Style as the artist turns eighty eight. On his way maxine seimone sets out to revive the legendary house of azhar old. And on her own sara in the background creativity through the illustration. We start the show with a portrait of a man considered to be one of the most important contemporary painters of our time georg basel thats now his work is deeply rooted in european history and american painting early on he decided to turn things upside down and we sat down with him to find out why. The world isnt upside down but gail vassalage says while theres a german artist who grew up in east germany started inverting his paintings in one nine hundred sixty nine his retrospective at basils found us around by our features many of these images salutes his continued working with upside down imagery to the present day. Its pretty thick or the other one for the discovery but i love the idea and i can hardly believe i invented it because i had this idea when i was totally unknown including with my peers or my competitors to the gimmick. But i think its a great way to paint pictures that are unlike anything done in the past and they are not or unlike what others do. Over the course of a career that spanned six decades gail bassinets also made a number of mostly monumental sculptures to be d. M. Group one of his most famous is on view in the garden are funded by a. Help to mark basil its his eightieth birthday the retrospective features some eighty paintings and sculptures on loan from around european and u. S. Mass collections. Oscillates tokyo rated the exhibition. But i was quite anxious beforehand i didnt know if all the artworks would live up to the expectations of this fantastic space in this fantastic museum with all these visitors and public home i had a morning bed and possibly a guilty conscience. But now that the works are on the walls i have to say to bravo to augusta was this our. Well will. At eighty later is among germanys oldest Living Artists is clearly enjoying the bounce surrounding his upcoming birthday but despite his commercial success hes maintained his ability for reinvention. Everybody likes a show off everyone likes getting up close for it but of course subsides quickly and is discarded swiftly if it is conformist and. Gail vacillates was born hans georg counting one thousand nine hundred thirty eight in the village of deutsche boss sentence which inspired his idea. Is showing some of his early works like break night down the drain from nine hundred sixty three which sparked a scandal when it was first exhibited in west berlin and the artist was taken to court and accused of showing pornography. Is nine hundred sixty series the heros addresses the bombing records on his childhood village during world water. In nine hundred sixty nine he began painting his subjects upside down this has since become his trademark and it catapulted him to wealth by fact. Martines founder curated a show together with vacillates he dismisses rumors that bacile it secretly paintings works right side up and simply presents them upside down. Its been basel its painted its motifs upside down from the very beginning and and that will prove that if you flip a reproduction of his paintings around youll notice that its composition falls apart the picture only works upside down thats built into the new in often called. Oscillates his latest work painted upside down of course but also on display he now focuses on the physical decline in the theme of finality he spends two hours a day working in his studio. Its a do for water but its so close to my work so it becomes so lost that i can paint on the wall even the smallest rooms trickledown i work on the ground or norm and call him a call for. Help consulates at eighty years of age the painter hes asked passionate about hes on to santa and hes still got plenty of fresh ideas. The biggest names in old crow tour showed their spring collections in paris this week but all i have been on the new kid on the block at. Maxime cmon took over as head designer last march and he certainly has big shoes to fill a reeses are was a respected name in order to or in design for legend such as Brigitte Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor well after a zero died in two thousand and three the house changed hands its now looking to cmon to carry on its reputation. This was mc seem similar second to al xing for us. Before the show the thirty three year old french design i was busy multitasking backstage he prefers to put the finishing touches on himself. Yet as lost as you have it im a bit nervous but thats normal but i can say with a clear conscience that i gave it all ive got the need to pull the band i have a clear vision that people will like or not pay me. Simones find his skills working for such a list could surely ace as shown fold christiane to your and. Then return to pressure push take loads for men under his own label he was appointed artistic director at azhar last year to create a new life into the fashion house. These awards are all a good experience too strong decades but then it got a bit musty with the various designers trying to revive the brand but it didnt work. Now might seem is here if you dont do all that axiom its much more interesting for investors to try to revive these illustrious houses that will see them to create new brands out of nothing did nothing to be absolutely certain. The years are a label turned fifty last year it was founded by telling design a loris as we built a celebrity following within a stage defined by luxury and. Whole constellation of stars warriors gallants in the one nine hundred seventy s. Including james burke and and still lead. As our own wants to make women more beautiful used its use style is very feminine. Glamorous and extravagant community unlike my own style which is more stuff but i tried to combine the two which was very stimulating and a real challenge him or somebody i think the best. For his second collection he minded the labels archives and the result was a contemporary take on some of the fashion houses seventys signature is this is take on larsons r. s three rings dress. Receive him and Speed Research in the archives was a great inspiration and i tried to understand the clothing design and then to change them for example the sleeves so i turned long dresses into drapes skirts the more you delve into a fashion label style the more you learn what is suitable for the present day so that the need to book the next scene smacks in similar as good as putting himself inside laura says zorro skin the style is unmistakable miss your eyes are like black he liked White Crystals and sequins. Women had to be sexy and he opted almost exclusively for evening gowns and all that is present in this collection. Not quite old could do a perhaps more like rock for young trainee and wealthy fans men and women alike. But you build the feeling i wanted the stars for men and women not to defy wildly to be androgynous and offered to do some still very glamorous fashion but obviously unicef. Goal was to mix up the wardrobe of the most of the time for men to wear womens jackets and women to wear mens shirts. Its a topical concept but not a new one its an open question whether similar ones will win over investors in a short amount of time. If you see its hard for a young. Designer to redefine a brand and to make it successful again people may think its easy but its not apology it takes time and today the fashion houses dont give their designers time to find themselves and their place to form a unit with a label so that it succeeds again. Nowadays fashion houses switched designers to fast. Maybe make seem simple whens unique style will help green is our route back to new heights of success at any rate he stands for a new generation of design is who could put on is after the show he means to put the crowd and enjoyed the need. For more young people are using products that perhaps their parents or even their grandparents once used record players cassette players roll film cameras and even haul all right cameras are seeing a revival while camera manufacturers are taking advantage of this Surprising Development in photography. Hidden beneath this is alex shes not into modern technology she prefers box cameras this one is perfect for getting a panorama shot st every shot is a considered decision. I have the feeling that most people now only see the whole the day or whatever theyre taking a picture all through a lens since i stopped doing that and consciously opted for analog photography i feel much better its taken off the pressure. She takes pictures and also teaches others how to use the technology as well as how to develop the resulting photos her studio is in berlins former east every week she meets up here with like minded photographers. Know what i like most is how the whole process is slow down you concentrate on whats essential and. Its not just a quick snapshot you can see the result immediately and thats whats interesting. To me im fascinated by analog photography it feels real because its physical you can actually touch it. Its not something abstract. Theres so much interest in analog photography that new cameras are now coming out on the market a london start up design the reflex the first new manual film camera in more than twenty five years other manufacturers are also trying their hand at instant cameras with a picture costing about a euro a piece. Polaroid which made its name with instant photography decades ago had gone bankrupt when polish businessman. Bought it up. He brought out a new camera last year with the hope of winning over the instagram generation. Younger people are like wow this new thing is amazing yeah sure it was in the past but its a new experience for them its you know this photograph is a rare experience where you have something happening something happening outside of your smartphone thats interesting and i think this is the part that that the younger audience really appreciates whereas their audience is kind of still. Amazing accuracy. Sharing of the. Instant photography shows across europe testify to its researching popularity the polaroid project at the gallery showcases the works of some three hundred artists include andy warhol and the Photographers Gallery in london is showing previously unseen pictures by german filmmaker of him vendors he started using polaroid in the one nine hundred seventy s. It was such a. Joyful thing that he would give away because it was like the personal war right to the person the pictures were just. Out of life when you produced. Almost reckless about. If subpoenas vintage devices break down she goes to see who he repairs and cameras. He has many young customers who have grown up in the digital era. And. They sometimes turn up with an ancient box camera and want to know how it works and take a photo theyre amazed that a decent photo emerges a digital camera is more for snapshots. Taking kind of more meaningful moments whereas on your Digital World youre taking a lot of photos and youre going to have to sort through it its more about what you put in and the way it kind of challenges you. And others have to wait to see the results of their shots first they use chemicals to develop the film. Just make sure you can find everything in the. Then the negativism morrow. And projected on to photographic paper. Finally the image is fixed in another chemical bath. The icing on the cake what makes this all so appealing are actually the imperfections the bits that are out of focus or a bit of fluff. Every analog picture is a surprise whether taken with a roll of film camera generation instagram is rediscovering the magic of taking pictures in the real world something that it seems was almost forgot. Zarin is the one of europes most successful three d. Illustrators and perhaps thats because she sees Creative Potential in ordinary objects such as fruit while her illustrations have made it on the covers of International Publications we paid her a visit in her berlin studio. A sunday breakfast made of paper. Grapes made of marbles. Meat made a vegetable. Brain made of wool. Or even a whole head made of food. Zahra illand badger is a visual storytelling everything around her serves as a source of inspiration and of materials too so when shes out shopping there has studio in berlin shes also working even to the i love all materials of course but ive been especially fond of fruit and vegetables for a long time because i belive lee because theyre so varied and the colors are so vivid theres always an element of surprise because i dont know what ill get its an organic material side weve got this is my. This is the studio wheres our ellenberger test the limits of traditional Graphic Design work is featured in adversus mints glossy magazines galleries and hes anything but flat she describes herself as a three d. Illustrator combining techniques from the realms of art Graphic Design and photography. The main interest lies in meticulous craftsmanship elin badger grew up in munich where her mother designed jewelry and her father ran a hip restaurant. Lived after its best to have my passion for crafting things probably goes back to my childhood i belong to the generation of children who grew up without t. V. Or at least with less t. V. And without a computer in the Digital World so there was enough time and space to make things with whatever was around four hundred. The pantry in my fathers restaurant was my playground when i was around for. A lifelong interest in food. To study Graphic Design in london and set up a jewelry label with her boyfriend at the time. She felt limited in her creativity so she started sending her three d. Designs to magazines and got rave reviews works feature on the covers of leading publications all over the world. I think that as soon as you touch things with your hands and let your own energy flow into them Something Different emerges thats perhaps more human and not quite so flawless that interests me more than the perfect surface of a computer monitor. She regularly creates stunning displays for the luxury mans in germany she loves challenges and wants to look good from. She tends to collaborate with. Projects. She worked with. Create these Oversized Office supplies for. Display. Thing my career actually began with a big failure to job at a designer. And they let me go after three weeks. By now id been assigned to redesign an opera magazine and when the creative director saw my result he said it was unfortunately no better than the original so i had to go. But he did something that was encouraging for my future he said my portfolio looked more like a box of magic tricks than a traditional designers portfolio and that i didnt have to worry i would make it somewhere. Us. And she did today. As one of europes most successful illustrators im mistaken is indeed the. Time now for a trip to the sun and the multiuse capital has been named one of two european Cultural Capitals of two thousand and eighteen and more than one hundred and forty projects and four hundred advance have been planned in the city this year so we went there to see how they are embracing their latest status. Says putting on a just policy to go on ships year as a twenty Eighteen Council of culture spanish acrobats of love boarded their spouse will be famous for their spectacular show just. As well as one to get closer to the people and surprise the people to be something exacting something new something Barry Barry Barry spatial and barry jazz. People are performing at every turn most often in the open air the streets of this four hundred fifty year old city are suffering as stages musicians and street performers are out in full snaily every artist in the chinese mediterranean countries are also this year is a major event for europe something much capital for me personally its its me and i sixty and i am very grateful that the culture chose us. So thats why i can show our ways in costs of the divide up side quests that we used to play a kind of in. Its a nice thing we know im very grateful for one something that is not just for artists but we want something that is also applicable from which even the people and the president. And all of more benefits. But thats Us Population is nest than six thousand people spend lots of Time Outdoors even in winter the sun shines most of the time and temperatures average around thirteen degrees celsius. The multis have put massive effort into but that is year as capital of culture. As a magical place there. You know it has so much history on this spending city since the sixteenth century so many people from the knights of moore to have come by and theyve left such a legacy which you know i think is finally being recognized in. Eleven. The leisure was crowded in the sixteenth century by knights of the order of st john the entire city has been listed as a unesco World Heritage site since ninety ninety. One of the main sites is the grammy pastors comments completed in fifteen seventy five one grand master john perry saw the lad led to leave the city its name. Is sin jongs Kolker Phaedra is the conventional church of the order of st john the floor is made up of three hundred seventy five powerful slabs over the tombs of the orders leading knights to the left it doesnt just have historical attractions the city gate is based on plans by stark italian architect renzo piano as is the new parliament building. The Cultural Capital of europe and its outstanding its fantastic for us as maltese we are all very proud you know this is the best years of malta for us and these last few years walter has grown so much and. This is the place to be this is the place to be in two thousand and eighteen this year theres a special spotlight on new National Monuments like st john the scope of phaedra more than four hundred events will be taking place in valetta on the round mulch of this year. As capital is determined to make a big splash and twenty eighteen. Says. The book. Does certainly look like the place to be and with that weve come to the end of the show as always it was a pleasure having you along and we shall see you again next week. Close. To. Zero zero zero. Zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. Zero. 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