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A) 032c x SLAVS & TATARS Summer Tour: Moscow Zurich WARSAW New York

SLAVS & TATARS will present 79/89/09, an intimate visual, oral, and written study of two key dates – 1979 and 1989 – in order to better understand our current environment in 2009. Commissioned by 032c, the first installment of this project discusses the events of Tehran in 1979. Considered to be the second most important date of the 20th century after the 1917 Russian Revolution, the revolution of 1979 has similarly shaped both global ideological issues (Islam’s confrontation with modernity) and regional concerns (the Middle East) over the past 30 years and beyond. An exploration of contemporary archives and documents, the talk collides the intimacies of recollection with the polemics of politics across themes such as monobrows, monotheism, The Beach Boys, and mirror mosaics.

79/89/09 was first presented at Moscow’s Triumph Gallery in April, followed by Zurich’s Corner College in June, before making its way to the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART in WARSAW on July 18th, moderated by Agnieszka Kurant. Tehran 1979 is currently featured in 032c’s summer issue (17), and the project’s second installment – the events of 1989 in Eastern Europe- will be printed in the upcoming winter issue. 79/89/09 will also be exhibited in an 032c group show at the new Goethe Institut in New York this autumn.

SATURDAY, 18.07, 20:00 @ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART in WARSAW,
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The other day I went to visit Alistair Carr to interview him for chapter 2 of my documentary on Mr. Pearl. Alistair had so many great stories to tell about working for Mr. Pearl but while we were talking I could not help but notice all of his tattoos. Alistair works 24/7 for Balenciaga but on the few days off that he gets in a year, he takes the train back to Brighton and he gets another tattoo. He wants to cover his entire body, leaving space where a jacket would be open to let the soul out. He got his first tattoo at the age of 14 and managed to hide it from his mother for a good 4 months by wearing sweaters in the summer. Finally she told him he doesn’t have to hide it anymore because she knew it was there. His first tattoo was a bit of a mistake, now that he thinks about it, he just picked a design off the wall, did not watch while it was being made and afterwards was a bit shocked by the green outline , now he prefers to work with artists that make tattoos especially for him. He is quite random about his choices. Some tattoos have meaning , others don’t. When asked why he wants to be covered in tattoos he said that nothing in his life is permanent except for his tattoos. Diane

During my last trip to Rome, it gave me a hell of a pleasant shock to discover Ostiense Station in its present state. See how the entire facade -made of Travertine marble by the way- is now surrounded, supported, protected, jailed, made up, decorated by those complex and beautiful metallic constructions!
I was astonished. I tried -in vain- to ask the people from the Ferrovie Dello Stato if the structures were temporary or meant to be permanent, supposed to prevent the building from collapsing or used so as to climb onto the roof… My questions might have been pretty naïve (and my French accent strong enough not to be taken seriously) but the sight of this impressive “neo-Roman” style architecture wearing jewellery was totally surrealist and captivating to me.
Doesn’t that make you want to be a jeweller?

Roma Ostiense railway station is a train station in Piazza dei Partigiani serving the Ostia district of Rome, a short distance from the Porta San Paolo. To commemorate the forthcoming visit of Adolf Hitler to Rome in 1938, the station was built, replacing an existing rural rail station, with the aim of creating a monumental station to receive the German dictator in a decidedly “Roman” way. A new road was also built to connect the station with Porta San Paolo – this was initially named Via A. Hitler but, after the Second World War, it was renamed Viale delle Cave Ardeatine.
(By the way, Hitler’s visit to Rome is cinematically recreated in director Ettore Scola’s film Una giornata particolare, who also used archived news reel footage showing the actual meeting between Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Victor Emanuel III: it is really worth watching!)
The station was designed by the official designer for the Italian state railway company, Roberto Narducci. In addition to being built in the architectural style favored by Hitler, the design of the station’s marble facade was almost identical to that of the Italian pavilion at the 1942 Rome World’s Fair (a design never carried out due to the Second World War). The station building was inaugurated on October 28, 1940.
See how it the building looked like shorly after its completion:

Beautiful sheer snake prints – a classically romantic edge to offset the usual subversiveness from Raf Simons