winterSALON/2012: 'Your Opinion, My Opinion' by Ken Wolff (video artist)

Video still from 'your opinion my opinion' (2012)
Wolff Independents/Ken Wolff

'Ungraspable communication; the understandings of send and received information between two or more individuals. An interpretation of what is being considered understood in an act of a conversation'. With these words Ken Wolff describes his video 'Your opinion, My opinion' he created for winterSALON/2012, exhibited in the Bijbels Museum in Amsterdam. 
The video shows a woman and a man, standing across each other, saying nothing. Their facial expression we cannot see due to their black painted faces. Only for a moment a flash of lightning reveiles animated eyes, nose, cheekbones of the models.
This video is about non verbal communication, Ken Wolff explains. He deliberately casted a woman and a man because they often have another way of expression, what can lead to miscommunication.  
Ken Wolff (Aruba, 1983) is a visual artist and VJ currently living in Amsterdam and is studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. His work moves between video art, hand drawings and Animation with a sense of raw, playful, yet professional edge and is mainly influenced by his Caribbean descent. His company Wolff Independents is a media production company focusing on creative videos, animations and short films.

www.wolffindependents.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/ participant Efrem Angelo is adding more color to Aruba - UNOCA building, Oranjestad

Aruban Street Art by Efrem Angelo

AIS/ SALON at the VCO building with Scheltens Abbenes, Elvis Lopez and Pauline van Dongen

'Vitrine', placed in the vitrines of the VCO
 building in Aruba 

'Vitrine' (2010), by Scheltens and Abbenes. 

The specialty of  photographer Maurice Scheltens (1972) and visual artist Liesbeth Abbenes (1970)  is to meticulously arrange objects - chairs, glassware, shirts, perfume bottles - into configurations that have a strong two-dimensional or graphic character. Scheltens & Abbenes reduce their objects to clean geometric lines, showing an understanding that the settings will ultimately only exist as a two-dimensional image. Essential to their work is the process in the studio where they construct their settings. A laborious process, in which Scheltens & Abbenes continuously move things around, painstakingly join pieces together and adjust little details. During this series of steps they take numerous shots and study them together intensively in order to arrive at the right composition.  

Pauline van Dongen in bright daylight

Pauline van Dongen

Pauline van Dongen's fascination for the relation between human and their surroundings is something that keeps feeding her inspiration. By working with sculptural shapes, forms like capsules floating around the body, she examines the space between the garment and the body and tries to emphasize that void in her designs. In 2008 Pauline graduated with a BA in Fashion Design from the renowned Artez, Academy of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands. 

Elvis Lopez at the VCO building 

'Atraco', by Elvis Lopez 

On a daily basis the tall, imposing figure of Elvis Lopez hurries through the maze of studios, exhibition halls and offices of Aruba's Ateliers ‘89, a quiet mecca for the arts housed in a rambling old turn-of-the-century school in the suburbs of downtown Oranjestad. Ateliers ‘89 cooperates with a number of Dutch art academies,  helping young artists to transfer to an art school in the Netherlands.

youasme measyou presents virtual installation via Layar App at the ruin of the Arends House

      

A unique location for youasme measyou for AIS SALON/: the ruin of the Arends House at the Wilhelminastraat in Oranjestad, Aruba. Via Layar App you can see the digital word-cloud the label measyou youasme created for AIS SALON/. Via the Layar App you can even see the word cloud hanging in the sky above  the Arends House from out of your hotel room. 

AIS SALON/ at the Protestant Church Aruba presents: Osaira Muyale, David West, Marcha Hüskes, Claudia Ruiz, Jess Wolff, Pricilla Lacle, Mode Made Man, and a tribute installation to Arubas Percy Irausquin by Ciro Abath

overview (photo: Marij Rynja)

Pricilla Lacle (photo: Marij Rynja)

Tribute to Percy Irausquin by Ciro Abath (photo: Marij Rynja)

Accessories and jewelry by Claudia Ruiz-Vasquez (photo: Marij Rynja)

(photo: Marij Rynja)

overview (photo: Marij Rynja)

Marcha Hüskes (photo: Marij Rynja)

Mode Made Man (on wall) and David West (photo: Marij Rynja) 

Mode Made Man (photo: Marij Rynja)

Jess Wolff (photo: Marij Rynja)

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/