White Paper by - English Issue 14

We are moving into the month in which cities are glowing brighter and brighter, with out-of-control lighting in the midst of an energy crisis. It's not that I don't like the lights, but less is more. Sometimes when I see so much poor-quality lighting— some of the decorations are just beyond dreadful—I think we're going to be invaded by thousands and thousands of magpies.n I just want to see the stars, to see their sparkles, to dance under the sky as if it were one big dazzling ball. I follow in the footsteps of the sparkles that reflect in every puddle, I follow the trail of moonlight and sunlight that lead me to this issue full of stunning, dazzling, sparkling, shining and above all unique characters. Our cover took us…

New GILBERT & GEORGE Manifesto 1 "Our art begins in our heads, our soul and our sex" Their art actually began in 1967 when they met in the classrooms of St. Martin's School of Art in London. One of them, Gilbert Proesch, was born in Italy in 1943 and had lived in Austria and Germany before coming to England. His English was not very good and he had a strong accent that the other, George Passmore (1942), born in Plymouth, was able to understand. And how well they understood each other indeed: they soon became inseparable. Art brought them together to the point that they seemed more like Siamese twins than a mere pair of creators. They still keep their four hands and their two brains, but when it comes…

By pulling on that thread we come to Paris, the city that brings us the exhibition GOLD, les ors d’Yves Saint Laurent, a journey through the career of the brilliant couturier through the use of gold and gilding. The director of the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris and curator of the exhibition, Elsa Jannsen, explains its highlights in this interview and also her fondness for contemporary art, which has led her to establish singular resonances by introducing the work of Belgian sculptor Johan Creten in the exhibition. Open until mid-May 2023, the exhibition celebrates the 60th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s first collection under his name, as well as the fifth anniversary of the museum’s opening. GOLD displays around forty haute couture and ready-to-wear dresses, numerous accessories and selected…

The Faces That Appeared The iconic portrait of Bob Marley, the Stones strutting down Avebury Hill in 1968, the splendid Grace Jones for The Sunday Times, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie with his cheeks about to explode in a 1981 session… All the portraits bear the seal of the moment that is the hallmark of legendary photographer David Bailey. And there are many more. When the Music Was Silent Patti Smith, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Paul McCartney, and many of the faces that have marked the rhythm of the music of the last sixty years are part of the exhibition Bailey: Vision and Sound, which can be enjoyed until the end of January at London's 45 Park Lane. “It's not the camera that takes the picture; it's the person" As Bailey once…

Between the catwalk and the stable, between dress and dressage… Mary Wing To is a designer who straddles between both worlds. One could also say that Mary Wing To is a designer on horseback, simply because she is. Through design and craftsmanship, she has translated her admiration for horses and the world of sensations that surrounds them into products that embody that spell. Garments that recall and recreate parts of the mythical animal or the art of dressage, equestrian sculptures, accessories that take leather to unexplored terrain, promising harnesses - soon to arrive in her collection, according to her website - and luxury whips, handmade and made to order, are some of the unique pieces that shape Mary Wing To's creative universe. Born in Manchester, the designer works from her…

Light, shadow, light and shadow, light against shadow, the thousands of possibilities behind light and the indecipherable nature of shadow. This resource is well known to artists who have explored it with its inexhaustible richness in very diverse manifestations throughout history: Robert Mapplethorpe was one of them. He captured its contrasts in unique photographs and made light and shadow regular subjects of his iconic images. But more than that, Robert Mapplethorpe lived on the edge, straddling the line between light and shadowin a way, he embodied them. That is why it is so thrilling to pose this game as the axis of an exhibition. That is what the Madrid gallery Elvira Gonzalez and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation have done in Elogio de la sombra (In Praise of the Shadow), open…