Kaleidoscope issue 5

Kaleidoscope is a platform consisting of the first international free magazine of contemporary art and culture, an independent publishing house editing books and catalogues, a project space for exhibitions and an art agency.

Kaleidoscope issue 5 contents: Markus Miessen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Zak Kyes, Ryan Gander, Slavs & Tatars, Dexter Sinister, etc . . .

ruth vanbeek

www.ruthvanbeek.com

Prix Fernand Baudin

De Fernand Baudin Prijs is een initiatief van een aantal leraren grafische vormgeving die actief zijn in de wereld van het boek. De eerste Brusselse edite wordt ondersteund door Brussel Export.

België en meer bepaald het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest heeft een indrukwekkende traditie wat ‘het boek’ betreft. Deze Belgische know-how wordt te weinig gewaardeerd in vergelijking met, bijvoorbeeld, de manier waarop Nederland, Duitsland of Zwitserland hun boekproductie ondersteunen. Door de creatieve en innoverende krachten achter de boekproductie te steunen zal deze prijs een aanzet zijn om deze Belgische know-how meer bekendheid te geven op een internationaal niveau.

www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be

Helvetica the movie



Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica has been shown at over 200 film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cinemas worldwide.

more info
www.helveticafilm.com

Rinus Van De Velde

studio view
more work and info:
rvandevelde.web-log.nl
represented by ZINK Gallery Munich/Berlin

KIOSK OPENS A NEW VENUE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

From 2006 on, KIOSK has been organizing a changing exhibition program by both emerging and established artists. After 3 years, KIOSK is now leaving its temporary pavilion and is moving into its definite and larger gallery space. This venue is located in the former anatomical theatre of Cloquet Insitute, a renovated historical building on the well-known Bijloke site in Ghent.

MEKHITAR GARABEDIAN

Young Man Blues
20.02.2010 – 28.03.2010

SUSANNE KRIEMANN
Ashes and Broken Brickwork of a Logical Theory
20.02.2010 – 28.03.2010

Opening Friday February 19th, 8 PM

www.kioskgallery.be

WHAT HAPPENS HERE, STAYS HERE * Jean-Baptiste Bernadet

WHAT HAPPENS HERE STAYS HERE (12), 2009
Spray and lacquer on wood – 116 x 89 cm

Every Moment Is All Mine
Oil and lacquer on canvas – 146 x 114 cm, 2006
Trained as a painter, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet initially worked at the fringes of abstraction before introducing, in 2004, his first words in painting with the disillusioned sentence I have lost my Illusions. Drawing from the consciousness of loss, an extraordinary energy and creativity, this work inaugurates an extremely fertile series of painting of words. A pivotal painting, I have lost my Illusions, announces the prominent characteristics of Jean-Baptiste Bernadet’s recent work.
From the start, the choice of English language immediately raises doubts regarding the author’s sincerity. The meanings of Bernadet’s ready-made sentences oscillate between dramatic confidences and B-movie dialogues. This ambiguity between the touching authenticity of a personal revelation on the one hand, and the contempt for the commonplaces of communication and self-construction at the dawn of the twenty-first century, prevades the whole series of word paintings.
The French artist’s graphic style is more immediate and expressive, like the background on which words appear. Visible erasures, run-outs, garish colors, de-centered compositions or recycling of abandoned works which transparently appear under new creations, Bernadet’s painting expresses an extreme intensity, which I shall name, according to the artist’s own (painted) word of, “hhardor”.
Exhibition 22 January 2010 - 6 March 2010
More info and images:
www.jb-ba.com
www.maesmatthys.be

THE VANITY FAIR * PAUL CASAER

Solo Exhibition by Paul Casaer – still running till 06.03.10
Paul Casaer (°1967) lives and works in Belgium. He is represented by Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp.
for more info and images check out:
www.paulcasaer.com
www.koraalberg.com

Bob Noorda Is Dead

Bob Noorda, an internationally known graphic designer who helped introduce a Modernist look to advertising posters, corporate logos and, in the 1960s, the entire New York City subway system, died on Jan. 11 in Milan, his adopted city. He was 82.

“Don’t bore the public with mysterious designs,” Mr. Noorda once said, and he put that dictum into practice. He was a master of spare, elegant and logical designs that caught the eye, from minimalist corporate logos for the Italian publishing house Feltrinelli and the ENI Group of Milan to impressionistic posters for Pirelli, the Italian tire maker.

Dekochari art bikes

For decades, dekochari have been the ride of choice for hardcore Japanese dekotora fans that are too young to drive. Modeled after Japan’s celebrated art trucks, dekochari (deko means “decoration” and chari is slang for “bicycle”) typically feature large front bumpers, ornate luggage racks, rear-mounted boxes that resemble truck trailers, colorful paint jobs, lots of chrome, and sophisticated electric light displays. This video pieces together random night scenes from Dekochari Yarou, a documentary that profiles a few dekochari enthusiasts and their custom rides. The soundtrack is “Ichiban-boshi Blues” (sung by Bunta Sugawara and Kinya Aikawa), the theme song from the Torakku Yarou movie series that sparked Japan’s dekotora craze in the ’70s.