Style as the artist turns eighty. On his way maxine cmon sets out to revive the legendary house of bizarro. And on her in the back 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 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 georg vassalage says while theres the german artist who grew up in east germany started inventing his paintings in one nine hundred sixty nine his retrospective and parcels found assume by allah features many of these images bustle it has continued working with upside down imagery tell the present day. Its pretty new at the course the other one but a bit of color but i love the idea and i can hardly believe i invented it because i had this idea when i was totally unknown 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 be a lot or unlike what others do. Over the course of a career that spanned six decades basle its 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 and. Helps him out basil its his eightieth birthday the retrospective features some eighty paintings and ten sculptures on loan from around european and u. S. Os collections. Vacillates cocurator the exhibition as well as. 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 flu 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 consulates 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 bartletts was born a hand scale can in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight in the village of deutsche positons which inspired his alias. By a lie is showing some of his early works like break night down the drain from nine hundred sixty three which just scandal when it was first exhibited in west berlin the artist was taken to court and accused of showing pornography. Is nine hundred sixty series the heros addresses the bombing right on his childhood village during world water. In nineteen sixty nine he began painting his subjects upside down its has since become his trademark and it catapulted him to well by fact. Martines fanta curated a show together with vacillates he dismisses rumors that bacile it secretly paints his works right side up and simply presents an upside down. Its been basel its painted his 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 the built. In the new are in often called. Oscillates his latest works a painted upside down of course are also on his back he now focuses on physical decline and the theme of finality he spends two hours a day. Well. Its a default bottom are so close to my work so become so lost that i cant paint on the wall even the smallest drops trickle down i work on the ground or normal cold with no call for. Help on some its eighty years of age the painter is passionate about hes on to santa and he still got plenty of fresh ideas. The biggest names in old couture 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 couture and design for legend such as Brigitte Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor well after s. R. O. 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 album 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 our gold need to pull the band i have a clear vision that people will like or not pay me what. Simmons found his skills working for such as a list could surely ace as showing full boat yet christiane to your and. Then he turned to approach a porsche take loads for men under his own label he was appointed artistic director at azhar last year greta new life into the fashion house. These awards are all she. Did experience too strong decades but 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 dont hold your own axiom its much more interesting for investors to try to revive these illustrious houses in this adventure create new brands out of nothing did nothing dubious in the business of. The label turned fifty last year it was founded by telling design a loris as we built a celebrity following within a state defined by luxury and calamity. A whole constellation of stars warriors gallops in the one nine hundred seventy s. Including jane birkin and still lead. To music. As our own wants to make women more beautiful its your style is 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 them all in some but 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 seventy signature is this is take on larson zorros three rings during this. Pursuit of the most Vivid Research in the archives was a great inspiration to me i tried to understand the clothing design and then to 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 and thats a book maximes maxime similar ones as good as putting himself inside lauras skin the style is unmistakable miss your eyes are like black 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 from men and women not to defy wildly to be androgynous fictional and offered to do some still very glamorous fashion but obviously unicef. My goal was to mix up the wardrobe of the most of the time for mens wear womens jackets and womens wear mens shirts. Its a topical concept but not a new one its an open question whether similar ways will win over investors in a shorter 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. 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 to sample to do that nowadays fashion houses switch designers to fast. Maybe make seem simple ways unique style will help green is our route back to new heights of success at any rate she stands for a new generation of designers who could put on is after the show he will 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 because said 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 alex shes not into modern technology she prefers Old School 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 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 for 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. Which made its name with instant photography decades ago had gone bankrupt when polish businessmen. 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 this is the part that that the younger audience really appreciates where their audience is kind of still. Amazing accuracy. Sharing of device instant photography shows across europe testify to its researching popularity the polaroid project at viennas 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 polaroids in the one nine hundred seventy s. It was such a. Joyful thing he would give away because it was like the more right to a person the picture just. Out of life and you produce. Almost. As. 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. 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. Taking kind of more meaningful moments whereas on your. 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. And others have to wait to see the results of the shot first they use chemicals to develop the film. Just make sure you can find everything in the. Then the negativism morrow. Projected on to photographic paper. Finally the image is fixed in another chemical bath. The icing on the cake what makes this will so peeling 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 forgotten. 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 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. Great made of marbles. Meet made a vegetable. Brain made of wool. Or even a whole head made of. Zahra dillon badger is a visual storytelling everything around her serves as a source of inspiration and of materials to sew when shes out shopping there has studio in berlin shes also working even today i love my feet 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 comes ive got this is my. This is the studio where sorry limburger 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 im photography. The main interest lies in meticulous craftsmanship dylan badger grew up in munich where her mother designed jewelry and her father ran a hip restaurant. Lived up his best 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. To study Graphic Design in the 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. 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. For says she regularly creates stunning displays for the luxury brand 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. To splash. My career actually with a big failure. And they let me go after three weeks. 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. Missing the kind of. The truth. She did today. Is one of europes most successful illustrators. Is indeed. 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 events have been planned in the city this year so we went there to see how they are embracing their latest status. The letters put on a giant punch each of the launches year as a twenty eighteen complement of culture spanish acrobats of love board as follows a world famous for their spectacular show. The smiles one to get closer to the people and surprise the people to be something exacting something new something Barry Barry Barry spatial and barry. People are performing at every turn most often in the open in the streets of this four hundred fifty year old city are serving as stages musicians and street performers arrive in full smily every artist in the chinese mediterranean country. This year is a major event for europes southern most capital for me personally its a very and i six perience and i am very grateful when the culture chose us. So thats why i can show our ways inquests you missed the boat up side quests that we used for a kind of in. Its day a nice i mean im very grateful for one something that is not exhaust for artists but we want something that is also applicable and from which even the people in the residential. 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 booked massive effort into but that is year as capital of culture. Is a magical place its there. You know theres so much history on this financier to sixteenth century so many people from the knights of north to have come by and theyve left such a legacy which now i think is finally being recognized in. 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 ninety ninety. One of the main sites is the granting of pastors commons completed in fifteen seventy five one gram master john perry so order a level lead to gave the city its name. Sent jongs koch a few droll is the conventional church of the order of st john the floor is made up of three hundred seventy five marble slabs over the tunes 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 its outstanding its fantastic for us as maltese we are all very proud you know this is the best years of malta for us 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 squawk larger on unesco monuments like st johns cocoa beach will more than four hundred events will be taking place in valetta under mulch of this year he. Is determined to make a big splash in twenty eighteen. Says. The but. It 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. Because your a jew a jewish boy from then was bulletin and attacked in school. Was hunted around the want to. Ask your lost consciousness for a few seconds to mute for his life. Was a documentary because youre a jew. Followed by an edition of quadriga which explores living in fear anti semitic is germany coming up. They make a commitment. They find solutions. They can start or. Africa the moon. Stories of both people making a difference shaping their nation. And their continent. 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