ANDRÉ SARAIVA AT MUDE MUSEUM, LISBON

              © purple.fr photography by Michel Figuet

André Saraiva solo museum exhibition at MUDE (Museu do Design e da Moda) in Lisbon, Portugal. On view until Semptember 30th 2014 at MUDE, Rua Augusta nº24, Lisbon.

ANDRÉ SARAIVA FOR GALLERIES LAFAYETTE BY JEAN-PAUL GOUDE

NEW YORK LA LA LA!

Hollywood Skaters Prowl the Set in an Aaron Rose and André Saraiva Film for L'Officiel Hommes

“Paramount Studios is fantastical by nature,” says artist and filmmaker Aaron Rose of the faux New York City streets and sun-baked Los Angeles location of today’s cinematic fashion short. Sweeping through the vacant lot, Rose and his co-director, L'Officiel Hommes editor André Saraiva shot a dreamlike portrait of professional skateboarders Jerry Hsu, Austyn Gillette, and Josh Harmony, besuited in Dior Homme, Saint Laurent, and Prada. Set to the epic pop of Duran Duran’s “The Chauffeur,” the slow-motion skaters are confronted by a trio of models in lace lingerie led by Belgian beauty Anouck Lepere, in a touch that echoes the band's 1980s videos. “It is his bicoastal perspective which started the idea for the film,” explains Saraiva of Rose’s past as founder of downtown New York institution Alleged Gallery, that is juxtaposed with his recent experience as a West Coast-dwelling artist. “We share a similar evolutionary process as creators, so it was natural to work together,” says Rose of his multidisciplinary Paris-based collaborator. “We were shooting two elements simultaneously, this film and a photo editorial. André would be shooting photos, then all of a sudden, he would hand me the stills camera. It was a wonderfully creative ping-pong volley.”                        via nowness.com

DREAM CONCERTS ❘ ART SHOW BY ANDRÉ SARAIVA

André Saraiva - Dream Concerts - Artist's Studio - MOCAtv

In Paris, New York, London, and Los Angeles, show posters for dream concerts with all-star lineups have been tempting passersby and drivers to attend Madison Square Garden or the Bowery Ballroom, L'Élysée Montmartre or the Wiltern. Double-take on these worn posters and you're not even sure if they're coming up or something missed and legendary from long ago, but posted in public space, the anticipation is real. Upon closer inspection, we see that these epic concert announcements are actually paintings of lineups that only exist in the imagination of French graffiti artist André Saraiva. In this video, Saraiva takes MOCAtv to his studio at the Chateau Marmont, where he screenprints his playbills before pasting them on city streets. André Saraiva: Dream Concerts is in the Broad Lobby of MOCA Grand Avenue through October 7, 2013.