SUPREME X URS FISCHER

Just today, 21/03/16, New York street wear kings announced that this season would feature a very limited collection of exclusive art work by Swiss artist Urs Fischer as part of their ever so popular S/S 16 collection.

A rare collection of skate boards, consisting of three have been produced. These feature a continuing work of art based around that of a lit cigarette designed by Urs and given to Supreme for this season. Other artists who have followed in his footsteps included: Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Peter Saville, H R Giger and Mark Flood. To name a few in their deep extensive and sometimes controversial history since 1994.  However, in classic Supreme styling the art does not feature in a conventional frame or being part of a installation, most of all Supreme's artist collaborations are instead placed onto to the backs of skateboards. 
A new canvas!

TOASTED

As for the artist himself, Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in 1973 to two doctors; in his early days he focused on photography and joined the Schule für Gestaltung in the city. Upon juggling his education and bouncing on the doors of the local night clubs and bars, Urs successfully excelled at the subject and managed to move to Amsterdam where he had his first solo show, showing all his work in fine detail. 

As he became more involved in the art scene, he chose to adopt the styling of the Neo-Dada movements, (A favorite of mine), where your art work reflects a kind of anti establishment trait. This appealed to a wide range of buyers and critics as he triumphantly curated numerous well know: objects, drawing, sculptors and room insulation.

FRIED

BAKED

I am very interested in these decks, similarly as I am a fan of both his past work and the design placed on them too. I like the ethos of the cigarette and how it speaks to a history of skateboarding as well as fans of supreme who enjoy divulging in such activities. Plus, these decks explain the ideas surrounding "time", which is closely demonstrated by the general item of a blazing cigarette. An object which represents the matter of time by reducing the consumers own time line and how it over time subtracts itself and slowly burns itself out and become nothing again. A perfect non-permanent object.

Keep your eyes peeled to see if I catch one of these decks, hopefully the FRIED one, or if I burn out. I will be purchasing as fan of his not as a skateboarder although in my youth I did try that and successfully failed.


Urs Fischer x Supreme Collection of three limited Skateboards will be released on the 24th March 2016!

Other Pieces of Urs Work

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REVIEW! PAVEL BUCHLER IDLE THOUGHTS (2013)

BOOK REVIEW: PAVEL BUCHLER- IDLE THOUGHTS

The Book in its GLORY

"All I remember is the handwriting going on for pages and pages... in its way it was perfect."

A closing remark by the artist Pavel Buchler on the reasoning behind why he has chosen to replicate the fading memories of his father, within his art work. The art work can be seen as a very heart felt love letter to his deceased father, as well as the influence he has bestowed within Buchler now as he is an adult. Whether it can be seen as open letter to his father or a work based upon the discovery of his failed novel in his youth, Butchler has used this as a catalyst to help him create multiple works of art based around the idea of human ideas as well as the way we write to express these interests of ours.

Pavel Bulcher in discussion of his work

  Pavel Buchler was born behind the "Iron Curtain" in Prague in 1952, around the time of the infamous 'Slansky Trail', where he would live and worked until the early 1980's. As a struggling artist he drew inspiration from a variety of sources: including his heritage, but mostly from the society and the world around him at time, especially living and breathing under a very strict Communist rule (strongly shown in his other works). Learning from this he created multiple works of art and sculptures to both stress and parody his life under this all seeing eye. However, he has also turned his hand into teaching and lectures about approaches to art on the whole as well as his own work. Currently he is a professor at Manchester University on the MA Fine Art course.
Still to this day he is a strong a prominent figure on the intentional art scene in more ways than one.  

Moving on to the exhibition put on by the recently re-built and updated Withworth Gallery in the student heart of the city of Manchester, I can not say I ever entered the gallery prior to it being updated but pictures have help me to illustrate the changes that have taken place over its closure. Now the gallery has a wide variety of different form of art work from sculptures to drawings, film and other art based works from multiple foreign and home grown talent.

Idle Thoughts (Diary 2010-2011)

As shown above, you can see the level of detail Buchler adds to these pieces; where each individual scrape and flick of the pen is perfectly added to cover up any remaining white paper cushioned below. The main interest in us human's is what lies behind all that blue blur. What was written moments before? Its a bizarre take on what the human mind can develop and structure but, also how in time all of our ideas grow from seeds and fruit the understanding of who or what we would like to achieve. This collection of art is no different; with the thought of time taking president which is duplicated with the periods of expanse it took to complete the collection. From the inception of his discovery to the formation of the works all of this took time, like his father's novel did.

In others forms of works in the series, entitled 'a year with a dead Biro' we see Buchler create invisible works of prose left as a ghostly outline on the page. This includes a diary of notes taken from the same year which has his thoughts and feelings embossed with the fibers of the paper itself. An all white swan song of his inner mind workings, which is too faint for us to see and feel. Yet, symbolically powerful for us viewers to feel a sense of lost and hope all juxtaposed in one. What was written?

Few of the Pieces on show 

Overall, a excellent messy insight into the world of failed human notions. Prior on the surface it may seem like an explosion at a pen factory; it deals more with the connection and love with for his father as he reminisces about his childhood and his amazement that his father could have it in him to create a novel in general.  



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HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

New Beginnings

A simple blog!

As Dicken's inscribed in Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times!"

I am here to chart and describe my life as a Modernist living within the Working Class city of Manchester. A place which has effected by my life and a large chunk of my influences. I want to share this blog with you to highlight these interests of mine and hopefully show you what it means to be a "Modernist" in 2016 rather than 1966. 
It's more than just a way of life... 

Here on this blog I will review both new and old clothing which I acquire on a regular basis, rare or scare books which I have recently picked up too. Whether they be about art, design or photography you will be able to get a glimpse of my library as I build up my collection. Explain my thoughts on new and old music which I frequently listen too or view live at certain venues. Finally, I would like to discuss any new art based events I will attend both locally or abroad when I travel.
Plus, I might even drop some of my own photos which I have taken on my 35mm camera's which I am also very passionate about!   

So hopefully by now you have gotten a taste of my world... 

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