ABOUT SUITMAN:
YOUNG KIM met SUITMAN 16 years ago on a business trip.
They fast became creative collaborators, where an onslaught of photographs, videos, installations and design objects followed suit. Together, they have travelled throughout six continents, 150 cities, and left 1,000,000 images in their wake.
Their work is cheeky, quirky, relevant, highly engaging and always surprising. Their projects have been published in a wide range of culture/art and lifestyle publications.
They have exhibited widely, both (solo) as Suitman/Young Kim and together for group exhibitions in New York, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Shanghai.
They have collaborated on projects with Yohji Yamamoto and Agnés B.
Originally from New York, Tokyo is currently their home base… But their packed suitcases always stand ready.
www.suitman.org
ABOUT JOSÉ PARLÁ:
Born in 1973 in Miami to Cuban parents, JOSÉ PARLÁ moved to Puerto Rico at a very early age before returning to Miami again aged nine. He currently lives and works in New York, and only recently travelled to Cuba for the first time. His life — like his work — is therefore at once extremely particular and generally reflective of the wanderings of today’s urban populations.
In the context of these migrations and upheavals, Parlá is concerned with the way that cities function as palimpsests, upon which the experiences of those who pass through them are materially inscribed in decay, in writing, in their inhabitants’ well-worn paths.
Parlá’s work attempts to extract and synthesize fragments of these urban environments in flux, reproducing them using the materials and methods of architectural construction — cement, wood, vinyl — as well as those of traditional art, like paper, paint, powdered dye, wax and ink. As these fragments are inflected by the artist’s memories and experiences, he considers them to be paintings in a sense that is truer than one that refers merely to the physical presence of pigments and oil.
Parlá describes the object of his method as “segmented realities” or “memory documents.” His personal philosophy on his work is called “Contemporary Palimpsests.” Each painting bears the name of the location or experience from which it draws its source.
www.joseparla.com
ABOUT ROSTARR:
Born in 1971 in Taegu, South Korea, Romon Kimin Yang — aka ROSTARR — is a Korean artist who’s been based in Brooklyn, New York, since 1989. He has exhibited throughout the United States, Japan and Europe. His work is defined by an expression he calls “Graphysics,” which is based on Graphic Design + Physics.
Creating in a free form, automatic process, his work weaves an individual vocabulary of iconography and symbolism. Nature, human psychology and mysticism are inspirations that he tries to convey in his art.
His work extends into the mediums of painting, digital media, sculpture, textiles and public art projects with the “Barnstormers” collective, who's he been a core member with since 1999. Emphasis on sponsorships and collaborations with such companies as Nike, Agnés B, Gravis and Yamaha have been an integral part of branding Rostarr internationally.
In 2004, he was recognized as an honouree at the A.I.C.P. show held yearly at the MOMA, under the ‘graphics’ category for his work on the Nike Basketball “Flow” commercial. His first book "Graphysics" was published in 2001 by Alife. In January 2000, he was featured as one of i-D magazine’s “40 under 30,” and his work has been reviewed by Art Forum, Modern Painters, Village Voice, and the New York Times.
www.rostarr.com
ABOUT DEANNE CHEUK:
DEANNE CHEUK has been labelled “one of the most influential artists, illustrators, and designers today” by +81 magazine, one of the 34 “Young Guns” under the age of 30 by The Art Directors Club New York, one of the “20 under 30” by Print magazine, and one of “The Best People of 2004” by Time magazine.
She is a regular contributor to Nippon Vogue, Flaunt, The Fader, and Dazed and Confused magazines. Her work has been commissioned by numerous magazines, including Nylon, Blackbook, IdN and The New York Times Magazine. She has art-directed and designed more than 15 magazines, including Processed, Big, and Tokion.
Her work has been commissioned by such companies as Target, Nike, Converse, Sprite, Burton and MTV2. She is renowned for her self-published graphic ’zine of inspiration called Neomu — “the smallest magazine in the world” — which she funds and donates the proceeds to charities worldwide.
Cheuk had her first solo show in Philadelphia in August 2004. February 2005 saw the release of her first book called “Mushroom Girls Virus.”
She lives in New York City.
www.deannecheuk.com
ABOUT REY PARLA:
Filmmaker/Interdisciplinary artist Rey Parla has specialized in exploring abstraction in the moving image through experimental film and video within the tradition of Visual Music animation.
His films have screened on television, film festivals, the internet and art shows in Miami, New York, Atlanta and San Francisco. His photography has also been published regionally and in overseas magazines in Japan and Australia.
Rey Parla attends Florida International University where he has completed a Certificate in Film Studies. He is pursuing a major in English Literature.
www.reyparla.com
關於 SUITMAN:
YOUNG KIM和SUITMAN在16年前的一次商務旅行上初次相識。
他們很快就成為創意夥伴，並創作出各種極具視覺衝擊力的照片、影像、裝置藝術以及藝術作品。他們共同遊歷了六大洲的150多座城市，並隨之創作了1百多萬個不同的影像作品。
他們的作品充滿了幽默、智慧和遐想，既有針對性又總是充滿驚喜。於很多不同文化、藝術或是生活類出版物中，也有其創作發表。
無論是以各自的名義，抑或是Suitman/Young Kim兩人合作的形式，他們的作品都遍及全球，紐約、東京、巴黎、香港、新加坡、台灣和上海，都曾舉辦過他們的展覽會。他們還曾與山本耀司和Agnés B一起合作。
現今他們的「總部」已經由紐約遷往東京，不過他們依然在不斷的旅行。
www.suitman.org
關於JOSÉ PARLÁ:
JOSÉ PARLÁ於1973年出生於邁阿密的一個古巴裔家庭，很小的時候就搬去波多黎各，直到9歲那年又搬回邁阿密。現在的他定居紐約，最近才剛剛有過自己生平第一次的古巴之行。他的生活與他的工作一樣與眾不同，同時也反映出當今城市居民繁忙的生活態度。
在一次又一次的遷移中，Parlá從興衰、文字以及人們的足跡中，感受到了這些城市的基調，並有了自己獨特的解讀。
通過自己的作品，Parlá嘗試從記憶裡把各種城市的碎片提煉並綜合，將其融為一體，再用各種建築材料（水泥、木材、塑料）和傳統藝術材料（紙張、顏料、染料、蠟和墨水）一起重新演繹。這些碎片都是各個藝術家記憶和經歷的結晶，在他的心目中，這些作品比那些顏料和油彩堆積而成的表像有更加貼近真實的感覺。
Parlá將自己的作品稱作“現實的分類”或是“記憶的憑據”。他的作品所要表達的哲學就是「現代的羊皮紙」(Contemporary Palimpsests)。他每一件作品的名字中，都暗示了它的創作來源。
www.joseparla.com
關於ROSTARR:
Romon Kimin Yang——aka ROSTARR ——1971年出生於韓國大丘，1989年他開始定居紐約布魯克林地區。他的藝術展覽遍布美國、日本以及歐洲。他用“Graphysics”（繪理）來稱呼自己的作品，因為繪畫和物理都是他的創作源泉。
他的作品形式更加自由，創作更加隨意，有著充滿個性色彩的肖像特徵和象徵主義。自然、人類心理以及神秘主義就是他所希望表達的東西。
從繪畫、數碼、雕塑、紡織品到公共藝術，他的作品涵蓋各種媒體領域，他也因此於1999年開始成為“Barnstormers”社團的一名重要成員。
另外需要強調的是，來自Nike、Agnés B、Gravis和Yamaha等大型公司的合作和贊助也是Rostarr成為國際性品牌的一個重要原因。
2004年，他參加了MOMA每年一度的A.I.C.P.展覽，並在“繪畫”項目中展出了自己創作的Nike“Flow”籃球廣告。 2001年，Alife出版了他的第一本畫集《Graphysics》（繪理）。 2000年一月，他又被《I-D》雜誌選為40位30歲以下傑出藝術家中的一員，他的作品更是廣泛見諸於《Art Forum》、《Modern Painters》、《Village Voice》和《The New York Times》等著名報刊。
www.rostarr.com
關於DEANNE CHEUK:
DEANNE CHEUK被《+81》雜誌稱作“當今最具影響力的藝術家、插畫師和設計師”，被紐約The Art Directors Club選為34名30歲以下的“Young Guns”之一，同時又是《Print》雜誌選出的20名30歲以下傑出設計師以及《Time》雜誌選出的“2004年傑出人士”中的一員。
她同時還是日本版《Vogue》、《Flaunt》、《The Fader》和《Dazed and Confused》雜誌的長期合作夥伴。她的作品也曾出現在各種雜誌報刊中，其中包括了《Nylo》、《Blackbook》、《IdN》和《The New York Times Magazine》。她還為超過15家雜誌擔任藝術總監和設計工作，包括《Processed》、《Big》以及《Tokion》等。
她的作品受到前衛品牌如Target、Nike、Converse、Sprite、Burton以及MTV2的青睞，因自資出版的圖案雜誌Neomu – “the smallest magazine in the world”而令她聞名於世，她亦將收入用於慈善用途。
在2004年8月，Cheuk的第一個私人展覽於費城召開，在2005年2月，她還出版了第一本書籍《Mushroom Girls Virus》。 現在她定居於紐約。
www.deannecheuk.com
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