Telka van Dodewaard - exhibition ´Muhe Frida´ during AIS SALON/ Aruba

Anne Bosman tells about his eccentric, surreal mens wear collection: ´This collection recalls the sense of a childhood freedom´

by Marij Elisabeth Rynja  


During AIS SALON/ in Aruba last november Anne Bosman presented his graduation collection he made at ArtEZ. Between all other participants of the so called ´Dutch Group Show´ Anne was the most conceptual and maybe even most bizar fashion collection for the people of Aruba who in general likes bikini´s, bright colors, and feminine glamour clothing. But now the audience could see what Dutch fashion and fashion design holds more, even when it comes to men´s wear. 

Anne Bosman was over the moon when he heard he could show at Aruba, he flew over for just three days to witness this presentation. Anne Bosman tells us about his ideas and proces behind this remarkable men´s wear collection. 

Anne Bosman:  “A while ago I saw a serial portraits of Japanese emperors, they were all pictured sitting, where their kimono was folded to a three dimensional piece of art. So, it all started with a fascination for dictators and emperors. It is the way they’re dressed, very powerful, big and strong. Sometimes a little bit feminine. Funnily, this image also reminded me of children who wrap fabrics around their body and creating their own sculptures and stories. 

To research my silhouettes I used two ways:  the first one was to try on an oversized kimono in every possible way, also in combination with other fabrics; the second was to increase baby clothing to my own nowadays size. This brings total new silhouettes for men, because a pattern for a baby has other proportions then which for adult man. During my research the silhouettes also reminded me off when I was a little boy running through gardens, wearing my father´s jacket. I felt huge! Or, I putted on two towels and I became Julius Caesar!  With this collection I wanted to recall that powerful sense, that feeling I had as a child, but now for grown up men.” 

more information and pictures, visit his website www.annebosman.com

Osaira Muyale - exhibition ´Muhe Frida´ during AIS SALON/ Aruba

BACKSTAGE at the Dutch Fashion Show @ Aruba In Style, 05-11-11

Backstage - photo by Marij Rynja

Edwin Oudshoorn 

Edwin Oudshoorn - photo Marij Rynja 

Edwin Oudshoorn with jewelry designer Claudia Ruiz. Edwin used her designs for the show in Aruba and asked her to show one of his amazing dresses on the runway. Claudia said she never felt so comfortable in a dress, because it fitted like a glove due to the tailoring qualities of Edwin.  

Close up of the jewelry of Claudia Ruiz, that Edwin selected for his show - photo Marij Rynja

Anne Bosman's graduation collection for ArtEZ  - photo Marij Rynja

Anne Bosman created these shoes: a mixture of flipflops and indoor slippers - photo Marij Rynja 

Close up of the work of ArtEZ's Linda de Jong - photo Marij Rynja 

Close up of the plastic knitwear of Linda de Jong (ArtEZ) - photo Marij Rynja

Models waiting to show the collection of Linda de Jong

Close up of a dress by Sanne Schepers (ArtEZ) - photo Marij Rynja

Dress by Sanne Schepers 

Models dressed in Sanne Schepers graduation collection for ArtEZ

Loek Coerwinkel of the SALON/ team helping out backstage - photo Marij Rynja  

Marga Weimans with her models 

Mattijs van Bergen has created these magnificant wooden heels in cooperation with United Nude 

Just before the show Mattijs is interviewed by Aruban Press

Front: Marga Weimans; Center pieces: Mattijs van Bergen; grey dress by Edwin Oudshoorn - photo Marij Rynja

Close up of one of Mattijs van Bergens pleated dresses  - photo Marij Rynja 

 golden pleated dress by Mattijs van Bergen - photo Marij Rynja 

AIS SALON/ presents: Dutch Fashion Group show @ Aruba In Style: ArtEZ, Marga Weimans, Mattijs van Bergen and Edwin Oudshoorn

AIS SALON/ presents: Telka van Dodewaard and Viktor & Rolf - National Archaeological Museum Aruba

Telka van Dodewaard: 'If you still don't get it, you never will'  

Telka van Dodewaard (2011) in an former water basement. photo: Marij Rynja 

Between ceramic artifacts, shell and stone tools and pre-historic ornaments displayed for all those who would like to know about Aruba's first cultures, stands Viktor & Rolf and Telka van Dodewaard. 

One could call Telka’s work strongly narrative. Constantly she displays an unwritten story but without giving the view room for his own interpretation. Returning themes in her work are the vulnerability of a human being and the inherent decay through time and of life, what we also see in the installation she created for AIS SALON/. With a wink to fashion Telka van Dodewaard is showing the installation 'If you still don't get it, you never will', made for the old water well in the Archaeological Museum. Her installation is about beauty and it’s glorification. She explained that obscuring the ugliness and the ugliness itself go hand in hand. The materials she used for this installation are mostly textile and ceramics, what reflects Telka’s background as a sculptor.

Telka van Dodewaard (b. 1977, Maastricht, the Netherlands) lives and works in Aruba and Amsterdam. She graduated from the art academy Maastricht in 1999. She started a masters degree at the Rietveld Academie, the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, graduating in 2002.

www.telka.nl


A Winter's Dream in tropical conditions: Viktor & Rolf's fur coat in Aruba 

The archeaological museum of Aruba was once a luxurous urban villa, where a European lady lived who missed the cold winters of her homeland. She created a winter room, where she sat in her winter coat, dreaming away while she gazed at the winter portrets of white mountains, moose, lakes, and other images. This former winter room was the perfect location to present the white fur coat of Viktor & Rolf of the Flower Bomb collection 2008.

photo: Marij Rynja 

posted by Marij Elisabeth Rynja - official blogger for SALON/

The Dushi's of AIS/ SALON at ARUBA!

Angelo Tromp / Edwin Oudshoorn / Nick Lynch / Sarah Schulten / Marga Weimans /  Loek Coerwinkel / Gijs Stork / Claudia Ruiz / Manon Schaap / Mattijs van Bergen / Marij Rynja 

posted by Marij Elisabeth Rynja official blogger for SALON/

AIS SALON/ supports BRA-ART, a project for the awareness of breast cancer

SALON/ goes further than exposing the endeptment of contemporary fashion and design cross overs, we also like to support projects who give room for yougsters to explore their creative abilities. Like Bra-Art, a project of Atelier 89 of Elvis Lopez, an Aruban artist who started this Visual Arts Academy in 1989 and who coordinates numerous artistic projects on the island.

Last friday the resultst of a workshop for kids about the awareness of breast cancer was opened. Most of the children had witnessed the effect of breast cancer near by. They have customised bra's with various results. In this workshop they learned how to symbolise an emotion, a happening or a story into a personal piece of bra-art.


This project was supported by Mary Joan Breast Cancer Support Group

Heinrich 'Real men wear pink' Gonzalez entitled his creation 'Hey beautiful lady, which side do you choose'. His aunt survived breast cancer. He first made the bra, but was not satisfied. He created a body with one dammaged breast with cancer to enforce his message. For two months he worked on his bra-art project. Well done, Heinrich !  

Meet Marylou Hermans, a girl whose gransmother survived breast cancer and still enjoys her life. Marylou wanted to symbolise the way her grandmother dealed with her cancer. The roses symbolise beauty as well as blood, she tells me. The weaves and curls on the side of the bra symbolise transformation and movesment, that live goes on. And the peacock she made herself, stands for the pride her grandmother showed, with and after her cancer. 

made of melted candle wax

posted by Marij Elisabeth Rynja official blogger for SALON/

Magnificant ending of the Painted Table Dress process in Aruba

by Marij Elisabeth Rynja

Friday afternoon time stood still on the shores of Aruba. On the dock of Roger's Beach, near San Nicolas, we witnessed a breath taking presentation and performance of the Painted table dress, made during the social embroidery workshop earlier this week with 16 participants at Scol di Arte.
On the sounds of a traditional Aruban piano box, musician Michael Lampe leaded dancer Alydia Wever, dressed in the table dress, from water to land where a long table waited to be covered by the table dress. Alydia Wever danced with the long embroidered cloth folded in her arms, like it was a new born ready to present to the outside world. When she reached the table, she softly song repeatedly an Aruban lullaby called 'Maria ta den Cushina' (about Maria who ask us to come to the table and see what she has prepaired). Two girls, dressed in creations of Painted Series, made subtle sound effects of people with clinking wine classes. At final, when the table was covered, the girls put water glasses on the table, while Alydia Wever put off the table dress, walked back to the water and dissapeared with a elegant dive.

For Painted it was an emotional moment seeing their effort and creation get together so well. It was exactly what they wished for when they created the table dress concept two years ago. "It felt really, really good, its a disclosure so perfect it moved me deeply", Margreet Sweerts said. Sakia van Drimmelen: "The idea was already there, but never the right moment. We were asked two years ago to create a table cloth, but just making a table cloth and present it in a shop felt unnatural and not 'painted' like. I knew all along this table cloth should be a made by more than one pair of hands. I saw people sitting around the table and embroider together, even when you never did that before. I am really happy with the result."
Afterwards I spoke shortly with Alydia Wever, who still swom in the water....and so was I. She told me that since she lived in Queens, New York where she danced, she collected nice fabrics and textiles without doing anything with it. So, for her it was also a beatiful moment to dance with accual fabric in stead of only wearing it as a costume. And the teamwork made her dancing today right from the heart.

The project of the Painted Table dress is SALON/ pur sang.

Thank you Painted Series, Alydia Wever, Michael Lampe, Scol di Arte and especially UNOCA for supporting this well executed and delicate project.

In the back Alydia Wever starts her dance. The girl in frint is Alydia's daughter,
a dancer as well, dressed by Painted. Photo: Marij Rynja 

The table dress will be unfolded. Photo: Marij Rynja

End of presentation, the table dress is revealed (attached to the dress). Photo: Marij Rynja

Michael Lampe Photo: Marij Rynja

Alydia Wever | Margreet Sweerts | Robin de Vogel | Michael Lampe | Pierangely Wever | Saskia van Drimmelen

Written and photographed by Marij Elisabeth Rynja official blogger for SALON/
www.marijrynja.com

AIS SALON/ presents: Robin de Vogel, a girl with a monumental mission

Robin de Vogel, a third year student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy who has lived in Aruba, is fascinated by the tangible signs of time, particularly those observed in architecture. These 'signs of decay' as she calls it are considered to be a flaw or something ugly. And therefore ignored. Robin de Vogel started repairing the holes and cracks in the city center of Amsterdam with self made pieces of ceramics which she glazed in a decorative manner, highlighting the signs of decay in the architecture by making them into little ornaments. She said: "In my work I try to pose questions about perception. The pieces blend in with the architecture and their presence is subtle, but at the same time they have a delicate decorative quality that grabs the viewers' attention. The project poses questions about aesthetics and underlines the temporal aspect of life".

Across Aruba and the AIS SALON/ locations, she has repaired a tile, a broken curb, missing cement, or a hole. Robin: "The buildings chosen for AIS SALON/ are of great historic and cultural value for Aruba. The work can be seen as something that ties all these locations together. I hope to make a statement with this work emphasizing the importance of maintaining these constructions for generations to come."

QR CODE LOCATIONS AIS/SALON in ARUBA

The QR Code Google Maps for the locations AIS/SALON (salon/Aruba)

'MUHE FRIDA' premiere during AIS/SALON, a performance by dancer Alydia Wever

The preparations for the dance theatre performance ‘Muhe Frida’ of Alydia Wever are well underway. After two years of preparation and a film, everything is coming together for the premiere on November 2nd 2011.  

By Ariën Rasmijn  

(this article was originally published in newspaper AMIGOE, 13-10-2011)

Already during her study in New York, Alydia Wever fell under the spell of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. “I saw the film about her life and cried from beginning to end. At the time, I saw the film together with my mentor and even then I thought it would be beautiful to make a dance performance about her life.” Years later – two years to be exact – she returns to the project. “Frida was someone who had been through a lot and suffered much pain, both physically and emotionally. I recognized myself not only in that pain but also in her willfulness, will and progressive character. I thought about doing this project.” That’s how ‘Muhe Frida’ came about, a multidisciplinary project seeking interfaces between the liberated painter and the Aruban female. “In first instance, I wanted to dedicate this to women, but I found out that everyone has interfaces with her life. Frida was so full of live and battle. Although one of her legs was shorter, she loved to dance. I think if she had wanted to, she could just as well have become a famous dancer.”

For the performance, Wever invited two pupils from all four dancing schools on the island to join in. “I want to promote cooperation and unity between the schools and the dancers on Aruba. After all, we are all together here and the aim is to make something beautiful together.” Wever also invited several dancers from abroad, for instance, the Dutch Anne-Fay Kops – who performed earlier in the diner show of Zissles – and the Canadian Geneva Jenkins. “They arrived one and a half week ago and are now working hard on their parts.” Furthermore, Michael Lampe, known from Datapanik and Fellow, will arrange original compositions and six artists are associated with the performance. Together with Alydia Wever, Osaira Muyala, Alida Martinez, Glenda Heyliger, Nadine Salas, Belinda de Veer and Irene Peterson will give a performance of seven scenes based on seven paintings from Frida Kahlo, with devised archetypes from the Mexican artist. These archetypes – varying from the Saint Frida, the Macho Frida and the Tormented Frida up to the Erotic Frida – were invented at the time by the Curaçao producer Felix de Rooij for the short film ‘Muhe Frida’, as shown at the Aruba International Film Festival. De Rooij is no longer involved with the dance theatre performance. “Eventually, we couldn’t work things out together”, says Wever. This resulted in two projects with the same name and the use of seven archetypes of Frida Kahlo. However, the dance theatre project is entirely different. “As regards contents, the emphasis is on the chosen seven paintings and as regards form the emphasis is on the dance theatre.” The film itself will be given a separate place during the evening of the performance. Works of 21 artists will be shown in the exposition room of Cas di Cultura. The exposition, led by Ryan Oduber, will also include Salon/, the Dutch part of the fashion event Aruba In Style that is to start on November 3rd.

The premiere of ‘Muhe Frida’ will be on November 2nd, the Mexican holiday Dia de Los Muertos. Tickets for the evening will cost 50 florins. There are also several performances for schools and a second performance on November 5th. Tickets for this performance will soon be available and cost 25 florins.

Do you wonder why SALON/ goes to Aruba in November 2011? Gijs Stork gives anwers

by Marij Elisabeth Rynja 

SALON/ looks for new paths, new places and locations to give exposure to known and unknown artists, designers and the likes. To create a context for discussion and cross-cultural productions on grounds which maybe are not obvious when you think of fashion, art and design is what opens your eyes....or resets your gaze in how you previously interpreted contemporary art, fashion and design. 

From 3-13 November 2011 SALON/ will be in Aruba....Aruba? Is there more to enjoy than sun, beaches, parties and a relaxing lifestyle? Why Aruba?  

What better than to ask the question why to the initiator of this Aruban SALON/ edition, Gijs Stork himself: 

Salon/BLOG: Why Aruba, Gijs? 

Gijs Stork: "The reason for SALON/ to come to Aruba is actually a confluence of circumstances. I always have had a strong bond with Aruba, professionally as personally. From the nineties to now I am involved and moved by it's art scene. Together with a few friends we created art exhibitions and publications on the island. It is through them I was introduced to young talents, like fashion designer Percy Irausquin who studied at The Gerrit Rietveld Academie Aruba at that time. And I tried to give artists like him a chance to get feet on Dutchs ground. But it was excually in 2009 that I started to 

discover a renewed, younger and progressive art scene in Aruba.  I met Ronchi de Cuba who was  planning to organize a fashion week on Aruba, called Aruba in Style. I told him about the SALON/ editions we organized in Amsterdam and South-Africa and the idea was born to organize a SALON/ here in Aruba during Aruba in Style, not only to ad a cultural component to the program, but also to celebrate the relation between Aruba, the Netherlands and it's cultural cross-over." 

Salon/BLOG: But what makes the Aruban fashion and art-scene according to you worth wile and worth visiting?

Gijs Stork: "There is this appealing energy and new cultural economy going on in Aruba what I also experienced during our SALON/locale in Cape Town, South Africa; a new energy of a young generation free from history, free from anger, free to make unconditional choices about which elements of their heritage they would like to incorporate into their creations. Furthermore, Aruba has a preparation course of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and an academy for Fine Arts & Design will open on Aruba in 2012. And last but not least the island forms an unique hub between South-America, North-America and Europe."

Salon/BLOG: What would you like accomplish with AIS/Salon there? 

Gijs Stork: "Wherever SALON/ lands, whether it is Aruba or Istanbul, we aim for discussion and interaction between the local population, the local history and its art culture. Furthermore, we aim for education and reason on different levels and layers. During AIS/SALON over 60 students of Colegio EPI will be trained to be cultural ambassadors of the island and will volunteer for us; we organize workshops for youngsters in San Nicolas, one of the less fortunate cities of the island; But most of all we would like to show the local population what is happening over seas, what is possible outside of the island because it is very hard to get of. To give exposure to artists who came from Aruba but have make a living elsewhere gives Aruba hope.”

Salon/BLOG: Will AIS/SALON be different from the SALON/s in Amsterdam?

Gijs Stork: “No. But maybe more than other SALON/'s, AIS/SALON under stresses the interaction between Dutch and local identity.

Salon/BLOG: How can we detect this cross-cultural identity in the work of the participants of AIS/Salon?

Gijs Stork: “The cross-over will most of all be shown in the way they expose their work, but actually the cross over is already there: most of the Aruban participants work and live in the Netherlands and come to Aruba to return to their birth ground.  But in upcoming SALON/ editions in the Netherlands they will express their Aruban identity again.”

Thank you Gijs. Now it is clear SALON/ has a fundamental reason to go to Aruba.

///// WILL YOU JOIN SALON/ TO ARUBA IN NOVEMBER? 

Book your flight at KLM and ARKE and your passe-partout ticket for AIS/SALON on our website www.salon1.org. 

///// If you are fast, we allot ten tickets for the Aruba In Style Dutch Fashion Show the 4th of November, where Mattijs van Bergen, Marga Weimans, Edwin Oudshoorn and three finalists of ArtEZ Arnhem will show their collections. 
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/////www.arubainstyle.com

Salon/ presenteert: ARUBA IN STYLE/SALON - November 3rd-13th 2011

Gijs Stork, een van de drie initiators van SALON/, is de afgelopen weken in Aruba geweest om de tweede internationale SALON/Locale voor te bereiden, SALON/Aruba In Style, van 3 tot 13 november 2011 als onderdeel van de eerste Aruba Fashion Week. 

Verspreid over achttien lokaties zullen zowel Arubaanse, Zuid-Afrikaanse en Nederlandse modeontwerpers, fotografen, artiesten en designers hun installaties in diverse salons presenteren in de omgeving van de steden Sint Nicolaas en Oranjestad. Op deze manier presenteert Aruba niet alleen haar eigen designers aan een groot publiek en geeft ruimte aan de kruisbestuiving tussen verschillende vormgevingsdisciplines en culturen, ook zal SALON/Aruba In Style de Arubaanse historie en cultuur tentoonstellen. SALON/ krijgt op locatie ondersteuning van diverse Arubaanse vrienden uit het creatieve circuit: Ronchi de Cuba, Eva Wever en Damalice Mansur. 

Participanten/

De Arubaansde participanten zijn dusver:  Ciro Abath, Bra Art, Ronchi de Cuba, Telka van Dodewaard, Nelson Gonzalez, Rob ter Haar, Percy Irausquin, Pricilla Lacle, Michael Lampe,  Elisa Lejuez, Elvis Lopez, Yowy Maasdamme, Fernando Mansur, Maria Teresa Madriage, Osaira Muyale, Ryan Oduber, Hugo Palmar, Pink catwalk, Rebecca Roos, Claudia Ruiz-Vasquez, Kevin Schuit, Alydia Wever, Jess Wolff, Ken Wolff.
De zes participanten uit Zuid-Afrika zijn: Darki, Stiaan Louw, Chris Saunders, Athi Patra Ruga, Paul Ward, David West.

Ook presenteren zesentwintig Nederlandse designers in Aruba die eerder te zien waren tijdens de Amsterdamse edities van SALON/, zoals Mattijs van Bergen, Pauline van Dongen, EHUD, Fantastic Man, FreudenthalVerhagen, Gentlewoman, Kate van Harreveld, Koen Hauser, Marcha Hüskes, Claes Iversen, Bas Kosters, Fong Leng, Lernert & Sander, Petra Lunenberg, Mustafa Özen, Painted Series, Antoine Peters, Viviane Sassen, Scheltens Abbenes, Jan Taminiau, Tesselschade Arbeid Adelt, Viktor & Rolf, Marga Weimans, youasme measyou, Hyun Yeu, Zara Zerny e.a 


Lokaties/ Het huis van Elisa Lejuez, House of Mosaic, Westin Aruba Resort, Aruba Archaeological Museum, Arends House, De Suikertuin Restaurant, Ateliers ’89, Renaissance Resort, Renaisance MALL, BLEU Lounge in de lobby van het Renaissance Hotel, Renaissance Convention Center, Fort Zoutman, VNO offices-Dutch Delegation Aruba, Cas di Cultura, Studio O, Reina Beatrix International Airport aankomsthal, het huis van Maria Teresa, en diverse lokaties rond de stad Sint Nicolaas.


SALON/ hield eerder een internationale SALON/locale in Kaapstad, Zuid-Afrika. Na Aruba ligt de Turkse stad Istanbul in het vooruitzicht waar Salon/ zal neerstrijken in het najaar van 2012 tijdens de Design Biënnale Istanbul 2012. 

Links: danseres/ perfomance artist Alydia Wever/ Rechts: een van de SALON/ lokaties in Aruba