JOHAN LINDEBERG

2012.11.18　 Text: Victor Moreno

With an enviable career as a creative director within fashion, Johan Lindeberg is back to denim, this time in black. Introducing BLK DNM, his baby recently born in Lafayette, downtown New York. Known in the 90’s for h...

THURSTON MOORE AND MATS GUSTAFSSON

2012.10.16　 Text: Victor Moreno

Thurston Moore cannot stay idle, like the other components of Sonic Youth, when they don’t play together they are involved in some other thousand different projects. Although Thurston continues touring due to his solo...

AYAMI NISHIMURA

2012.9.26　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

One of the most famous British fashion photographers, who are also the founder of Dazed & Confused, Rankin released the collaboration works with the UK-based make-up artist Ayami Nishimura at the DIESEL ART GALLER...

JIMENA PASSADORE

2012.9.12　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

In Jimena Passadore desktop, there’s a note that says: “I always search, and that’s what matters”. I found Jimena surfing the web. I can’t remember exactly what I was looking for, but when I found her, I found a ba...

TORAFU ARCHITECTS

2012.9.6　 Text: Noriko Yamakoshi

Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro established TORAFU ARCHITECTS in 2004. The two have undertaken architectural design and spatial design of course, but also architecture-based projects ranging from exhibition space layo...

JIN NU

2012.8.21　 Text: Hiromi Nomoto

Pale coloured sculptures: they always seem to be thinking of something. Does the artist of these sculptures become lost in thought as well, with a similar facial expression? In the vibrant world of the Chinese art ...

MASAO OKABE

2012.8.15　 Text: Kenta Torimoto

Masao Okabe’s works are not like such contemporary art we have seen that consist of spectacular installations or overwrought concepts. He creates extremely rich, painstaking work, with surfaces that people can touch w...

CALL ME THEY

2012.7.20　 Text: Alvis Choi

What happens when a Blowfish falls in love with a paper plane? In their transgender art blog “Call Me They”, Canada-based artists Elisha Lim and Coco Riot create their original art of video, stop-motion animation, com...

D2

2012.7.19　 Text: Hanae Watanabe

New York based artists/designers group of four men is called " D2 ". It was a year ago when they started on creative works. Aside from creating one of a kind furnitures, clothes, objects, they also participate in tra...

SOPHIE VAN DER PERRE

2012.7.2　 Text: Celeste Najt

Sophie van der Perre is a young an energetic photographer who lives in Amsterdam. She was born in a very small village in Belgium, and moved to the big city 6 years ago, at the age of 19. Maybe Sophie´s roots are the ...

DING YI

2012.6.29　 Text: Hiromi Nomoto

Ding Yi stands apart in China's contemporary art world. In all his active years, he has consistently created abstract works. Stroke by stroke, he has created powerful works with great depth, as if they expressed the a...

CHRISTIAN JOY

2012.6.3　 Text: Satsuki Miyanishi

“Do androids dream of electric shrimp?” The exhibition by costume designer, Christian Joy who works on costumes of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s charismatic singer, Karen O at DIESEL ART GALLERY. In addition to Karen O's perfor...