The support centre for visual arts IBK (Initiatief Beeldende Kunsten vzw) recently launched their new website, which can be read for a large part in English too. The site contains a lot of information about current and past exhibitions, events, conferences, residencies etc. under the section ‘news’. One of the new features is a Database for Visual Arts, containing information about Flemish persons and organizations dealing with contemporary art, such as artists, theorists, researchers and art organizations, education and supporting organizations. The database of contemporary artists shows short introductions to the specific artists, their CV’s, images of their work, texts, etc.
IBK was installed in 2001 and in 2002 a website was created. But in the past years, IBK has transformed slightly, paying more and more attention to professionalizing and internationalizing the sector of the Flemish visual arts. This evolution asked for a new site, which would be more fit to the mission and goals of the support centre. IBK wants to show the richness of the visual arts scene in Flanders to the Belgian arts scene, but also to the world abroad. The new website and its elaborate database will play an important role in this mission of professionalism and internationalization.
www.ibknet.be
December 20, 2006
December 18, 2006
Wearable sculptures
SKINOVER
Rotterdam based artist Silvia B. launches a line of gloves, ‘sculptures to wear’, as she calls them. Known for her sculptures of teenagers that have their skin sutured together or completely covered with a furry pelt (see www.silvia-b.com) Silvia B. has a fascination for a kind of beauty that is just outside normality. That's why each model of her elegant elbow-length gloves, in pale skin color, shows a specific skin peculiarity. The beauty of the long evening gloves is challenged by a feature that can be considered either as a special skin quality or as a dissonant, like freckles or a plaster. Now you can get dressed up in a second skin and feel the sensation of wearing somebody else’s tattoos or moles!
New models are presented on the website www.skinover.biz bi-monthly. So far there are six models: the ALMOST PERFECT model that is sutured together, the LOVE/HATE model with tattoos on the knuckles, the BEAUTY SPOTS model that shows some dark and hairy moles, the MUTANT model with its second thumbs, the WOUNDED model that wears plasters and the latest is the FRECKLES model; six more will be developed in 2007.
All pairs are made of the finest lamb skin, branded, signed and numbered. They come in handmade showcases and are available in size 7 / 7.5 / 8 / 8.5; the ALMOST PERFECT model is available in size 6 / 6.5 / 7 / 7.5. All models come in small editions of only 7 pairs (courtesy RONMANDOS gallery).
December 12, 2006
December 06, 2006
DAA@World Aids Day 2006
As the most important goal of 'Designers against Aids' is to get and keep the subject of HIV/AIDS in the media, World Aids Day always is a special moment for us. This year in Belgium, designer Idriz Jossa lighted his Humanaids candle -10€ of each candle sold goes to DAA- in 5 cities (Maasmechelen, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels and Leuven), while singer/songwriter Milow accompanied him with free mini concerts at each venue. In Germany, where DAA has a staunch fan base, several VJ's wore a DAA t-shirt while presenting their programs on MTV and VIVA. We are very happy about this media exposure, but at the same time we'd like to remind everybody of the fact that until a cure is found, every day is World Aids Day. Don't let the attention slip away!
Photography by Anna Vanaerschot
www.idrizjossa.be
www.milow.be
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