Jamie Reid and Comme des Garçons

News posted on 21 July 2008

Isis is extremely pleased to announce the launch of the Jamie Reid/Rei Kawakubo collaboration for Comme des Garçons.

The Autumn/Winter 08 menswear collection is entitled Time For Magic after Jamie Reid’s eponymous work from 1995, and features images and text-based works from 1972 to the present. This collection was previewed in Paris in January and has just been launched worldwide.

As a special project Comme des Garçons commissioned Jamie to create a special work for their flagship store in London – Dover Street Market.

This work features a multiplicity of images from Jamie’s archive plus revisited works from the Time For Magic collection; pasted, over-pasted, torn and repositioned in a manner that is beautiful, arresting and startling to encounter in the pristine environs of Mayfair.

This collaboration has been project-managed by Isis Gallery.

Click here for further images of the collection, the Dover Street Market window installation and a video of the January 2008 catwalk show.

Time For Magic indeed!

ps. Ruth Marten’s work can also be seen at IT group’s exhibition of Comme des Garçons imagery in the 798 district of Beijing. Visit www.hypebeast.com for more information.

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Isis Editions presents Community of Elsewheres by Alice O'Malley

News posted on 17 July 2008

On the occasion of Alice O'Malley's beautiful first exhibition in London, Isis Editions presents 'Community of Elsewheres' (48 page, 18 plate, hardback) in a signed, limited edition of 500. Also available, 'Christopher (floor)', NYC 2000, 10" x 8" silver gelatine print, titled, signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 40. Visit the Isis Editions section to purchase online.

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Alice O'Malley

News posted on 6 June 2008

"...startling, exciting, and memorable. This could be the start of something big."
Vince Aletti, New Yorker

Isis Gallery is proud to announce the opening of Alice O'Malley's Community of Elsewheres, running from June 14th to July 26th 2008.

"O'Malley's formal studio portraits of artists, performers, and friends depict untraditional people, whose defiant presence counterbalances the increasing obsolescence of such individuals currently being witnessed in New York City today. The Lower East Side has long been a place in which art and the avant-garde function as integral parts of urban life. O'Malley's portraits provide an intimate look at the people who give it this character."
Lia Gangitano, Participant Inc, NYC

This is Alice's first exhibition outside the US.

Isis Editions will also be publishing 'Community of Elsewheres' (48pp, hardback) in a signed, limited edition of 500 on the occasion of this exhibition.

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Ruth Marten

News posted on 28 March 2008

Isis Gallery is extremely proud to announce the opening of Histoire Un-Naturelle by Ruth Marten on the 26th April 2008. For her latest body of work Marten's embellished recombinants of 17th and 18th century engravings seamlessly weave radical alterations, subtle visual humour and ecstatic fantasy into delirious social landscapes.

Isis Editions will also be publishing 'Histoire Un-Naturelle' on the occasion of this exhibition, featuring plates hand coloured by the artist.

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