APARTE: September 2014

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

PALM ANGELS BY FRANCESCO RAGAZZI

Palm Angels Trailer

Featuring large-format photographs of skaters in Venice Beach and Manhattan Beach, Palm Angels is the definitive look on the L.A skateboarding scene, capturing the style and street culture of the world's most elite communities of skate.

Photographed by Francesco Ragazzi the italian art director of Moncler features a special focus on the look and fashion of skate culture.

Through art photography, this book hopes to do for skating what Bruce Weber and other did for surf culture, elevating it from what once was an exclusive and localized American pastime to a far-reaching cultural phenomenon.

Palm Angels book includes an introduction by Pharrell Williams. via palmangels.com

PALM ANGELS website

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

RYAN McGINLEY : YEARBOOK

Ryan McGinley : YearBook by Ryan McGinley Studios
Ryan McGinley Studios presents a brief look at the installation of the photographer's latest offering to New York, YEARBOOK at Team Gallery. At it's opening the show shut down an entire city block allowing some 3,000 people attended over the course of three hours. On show until October 12th, YEARBOOK is a single artwork that consists of over 700 studio portraits of some two hundred models, always in the nude, printed on vinyl and adhered to every available inch of the gallery’s walls and ceilings. via purple.fr

Ryan McGinley YEARBOOK
September 7 - October 12, 2014 at Team Gallery, 83 Grand Street NYC

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

PRADA MARFA

Built in 2005 by artists Elmgreen and Dragset and situated in a remote highway in Texas. Prada Marfa is a full-size model of a Prada store complete with shoes and handbags provided by Miuccia Prada. The sculpture was financed by the Art Production Fund (APF) and Ballroom Marfa, a center of contemporary art and culture.

The installation was constructed with the intention not to repair it once completed, allowing the building to gradually degrade into landscape.

In 2013, after almost a year of negotiations for it's removal by the Texas Department of Transportation claiming it as "illegal advert", the Prada Marfa installation will remain a permanent fixture off the road 90 highway and will be classified as a museum.