Cool Hunting
| 27 February 2008view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Kevin Ledo: The Guiding Light
by Mike Giles
In his latest show Montreal based artist Kevin Ledo references images from highly visible fashion advertisements such as Dior, Prada, and Louis Vuitton. He aims to draw parallels between modern fashion advertising and iconic Christian art of medieval times by transposing methods of religious paintings into an advertising context.
Kevin's paintings have been on display to date in both Taiwan and Canada. He is represented by Ayden Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia. If geography allows ,check out his latest exhibition at Station C in Montreal.
The Guiding Light
27 February-26 April 2008
Station C
5369 Saint-Laurent #430
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S5 map
Canada
Color Chart
by Seth Brau
"Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" opens this Sunday, 2 March 2008 at MoMA. On view through 12 May 2008, the exhibition explores artists' use of readymade color—from car paint to colored tape—featuring works by 44 modern and contemporary artists including Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Angela Bulloch.
"Color Chart" takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item that openly attests to the status of paint as mass-produced and standardized. The exhibition examines two separate but related meanings of readymade color: color as store-bought rather than hand-mixed, divorced from an artist's subjective taste or decisions; and color found and appropriated from everyday life—fluorescent bulbs, car color, or computer color, for example.
Also, this Saturday, 1 March 2008 from 9pm-1am, PopRally, the ongoing event series for young New Yorkers at MoMA and P.S.1, in conjunction with the "Color Chart" exhibition, presents a dance party with a lineup of deejays from DFA Records. That's right, a dance party at MoMA. The evening includes an exclusive preview of "Color Chart" before its official opening to the public. The deejays to be featured are Juan Maclean, T&T (Tim Goldsworthy & Tim Sweeney), Holy Ghost!, Justin Miller and Jacques Renault.
Attendees are encouraged to wear bright and bold colors. There will be an open bar and guests will receive a colorful custom-made gift designed by PopRally and DFA. Unfortunately, the event is sold out, best use those connections.
Color Chart
Opening Reception: 1 March 2008, 9pm-1am
2 March-12 May 2008
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
tel. +1 212 708 9400
Porsche Design Studio for Fearless Yachts
by Jacob Resneck
Fearless Yachts of Miami Beach offer some of the sleekest, most attractive watercraft we've seen in quite some time. It's probably no accident that these speedboats—Models 28 and 68 we find most appealing—are something a worthy of Sonny Crocket or a James Bond supervillain.
Designed by Porsche Design Studios, each vessel is built for speed and control and worthy of the moniker yacht (which in itself is derived from an old Norse word that means to hunt or chase). Technology like seamless carbon hulls, engines maxed out for power and silence, docking assistance and integrated bow thrusters make for a vehicle enabling its user to tool around, well, fearlessly.
The website provides contact information to the dealership which provides pricing information.
Also on Cool Hunting: Hawley F140 Racing Yacht, Vertical Limit
Sugar Army
by Lost At E Minor
Sugar Army are four guys who've spent their lives in the dreamy slumber of West Australia, with their only savior from terminal boredom being music. With the lengthy titled opener, "And Now You're Old Enough, I Think That You Should Know," earning these indie rock purists high rotation on Australian radio network Triple J and community radio, the cheeky quartet have just added a slot at the Big Day Out music festival to their list of accolades. With raw bone bass lines and insanely addictive beats, this EP needs more than just kitschy multi-colored teddies littered across the cover, it needs their trademark disclaimer—diabetics beware.
Pick up the EP from their site or 78 Records.
