Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin - Photographers (July 2003 - March 2010)

[arlekindearrabal]

[AlmostFamous]

My favorite editorial was shot by Inez & Vinoodh.

I love when they work with Jessica Miller. I love the movement.

[Astrid21]

I Inez + Vinoodh. It really doesn't get any simpler than that. Anyone who has known me from the beginning knows my affection for this very talented duo. If I didn't have any early day tomorrow I'd be here all night posting my favorite works. Many of my favorites include the recent editorial with Hannelore and Querelle, the Balenciaga campaign with Christy (my avatar), Bjork's collaborations, and most importantly, the awe-inspiring work they did with Yohji Yamamoto. Really, so beautiful and eminent.


Credit: Air de Paris

A lovely image of her:

Credit: Art Net

Attached is a small shot from their retrospective exhibition.
Credit: mmparis.com

[travolta]

^ i can only see those first two pics, but they are striking

[yourbestfriend]

inez & vinoodh are some of my fav photoghraphers, theyre images are much more interesting than anything some of the other photographers are churning out, i also like their model choices better too..

astrid the pillow pics are great, karma for you

<edit> i've given out too much already, ull have to wait a bit

[Estella*]

thanks so much for the pillow images, astrid, they are incredible
there's an article on them in i-D the name issue ....
here's a link for the upcoming exhibition in new york ...
wish i could go
http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.ph...404&l=102&pr=1

[softgrey]

new exhibit at matthew marks which opened last night...

[metal-on-metal]

The exhibit is called "The Now People Part Two: Life on Earth" and it's the second in a series of three exhibitions that explore Inez's more experimental concepts and ideas. Went to the opening last night and the show is AMAZING. Anyone who lives in New York and is interested in contemporary art and fashion and the increasingly common relationship between the two absolutely MUST see it.

On one wall of the gallery are over 500 stickers that comprise a sort of "Best of" from Inez and Vinoodh's past twenty years. And scattered throughout the gallery are large-scale photographic pieces and experimental scrap metal sculptures by Inez's uncle Eugene van Lamsweerde. The show revolves around a magic message that is spelt out via these pieces. "God How I/Eye Love You Pleace Don't Kill The Bird of Paradise Or The Endless Head Will Explode."



From matthewmarks.com

"The message and its images are inspired by those rare moments when politics and spirituality come together in a movement, a revolution, as they did in 1968 in Europe," Inez van Lamsweerde explains. "The new work is about politics as a spiritual experience that leads to a positive place. The hope that this could happen again is what this show is all about."

The exhibition, The Now People, Part Two: Life on Earth, opens September 17 and includes thirteen new photographs, each taking as its title one or more words from the above message. The pair have moved away from conventional C-prints by employing a rougher silkscreen technique and by incorporating trash and street elements—like stickers, graffiti, and scrap metal—to add to and interfere directly with the works.

Some of the works in this exhibition have been made in collaboration with Eugene van Lamsweerde and M/M Paris. With the sculptor Eugene van Lamsweerde, they produced several large-scale sculptures from industrial scrap metal, which pierce the surface of certain photographs. In another work, a sculpture obscures the visitor’s view as they move through the gallery. In their work with M/M Paris, the artists have produced a large-scale poster, a t-shirt, a limited-edition artist's sticker book, and an illuminated sculpture.

The other major work included in the exhibition is an enormous collage celebrating Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's twenty year collaboration. This collage comprises over 500 works made over the past two decades. These works have been reproduced as stickers and will be affixed floor-to-ceiling directly to the wall along the entire length of the gallery. All of the images and more will be published by Steidl/7L in 2006 in a two-volume book entitled Pretty Much Everything.

The Now People, Part Two: Life on Earth will be on view at Matthew Marks Gallery at 522 West 22 Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) through October 22, 2005. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

Below:

A new photograph of Daria with bumper sticker.

A Rorschach image that was printed onto t-shirts to advertise the show. It's also one of the oversized photographs featured.

[eword]

I wish I lived in ny! that sounds very intesting.

^ I love the photo of daria, I like it when she does stuff like that, but is that daria's body?

[AlmostFamous]

Originally Posted by eword

I wish I lived in ny! that sounds very intesting.

^ I love the photo of daria, I like it when she does stuff like that, but is that daria's body?

Why wouldn't it be daria's body?

[eword]

^ because daria's body is quite different!
I know she's a bit masculine (and I like it! ), but that body seems a bit too mannish!

[Estella*]

m-o-m, thanks so much for your description, i was hoping someone would go
it sounds amazing, indeed.

[thefashionista]

wow wow wow. new favorite photographers.

[Tinuviel]

ooh i just found this thread. have to say they are my absolute favourite photographers.... something so pure & essential about their work.
and that Balenciaga campaign with Delfine is my all time fave.
< Obviously. I'm longing for a huge print of that and the masked wigged out white lady to brighten my walls.

[eostre]

I love when they work with Jessica Miller.

If i had a decent scanner I would love to post the pics of Jessica from Another Magazine that they took, they´re beautiful. You can find them on the Jessica Miller thread though.