The project
THE NEW BLACK
THE NEW BLACK is an artistic project by Ruediger Glatz. It is built on collaborations with the protagonists of this world and their institutions — media outlets, fashion houses, PR and model agencies. Begun in 2009, and published with VOGUE Germany since 2010 — this website was built on their request in 2014 as their partner site — it is a work in progress — never finished — one artist's long view of an industry that lives in the instant.
The title holds two ideas: the new, the restless engine of fashion, and black, the non-colour of silhouette, contour and character. Every image is black and white.
This is not a blog. It is an archive, a work in progress, growing one portrait at a time.
The photographer
Ruediger Glatz
Ruediger Glatz is an artist and photographer, working mostly in lens-based media, with installations and performance. He considers his work to be conceptual portraiture. He began THE NEW BLACK in 2009 and is in Paris at least twice a year, during the women's ready-to-wear shows, to work on the project. Since 2012 he has photographed the performances of Olivier Saillard, and he works with Tilda Swinton. His images appear in books published by Rizzoli, by his own imprint and by others.
Let's collaborateExhibited
2022
REFLECTING PASOLINI brought the Pasolini performances into one of Rome's major exhibition halls. It included EMBODYING PASOLINI — the performance Olivier Saillard and Tilda Swinton gave at the Mattatoio in Rome in 2021 — as an element of THE NEW BLACK.
Watch on YouTube →REFLECTING PASOLINI — Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome · 2022, exhibition view
2017
A year as Sutor Mantellassi's official collaborating artist — an exhibition at Palazzo Gianfigliazzi and the book CHARACTERS, produced in an edition of 1,000.
CHARACTERS — Palazzo Gianfigliazzi, Florence · 2017, exhibition view
Exhibition 03
THE NEW BLACK at INSIGHTS3
KUNST/HALLE Heidelberg·2012
2012
As the name said, the concept was to give insight into projects that are not finished yet. Presented by KRAUTS Projects at KUNST/HALLE, Heidelberg, in 2012, with Adrian Falkner, Sandro Kopp, Stefan Strumbel, Andreas von Chrzanowski and Ruediger Glatz, curated by Wolfram Glatz.
THE NEW BLACK at INSIGHTS3 — KUNST/HALLE Heidelberg · 2012, installation
- Commissioned by
- CHANEL · HUGO BOSS · J.M. WESTON
- Artist collaboration
- SUTOR MANTELLASSI
- Published in
- VOGUE · HARPER'S BAZAAR · DAZED & CONFUSED · ANOTHER · STYLEZEITGEIST
- Publications
- RIZZOLI (3) · SUTOR MANTELLASSI · HUBE MAGAZINE