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Maria Elena Guerra
04/29/2009 04:37 PM
Marite Mastina and Rolands Peterkops
Every year in the end of April the eyes are turned to the Villa Noailles, the centerpiece of early French modernist architecture located in the south of France in the small town of Hyères that hosts the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie. But this year all eyes went straight from Hyères to Latvia, home country of Marite Mastina and Rolands Peterkops who won both the Festival's Grand Jury Prize and the 1.2.3 award for their collection "Private detective," which used a detective's stereotypical clothing as a starting point.
Founded 24 years ago by festival director Jean-Pierre Blanc, the Hyères Festival is a collection exhibitions that features ten designers and ten photographers, who compete in different prize categories: The Grand Jury Prize fro L'ORÉAL Professional and the 1.2.3 award both give 15000 Euro in prize money and one year scholarship at the New York School Of Visual Arts for photography. They're also a showcase for a distinguished jury that included Kris Van Assche, Gert Jonkers and Nan Goldin; this years winners join Viktor & Rolf, Christian Wijnants, and Sølve Sundsbø. Swiss photographer Linus Bill won the photo scholarship to study at SVA.
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02/24/2009 03:03 PM
It's called water from the uttermost south in the far end of the world, but "Crevasse-Waters from Patagonia" is quickly rising to some of the more exclusive sights of contemporary consumption. The Szydlowski family has kept and lived on a piece of land in the south of Chile for years, but a decade ago initiated plans to share its blue vistas with the world.
Ian Szydlowski, Creative Director and co-owner with his brother Allen and sister Tannia, is better known as an installation artist and frequent collaborator with artists Iván Navarro and Diego Fernández as Instituto Divorciado. That perhaps explains the company's artful trademark sleek glass bottle, which he designed, and the limited initial release, exclusively on Colette's Water Menu. But it's business from here on out, at the company will. That is, until Szydlowski returns to New York in the fall to resume his artistic practice. (Photo: Rodrigo Pereda)
MARIA ELENA GUERRA: You're from Patagonia, and so "Crevasse—Waters from Patagonia" seems like it would be a very personal project.
IAN SZYDLOWSKI: It certainly came from living a very alternative lifestyle, growing up with hippie parents and living in the deep Patagonia for many years trying to come up with solutions for environmentally sustainable economies to the place we lived in.
MEG: You have moved around a lot, between New York, Santiago de Chile, and Paris. Do you still consider the south of Chile your home?
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