posted on June 18th, 2008
We want to invite artists based in London, and others around the world if interested, to participate in the Puzzle Project UK. This initiative started in Japan and the aim is to make it grow and travel around different cities across the globe. In this project participants will create art on the surface of a plain puzzle piece. Any media/technique is accepted. Subsequently the artworks will be curated all together to build up one puzzle. Only 56 pieces will be commissioned through the London office in 2008: 28 by invitation and 28 by submission. The rest will come from the Japan Office and 10 more will be created in a workshop that will take place in London.
As a result, around 130 jigsaw puzzle pieces will come together into one single puzzle during the exhibition at The Wall in The Gallery at Willesden Green in London. Artists from Japan, the UK and other countries will blur geographic, linguistic, religious, cultural and even aesthetic boundaries by sharing the same space and time through their artworks.Consequently the pieces will show a series of connections and disconnections among each other but never without stop belonging to one single puzzle piece; just like it happens in urban centres, where among strangers and friends we built our own city and life stories. This process is full of relations and non-relations as well as order and chaos.
The project will also explore and experiment with the duality between the visual and the text. Artists will articulate a word they associate to the project or their work but they would not reveal which element motivated their choice (the title and the word do not have to be the same). These words will help to outline a narrative among the pieces and reactions to the project.How can you participate?- An entry fee of £ 14 applies (plus posting charges if you want the plain puzzle piece to be delivered and/or returned to your address).- Artists can choose to sell or not to sell their artworks: Puzzle Project UK does not charge a commission fee for the sale of artworks.- If you want to participate and know in detail the terms of the project please request the entry form by e-mailing to:puzzle.project@yahoo.co.uk*Please write ‘Entry Form request’ in the subject.We invite you to come back to this site every now and then to find updates
- If you want to know a little bit more …
- Visit the Japanese Puzzle Project website (available in English): http://unipon2kau2.com/puzzle_project/
- *please note that the forms included in the Japanese website (Japan Office) are not the same as the ones required by the UK office. To request an entry form from us please follow the instructions mentioned above
posted in "forbiddden friday" 1st
posted on June 14th, 2008
I’m taking pictures of people who take pictures of people on the street. Face-hunters and street-style-hunters, bloggers and magazineists.
This handsome young man works for an Italian magazine. They were taking pictures of a fashionable ’snorkel’ in the backyard of Truman brewery.
posted in "fashion" We are still here
posted on June 14th, 2008
It’s been a while since we told you about the Puzzle Project in the UK, but that doesn’t mean that we haven’t been working. Just a quick update, we already have a venue for showing the artwork to be produced for the project. The space is called The Wall and it is in The Gallery at Willesden Green (London, UK). The exhibition will take place in October 2008 and we will call for entries very soon, so stay alert.For some more information about the project in Japan go to:Puzzle Project JapanIf you have questions that can’t wait untill the entry form goes on-line please write to:puzzle.project@yahoo.co.uk
Plain puzzle sample
posted in "forbiddden friday" Yves Saint Laurent has died, aged 71.
posted on June 2nd, 2008
Fashion Designer Yves Saint Laurent was born 1936 in Oran, Algeria. After winning first prize in the International Wool Secretariat contest for his asymetrical cocktail dress in 1954, Saint Laurent went immediately to work for Christian Dior. Afterwards, he opened his own couture house, financed by Pierre Berge(!), in 1962.
Long live YSL!
posted in "fashion & inspiration" VintagePlant
posted on June 1st, 2008
VintagePlant is a place where you can buy and sell plants with a history; second-hand plants that need a new home or third-generation cuttings with an old family-tree. Instead of throwing an old and tired plant in the bin you can go to www.vintageplant.net and they will try to find it a new home. This page is about the stories plants can tell us, how they have followed us through our lives and experienced good and bad times.
www.vintageplant.net
posted in "inspiration" ClubPub, 28th of May
posted on June 1st, 2008
Last ever ClubPub, On the Rocks, Kingslnd rd. last Wednesday. 
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posted in "inspiration"