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Valley of Dolls, the Mysterious World of Dolls: Marmite Sue

More on the fascinating world of "dolls"... After Virginie Ropars from France, and the Popovy sisters from Russia, here is Marmite Sue from Japan. Renowned for their distinctive styles these doll-designers, influenced by different trends of the art and fashion world, constantly interpret and redefine the notion of beauty and thereby create works that strike the eyes of their beholders.

Marmite Sue is a doll artist and illustrator. The concept of a doll has long been her biggest inspiration, and guiding line in all the many mediums of her creation. From her fashion and wearable art, to both Analogue and Digital paintings. Most recently, Marmite Sue has been focusing on creating her very own , hand crafted, articulately jointed Art-Dolls, and has launched her new line of 35cm tall porcelain jointed dolls "Angel Eggs."

Cameo

Dentelle

Venus

Courtesy Marmite Sue / Strychnin Gallery Berlin

Valley of Dolls Exhibition

Strychnin Gallery, Berlin

September 9 - October 2, 2011

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Valley of Dolls, the Mysterious World of Dolls: The Popovy Sisters

And the theme on the Mysterious World of Dolls continues with the twin sisters Ekaterina and Elena Popovy. Born in Perm, Russia, and graduates from Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts (Yekaterinburg), the Popovy sisters started making dolls in 2004.

Their portrait dolls are inspired by personalities and every doll is handmade from start to finish. By combining their passion for fashion design and doll art, Ekaterina and Elena created small conceptual collections of 10 to 15 dolls a year.

Huge amount of work is behind each collection. First an idea/emotion is born and we develop a concept of a project. Then we start preparative work: we learn the history, search for the images, develop the texture, choose the technique and draw sketches. Figure's gesture, stylization, artistic delivery and costume design, all of this goes along with one theme to express the idea to maximum extend.

Called the "new wave of Russian art-doll designers," the Popovy sisters received numerous awards, such as Best Doll Master at the International Doll Salon in Moscow, the Haute Couture prize of Doll Magazine for Hathor of Cult project and many more.

Mod collection

Courtesy The Popovy Sisters / Strychnin Gallery, Berlin

Upcoming exhibition " Valley of Dolls "

Group Show@ Strychnin Gallery, Berlin
September 9 - October 2, 2011
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Valley of Dolls, the Mysterious World of Dolls: Virginie Ropars

Over the next few days, I will introduce you to some fabulous doll-designers. I came across their artwork recently and was astonished by their talent, respectively unique. Exquisite and precious materials, extremely elaborate handicraft as well as outstanding design concepts result in extraordinaire works that are cherished and sough after all over the world.

Born in Brittany (France) in 1976, Virginie Ropars spent her childhood surrounded by nature, legends and superstitions. Her figures are reminiscent of queer women with unbroken mind, a vision of a human nature bent on reaching a bright absolute and at the same time capriciously settled in a dark ground.

Virginie Ropars's work is shown throughout Europe at doll shows or exhibitions and also in United States and Russia.

Acanthophis

Datura

Beautiful Grim

Sheperd Monsters

Courtesy Virginie Ropars / Strychnin Gallery, Berlin

Upcoming Exhibition "Valley of Dolls"

Group show @ Strychnin Gallery / Berlin

Opening September 9th

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The C.O.P. Guide to Etiquette and Keep A Breast Foundation

On August 12th, a dual exhibition will be held for the first time at Strychnin Gallery in Berlin. The C.O.P. Guide to Etiquette and Keep A Breast Foundation are curated by KAB ambassador Yasha Young.

C.O.P. (Chicks On Powertrips) is an Australian street culture magazine exclusively devoted to female artists. For the upcoming show titled The C.O.P. Guide to Etiquette, around 30 international artists interpreted and visualized ancient etiquette rules for women from the Victorian era. The list of participants include Mimi S., Camila d'Errico, Miss Mindy, Helena Kubicka de Braganca and more...

Keep A Breast Foundation is a non-profit organization, whose agenda is raising awareness of breast cancer as well as educating people about its risks and its prevention. For the exhibit, many celebrities from different fields get plaster casts of their torsos done and have them designed by well-known artists such as Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Wee Flowers, Mimi S., Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

The C.O.P. Guide to Etiquette