Si chaque saison est l’occasion, pour l’équipe créative d’Aventures des Toiles, de s’immerger dans 7 toiles d’artistes différents, certains sont devenus de véritables fils conducteurs, qui reviennent avec chaque nouvelle collection : Isabelle Hervé bien sûr, présente dès les débuts de la marque, mais aussi Luciano Di Concetto.
Each season the creative team at Aventures des Toiles need to immerse in 7 paintings by different artists, yet some of them have become actual underlying themes and have come along with every new collection: Isabelle Hervé has of course been present from the very beginning of the brand, and also has Luciano di Concetto.
Etalées sur plusieurs années, les collaborations de ce type permettent de suivre les évolutions de l’artiste, et parfois de l’accompagner dans de nouvelles explorations : c’est exactement ce qui s’est passé avec Luciano Di Concetto ! La toile choisie pour cet été, A Lucky Day, s’inscrit dans la continuité de ses travaux précédents : recherche de teintes et d’ambiance, inspiration directe des mandalas, jeux entre ronds et carrés, encadrement de résine gravée… La toile sélectionnée pour l’hiver 2012 marque au contraire une rupture : si l’on retrouve les ronds chers à l’artiste, les carrés ont complètement disparus, de même que l’encadrement en résine noire. La palette s’oriente également vers de nouvelles inspirations, beaucoup plus pop et qui évoquent l’univers d’autres artistes tels que Takashi Murakami ou même Andy Wharol !
Over the years, such contributions have made it possible to follow how artists develop and sometimes to back them up in their further exploration. And that is exactly what happened with Luciano di Concetto! The painting that has been chosen for this next summer collection, A Lucky Day, is the logical consequence of his previous works: research in shades and atmosphere directly inspired from mandalas, sets of circles and squares and a framing of engraved resin… Per contra, the painting shortlisted for the winter 2012 collection is marking a break: though circles that are so typical of the artist are still present, squares, on the other hand, have completely disappeared, and so has the typical black resin framing. His palette has also evolved towards other sources of inspiration, in a pop art atmosphere recalling other artists such as Takashi Murakami or even Andy Warhol!
Pour l’été 2012, l’œuvre de Luciano Di Concetto avait inspiré une ligne dans des teintes très naturelles.
For the latest summer 2012 collection, the works of Luciano di Concetto had given inspiration for a line of garments in the most natural shades.
Avec la toile choisie pour l’hiver 2012, la rupture est totale. Cette parenthèse créative de Luciano Di Concetto a en effet permis à l’équipe créative d’Aventures des Toiles de partir sur de nouvelles pistes et d’imaginer une ligne très riche en couleurs : à découvrir bientôt sur le blog… ou dès maintenant sur notre site de vente en ligne.
But for the winter 2012 collection, the painting that has been chosen brings an utter break. Luciano di Concetto’s design digression has given our design team the opportunity to experiment new tracks and to create an extremely colourful line: soon to be shown on our blog…or for now on our on-line sales website.
Tags: A Lucky Day, andy wharol, été 2012, hiver 2012, Le Jardin des Délices, Luciano Di Concetto, pop art, superflat, takashi murakami







If you look at the text below the image of the statue, it isn’t even his, rellay:(Original rendering by Seiji Matsuyama, modeling by BOME and Genpachi Tokaimura, full scale sculpture by Lucky-Wide Co., Ltd.), If you look those up, it turns out Matsuyama is a manga artist (he did Eiken which is full of, ah, the same kind of thing), and Tokaimura is figure in the plastic modelling world ( is his HP). I can’t tell what, if anything, Murakami is supposed to have done there. Maybe it’s supposed to be a comment on how anime/manga and plastic model figures are shaping images of the feminine and blah blah blah, but it looks more like he (or whoever designed the exhibit) is playing it completely straight to me.Murakami’s older stuff, with colourful psychotic looking panda-creatures and so on, was not my cup of tea, but it was interesting and I could see the appeal. I hate to talk about « originality, » since I think mere « originality » in art (and in general) is grossly overrated, but his old work had it, and this stuff clearly hasn’t.