Get the Holiday season wrapped up in style and create a social-echo at the same time by snapping up some exclusive wrapping paper, designed by a collection of the country’s best contemporary artists !
Since 1991 the Big Issue is helping homeless and disadvantaged people earn an income and reintegrate into mainstream society.
Internationally acclaimed artists have partnered with the street newspaper to create exclusive, highly collectableone-of-a-kind limited edition designs: Stanley Donwood, Aida Wilde, David Speed, Victoria Topping, Patrick Hugues, Alma Singer, Augustine and Bridgeland, Andrew Millar.
Signed and unsigned versions of the designs are available.
All the profit from these wrapping papers goes directly back to The Big Issue to give people living on the margins a hand up.
Situated on the South Bank, near Tower Bridge, the ‘Art of Loves’ pop-up, which will be open to the public from Thursday 9th – Sunday 19th November, has been designed to look like a huge Pandora jewellery box, welcoming everyone who walks through its doors into an art installation which celebrates different interpretations of ‘Loves’.
Guests who visit the activation will not only be able to view the artists’ installation, but will also have the opportunity to create their own piece of art, via a bespoke interactive platform. After creating their own artwork, guests will then have the opportunity to showcase their designs on digital screens which will surround the exterior of the pop up, or print their designs off as personalised wrapping paper for a loved one. The pop-up will become London’s largest digital gallery of ‘Loves’, transforming the digital art created inside the pop-up into 8 by 3 meters digital canvases.
The second edition of Paris+ par Art Basel continues ascent as a global art market hub, featuring 154 premier galleries including 61 operating spaces in France and leading international participants from Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Here are some highlights of this year edition:
Paris + par Art basel offered a vibrant panorama of the thriving art scene with an expanded, freely accessible cultural program unfolding across six storied Parisian locations. For the 2023 edition, works were presented in five locations: in the Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine National du Louvre, on Place Vendôme, in the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris, in the Palais d’Iéna, and on the parvis de l’Institut de France.
Click on the images for more details. Courtesy Paris+ par Art Basel
This year’s Conversations program, curated by Charles Teyssou and Pierre-Alexandre Matéos, was presented in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and unfolded at the Musée national Picasso-Paris.
The fair took place at the Grand Palais Éphémère from October 20 to 22, 2023 and attracted an overall attendance of 38’000 throughout its VIP and public days.
Italy’s culture ministry has announced the restoration of a damaged Banksy mural in Venice, known as “Migrant Child” (2019).
The torch has faded, and almost extinguished. The contours of the life jacket are uncertain. The migrant child, the work created by Banksy in Venice in May 2019 during World refugee day, is rapidly disappearing under the slaps of the wave motion and the corrosive effect of the salt.
A spray wall stencil, on the wall of an abandoned building in Rio Novo, one of the busiest canals in the city, a few steps from Campo Santa Margherita. The Undersecretary of Culture, Vittorio Sgarbi, wants to save the work. The restoration of Migrant Child will be financed by a banking foundation in agreement with Sgarbi himself. “We are not interested in having the artist’s consent, the mural was created illegally. I take responsibility”, Sgarbi’s words.
The move is sparking a debate : should Street Art keep its ephemeral nature?
LAYERS is a jewellery capsule collection between legendary French graffiti artist LEKand jewellery brand RENK’ART, designed by Marion Broodthuis Gravier.
Since 2019, RENK’ART, the Berlin-Parisian brand continues to attract more and more Street-Art and Fashion lovers with its jewellery, made from 100% Street materials.
Renk’Art, which translates in French to “a date with art” is the first street art inspired jewellery brand that offers unique ready-to-wear art pieces. Made of ‘Graffiti Fordite’ (accumulation of layers of paint like Ford cars) , every piece tells its own very unique story, combining art, fashion and history.
From Berlin, Paris, Lisbon and Brussels, RENK’ART continues its series of collaborations with renowned graffiti and street artists from all over the world.
For this third series, RENK’ART is returning to its source: PARIS.
Layers by Lek / Renk’art. Pics @w.l.v
LEK needs no introduction: his distinctive style mixes harmoniously the codes of architecture, abstract, futurism with graffiti.
His artistic journey is impressive: often working as a duo with SOWAT from Mausolee (2012) to Palais de Tokyo, Les Bains Douches (2013), La Tour 13, his artistic residency at Villa Medici (2015), Graff on Tour(s) with le Centre des Monuments Nationaux at La Rochelle (2018), or painting a Castle for the Label Valette Festival (2022) to numerous artistic collaborations with Agnes B to name a few.
The idea of a collaboration came during an encounter at the Label Valette Festival in 2022. Creating the material from layers of mastered and documented paints seemed very interesting to both of them .
For the LAYERS collection, LEK started out with painting multiple layers of his signature graffiti lettering style with vibrant colours, which were then intricately cut out by RENK’ART and melded with sterling silver to create 50 stunning unique one-off pieces.
From cufflinks to earrings and necklaces, the result is a slick and stylish jewellery collection.
Photos credit W.L.V.
LAYERS by LEK / RENK’ART will be revealed on 12 October 2023 at a secret location in Paris
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