Images from Johannes Albers exhibition Heilung at Schinkel Pavillon.
To find out more about the show, view our previous post or visit the Schinkel Pavillon website.
Images from Johannes Albers exhibition Heilung at Schinkel Pavillon.
To find out more about the show, view our previous post or visit the Schinkel Pavillon website.

There aren’t many people that don’t adore colette, the preeminent Parisian fashion and style boutique on Rue Saint-Honoré. Likewise, London based Other Criteria is establishing an international fan club for its eclectic array of artist editions, books and multiples and a range of artist designed merchandise. So when colette invited Other Criteria to present a window display and provide a limited amount of items to be sold through the fashion, art and music mecca, Other Criteria jumped at the opportunity.
Launching 27th September and installed until 30th October, Other Criteria at colette will display Damien Hirst’s previously unseen new print, titled, Big Love. A diamond dusted blood red coloured heart with his signature butterflies, available otherwise only in Other Criteria’s New Bond St and Hinde St stores. Also available will be a selection of Hirst prints, signed posters, spot clocks, T-shirts, books, keyrings, and a cashmere blanket.
Launched in 2005, Other Criteria began life as a web company and continues to have an expanding catalogue available online. Created by Damien Hirst and Hugh Allan with design director Jason Beard, as Hirst says “Other Criteria has created something great and new – the concept of a shop that sells high end, high quality art that looks spectacular and doesn’t need a gallery to show it. It comes direct from the artists we work with and is made by the best people.”
Renowned for their unique and original array of merchandise that includes books, music, accessories and clothing, colette will showcase a selection of quintessential Other Criteria publications and prints. Highlights will include Damien Hirst’s new Big Love print, and Psalm prints plus signed posters, Hirst spot clocks, a cashmere blanket, and T-shirts.
For more information on other Other Criteria stores, please click here.
For press enquiries on Other Criteria please contact:
Kate Atkinson kate@purplepr.com +44 207 434 7061
Sam Talbot sam@purplepr.com +44 207 434 7063
For more information on Colette, please contact:
Guillaume Salmon guillaume@colette.fr
Thomas Scheibitz, Haus, 2008
Öl, Vinyl, Pigmentmarker auf Leinwand / oil, vinyl, pigment marker on canvas
235 x 168 cm
© VBK, Wien / Vienna 2010, Foto / photo: Jens Ziehe
Courtesy: Sprüth Magers Berlin London
Thomas Scheibitz, John Dodona Rocket, 2009/2010
Öl, Vinyl, Pigmentmarker auf Leinwand / oil, vinyl, pigment marker on canvas
190 x 150 cm
© VBK, Wien / Vienna 2010, Foto / photo: Jens Ziehe
Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Thomas Scheibitz, Figurenstück, 2010
MDF, Vinyl, Lack, Harz / MDF, vinyl, lacquer, resin
117 x 70 x 26 cm
© VBK, Wien / Vienna 2010, Foto / photo: Jens Ziehe
Courtesy: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Exhibition by Takashi Murakami in the Château de Versailles
14th September to 12th December 2010
Grand Apartment and Hall of mirrors, included in the tour of the Grand Apartment.
Takashi MURAKAMI – Flower Matango (d) – 2001 – 2006 FRP, peinture à l’huile, acrylique et métal – 315 x 204,7 x 263 cm ©2001 – 2006 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All right reserved. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn – Galerie des Glaces / Château de Versailles
“For a Japanese like me, the Château de Versailles is one of the greatest symbols of Western history. It is the emblem of an ambition for elegance, sophistication and art that most of us can only dream of. Of course, we are aware that the spark that set fire to the powder of the Revolution came directly from the centre of the building.
But, in many respects, everything is transmitted to us as a fantastic tale coming from a very distant kingdom. Just as French people can find it hard to recreate in their minds an accurate image of the Samurai period, the history of this palace has become diminished for us in reality.
So it is probable that the Versailles of my imagination corresponds to an exaggeration and a transformation in my mind so that it has become a kind of completely separate and unreal world. That is what I have tried to depict in this exhibition.
I am the Cheshire cat that welcomes Alice in Wonderland with its diabolic smile, and chatters away as she wanders around the Château.
With a broad smile I invite you all to discover the wonderland of Versailles.”
Takashi Murakami
Mercury Salon ; 2003 ; Fibreglass, steel and acrylic paint, 40cm (height) x 171.5cm (width) x 114.7cm (depth), 40cm (height) x 294.4cm (width) x 97cm (depth) All Artworks © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Photo: Gilles Truyens © EPV
Lucky Wide Studio near Tokyo, photo : Koichiro MATSUI. All Artworks © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Venus Salon; 2000 – 2005; Fibreglass, iron, synthetic resin, oil paint and acrylic paint 222cm (height) x 96cm (width) x 46cm (depth) All Artworks © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Photo: Gilles Truyens © EPV
For more information on the exhibition visit the Château de Versailles website.
To celebrate The London Design Festival 2010 Other Criteria are exhibiting the new Paola Petrobelli works in the Hinde Street store window until 26th September.
For further information on these works email us or visit us in our Hinde Street store!
