Mess Lab recently caught up with founder/Creative Director/main man Amir at Pool tradeshow. Watch Amir discuss the Beautiful/Decay brand, and give advice for anyone looking to get into the art/fashion/design fields!
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Please credit me as Richard III
I recently discovered “Richard III”‘s cooky portfolio. It’s replete with unknown highly layered symbolic structures and bizarre ideas. Geodesically interesting. This is a snippet of what the artist wrote in an email to us: “Expect 2000 and 1 thank you’s to be delivered in vapor form in a fortnight’s time… or perhaps you would prefer my Lord Humongous style leather riding vest for your commutes to and through the gauntlet that is Hell A.” Pretty great. Visit Richard III myspace site for more!
David Kassan’s Uncanny Likeness
David Kassan paints with the uncanny mimetic virtuosity of Old Masters, verging on the photographic- though his subjects, rather than regal dukes, bejeweled empresses or wealthy patrons, are far less posed, pompous and assuming. Kassan often situates his sitters within the detritus of layered, urban walls, creating a striking reference to past masters while bringing their ideals into the vision of a decidedly contemporary eye.
Kassan will be exhibiting his works March 12- April 4th at Henoch Gallery.
Interview: UFEX
UFEX is a digital design collective comprised of Mikkel Møller Andersen and Kasper Fjederholt, based out of London and Copenhagen respectively. They recently opened an exhibition/collaborative show with Bora Tanay at Artary Off Space February 14th–dealing with “extemporaneous human sculptures” that subsequently explore the different aspects of “modern social constructions.” UFEX often create “analog” sculptures that are photographed and constructed in a way to make them appear inexplicably digital. Their series, “Eyes, Ears, Mouth,” is a fascinating example of sculpture that straddles the liminal and collapsable worlds of real/digital, handmade/photoshopped, showing that perhaps the boundaries are not as concrete as we thought. The result are hilarious meditations that push the boundaries of “reality,” authenticity and the absurd.
Photo Contest Champs
Drew Struzan’s Epic Vistas @ Gallery Nucleus
Migy
What can I say, I like mythological gods of the forests (Pan/flutes) and vikings
Limited Edition Kyle Thomas X Beautiful/Decay Shirt
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at Pool! If you came by, you’d know that we created a one of a kind collaborative t-shirt with artist Kyle Thomas to give away during the tradeshow. The shirt features a modular stacked metropolis of seemingly endless skyscrapers, with a cloud-font Beautiful Decay floating over the urban density! The shirt was printed by Jakprints. If you managed to score one of these, hang on to it, it’s sure to be a collector’s item one of these days….
