Peigi also loves fashion, and co-hosts the vintage fashion pop-up market, Rug Lane. @peigicatrion

Katya Lopatko

Katya Lopatko is a recent college grad, based out of Los Angeles, but about to set sail for Corsica to teach English, traipse around the Mediterranean, and finally put her 1960s Cote d’Azur thrift-store wardrobe to good use. Her favorite stories to write are the ones that bridge the gap between fine art and pop culture – and the ones that lend themselves well to a light sprinkle of philosophising. Her work has appeared in GARAGE magazine and on VICE.com, where she spent a semester churning out transcriptions, researching, and stockpiling mugs at her desk as an editorial intern.

Kathrin Rettig

Born in Heidelberg, in the south of Germany, she studied law in Leiden, Vienna and New York. Since she was little, she was passionate about writing, art and fashion; so she opted to follow new paths by becoming a fashion journalist and a student of media communication. Currently, she is based in Paris and works for different cultural and fashion magazines.

Photograph taken at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

Participating Galleries # 303 Gallery 47 Canal A A Gentil Carioca Miguel Abreu Acquavella Air de Paris Juana de Aizpuru Helga de Alvear Andréhn-Schiptjenko Applicat-Prazan The Approach Art : Concept Alfonso Artiaco B von Bartha Guido W. Baudach elba benítez Bergamin & Gomide Berinson Bernier/Eliades Fondation Beyeler Daniel Blau Blum & Poe Marianne Boesky Tanya Bonakdar Bortolami Isabella Bortolozzi BQ Gavin Brown Buchholz Buchmann C Cabinet Campoli Presti Canada Gisela Capitain carlier gebauer Carzaniga Casas Riegner Pedro Cera Cheim & Read Chemould Prescott Road Mehdi Chouakri Sadie Coles HQ Contemporary Fine Arts Continua Paula Cooper Pilar Corrias Chantal Crousel

D Thomas Dane Massimo De Carlo dépendance Di Donna E Ecart Eigen + Art F Konrad Fischer Foksal Fortes D‘Aloia & Gabriel Fraenkel Peter Freeman Stephen Friedman Frith Street G Gagosian Galerie 1900-2000 Galleria dello Scudo gb agency Annet Gelink Gladstone Gmurzynska Elvira González Goodman Gallery Marian Goodman Bärbel Grässlin Alexander Gray Richard Gray Howard Greenberg Greene Naftali greengrassi Karsten Greve Cristina Guerra H Michael Haas Hauser & Wirth Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert Herald St Max Hetzler Hollybush Gardens Hopkins Edwynn Houk Xavier Hufkens I Invernizzi Taka Ishii J Bernard Jacobson Alison Jacques Martin Janda Catriona Jeffries Annely Juda

K Kadel Willborn Casey Kaplan Karma International kaufmann repetto Sean Kelly Kerlin Anton Kern Kewenig Kicken Peter Kilchmann König Galerie David Kordansky KOW Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Andrew Kreps Krinzinger Nicolas Krupp Kukje / Tina Kim kurimanzutto L Lahumière Landau Simon Lee Lehmann Maupin Tanya Leighton Lelong Lévy Gorvy Gisèle Linder Lisson Long March Luhring Augustine Luxembourg & Dayan M Jörg Maass Kate MacGarry Magazzino Mai 36 Gió Marconi Matthew Marks Marlborough Mayor Fergus McCaffrey Greta Meert Anthony Meier Urs Meile Mendes Wood DM kamel mennour Metro Pictures Meyer Riegger Massimo Minini Victoria Miro Mitchell-Innes & Nash

June 13 – 16, 2019

Mnuchin Modern Art The Modern Institute Jan Mot mother‘s tankstation Vera Munro N nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder Nagel Draxler Richard Nagy Edward Tyler Nahem Helly Nahmad Neu neugerriemschneider Franco Noero David Nolan Nordenhake Georg Nothelfer Nathalie Obadia O OMR P P.P.O.W Pace Pace/MacGill Maureen Paley Alice Pauli Peres Projects Perrotin Petzel Francesca Pia Plan B Gregor Podnar Eva Presenhuber ProjecteSD R Almine Rech Reena Spaulings Regen Projects Rodeo Thaddaeus Ropac S Salon 94 Esther Schipper Rüdiger Schöttle Thomas Schulte Natalie Seroussi Sfeir-Semler Jack Shainman ShanghART Sies + Höke Sikkema Jenkins Skarstedt

SKE Skopia / P.-H. Jaccaud Société Pietro Spartà Sperone Westwater Sprovieri Sprüth Magers St. Etienne Nils Stærk Stampa Standard (Oslo) Starmach Christian Stein Stevenson Luisa Strina T Take Ninagawa Tega Templon Thomas Tokyo Gallery + BTAP Tornabuoni Travesía Cuatro Tschudi Tucci Russo V Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Van de Weghe Annemarie Verna Susanne Vielmetter Vitamin W Waddington Custot Nicolai Wallner Barbara Weiss Wentrup Michael Werner White Cube Barbara Wien Jocelyn Wolff Z Thomas Zander Zeno X ZERO... David Zwirner Feature The Breeder Bureau Corbett vs. Dempsey Raffaella Cortese Croy Nielsen frank elbaz Essex Street

Christophe Gaillard Hales Jahn und Jahn Klemm’s Knoell Kohn David Lewis Philip Martin Jaqueline Martins Daniel Marzona Parra & Romero Project Native Informant Tommy Simoens Sommer Stereo Vadehra Isabelle van den Eynde Vedovi Kate Werble Statements Balice Hertling Barro Carlos/Ishikawa Chapter NY ChertLüdde Commonwealth and Council Crèvecoeur Experimenter Freedman Fitzpatrick JTT Jan Kaps Marfa‘ Max Mayer Neue Alte Brücke Dawid Radziszewski SpazioA Temnikova & Kasela The Third Line Edition Niels Borch Jensen Alan Cristea mfc - michèle didier Durham Press Fanal Gemini G.E.L. Sabine Knust Lelong Editions Carolina Nitsch Paragon Polígrafa Susan Sheehan STPI Two Palms

Art Ba$ar

bauhaus edition 2019 marks a century since the founding of the world-famous Bauhaus. As presents are an essential element of a big birthday party, we digged the web for all things Bauhaus you will love. Isn’t the big anniversary of this major design movement reason enough to get yourself a little treat?

Day Bed “Eileen Gray” by Classicon PB 0110

We bet you want to rest your head on this one. The Bauhaus’ favourite tubular steel frame, powder-coated in black or chrome.

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Walter & Wassily by neubau eyewear

True to the motto „form follows function“ these special Bauhaus inspired glasses by neubau, combine daily comfort with iconic design.

When was the last time you wrote a letter? This pen will get you in the mood again...

Lamy

The mini pouch AB88 by PB 0110 is a little tribute to a revolutionary design school.

Little and big dreams come true with the beautifully crafted, wooden Bauhaus-inpired toys by Set & Co.

Baxter

This armchair is like the perfect hommage to the Bauhaus era in your living room.

A beautiful investment – keep your cards and coins in one of these uni-colored wallets.

Acne Studios

Kiehl´s

Gunta Stölzl would have loved it! These face masks give your skin the absolute freshness kick.

Marni

11 All you need in one case, the beauty of simplicity.

The Fisheye Baby Bauhaus Edition is dressed in primary colors and ready to attract attention wherever you go. Try it at the next gallery opening!

It is not that hard to revalue your interior, with this timeless signature piece of the ALYX collaboration by New Tendency.

This hand-tufted wool rug by Anni Albers is part of the MoMA`s permanent collection. Limited to 150 pieces only, you might be lucky and get your hands on one, too.

Study Rug by Anni Albers

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Mary Katrantzou

This Bauhaus mod knit sweater does not only keep you warm, it is a wearable statement.

Armani Beauty

Hands up. With this beautiful elastic bracelet you have the perfect eyecatcher for the next art dinner.

Fisheye Baby 110 Camera

Mr. Anotherfriendly mayoface text by Peigi Mackillop

Ever look at your food and think it’s looking right back at you? No? … well, the creative force that is Olaf Breuning does. The multi-disciplinary contemporary artist who ignored the rule, has designed a fun set of stickers to accompany the sixth edition of TheArtGorgeous magazine. Meet the likes of a tomato otherwise known as Mr Greeneye, Mrs Dontsh out a t m e i n t h e m or n i n g t he pepper, a rather sad looking cake named Mrs Lifeistooshort and Mr Drinkmeandwakeup, which is, you g uessed it, a cup of coffee. You can find these fun foodie themed characters amongst others, c o m e t o l i fe i n t h is entertaining sticker series. Originally from Switzerland, and now based i n N e w Yo r k , Olaf is know n worldwide for his humorous and often absurd work. Born in 1970, i n S cha f f hau sen , Switzerland, Olaf studied photography at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zürich. Still the avid photographer, Olaf chooses not to stick to the traditional boundaries of working with only one artistic practice. Instead the multi-disciplinary artist communicates his ideas in many forms including sculpture, installation, performance, films and drawing.

Image credit: Brit Kubat, Olaf Breuning

Olaf is the kind of artist who dares to ask the big questions about the meaning of life by basing his

art on his observations of human experience and reflections on current cultural and political issues. If you have never come across his other work before, think of an animated version of your daily news on acid. Direct without being confrontational, he holds a steady gaze to meet the viewer’s eye - should they dare to look. Often described as “outlandish,” his art also addresses ideas about consumerism, stereot y pe s, gender cl iché s a nd touches heavily upon the theme of pop culture, while always united by his distinctive sense of dark humour. It only seems fitting that Olaf once sa id, “I bel ieve that humour is the most intellectual language.” His works have been in the col lec t ion s of the Kunsthalle H a m bu r g, t he Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Sammlung Goetz in Munich. In the past two years alone, Olaf has held solo exhibitions at the Downstairs Project and Metro Pictures in New York, Kod a ma Ga l ler y i n Tok yo a nd t he Nicola Von Senger Gallery in Zurich amongst others. Still true today, nothing is safe from Olaf’s hungry appetite or compulsive commentary of the world around him and its residents, twisting the mundane into something laughable. Since food is interwoven with most aspects of our lives, it seemed a perfect choice as a subject to work on for his collaboration with TheArtGorgeous magazine.

This issue comes with a set of Olaf Breuning stickers. If the stickers are gone already, someone else was quicker! Write to us at contact@theartgorgeous.com. 21

‘Grams to Escape the Art World Relax, take it eaaaaaasy … it’s easy to say, but let’s face it, when was your last date with yourself? We are talking about #metime or #selfcare moments. Got ya? Endless phone calls with clients, 24 hours days finishing a new series in the studio and the global art fair marathon don’t come without leaving their traces and ruining our inner balance. Hands down - do you still remember you last proper healthy meal? And no, not the quinoa finger food at the vernissage last week. Ready for a kind of digital Ayurveda trip? All you need: Instagram, 5 minutes of time and these accounts. text by Kathrin Rettig

@Thegreatplanet Staring out from your gallery’s window into the gray of the big city? You deserve some variety: endless forests, crystal-clear lakes and breathtaking sunsets… dive into a world of calmness and relaxation. You’ve seen the sea roses of Monet in Paris and the sunflowers by Van Gogh in Amsterdam, but when was last time you had a look at the beauty of nature? With this account you will find some inspiration for your own paintings and we are pretty sure that nothing will stop you from booking the next trip to one of these wonderful places.

@streetartine Having lunch with your clients and they won’t stop talking? All you want to do is throw your chicken salad in their faces? Hold on, streetartine has a better solution for these situations. Just remember the days when you were a child and only wanted to eat vegetables when your mother made a smiley face out of them or the sandwich slides were formed like a star. This account is just exactly our taste – the best things in life combined: art and food. What about some Lady Gaga spaghetti for lunch or a sneaker snack for the movie night? Starring and starving at these posts by streetartine, your mouth will start watering, we promise.

@thenannyart

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Fashion and art were always going hand in hand. The Mondrian dress by Yves Saint Laurent is only one of the countless examples, which proves that fashion prints, colors and cuts can be (almost) always related to some inspiring contemporary art work. But now we got some surprising news! It is not Carrie in SATC and not Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl who has brought art into fashion and has all the famous painters in her closet – it’s the one and only 90s fashion icon: The Nanny. She was wearing them all, from Kenneth Noland over Victor Vasarely to Jasper Johns. Just take a look and these posts and you will see the obvious, she is the real fashionista of the contemporary art world.

@Dietprada You thought the art world was crazy? Then lean back and follow this account! Dietprada is one of the big players on Instagram nowadays if you want to be updated on the madness of the fashion industry. Between unrevealing the dark sides of the industries and posting funny memes, dietprada always serves us with some hilarious facts and comparisons of the industries’ most famous people. Kim Kardashian and Stefano Gabbana may not experience the same relaxing effect as we do, but life isn’t fair!

@Doublekoek Your client freaked you out by asking for another discount? We swear that the cute alpacas pictured for the latest work of Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek will calm you down in the blink of their brown eyes! The photographer already worked for Magnum photos and clients such as Apple, BMW and Vanity Fair, and has now invented the perfect healthy drug we all need: “Better Living with Alpacas.” Take a deep breath, access this account and you will be happy! No side effects to be expected, we promise!!

@Notallgeminis

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You think you know what the future holds for you, since your calendar is already full of art fairs and meetings? But have you checked what the stars say? This phrase can have a double meaning. Notallgeminis is reading your stars out of the starsâ&#x20AC;Ś confused? Check this funny account, which is somehow a teen drama based on horoscopes played by none other than Lady Gaga and Timothy Chamalet and co. Cancer, is like the O.C. and Capricorns fulfill the typical Gilmore Girls clichĂŠs. Are you curious which series is your zodiac related to?

@Mytherapistsays You’re at this boring art party, wearing all black once again and forget all the names of the people you should talk to? Someone comes over and wants to talk about the intensity of the trivial forms and splashes of color surrounding you. No worries, this account feels you. Mytherapistsays is like this one best friend who is always there when you need it most and will make you land on the floor holding your sides laughing. Doesn’t matter which situation you’re in; one of the posts is definitely describing your situation. Just remember: “January was a tough year but we made it.”

@sweat Too much standing around at the fair? Why not jazzing up with some squads while you are looking for a new work in the storage? This account will kick your butt to get back in shape for the summer holidays. The credo of this digital gym is not purely about burning calories but it is about attitude. Kayla Itsines, the fitness goddess herself, guides you through exercises and reveals the best kept nutrition secrets. Time to look after yourself.

@Awardsforgoodboys

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Women of the art world, in times of #metoo, it can still feel like we have to fight for our equality when it comes to business. So you deserve some stress release, and what is more relaxing than a good laugh? Awardsforgoodboys is granting the immense ego of men who do their absolute minimum to satisfy women â&#x20AC;&#x201C; still thinking they are charming and expecting some applause in the end. The woman behind that sarcastic account is tired of letting macho boys pass with their superior behavior, so she decided to turn the tables in an artistic way!

Career Coach

The First-Ever Insider's Guide to Art World Job Struggles

P R OV E NANCE R E S E A RCHER A mix between Indiana Jones and Bridget Jones. Tweed and corduroy dominate as well as muted colours. We haven’t come across someone in a Hugo Boss or Max Mara suit yet (see corporate art manager) - but that might also be a matter of salary. If Gurlitt and Lafite sound Spanish to you, you won’t make it.

The successful art detective never sleeps. Likely a solid figure that allows you to cover your monthly metro ticket, shopping at the wholefood market and every now and then a new pair of Campers.

CORPORAT E A RT M ANAGER

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For the ones who could never decide if they favour a corporate career over a creative lifestyle. You get both.

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Here the corporate wins. If you are lucky, your job position is within a luxury fashion brand.

Getting In

We’ve never met someone who planned this career. Maybe just because you introduced KAWS to your boss.

Working Hours Salary

You should be on the safe side with a corporate contract. You have the benefits of one of the most regulated positions in the whole art world. And actually not too bad compared to a lot of those freelance art consultants.

Playing “Memory” and learning how to disguise your voice on the phone.

Recommended Studies

Management accounting gives you the credibility in the company, best paired with a graffiti past for the street cred.

You help packing to ship the Pergamon Altar back to Turkey.

Best Moments

An artist paints on your company’s (please select) car, tie, wine label, refrigerator, office entrance…

You are not the hero per se and now you are sent on a hostage exchange.

Fearful Moments

An artist paints on your company’s (please select) car, tie, wine label, refrigerator, office entrance…

No need to follow the global art fair circus.

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Cleverness wins: selecting an artist from the Philippines for a collab offers a higher chance of a business trip than an artist from the local art school. www.linkedin.com

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Yummy! - A Cheat Sheet on the History of Food and the Art World

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A Cheat Sheet on the History of Food and the Art World text by Mac McDonough 34

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ood is a necessary part of everyday life. It comes with its social mores and ritual traditions. Some people eat to live, while others - like myself - live to eat. It comes as no surprise that food has entered the art world throughout history. From early cave paintings made from ingredients such as vegetable byproducts and animal fats and wheat crops depicted in the ancient carvings of the Egyptians and Mesopotamians: It‘s safe to say food art has been around since well, whenever humans started to let their creative juices flow.

they have survived a radioactive blast.Artists, today, continue to use food in their works to various degrees. Jennifer Rubell is an American artist who frequently plays with food to create her conceptual, participatory works. For nearly two decades, she has satiated audiences with her blockbuster performances. Her annual displays at the Rubell Family collection in Miami are a staple of Art Basel and a favorite among art pilgrims. Setting aside the obvious familial nepotism, Rubbell’s interactive pantry parades are inspired events. They recall Allan Kaprow’s 1960s “Happenings,” like Household (1964), which witnessed several women partake in a ceremonial act of licking jam off a car.

Even artists from the Italian Renaissance played with food. Painters like Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s imaginative portraits of people were made entirely out of fish, fruits and vegetables. The plethora of Dutch Golden Age still life paintings have been significant In 2006, Rubell created a one-night-only spectacle as contributors to the art world’s bountiful food pyrtitled Backyard Readymade (2006). The perforamid as well. The innumerable cornucopias splashed mance piece was essentially an invitation to an across these canvases are loaded with meaning. In a all-American, backyard cookout - as the name imgame of “I spy,” you will spot decomposing meat, plies - filled with burgers, chili dogs, and veggie burlemon slices, orange gers. Two long tables peels, rotting vegetawere covered in the bles, cracked walclassic, no-frills, red nuts, and a slew of picnic vinyl cloth other grocery items. that usually drapes These calculated commost tables across ponents of still life the country from are a memento mori, May to September. reminders of death The table tops were and human mortalithen accessorized with ty - yikes! Our boa repeating pattern dies are not marked of condiments: Heinz Ketchup, with expiring dates Tomato Hellman‘s Mayonnaise, like labels on the sides French‘s Classic Yelof milk cartons. The low Mustard, B&G Dutch Old Masters Crunchy Kosher Dills, felt the need to let Andy Warhol Eating a Whopper in Burger King´s Super Bowl Commercial Mount Olive Sweet everyone walk away Relish, and Tapatío Salsa Picante - standard feature from their paintings with the stark realization that of any American barbecue. The night ended with an time is fleeting, sooner or later we will all meet our ice‐cream truck dispensing free ice‐cream to the permaker. formance participants. Not a bad gig for the lucky volunteers included on the guest list. Moving a few centuries forward we find the more recent food-related works by artists like Cézanne. The Rubell’s body of food-related work‚ is not solely Post-Impressionist’s vivid still life features apples about free meals. Just last year, the self-described and succulent produce pouring out of baskets and off “mindful glutton,” decided to tackle issues related to tablecloths. They are observational works that stand the #MeToo movement and to sexual consent. Rubell the test of time - often making their way into Paininvited patrons of New York’s Meredith Rosen Gallery ting 101 classes for young artists to study and mito pie her in the face every day for six-weeks. She mic. prepared 192 unbaked pies filled with thick white frosting and gave eight people a night‚ the chance to Fastforward and Pop Art brought along more food... smash one into her face. There were of course stipulots more. Andy Warhol churned out Campbell’s soup lations. Each participant had to read through three cans and Coca-Cola silkscreens. Wayne Thiebaud long pages of guidelines and sign a release form‚ bepainted cakes - saccharine delights - that would fore they could get their hands on one of Rubell’s make Marie Antoinette blush. While Claes Oldenburg pies. Pieing another individual is widely considered a opened a storefront and sold off sculptures of cheesenon-consensual, whipped cream-filled, act of malice. burgers and club sandwiches that look as though 35

Artists Martin Hablesreiter & Sonja Stummerer

Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Rudolf II of Habsburg as Vertumnus

The peanut butter and jelly sandwich (aka the PB&J) is as ubiquitous as the image of the Mona Lisa (1503). With that in mind, it makes sense that São Paulo-native, Vik Muniz, felt compelled to make his own Lisa using the lunchtime snack’s two main ingredients. Double Mona Lisa (Peanut butter and jelly), (1999) is a remake of the da Vinci original. Additionally, the diptych recalls the repetitive nature of Warhol’s silkscreened icons. Muniz assembled and recorded his adaptation so that the work can still be enjoyed. The artist has a habit of employing unconventional materials like scrap metal, dust, diamonds, toys, and food products to craft his works. He has used food products on more than one occasion to construct his edible arrangements. Muniz recreated Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm (1950) with chocolate syrup and the iconic photograph of Che Guevara with black beans, a piece he cheekily named Che Frijol (2000). Dan Colen uses chewed up gum to create some of his works. Colen litters canvases, like city sidewalks, with the colorful bubble gum in lieu of paint. The jury‘s out on whether or not he got his inspiration for the bubble gum art from fellow artist Hannah Wilke. The feminist artist famously used chewing gum throughout her career. The artist has also painted over large boulders to mimic M&M candies. Though the disfigured shapes of the rock formations contrast the rounded shells of M&Ms, a faint lower case “m” painted on their sides is a clear nod to the popular chocolate candy.

Jeff Koons’Cake, 1995-1997

Honey & Bunny, are the nicknames that Austrian “food designers” Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter go by professionally. The designer duo’s projects are concerned with how food is made and consumed. They regularly experiment with the “idea” of food and the way we taste, smell, and touch it. For example, Honey & Bunny made a mock human digestive system completely out of candy back in 2018. Each of the confectionary pieces was made by hand and contained patterns resembling the digestive tract that made up the full work. Similarly, Marije Vogelzang is an artist interested in the “idea” of food. The Dutch food designer has spent the bulk of her career focusing on how people model their food habits. Vogelzang put together a food performance called One Bite (2016) in Sofia, Bulgaria. The participatory event referenced the apple from the story of Adam and Eve. The show entailed a large group of blindfolded individuals taking single bites out of the forbidden fruit of knowledge while blindfolded. The artist has said herself that “You put my designs inside your body,” which is a weird and unsettling statement, but to each their own. 36

Image credit: Wikipedia, Stummerer/Habelsreiter/Akita/Koeb, Jeff Koons, James Ostrer, Gazelli Art House

The goal of which is to humiliate. Consent (2018), co-opted this practice in an orchestrated event intended to generate discussion between participants and viewers alike about issues related to sexual consent, status, privilege, shame, power, and vulnerability.

James Ostrer is sculpting the dark side of junkfood

For some people, food is a stress-inducing part of their lives. It stirs anxiety and can lead to unhealthy, disordered eating habits. James Ostrer’s complicated relationship with food throughout his life is reflected in his works. The photographer covers human forms with junk food in ways that seem to make Giuseppe Arcimboldo portraits come to life centuries later. Ostrer’s pieces meditate on themes like emotional eating and self-inflicted degradation. They are absolutely terrifying. Period.

show exploring the past, present, and future of ice cream for the British Museum of Food’s first major exhibition. SCOOP had guests melting away over a complete sensory experience, which included “ice cream weather” and a glow-in-the-dark flavor of the beloved dessert.

Bompas & Parr is an atelier of designers based in London, England, that works with food all the time. While they are not necessarily the witches and wizards of Hogwarts they are nonetheless skillful magicians who conjure up lively project-based commissions. Projects like the Jelly Parlour of Wonders (2016) and their more recent SCOOP: A Wonderful Ice Cream World (2018) are among their most noteworthy food related commissions. The team executed a celebratory

KAWS is next up on the docket of artists making consumable art. The Brooklyn-based designer is partnering with Magnum ice cream to manufacture his very own custom ice cream bar. There’s not a lot of information out yet regarding the project but keep your eyes-peeled and fridges cold. The appetite for food art has clearly not subsided. At the end of the day, food in art is virtually everywhere. Hell, over 110-million people watched stock footage of Andy Warhol eating a Burger King Whopper during the 2019 NFL Super Bowl, in an advertisement that called on us to #EatLikeAndy. With all of the creatives out there who continue to play with their food, it does not look like the marriage between food and art will be consciously uncoupling anytime soon. Murakami mints by Mentos

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Consumable art has obviously been done before. That said, there are artists who are beginning to take the concept of food art to new extremes. If you are familiar with the famed performance artist, Italian artist Maurizio Savini makes incredible Marina Abramovic, then it should come as no surprise sculptures out of unchewed pink gum and fiberglass. that she is one of the Mavericks leading this trend. His decision to incorporate unpackaged gum is rooAbramovic the artist crafted her very own macarons, ted in memories of when “American Gum” first arin collaboration with Ladurée, the luxury French rived in his home country durbaking company. This ing World War II. The sculpwas done so that patrons James Ostrer covers human tures that he makes have a could figuratively “eat forms with junk food in ways her.” She was the first in a synthetic fleshiness thanks to the bright pink artificial colornew series titled “The that seem to make Giuseppe ing of the gum he uses. Pastry Portrait.” Raphaël Arcimboldo portraits come to Castoriano conceived “The You can always count on Jeff Pastry Portrait” for his life centuries later Koons to play with kitsch subcompany, Kreëmart. The ject matter. Koons draws in mission behind Castoriano’s audiences with the cutesiness of his work. The neoendeavor is to allow artists to express themselves via Pop artist has made an oil on canvas cake garnished consumable sugary treats, which is both a novel and with pastel pink frosting topped with a decorative bizarre idea. The performance artist decided to use pink rose. Simply named Cake (1995-1997), Koons’ flavors inspired by her childhood growing up in painting is set against a shiny hot pink backdrop Serbia: burnt coffee, basil, thyme, and cardamom that has the appearance of a deflated, crinkled up, seeds - tastes that are certainly not for everyone. The mylar balloon. The playful artist has also added oil artist then sprinkled in personal details. She made on canvas Salvador Dalí-influenced painting to his two of the macarons Prussian blue, an ode to her body of work with a work he calls Sandwiches heritage, and stamped them with her family’s coat of (2000). Sliced black olives make up the eyes and icearms. The third macaron was enveloped with gold berg lettuce is used as hair anthropomorphize the leaf. The three macaroons were packaged in 250 sandwiches. The animated deli meat resembles what black triangular boxes and sold at London’s Harrods a kid with an overachieving parent might find in his in 2017 giving patrons a unique chance to “taste” school lunchbox. the artist.

Maurizio Savini`s sculpture, known to be made from fibreglass and chewing gum

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The Medici dynasty, the illustrious family of bankers, traders and politicians that lorded over Florence between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries, set the standard for art patron families. Leveraging their wealth and power to collect and commission artwork, they ushered in a whole new cultural age: the Italian Renaissance. Today’s art world might be more about Photoshop than frescoes, but the basic spirit of art families lives on. Inspired by the Medici’s model, these clans are raising empires large and small, all around the globe. From the days of the Medici and long before, art has been a family affair. It’s easy to see why what kid growing up in the vast and dazzling world of paint, canvases and galas could avoid falling head-over-heels in love? Maybe it’s nature; maybe it’s nurture, but whatever it is, our millennial age is no exception. Like the Medici before them, these artists, curators, gallerists and collectors are keeping art in the family.

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Picasso

de Gunzburg Charles de Gunzburg is a cofounder of the investment firm FdG Associates and has been a trustee of the Jewish Museum, while his wife Nathalie serves on the board of the Dia Art Foundation. Daughter Laura, started her art work career at the Margulies collection and worked at Sotheby’s before co-founding the Cultivist. On the side, she also edits a weekly column for Cultured magazine and chairs the Dia Foundation’s young patrons program.

Diana Widmaier-Picasso needs no introduction, but we’ll give her one anyway. She’s the daughter of Maya Widmaier-Picasso and the granddaughter of the Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter, whose portraits hang in some of the world’s greatest museums. To dig deeper into the family’s life, check out Picasso: An Intimate Portrait, published in 2002 by Maya’s son Olivier. But it’s Diana that’s kept the family torch burning the brightest. Well-respected art historian and contemporary art expert, she’s a member of many of the most respected museums in Europe and America. Since 2003, she’s been working on the first comprehensive catalog of her grandfather’s sculptures - stay tuned! In 2017, Diana’s daughter Luna was born. It’s still too early to tell if she’ll pick up a paintbrush - or an art history book - but with her family tree, who could resist?

Sachs

Fashion darling and social butterfly Roya Sachs comes from a long line of art collectors and creators, including her father, Rolf Sachs, whose own conceptual art fetches thousands on the auction block. But the arty genes go back even further; Rolf’s father was none other than playboy, photographer, sportsman and millionaire industrialist Gunther Sachs. Yep, the one that got Brigitte Bardot to marry him by dropping hundreds of roses by helicopter on her French Riviera villa. Instead of following her father into the art studio, Roya has opted to wheel and deal as an independent curator; she is quickly becoming well known for spotting untapped talent.

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If there’s one family that can be christened the modern Medicis, it’s the Levy clan. In 2005, husband and wife collectors Sylvain and Dominique Levy founded the DSL collection, a collection of 350 of the most impressive works of contemporary Chinese art. From the outset, they emphasized that the collection would be complex, nomadic and ongoing, keeping up with the world as it changes. In that spirit, in 2017, they launched the DSL Museum, the world’s first virtual reality museum. This move represented a radical shift in the way we look at art, increasing accessibility to anyone, anywhere in the world. The secret to the Levy’s knack for connecting with the youth? It might just be their children - you know what they say: kids, they keep us young. Their daughter Karen Levy has followed her parents into the art world; after putting in hours at Sotheby’s Bond Street, Asia Society and Phillips, Levy founded the private art platform Art of this Century.

Wise

Originally hailing from Luxembourg, Pascaline Smets a nd her brother Guillaume a re st i r r i n g up the otherwise conservative Brussels art scene. In 2015, they founded Stems Gallery, which introduces local collectors to hot, young, emerging artists, mainly from L.A. and New York. While the gallery is their common project, Pascaline is also the buying and creative director of the Smets family’s eponymous retail store. Under her leadership, Smets has become an avant-garde concept store that blends fashion, art, furniture, accessories and even food, with storefronts in Belgium and Luxembourg. Her work has won her a spot on Business of Fashion’s BoF 500 for the past four years.

Artist Chloe Wise caught the media’s attention in 2014, when she fooled fashion people into thinking her artwork was a Chanel bag. Bagel No. 5, a realistic sculpture of a bagel with cream cheese with a Chanel chain and logo attached, is part of her “Bread Bags” series. Each piece in the series recreated an early 2000s “It” bags to look like a different delicious carb bagels, pancakes, toast, English muffins, etc. When Wise lent Bagel No. 5 to actress India Menuez to wear to a Chanel event, the journalists ate it up, mistaking the bag for the latest Karl Lagerfeld concoction. Chloe’s sister Brooke is also an artist, but she’s even better known for her curating work. After graduating from Parson’s School of Design, she’s been working coast-to-coast - L.A. and NYC, that is. Her work includes solo and group shows like „ „ “Aloha From Hell Film Festival in L.A. and New York, “Aloha „ on Paper zine fair, and most recently, “A Cat’s Meow, which opened in February at Shrine and Sargent’s Daughters in New York. 43

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Collectors and patrons Anita and Poju Zabludowicz gave birth to their two babies within just a few years: Tiffany, and the Zabludowicz collection. The former is now a twenty something collector and curator based in New York; the latter is a philanthropic collection supporting the work of emerging artists and curators. In January 2018, the Zabludowicz collection hopped on the VR train with the opening of 360, the UK’s first gallery space devoted to showing virtual reality artwork. On the other side of the pond, Tiffany, who graduated from Brown University, is carrying the family collecting torch. She believes that collecting is about much more than just about buying a bunch of canvases; it comes with the hefty responsibility of guarding artworks for future generations. She’s branching out into curating. Since her time at Brown, where she curated several student shows, she’s curated several projects, the latest being an upcoming all-female sculpture show called “Stray” in a Times Square building, opening in New York in November.

Margulies You might know Liz Margulies as the daughter of the famous Miami real estate magnate Martin Margulies, whose Margulies Collection is open for public view at his retro-fitted warehouse in Wynwood, Miami. But the young patron has also made a name for herself outside of her father’s shadow. While in school in New York, she appeared on Bravo’s reality TV show Gallery Girls, which followed the highs and lows of her student and intern life. After college, she started her art career at Culture Corps, and she’s currently running her own corporate art advising firm, Elizabeth Margulies Art Advising.

WernerLüpertz Michael Werner, the famously outspoken gallerist who made a name for himself in Berlin at a time when the art market was nearly nonexistent, is now one of the most respected figures in the art world. Although he might not yet have reached the same level of renown, his son Julius also ventured into the gallery business: he ran Julius Werner Gallery in Berlin in the aughts. Interesting: Michael Werner is also the stepfather of gallerist Anna Jill Lüpertz, the daughter of painter Markus Lüpertz 44 44

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Again, we don’t need to explain who Julian Schnabel is to you, but as it turns out, the entire Schnabel clan is one arty bunch. He has three children from his first marriage to Belgian clothing designer Jacqueline Beaurang, and all of them are in the art world in some capacity. His daughter Lola is a painter and filmmaker, Stella is a poet and actress and Vito is an art dealer, founder of Vito Schnabel Gallery in Switzerland and Vito Schnabel Projects in New York. His youngest son with Danish model May Andersen (who was once, believe it or not, assistant director of The Hole gallery in New York), was born in 2013, so stay tuned to find out if he got the Schnabel arty gene too.

T he most i n fluent ia l person in the art world according to ArtReview’s Power 100, David Zwirner is the head of a huge gallery empire stretching from New York and London to Hong Kong. In a way, the future of the art world is in his hands: at his suggestion, Art Basel adopted a sliding fee scale so that larger galleries would subsidize smaller galleries’ participation. But in fact, David isn’t the first family member to venture into the art world; his father Rudolf is a well-known art dealer in Germany. When your daddy is the big daddy of the art world, how could you resist following in his footsteps? This must be what crossed Lucas Zwirner’s mind at an early age. After staking out on his own into the world of literature and philosophy (he studied at Yale, no less), Lucas Zwirner came back into the family fold. He’s now working to grow the family publishing house, David Zwirner Books.

Another Florida collector family, the Rubell clan, owns the Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation in Miami, one of the world’s largest private art collections open to the public. The world-renowned foundation also has a big local presence, sponsoring public school field trips, running internship programs and maintaining an extensive research library. Married couple Mera and Don Rubell started the collection, which today includes work by JeanMichel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Cady Noland, Cindy Sherman and Kara Walker, in 1964 in New York. But today, the collection is a family affair. The whole family chips in, and many of the works now hang in their son Jason Rubell’s drool-worthy Miami beach house. Their other child, Jennifer Rubell, grew up to be an artist. Her practice is conceptual, focusing on themes like femininity, food performances, domestic and public spaces.

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de Menil

Jopling Collector, heiress and philanthropist, Dominique de Menil is best known as the founder of the Menil Collection, along with her husband, John. The French couple immigrated to Houston, Texas, when World War II broke out, so as fate would have it, it was in the cultural Sahara of the American South that the family’s extensive art collection now lives in. Depressed by the lack of culture in their new city, the de Menils set about cobbling together an art and intellectual scene like the one they left behind in Paris, hosting exhibits and Parisian-inspired salons at their international style mansion. Dominique ran the Menil Collection museum until her death in 1997, but many other family members have been involved in one way or another. Her son Francois and daughter Philippa Pellizzi were both early board members; Philippa also co-founded the Dia Art Foundation. Francois also worked as a filmmaker and architect, and their other daughter, Adelaide, was a photographer. Then, of course, there’s their daughter Christophe, the fabulous New York society lady and art world fixture. Her grandchildren have followed in the family spirit: Caroline Snow is a writer and actress, Max Snow is a photographer who dated Mary-Kate Olsen, and by far the most notorious, the late Dash Snow, was an artist and downtown hooligan with a heart of gold.

Jay Jopling made a name for himself as the founder of White Cube. The son of a conservative Thatcher politician, he had a very posh upbringing - the man went to Eaton, guys. While at university, Jopling traveled to New York and made friends with the post-war artist set, whose work he collected for a charity auction. It was all uphill from there: Jopling became buddies and worked closely with Damien Hirst, then went on to open White Cube locations around London and later around the globe. The rest, as they say, is history. Although Jay married an artist, Sam Taylor-Wood (the two divorced in 2008), it’s not his two daughters but his nephew that followed in his uncle’s footsteps. Caspar Jopling made headlines in August when pop sensation Ellie Goulding announced their engagement, but he’s also an Eton and a Harvard man who works at Sotheby’s New York as the Associate Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy, Contemporary Art. He’s also devastatingly handsome - good catch, Ellie.

Krinzinger In 1971, art historian Dr. Ursula Krinzinger founded Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna. Today, she also organizes and curates shows outside of her gallery and invites artists to participate in their residency program, that currently includes destinations in Austria, Hungary and Sri Lanka. Running all the Krinzinger arty endeavors is a family affair; Ursula’s son Thomas and daughter Angelika are involved as well. 46

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In 2002, German art dealer Johann König opened the doors of König Gallery in Berlin. Since then, he’s taken the Berlin art scene by storm. He’s well known for his devil-may-care attitude towards art world conventions - and for his love of Brutalist architecture. But while rebelling against the status quo, König might also be vicariously rebelling against his own family: his father, Kasper, the former director of Cologne’s Museum Ludwig and founder of the Münster Skulptur Projekte; his uncle, Walther König, an art book publisher; and even his half-brother Leo, the co-founder of Koenig & Clinton, a gallery in New York.

Lin Cisneros

Together, these two sisters are a major link in bridging the Chinese and Western art worlds. Born in Northeastern China, Lin knew nothing about art until she was 20; in her previous lives, she was a basketball star and the first Chinese model working in Paris. She got her art world start at Sotheby’s, where she made her first sale to Wendy Murdoch, and today, she’s the deputy chairman at Christie’s Asia. Her special touch lies in her sensitivity to collectors’ tastes, and her ability to steer them towards new artists they haven’t yet discovered. And back in China, Xin’s older sister Xi isn’t doing too bad for herself, either. She’s currently the director at Gagosian China.

Relatives by marriage, these two women are part of one of Latin America’s wealthiest and most powerful families. But while their husbands and fathers were busy dealing in commodities and telecommunications, Ella and Patricia have independently build up two of Latin America’s most impressive art collections, each reflecting a unique vision and sensibility. The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), founded by Ella Fontanals-Cisneros in 2002. This year, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros made headlines for two reasons: winning the collector’s prize at ARCO Madrid, and announcing a large donation to the city of Madrid. Meanwhile, Patricia de Cisneros, who is married to billionaire Gustavo Cisneros, the cousin of Ella’s ex-husband Osvaldo, has her own collecting thing going. With a focus on abstraction, she has amassed a collection of rivaling size. The Coleccióvn Patricia Phelps de Cisneros was formed in the 1990s and has long-standing loan partnerships with MoMA.

Bo Young Song, Charles Kim & Hyun-Sook Lee

Avedon

Aesthetic trends are rarely the work of one person, but in 1950s America, one man gave birth to a new style of fashion photography that lives on to this day. That man was Richard Avedon, son of a self-made immigrant and a dressmaker. He loved art and fashion from an early age, but when he ventured into photography, he shook up the industry by totally changing the style of pictures. Instead of stiff, posed shots, he created lush, emotional landscapes out of his fashion spreads, creating the modern genre of fashion storytelling - and helping fashion take its first steps towards the realm of art, where it basically lives today. Avedon took some of the most iconic pictures of the century, working for magazines like Vogue, Life and Harper’s Bazaar. He captured many of his culture’s biggest stars, from Brooke Shields to the Beatles, but what many don’t know is that he also ventured into political documentary work, making pictures of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam protesters, mental hospital patients and even the fall of the Berlin Wall. Following in his grandfather’s footsteps, the 28-yearold Michael Avedon is an up-and-coming contemporary fashion photographer. In 2012, Forbes named him one of its 30 under 30 artists. He’s even worked with some of the same clients as Richard, including Harper’s Bazaar, Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, CR Fashion Book and Dazed - and he even shot Brooke Shields for Under the Influence. His grandfather’s style greatly colors his work.

Bo Young Song is the Managing Director of Korea’s Kukje Gallery, a key player in jump-starting the Dansaekhawa craze on the art market several years back. Before running one of the country’s most cutting-edge galleries, along with her husband, Charles Kim, Bo worked as a curator. Today, she’s bringing some of her passion for research to the gallery’s latest project: an archive for Korean art. It’s a bit off the beaten path for a commercial gallery, but Bo feels strongly that as museums and collectors discover (and purchase) Korean art, they’ll need to know what they’re looking at. That’s why she decided to translate, digitize and archive key documents about Korean art history. In her meteoric career, Bo has been lucky to have an outstanding mentor: her mother-inlaw, Seoul-based gallerist Hyung-Sook Lee. Lee founded Kukje Gallery back in 1982, and she’s been included on ArtReview’s Power 100 for the last four years, most recently at 68. Thanks to these two women - and Kim, who handles the business side of the gallery - the boundaries between Korean art and the rest of the world are quickly fading.

Economou Owned by ship owner George Economou, the collection is located in Athens focusing on early twentiethcentury European but expanding into contemporary art. One of mega-collectors five children, Alexandra Economou is a curator, collector and social fixture who frequents mainstay museums like The Guggenheim and The Swiss Institute. The twenty-something beauty currently resides in New York, where her Soho apartment is filled to the hilt with rare works. 48

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Lola as a Bride, 2017

Thief in Tuxedo Forget Jessa. After an unplanned detour into showbiz, Jemima Kirke ‚ is back where she s been all along: in her studio, paintbrush in hand. The lifelong artist weighs in on her creative origins, her imposter syndrome, why she only paints women and why she thinks you should all chill out when you look at art. Oh, and she also reveals the one thing that ‚s missing from the art world. ‚ Spoiler: it s not more jargon. text by Katya Lopatko photos by Alex Hodor-Lee 53

emima Kirke isn’t an actress who started playing around with paint. She’s a born and bred visual artist who made a long detour into show biz.

After her December 2017 solo show at Sargent’s Daughters gallery in New York, the public had a lot of questions. Was this just another buzzy pop-culture crossover moment? Would Kirke’s art be getting all this attention if it weren’t for her role as Jessa Johansson in Girls, the HBO series directed by Lena Dunham, a childhood friend of Kirke’s? And why brides? We’ll get to the brides soon enough, but actually, The Ceremony wasn’t Kirke’s first rodeo, or even her second. Her first solo show was back in 2011, at a now closed gallery called Skylight Projects, and she’s also exhibited paintings at Fouladi Projects in San Francisco in 2014. Kirke told TheArtGorgeous how she felt during her first solo show at Skylight “I remember feeling like a fraud and massively unprepared to have my work held in such esteem,” she also added that during the second solo show at Sargent’s Daughters she was more confident though it “Still felt like a fraud. But a confident one. Like a thief in a tuxedo.”

into the media spotlight. “I went from never having acted before to being a series regular on an HBO show. Kinda ridiculous actually,” Kirke said. “I suppose I did feel like I’d sold out a bit. I think maybe the people in my life assumed that a few good tables at nice restaurants would make me wanna quit painting or something.” They couldn’t have been more wrong; the proof is in Kirke’s work, which she kept up with even while she was acting. After The Ceremony attracted more attention to her art than ever before, Kirke’s fans understandably wanted to know the story behind her subject matter. Why the interest in the female figure? Is Kirke a feminist? What is she saying about marriage? Here’s what she has to say concerning painting only women. “I get asked this constantly. Listen, I really should be painting more men. It’s not for lack of interest that I don’t paint them very often. I love the male body. And men have been extremely relevant to my life. They’ve played a key role in shaping my identity. I’ve looked up to some great males. They helped me understand the female body and also love my own. But I think I’ve been in a long phase of my career where my subject matter is pretty self involved and painting women is a way of painting myself over and over and over again.” We’re all narcissists, so it’s refreshing to meet one self-aware and open enough to admit it - especially over email to a complete stranger!

I think people make a mess of trying to “understand” art. I’ve met so many people who, when confronted with a drawing or painting say something like ‘I’m not really an art person.’ Who told them this thing was so complicated?

Thief or not - and everyone knows the best artists steal - the artistic vein runs deep through Kirke’s past. With parents like „ Simon Kirke, “Free and “Bad „ Company drummer, and Lorraine Kirke, clothing designer who opened the remade vintage boutique Geminola in the West Village, it doesn’t take much digging to locate Jemima’s arty gene. It’s not every kid that gets to see „ the “Foo Fighters from right by the mosh pit when they’re 13 but the free concert ticket hook up came with a price. “Coming from a musical family also means having to sit through a lot of Jam sessions,” Kirke said.

Instead of following her parents into the world of music or fashion, Kirke gravitated towards visual art from an early age. “Like everyone else,” she started drawing as a little kid; “I just never really stopped doing it,” she said. “Growing up, it made me feel powerful and confident because all the other kids thought I was good at it. Every new school I went to, I’d earn my social cred with the other kids by drawing stuff.” Fast forward through nude figure drawing classes at the famously free-wheeling Saint Anne’s School in New York, where she met Lena Dunham, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (“I was thrown out twice,” Kirke told GARAGE in 2017), to the acting role that thrust her

In parenthesis, Kirke added: “Lol. It just occurred to me that my estranged relationship with my father might be another reason I only paint women.” We’re not going to play therapist, but there juuust might be something there. And what about the other male estrangement in Kirke’s life, her separation from her former husband, Michael Mosberg? When you start painting brides in the middle of your divorce, people will naturally start connecting some dots. Rather than make any specific statement about marriage in The Ceremony, Kirke wanted to probe into the psychology behind this archaic social norm that still reigns unquestioned, even in our age of the who-even-knowswhich wave of feminism. “I naturally started questioning if one is unhappy, why stay?” she told GARAGE. And of course, she discovered a thing or two about herself in the process. “I’m most interested in women because 54

ShiShi in My Wedding Dress, 2017

Woman on a Chair with Veil, 2017 Allison in Her Wedding Dress, 2017

they help me out with questions about myself, and ultimately I’m just interested in myself.” Though she’s long had one leg in the art world - her first work sold a while back, for $60, “which was the price of a gram of cocaine back then” - the buzz generated by the Sargent’s Daughters show brought Kirke a new level of recognition on the New York art scene. We were curious to know how this notoriously snooty, elitist and closed-off ecosystem struck Kirke from this unique, half-insider, half-outsider perspective. Speaking about accessibility, Kirke replied that galleries are free, and museums usually ask a suggested donation, “so no problem there.” The problem, she suggested, arises from non-physical barriers - in the mind. “I think people make a mess of trying to “understand” art. I’ve met so many people who, when confronted with a drawing or painting say something like ‘I’m not really an art person. I really know nothing about, etc.’ Who told them this thing was so complicated?” Her advice to would-be art lovers intimidated by the bells and whistles of the contemporary art juggernaut: “The person who made this painting, or this piece isn’t smarter or more important than you. Just be a person with senses and look at it! You’re not wrong. I’m not sure why people think they don’t know how to look at art but they know how to listen to a piece of music.”

they are with watching a film,” she said when asked about the viewer’s response to a film vs. a painting. “So I guess it depends on who is watching.” While we’re on the subject of watching and being watched, we were curious to know if Kirke ever considered changing her name for her art career to avoid forever being conflated with Jessa. “No!” she replied, “But I wish I’d thought of that earlier. I’d name myself something simple and prudish, something that sounds like it belongs to someone who never had a leg up in life. Maybe Judy Trudge?” But simple and prudish might as well be antonyms for Jemima (and Jessa, for that matter), and both the actress and her character have had a lucky break or two in their day. But do her privileged origins necessarily devalue Kirke’s accomplishments? We think not. The thing about both acting and art is that unlike, say, a corporate merger, the end result of your efforts is tangible; it’s there for the whole world to soak up. You’re all free to be Kirke’s cheerleaders or her critics, as long as your opinion starts with the work.

Elaine in Her Wedding Dress, 2017

To be fair, as the daughter of a musician, Kirke probably also knows how to listen to a piece of music better than most of us. But let’s circle back to her dual creative career - art and acting - which allows her to draw comparisons between the two media. Both, film and paintings, have an effect on the viewer, but because of the intimidation factor and over-intellectualization that sticks to visual art much more than to movies, the visual artist makes an impact on a different scale than the actor, Kirke suggested. “People aren’t as comfortable looking at art as 57

When it comes to appreciating art, Kirke takes her own advice and doesn’t overthink it. Talking about what excites her, she replied, “Beauty! Beauty excites me. More than intellect or concept. That’s not to say I fall for any cheap tricks or stop to using them myself. But when I trust that what I’m drawn to is important without sweating over its relevance, I’m always excited to work.” That’s a message that we could all take to heart next time imposter syndrome, anxiety or creative block descends. If creative block has ever been an issue for Kirke, we wouldn’t know it. The artist has a second show at Sargent’s Daughters coming up - stay tuned for the date! And as for what’s missing from the art world? It isn’t integrity, pathos, high concept or political awareness, people. “The perfectly primed canvas! Still haven’t met someone who makes it just how I like it. And I’m so over making it myself.” If you know someone, help a girl out.

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Milan has more to offer than Campari, risotto and Salone del Mobile: Indeed it is home to some of the best dressed advanced stylers. We joined forces with Sciuraglam, the leading style authority capturing those glamorous signoras, for a shooting across the city’s artsy neighborhoods. While these days (thanks to Brexit), we’re all looking for alternatives to London’s art scene, Milan is surely one of our favourites, breeding some of the trendiest galleries and art spaces in Europe. Join us while we follow the classiest ladies en route to emerging art spaces that you surely can’t miss. photos by Sciuraglam

Hailing an Uber to see new shows at Cabinet & Studiolo (Via Alessandro Tadino 20), afterwards visiting Clima (Via Alessandro Stradella 5) 59

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50 (Via Gluck 50) & Fanta (Via Merano 21)

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From teapots to techno, from ideas to Ikea, the Bauhaus movement touched every area of our modern lives. As we celebrate 100 years since the iconic total design school first threw open its doors in Germany, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re flipping through the little-known chapters of its history. Read on to meet the founding mothers of the movement and the children they inspired across time, space and artistic discipline. text by Katya Lopatko 64

Benita Koch-Otte. Woven Wall Hanging, 1923-1924

And we have Bauhaus to thank. Yes, Bauhaus, German for the “School of Building,” the total art and design school-turned-movement that flourished between 1919 and 1933. Bauhaus is impossible to boil down to a single aesthetic or sum up in a tight philosophy, which is probably why the term gets thrown around so casually to this day.

members probably did, but they still embraced the technologies reshaping their world - art world included. At a time when artists and artisans were panicking that the arrival of the assembly line would render their crafts obsolete, the Bauhaus school leaned into the mass-production process, incorporating industrial materials and easily reproducible shapes into their work. Instead of debasing the artistic process, these new constraints just shifted around the priorities of the design process, forcing artists to slough off all unnecessary frills and perfect the basic form. Voilà, the birth of the sleek design aesthetic that reigns to this day, not to mention later art movements like minimalism.

It’s also probably why the term still gets thrown around so often. If there’s one attitude that defined Bauhaus, it’s the unflinching embrace of the future, a mindset that never ages, whether it’s 1919 or 2019. And as our current chaotic cultural moment oscillates between nostalgia for a romanticized, repressive past and the fear of a looming, techno/climate apocalypse - what’s gonna get us first, the rising water levels or the AI bots!? - Bauhaus’ cheerful optimism about the future is in very short supply. Remember when people thought trains and telephones would make their brains melt and TVs were the devil incarnate? Even if you don’t, the Bauhaus

But the revolution didn’t stop there: Bauhaus moved to erase the boundaries between “high” and “low” media, putting ceramics, wall painting, design, photography, architecture and even textiles on the same plane as painting and sculpture, the reigning fine art media. In the same democratic spirit, the movement was very preoccupied with the role of art and design in ordinary people’s lives. They wanted to create more than just aesthetic objects, but a force for social progress. It’s a dream that clearly lives on in the postTrump election debate of “only art can save us” vs. “art won’t save us.” Although the Fascist regime forced the Bauhaus

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o you know ten or more Europeans? Congratulations! You know at least one person who was conceived on an Ikea bed. According to a 2011 New Yorker report, about a tenth of European babies - that’s the whole population of France and then some - are made on Ikea beds.

In honor of 100 years since Walter Gropius created the Bauhaus School, we’re celebrating in our own way: by giving some much-needed snaps to all the under-recognized ladies of Bauhaus. Then, we’ll lead you through the modern legacy of the movement, alive and well where you would least expect it. The Mothers of Bauhaus In the modern spirit of equality, the Bauhaus School was open to men and women, but women were usually steered away from the more “masculine” workshops - painting, carving and architecture - and into the weaving room. The story goes that Gropius believed that men could think in three dimensions but women could only handle two… but that didn’t stop his wife Ise from designing the very much three-dimensional Master’s House at the Bauhaus building in Dessau. Soon enough, plenty of other students came along to prove his theory wrong. In 1928, Lotte Beese became the first woman to study in the building department of Dessau Bauhaus. Although an affair with a married Bauhaus director made life at the school a tad complicated for her, Beese went on to work on building projects around Europe, including planning for the city of Orsk in Siberia and for the first car-free street in the Netherlands.

Marianne Brandt (1893-1983) artist and designer

Ise Gropius (1897-1983) architect and writer

In another male-dominated corner of Bauhaus, the metal workshop, one of Bauhaus’ biggest stars made a name for herself. Marianne Brandt was already a trained painter and sculptor when she arrived at Bauhaus, but instead of continuing in her old media, her talents led her to the metal workshop, where she became the first female student - and eventually, the head of the department. Brandt’s metal and glass-

work designs attracted immediate success, both commercial and critical, and today museums like MoMA, the Met and the British Museum own copies of her work. Several other Bauhaus women made names for themselves in male-dominated media - Lou ScheperBerkenkamp in mural painting; Margarete Heymann in ceramics; Alma Siedhoff-Buscher in woodworking; Ilse Fehling in sculpture, theater design and costuming. But you can’t talk about women of Bauhaus without getting tangled up in the weaving workshop, so let’s dive in. Traditionally relegated to the feminine, domestic sphere, weaving’s reputation was somewhat rehabilitated at Bauhaus, where it technically held the same position as all the other media. That said, even at Bauhaus, the weaving workshop was severely lacking in Y chromosomes (in 1927, Emil Bert Hartwig became the first male weaving student), which says something about its status. But all things considered, gender relations at Bauhaus were still light years ahead of their time, and patriarchy aside, some of Bauhaus’ biggest stars cut their teeth on the loom: Bauhaus wouldn’t be Bauhaus without Anni Albers, Gunta Stölzl, Benita Koch-Otte and Otti Berger. Anni Albers, one of the first female teachers at Bauhaus, is a Bauhaus icon, widely regarded as a pioneer artist and weaver. Her designs influenced the geometric abstraction movement in painting, and in 1949, she became the first woman textile artist to have a solo exhibit at MoMA. After Albers left the school, Gunta Stölzl succeeded her as the head of the weaving department. While Albers worked mainly as a fine artist (her first dream was to be a painter), Stölzl’s rugs, wall tapestries and other textiles found commercial success when she went on to found a hand-weaving company with two of her Bauhaus classmates. While at school, Stölzl took classes in dyeing and other textile processes at

Anni Albers (1899-1994) textile artist and printmaker

School to shut its doors while it was still at its peak, its spirit survives - in Adobe fonts, in techno music, in conscious cities… and of course, in cafes and Airbnbs around the world, thanks to everyone’s favorite Swedish behemoth.

While most of her fellow weavers focused on abstract, geometric shapes and functional designs, Otti Berger took a more expressive approach. After Stölzl left Bauhaus, Berger took over the weaving department, then later opened her own textile atelier in Berlin. Sadly, when World War II came, Berger was taken captive to Auschwitz before she could emigrate to the U.S. She died in the camp, but her memory and her work - lives on in museums like the Met and the Art Institute of Chicago. All the while, many Bauhausers, men and women alike, were experimenting with avant-garde photography. Some took to photography as their main medium, but most explored it as a side hustle, like Gertrud Arndt. Like most female students, Arndt studied weaving at Bauhaus, but her main legacy today is her photo work. Although she didn’t gain re„ cognition for it until the 80s, her “Mask Portrait series, which shows her dressed up in silk and lace, performing traditional feminine roles, undoubtedly influenced major artists like Cindy Sherman. Children of Bauhaus The school may have closed its doors in 1933, but the movement was just getting started. The Bauhaus School had been a sort of incubator for ideas that then spread to all corners of the world, taking root, mixing with local movements, morphing and evolving to create new hybrids. The original Bauhaus crew might be shocked if they could see what their descendants were up to today: planning conscious cities (more on that later), bumping techno and everything in between. Then again, the Bauhausers were a pretty open-minded bunch, so they’d probably be down with it.

Gunta Stölzl (1897-1983) textile artist

Otti Brger (1898-1944) textile artist and weaver

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Most obviously, the Bauhaus mentality lives on in design and visual art circles, from Adobe’s sleek type-

faces to Agnes Martin’s serene canvases. Its influence on fashion is also not too hard to grasp. Common trends that ebb and flow with the decades - minimalism, geometric forms, utilitarianism, play with proportions, metallics and even androgyny - share the spirit of Bauhaus. Margaret Howell, Anne Gorke, Jil Sander and Céline’s Phoebe Philo are all spiritual children of Bauhaus, but so is, I would argue, Lotta Volkova, in-house Vetements and Balenciaga stylist and post-Soviet street fashion darling du jour. The Vetements models might not be strutting down the runway draped in Gunta Stölzl rugs (maybe not a bad idea though), but if you think Bauhaus is just about clean lines, stainless steel and geometric forms, you’re missing the point. Bauhaus at its core is modernity, invention, unexpected thinking and upended traditional hierarchies - Vetements screams all of those things, whether you get it and like it or not. So while some designers, like Mary Katrantzou in her AW18 collection, give explicit nods to Bauhaus, many, many more have a little Bauhaus lurking somewhere in their DNA. Bauhaus also reverberates through much of the last century’s music. In their minimalist compositions, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Barbara Benary and Kate „ Simko and the “London Electronic Orchestra all stripped down and modernized classical music in the same way that Bauhaus did the visual arts. It also passed down a little something to goth rock - the poster band for the genre takes its name from Bauhaus. There is another genre that springboards straight off of the philosophy of Bauhaus, and it’s not what you would expect. Just like the Bauhaus School saved art from technology by absorbing it, techno found a way to re-infuse the music of late capitalism with its lost spirituality. The scene: 1980s Detroit, a racially charged and economically depressed wasteland suffering from the

Lucia Moholy (1894-1989) photographer

nearby technical schools, along with her fellow weaver and super-talented classmate Benita Koch-Otte.

Bauhaus inspired fashion campaign by Canadian retailer Simons

Finally, Bauhaus’ preoccupation about the social role of art has seeped into the design world’s every crevice. Today, standard taste dictates that good design is clean, functional and democratic. Before, not so Rococo furniture is an extreme example, but even the Art Nouveau curlicues that decorate the Paris Metro entrances are distinctly anti-Bauhaus. While Bauhaus obviously lives on in the aesthetic of Ikea, Muji and the like, its declaration that art should serve the masses reaches even further. I’m talking about “design thinking,” the most contagious epidemic of our day. TED talkers and urban planners are happily invoking design to solve society’s every problem, from crime to funding low-cost healthcare in the developing world. This new, interdisciplinary approach to design uni-

tes fields as diverse as architecture, urban planning, tech, behavioral psychology, big data and property development. Design thinking finds its apotheosis in the concept of the “conscious city,” a blanket term for urban spaces with human-centric design. Conscious city forums often probe into topics like the psychology of workplace design and the neuroscience of architecture. One name you should know is Alison Brooks, whose eponymous architecture firm exhibited ReCasting‚ a “site specific installation that stimulates the critical freespaces of their work in housing as four inhabitable ‘totems’: Threshold, Inhabited Edge, Passage, and Roofspace, at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial. If this all sounds like a bad Star Trek reboot, you’re not alone. The thought of living in a space that sounds like it was dreamt up in an 80s sci-fi movie, a space where your every thought, feeling, itch, twitch and burp has been designed for by someone in a white lab coat, an aloof and omniscient Designer with a capital D, might be exciting in its possibilities, but only if you have a profoundly optimistic view of humanity. If you have a single dystopian bone in your body, it’s extremely creepy. But it’s also very Bauhaus, so we’ll just have to get over our squeamishness and step into the future. Just like the people who thought their brains would melt when they step on a train, we’ll probably be just fine. 68

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overseas flight of car manufacturing. Using modern beats, the kind they imagined cyborgs would dance to in the year 2000, techno found a way to transcend what music scholar Ken McLeod called the “alienating effect of mechanization on the modern consciousness.” Ironically, it was Bauhaus, not techno, that originally came out of Berlin, but both carried out the same mission: save the people from the soulsucking effects of capitalist production by innovating new forms of art. Next time you bump Nina Kraviz at the after hours, don’t forget to do a bump for Bauhaus.

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Detail of Hello Daddy, Hello Mom, 2017

OF HEIN KOH

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A trip into a Teletubbies, surrealist dreamscape doused in rainbows, metallic Lycra, and glitter.

Hein Koh in front of her work at Marvin Gardens gallery

t’s a typical January afternoon in New York - the kind that leaves you wondering where the grey, monotonous office towers of Midtown end and the dreary, overcast sky begins. Rockefeller Center’s time-honored Christmas Tree is long gone. The elaborate window dressings of Saks Fifth Avenue, across the street, wiped clear. The only remnants of any “holiday spirit” seem to be the web of burnt out lights waiting to be plucked from neighboring buildings and a half-dozen tourists wobbling around the complex’s ice rink. I retreat from the wintry weather into the entrance of 45 Rockefeller Plaza where I’m greeted by Hein Koh and her newest installation aptly named Braving the Cold (2019). Koh’s installation is the latest in the “Art in Focus” series displayed at Rockefeller Center in partnership with the Art Production Fund. The multidisciplinary program commissions contemporary artists to create works inspired by the landscape of New York City. There’s no easy way to describe what stepping into Koh‘s world feels like. It’s more of a trip than anything else. A trip into a Teletubbies, surrealist dreamscape doused in rainbows, metallic Lycra, and glitter. 83

For the past few years now, the Brooklynbased artist has engineered a menagerie of psychedelic soft sculptures. She’s the ringleader behind a motley crew of oversized, googly-eyed cheeseburgers, ice cream cones, and lofty flowers that shed tears with their petals. This time around, Koh and her colorful creatures have invaded the landmark plaza, occupying several locations throughout the Gothic, fourblock strip of limestone. I enter the lobby and my attention is immediately drawn to three vitrines holding bundles of flowers, each with its own distinct evil eye and red carpet ready lashes - Koh’s trademark. It might have been hard to find the artist responsible, what with her modest, black puffer jacket (the standard uniform of New Yorkers this time of year). However, as soon as she spots me among the throng of mid-day lunch stragglers, she slips off the dark marble landing where she has been perched and introduces herself with a warm hello. It’s the sort of welcoming energy that Koh’s pieces emanate, just with fewer rhinestones and sequins. Koh is almost out of breath, at first, when giving me an overview of Braving the Cold; but who could blame her? 2018 was a banner year for the artist. She had her first major debut in New York, was awarded a commission from the Bronx Children’s Museum (set to open in 2020), and was - of course - invited to produce a public art exhibition for Rockefeller Center. This is her largest exhibition to date and it needed to be completed in a very short amount of time. “The Art Production Fund asked me to do this show not too long ago. It was just at the beginning of November. It was a crazy deadline.’’ Koh decided to pull inspiration from her solo exhibition last May at the Marvin Gardens gallery, where she presented her flowers for the first time. She did not want to recycle or copy the sculptures. That would’ve been too easy.

“I wanted them to be a little different because, for me, it’s too boring to keep doing the same thing,” she explains. Koh fashioned completely new sculptures and experimented with velvet and satin - fabrics she felt were appropriate for winter. She also went a step further by trying out flowers that she had not crafted before. “I thought, okay...I’ve done roses, but I will try out violets, and try out a lily, and I want to make them frozen, covered in snow, and icicles...because I thought, ‘that’s just too perfect for the holidays.’ You know?” Koh tells me surrealism and pop art, in particular, have informed her most recent endeavors. “I knew I wanted a very simple and iconic aesthetic (for the project). I want the work to be accessible, but I want it to make people think a bit too.” After the birth of her twin daughters in 2015, the artist’s subject matter shifted into a more playful atmosphere. Koh often finds herself inspired by imagery like the designs on her kids’ clothing, their toys, and especially their books filled with children’s illustrations. “I’m basically making cartoon characters,” Koh laughs. That attitude of happiness is at the core of the artist’s body of work. I ask her more about her mindset and motivations

Holy Trinity, 2017

when she’s in her Greenpoint, NY studio creating sculptures like the ones in the vitrines. “I’ve been thinking so much more about love and family, those values. So, I like to bring that into my work. I’ve become very sappy, very sappy, and sentimental, which is why - you know - I have flowers hugging, and a lot of my flowers are twins (an ode to her daughters). When I do trios (like the three roses she points toward) I think of it as me and my daughters. I think a lot about relationships.” Of course, motherhood has its challenges but Koh is a master of multitasking. In 2015, she challenged the famed performance artist, Marina Abramovic, who had made disparaging comments about the limits child raising place on female artistic success. The post of her breastfeeding both her daughters while simultaneously working away became a viral clap back. I ask her about the role her daughters play in her art and if she plans to continue working with themes that they have kindled. “I’m still so inspired by them. I think they influence me more and more.” Koh guides me to the lower level of the building where one of her digital drawings stretches across the length of a 150-ft foot corridor. The illustration depicts the evolution of a flower dying in the winter

Sad Daisy, 2018

Cheeseburger With An Eye and Tongue, 2018

only to be resurrected in the spring - fitting, since Braving the Cold will run through April. “I thought of it as poetry,” she tells me as we walk from one end of the mural to the other. “I just love the idea of creating this narrative of this rose blooming, and dying. Thinking about the cycle of life.” We brave the cold ourselves stepping out into the exterior of the plaza. It feels like a “Where’s Waldo” treasure hunt weaving in and out of parts of the complex where the artist’s work is on display. Koh’s flowers sprout up all over the place. The cheerful kaleidoscopes of color are a welcomed change of pace from their gloomy backdrop. She had previously wished that there was more time to create a variety of illustrations but has ended up being happy with the way things have turned out. “I think there’s a lot of power in this repetition. The flower drawings become images that are ingrained in people’s minds. They become icons and that’s something I’m interested in. Especially in this setting, because people just kind of walk by here and I think that my message needs to just be very direct.” Koh says. “I also liked the idea of just putting rainbows everywhere,” she adds with a smile. Nearly every aspect of her art is light-hearted and fun, right down to the way she signs off her name in

Comic Sans, not for the sake of irony, but purely because she, “just likes the way it looks.” Koh’s soft sculptures spark the kind of joy that would have Marie Kondo nodding in silent approval. She talks to me more about how her art is rooted in, “the simple pleasures of life.” Pleasures that her daughters (and most people) enjoy daily. Her Marvin Gardens show, titled Splendor In The Grass (2018), is a perfect example of this sentiment. The artist invited patrons to a “picnic” of unearthly delights comprised of large-scale, anthropomorphic food sticking their tongues out, à la Miley Cyrus. She has even shared, “her pleasures” with spaces like the Museum of Pizza - an irresistibly Instagramable site in Brooklyn dedicated solely to the even more irresistible snack. In fact, Koh had already constructed a pizza sculpture before she was brought on board by the curator. The simple pleasures born from the artist’s imagination are infectiously nostalgic. They have that type of kitsch nostalgia that makes an aspiring collector - like myself - want to round them up like Beanie Babies and adopt them into my life. Her interests in consciousness and philosophy contribute to the psychological element beneath the surface of the pieces. Koh prefers keeping the meaning opaque and open to your own interpretation. 86

“My work is always changing, but, right now I just really like to make objects that make people really happy, at the basic level. Just bring people joy. That joy always has some deeper layer to it. Whether it’s a

Detail of Cheeseburger With An Eye and Tongue, 2018

little bit of subversion, or perversion, or melancholy…,” Koh explains. Throughout the guided tour she elaborates on how she started making sculptures in the first place. In the beginning, Koh worked with canvases. She’s a trained painter and they were the only materials that she had at the ready disposal. The painter turned sculptor created mediums using vinyl and spandex, pushing her sculptural envelope. “I remember thinking this would look really good in gold spandex,” she says of one of her early sculptures. “I also just really like the quality of it. The stretchiness and especially stuffing it, it takes on different qualities. I’ve been on a spandex kick for a while...” That said, Koh plans on charting new territory in the near future.

“This is going to be a big departure, but I’ve actually been thinking a lot about metal casting. So, I might make a 180°. Or, you know, it might be an in addition to my soft sculptures...I’ve just been asking friends and doing some research.” One thing is for certain: Koh will not be straying from sculpture anytime soon. “There’s still so much to learn and I’m still so excited by it. But, I mean, if people asked me to do more digital murals, I’d be into that. I had fun!” As our excursion through Braving the Cold comes to a close, I notice a handful of individuals paused in front of some of the drawings. We watch them remove their gloves, pull out their phones, and snap a few photos. I ask Koh what it feels like to see random strangers stop in the street to appreciate her installation. Moreover, how it feels to have her work on view at one of New York’s most iconic landmarks. “It’s amazing. It feels like I finally have a little piece of New York City, you know? That feels great.’’

Detail of Cheeseburger With An Eye and Tongue, 2018

6 Untold Facts on Hein Koh • She used to be the lead singer of a riotgrrrl band called “Speedy Vulva.” • She earned a black belt in TaeKwonDo when she was 11. Also she knows how to use nunchucks. • She obsessively listens to psychology and self-help books in her studio. • Every night she takes a bath, writes in her journal, and reads a book to relax before bed. • She suffers from chronic insomnia - and meditates, exercises, and occasionally goes to acupuncture to combat it. • She is really good at twerking. 87

The Very

Honest

Gallerist

Gallery Carbon.12 Directors Nadine Knotzer & Kourosh Nouri City Dubai www.carbon12.art / @carbon12gallery

1. Describe your gallery in one sentence for an art world newbie. Must know!

2. Most gorgeous artist in your gallery program?

Thats a hard one, i have been told we represent some of the most gorgeous artists out there. Let’s talk purely looks, since we know all their works are beyond gorgeous. Sara Rahbar’s cleopatra-esque face, Anahita Razmi’s dreamy long legs, Philip Mueller’s unmissable coolness, oh not to forget Michael Sailstorfer sexy Bavarian looks and accent.. just to name a few, i’d like to stay professional LOL ( last one . Bernhard Buhmann’s eyes..)

3. Whom would you love to sell an artwork to?

Trevor Noah, i like everything about this guy and i would love to help him build a collection.

4. What drinks are you serving at an exhibition opening?

We have a hidden stach, people who know our waitress Quinnie (she is with us for 1 0 years at every opening) know they can get their hands on some fancy stuff. A gallery’s poison of choice is Mezcal.

5. The coolest event you ever hosted? My 21st Bday.

6. What is the dress code for the staff?

Herve Leger dress, 14cm Louboutins.. just kidding! Staff wears what they want.

7. What are the most hated/loved jobs of your interns?

André Butzer, Untitled, 2018

I just asked my intern, she says she likes everything about her internship.

8. Does hot staff help selling better? No, but alcohol does.

9. Most used apps or websites used daily by the gallery? ArtLogic&, Artlogic’s Private View App.

10. Compare the gallery to a brand - which one would it be? Image credit: Carbon.12

Durex - safe pleasure !!!

11. How many works did you sell via an instagram post?

We love Instagram but use it faIrly little for sales.. . myself, I only sold a few works via this addictive tool.

12. Best lunch spot for a client meeting?

My office; love to order-in sushi for a perfect client lunch. 88

Philip Mueller, Self-portrait at tibe yachting club Santo Stefano, 2019

The legendary “Rolling Sculptures” Ever since its invention, artists have been examining the automobile, and the BMW Art Cars have played a central role here. Alexander Calder’s BMW 3.0 CSL from 1975 was the first in a series brought to life by Hervé Poulain, lover of auto racing and works of art, in collaboration with BMW’s head of motorsports, Jochen Neerpasch. Seventeen artists have since designed BMW models, and the “rolling sculptures” have not only proved themselves in museums, but also on the race track at Le Mans.

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