PORTFOLIO: Jack Dante (Paris, France)

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The CHEVOLUTION has been televised.....

It may well be the most reproduced photograph in history, its meaning diluted and appropriated to the point where it has almost become meaningless. We’re talking of course about "Guerilla Heroico", the image of Che Guevara taken by fashion photographer turned documenter of the revolution Alberto Korda.

Being initially copyright free in accordance with the law in communist Cuba at the time, the image started off as a poster, a representation of 60s counter-culture to those in the know, but it has gone on to be used to market bands, drinks, cigarettes... as a representation of what? Chevolution seeks to answer that question.

With Alberto Kordas's daughter, Gael Garcia Bernal, Antonio Banderas, Jim Fitzgerald and Gerry Adams giving their views on the image and the myths surrounding it, this is an informative and inspiring piece of work. Dazed was lucky enough to grab some time with the film's director Trisha Ziff...

For more, click HERE.

SOURCE: DD

Really, Damien Hirst?

Damien Hirst in vicious feud with teenage artist over a box of pencils

Millionaire gets young rival banned from galleries after taking exception to prank played on him

By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent

Friday, 4 September 2009


Damien Hirst objected to pencils being taken from his work, Pharmacy



How much is a box of pencils worth? Fifty pence? £3.99 if the pencils have rubbers on the ends? Well, if they're part of a Damien Hirst art installation, the value is £500,000. That is what 17-year-old graffiti artist Cartrain discovered when he pilfered some pencils from Hirst's sculpture Pharmacy. And that wasn't all – he was arrested, released on bail, and is waiting to find out if he will be formally charged with causing damage to an iconic artwork worth £10m.

When Cartrain walked into Tate Britain and made off with a few HBs in July, he believed it was a harmless game of tit-for-tat as part of an ongoing feud. He originally locked horns with the millionaire artist last year, when he used an image of Hirst's famous diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God, to create collages that were put up for sale on an art website.

Hirst reported him to the Design and Artists Copyright Society and a string of legal letters were sent to Cartrain's art dealer, Tom Cuthbert, at 100artworks.com, about the teenager's pieces, also called For the Love of God. The online gallery surrendered them to Hirst with a verbal apology.

For more of the article, click HERE.

Richard Avedon’s Fashion Photographs Coming to Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)

Detroit, MI - The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) celebrates fashion and photography with the work of Richard Avedon, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. On view Oct. 18, 2009 Through Jan. 17, 2010, Avedon Fashion Photographs 1944-2000 features 181 works, including many vintage prints, magazines, contact sheets and other archival material from the Avedon estate. “This exhibition not only surprises through the scope of Avedon’s work in fashion photography,” said Graham W. J. Beal, DIA director. “It also dramatically demonstrates what a radically innovative force he was in this field.”

Avedon’s legendary style reflected the political, social and cultural changes that influenced the lives of women and the fashions they wore for nearly six decades. The exhibition begins with his early work at Harper’s Bazaar , where he was hired in 1944 at the age of 21. H is youth and exuberance brought a fresh, new approach to fashion photography and was instrumental in rejuvenating the post-World War II Paris fashion market. Avedon revolutionized editorial fashion photography by breaking away from the convention of shooting models in static, unimaginative poses, bringing fashion to life by photographing models in motion, both in the studio and beyond.

By the 1950s Avedon became even more dramatic and unconventional in his approach, often placing models in settings that ranged from the exotic to the whimsical. In a section of the exhibition called “Paris by Night,” he captured the elegance and vitality of both the “City of Lights” and the couture by shooting at night in Paris’ streets, cafes, and local haunts.

Models were among Avedon’s most vital collaborators, and helped him define the emotional complexity, drama and beauty that he found so fascinating in women. In a 1993 interview he said, “Dress designers lent me textures, shapes, patterns that became the ally of my true work, which was always about women—what was going on beneath their clothes, beneath their hats. In their heads.” Directing magnificent spectacles that embody the high glamour of the era, he photographed Dovima, one of his favorite models of the time, conveying tremendous composure and grace among the elephants at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, and exuding timeless beauty posing in front of the Great Pyramids of Giza.

Suzy Parker was another favorite model. Emphasizing the active lifestyle of post war women, Avedon photographed her playing pinball, roller skating, and walking in the rain with a handsome man on each arm. Through Avedon’s images, Parker became an early prototype for the “cult of celebrity,” paving the way for future supermodels like Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton, Twiggy, Penelope Tree and Veruschka, whom he photographed in subsequent years. Avedon’s fashion work with actresses and performers is seen in playful pictures of Audrey Hepburn and Barbara Streisand and in sultry fashion portraits of Bridgette Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor.

After 20 years at Harper’s Bazaar, Avedon joined the staff at Vogue, where he ushered in a new era of fashion work reflecting the energy and liberated styles of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He embraced the Civil Rights movement and strove to bring women of color and diverse ethnicities to pages of fashion magazines. Avedon was one of the first high-profile photographers to work with African American and multi-racial models, including Detroit-native Donyale Luna and the Eurasian model China Machado.

Richard Avedon - Nadja Auermann and A Person Unknown, dress by Romeo Gigli, pajamas by Masha Calloway, Montauk, New York, August 1995 - Copyright © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation.

Richard Avedon - Donyale Luna, dress by Paco Rabanne, NY, December 1966 © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation.By the 1970s, Avedon developed a signature studio style photographing models in mini dresses and menswear-inspired clothing of the era. Always reinventing the fashion picture, he looked to isolate figures and capture movement. Anticipating the gestures and poses of his subjects, he often caught them in mid stride, jumping, dancing and cavorting against a seamless grey backdrop. By the 1980s, until his departure from the magazine in 1988, Avedon shot nearly every cover for Vogue where he worked with celebrity fashion icons such as Brooke Shields.

After 1990, Avedon worked for several magazines and exclusively on ad campaigns and catalogues for designer Gianni Versace. Works from this decade include collaborations with Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Stephanie Seymour. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker where he contributed several fashion essays. Avedon continued to dominate the photographic world until his death in 2004.

New Cell-Phone Tours
The DIA is trying something new with Avedon Fashion Photographs. Instead of the familiar audio tours that have accompanied past special exhibitions, visitors will be able to access information about selected photographs through their cell phones. Visitors can dial a number, enter a number posted next to the work, and hear DIA Director Graham Beal discussing Avedon’s work, impact, and artistic processes. There is no extra charge for this service, except for charges that might be accrued through an individual’s cell phone carrier.

Tickets include museum admission and are $12 for adults, $6 for ages 6-17, $10 each for adult groups of 15 or more .

A fully illustrated, hard-cover book, Avedon Fashion 1944-2000, will be available in the museum shop.

The exhibition was organized by the International Center of Photography with the cooperation of The Richard Avedon Foundation, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York. This exhibition and its catalogue were made possible with a major lead grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support was received from the ICP Exhibitions Committee, National Endowment for the Arts, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Clémence and William von Mueffling, Mary Ann and Frank Arisman, Harper's Bazaar, The John and Annamaria Phillips Foundation, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, and Mark McCain.

Hours and Admission
Hours are 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m.–10 p.m. Fridays, and 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is $8 for adults, $4 for ages 6-17, and DIA members are admitted free. For membership information call 313-833-7971.

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), one of the premier art museums in the United States, is home to more than 60,000 works that comprise a multicultural survey of human creativity from ancient times through the 21st century. From the first van Gogh painting to enter a U.S. museum (Self-Portrait, 1887), to Diego Rivera's world-renowned Detroit Industry murals (1932–33), the DIA's collection is known for its quality, range, and depth. Visit : www.dia.org

SOURCE: AKN

Arkitip Issue No. 0052 Steven Harrington

Arkitip’s latest Issue No. 0052 features the talents of Steven Harrington. In traditional style, the issue comes complete with a special collaborative product including a scarf and bookmark. Issue No. 0052 was also facilitated thanks to the help of Sixpack France. For more information check below. The Issue No. 0052 is currently available for pre-order in both signed ($45 USD) and unsigned ($40 USD) form.

arkitip issue no 52 steven harrington 2 Arkitip Issue No. 0052 Steven Harrington

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MADDER 139| Michael Lisle-taylor

Michael Lisle-Taylor

4 Sept- 4 October 2009
Private View Thursday 3 September 6-9








The hilarity at the core of Michael Lisle-Taylor's work arises from a dance with military service that won't let go. It's an embrace that promotes its own laughter. It probes the interfaces of insubordination while acknowledging that discipline encodes behaviour that prevails when rupture and trauma take hold. When men and horses get blown-up, humour repels, anaesthetizes and provides a safe passage back to the problem. Once, military farriers hacked off the branded fetlocks and hooves of stricken horses, abandoned on the battlefield, in order to prevent hostile identification. Not at Knightsbridge with the Blues and Royals in 1982 – but at Naseby and then routinely at Dettingen, Waterloo, Balaclava and Mons in 1914. Men and horses get blownup: perverse laughter begins the repair work. Today, in Helmand, donkeys are used as roadside bombs. It's a world of 'shock and eeeyore.' Stand back, it’s best not to get in the way – perhaps, its best, not to get it anyway.......


Michael Lisle-Taylor was born in 1969 and was brought up in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006. His works are held in several collections including the David Roberts Foundation, the Saatchi Collection and the Imperial War Museum. For more information please contact Debbie Carslaw at info@madder139.com


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No.1 VYNER STREET LONDON E2 9DG
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London Town's Darling Nikki

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FIRST LOOK: RSVP Gallery

Offering merchandise that doubles as art, RSVP serves as a luxury boutique/art gallery that displays and sells pop art and design from around the world. Short for “Répondez s’il vous plaît” or please respond, the store’s name is an invitation for guests to not only visit the space, but participate, get inspired, and respond.

Bars of green neon line RSVP’s black painted ceiling while exposed brick walls display giant neon art pieces commissioned by RSVP – all channeling the store’s design concept of pairing pop art with luxury. Using minimalism and raw space, RSVP takes the look of a pop art gallery, with its merchandise as the featured pieces.

The RSVP decor is taken from The RSVP Private Collection of works from artists including Mark Newson, Stephen Sprouse, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Kaws and NoPattern. RSVP offers pieces from premium brands including Kaikai Kiki, Ambush, Dee & Ricky, Super, PLAY Comme des Garcons, Rizzoli, Original Fake, G-Shock, Incase and Boxed Water. RSVP also has a selection of rare, original, vintage items from Louis Vuitton, Chanel, A Bathing Ape, Nike and Levi Strauss & Co.

RSVP Gallery
1753 North Damen
Chicago, IL
t: 773-770-6666

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FIFTY24SF Gallery Presents “Strange Fruit” New Works by The Date Farmers

For Immediate Release
August 26, 2009

FIFTY24SF Gallery Presents “Strange Fruit” New Works by The Date Farmers


Fifty24SF is proud to host “Strange Fruit”- a solo exhibition by The Date Farmers.

Returning to Fifty24SF Gallery, the Date Farmers is a collaborative work between artists Carlos Ramirez and Armando Lerma. Originally from Indios, California, the two attribute their paintings, collages, and three-dimensional pieces to inspiration from Mexican-American traditional values and contemporary west coast culture. The artists look to graffiti, Mexican street murals, traditional revolutionary posters, sign painting, prison art and tattoos for their influence.

The Date Farmers prefer to use scavenged materials, often found near their desert homes in southern California and nearby Mexico. “Using stuff that was thrown away is Mexican ingenuity. People’s idea of art is that it’s really expensive and [made of] nice materials, but found objects are so abundant, they’re much easier and freeing for us.”

Exploring a range of emotions, from humorous to disturbing, “Strange Fruit” is influenced by “the everyday stories, social politics and myths that take place and unfold around us on a daily.” The show represents the wide spectrum from which they draw inspiration, and the duo uses materials that allow them to be resourceful, yet abundant with character.

The Date Farmers have had International gallery exhibitions in Tokyo, London and Stockholm. They appeared at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado for the Manifest Hope Gallery.

“Strange Fruit” features new works on display at FIFTY24SF Gallery from September 3 – September 24, 2009.

www.thedatefarmers.com

SOURCE: Gabriella A. Davi-Khorasanee/Upper Playground

T. Magic presents HOPE EMBLEM (Platinum Edition 09)

A message from Sir t. Magic:

Peace to all T.Magicworld citizens,

It’s that time of the month again and I ain’t talking ovulation lol. Tonight sees a special release of the T.Magic Hope Emblem (Platinum Ed). This fresh new release features the iconic T.Magic emblem (seen as a badge of honour) printed with an iridescent platinum finishing. This has got to be the most visually striking piece of clothing I’ve released to date!

This series will feature a tee and sweater.

Limited to 50 pieces of each… in the entire galaxy available here!

Good Luck!

T.Magic

National Portrait Gallery Exhibits Portrait of Ted Kennedy Painted by Andy Warhol

WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery installed a portrait of Sen. Edward Kennedy by Andy Warhol. It went on view when the museum opened to the public at 11:30 a.m. in a first-floor gallery that is designated for remembrance of recently deceased individuals represented in the gallery’s collection. Warhol’s silkscreened portrait of Kennedy was created in 1980 to raise funds for Kennedy’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. A special feature of the print is Warhol’s use of the colors of the American flag and diamond dust. The Portrait Gallery acquired the portrait in 2000.

Elected to the United States Senate in 1962, Edward Kennedy owed his early success to his close identification with his elder brothers, President John F. Kennedy, whose Senate term he completed, and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Praising their commitment to public service, he acknowledged, "I'm very proud of that association."

Kennedy built on this legacy when he sought the presidency in 1980. Andy Warhol's silkscreened portrait, created as a campaign fund-raiser, plays off the colors of the American flag and suggests the glamour of politics by enhancing the candidate's features with thin red and blue lines and diamond dust. Warhol’s portrait of Kennedy is now on display at the National Portrait Gallery, on the museum’s first floor.

Although Kennedy lost the 1980 Democratic nomination to Jimmy Carter, whom Warhol had portrayed four years earlier, the long-serving senator became an influential leader in his party.

Kennedy was elected to a full six-year term in 1964 and was reelected seven more times. His reputation was tarnished by the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, which resulted in the death of automobile passenger Mary Jo Kopechne; Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. Though it did not affect his standing in the Senate, the incident significantly damaged his popularity nationally, and Kennedy never appeared on his party's presidential ticket.

Known for his oratorical skills, Kennedy's 1968 eulogy for his brother Robert and his 1980 Democratic National Convention rallying cry for American liberalism were among his best-known speeches. He became known as "The Lion of the Senate" through his long tenure and influence. More than 300 bills that Kennedy and his staff wrote were enacted into law. He was known for working with Republicans and finding compromises among senators with disparate views. Kennedy played a major role in passing many laws, including laws addressing immigration, cancer research, health insurance, apartheid, disability discrimination, AIDS care, civil rights, mental health benefits, children's health insurance, education and volunteering. In the 2000s, he led several unsuccessful immigration reform efforts. At the time of his death, he was continuing to work on universal health care legislation, which is often described as his "life's work".

In May 2008, Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor which limited his appearances in the Senate. He died on August 25, 2009, at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

SOURCE: AKN

ZEVS and his anti-logo art

If you are a street artist and your last targets have included gigantic billboards in town centres, it is likely you will soon be looking for more audacious locations to strike again. Indeed, it is hardly surprising that French graffiti artist ZEVS (pronounced Zeus), ended up getting into serious trouble. The night before his first solo show at the Statements Art Gallery in Hong Kong, he decided to make his own, special announcement: he painted a Chanel logo on an Armani boutique. The sign bore his trademark ‘liquidation’ effect that gives it a melting appearance, and acted as foreplay to the show ‘Liquidated Logos’ opening the next day.

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Photo of the Day: KAWS x Michael Jackson for INTERVIEW

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THE ARTIST READING RAINBOW

e-flux is pleased to announce the opening of its reading room in New York. The reading room is a rapidly growing collection of several thousand books on contemporary art exhibitions open to the public at 41 Essex Street. The books have been donated by numerous art institutions and individuals from all parts of the world and reflect some of the more interesting developments in art of the past decade. e-flux reading room is open for research and study from Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6 pm.

Come visit!

Contributing institutions include:
A Prior, Aeroplastics contemporary, Agentur fur Fotografie und Fotoprojekte, alphadelta gallery, aMAZElab, Americas Society, Annika Larsson, Apex Art Curatorial Program, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV), Arch+ Foundation / Volume, Archis, Art & Industry Biennial Trust, Art en Marge, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Art Goes Heiligendamm, Art in General, Art Lies - A Contemporary Art Quarterly, Art Press (Art Resources Transfer INC), Artangel, ArtBOX, artconnexion, Artes Mundi, Artfairs inc, artforum (Bookforum), Art-ist 5, artspace witzenhausen gallery, Artspeak, Asperger Autorenwerkstatt e.V., Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Athens Biennial, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, B&M Verlag, BAK - basis voor actuele kunst, BAM/PFA, b-books, Bettinna Pousttchi, BIDA - Bienial Internacional del Deporte en el Arte, Bidoun: Arts and Culture from the Middle East, Black Dog publishing, Blanton Museum of Art, Boijmans Museum, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonniers Konsthall, Boo kworks, Bristol School of Art Media and Design, bruno dorn verlag, Buchmann Galerie Berlin, Bury Art Gallery, CAB, Caja de Burgos Art Centre, Cabinet, CCA Wattis, Center for Contemporary Non-objective Art, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, Centre d'Art Nicolas de Stael, Centre d'Art Santa Monica Generalitat de Catalunya, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Centro de Arte Y Naturaleza (CDAN), Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Christian Brandstatter Verlag, Wien, Conner Contemporary Art, Contact (Toronto Photography Festival), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Crawford Gallery, Crosswords, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Deutsche Guggenheim, Dia Center for the Arts, Didier Devillez Editeur, Dienst voor Cultuur, E31 Gallery, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, e-flux, EIE (Primer Encuentro Internacional De Espacios De Arte Independiente 2005), Ellen Blumenstein, Fabbrica del Vapore, Festival der Regionen, Fillip, Fine Arts Unternehmen, Flatform, Fleunt-Collaborative, Flintridge Foundation, Florence Lynch Gallery, Fondacio "Sa Nostra", Caixa de Balears, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, FormContent, FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Framis International Office, Francesca Minimi, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frieze, GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Galerie im Taxispalais - Galerie des Landes Tirol, Galerija "Meno Parkas", Kaunas, Lithuania, Galerija Skuc, Galleri Image, Galleria Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo (GAMeC), Galleria Civica di Modena, Gallery at REDCAT, Gasworks Gallery, Goteborgs Konsthall, Gowett-Brewster Art Gallery, Green Cardamom, Gronlands Kulturhus, Hadley & Maxwell, Halle für Kunst e.V., Harriet Godwin, Hellenic Culture Organisation, Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, High Desert Test Sites, Hogeschool Gent, HomeShop, I Sotterranei delle Agostiniane, Monte Carasso, IM Projects, Independent Curators International (iCI), Index A / Stockholm, InSite/Installation Gallery, Institute National d'Histoire de l'Art , Paris, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Irwin, j & k world, Jan Van Eyck Academie, jrg|ringier, Julie Joyce & Sandra Firmin, k3 project space, Kasseler Kunstverein, Katuaq / Kirsten Justesen, Krannert Art Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunsthaus Dresden, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Kunstverein Gottingen, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Kvindemuseet i Danmark, KW, Berlin, La Maison Rouge, Laura Palmer Foundation, Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, Lehman College Art Gallery, Lightworks Magazine, Lismore Castle Arts, Livraison - Revue d'Art Contemporain / Contemporary Arts Journal, Locus Athens, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Matt's Gallery, London, MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Miami Design District, Middelheim Museum, Mobile Academy, MoBY, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, mono.kultur, Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo / NMAC, Moskow Biennale 02, MOUSSE, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest, MUSAC Museu de Arte Contemporeáneo de Castilla y Léon, MUSEION, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Museum in Progress, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd, Nada, nassauischer kunstverein e.V., National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), National Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest (Mucsarnok), National Sculpture Factory, Ireland, Netwerk/centrum for heedendaagse kunst, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nuno Cera, Nuno Ferreira de Carvahlo, O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Objectif Projects, Obra Social Caja Madrid, Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, Old Mill Books, OneStar Press, Or gallery, Vancouver, Parasol Unit, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Parker's Box, Parkett, PEAR, Picnic Magazine, Polonca Lovsin, Portikus, Printed Project, Project Art Center, Essex/ Project Press, Project Gentili, PS1, Public Art Lab /Mobile Studios, Public Art Lower Austria, Raphael Grisey, Regine Basha, Rekalde, Renee Ridgway, RSA Arts & Ecology, Salzburger Kunstverein, SCI-Arc Gallery, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Sculpture Center, NY, Secession, Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession, Serpentine Gallery, Sharjah International Biennial, Site Gallery & Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, SITE Santa Fe, Spike - Art Quarterly, Sportmagzin Verlag GmbH, Star Ship, Statens Museum for Kunst, Sternberg Press, Stroom Den Haag, Studies of Anedafology, Studio 1, Summit, Susanne Kriemann, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei Biennial and Taiwan Pavilion), Teachers College of Technology, Rachel & Israel Pollak Gallery, Textem Verlag, The Armory Show, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, The Drawing Center, The Free Academy, The Moore Space, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania, The Power Plant - Contemporary Art Gallery Harbourfront centre, The press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Queens Museum of Art, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics - The New School, , The Women's Art Library - Make, Goldsmiths University London, Thelma Mathias, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), Topographis Press, TORCH Gallery, tranzit, initiative for contemporary art, Tyler Coburn, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor (Maribor Art Gallery), UP, Veenman Publishers, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Via Farini, Villa Arson, Nice, Villa Manin: Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Vydal KANT, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Witte de With, Wyspa Progress Foundation.

Should you wish to contribute to this collection, please send your publications to:
e-flux reading room
41 Essex Street
New York, NY 10002
USA

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2 Artists x 1 Painting = UBX 12 x 12 @ MCA

UBS 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work
Robert Davis / Michael Langlois
September 5-27, 2009

The Chicago artist duo, Robert Davis/Michael Langlois, have an unusual approach to painting: they share equal roles in developing ideas, choosing subjects, and creating the works. Robert Davis/ Michael Langlois debut a new series of paintings, Into the Void: the Ballad of The Martyr as Told by Ingres.

Three photo-realistic paintings and a wall painting feature subjects in a loose narrative that are united by the theme of martyrdom. The Into the Void subjects include the French Neoclassical painter, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres; a young Palestinian-American girl; a lush jungle landscape replicated from a computer screensaver; and Soundgarden lyrics translated into Farsi text.

Robert Davis/Michael Langlois lead a free gallery talk about their exhibit on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, at 6 pm.

Full Media Release and Images

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Cerasoli Gallery: ROY NACHUM 'Prophecy' Opening Reception: Saturday August 22, 6-9pm

C E R A S O L I g a l l e r y presents

ROY NACHUM 'Prophecy'

August 22 - September 16, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday August 22, 6-9pm




C E R A S O L I Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of extraordinary works by Roy Nachum on view in Gallery 1 & 2 at the Cerasoli Gallery.
Exhibition opens August 22, 2009, and remains on view through September 16, 2009. Opening reception For the public is Saturday, August 22, from 6pm – 9pm.

Suffused with the divine light of the Renaissance masters, Roy Nachum’s texturized, surrealist paintings are scaled to life size, but his images resist the conventions reality imposes on both wilderness and civilization. Partially nude women crouch next to kneeling elephants to peer into their eyes and stroke their nubile trunks. A boy, blinded by the heavy crown which has slipped over his ears to cover his eyes, runs through a house of mirrors with a red balloon tied to his wrist. Nachum’s photo-real figures inhabiting fantastic worlds are overlaid with a texture of raised ‘pixels’ of paint, each one painstakingly hand-made by the artist. The result of this unexpected topography is a feeling of glimpsing a stranger’s dirty little secrets through an inky, rain-spotted windowpane or finding pages torn from a book of exotica, left outside to decompose like so many dead leaves and abandoned desires. Perhaps intended to serve as a kind of mirror caught between two worlds, Nachum’s geometrically patterned paint daubs reflect the atomic building blocks of life while mimicking the tell-tale thumbprint of a digital printer. The viewer instinctively draws in for a closer inspection and is reminded of the abstraction which exists behind our veil of reality. This duality goes beyond the canvas’ surface quality, revealing itself in Nachum’s mix of the imaginary world and real life, memories and fantasies, found in his startling, dreamlike imagery. Explorations of submergence and emergence, naivete and maturity, the real and unreal, Nachum’s paintings invite the viewer into a dualistic experience combining the virtual and psychic in a single, focused, artful moment.

Nachum is also well known for his work as an interior designer, which has appeared in restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels in the United States and Europe, including Club Door, TAO Nightclub at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Cafe Bari,SoHo, 1Oak, Lower Manhattan, Southern Hospitality and Destino both Upper East Side owned by Justin Timberlake.

Educated in Jerusalem at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and New York City’s Cooper Union, Nachum is interested in recreating psychological turning points in his subjects’ lives with a cinematic sense of framing movement and emotion. Currently living and working in New York City, Nachum’s work has been exhibited in France, Israel, and the United States, and collected by prominent art collectors, including Leonardo DiCaprio and Justin Timberlake.

C E R A S O L I gallery 8530 - b Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Tue- Sat 11am - 6pm / Tel. 310 954 5974 / contact@cerasoligallery.com / Directions: http://tinyurl.com/orxf8p

"Cerasoli is small, but mighty – and it encourages you to find your own underlying theme between the three rooms. You may pick up on something nobody else had thought of yet! " Nicole Campoy - Editor of Fine Arts LA : http://www.fineartsla.com/tag/cerasoli-gallery

Freddi Cerasoli on what you need to know about art http://tiny.cc/Z5f7Q
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elementalc/sets/72157621969209565/

Source: Lucy Beer @ Elemental Consulting