mondomedeusah creative: art, music, fashion, alternative fashion, technology + mondo lifestyle

mondomedeusah gallery: Alfonso Lourido (Uruguay)

The Scream of the Butterfly: Alfonso Lourido

The Call: Alfonso Lourido

 

galerie mondomedeusah gallery: Remi Rebillard 'SKIN'

Remi Rebillard was born and raised in Paris, France and was first introduced to photography by the famous French film director Jean Becker. Remi started his photography career in 1991 and started to work with a variety of European fashion magazines such as Grazia, Amica, Anna, British Cosmo, British Elle, Figaro Madame, Uomo Vogue and many more.

click here to view galerie mondomedeusah gallery: Remi Rebillard 'SKIN'

mondomedeusah: the love series 'untitled'

mondomedeusah: the love series 'untitled' (2004)

"love is all we need."

mondomedeusah gallery: (random) The Love Series: "luvluv"

photo: Eric Baets / Creative Director: Donald K.

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mondomedeusah gallery: The Love Ballet from "The Love Series"

The Love Ballet: mondomedeusah x LaChurra from "The Love Series" captured in photographic sets.

As part of "The Love Series" by mondomedeusah's creative director Donald K, The Love Ballet blends mondomedeusah's "mondo alternative fashion culture" with the heavily-influenced music culture that mondomedeusah has grown up with. Punk, rock,  metal, classic rock, hip hop, folk, classical, afro-latin, acid breaks and experimental music to name a hand full by simply digging through mondo's music collection. Although black ties and cocktail dresses would be optional, a mondomedeusah love ballet would send an invite simply stating to  'come as you are'. The Canadian-based art group captures the essence of freedom in this promo piece for the Love Series.

"While attending a high school of the performing arts in Canada, most of my teachers there pretty much all attended the infamous Woodstock Festival. My art teacher especially would always talk about it and his experiences. I found his stories fascinating although it was before my era, but his depictions  influenced much of my work and ideas blending with my culture. Hip hop and electro-funk from the 80's and 90's mixed with tracks from my music collection from the 60's and 70's. The music was more or less the rocket fuel to set the stage. Our style is all about freedom of expression and "The Love Ballet" is the perfect merge as captured on film. To me this is just art how I see it in my head transfered through the camera lense. Our current projects now works more with nu media so the possibilities really are quite vast as to where you want to take your ideas."

-Donald K., Creative Director - mondomedeusah creative

mondomedeusah gallery: "explore love"

image: "explore love"  // The Love Movement Series // 2004 // Donald K x La Churra Productions + the mondomedeusah creative arts group.

As part of the Love Movement Series that started in 2004, a collaboration with La Churra, "explore love" is one of many unpublished works by Creative Art Director Donald K. He's is putting together a series of mixed media collective works which is a collaboration with Sakimoto8 and published by mondomedeusah creative and produced by the mondomedeusah creative arts group working out of Montreal, Canada.

Jay F: Tell the mondo readers about the concept behind this particular image "explore love".

Donld K:  While attending high school and college in the 90's I was influenced mostly by hip hop music, electronica, rock, metal, punk, reggae, poetry, coffee houses and underground art shows here in Canada. I attended a high school of the performing arts so it was all around me. The creative energy was amazing, everyone I knew was doing some sort of art medium. The night culture was also a heavy influence behind my concepts. In college my friends and I threw loft and penthouse party keggers, I'm not sure what they call it in other parts of the world but we called them keggers in Canada, it's what paid the bills and my tuition. I didn't want to work a 9-5 so we simply threw parties. It was beautiful times. We had a huge loft and a party every weekend, a list of rotating dj's, open mic freestyle battles, hip hop, reggae, techno, house,  turntableism and beautiful people. Nobody really beefed back then, no one carried guns and shit, at least not at our parties, it was just love. This is where mondomedeusah started but at the time my crew was called R.E.P. We would also make frequent trips to Montreal seeing that it was just an hours drive. The Montreal parties...well those who have partied in Montreal know what i'm talking about, those who haven't, well you should put it on your "to do list" before you die. There's New York City and then there's Montreal. The piece "explore love" is simply what it is. Exploring love because it's a beautiful thing. mondomedeusah was built on love and this is what our work simply portrays, the beauty of love. It's what inspires mostly everything I do in the mixed media realm. It's very simple but every image tells a story.

Jay F: Cool. Now I recognize this image from one of your parties, it was on tv screens or something all over the lounge. Now as a Creative Director what kind of work do you usually work on?

Donald K: The spectrum is pretty wide. Anything from this type of stuff which I dig to designing software applications and GUI's (Graphical User Interfaces), posters, t shirts, marketing for the alternative fashion industry, music industry, I did a ton of government projects, I mean the list goes on. I think being a Creative Director is a good profession to be in because every industry needs some form of art direction behind their product or concept. I spent a lot of time working on government projects and I kind of got out of that recently. I didn't want to be pigeon-holed or held in that corporate setting. I like to have creative control and the freedom to expand into new elements and just keep rotating you know from like fashion to music to technology, software, even video games I'm starting to explore that.

Jay F: explain "mondo art"

Donald K: That name was given to what we did at the time. It is what it is you know. I mean, we're just doing what we do and loving what we do, we're not trying to follow anyone. We just put out what we like really. I don't want to do anything else, this is what I love and mondo art was a name that someone else called it not us. Some people get offended by what we do, some people dig it (laughs), take it however you you like. 

Jay F: I've seen a lot of your stuff at parties and at your infamous dinner parties but not in the public eye. Why is that?

Donald K: Umm...I've just been working mad crazy for the past 5 yrs for clients and some of my own non-mondo personal projects. The software industry took a lot out of me and this year I've been in travels and collecting my thoughts. This summer and Fall I'm working out of Montreal and will be working on more stuff with the mondomedeusah creative arts group so I can start where I left off some 5 yrs ago. There's 5 yrs worth of work so I have a good time buffer to work with, I would like to do a solo gallery one day...no rush really. Right now we support our friends and their work. I like to see my friends succeed and do well. Whenever our web site is done we'll throw our stuff up. There is just so much to do but I guess it's better to be busy than than picking your nose waiting for the phone to ring, ya dig.

Jay F: Any more mondo parties in the works?

Donald K: Ummm I hope so (laughs). I would love to do something!! But there's so much on my plate. Ask me next year.

mondomedeusah gallery: Cruz Mendizabal - Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Eliana

 

Agustina

  

Carmen

 

Chelsea

Cruz Mendizabal photos. click here to view full gallery.

www.cruzmendizabal.com

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now until 2009-01-11 // Torpedo Factory Art Center, Target Gallery

Target Gallery presents a small works exhibition 5x5x(5). The show will consist of all media, from painting, sculpture, ceramic, jewelry, fiber and so on. With close to 250 art works on exhibit

www.torpedofactory.org

Margarita Surnaite

The Bond

Our Mindless Games

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FOOD ONE: (art)

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