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

- THURSTON

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REVIEW! MAX RITCHER - FROM SLEEP (2015)

"Sleeping is one of the most important things we do"

It seems year after year Max Richter, a German born English composer, gets better and better. With a major backing from film directors as well as HBO knocking on his door, for more songs to be added to their star filled TV dramas, this man can do no wrong. (Seek The Leftover's TV Show, series 2 out now)

After finishing various works for the silver screen and the ones that live in our front rooms remaining constantly vibrant. Richter took it upon himself to crafted one piece of music heavily disguised as lullaby to help explore the ideology of what Sleep is and what happens to us as we enter inactivity.
Richter prior to writing this length of music, conferred with famous neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn more about how our brains work at night. Richter wanted to attempt to find out the answer of what spaces occur within our minds when it is on "holiday".  Thus...

We got the masterpiece: SLEEP!


However, this album under review: 'From Sleep' can be seen as the "greatest hits" of this eight hour long epic. Heavily consisting of pianos, strings and choral structures, this album is perfect in case you just want dip your toe in the waters of this drowsy delight. Basically, a heightened power nap to energize your ears. The album is compressed onto one CD or on two vinyls in a deluxe package; its a beautiful accompaniment to your thoughts and dreams in the midnight hours.  

On this record, set over two visually stunning vinyls which in themselves create their own moon like gravitational pull when spinning, Richter manages to craft a beautiful patchwork of pianos, variety of strings and choral pieces throughout to distill a quilt of heavenly slumber. The music, river like in it's passage, drifts along with a soft ambiance. Personally, this lullaby for the dormant individual never fails to lack any tedious qualities track by track or does any section repeat its previous self; Richter successfully conveys a strong sense of emotion and a constant beating melody which is usually absent in the hearts of minimal music.

Track by track we get a feel of Richter's thoughts and feelings on what sleep is to him. Second by second will hear that with each stroke of a string and each hum of the choral piece being played we see the transition of the subject mater into that of an art. The vibrations add more and more splatters to the final canvas of art hanging in our minds.

Max Richter- German born English composer

Richter himself is a key figure head in the modern movement of post-minimalism in the early 2000's. A style of music and art which further develops and expands upon the original idea of minimalism a few decades before. As he successful re-composed Vivaldi's classic baroque standard, 'The Four Seasons' with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, to critical acclaim, he became a main figure in the modern classical circuits. (For me personally, this is where I first heard his work)
Although, he himself had already released a stream of concept albums including the brilliant 'Blue Notebooks' which, featured Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton herself narrating like a omnipresent voice. These records largely stayed in a mix of elective social circles where they were chosen as their favorite albums of that year corresponding to its release.

Not long before the release of this record to the public, the composer was approached by the BBC to preform this epic it all its heavenly glory on the 27th of September that year,2015. With Richter agreeing to be part of it's Radio 3 "Science and Music" weekend, the whole 8 hour piece was preformed live from the midnight til 8:00 am to match the sleeping patterns of a normal human as the climax to the festival. With this, Ritcher manages to break multiple records all at the same time including: the longest broadcast for a single piece of music in the BBC since its inception in 1936.

Max expressing his feelings about the record/ Inner Sleeve

Side A of the Vinyl/ Grey "Moon" Colour

Rating: 4/5


-THURSTON

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P.S. Yes 'The Blue Notebooks' is where I get my name sake from! Shhhhhhh.....