Archive 2016

Combining an exhibition of Mo Wax Art and Oddities on it's 21st Birthday, with James Lavelle's Meltdown Festival at The Royal Festival Hall was quite a tall order - gladly carried off with aplomb by all involved.

After spending the afternoon in a cluttered warehouse off the Kings Road over 12 months ago, to view the final exhibition of Art, Music, Video and Clothing was an impressive and a fascinating insight into a group of trailblazing individuals.

On arrival at the show it was great to view such important pioneers from the scene, in Michael Kopelman (Gimme 5 / Stussy), Fraser Cook (Nike), and Trevor Jackson (The Underdog), and of course Lavelle too. Highlights of the show were the montages of pictures from artists on and affiliated with Mo Wax, plus the prototype vinyl figures, Futura and 3D originals - the list was endless.

Take a look through the pictures, then reserve your copy of 'Mo'Wax Urban Archaeology: 21 Years of Mo'Wax Recordings' from Rizzoli Books, which is quite the compendium of cool.

Words: Adrian J W Darby / Pictures: Matthew Maxwell

THE PARK･ING GINZA is pleased to announce the opening of a summer night event called "Midnight Market". As the name suggests, it starts from midnight. The store will change its look and curates a lot of special contents that you can enjoy only for the night. It will be special three hours at night and we are sure that you will unique shopping experience there.

- THE PARK･ING GINZA

A new sculpture by KAWS will be unveiled on June 30th in cooperation with Central Embassy departmentstore in Bangkok, Thailand. The project was organized by Hong Kong based creative agency AllRightsReserved and included a small series of merchandise including a plush version of the sculpture, a T-shirt, towel, and other accessories.

The merchandise will be available online from DING DONG Takuhaibin

Save the date: Drago will host a series of panels at this year's summer edition of Bright Tradeshow in Berlin. More details to follow.

Launch of UNDERCOVER's iconic Hamburger Lamp in an all-black colorway - produced by Medicom Toy Company.

Join the EINHUNDERT crew this coming Friday for another night of music and extravaganza. Experience extraordinary performances by: Nico Adomako, Daniel OG, Lee Stuart, Ta-Ha, Bøa.

Try to grab one of their F&F caps and T-shirts - as seen on their Instagram...

Launch of the CLOT & Suicoke capsule collection of two sandals and two slippers adorned with CLOT's signature silk fabrics.

The CLOT & Suicoke range will be available from all Juice stores and CLOT online on June 24th.

A pop up store by BEAMS in Paris hosted in conjunction with Pen PARIS, the French language bi-annual version of Japanese art and culture magazine, Pen. The pop-up features a selection of men’s and women’s clothing and lifestyle products from the BEAMS JAPAN flagship store in Shinjuku. Highlights include Loopwheeler limited edited sweatshirts, Sasquatchfabrix’s beautifully oversized “Oriental SK8 Collection,” and Teatora’s high-tech fabrics, as well as BEAMS Japan’s own line.

"New Horizons" is Futura's solo exhibition at Library Street Collective in Detroit.

The first runway presentation of visvim as part of Pitti Immagine Uomo's Designer Project.

This event is by invitation only.

Since 1970, Art Basel’s goal has been to connect the world's premier galleries and their patrons, as well serving as a meeting point for the international art world. Now, over forty years later, its three fairs - in Basel, Hong Kong and Miami Beach rank as the premier shows of their kind, presenting 20th and 21st century art with a strong curatorial perspective.

Our reputation for showing work of the highest quality has attracted the leading international gallerists and collectors, offering the show’s visitors the most important art that world's best galleries can offer.

- Art Basel, 2016

The first comprehensive book on the work of Jun Takahashi of UNDERCOVER, an icon of Harajuku streetwear and the presumptive heir to the heavy mantle of Japanese deconstruction. Takahashi Jun’s fashion is not born out of an excessively intellectualized agenda. While not quite populist, his generative influences are instead romantic—even gothic. A fixture of the Paris collections for more than ten years—plus seventeen uninterrupted seasons in Tokyo prior to that—Takahashi’s life’s work confirms a maturation from self-conscious artifice and rebel pastiche to a steely, withering elegance all his own. Hailing from Gunma Prefecture like his friend NIGO® of *A Bathing Ape®, Takahashi’s long association with the undisputed king of Ura-Harajuku in the early 1990s is now the stuff of local fashion lore. But Takahashi would blaze an entirely different path to legend and notoriety. The violent rending and hasty reassembly that characterized his early work, its calculated imperfections and sutured seams, have given way to collections that he himself now calls "sexy and feminine." UNDERCOVER is insightfully curated with fashion-filled chapters devoted to Takahashi’s sketches, graphic work, collaborations, and most innovative designs to date. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 photographs and in-depth essays by fashion writers, curators, and colleagues, this book gives readers first time access into Takahashi’s UNDERCOVER, one of the most desired and multidimensional clothing lines in contemporary fashion.

A special edition slip case will be available on limited release at the following stores: UNDERCOVER Aoyama, Kanazawa, Sendai, Nagoya, Isetan Shinjuku, Hankyu Umeda, Daikanyama T-Site, BOOKMARC, UNDERCOVER Seoul, SILLYTHING (Hong Kong), Colette (Paris), Dover Street Market London, Dover Street Market New York (Stores outside of Japan release date TBC).

Second exhitibion of KAWS at More Gallery in Giswil coinciding with Art Basel.

Photo: KAWS

My work is about a belief in images. Though mundane the images do much of the work in the paintings. It is with images that I go places. I am recently interested in my relationship with ideas. Specifically my past misunderstanding of images as ideas. I was under the impression that what I was seeking out, or creating were ideas… or that I had an idea to draw the image. Although they are often intangible, I feel that most ideas exist as tangibly things do; ideas like images, are often interesting because they are found not new. So what in the past I have described as ideas are actually something else, connections between ideas, possibly, but not really ideas in any sort of true sense. Possibly a definition of an idea is broad enough to contain them, but I think not. Whatever the case, in creating images I seek something deep but also, more importantly, familiar. If Dickies are an idea; then that is the kind of idea I am interested in. [...]

- Geoff McFetridge

The Quiet Of Not Listening consists of 9 paintings on canvas and 5 large drawings.
Geoff McFetridge, (b. Calgary 1971, Canada) is a Los Angeles based artist and multidisciplinary auteur. Instinctively ignoring creative boundaries, McFetridge has created everything from poetry to animation, from graphics to ceramics, from movies (Virgin Suicides, Adaptation, Where The Wild Things Are and HER) to wallpaper. He has exhibited widely throughout Europe, America and Japan. This is McFetridge’s third solo exhibition with V1 Gallery.

Popeye magazine is considered the most important menswear magazine published in Japan. This year they celebrate their 40th anniversary with a special issue. Loaded with features and stories, this is a definite collector's issue.

Also check out Hiroki Nakamura's field trip to San Francisco also featured in the magazine and online here: visvim.tv and purchase Popeye as well as all other Japanese magazines directly from Amazon.co.jp

Since its inception in 1998, the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has become one of the most important events of contemporary art worldwide. The Berlin Biennale explores artistic developments and visions from within the art scene of one of the most unusual cultural capitals in Europe where it also presents them.

The Berlin Biennale has become a magnet for art lovers from all over the world and is continually praised by an enthusiastic audience as an experimental context-specific exhibition. It is open to the public from June 4 until September 18, 2016, at various venues in Berlin.

Launch of the 30th issue of 032c and opening of the exhbition "An Innocent Mind Has No Fear" by Ralf Schmerberg at 032c Workshop / Joerg Koch.

In celebration of its 30th issue, 032c and artist-director Ralf Schmerberg teamed up to create “An Innocent Mind Has No Fear,” a proposal for the ultimate Berlin film with a libretto by writer Helene Hegmann. It is a manifesto about life in the post-contemporary era, where cultural promiscuity has dissolved into a condition of spiritual bankruptcy. Heat and compression have melted the meaning from our past algorithms, while aimless citizens wander in search of a new morality. The bandwidth of pleasure-pain has become endless.

Welcome to an extraordinary journey into underground culture from visionary publisher Jefferson Hack. Featuring contributions from cultural provocateurs Tilda Swinton, Rankin, Douglas Coupland, Björk, Aimee Mullins, and many more, We Can’t Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century—drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing. In the spirit of progressive individualism at its core every single copy is unique, emblazoned with an individuated, numbered cover displaying a one-off fresco of the provocative material between its pages. If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.

- Rizzoli Books

Written by Jefferson Hack, Produced by Felicity Shaw, Edited by Ferdinando Verderi and John Paul Pryor, Contribution by Tilda Swinton.

Each book will feature an individual cover and is numbered from 0001 - 5000.

Artifacts and Souvenirs

For Spring/Summer 2016 we go on a world tour that takes us to the marvelous Colossus of Rhodes as well as the ancient stone city of Petra in Jordan. We will be treasure hunting in the old forests of Germany and observe the masterful craftsmen in Tibet. With this collection we continue to curate cultural artifacts that might have been forgotten or which are buried deep in archives scattered around the planet…

If you would like to see our products “offline” – check the updated stockists list for your nearest BEINGHUNTED. retailer.

BEINGHUNTED. Spring/Summer 2016 Delivery I

BEINGHUNTED. Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of SUPERBLAST / Manuel Osterholt's first solo exhibition “The Trees Carry The Wind Into The Forest”.

In his work SUPERBLAST / Manuel Osterholt takes inspiration from the writings of world renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell. With his unbiased approach of excerpting, re-interpreting, and fusing religious as well as cultural symbols, the artist is creating a new, a very personal, fictional mythology altogether. For “The Trees Carry The Wind Into The Forest” Osterholt has created a series of works on canvas, paper and wood as a comprehensive overview, the status-quo of his artistic operation.

Join us for the opening reception on April 28th from 19:00 – 22: 00 at

BEINGHUNTED. Gallery
Wallstrasse 4
10179 Berlin
(U-Bahn Spittelmarkt / U2)

 

Refreshments provided by: San Miguel | Aqua Monaco | Carpe Diem Kombucha | Havana Club

Sweats and T-shirt by Fergus Purcell aka Fergadelic

"Three Buns is a culturally lead, creative space with a restaurant at the core offering gourmet burgers and crafted cocktails, redefining the burger joint. Three Buns also acts as a hub for supporting and building our local creative community, whilst also working closely with like-minded international talent from the fields of Art, Music and Fashion. With two sites currently operating in Jakarta and Singapore and established plans for Bali, Tokyo, Seoul, and Hong Kong."

- Three Buns

Check their website for details regarding the launch of the Three Buns x Fergadelic pop up in Jakarta on April 30th.

In Entrance to the Void, George Condo condenses the disparate styles of his previous artistic periods into individual paintings that broach the void between figuration and abstraction. Moreover, his new body of work becomes a philosophical exercise in counteracting ideas of ‘nothingness’ through the visual consolidation of a personal, and in this case, artistic history. Condo’s exhibition at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles marks over three decades with the gallery since his very first solo show at Monika Sprüth Gallery in Cologne, 1984.

Photo: Sprüht Magers

As a part of the European launch tour, renowned photographer Boogie will stop at the BEINGHUNTED. Gallery to present and sign his new book.

Known as one of the most influential photographers of street culture in the new millennium, Boogie emerges once again to spark our curiosity and narrate authentic stories in his own raw style.

A Wah Do Dem, Boogie’s sixth monograph, and his first one in color, takes us far away from the familiarity of the West, and throws us into the noisy and cryptic underbelly of Kingston, Jamaica.

Through his pictures, Boogie illustrates both the madness and humanity of a complex place, where poverty, violence and crime are often dominant elements of daily life. He relies on his instincts to gain the trust of people who live on the edge of society, and to photograph their world in an honest and objective way.

"I was waiting in a back alley, all the way down the lane, in one of the sketchiest neighborhoods in Kingston. It was pitch dark, and it felt like I had been waiting forever. At some point, a guy wearing a creepy horror movie mask and carrying an M-16 appeared from the dark," Boogie writes in his introductory text, "even though I was brought there by a friend of a friend, I was really nervous, you never know when things might turn ugly. After a brief introduction, I started taking pictures of the guy, roll after roll, I couldn’t stop. It was the last night of my first trip to Kingston, Jamaica, and at that moment I knew I had to come back again very soon."

Boogie: A Wah Do Dem
Publisher: DRAGO
Language: English
Publication: February 2016
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 124
Price: 50 €
Dimensions: 24.5 x 34.5

relax Magazine - 2016 Comeback

The oldies amongst you remember that relax magazine was one of the monthly stories on BEINGHUNTED. I had a standing subscription with a bookstore in Japan so I could get it in-time, right after the release. First it was just a single copy, and later with the launch of the first BEINGHUNTED. Online shop a full package to share. It is be safe to say that I introduced this magazine, as well as HUgE and a couple others to a wider audience.

Unfortunately, when the magazine turned somewhat artsy/home interior-y/Wallpaper-y many lost interest and in 2006 it finally (thankfully) was put to rest. Until now... While my first copies are on the way, once again directly from Japan, I have had a look at the magazine's Instgram account and with that crisp Geoff McFetridge cover and some of the old formats back, it appears to be a worthy reboot. Let's see where this leads to. Hopefully this is not a one-time-only-deal.

You will find scans of vintage relax in the BEINGHUNTED. Archive starting as early as January 2002. Check the new relax via their Instagram and stay tuned for a few to pop up online and in our gallery in Berlin next week.

Interview

My first interview with Hiroki - and I believe it was the first one ever online - was published as an early BEINGHUNTED. feature in 2004 (an updated version can be found here: Hiroki Nakamura). Over the years we've surely stayed in touch and through my visits to the visvim showroom in Paris we were, from time to time, able to discuss a few things. Last summer, though, as a first project for my role as creative director at Hypebeast Magazine, I had a chance to sit down with Hiroki for a more in-depth conversation. Following the issue's "Restoration" theme, we focused on the vintage furniture, artifacts, fabrics that Hiroki has been collecting over the years.

If you have missed the issue you can now read the full story online on Hypebeast: Hypebeast Magazine #11 - Restoration: Hiroki Nakamura

"Streetwear: Mastered is an online platform helping to develop the best streetwear brands worldwide. The 6 month online program is curated by Virgil Abloh (Off White) with the help of various industry leading names.
As an introduction the Berlin Launch Panel & Party will take place during Bright trade show. The event will culminate with an after party featuring a special guest DJ.

Panel guests include Jörg Haas (BEINGHUNTED.), Alex Flach (Civilist) Brock Cardiner (Highsnobiety) plus many more…"

Patrol T-shirt

Our first release this year is a collab with our good friends at Civilist here in Berlin. Our design was inspired by the civil neighborhood watch groups patrolling the grimy streets, subways and dark alleys of 1970s’ NYC, Paris, London, and Berlin.

For the T-shirt and crewneck sweat (only available in a minuscule quantity from Civilist) we used Civilist’s own blanks. Both feature a 2-color screen print on chest and back.

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