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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg



    Yes, you are not dreaming.</p>

    Link to Press Release in .pdf format.</p>

    Gallery link</p>

    December 14, 2007 - January 28, 2008</p>

    The Journal Gallery</p>

    168 North 1st St,. Brooklyn, NY 11211</p>

    Well, I don't know what to make of this bullshit art lingo on the press-release, to be honest. Can anyone translate that? I'd like to read the interview though.
    </p>

    Next Ever After is an artistic statement that speaks to both personal and historical mythologies. A singular, multi-faceted
    mirrored object will be the central focus of the installation ? an object both stable and destabilizing. Like Janus, the Roman
    god able to view past and future simultaneously, the mirrored sphere central to Next Ever After reflects while simultaneously
    absorbing its surroundings, creating a sensation both voyeuristic and self-aware. The mirrored object presented in Next Ever
    After, part of Lang?s own personal mythology, transforms in the journal Gallery into a more universal reflection on the themes
    of change and transition: the unpredictable progression from one state to another, from one cultural position to the next.
    The Next Ever After exhibition is the artistic culmination of a yearlong collaboration between Helmut Lang and the indepen
    dent arts and culture publication, the journal. Ten unique studies for Next Ever After appear exclusively in the Winter 2007
    issue of the journal, alongside a revealing conversation with renowned curator Neville Wakeield. In this highly personal dia-
    logue, Helmut Lang publicly addresses his own ?Next Ever After?: his artistic practice, the evolution of his aesthetic thought,
    and the relationship between art and fashion.
    The ten carefully composed studies created in preparation for Next Ever After, and presented in the journal, illustrate the
    aesthetic themes that Lang has been mining throughout his career. Through Helmut Lang?s creative process, seemingly in-
    nocuous still-life objects are unhinged from conventional meaning, and translated into the world of art. Sparkling, colored
    ornaments are photographed against found black-and-white pornographic visuals, the effect at once sublime and profane.
    One of the most innovative and inluential cultural igures of our time, Helmut Lang lives and works in New York and Long
    Island. In 2005, Helmut Lang established hl-art, a site for further artistic exploration and experimentation. the journal,
    published by Michael Nevin, has established itself as a well-respected cultural barometer for contemporary art, publishing
    exclusive portfolios of and conversations with artists such as Dash Snow, Rita Ackerman, Ryan McGinley, Beat Streuli, Ari
    Marcopoulos, Dan Colen, David Shrigley, Wolfgang Tillmans, Susan Cianciolo, Aurel Schmidt and Mark Gonzales.
    The Winter 2007 issue of the journal presents a 20-page Helmut Lang exclusive, in addition to artwork and interviews with
    Mark Borthwick, Juergen Teller and Miranda July, and launches at Art Basel Miami in December 2007.
    the journal Gallery, founded in 2005, is honored to present Helmut Lang?s irst solo gallery exhibition on December 14, 2007.
    the journal Gallery is located at: 168 North 1st St., Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Gallery hours are 12:00-6:00 p.m., Mon-Sun.
    For additional information, please contact:
    Cynthia Leung
    cynthia@thejournalinc.com

    </p>
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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  • Fuuma
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 4050

    #2
    Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg



    Translation: There's like mirrors, porn and stuffwhich amounts to personnal andcultural references in a nice, postmodern mix of low and high art = very hip. Helmut Lang is an artist so, obviously, stuff pertains to him. Blablabla. </P>


    The author who commited that little text has probably read some post-structuralist french writings, and he kinda, maybe understood it.</P>


    No need to thank me, just make sure to punch some of the organizers in the face if you get the chance. Orfollow my exampleand raid the cocktail/sushi bar at the opening and listen to the inane conversations going on then leave with a full stomach and an empty head.</P>
    Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
    http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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    • #3
      Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg

      I stopped by the gallery today. The "show" consisted of a single mirrored ball on the floor. Spare me. My, how the mighty have fallen.

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      • philip nod
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2007
        • 5903

        #4
        Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg

        disco ball?
        One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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        • Faust
          kitsch killer
          • Sep 2006
          • 37852

          #5
          Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg

          perfect. i could use this.
          Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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          • macuser3of5
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2006
            • 276

            #6
            Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg

            Talk about overwrought. ugh

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            • Faust
              kitsch killer
              • Sep 2006
              • 37852

              #7
              Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg

              The Emperor has no clothes.
              Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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              • loveless
                Senior Member
                • Feb 2007
                • 146

                #8
                Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg



                yea, walked in and was like, "where's the art?"</p>

                very anticlimatic. that being said, i believe its the same disco ball as was in his store back in the day, and i guess he took it apart/damaged it/ put it back to gether. so i suppose one could get all symbolically analytical and argue some kinda of transformation theme blah blah.....</p>


                </p>

                </p>

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                • philip nod
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2007
                  • 5903

                  #9
                  Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg



                  [quote user="Faust"]The Emperor has no clothes.
                  [/quote]</p>

                  </p>

                  in this case, this statement has a double meaning. </p>
                  One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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                  • Faust
                    kitsch killer
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 37852

                    #10
                    Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg

                    [quote user="philip nod"]

                    [quote user="Faust"]The Emperor has no clothes.
                    [/quote]</p>

                    </p>

                    in this case, this statement has a double meaning. </p>

                    [/quote]</p>

                    Indeed. That's exactly why I posted it [&lt;:o)]
                    </p>
                    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                    StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                    • philip nod
                      Senior Member
                      • Aug 2007
                      • 5903

                      #11
                      Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg

                      yes, i was alerting the rest of your class....
                      One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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                      • Faust
                        kitsch killer
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 37852

                        #12
                        Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg



                        [quote user="philip nod"]yes, i was alerting the rest of your class....
                        [/quote]</p>

                        [86] Funny, you should say this, because I used the press release in my class. The subject was "Don't write like this."
                        </p>
                        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                        • desultory
                          Member
                          • Aug 2007
                          • 92

                          #13
                          Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg

                          Ditto, Fuuma.

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                          • philip nod
                            Senior Member
                            • Aug 2007
                            • 5903

                            #14
                            Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg

                            [quote user="Faust"]

                            [quote user="philip nod"]yes, i was alerting the rest of your class....
                            [/quote]</p>

                            [86] Funny, you should say this, because I used the press release in my class. The subject was "Don't write like this."
                            </p>

                            [/quote]</p>

                            </p>

                            yes, the gallery press release, a funny beast.</p>
                            One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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                            • laika
                              moderator
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 3787

                              #15
                              Re: Helmut Lang Gallery Installation in Williamsburg



                              Frankly, I've always thought he took himself a bit too seriously. [^o)]</p>

                              I find this really sad though...particularly the lines about "personal mythology," and "through Helmut Lang's creative process." [85] The whole thing has a rather pathetic, washed-up ring to it.
                              </p>

                              I'm glad you found such a good use for it though, Faust! [73]</p>
                              ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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