Donald Bachardy

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Yesterday I watched  (again) the film “Chirs and Don: A love story” If you haven´t seen it you should. It talks about, one of the most inspiring love stories ever told. The one that Don Bachardy and his life partner, Christopher Isherwood (one of USA best writters) had.

I always relate the work of Don with portraits. I personally love the color ones, specially the watercolors. Here you can see his impeccable  technique and at the same time you feel the vibrant strokes of the brush. On the other hand, the way he combines colours gives me  the soul of the person and the atmosphere of the room where he or she is posing. But there is an exception to the series of colour portraits, those are, the black and white ones that Don painted of Christopher´s  final year. In january 1986 Chris died . During his convalescence Don painted systematically his love in life. He is an artist and he works as one. It makes me feel thankful when I see such a private and intense moment in somebody else´s life. It is the moment to let go, to say goodbye or maybe just say see you later. I don´t think I could put any of this series in my home, but I just love to see them.

Anne Lindberg.

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The work of Anne Lindberg has almost all of what I like in art: color, light, softness, tenderness, and part of it has to be ephimeral.

Her paintings are great and easy to be sold. They are powerful and at the same time time  warm. She paints series of lines that look like if they were suspended in the air. The texture comes to life by using a black and grey background and star little by little alternating color and shades. When she translates this painting  technique into installations it is when her work is outstanding and unique.  Each installation is created for the space it will be shown in , and it is composed by thousands of colored threads that as individuals they say nothing but all toguether seam the breath and float in the air.

To top all of that she has a couple videos in Youtube showing how she works in the installation. Of course we can not see the previous work, the work of how she understands the space, and how the idea comes to her. I would love to se her the first time she discovers a space…

Anne Lindberg Installation Timelapse – YouTube.

Pablo Atchugarry

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When I think about a “Pietá” it always comes to my mind Miguel Angel,s one. It is so peaceful, full of emotion and passion. It is that kind of beauty that makes me shiver and makes me cry.

When I saw for the first time Pablo Atchugar,s ( Uruguay 1954)  “Pietá” I thought it was a joke. The figures are so stiff and humanless. At first glance I couldn´t find any emotion, the composition seams cold and anti-natural.  To appreciate this modern Pietá, I needed to take my time, I just needed to let it talk to me. It is then when I felt in love with the texture, the dramatic  peace and poetry  that it is hidden in the marble. Pure and sencere emotion!!!

The Pietá was my first  contact  with Pablo, and it was the moment to study his work. After a couple of years of study, I think he is today’s maestro of marble. Nobody works it as delicate as  he does. His white marble pieces are soft, tender and delicate. I really like his big size sculptures, they embrace  and enlightens me.

VIDEO Chanel Haute Couture Fall Winter 2012/2013

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CHANEL Fall 2012 Couture

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The word Vintage, is the last word that comes to my mind when I think in Karl Lagerfeld`s work for CHANEL. Yesterday´s couture collection was named “NEW VINTAGE” and far from here, it was as  expected a very French modern one.

Coco, used for the first time the clasic tweed for women. This time Karl has used it but in a “NEW” way. It is not the original real tweed, it is an embroidered over tule one “pure couture” The shoulders and length in the skirts semmed to be like the ones from 1940´s but the weight and movement of the fabrics give the pieces a very fresh look.  The old 1920´s cotton blouses now are young when made in tule.

For sure, there is nothing vintage in this collection, it is a real treat for the eyes and a great lesson in Haute Couture.

VIDEO Dior Haute Couture Fall Winter 2012/2013

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DIOR Fall 2012 Couture

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Finally Dior is again a modern Dior. After two long years of tedious (yet saleable) fashion at Chez Dior, this collection is on one hand  fresh, new, elegant and modern, and on the other it is all I expect in a  couture show. It respects the DNA of Dior and also you see the hand of the new genious in the house Monsieur “RAF SIMONS”

We all new that Simons first collection for Dior was going to be a success. I was ready to love it even before the show started. The show openned with a sleek black  tuxedo, that made me dream with the original Bar jacket designed by Christian Dior in 1947. The tailoring, the collar, the hips, everything is Couture. After this a re-interpretation of the jacket in all the possible patterns. And then a fashion extravaganza, a lesson to be lernt,a dream come true,  just perfection, the perfect balance between modernity and clasical elegance.

Tank you Raf for such a beautifull moment. This moment in time needs some one like you.

Silvia Bächli

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As you can see through my posts, I am the kind of person who really likes and needs color. I can not conceive my life in black and white, thank God for red, purple, cobalt, etc… But once in a while I need to rest my eyes, and my soul and take a  deep look inside of me, seeking for peace. That is when Silvia Bächli (Switzerland 1956) comes into my help.

Silvia’s work is not flamboyant or extravagant but it isn’t either  dull or humble. It is at the same time peaceful  and graceful, it calms me down but it doesn’t put me to sleep, it is strong and vibrant. Silvia doesn’t paint on canvas, she draws on paper. Her shades of gray are either gauche or watercolor. This texture  is what, I think, gives her work an incredible feeling of homeness and warmness.

I really need sometimes to calm down, and conect with myself!!

Cedric Pollet

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For many artists, nature is the inspiration, but what about if for the first time, nature was not the inspiration any more, and becomes the art by itself?

This is what Cedric Pollet (Nize 1976 ) does with his amazing photographies. He takes pictures of logs that are shedding their barks and they are showing us the new inner colors, while the old skin is fading. Some of the pictures look to me as when you take  a very close look to an impressionist painting and you realize that each stroke is monochromatic and a little bit too simple. Then you need to back up to translate the strokes into a painting. It is then, when it is impossible to find each single stroke, because them, all toguether they have become a sunflower, a portrait or in this case a tree.

You can find his work in the book “ECORCES” or “BARK”  You will discover his work, but what I like it better is if you tear some pages off,  put them in  a frame and consider them ART.

Beatriz Milhazes

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I guess  that if you are born in Rio de Janeiro, the  light stays in your heart for the rest of your life, and no matter what you do it will come out. This is what happens to Beatriz Milhazes (Rio de janeiro 1960).

Last week I was in London and it was one of those London days: rainy, windy, dark, cold… and to top it all I was almost run over by a touristic bus, for a while I thought I should have stayed at the hotel, but then I walked in Stephen Friedman gallery and in less than an hour I was high again.  There  they were,  Beatriz Milhazes fantastic paintings.

Her  work is an explotion of light, and positivity. She has no complex showing bright acrilyc colors in this dark times that we are living in.  Something that shocked me was that although she paints fucsia and purple  mandala flowers, they look very masculine. All her paintings are softly powerful.  They are the kind of paintings that make a rainy day shine.  JUST WHAT I NEEDED!!!!