Cyprus Dance Film Festival receives submissions from 39 countries

Cult Experiences presents for the very first time in Cyprus, the inaugural Cyprus Dance Film Festival; a remarkable celebration of the fusion of dance and cinema.

The organization received 150 dance films from 39 countries! The worldwide interest on #CDFF2023 marks Cyprus Dance Film Festival as the most important film festival for dance film creators and enthusiasts in Cyprus.

Attendees are invited to immerse themselves in a captivating cinematic journey, featuring a diverse selection of local and international dance films on Sunday the 5th of November at Rialto theatre Limassol.

The festival showcases the artistry of movement and emotion brought to life on the big screen, ranging from contemporary to traditional dance forms.

​The pinnacle of this event is the highly anticipated Awards Ceremony, where live dance shows will be performed, and exceptional filmmakers will be recognized and celebrated for their outstanding contributions. At the prestigious Heroes’ Square venue, the organizers will roll out the Red Carpet, between 18:00 - 21:00, to honor all the talented artists in attendance.​

Attendees will also have the opportunity to take a look at the beautiful dance photography exhibition, as they mingle and celebrate the convergence of dance and cinema and make important connections.

Programme:

14:00 - 16:30 Screenings Block A

17:00 - 18:30 Screenings Block B

19:00 - 20:30 Screenings Block C

21:00 - 23:00 Awards Ceremony (Block D)​

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The GUCCI COSMOS Exhibition is coming to London

After a successful debut in Shanghai in April, the Gucci Cosmos exhibition is moving to the UK. Running from 11 October until 31 December, the immersive installation will showcase and celebrate the house’s most iconic and forward-thinking designs from its 102-year-long history.

The British artist Es Devlin, who designed the original Shanghai exhibit, has created a show space that pays homage to London, through a series of imaginative sets, sculptures and multimedia artworks. It will be staged at 180 Studios.

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ZOE exhibition by MAIK GRÄF

The Queer Archive presents ZOE by MAIK GRÄF.

“Zoe” is an ancient Greek term and means life – the simple fact of life that is common to all living beings. According to Plato, “Zoe” is also tied to Fate which can be lived well or badly. However, it is not always in our hands whether our life is peaceful or whether it is suppressed and persecuted because certain aspects are not considered compliant by religious or political authorities.

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Queer interpretations of ancient Greek mythology and society are the focus of the photographic project ZOE by German artist Maik Gräf. A series of photographs taken during the artist’s art residency in Athens in 2021 will be presented at Romantso Gallery.

The exhibition is curated by Konstantinos Menelaou and Maik Gräf and produced by the art platform and gallery The Queer Archive.

The opening is on Thursday 20th April, from 7pm to 11pm, with a DJ set by Clubkid from 8pm to 11pm. The exhibition will be on display from April 21st to 26th, from 5pm to 9pm, and the closing is on Thursday 27th April from 5pm to 11pm. The closing ceremony will also feature a conversation with Maik Gräf from 7pm to 8pm and a DJ set from 8pm to 11pm.

FACES by Seigar

Seigar is a passionate travel, street, social-documentary, conceptual, and pop visual artist based in Tenerife, Spain. His latest project ‘FACES’ explores the different faces we see in people depending on the situations the live.

The artist notes:

This conceptual portrait series was inspired by the lyrics of the song Mercury by Steve Lacy: "You think I'm two-faced, I can name twenty-three / My layers, all these sides". This work represents a metaphor for personality traits conveyed through my longest and still ongoing project My Plastic People. It shows the complexities of human beings.

I think personalities should be valued, and encouraged to blossom. We should embrace our personalities so differences can enrich us all. It is the perfect time in history to let our inner selves and souls speak loud and act freely, not repress ourselves! It is a matter of empowerment.

The content is also connected to my interest in identity, everything that defines us. The aesthetics I've chosen are once more pop, this movement is my main influence to create. Faces deals with the idea that the intricacies of our personalities should not be considered negative, in fact, being genuine is the engine we need today out there, far from the crowd thinking. I see personalities as the possible gates to individual freedoms. Just be real!

The Queer Archive Festival #2 is coming back to Athens

After last year’s great success, The Queer Archive Festival is back again in June 2021 (03-06.06.2021), hosting a great celebration of Athens’ rich and vibrant queer culture, with the support of Onassis Stegi for a second consecutive year.

Designed to celebrate the very best of queer arts and culture, The Queer Archive Festival raises the curtain on another rich program of dazzling and provocative multimedia experiences from 3-6 June 2021. Open and accessible to all, our second festival edition remains focused on highlighting talent, encouraging creativity, promoting engaging and progressive contemporary art, which reflects modern queer culture, and ultimately creating a bustling hub that praises diversity and supports social inclusivity.

The festival is once again supported by the Onassis Cultural Foundation that considers culture as a meeting ground for human aspirations and freedom of expression, and supports the LGBTQIA+ community’s self-evident rights through its initiatives. This year, The Queer Archive Festival expands its partnership with the Onassis Foundation, as the Onassis AiR international arts research program offers hospitality and creative conversations for festival guests with the large and international family of artists who are creating through Onassis AiR research journey in the Arts.

CONCOON: Exclusive Dance & Fashion Clip

A REY exclusive fashion project, produced and photographed in Limassol, Cyprus.

Video Production by Savvas Christou

Styling Christos Christou

starring Panos Malactos

Editorial Series Photographed by Savvas Christou

'Childhood' Collage by Seigar

A REY exclusive Art feature editorial, created by SEIGAR. in Tenerife.

The artist mentions to REY,

“With this series, I wanted to play with the concept of childhood, using collage from fashion magazines and toys. As I am an intense person, always looking to experience the present, I seem to forget the past. There is not enough place in my mind for all the data, and that includes my childhood memories. That was the motif to create this photo-narrative, to connect with those years. The adult perspective places the pop icons in curious and weird situations testing darkness but also joy, some adventure, the supernatural, and even religion. In a previous series entitled Toxic, I used for the first time the collage technique, and that made me work with it in this new project. In the future, I am considering doing collage mixed with paints to explore other topics. Childhood has brought something new to my work, both in the form and the content.”

Artist’s Biography:

Seigar is a passionate travel, street, social documentary, conceptual and pop photographer based in Tenerife. He feels obsessed with pop culture that he shows in his series. He is a fetishist for reflections, saturated colors, curious finds, and religious icons. He also flirts with journalism and video. His main inspiration is traveling. His aim as an artist is to tell tales with his camera, creating a continuous storyline from his trips.

His most ambitious projects so far are his Plastic People, a study on anthropology and sociology that focuses on the humanization of the mannequins he finds in the shop windows all over the world, and his Tales of a City, an ongoing urban photo-narrative project taken in London. He is a philologist and also works as a secondary school teacher. He is a self-taught visual artist, though he has done a two years course in advanced photography and one in cinema and television. He has participated in several exhibitions and his works have been featured in many publications.

He has collaborated with different media such as VICE and WAG1. He writes for Dodho Magazine and for The Cultural about photography and pop culture, and for Memoir Mixtapes about music. Lately, he has experimented with video forms. His last interest is documenting identity. Recently, he received the Rafael Ramos García International Photography Award.

Berlin: Solo exhibition of KOYWE Kollage

Works by KOYWE KOLLAGE will be shown in a first solo exhibition titled “The journey before the beginning”. From October 22nd to 25th the artist Hans Möller Rojas will be presenting over 20 pieces in Berlin-Kreuzberg at Project Hype.

About KOYWE KOLLAGE:
Hans Möller Rojas created his first works more than six years ago and started showcasing his pieces to the public under the alias KOYWE KOLLAGE as of three years ago. His technique has developed radically since then. Today he can be counted among the most exciting artists in the field of collages. The small-scale, elaborately hand-cut and assembled compositions show organic shapes, shimmering colours and reveal – after a deeper examination by the viewer – topics such as sex and queerness.
www.koywekollage.com // www.instagram.com/koywekollage


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The VANS exhibition in MoMA Museum

This autumn, Vans presents its collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

With a shared passion for individual expression, Vans and the MoMA have joined forces to present a joint collection. The artists presented reflect the diversity of MoMA’s collection, with works by Salvador Dalí, Wassily Kandinsky, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Ljubov Popova and Faith Ringgold.


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Photographer Will Dube experiments with the human body and form in his second portrait series for REY Magazine.

Theo-Mass Lexileictous: 'The Ice Age' Exhibition - Exclusive photojournal

Theo-Mass has presented his latest exhibition in Limassol, Cyprus and we were lucky enough to be at the opening -last Friday the 8th of November.

Eins gallery is pleased to present Theo-Mass Lexileictous’ solo exhibition entitled The Ice Age. This body of work is the consummation of three years of investigation into our distanced and complex relationship with the environment and nature, and the ephemeral, while questioning digital and physical fabrication processes to understand our evolving relationship to matter.

Theo-Mass’ work explores the boundaries between the digital and the existent, the relationship between the human and the machine, and its distinctive aesthetic, which focuses and experiments with the sensory experience of light, space and form. He works across a range of mediums, from sculpture, installation, photography to film, crossing boundaries between disciplines. Exploring the ever-changing nature of materiality and the meaning of substance in a Postdigital era, this work addresses these issues; however, unlike his previous works, it is removed from the technological and machine made.

‘The Ice Age’ presents 3 new performative sculptural hybrid objects which constantly evolve and change, an approach that generates a network of dynamic and unpredictable living situations that unfold in real-time.

Parts of the exhibition are still open until the 18th of November. Discover them around the old town of Limassol. Find out more online.

Photography Michael Georgiou

SteFan

Photographer Will Dube

starring Stefan Thomas

A Freedom Movement 2019 - The Exhibition at Leman Locke, London

The lifestyle hotel in Aldgate East, continues to host worth seeing creative exhibitions. Leman Locke is now introducing Michelle Beatty and her new photographic series A Freedom Movement 2019.

Michelle is an Australian born Londoner who has spent a creative lifetime moving seamlessly from the carnival of catwalks and high fashion showrooms, to the subtle backdrops of fine art photography - landscapes, architecture and foreign, far-off lands. For the first time, Michelle has created a body of work that straddles these two parallel career tracks, and the contrasting sides of herself.

Leman Locke is proud to present her newest photographic series, where three talented subjects with backgrounds in ballet, modelling and choreography are captured in the prime of their lives; embodying strength, wisdom, and feminine beauty. The subjects are offset by strong skies, powerful waves and brooding clouds. The photography exhibition runs across all 22 floors of the East London lifestyle hotel, open to the public from 10th May until 31st July.

RSVP to see A Freedom Movement at Leman Locke here >

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BOYS WITH FEELINGS

DANSE MACABRE

Photography by Armando Branco

Styling Marloes Hogenkamp

Editing features notes from photographer’s art school notebook as a tribute to his home town Nijmegen (editorial’s location), his parents and the madness of love.

Grooming Daisy de Weerd

Starring dancers Chen Hartik & Vincenzo Turiano

Admin Jolanda Scherpenhuizen

RUHE

Photographer Will Dube

starring Sam Skinner

Foreign Beauty

A new Azzedine Alaïa exhibition is coming to Milan this month

After the huge success of the London’s Design Museum exhibition "Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier", a new announcement confirmed the good news.

The exhibition is travelling to Milan and it will be open on the 20th of September for four days only! 

Showcasing his creations from the early 1980s and following his creative path right up until his final Paris Couture show in July 2017, the retrospective is curated by fashion historian Olivier Saillard, who, it’s safe to say, knows the ‘King of Cling’ and his work like the back of his hand.

Saillard was also behind Alaïa retrospective Je Suis Couturier, which took place in Paris earlier this year. The exhibition brought together looks including the iconic purple hooded gown worn by Grace Jones in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill and a series of dresses worn by the likes of Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, and Helena Christensen.

Taking place in the Italian city’s Palazzo Clerici throughout fashion week, the exhibition runs from September 20-25. Book your flights now, fashion fans.

REY x Marco Kowalewski: The Fashion Illustrations

Marco Kowalewski is an artist from Hamburg who is getting influenced by the artistry on different platforms in today's social media and  platforms. Mostly drawing Illustrations based on current fashion, collections, editorials and influencers with exclusive taste, Marco wanted to present REY stories in a more playful way.

"I love to play with compositions, shapes , colors, and contrast while still working in progress.
Never being satisfied with my work and still trying to figure out how to become more pure and clear with every new line of my work." stated to our team.

Follow Marco on Instagram for more artworks and projects.