Joachim Baan — Another Thing - Issue #11

To start with the most exciting news this week: We’re going to Mars! Well, at least Elon Musk is trying really hard to get this going, and he’s aiming for people on Mars witting 10 year. Yes, that’s a 10…

In short: “SpaceX is trying to make human life multi-planetary by building a self-sustaining, one-million-person civilization on Mars.”

Wait But Why wrote a pretty clear piece on what this all means. Read it here >

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On the 14th of October, New York City-based Brilliant Champions Gallery will present ‘THE ECHO’S DECAY’, which will be already the fifth solo exhibition in New York by American painter Jake Scharbach, whose incredible work we only recently discovered. ‘THE ECHO’S DECAY’ includes a selection of recent paintings representative of the artist’s richly complex content and visual imagery — bringing together an eye-pleasing modern color palette, oftenly the juxtapositioning of remarkable iconic imagery in diptychs, portrayed in a realist style infused with an intrinsic pop cultural dimension.

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As the artist opens his most comprehensive retrospective to date in Florence, he speaks to i-D about the refugee crisis, fighting for freedom and turning art into political action.

A must read!

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Tune into this new EP of Nicolas Jaar. So! Good!

“Sirens is a thoughtful study in contrasts, both musical and political. It’s only Nicolas Jaar’s second LP, but it is the mark of an enduring electronic composer.”  Read the full review on Pitchfork

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Running for seven more days on Kickstarter, we were tipped by our friend Jon Woodroof on this exciting project by newly founded Amsterdam-based label senscommon, which is looking to reach its goal in finding the funds to introduce their innovative Cyclist Raincoat to the world. The both aesthetic and pragmatic coat is breathable, lightweight and was designed with a split hem that can be attached to the legs — making it ideal for cycling. The beautiful piece of elegant design is the result of four years of observing and experimenting within different concepts of a raincoat suited for cycling by the apparel designer Laura Silinska. Shortlisted in the Muji Design Awards in 2013, the coat is now fully developed and ready to be marketed under the label senscommon, supported by tokyobike and BOOKMAN.

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More cycling: As a big fan of Rapha it’s good to see them launching a helmet. In collaboration with Giro they made this sleek and minimalistic piece. Especially love the RCC one in a subtile gradient from grey to black. Remember: #lookprogoslow

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These images by photographer Virgile Simon Bertrand show a concrete stadium in Cambodia, designed for a Southeast Asian Games that never took place. Simply beautiful!

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Unfortunately closed by now, but ‘The Keeper’ was an inspirational and remarkably designed exhibition dedicated to the act of preserving objects, artworks, images and to the passions that inspire this undertaking — which made it for us, as avid collectors and collection lovers, a must visit. The curation that’s on display in the New York City-based New Museum forms a reflection on the impulse to save both the most precious and the apparently valueless, bringing together a variety of imaginary museums, personal collections, and unusual assemblages, revealing the devotion with which artists, collectors, scholars, and hoarders have created sanctuaries for endangered images and artifacts. In surveying varied techniques of display, the exhibition also reflects on the function and responsibility of museums within multiple economies of desire. The eye catcher of the exhibition is ‘Partners (The Teddy Bear Project)’ (2002), a vast display conceived by Ydessa Hendeles. Composed of over 3000 family-album photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and vitrines containing antique teddy bears, Hendeles’s project establishes the teddy bear as a metaphor for the consolatory power of artworks and images and underscores the symbiotic relationship that ties people to their objects of affection.

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The British sculptor brings his towered, mirrored sculptures to Kukje Gallery – and reflects on Korea’s transforming art scene.

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Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world’s greatest artists – exclusively researched for this new book

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This is disturbing… Hackers can train artificial neural networks to recognize objects, read text, and even identify faces in obfuscated images.

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Last weekend the 2016 edition of the Unseen Photo Fair opened its doors for the public at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam and it sure was another celebration of photography, with work from all over the globe having found its way to the Dutch capital again. Although we weren’t blown away by what saw in the former two editions, there where those hidden gems to be discovered amidst the more repetitive imagery on display. Returning Antwerp-based gallery IBASHO is one of the participants we really appreciate.

With its focus on contemporary Japanese photography, during their first presence at Unseen Photo Fair IBASHO presented, amongst others, the iconic ‘Tokyo Parrots‘ by the great Yoshinori Muzutani in Amsterdam, this time around it introduces the incredible series ‘Invisible Machinery’ by the very talented Toru Ukai. 

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Next to the beautiful ‘Invisible Machinery‘ series by Japanese photographer Toru Ukai, we had one undisputed favorite series of work on display during last weekend’s Unseen Photo Fair: the incredible ‘Statues’ by Swedish born and Berlin-based Henrik Strömberg. In all the images of the photographic artist one encounters the world, remote, removed, almost as if disappeared. Places become difficult to locate, plunged into darkness, half empty rooms, left-behinds; and in the case of the series as seen in Amsterdam deformed statues. In his series ‘Statues’, which was one of the two series on display in Amsterdam, he took his vision to the iconic shapes of ancient sculptures, deforming them to a new austere composition, from which results this certain inward-looking nature, a deep and universal self-reflection. His view penetrates the invisible, seizes it and gives it a shape. A connection is created between the inside and the outside, the true essence of things and the mere sense of things — resulting in a new shape and aesthetic that both attracts and repels, but never fails to captivate.

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Ever wonder where designers get their patterns? Welcome to the colorful stacks of the Design Library.

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Notes on the Beauty of Cultures

Creative Direction in Elegant Creativity