The background creativity three d. Illustration. We start off the show with a portrait of a man considered to be one of the most important contemporary painters of our time georg basel but now his work is deeply rooted in european history and american painting well 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 georg vassalage says while theres a german artist who grew up in east germany started inventing his paintings in one nine hundred sixty nine his retrospective at bars was found by ana features many of these images basil its his continued working with upside down imagery tell the present day. Is pretty new at the course the other one but it was going to be i love the idea and i can hardly believe i invented it because i had this idea when i was totally unknown agreeing 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 is also made a number of mostly monumental sculptures the b. T. N. Group one of his most famous is on view in the garden or found out soon by a. Help to mark basil its his eightieth birthday the retrospective features some eighty paintings and ten sculptures on loan from around european and us house collections. Oscillates tokyo rated the exhibition. 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 movies and popular calm i had a really bad and possibly a guilty conscience. But now that the works are on the walls i have to say bravo to augusta was you so are. At eighty gayle bassinets is among germanys oldest Living Artists is clearly enjoying the bounce surrounding his upcoming birthday bob despite his commercial success hes maintained his ability for reinvention. Everybody likes a show off everyone likes get to go clothes for it but of course subsides quickly and is discarded swiftly if it is conformist and. Gail bassinets was born hansgeorg karen in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight in the village of deutsche positives which inspired his ideas. By allowing 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 the artist was taken to court and accused of showing pornography. Is nine hundred sixty serious the heros addresses the bombing records on his childhood village during world water. And 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. Martin founder curator the show together with vacillates he dismisses rumors that bacile it secretly paints his welsh right side up and simply presents them upside down. But 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 these 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 works a painted upside down of course also on display he now focuses on physical decline the theme of fun. He spends two hours a day working in his studio. Its a do for water bar so close to my work so it becomes so lost that i cant paint on the wall even the smallest rooms trickledown i work on the ground or norm and call him a call for. Help consulates eighty years of age the painter is as passionate about his honor as ever and he still got plenty of fresh ideas. The biggest names in old crow tour show their spring collections in paris this week but all i have been on the new kid on the block at. Maxime seimone took over as head designer last march and he certainly has big shoes to fill a reeses are was a respected name in old couture and designed for legends such as Brigitte Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor well after zero 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 wins 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 but 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 hand i have a clear vision that people will like or not pay me. Simones find his skills working for such a list could surely as as. Christiane do your and. Then he turn 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 because then it got a bit musty look the various designers tried to revive the brand but it didnt work. Now might seem is here if you know it will do all the next you know its much more interesting for investors to try to revive these illustrious houses of those events or create new brands out of nothing devolved to bits in the goodness of. The as our label turned fifty last year it was founded by telling design a lorises who builds a celebrity following within a state defined by luxury and. A whole constellation of stars was his gallant in the one nine hundred seventy s. Including jane birkin and believe. In music. As our own wants to make women more beautiful its just its you astonish very feminine. Glamorous and extravagant community unlike my own style which is more but i tried to combine the two which was very stimulating and a real challenge him or somebody i think it best to know it. For his second collection he minded the labels archives and the result was a contemporary take on some of the passion houses seventy signature is this is his take on larsons r. s three rings dress. For sure the most Vivid Research in the archives was a great inspiration and i tried to understand the clothing design is invented change them for example the sleeves so i turned long dresses into drapes gods the more you delve into a fashion label style the more you learn what is suitable for the present day set up than its a book to make seems to make seem similar as good as putting himself inside lawrences r. O. Skin the style is unmistakable miss your eyes are like black like 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 grew to 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 me do some still very glamorous fashion but obviously unisex. Body 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 to deceive us and its hard for a young. Designer to redefine a brand and to make it successful again people may think its easy but its not. It takes time and today the fashion houses dont give their designers times to find themselves and their place to form a unit with a label so that it succeeds again to sample to do nowadays fashion houses switched designers to fast. Maybe make seem seem a way ends 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 needs to put the crowd and enjoy 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 polaroid cameras are seeing a revival while camera manufacturers are taking advantage of this Surprising Development in photography. Hidden beneath this is sabina. Shes not into modern technology she prefers. 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. What i like most is how the whole process is slow down you concentrate on whats essential. Its not just a quick snapshot you can see the results 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. Designed to reflect 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. 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 where only audience is kind of still. The amazing accuracy and speed of sharing of. Instant photography shows across europe testify to its researching popularity the polaroid project at the gallery showcases the works of some three hundred artists including andy warhol and the Photographers Gallery in london is showing previously unseen pictures by german filmmaker vendors he started using polaroid in the one nine hundred seventy s. It was such a. Joyful thing he would give her away because it was like the personal i have more right to it as a person a picture just. Out of life when you produce. Almost reckless about. If subpoenas vintage devices break down she goes. Through he repairs and cameras. He has many young customers who have grown up in the digital era. 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 on your phone and in your Digital World youre taking a lot of photos and you kind of have to sort through it its more about what you put in and the way it kind of challenges you have. 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. Find healing or actually the imperfections the bits that are out of focus or a bit of fluff. And. Every analog picture is a surprise whether taken with a roll of film or a polaroid camera generation instagram is rediscovering the magic of taking pictures in the real world something that it seems was almost forgotten. Czar in the bag 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. Zahra illand bagot 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 but even today i love about the i love all materials of course but ive been especially fond of fruit and vegetables for a long time because im fallible ie 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. Beat i 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 is anything but flat she describes herself as a three d. Illustrator combining techniques from the realms of art Graphic Design im 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 his bust i 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. Went on to study Graphic Design in london then set up a jewelry label with her boyfriend at the time but she felt limited in her creativity so she started sending her three d. Designs to magazines and got rave reviews now how it works feature on the covers of leading publications all over the world. I think that as soon as you touch things with your hands your own energy flow into Something Different emerges thats perhaps more human and not quite so flawless that interests me more than the perfect surface of a computer monitor. Approach can also be applied to surfaces she regularly creates stunning displays for the luxury brand as in germany she loves challenges and to look good from. She tends to collaborate with. Projects. She worked with. Create these Oversized Office supplies for. My career actually with a big failure. And they let me go after three weeks. By that 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. Else the true. Today. Is one of europes most successful illustrators im talking. 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 vents have been planned in the city this year so we went there to see how they are embracing their latest status. The letters put me on a giant policy to launch its year as a twenty eight team capital of culture the spanish acrobats of love for dez follows a world famous for their spectacular show. Does well as one to get closer to the people and surprise the people to be something exacting something neil something Barry Barry Barry spatial and barry. People are performing at every turn most often in the open air the streets of this four hundred fifty year old city are serving as stages musicians for the street performers are out in force nearly every artist in the tiny mediterranean country of. This year is a major event for europe something much capital for you personally its a very i six periods and i am very grateful to the culture it shows us. So that we can show our ways inquests humes of the divide up side quests that we used to play a kind of in. Its a its very nice i mean im very grateful and we want something that is not just for artists but we want something that is also applicable from which even the people of the residents of and all of more benefit. The less Us Population is less 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 for that magical place to stay and. You know it has so much history on this spending city since the sixteenth century so many people from the knights of more stuff come by and theyve left such a legacy which now i think is finally being recognized in. Eleven. The letter was founded 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 nine hundred ninety. One of the main sites is the granting of pastors converts completed in fifteen seventy five one gram master john perry saw. Gave the city its name. Person jongs coca field road is the conventional church of the order of st john the floor is made up of three hundred seventy five marble slabs over the tombs of the orders leading knights. Doesnt just have historical attractions the city gate is based on plans by star italian architect renzo piano and says the new parliament building. The Cultural Capital of europe 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 unesco monuments like st john spoke of featuring more than four hundred events will be taking place in the latter under mulch of this year. Capital is determined to make a big splash in twenty eighteen. 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 well see you again next week. On. The boat. For sara willis the point is a. Push to. Join her on her journey is musical discovery this time shes in cuba and im spending all day finding out these fantastic come follow for flavor and. That. Is to spot deep. Snow. How wonderful you. Know certainly for kids. Before it would happen if there were no more snow. The climate would go hey while. Our current scenario imo without snow on to morrow to do. Thirty minutes on d. W. Crime fighter the new season of radio crime thrillers became some. 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