winterSALON/2012: Filling Street Art by Robin de Vogel

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 the winterSALON/2012 locations, she has repaired a tile, a broken curb, missing cement, or a hole.    

winterSALON/2012: 26-28/01: presentation HYUN YEU workshop 'The White T-Shirt Project' with 40 students of Willem de Kooning Academy @ De Waag Society

40 STUDENTS

40 DIFFERENT IDENTITIES

40 WHITE T-SHIRTS

3 DAYS
Together with the help of fashion designer Hyun Yeu of Ado Les Scents forty first year students transformed a white t-shirt into a new creation. At De Waag Society at the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam you can see only for a few days the results of this workshop during winterSALON/2012, started today!
ONLY on the 26, 27 and 28th of January 2012.

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 

winterSALON/2012: Marga Weimans' exploration of shape and ultimate luxury goods @ Willet-Holthysen & Ons'Lieve Heer Op Solder

Marga Weimans - Ons'Lieve Heer op Solder

 wintersalon/2012

Marga Weimans-Willet-Holthuysen

wintersalon/2012

Marga Weimans (b.1970, Rotterdam) is an international oriented designer that expands herself to multiple disciplines including fashion, architecture and fine arts.

Weimans graduated at the prestigious Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts with her collection 'The Power Of My Dreams’ (2005), of which two designs are displayed at the Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder during WinterSalon/2012. This collection shows the power of dreaming, convinced by the idea what you dream is who you are. In this collection love, fame and success – three elements we all dream of – is reflected in the creations, but the key theme is also the dreams of strong black woman in today’s society. Weimans designs symbolize the eccentricity, political incorrectness and dignity that come to play analyzing the contemporary black woman.

Furthermore, Marga Weimans will present an installation in Museum Willet Holthuysen during winterSALON/2012, which is called 'Hermès Bag by Night'. This object form an exploration of shape and first experimental study on ultimate luxury goods, the obsession with such handbags, the texture of crocodile leather, and classical and most sought after shapes in the market, but distill such aspects to interiors and the facades of buildings. This object was exhibited in TENT Rotterdam.  

Weimans pushes the boundaries of the fashion industry with her collections varying from haute couture to pret-a-porter, architectural showpieces and minimalistic dresses. She wants to show her personal development and innovation in her creations. She incorporates elements of nature and space, using earth tones and natural fabrics. She works with 3D perspectives and her designs include materials like wood, iron, resin and fabrics mixed with fiberglass.

Weimans graduated in 2005 as a fashion designer at the prestigious Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Her graduation collection The Power Of My Dreams won the i-D award in 2005 which is organized by worldwide fashion magazine i-D. With this collection she was also nominated for the Design Prize Rotterdam. Weimans' work is purchased by and exhibited at the Dutch Groninger Museum. Her collections were presented in two haute couture weeks in Paris and in several exhibitions in in the Netherlands.

Order your tickets for winterSALON/2012 at www.salon1.org/tickets.    

winterSALON2012: Jowy Maasdamme/ ISEEJANEMARY

Ever since Jowy Maasdamme from Iseejanemary can remember holding a pencil she was and still is completely and utterly smitten with drawing.

Her parents were always supportive of her hobby but didn’t see it as making it a career, she didn’t either growing up as a teenager on Aruba drawing just wasn’t something you would pursue back then.

After finishing High school she moved to Holland and did what was expected from her, she studied economics and law, and finished both.

Jowy: “ After receiving my diploma’s I didn’t feel a thing and that was when it hit me I was still haunted by my obsession, so after 6 years I started drawing again. I didn’t draw better, I just drew differently and it freed me up. It reminded me of when I was drawing as a kid. Guided by this feeling I started to knock on doors...knocking very hard and very loud.

While madly inspired by fashion she followed up on drawing using pencil and ink.

Jowy:” I have always associated fashion with my mood, emotions and my personality and this leaked into my illustrations very naturally.

When I draw I don’t worry about physics and the proportions don’t have to be accurate. I don’t really care about all that.

Drawing for me is about emotion: It’s always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that’s got emotion.”

By looking at her illustrations it’s clear that Jowy is into outcasts and shortcomings in people physique: a crack between the teeth, eyes that are too far apart each time trying to find a delicate balance of creepiness that matches her eye for mythical (sur)realism.

Jowy: “ This perception of dark beauty determines my style and allows me to create my own mad little world where there is no distinction in what I draw and who I am.”

After being featured in different fashion magazines Jowy got the opportunity to design a line of t-shirts for Blend Magazine, and slowly but surely she realized something others had already anticipated, using her talent at illustrations for more than just a hobby.

Jowy: “ For Wintersalon12 I’m working with two madly talented friends: Diantha Rodrigues Pereira (http://olgafeather.tumblr.com/) en Raúl Maduro on a piece titled: Punch me to bits or love me to pieces. I’d like for it to be a surprise, so I’m not spilling the beans just yet. I will say that it’s going to be different than my other works because it involves mixed media. Stay tuned, it’s gonna be wild.”

The piece GOD IS DEAD. I KILLED HIM & I'M GLAD, is about sharing the experience of finding one's self. A phenomenon that no human can escape but we all forget. The purpose of the piece is to depict the artists personal journeys from 'Outside to Self' by using JANEMARY (Illustrator Jowy Maasdamme's brain child) as a personal guinea pig. The added video art as well as the sound design are aimed at illustrating JANEMARY's universe in which she searches & collects her pieces to get back to her true essence.

The artists journeys & JANEMARY's journey from ISEE to IFEEL are the aftermath of the murder of the God outside. The implosion. 

You already SEE JANEMARY, now come feel her.

Titel: GOD IS DEAD. I KILLED HIM & I'M GLAD.

This project is a collaboration:

Jowy Maasdamme/ ISEEJANEMARY (Illustration)

Olga Feather (Video Art)

Raul Maduro (Sound design) 

winterSALON/2012: Marga Weimans' exploration of shape and ultimate luxury goods @ Willet-Holthysen & Ons'Lieve Heer Op Solder

winterSALON/2012: Marga Weimans' exploration of shape and ultimate luxury goods at museum Willet-Holthysen & Ons'Lieve Heer Op Solder

Marga Weimans - Ons'Lieve Heer op Solder
 wintersalon/2012

Marga Weimans-Willet-Holthuysen
wintersalon/2012

Marga Weimans (b.1970, Rotterdam) is an international oriented fashion house that expands itself to multiple disciplines including fashion, architecture and fine arts.

Weimans graduated at the prestigious Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts with her collection 'The Power Of My Dreams’ (2005), of which two designs are displayed at the Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder during WinterSalon/2012. This collection shows the power of dreaming, convinced by the idea what you dream is who you are. In this collection love, fame and success – three elements we all dream of – is reflected in the creations, but the key theme is also the dreams of strong black woman in today’s society. Weimans designs symbolize the eccentricity, political incorrectness and dignity that come to play analyzing the contemporary black woman.

Furthermore, Marga Weimans will present an installation in Museum Willet Holthuysen during winterSALON/2012, which is called 'Hermès Bag by Night'. This object form an exploration of shape and first experimental study on ultimate luxury goods, the obsession with such handbags, the texture of crocodile leather, and classical and most sought after shapes in the market, but distill such aspects to interiors and the facades of buildings. This object was exhibited in TENT Rotterdam.  

Weimans pushes the boundaries of the fashion industry with her collections varying from haute couture to pret-a-porter, architectural showpieces and minimalistic dresses. She wants to show her personal development and innovation in her creations. She incorporates elements of nature and space, using earth tones and natural fabrics. She works with 3D perspectives and her designs include materials like wood, iron, resin and fabrics mixed with fiberglass.

Weimans graduated in 2005 as a fashion designer at the prestigious Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Her graduation collection The Power Of My Dreams won the i-D award in 2005 which is organized by worldwide fashion magazine i-D. With this collection she was also nominated for the Design Prize Rotterdam. Weimans' work is purchased by and exhibited at the Dutch Groninger Museum. Her collections were presented in two haute couture weeks in Paris and in several exhibitions in in the Netherlands.

Order your tickets for winterSALON/2012 at www.salon1.org/tickets.    

 

winterSALON/2012: Atelier Edwin Oudshoorn

 

Edwin Oudshoorn makes couture clothing but does not limit himself to what is currently in fashion. Instead, much of his work comes from the observation of people and places around him. Edwin Oudshoorn graduated on Fashion Design at the ArtEZ institute of the Arts in 2004 with a collection based on his experiences growing up in a small village. Since then, amongst others, he has been asked to present collections at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Gemeente Museum in The Hague and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. He showed his collection ‘Pining for the Heavens in 2010 at Mussee de la vie Romantique in Paris during the Couture Week.

Last summer, he presented the collection ‘Wie ein Hinde’ as part of SALON/2 in Amsterdam and was invited to take part in the first Aruban fashion week, also as part of SALON/ and Aruba In Style.

During winterSALON/2012 Edwin Oudshoorn will exhibit his collection he designed especcialy for Aruba In Style at his new Atelier, found at the Oudezijds Voorburgwal 97. Also, Edwin will show in the etalage of Maison de Bonneterie.   

SPECIAL EVENT: 

• • Wanneer

    donderdag 2 februari 2012
  • Tijd

    17:00 tot 19:00

• Waar	Edwin Oudshoorn Couture, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 97, 1012EL Amsterdam

• Beschrijving

  Please join me to celebrate the opening of my new Salon and Atelier with an exhibition as part of Winter SALON 2012. I realise this is short notice, so if you can't make it, the exhibition is open from 28th January until 5th February from 12:00 - 17:00 every day. See you then, Edwin http://www.facebook.com/events/259901060745663/

winterSALON/2012: Painted Table Dress at Museum Van Loon

Painted Table Dress

In the spirit of Painted Series, where designs evolve with more than one pair of hands, Saskia van Drimmelen and Margreet Sweerts of Painted created a special concept for AIS SALON/ in Aruba last november 2011: the Painted Table Dress. It’s a dress annex table cloth in order of a special workshop: 16 people, varying from social workers, creative artists, local entrepreneurs and a fashion blogger, who get together to embroider on this table dress. 

The assignment of Painted to the volunteers was: embrace what you get, like it is a gift, and bring it a level further. In other words: your creations will be the starting point for someone else. Like a canon. And that's not easy, to let go your personal embroidery you have worked on!

During the workshop Saskia and Margreet explained a few basic embroidery techniques and created a visual dialogue with the colorful yarns between the mixture of people. All participants of the workshop made a fantasy fish, water waves, a fantasy bird and treads that leaded to the top of the cloth.

The end result

For Painted it was an emotional moment seeing their effort and creation get together so well on the day of the final presentation, when the dress was reveiled as part of a special performance by dancer Alydia Wever. It was exactly what they wished for when they created the idea of a table dress 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."

The project of the Painted Table dress is SALON/ pur sang. The Painted Table Dress can be admired in Museum Van Loon.

Video Table Speech 

In Museum van Loon the video of the Table Dress presentation in Aruba will be showed, made by Ken Wolff, called 'Table Speech'. Its a video that have captured how time stood still on the shores of Aruba the day of the presentation.  

Come and see this exclusive and breath taking concept of Painted at winterSALON/2012. Please, order your tickets at www.salon1.org/tickets or buy a ticket at the museum. 

Painted Table Dress, in cooperation with Painted Series, Alydia Wever (dance), Michael Lampe (music), Scol di Arte, UNOCA and SALON/.

  

About Painted

Led by Dutch designers Saskia van Drimmelen and Margreet Sweerts, Painted Series is a collective that blurs the lines between fashion and performance, and expands the idea of what a garment can be. 

For more information visit www.paintedseries.com