Wednesday, July 10, 2019 – 18:30 – 20:00Project IMage:
Still from The earth of the Revolution, 2019; courtesy Paloma Polo
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French telecoms and media mogul Patrick Drahi is acquiring Sotheby’s auction house, one of the world’s biggest art brokers, in a $3.7 billion deal, the British-founded company announced Monday. Drahi, the billionaire founder of the Altice empire which owns SFR telecoms company and several French media houses including BFM news channel and Liberation newspaper, is paying $57 per share to acquire Sotheby’s through his company BidFair USA, the art house said. His foray into the art market sees him follow in the footsteps of fellow French billionaire, Kering chairman Francois Pinault, who acquired a majority stake in Sotheby’s rival Christie’s in 1998. The deal returns British-founded Sotheby’s to private ownership after 31 years as a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Greg Climer’s pixelated quilts are captivating, colourful portraits enabled through the use of technology, which he uses to augment a traditional craft into something truly modern and exciting.
His quilts are designed by taking photographic images or collages and converting them into a pixelated form, blurring the image without obscuring it. The pixel images are then digitally printed onto cotton, ready for construction into a quilt using traditional techniques. Alongside working on his quilts he creates ‘knitted films’ through the painstakingly slow process of recreating reels of film in knitted form, frame by frame, which he then re-animates into video format.
Greg holds a BA in theatre design and classical studies and an MFA in Design Technology. He started off as a pattern maker for costume design in theatre, then moved into the fashion industry. Currently, as a practising artist, he mixes his signature style of quilting and knitting with the use of technology. Greg is also an Assistant Professor at the Parsons School of Design, New York and was artist in residence at Museum of Art and Design, New York in 2016. His work has been shown in galleries around the US and is in the permanent collection of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.
In this interview Greg shares how his career developed from learning to sew as a child. He talks about his promotion of equality and gay rights through his work. Find out how he’s driven by his love of innovation, to use high-tech approaches within a traditional craft. He explains in detail how he constructs his playful quilt portraits and shares his advice on how to push your boundaries by using ideas from outside of your field to become more experimental with your processes.
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Of the approximately 30 ceramics factories in the city of Delft towards the end of the 17th century ‘The Greek A’ was surely one of the most innovative and international. They had of course ample funding as they could count King William and especially his wife Queen Mary among their enthusiastic clientele. In their 200 year existence the factory had several owners, many of them related, and the generations handed down the pursuit of perfection. Aronson Antiquairs of Amsterdam, specialists in Delftware, dedicates an online exhibition to this factory, viewable from Sunday June 16th around midday CET. In 1658 Wouter van Eenhoorn began pottery production in the former brewery known as ‘De Griex A’ on the Geer near De Metaale Pot (The Metal Pot) factory, creating what was to become a dynastic business and the most successful of all the early Delft factories. Although it is not certain whether Wouter used a mark
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Iconic 20th-century artist Frida Kahlo has one of the best-known faces on the planet, but the world at large has never heard the Mexican painter’s voice — until, possibly, now. Kahlo, who is instantly recognizable with her convention-defying unibrow, spent her life as a painter in the daunting artistic shadow of her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera. And while there are many silent films of her, the Mexican culture ministry says there are no known audio recordings. But one may just have been found in the private collection of a legendary host from Mexico’s “golden age of radio” in the 1950s, it says. “Frida’s voice has always been a great enigma, a never-ending search,” the head of the national audio archives, Pavel Granados, told a press conference at which the ministry unveiled the newly discovered recording. “Until now, there had never been a recording of Frida Kahlo,” he added. The tape was found in the archives of late radio personality
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