Death By Hamburger (© 2001 David LaChappelle.)
David LaChapelle (b. 1963) combines his unique and exaggerated realism with a deeply felt social pathos. The exhibition Burning Beauty highlights LaChapelle’s originality as an artist. He focuses on what we see in everyday life, and merges the aesthetics of consumerism with soul searching and a piercing eye. LaChapelle’s perspective is paradoxical – he is critical, yet utterly fascinated. The Swedish Museum of Photography, Fotografiska, holds the exhibition “Burning Beauty” until March 3, 2013
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Nobuyoshi Araki is one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers. He has been called the Japanese Mapplethorpe. In his pictures, which are often located on the boundary between documentary and staged, often portrayed unclothed women and social taboos. The female body has been depicted in art. Women as objects of the male gaze is a constant topic of current interest to observe, discuss and questioning. Araki’s images of women is multifaceted, with expression of an age-old Japanese tradition with its ancient culture and roles around the male and female. The woman’s gaze is often directed towards the viewer stint with strong erotic undertones. The other images are more rigorous, almost restrained eroticism that is reinforced by dress codes and attributes. Bondage is a phenomenon that consists of both aesthetics and sexuality that has centuries-old roots in the Japanese tradition. Within Araki imagery Tokyo is also depicted, everyday environments and a bygone era with its people and customs. A new Tokyo with its extreme urban lifestyle.
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The itinerant Digital Film Festival organized by Shift is screening in Stockholm at Revenue S:T Eriksgatan 79, a recently opened art space. It is a club, a gallery, a cultural association, a head quarter, a label and at times a concert venue. a space for creative encounters of various genres, styles and histories.
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American artist and illustrator Andy Rementer returns to Mondo Cane with a show of New York inspired paintings. ‘I Wish I Knew’ portrays a series of unexpected scenes where romantic narratives flirt with the gritty urban landscape.
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Gallery Steinsland Berliner is wildly excited to present portraits of a generation, a group exhibition that brings together over 50 rampant, edgy and most progressive artists from the infamous down town New York art scene. This is a unique opportunity to experience how an ensemble cast of diverse movers and shakers from the world of music, art and fashion pair up and exchange portraits with each other.
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