Selfridges’ Ultralounge, the London store’s permanent arts and exhibition space, launches its 2010 season with an exciting new show, initiated by Pocko, that celebrates the beauty of the small:
The Museum of Small Things (M.O.S.T.)
M.O.S.T. is an exclusive collaboration between Selfridges, the creative boutique and publishing company POCKO and designer Kit Grover. Curated by Nicola Schwartz of Pocko and Kit Grover, the exhibition will include new work by over 20 artists from Pocko’s international stable including McFaul Studio, James Dawe and Nomoco. Exhibiting alongside will be respected contemporary British artists Grayson Perry and Richard Wentworth, intermixed with jeweller, Shaun Leane and many highly talented newcomers.
The Museum of Small Things will inspire visitors to open wide their eyes and to slowly look, and then look again, at the world they inhabit. M.O.S.T. will house priceless gems too subtle to compete with the show-stopping technology of the modern world. Modest masterpieces under-valued in cultures where biggest is better and mega, if achievable, is best, will be centre-stage. The variety on display in this museum will dynamically demonstrate how the lines between all forms of visual expression have become blurred. Exhibits range across images, objects, moving pictures, ideas, detritus and treasures.
Check out the M.O.S.T. blog
We are excited to launch issue 2 of The Pocko Times, called small is big. This issue has been made in collaboration with the hugely anticipated Museum of Small Things, opening at Selfridges this Friday, 5th Feb.
It is packed full with some of the most exciting contemporary collage, featuring work by James Dawe, Richard Wentworth and Wangechi Mutu among others.
You will be able to buy a copy at the Selfridges in the M.O.S.T. shop, or if you can’t make it, you can buy one online at the Pocko Shop.
Visura Magazine publishes some of Larry Fink’s old work, including this striking portrait. See more and read the interesting article on their website.
More recently Larry shot the campaign for NYU Langone Medical Centre.
The influential photographer died of cancer on Sunday 13th December. He was 63. In remembrance, NPR played back a 1989 interview with him in which they discussed Pictures From Home, his decade-long project chronicling his father’s job loss and the effects it had on the family.
Olaf Hajek’s  debut monograph Flowerhead is being released in Europe in Februrary, 2010 by Gestalten. The international release follows shortly in March, 2010. The book is full of advertising, editorial, commercial portraits, fashion illustration, and rarely seen personal work from over the past three years of Hajek’s long illustration career.
Born in Germany and raised in Holland, Olaf Hajek draws inspiration from far-away places such as
folk art in Africa and South America and the detailed work and interesting perspectives of India and Persia.
See this exclusive Gestalten TV interview here.
Les Jean Clode filled this head with over 200 illustrations, which, if you look closely all interact with eachother. Pretty impressive we think!
The charity, Sing Up, is the Music Manifesto’s National Singing Programme for primary school-aged children in England. The £40 million government investment aims to ensure that good quality singing is central to young children’s lives, in primary school, in the home and in the wider community.
