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Adam Gray • AN + • And i • Arvid Häusser • Hounds of the Baskervilles • Bertelli - Biciclette Assemblate • Berndnaut Smilde • Cassandra Smith Célineroselou • Céline de Schepper • Chen Chen & Kay Williams • Christopher de Béthune • Coast agency • Corey Bartle-Sanderson Damien Gernay • David Agbodji • Deutch & Japaner • Dontdiy • Douk Douk • Eyes B • Foda studio • Geraldine Calbert • Greece Is for Lovers Hell’o Monsters • Hopop Studio • JMKL Handmade • Juliette Charvet • KRJST • Laetitia Bica • LMBRJK • Marcin Sobolev • Matthew Jacob McFerrin Oskar • Rémy Ficheroulle • Rice Creative • Robert Peek • Roeben Beddeleem • Sonia Rentsch • Super Piece of Chic • Thierry Boutemy Thorocraft • Thomas Marchal • Trevor Brady • Willem - Dirk du Toit • Yasmina Aboudarr
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Arnaud de Harven
Jonathan Kleinhample
Gaetano Licata
Maša Loncaric
Thi-Thi Nguyen
Wojciech Szlachta
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Brothers are your family, your people. In one sense or another,
we want this new, free magazine to be just that. A close, intimate,
trustworthy documentation of visual culture influenced by today’s
trends. No more should exclusivity and intimidation surround the
vast spectrum of visual design, rather a brotherly curated selection
of culture now should prevail.
In our world of revolutions and evolutions, we want to contribute
by delivering to you a new multi-dimensional evolution of the blog,
born to establish a new approach towards visual inspiration.
Together with presenting to you a spectrum of our finds, each
quarterly issue also curates a powerful pairings of artists to
produce creations that would otherwise go unfound. We aim
to instigatea collaborative dialogue among uncommonly paired
creative industries. We present to you one pair of creative
pioneers in every magazine and hope that each brotherly union
will be the beginning of its own creative thread in the vast
community of artists that might otherwise never meet.
We embarked on an exciting mission to survey the wide spectrum
of visual culture, to distill from it an exclusive selection of artists,
their products and the places that inspire them. As your curatorial
team, we hope that our diverse backgrounds bring together a
unique glance into a selection of art, inspiration, and relationships
within visual culture that we hope you enjoy.
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Corey Bartle-Sanderson
project: supermarket simulacrum II
country: united kingdom
website: coreybartlesanderson.co.uk
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ph oto g r a ph y
Juliette Charvet
project: further west
country: usa, new york
website: juliettecharvet.com
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Juliette Charvet
project: further west
country: usa, new york
website: juliettecharvet.com
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Bertelli - Biciclette assemblate
project: left, domenica - rigth, domenica sport
country: usa, new york
website: bertellibici.com
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g r a p h I C D E S I g N
Deutsche & Japaner
project: tinder
photography: Olivier Pol Michel
country: germany
website: deutscheundjapaner.com
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ph oto g r a ph y
Matthew Jacob McFerrin
project: vegas
country: canada
website: matthewjacob.tumblr.com
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Matthew Jacob McFerrin
project: vegas
country: canada
website: matthewjacob.tumblr.com
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hopop studio
project: fifty fifty
country: belgium
website: hopopstudio.com
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a r C h I t E C t u r E & D E S I g N
DontDIy
project: desk V01 - plywood by dontDIY
country: bulgaria
website: dontdiy.org
g r a p h I C D E S I g N
rice Creative
project: fool's gold
country: vietnam
website: rice-creative.com
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rémy Ficheroulle
project: don't look back
country: belgium website: fishflashes.tumblr.com
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JMKL handmade ( Joan Miquel)
project: guzzi (handmade motorcycle)
country: spain
website: facebook.com/jmklhandmade
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arvid häusser
project: seppl esspresso machine
country: germany
website: arvidhausser.de
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aN + avital gourary Natanel Elfassy architects
project: apartment building
photography : Aviad Bar Ness
country: israël
website: an-plus.com
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Sonia rentsch
project: veracious bloom
photography: Willem-Dirk du Toit
country: australia
website: soniarentsch.com
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Chen Chen & Kay Williams
project: resin bricks
country: usa, new york
website: chen-williams.com
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Berndnaut Smilde
project: nimbus np3, 2012
photography: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
country: the netherlands
website: berndnaut.nl
Image courtesy of the artist
and Ronchini Gallery
Berndnaut Smilde is represented
by Ronchini Gallery London. New exhibition
in 2014, ronchinigallery.com
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Berndnaut Smilde
project: nimbus green room, 2013
photography: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
country: the netherlands
website: berndnaut.nl
Image courtesy of the artist
and Ronchini Gallery
Berndnaut Smilde is represented
by Ronchini Gallery London. New exhibition
in 2014, ronchinigallery.com
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rice Creative
project: marou 1 year
country: vietnam
website: rice-creative.com
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Laetita Bica
project: KISS - Jean-Paul Lespagnard & Sarah Whale
country: belgium
website: laetitiabica.be
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thorocraft
project: the hampton
country: usa, california website: thorocraft.com
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Damien gernay
project: textured coffee tables
country: belgium website: damiengernay.com
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roeben Bedeleem
project: mui ne
country: canada
website: cargocollective.com/roeben
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LMBrJK
project: sadl stool
photography: oskar
country: belgium website: lmbrjk.com
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thomas Marchal
project: untitled
country: belgium website: thomasmarchal.com
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hell’o Monsters
project: untitled project
country: belgium website: thehellomonsters.com
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oskar
project: acherontia atropos (victoire magazine)
country: belgium website: weareoskar.com
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Foda studio
project: Jay Corder
country: usa, texas website: fodastudio.com
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Marcin
Hey Thierry, what’s up?
I decided to star t our collaborative ar twork
without you, what do you think of my
installation?
Thierry
Yesterday I was in the Ardennes and I saw a
belted kingf isher from New Zealand and its
call sounds like the cruel laugh of a witch...
after having done some
research and taken a step back
(from my own work), i decided to
search for more information about
the bird in question...
simple acts have become a rare
occurrence these days.
My phone is ringing:
Thierry
My installation will be in the gray tones...
followed by that witch’s cruel laugh, my instal-
lation will be in the gray tones... followed by
that witch’s cruel laugh that I discovered
on the lands of Ardennes.
Marcin
Ok, come to my place, I ’ll wait for you at
9PM, when all cats are grey (in the dark)...
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‘‘ Simple acts
have become a rare
occurrence these
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Marcin Sobolev
Brothers pairing
In the midst of this past belgian summer,
two ar tists were selected by our curatorial team to engage, interact,
and produce an exclusive collaborative piece for Brothers magazine.
The following pages document this process.
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thierry Boutemy project: whisky, eau pétillante...
country: belgium website: thierryboutemy.com
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Marcin Sobolev project: whisky, eau pétillante...
country: belgium website: marcinsobolev.com
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MArCin SoBolev
biography
Marcin Sobolev, a young artist from Belgium,
part migratory bird and part kingfisher, has embarked upon
a journey into the collective family memory. Hovering and
swooping, his work is as poetic as it is faux-naif. Is this
utopia or the butterfly effect? The great thing about Marcin
(born in Brussels in 1981) is his capacity to love birds and
cats alike (and above all to love when “all cats are grey”),
to fuse tenderness with a clutch of familiar objects on
which he superimposes shrewd metaphors, to cultivate his
outsized, fairytale fruit and pull out the worm - all without
advertising the fact, effortlessly, like a child who just decides
to grow up.
If you want to unravel Marcin’s creative thread, you must
be aware of his inner journey, the need that has gripped
him over the last 10 years (amply attested to in his first
exhibition at Dominique Lang’s in Dudelange last January).
You’ll need to understand his origins, his Polish and Russian
roots, which Marcin uses and abuses (even going as far as
spelling his name in Cyrillic script) and which are given
fresh impetus by stories and confidences shared by his
grandmother and followed up on pilgrimages - journeys
across the frontiers of the imagination. Marcin is not one
for wild flights of fancy or digital experimentation. He is a
cabinetmaker by training and he uses his saw and paintbrush
to reclaim the landscapes he has inherited from memory.
His use of line – the birch tree, emblematic of poor and
often sandy soils – but also his use of stitching – wood and
wool, endemic and humble materials, combined with more
folkloric elements (colours and pompons) – are a constant
thread leading back to traditional know-how, in tandem
with a style of writing which is first and foremost visual.
On top of this personal perspective, the artist persists
in overlaying “an extra dose of soul”, a fun outer layer, a
freshness which is as spontaneous as it is carefully applied
(something conspicuous by its absence on the artistic scene
at the moment), as if innocence were a muscle that had to
be kept in trim.
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Thierry BouTeMy
biography
Thierry Boutemy, a florist from Brussels,
is a sensitive guy. And his bouquets resemble just that.
Grasses, wildflowers, armfuls of tulips, slender stems and
slender leaves: so ephemeral and poetic that they have in-
spired filmmaker Sofia Coppola, fashion designer Dries Van
Noten, and all the lovers wanting to “say it all” with flowers.
Thierry is French but loves people in Brussels. For him,
Brussels is the perfect compromise between a city and a
provincial town, which appeals to his countryside origins.
Working on a set of Marie Antoinette, he indulged into all
possible artistic details. He collected flowers and herbs
from the local fields from his region and went “all natural”
on Sofia Coppola.
He is simply in love with fairy tales, with stories stemming
from a childhood dream. And he is a man of simplicity.
That is why his bouquets of poppies, wheat stalks, buttons
and other wild flowers and herbs always appear so simple.
Not perfect. Not tidy. Rather messy really and full of life.
He feels that this is the only way not to betray his flowers.
The transience and fragility of flowers’ cycle of life is trou-
bling yet inspiring to him. He is unable to force them into
artificial arrangements and rather gives them the space
to live, wither, die and simply be beautiful at every stage
of their life.
He shoots out a clear answer when asked for his favorites.
Peonies, of course! But then he goes on - poppy, butter-
cups, chamomile, blueberries, herbs from the countryside,
garden roses, hyacinths, tulips and tubers. You will not
see him work with lilies tho. Too smelly. You also will not
be able to buy a red rose in his shop on Valentine’s Day.
Overpriced and opposite to his preferences and ideas. But
for the beautiful anemones, there is certainly always space!
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geraldine Calbert
project: movable console
country: belgium website: geraldinecalbert.com
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Céline de Schepper
project: sadness is colour
photography: Laetitia Bica
country: belgium website: celinedeschepper.be
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KrJSt
project: k2 ss14 by krjst
photography: Sebastien Delahaye
country: belgium website: krjst.com
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David agbodji
project: sri Austria
model: Austria
stylist: Alex Douby
country: usa, new york website: heartofbullstudio.com
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KrJSt
project: k2 ss14 by krjst
photography: Sebastien Delahaye
country: belgium website: krjst.com
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David agbodji
project: sri Austria
model: Austria
stylist: Alex Douby
country: usa, new york website: heartofbullstudio.com
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Super pieceofchic
project: like chips in the brooklyn zoo - SS2014
country: belgium website: superpieceofchic.com
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greece Is for Lovers: thanos Karampatsos and Christina Kotsilelou
project: tougher than leather
photography: Nikos Alexopoulos
country: greece website: greeceisforlovers.com
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greece Is for Lovers: thanos Karampatsos and Christina Kotsilelou
project: flavour of the month
photography: Nikos Alexopoulos
country: greece website: greeceisforlovers.com
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Foda studio
project: Michael Hsu Office of Architecture
country: usa, texas website: fodastudio.com
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Coast agency
project: okinaha
photography: Serge Anton
country: belgium website: coast-agency.com
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robert peek
project: china 2013
country: the netherlands website: robertpeekfotografie.nl
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robert peek
project: china 2013
country: the netherlands website: robertpeekfotografie.nl
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Matthew Jacob
project: prada
country: canada
website: matthewjacob.tumblr.com
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Cassandra Smith
project: baby blue, yellow & gray knot 1
country: usa, california
website: cassandra-smith.com
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hounds of the Baskervilles
category: bespoke electric tattooing
traditional barber & shaving parlour
country: singapore
website: facebook.com/HoundsOfTheBaskervilles
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trevor Brady project: kennalandcountry: canadawebsite: trevorbrady.com
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adam grayproject: hella slingshotscountry: usa, californiawebsite: hellaslingshots.com
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and i project: taboo
country: austria website: and-i.net
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Christopher de Béthune project: untitled
country: belgium website: saintempire.tumblr.com
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Célineroselou project: september photography: oskar
country: belgium website: celineroselou.com
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Manufacture de Coutellerie Cognet
product: douk douk knife
country: france
website: douk-douk.com
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Eyes-B
project: untitled
country: belgium
website: tsunamigraffiti.net
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roeben Beddeleem
project: hotel room
country: canada
website: cargocollective.com/roeben
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yasmina aboudarr
project: caligula
photography: M. Lechien - musée royal de mariemont
country: belgium
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