HIC & NUNC / Miguel Villalobos and Graham Tabor
Tabor and Villalobos have constructed within the gallery a semblance of preservation.
A fake museum filled with symbols of Man’s conflicted relation to nature; The desire to preserve in conflict with our need to destroy.
Prolific and in demand for their creative and commercial works separately, both artists are insatiable with their output and intensely personal in their connections to their work. What is especially striking in their collaboration is the purity of their creative process. Separately but especially together, there is an undeniably joyful and playful approach to their artisanal process, the creation of beauty, and to the rendering of potentially complex ideas.
Hic et Nunc is a pure creative act, and we are pleased to share it with you.
/ GRAHAM TABOR /
New York-based designer Graham Tabor has served as senior designer at Helmut Lang and as knitwear designer at Karl Lagerfeld. After leaving Helmut Lang, Graham founded a New York based design and consulting studio working with clients such as Thakoon, Camilla Staerk, Rachel Roy, STOLL and others. Alongside Melanie Ward, Graham served as creative consultant for TSE Cashmere, where he and Melanie were responsible for design concepts and creative direction for the F/W 2009 TSE Cashmere 20th anniversary collection. Graham and Melanie also recently showed Blouson Noir, a women’s ready to wear capslue collection.
From 2006-2010 Graham served as Fashion Director for the ground breaking FLY DVD Magazine, a film format Art and Fashion biannual, which has been exhibited at MOMA, the Deutsche Guggenheim and many others. Graham regularly creates fashion editorials for magazines including, Qvest, Wad, Tetu, Metal, Paper Shop and Paper Planes.
Graham was one of ten designers invited to show at the prestigious 2008 Festival International De Mode d’Hyeres in France. Graham was invited to present the Hyeres collection during the S/S 09 Men’s shows in Paris in an installation at the Ter et Bantine Gallery in collaboration with Miguel Villalobos and sculptor Kristin Barron.
/ MIGUEL VILLALOBOS /
A photographer and illustrator working in film, fashion and art, Villalobos has worked as visual consultant and documentary photographer for the film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”, and as art director for Laurie Anderson’s video “Life on a String”.
Miguel’s photography has been included in group shows in Berlin, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela and in Paris at the Maison Martin Margiela head quarters. He is a regular contributor to Jalouse, Tetu, Butt Magazine, Metal, V and Vman Magazines. His work has also been published in Purple Fashion, Qvest, Interview, Le Monde, Fantastic Man, Vogue Hommes International, Fake Magazine, Vanidad, Blend Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine and BlackBook.
Miguel was awarded first prize in the 2009 New to the Eye International Competition for Fashion Photography, which took place in Berlin. After a gallery show in Berlin, Villalobos’ work travelled to Zurich and Vienna to be exhibited in conjunction with the award.
In 2009, Miguel was also invited by designer Zaldy to collaborate with him on the tour costumes for Michael Jackson’s “This is It” tour and Lady Gaga’s “Monster Ball” tour.