banks revisited

It's been a while since I last posted on the amazing artist Banks Violette, so I wanted just to post a few new pictures I recently found just to keep him in mind to all my favorite people.
You can also see an article on him in the features section of Vanity Fair's Art issue so I highly recommend you check it out.
In September Banks had a solo exhibition at the Standard in Oslo. But most exciting is he is to have another solo exhibition in 2007 at the Team Gallery in New York. It's definitely worth a trip to the city. The thought of seeing his art in person is just thrilling.

But to make a girl like me really go over the top is the collaboration he has had with my guy Hedi Slimane. Hedi has been a part of a few editorials on Violette, i.e. the inaugural Vanity Fair Art Issue 2007, & in 2004's Dazed and Confused August issue, also Doingbird issue #8. There was an article I found last year (or longer) citing that Slimane had asked Violette to design one of his Dior boutiques in Japan but I cannot find the article now. I'll get back to you on the last.
In short, go buy the Vanity Fair Art issue (it has a GREAT photo of Banks) and go to his exhibition in New York next year.

2006 white cast salt space Steel, hardware, plywood, paint, fibreglass, tinted epoxy, salt, resin

"Banks Violette’s Untitled takes as its origin a performance by the rock bank SunnO))) which the audience was allowed to hear, but not to see. Casting their stage equipment in salt, Violette’s Untitled comprises the only visual documentation of this event. Through its strange crystalline and ghostly presence, Untitled captures the lingering aura of ominous phenomena. Reminiscent of the biblical story of Sodom, Violettle’s contemporary ‘pillars’ of salt give aftermath testimony to forbidden indulgence. During SunnO)))’s performance, the lead singer was encased in a black coffin. Represented as a shard-like abstraction, an ebony form takes centre stage as a mysterious monument of dissolution."-staachi gallery