The New Grand Tour is an episodic art project featuring revolving guest artists with hyphenated cultural and geographical backgrounds. The artists and documentary crew travel together to different parts of the globe and express through art exhibitions, the subject matter of towns and cultures they visit.

The goal of The New Grand Tour in the early 21st Century is to bring together the diversified voices of artists and communities from around the world by bridging cultural divides through art and the moving image as the common grounds for communication, education, discovery, exchange, philanthropy and collaboration.

This book chronicles the travels of Suitman (aka Young Kim), Jose Parla, Romon Kimin Yang, Deanne Cheuk and Davi Russo as they embark on a journey through China and engage in a cultural exchange that impacted their life and work forever.

The book is now available from O.H.W.O.W.

Think Silly has gotten together with artist Young Kim, better known as The Suitman. They talk about the newly set up Suitman Studio in Hong Kong, the Suitman project in general and other interesting topics. Certainly worth the read. Also you get a look inside the new Suitman Studio, gallery/store now open in HK.

Read the Interview here.

Agnes B. got together with artist Suitman to present with their Agnes Deli CE division custom Suitman character chocolate. The outcome is great. The chocolate has been released in Hong Kong on September 20th.

A more detailed image of the Agnes B. x Suitman chocolate follows after the jump.

For years artists Young Min has traveled the globe. He’s experienced alienation. He’s documented both the movement and the prevailing feeling. His uniform of choice has always remained a suit. The Suitman toy is a physical and plastic manifestation of the artists lifelong alienation. While there is no set release planned, a preview of Suitman has arrived via Toyrevil. It will be produced by Adfunture and differs slightly from earlier incarntations of the toy (which you can see above).