Bas Jan Ader (1942–1975). In Search of the Miraculous, 1975. The artist vanished at sea while attempting to journey across the Atlantic as part of a conceptual art project.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working on one of our most important projects to date, the renovation of our new studio space. It’s in the heart of Victoria’s bustling Chinatown, and while the place was a bit ragged when we got the keys, the last few weeks have been very productive, and we’re almost ready for move-in. It’ll still be a few more weeks until it’s ready for an official launch party, but it’s coming together.
Hanahlie’s wonderful Tierkunde Felted Wool Bears got a little shout-out in the latest issue of Montecristo Magazine! There’s a brief but flattering little write up, in between Jessica Buchanan’s local and amazing perfume 1000 flowers, and the always delicious Innis and Gunn beer. The issue also features articles about Vancouver furniture design honcho Niels Bendtsen, and Mikuni Wild Mushroom’s Tyler Gray, one of the West Coast’s most prominent local food foragers, as well as a cover story on former Vancouverite now New York fashion superstar Jason Wu. The magazine is beautifully printed, and worth checking out!
Hanahlie’s bears will be on display, along with a number of new products we’ve been working on in the studio at the Gentlemen’s Reserve Market in Vancouver, on May 5th and 6th.
SNEAK PEEK:
Getting ready to release a few new things at Leka this Saturday - 11am-5:30pm first day!
1044A Fort St. Victoria, BC
Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs.
These guys have been spread pretty widely across the internet, mostly because their images have this double-take, surrealist appeal, without any standard photoshop trickery. We were lucky enough to see their work in person at the Feldbusch Weisner Gallery booth at Art Forum in Berlin last year. It was a real treat to get to see a significant collection of their images, all in one place. They have a seemingly insatiable desire to experiment, shift styles, and blur the lines between photography, sculpture, performance, and documentation. They also have this fascination with how a 3-dimensional scene gets transformed and recorded onto a 2-dimensional plane, and have developed some confounding (and always analog) ways to intervene in that transformation.
We picked up a first edition of their book “The Great Unreal”, and as much as it is still just a book, it’s aptly titled.
Gerhard Richter Painting
This trailer is hypnotizing, and I’m sure actual film would be even more so, especially if you know the man’s vast, and glorious body of work.
Here’s a short little promo video we made for Free/Man Brand’s upcoming “Gentlemen’s Reserve” pop-up market in Vancouver.
May 5th and 6th. Darian’s been working hard on this one, and it’s going to be good.
http://www.freemanbrand.com/gentlemens-reserve/gentlemens-reserve-2012.html
There’s something that’s simultaneously charming and unsettling about these portrait paintings by Guim Tio Zarraluki.
switcheroo: pablo & marie-josee
These two are the best, period.
The United States currently have around 1,750 craft breweries. Thanks to the addition of Hoyne Brewing Co. in Victoria alone, we’ve now got 9.
