NGV Magazine Issue 2 Jan – Feb 2017
Hello 2017. Welcome in the new year with a summer’s worth of great reading, including an extended interview with Viktor & Rolf direct from Amsterdam, real stories from the NGV’s mid-century portrait collection, a Melbourne jeweller on her favourite summer spots, and creative studios in Brunswick and Milan.
Features in this issue
[Un]dressing Viktor&Rolf
'Our agenda is to inspire. When you see something very beautiful, it makes you feel a certain way, it gives you something, it feeds you.'
Viktor Horsting speaks to Janice Breen Burns from Amsterdam and Miranda Wallace writes on the designers’ dolls.
Portrait Provocations
'Partners and collaborators; star students and housemaids; artists and family men; a league of extraordinary women.'
Real stories from the NGV’s Australian portrait collection.
Studio: Steaphan Paton
'I make objects not products. Each object is filled with a level of spirit…'
Contemporary artist Steaphan Paton with writer Ender Baskan in Paton’s Brunswick studio.
Women in Design
‘[the concept of] comfort is something that is changing so much, like in the past a chair was a place to sit in a very composed way… nowadays a chair can be a more relaxed place.'
Patrizia Moroso on the evolution of design and objects.
My NGV
'Perhaps it’s that I’m a sucker for a good story and this one seems to be telling a doozy.'
Comedian Tegan Higginbotham on William Quiller Orchardson’s 1887 painting The first cloud.
Books
'[Books] have an intimacy and sensuality that people appreciate – books feel good in the hand. You don’t tend to curl up with a good website.'
Architecture and design publisher Uro argues for the enduring popularity of printed matter.
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