Pinar&Viola&Düsseldorf
This wednesday we’ll give a lecture at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.
Check out the poster that the students designed for us!
For more information: http://design.fh-duesseldorf.de/a_aktuelles/zeigeNewsLang?c_id=c20111130192638
Practical information: Jour Fixe PINAR & VIOLA Date: Mittwoch, 07. Dezember 2011 Time: 19:00 Uhr Address: Café Freiraum, FH Düsseldorf
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Diva Opaque special edition poster
We recently finished this poster for the online design magazine Fontanel. A different edition of it will take part in Don’t Believe The Type exhibition at Ship of Fools gallery, that Fontanel will organizes together with the Graphic Design Festival Breda and design agency Trapped in Suburbia. The opening of the exhibition will be held on October 7th. Address: Korte Voorhout 20 2511 CX The Hague The Netherlands
We prepared a special edition poster that one of our 150 divas from our previous capsule collection Diva Opaque: Anonymous Guardians of Intimacy.
Size: 50x70cm. If you guys want one, just send an email to bureau@pinar-viola.com
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Zaaien&Wieden closing event
Yesterday, we ran into the poster that we designed for Zaaien&Wieden exhibition at Cobra Museum. This Saturday (3 September) a closing event will be held at the museum, where there will be lectures held around Folk Art in Contemporary Art. We’ll be part of the day, together with Hilde de Bruijn (curator Cobra Museum), Nina Folkersma (art critic), Dr. Hester Dibbits, Nicole Fritz (guest curator), Nadine Hottenrott (artist) and Hans Venhuizen (artist).
The event starts at 1pm and will continue until 5pm. Hope to see you there.
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Album artwork for Anatopia
Album artwork design for Anatopia. The album will be released as a vinyl and in online music libraries. You can listen to their former album here. Album releasing party will be held on 23rd of September. We’ll soon post more information concerning the release and the vinyl.
This entry was written by , posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:46 pm, filed under Ecstatic Surface Design, Friends, Graphic design, Music, Pinar&Viola, Poster, Typography, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
GHE20 G0THIK
Ghe20 G0th1k is a social experiment in NYC turning into booty brawl. Voguing is a respected art here, and it’s not exclusive to the gays. While scene queens and party divas strut about, everyone is welcome to share the dark dance floor. Don’t expect to be coddled though: The patrons of this mostly queer party have absolutely no qualms about testing your abilities. Here, you earn your way to the middle of the dance floor through friendly dance-offs that prove you too can keep up with the fast-paced drums that provide the foundation for the club-meets-goth fete. When we walked in around 12:30 a.m., resident DJ Venus X was on the decks, dancing along to a quickly mixed set of Baltimore Club, R-Kelly (what? yes!), Bollywood remixes, and sissy bounce, akin to what Girl Talk would do if he had a taste for bass. “It’s a democratic approach to music that’s inherently queer,” Venus explains later. “It was initially dark wave and juke, and started to expand from there. We try to stay away from obvious American music and instead do a lot of black house, Middle Eastern music, stuff like that.” —> An extract of Puja Patel’s review on blogs.villagevoice.com
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Guts & Glory
Amateur kickboxing tournament posters
This post is made possible by Robin van Wijk
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Ecstatic surfaces for Cobra Museum
Poster and invitation for Sowing & Weeding exhibition at Cobra Museum.
The exhibition shows examples of folk culture in contemporary art and opposes itself to the current anti cultural climate of Dutch right wing politics. The Cobra movement can be stated as an universal positive populist art which wanted to liberate the creativity of mankind. Cobra artists aimed to make art for and by everyone, irrespective of class, race, intellect and educational level.
This poster is an ecstatic surface where Cobra revives in the folk art of the contemporary: digital folklore.
The visual statement is an upgrade of the conventional understanding of the Cobra movement. On the surface, the impulsive and intuitive beauty of digital folklore is outshined and the folk art of today is flourished on the vernacular world wide web, all parading with hijacked Cobra creatures.
We’ll currently designing a gigantic digital mural painting for the entrance of the exhibition.
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Détox Dior poster
We were invited by Chaumont Poster Festival 2011 to take part in the exhibition 13 a Cheval.
This poster is a reaction towards the anti-Semitic words of John Galliano (28 Feb).
John Galliano, having the looks of a gypsy pirate created ecstatic couture. It was clear that he drew it’s inspiration from minorities and different cultures. As Pinar&Viola, we have always felted affiliated with his way of working. Thus, when the upsetting news made the headlines, it was a complete stroke for us that these anti-Semitic remarks were coming from his mouth.
Physical perfection has always been an obsession in the cult of fashion. This made an odd connection in our minds with fascism’s antidemocratic aesthetics.
While making a poster which speaks about the ephemerality of the fashion industry, we made use of the new African patterns, next rave in the fashion industry.
This poster is silkscreened by Les Arts Graphiques, Strasbourg.
Our poster is shown in the catalogue of Chaumont 2011 together with our terror battle opponent, Mr. Michiel Schuurman, the wizard.
We started a terror battle in 2010 between us and him, on which one of us would create more graphical terror.
What do you think who earned more points on this one? Send your answer to bureau@pinar-viola.com.
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Meet Robin
Robin will be making his 3 months internship at Pinar&Viola studio.
See the work he did for his Window Window project, a fictional festival for arts in The Hague. The festival includes 8 artists which show works representing their hometown and the town they live in right now, The Hague.
This works create a link between the two cities, in their own prospect or on a bigger scale.
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A peek in the Liemburg castle
Last week, our close friend Harmen Liemburg had us for dinner in his home studio. It was really special to see his captivating universe. And check out Harmen the fancy teenager and his blowing 80s hairdo.
This entry was written by , posted on March 28, 2011 at 6:06 pm, filed under Friends, Graphic design, Poster. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Diva Opaque, Anonymous Guardians of Intimacy
Pinar&Viola reveal the secret collection of scarf_whiz80
Diva Opaque is a collection of found images belonging to scarf_whiz80. This eccentric collection varies from snapshots, carefully manipulated pictures and skillful photomontages, all portraying veiled divas.
Scarf_whiz80 cherishes the veil in his very own perception. In contradiction with today’s sensational hijab-hype, scarf_whiz80 glorifies the headscarf. From silk to satin, from lace to chiffon, he manifests the veil as an object obscure, shielding beauty from the beholder. The images depict strong women who seem decided to keep their transparency unique to their private relations. Scarf_whiz80 idolizes these women as the Anonymous Guardians of Intimacy.
Pinar&Viola discovered the bewildering collection on the internet by accident, and fully embraced scarf_whiz80’s skillfully crafted uncanny vision.
In his collection, Pinar&Viola observe a critique on societal norms of gender, race, religion and sexuality, including destructions of stereotypes and ideologies.
With today’s expansion of identity politics and the booming prosecution of middle-class, narrow-minded morality in the discourses of popular culture and public policy, Pinar&Viola state the veil as the neo black.
Home Gallery Schrank8
Hansje van Halem presents
Pinar&Viola – Ecstatic Surface Design
Opening 25 March 2011
17.00 – 20.00 hrs
Wagenaarstraat 331
Amsterdam
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By AMFI store presents The Credit Card Collection
By AMFI is the Statement Store of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute that exhibits and sells products of our talents; students, teachers, alumni and friends. It’s is a community working together with the industry and society. Every 3 months a new concept is made up and a new environment is created, with new products from both inside and outside AMFI. Every theme is organized and realized by our young AMFI professionals, often reflecting a current theme in school.
THE STORE By AMFI opens it’s new conceptual collection with Pinar&Viola’s Ecstatic Surface Design 2011, The Credit Card Collection. Every year, Pinar&Viola launch an autonomous Ecstatic Surface Collection which tends to be recognized as ‘haute couture’ of graphic design.
In the Ecstatic Surface Design 2011 Collection, the pseudo-realistic dream world that was created by the credit cards is depicted. Once the credit card was presented as the magical key to access dreams, now, in The Credit Card Collection, this piece of virtual money generator is depicted in the powerless ocean of debt.
OPENING EVENT
Friday, 11 March 2011
AMFI Statement Store
BY AMFI
Spui 23, 1012 WX Amsterdam
+31 (0)20 525 8133
info@byamfi.nl
Opening hours
Tue-Sat: 12-18h
Sun-Mon: Closed
This entry was written by , posted on March 9, 2011 at 2:59 am, filed under Ecstatic Surface Design, Exhibition, Graphic design, Pinar&Viola, Poster, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.