{"id":235,"date":"2006-11-19T23:40:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T06:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/11\/19\/artists-handbags-et-cetera\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:12:18","slug":"artists-handbags-et-cetera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/artists-handbags-et-cetera\/","title":{"rendered":"artists, handbags, et cetera"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll admit it: for some time now I’ve had an infatuation with Louis Vuitton handbags. Their amalgam of available colors and textures; the shapes, sizes, format; the grid of monograms and logos; their presence in spam emails as a seductive agent of clickthrough links; and perhaps most-inspirational their pervasiveness and reproducibility on Canal Street in SoHo (what is spammed in email is spammed on the streets).<\/p>\n

So you can imagine I was pretty chuffed when I stumbled upon a current exhibition at Espace Louis Vuitton<\/em> in Paris of handbags by nine contemporary artists<\/a>, including what looks like a smashing piece by James Turrell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course Takashi Murakami has worked with Louis Vuitton in the past, but his studio’s collaborations were more commercially driven and simply included pressing<\/a> his designs<\/a> on Vuitton bags and coming up with clever<\/a> display<\/a> installations<\/a> (including a cartoon-ad which can be viewed on YouTube<\/a>), not so much interpretations of the bag or its presence-possibilities (such as Steamer bag<\/em> by Andree Putnam<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Related websites:<\/strong>
\nBBC article<\/a> on first Louis Vuitton exhibition by Vanessa Beecroft
\nanother blog on Murakami and Vuitton<\/a>
\nFrench website on nine handbags exhibition<\/a> (WARNING: FRENCH!)
\nFrench blog with photos of artist handbags<\/a> (WARNING: FRENCH!)
\nAnother French blog on handbags<\/a> (WARNING: FRENCH!)<\/p>\n

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