Mrs. Carter's Non-Collaborateurs, In Non-Chronological Order

1. Herb Ritts Andie MacDowell in Hawaii, 1984
2. Leonor Fini The Ends Of The Earth, 1949
3. Marylin Minter Splish Splash, 2005
4. Irving Penn Issey Miyake, 1991
5. Man Ray Le Violon d'Ingres, 1924
6. Herb Ritts El Mirage, 1990
7. René Magritte The Lovers, 1928
8. Guy Bourdin In Between, 2010
9. René Laloux Fantatsic Planet, 1973
10. Erwin Blumenfeld Vogue, 1950
11. Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon, 1980

For her self-entitled #VisualAlbum 'BEYONCÉ', Beyoncé has been seeking expressionist advice from French surrealism and its tradition in film and fashion photography.

Beyond well-established motifs of modern and contemporary art, the content also reflects something soft-political: feminist speech clashes with sexist slang ('Bow Down Bitches') and masochistic submission ('I Cooked This Meal For You Naked.'). A work on rough love, drunk love, jealousy. Not an artwork though - but a commercially valuable, visual-acustic product.
/HORST

Post London VI

A 'False Encyclopaedia' double feature with Taj Ragland, discussing:
Xander Zhou Spring/Summer 2014

For Spring/Summer 2014 Xander Zhou has created a post-apocalyptic cyber uniform. Zhou's customer doesn't exist in this dimension. He's clearly designing for the technology-crazed avatars of the internet. Zhou pushed full force into uncharted territory of the Web, presenting cold, clinical, deconstructed suiting with a focus on experimentation with strong contrasts. The silhouettes were flat, straight and unisex and Zhou's use of an array of tones, fabrics and references made for an otherworldly effect. The details and accessories add an extra plane to the Xander Zhou man's story, the super-long sleeves, silver chokers and PVC patches on black loafers add personality to the looks, no matter how disaffected and aloof.

Zhou's piece de resistance came in the form of a group of photo-collaged car coats, slathered in screen grabs of internet search engines, social media, error messages and Asian horror films. A complete wardrobe for a desensitized, analytic internet-dwelling youth. Count me in.
/TAJ

As dishevelled study of post-apocalyptic rent boys, Xander Zhou crosses Prada's futurism with bittersweet cosplay. Throwing in various artefacts ranging from the 'cute' and 'horrible' to the 'naive' and 'unrighteous'. Eventually, these forces end tangled up in gallimaufry - just like the misplaced collars and 'wrong' sleeve lengths.
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1. Xander Zhou Spring/Summer 2014
2. Google 1998-2013
3. Jeremy Scott Fall/Winter 2012
4. Columbine High School massacre 1999
5. Battle Royale 2000
6. Prada Fall/Winter 2008
7. Robert Mapplethorpe Dominick And Elliot, 1979
8. Xander Zhou Spring/Summer 2014

All about Taj Ragland

A Photo Booth Biennale, Epilogue V

A second look at The Artwork Will Be Present, 2013.






1. Robert Mapplethorpe Calla Lily, 1988
2. Robert Mapplethorpe Leather Crotch, 1980
3. Robert Mapplethorpe Mountain, 1983
4. Robert Mapplethorpe Veronica Vera, 1982
5. Robert Mapplethorpe Self Portrait, 1980

By now, it should be evident that this 'exhibit' is about the aestheticism of the 'ugly' side: the human longing for the most basic means of survival. As victims of our nature, we do deny the subliminal. Yet, we cannot stop ataring at it. This gaze is being well provided by Mapplethorpe.
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The Artwork Will Be Present, 2013

or 'A Photo Booth Biennale'

Suit Laitinen
T-Shirt RAF by Raf Simons

Exhibited artworks (in chronological order): Ryan McGinley, Nobuyoshi Araki, Wouter Vandenbrink, Ida Applebroog and Robert Mapplethorpe. Available in the museum's shop: Joseph Beuys 'Early Drawings'.
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Sherman Questions XIV

1. Robert Mapplethorpe Cindy Sherman, 1983
2. Giorgio Armani Campaign

Images of Cindy Sherman that are not images of Cindy Sherman. They are more than a character study, more than self-portraits. They are portraits of 'self'. And amidst all the costume choices - from Balenciaga to Comme des Garçons - Sherman opts for the intellectual power woman look of Jil Sander, Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani.
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The Nude Portrait III x Portraits Of An Artist IV

category e.1) golden shower

1. Rick Owens Self-portrait, i-D Magazine 2002
2. Jürgen Teller Louis XV, 2005

category e.2) distorted body

3. Francis Bacon Study for self-portrait, 1976

category e.3) frontal poet

4. Don Herron Robert Mapplethorpe, 1978
5. Vinoodh Matadin Hans van Manen, 1986

category e.4) the couple


6. Gilbert & George Naked Suits, 1994
7. Jeff Koons Ponies, 1991

When two portrait series become one. The provocative, self-revealing depiction of nudity. Disarming every critic as there is nothing left to be exposed or taken away, the artist deletes the possibility of any scandal. Possibly, this is his most powerful creation.
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