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Ports 1961 boutique at NYC Meatpacking district is the host for the launch of Fashion and Beauty Photographer Torkil Gudnason benefiting CITTA and their good work promoting good healthcare and education in under developed countries, with CHIC.TV's Lauren Reeves, Jacqui Wenzel and Torkil Gudnason.
Transcript
Torkil Gudnason: Hey, I am Torkil Gudnason you are watching chic.tv. Lauren Reeves: We are here at the Ports 1961 store in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. Artist Torkil Gudnason is having an art exhibit here called Hot House. I am Lauren Reeves for chic.tv. Let's go inside and check it out. Lauren Reeves: Tell me about the events that's going on tonight at Ports 1961. Jacqui Wenzel: Well, tonight it's an amazing marriage of three important forces. We have Ports 1961. We have Torkil and Paper Magazine. All sponsoring coming into together to sponsor CITTA, which is amazing organization that headed by Michael Daube, and he is basically have been, he has brought a lot of attention to this village in India and we're hoping that proceeds are business for the month of December, it was clothing and art, it's going to benefit a percentage of it, the sales of benefit, the CITTA organization. We're doing amazing things for the children in this village. Michael has been responsible for building a hospital and now we were working on building a library. I believe it's a roof that they need right now. So we're hoping that we could be able to help them build their roof for their library. Torkil Gudnason: This is the work that I have done for long time and this is the work that gives me very same and slightly a different world that I usually do. This is fashion and beauty. So I keep going back to it constantly whenever I have free time, which is always a little bit of, you know, neglected kind of work, because I should really be doing if the other way around I should be doing this first. But you know I was trained the other way around, so and I love photography and so that's my little world. Lauren Reeves: Okay. Torkil Gudnason: Just a foundation of it we could say, and a lot of this work is refers to man made things. In the sense that all the man made things are basically from nature. So the more you study art history and the more you kind of, you experienced the art world, the more you realize how grounded it is in nature at least from my point of view. And this is when you have an opening like tonight I am very surprised how much they love it, thus I feel almost like you know in tears because I didn't expect it. Lauren Reeves: No. Torkil Gudnason: No. Lauren Reeves: Okay. Well, I mean this is a really popular location. How did you bid for the country even say we love what you've done. Torkil Gudnason: Yeah, they love this kind of imagery in the stores and they always been very, I adore what they do, I mean Tia amazing designer. So I think in that sense, aesthetically we are in the same wave length for sure. Lauren Reeves: Yeah. Torkil Gudnason: So maybe these stores are meant to be hand in hand. Lauren Reeves: Now where is your favorite place to travel to get inspired? Torkil Gudnason: I think Bali, Bali is wonderful. Lauren Reeves: How many times have you been there? Torkil Gudnason: Oh! many times, many times, but you know what my work is I am so fortune my work brings me to places that I would never gone to and then I am there and all of sudden I do a job there and I fall in love with the place, unexpectedly you know. Lauren Reeves: Yeah. Torkil Gudnason: So, life is full of surprises. Lauren Reeves: Yeah, and now what is your favorite piece in the entire story here? Torkil Gudnason: I actually like these, I call them the Underworld Series and yeah and then I like them very the sort of move with your mind. Lauren Reeves: Yeah. Torkil Gudnason: Yeah. Lauren Reeves: I like that and how long you are going to have the display up here? Torkil Gudnason: One month till 2010, January 10th 2010. So can all come back and see it in more calm surroundings. Lauren Reeves:: Great. Well, thank you so much for talking with us. Torkil Gudnason: Sure, thank you for coming.
