A zorro. And on her own sara in the back there is creativity through the illustrations. We start off the show with a portrait of a man considered to be one of the most important contemporary painters of our time georg basel thats now his work is deeply rooted in european history and american painting while early on he decided to turn things upside down and we sat down with him to find out why. The world isnt upside down but gail vassalage says while there is the german artist who grew up in east germany started inverting his paintings in one nine hundred sixty nine his retrospective at basils found us around by our features many of these images bustle it has continued working with upside down imagery to the present day. At the course the other one but it was kind of a i love the idea and i can hardly believe i invented it because i had this idea when i was totally unknown with my peers or my competitors a result of the gimmick. But i think its a great way to paint pictures that are unlike anything done in the past and be a lot or unlike what others do. Over the course of a career that spanned six decades georg basle its also made a number of mostly monumental stone chairs the b d m group one of his most famous is on view in the garden or found out soon by a. Help to mark basil its his eightieth birthday the retrospective features some eighty paintings and ten sculptures on loan from renowned european and u. S. House collections. Oscillates co curated the exhibition. But i was quite anxious beforehand i didnt know if all the artworks would live up to the expectations of this fantastic space in this fantastic museum with all these visitors movies and popular calm i had a really bad and possibly a guilty conscience. But now that the works are on the walls i have to say bravo to augusta was you so are. At eighty pounds lets is among germanys oldest Living Artists is clearly enjoying the bounce surrounding his upcoming birthday. But despite his commercial success hes maintained his ability for reinvention. Through the show to everybody likes a show off and everyone likes to get to go close for it but of course subsides quickly and art is discarded swiftly if it is conformist and. Gail bassinets was born a hand scale can in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight in the village of deutsch positons which inspired his ideas from that zone by a lie as showing some of his early works like break nights down the drain from nine hundred sixty three which sparked a scandal when it was first exhibited in west berlin the artist was taken to court and accused of showing one offer of a. Is nine hundred sixty series the heros addresses the bombing raid on his childhood village during world water. In nine hundred sixty nine he began painting his subjects upside down this has since become his trademark and it catapulted him to wealth by fact. Martin shonda curated the show together with vacillates he dismisses rumors that absolute secretly paints his words right side up and simply presents them upside down. Its been basel its painted his motifs upside down from the very beginning and and that will prove that if you flip a reproduction of his paintings around youll notice that its composition falls apart the picture only works upside down thats built into the new in often called. Proselytes latest works painted upside down of course are also on his back he now focuses on the physical decline and the theme of finality he spends two hours a day. Walking in his studio. Its a default water bar so close to my work some become so lost that i cant paint on the wall even the smallest drops trickle down i work on the ground or normal cold will call for. Its eighty years of age the painter as passionate about hes on to santa and he still got plenty of fresh ideas. The biggest names in old couture showed their spring collections in paris this week but all i have been on the new kid on the block at. Maxime seimone took over as head designer last march and he certainly has big shoes to fill a rhesus are was a respected name in old couture and designed for legend such as brazil bardot and Elizabeth Taylor well after a zero died in two thousand and three the house changed hands its now looking to see mone to carry on its reputation. This was nick seem similar second album for us. Before the show the thirty three year old french design i was busy multitasking backstage he prefers to put the finishing touches on himself. Yet as long as you have it im a bit nervous but thats normal but i can say with a clear conscience that i gave it all ive got the need to pull the band i have a clear vision that people will like or not. Simones found his skills working for such a list could surely ase as. Christiane to your and. Then he turned to approach a porch a clothes for men under his own label he was appointed artistic director at azhar last year breathe new life into the fashion house. These awards are all she. Did experience too strong decades because then it got a bit musty the various designers tried to revive the brand but it didnt work. Now might seem is here if you dont will do all the next you know its much more interesting for investors to try to revive these illustrious houses of those events or create new brands out of nothing did last dubious in the case of. The label turned fifty last year. It was founded by telling design a lorises to build a celebrity following with an especially defined by luxury and. A whole constellation of stars wore his gallops in the one nine hundred seventy s. Including jane birkin and still lead. As our own wants to make women more beautiful used its use style is very feminine. Glamorous and extravagant community unlike my own style which is more but i tried to combine the two which was very stimulating and a real challenge of a moment in some but i think the best. Of it. For his second collection he minded the labels archives and the result was a contemporary take on some of the fashion houses seventy signature is this is take on larson zorros three rings during this. Pursuit of the most Vivid Research in the archives was a great inspiration and i try to understand the clothing design and then to change them for example the sleeves so i turned long dresses into drapes. The more you delve into a fashion label style the more you learn what is suitable for the present day set up than a to book maximes maxime similar as good as putting himself inside lawrences zorros skin the style is unmistakable miss your eyes are like black like White Crystals and sequins. Women had to be sexy and he opted almost exclusively for evening gowns and all that is present in this collection. Not quite old could do a perhaps more like rock for young trained and wealthy fans men and women alike. But you build the feel of the stars for men and women not to defy wildly to be androgynous and offered to do some still very glamorous fashion but obviously unisex. Body goal was to mix up the wardrobe of the most of the time for men to wear womens jackets and women to wear mens shirts. Its a topical concept but not a new one its an open question whether similar ones will win over investors in a shorter amount of time. If you see its hard for a young. Designer to redefine a brand and to make it successful again people may think its easy but its not apology it takes time and today the fashion houses dont give their designers time is to find themselves and their place to form a unit with a label so that it succeeds again. To do that nowadays fashion houses switched designers to fast you cease to be done in his own. Maybe even exceed seem a way ends unique style will help green is our route back to new heights of success at any rate he stands for a new generation of design is who could put on is after the show he will put the crowd and enjoy the need. For more young people are using products that perhaps their parents or even their grandparents once used record players cassette players roll film cameras and even polaroid cameras are seeing a revival while camera manufacturers are taking advantage of this Surprising Development in photography. Hidden beneath this is alex shes not into modern technology she prefers. Cameras this one is perfect for getting a panorama shot st every shot is a considered decision. I have the feeling that most people now only see the whole the day or whatever theyre taking a picture all through a lens since i stopped doing that and consciously opted for analog photography i feel much better its taken off the pressure. She takes pictures and also teaches others how to use the technology as well as how to develop the resulting photos her studio is in berlins former east every week she meets up here with like minded photographers was not what i like most is how the whole process is slow down you concentrate on whats essential and. Its not just a quick snapshot you can see the result immediately and thats whats interesting. To me im fascinated by analog photography it feels real because its physical you can actually touch it. Its not something abstract. That. Theres so much interest in analog photography that new cameras are now coming out on the market a london start up design the reflex the first new manual film camera in more than twenty five years other manufacturers are also trying their hand at instant cameras with a picture costing about a euro a piece. Polaroid which made its name with instant photography decades ago had gone bankrupt when polish businessman. Bought it up. He brought out a new camera last year with the hope of winning over the instagram generation. Younger people are like wow this new thing is amazing yeah sure it was in the past but its a new experience for them its you know this photograph is a rare experience where you have something happening something happening outside of your smartphone thats interesting and i think this is the part that that the younger audience really appreciates where their audience is kind of still. The amazing accuracy the speed of sharing of device instant photography shows across europe testified to its researching popularity the polaroid project at. Gallery showcases the works of some three hundred artists including andy warhol and the Photographers Gallery in london is showing previously unseen pictures by german filmmaker of him vendors he started using polaroid in the one nine hundred seventy s. It was such a. Joyful thing he would give away because it was like the personal i have more right to it as a person picture just. Out of life when you produce. Almost. If subpoenas vintage devices break down she goes. Through he repairs analog cameras. He has many young customers who have grown up in the digital era. They sometimes turn up with an ancient box camera and want to know how it works and take a photo theyre amazed that a decent photo emerges a digital camera is more for snapshots. By default youre taking kind of more meaningful moments only whereas on your on your phone and in your Digital World youre taking a lot of photos and youre going to have to sort through it its more about what you put in and the way it kind of challenges you a bit. And others have to wait to see the results of the shot first they use chemicals to develop the film. Just make sure you can find everything in the. Then the negativism morrow. And projected on to photographic paper. Finally the image is fixed in another chemical bath. To the icing on the cake what makes this will so peeling are actually the imperfections the bits that are out of focus or a bit of fluff. And. Every analog picture is a surprise whether taken with a roll of film camera generation instagram is rediscovering the magic of taking pictures in the real world something that it seems was almost forgot. Zarin is the one of europes most successful three d. Illustrators and perhaps thats because she sees Creative Potential in ordinary objects such as fruit while her illustrations have made it on the covers of International Publications we paid her a visit in her studio. A sunday breakfast made of paper. Great made of marbles. Meat made a vegetable. A brain made of wool. Or even a whole head made of. Zahra illand basket is a visual storytelling everything around her serves as a source of inspiration and of materials too so when shes out shopping there has studio in berlin shes also working even today i live out the i love all materials of course but ive been especially fond of fruit and vegetables for a long time because i think that would leave because theyre so varied and the colors are so vivid theres always an element of surprise because i dont know what ill get its an organic material side weve got this is my. This is the studio wheres our ellenberger test the limits of traditional Graphic Design work is featured in adversus mints glossy magazines galleries and is anything but flat she describes herself as a three d. Illustrator combining techniques from the realms of art Graphic Design and photography. The main interest lies in meticulous craftsmanship dylan bajor grew up in munich where her mother designed jewelry and her father ran a hip restaurant. Lived up to its best to have my passion for crafting things probably goes back to my childhood i belong to the generation of children who grew up without t. V. Or at least with less t. V. And without a computer and the Digital World so there was enough time and space to make things with whatever was around four hundred. The pantry in my fathers restaurant was my playground when i was around for. A lifelong interest in food. To study Graphic Design and then set up a jewelry label with her boyfriend up the. Chief limited in her creativity so she started sending her three d. Designs to magazines and reviews works feature on the covers of leading publications all over the world. I think that as soon as you touch things with your hands your own energy flow into Something Different emerges thats perhaps more human and not quite so flawless that interests me more than the perfect surface of a computer monitor. For says she creates stunning displays for the luxury as in germany she loves challenges and to look good from. She tends to collaborate with. Projects. She worked with. Create these. Thing my career actually began with a big failure. And they let me go after three weeks. By that id been assigned to redesign an opera magazine and when the creative director saw my result he said it was unfortunately no better than the original so i had to go. But he did something that was encouraging for my future he said my portfolio looked more like a box of magic tricks than a traditional designers portfolio and that i didnt have to worry i would make it somewhere. Else but. She did today. As one of europes most successful illustrators. Is indeed. Time now for a trip to the sun and the multis capital has been named one of two european Cultural Capitals of two thousand and eighteen and more than one hundred and forty projects and four hundred of them have been planned in the city this year so we went there to see how they are embracing their latest status. The letters put me on a giant policy to launch its year as a twenty eight team capital of culture spanish acrobats of love for desperadoes a world famous for their spectacular show. As well as one to get closer to the people and surprise the people to be something exacting something new something Barry Barry Barry spatial embury. People are performing at every turn most often in the open air the streets of this four hundred fifty year old city are serving as stages musicians and street performers are out in force nearly every artist in the chinese mediterranean countries most of this year is a major event for europes southern most capital for me personally its a very and i six p. And i am very grateful that the culture chose us. So that we can show our ways in costs of the divide up side quests that we used to play a kind of in. A its very nice i mean im very grateful for one something that is not just for artists but we want something that is also applicable from which even the people of the residents of and all of more benefits. But thats just population is less than six thousand people spend lots of Time Outdoors even in winter the sun shines most of the time and temperatures average around thirteen degrees celsius. The multis have put massive effort into the letters year as capital of culture by the magical place its there. You know it has so much history on this financier since the sixteenth century so many people from the knights of more stuff come by and theyve left such a legacy which now i think is finally being recognized in. Letter was founded in the sixteenth century by knights of the order of st john the entire city has been listed as a unesco World Heritage site since ninety ninety. One of the main sites is the grandmasters comets completed in fifteen seventy five one grand master john perry saw. Gave the city its name to. Sin jones coca phaedra is the conventional church of the order of st john the floor is made up of three hundred seventy five marble slab so over the tombs of the orders leading knights to the left it doesnt just have historical attractions the city gate is based on plans by star italian architect renzo piano as is the new parliament building. The Cultural Capital of europe. Its outstanding its fantastic for us as maltese we are all very proud you know this is the best years of malta for us nice last few years walter has grown so much and. This is the place to be this is the place to be in two thousand and eighteen this year theres a special spotlight on unesco monuments like st johns cocoa beach will more than four hundred events will be taking place in the letter on the round mulch of this year the mall is comparable is determined to make a big splash in twenty eighteen. The book. Does certainly look like the place to be and with that weve come to the end of the show as always it was a pleasure having you along and we froze see you again next week. On the good. News. When students film. Me. Each year tens of thousands of israeli teenagers travel to poland to visit former concentration camps and. The new generation tries to come to terms with the. Personal way documents that experiences. Hashtags uploaded to holocaust to. 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