The highlights for December come in the most elegant and festive. It couldn’t be otherwise, as we are starting to say goodbye to this intense 2019. So let’s start to see what we can do in the coming days beyond the typical events of these dates.
Go to a party with Okuda San Miguel
Within the framework of Art Bassel Miami, on Friday 6th December a very fun and colourful event will take place. It couldn’t be any other way when it comes to Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel, who is continuing his close collaboration with the Desigual brand to show his Elrow’art at the Scope fair in Miami. And in passing, to programme his delirious party Kaos Garden.
Fun is guaranteed at Kaos Garden
An event in which other artists from other disciplines will participate, such as DJ Paco Osuna. He is the creator of the fun show Kaos Garden, which after being intensely experienced in Miami, will travel to New York to be held again on Saturday the 14th. Our highlights for December couldn’t start any stronger. We had warned you!
Seeing the body invented in Madrid
The Sala Azca in Madrid has been offering one of the most interesting fashion exhibitions of the year since last September. And it is about to close, as the exhibition El Cuerpo Inventado will close on 15 December. So you have to hurry up because it is worth contemplating it and reflecting on what you have seen there.
Silhouettes and mannequins to invent bodies
The premise of the exhibition is to discover how the female silhouette has been responsible for creating the spirit of each moment throughout the 20th century. It is true that fabrics, ornaments and colours are very important, but it is the silhouette that sets the canon of each style. Curiously, they are silhouettes that are repeated: tubular, triangular, globular or anatomical. And yet, from there on, the combinations are infinite, so there is no end to the possibilities of showing or hiding the body.
Admiring Klimt, one of the highlights for December
On 15 December, one of the most seductive art exhibitions of recent times will close at the Pabellón de la Navegación in Seville. It is Klimt’s Gold. A montage that is obviously based on the art of the Austrian painter, the golden tones that define him and the curves and counter-curves that create his figures.
Do you want to enter a Klimt painting?
A type of work that suggests that we enter into it, contemplate it from the inside and let ourselves be carried away by its dynamism. This is what this exhibition, where art and technology go hand in hand to offer us an immersive experience, similar to others that we have already reported on in Magazine Horse, such as the one that recently took place with the works of Van Gogh.
Discover Goude’s world in Milan
Milan is a regular in our recommendations. And so is Chanel. Both names come together in the exhibition we recommend in our higlights for December: In Goude we trust. A very revealing title, since Jean Paul Goude, a multifaceted and unclassifiable artist, has been trusted by Chanel for three decades to generate some of its most iconic images.
Grace Jones one of Goude’s muses
The exhibition opened on 15 November at the Palazzo Giureconsulti, in the centre of Milan, a stone’s throw from the Duomo and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. In other words, you can’t miss it and if you travel to the Lombard capital before 31 December you can’t miss it. It is simply amazing to discover this creator who, as he himself says, is dedicated to designing, dancing, photographing, painting, cutting, and all at the same time.
Diving the world’s seas
Second of the highlights for December in Madrid. Now in the Gallery of the Espacio Raw, converted into a gigantic aquarium where you can see the photos of the Japanese Ai Futaki. A woman capable of breaking the record for free diving in a cave and taking impressive underwater photos, which in addition to being beautiful and intrepid, are a denunciation of the great threat of climate change that looms over all of us.
Ai Futaki in her favorite medium: aquatic
She has seen for herself by swimming in almost every sea in the world, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Caribbean. And in all these waters she has taken fascinating images. Sometimes seductive, sometimes indignant. In short, this is the first time his work has been seen in Spain. But we hope it won’t be the last. However, just in case, go and see it before 7 January next year.
See more photos and more fashion in Amsterdam
Of all the arts, photography is probably the one most closely linked to the world of fashion. They are disciplines that have been feeding off each other continuously for a long time. A design influences the image, and the image is transferred to the design. It is a continuous and often dazzling circle. This is one of the ideas that will be demonstrated at the Exhibition Outside Fashion in Amsterdam.
One of Henry Clarke’s photos in the back of the Palais Galliera
A scenic proposal that has united the Fashion Museum of Paris, the Palais Galliera, with the Museum of Photography of Amsterdam, the Huis Marseille. Both have prepared a montage of photographs from 1900 to 1969, some of them shown for the first time. They show that the combination of fashion and photography also involves issues such as tourism and the situation of women. Very interesting! It will open on 7 December and will last until such a remarkable date as the following 8 March.
Travelling to Singapore
The last of our highlights for December is the most distant of all. Nothing more and nothing less than flying to Singapore, a destination that is always appealing. Even more so if you visit until 22 March 2020. On that day, the sixth Biennial Singapore, which began in the penultimate week of November, will conclude.
One of the first productions of the Singapore Biennale, cries out for peace.
In this edition the biennial makes its intentions clear with its title: Every Step in the Right Direction. And it seeks to explore the role of art as a vehicle for social change in Southeast Asia, and from there to the rest of the world. A purpose in which hundreds of artists from all corners of the planet will participate.
And from here, with our December highlights and the rest of Magazine Horse’s proposals, we also want to take steps in the right direction. Maybe we won’t change the world. But at least we try to make it happier by telling it about the best cultural, artistic, travelling, creative…
