sleek magazine

Back to life

sleek Team — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:03:54 +0000

Ok, so it’s been a bit quiet on this page for a while, but there’s a reason to it, as you will realize once you get to see our new issue which, as always, will be the best issue ever. The theme: “Profit/Loss”. This will be our gravest, saddest, most moving and also most serious issue ever. This work by Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, the “piETà” (2007) may serve as indicator of the things to come…

Rudolf Stingel “Live” at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin

sleek Team — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:48:24 +0000

Photo© David von Becker.

Manuel Raeder at ELGARAFI – a reason to go to West-Berlin

sleek Team — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:52:16 +0000

ELGARAFI shows “Open line into times Tic-tac-tic-tac”, versatile furniture objects (upper left corner of image) by Manuel Raeder, opening tonight, opening now, to be precise, on show until 28 March, 2010.

What does ELGARAFI stand for?
Concept free and an invitation to visit West-Berlin
What is the idea behind it?
Anything is possible, nobody invited – everybody welcome
What is there to find?
Anything that appears. Everyone who will show up.

Lady Gaga (wearing outfit designed by Terence Koh) and Terence Koh (wearing outfit matching outfit he designed for Lady Gaga) counting pearls. 88 pearls. In a teacup.

sleek Team — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:40:26 +0000

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Gelitin, working on “Blind Sculpture”, at Greene Naftaly, New York, blindfolded. Makes sense.

sleek Team — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:56:41 +0000

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Bill Durgin

sleek Team — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:33:05 +0000

Opera – from boredom to styledom

sleek Team — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:51:52 +0000

Our parents and grandparents made us sit through operas at an age when we were too weak to object to questionable educational measures, exposing us to a torture that involved infinite boredom and, and for some, itching tights. This is a thing of the past. Today, opera productions are screened live in cinemas around the world, boasting stage sets designed by world famous architects and costumes designed by equally famous fashion designers, which makes that whole singing so much easier to endure.
Verdi’s “Attila”, premiers tonight at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with costumes by Miuccia Prada (her very first assignment of this kind!), and stage design by Herzog & de Meuron.

Wangechi Mutu – Artist of the Year 2010

sleek Team — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:12:57 +0000

Soeben wurde Wangechi Mutu in New York von der Deutschen Bank zum “Artist of the Year 2010″ gekürt. Zwar ist das Jahr noch nicht mal zwei Monate alt, was darauf hoffen läßt, daß bis zu seinem Ende noch einiges passieren wird, aber Mutu rangiert auf unserer Lieblingskünstlerliste soweit oben, daß sie gern auch schon zur Künstlerin der Jahre 2011-30 gekürt werden kann. www.db-artmag.com

Wangechi Mutu, A dragon kiss always ends in ashes, 2007. Courtesy Victoria Miro, London.

New discipline in sleek – architecture

sleek Team — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:00:38 +0000

The latest developments in shoe-making force us to include a third discipline in sleek, next to art and fashion: architecture. In our next issue themed “Profit | Loss”, Imelda Marcos will reveal how shoes became her Achilles’ heel.

World Community Grid Water Features by AIDS-3D

sleek Team — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:28:17 +0000

One of sleek’s favourite German words of all times is “Zimmerspringbrunnen”. What it means? Apparently much more than we ever dared to hope, as the latest three-dimensional outpourings of one of our (not of all times) favourite artist duos, AIDS-3D, promise to reveal. “A group of spectacular cast-fiberglass fountains stand together on an elevated server-room floor….” Rest of story: www.aids-3d.com