julia oschatz and aliens

dingbatz.net

for good eletronic music mix, here we go patrick raddatz from dingbatz.net check his site for some good e_mix.

contemporary art in jerusalem

a visit to the israely museum in jerusalem can give you a good view about the contemporary art situation in the global art trading.
a real good choice from europe to us and middle east make up the most of the new aquired works. one of the many works is an installation from aernout mik _called organic escalator, 2000_, see video below. michael elmgreen and ingar dragset are part of the new work with a quite poetic installation work called _ somewhere in the world it's four o'oclock; just a single wrong move: blocking the view_, 2004 . the collection is very diversified exploring very simple subjects like computer animation to complex social relations. another installation work (or not) is _the jungle book project_, 2002 by pierre bismuth. some youngester just crashed to get a nap in the space. not a bad ideia, actually. the israely museum in jerusalem is more like a city.

jeremy millar - zugzwang (almost complete)

just back from a lecture by jeremy millar at the staedel art academy. jeremy just talk about his latest project _ zugzwang (almost complete). what a great persuit around the posssibilities of investigate the work of an artist like marcel duchamp and at the same time make a hommage to him. i would repeat what simon starling, who invited jeremy, said about the film and center piece of the whole project which bares the same title, it is simply a master piece.
the exhibition took place in the metropole galerie last september in folkestone in the english coast. where md did came to visit, as chess player, in 1933.

jeremy show in this cinematrographical peace a mastering in directing, editing the text material and had a great help in the narration done by the very good reader pierre huyghe. if you have the chance, in the future to see _zugzwang (almost complete)_ dontmiss it.

fantastic butt and more

remember those guys that brought us the butt mag,
they are are doing a great job bringing us the _fantastic man mag_ and more.
i just have one thing to say _ fantastic

laughing or crying at life

life and art are always chasing eachother, that is why
isabel allen does give her cartoons such a charming character.
inspired by the sayings of wood allen and drawing so freely like a kid,
she is having a laught at life. for more cartoons leave a comment and
isabel will let you know what you have to do to see more.

ms. feine is doing just fine

isabelle fein is delivering a great amount of excellent drawing material.

ali mahdavi and alopecia universalis

Ali Mahdavi
Born in Tehran in 1974, but now living in Paris, Ali Mahdavi is a filmmaker and designer of costumes that are extravagant affairs inspired by French Catholicism and Mahdavi’s Persian heritage. From silver cloaks to opulent purple robes stitched in gold, these strange outfits tread a fine line between high church and camp. After completing his studies in Paris at L’Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliqués Duperré, Mahdavi worked for the French fashion designer Thierry Mugler. In 2003, Mahdavi had his first solo exhibition at Scout Gallery in Hoxton Square, East London.

thanks to i-d magazine
see the video ali mahdavi

Tous Les Autres S’Appellent Ali

Ali Madhavi has Alopecia Universalis, a disease that deprives him of hair and his film focuses on those who are similarly afflicted. “I have been compared to all the bald people on earth….yet all I need is a wig for all resemblance to evaporate. No longer having hair violently changes our relationship with others, and the rules of seduction, desire, and one’s love-life are deeply disturbed, especially if the illness manifests itself before adulthood. Having lived through the same pain, shame and thus the same arrogance, I was convinced that we would all have the same feelings. Yet I was forced to notice while working on this project that even if, like a faltering army of clones or extra-terrestrials, we belong to the same race, deep down we are all just as different from each other as if we had hair and our lamented eyelashes and eyebrows.”

listening to martin creed

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"the galleries are usually full of air", that is what martin creed is thinking and saying. listen the interview he gave in newzeland. he also do dismistify the concept of minimal art in the tradition of carl andre and donald judd. he may have a very good poit there.

1 min, that is all

how about a www.filminute.com festival. you will be done in less then a hour with this gem of film festival. they have cool stuff like "bush ghost" by seth scriver, nice collage animation called "fortification" by elena wen, great performance of mosaique on the winner of the peoples choice award "it could be" and do not forget to check the brutal funny "indiferrence" by matei braneia. see more signs of our times here at his webside www.branea.ro.

superflex vs. 27th sao paulo biennale

things are getting hot downunder at the 27th bienal de são paulo and it is not because the summer, which is about to begin, it is because superflex was invited to paricipate in the biennale but was not allowed to show the work it wanted to guaranapower. but this whole censure is working, in favor of the project. the director of the fundação bienal de sao paulo said that the reason way they could not accept the work is that this project is not artistic enough. but the whole thing is proving the foundation wrong. the galeria vermelho did put up the show power guarana ,extra, for the superflex project it will be interesting to see what will happen in the near future.

me and my rhythm box

jesssica silvermann a young curator from san francisco, that was in frankfurt, in the summer 2006, where she worked with martha rosler in the frankfurt kunstverein is just opening her gallery in san francisco.
while in frankfurt she did put up a series of evening film
she is presenting in her first show, me and my rhythm box, a group of europe artist. all the best to jessica and the artists.
silverman is located at
2295 third street san francisco, CA 94107. T 415 255 9508

shape without form, shade without colour, paralysed force, gesture without motion

Galleria Francesca Kaufmann hosts a true and original homage to the art of portraiture. The exhibition focuses on works that portrays the subject beyond its physical appearance. Artists such as Pae White, Dave Muller and Allan Kaprow have based their representations on the uniqueness of the model. White gives the viewer the chance to choose the hue of his chandeliers and, in this sense, the work reveals itself as a portrait of the viewer’s.
Dave Muller leaves his model the task of compiling a top ten of his favourite L.P.s and includes the spines of the records in the painting. Kaprow shows Scores, where the person is almost reduced to a machine, performing a set of actions.
Tom Burr and Lorna Macyntire portray cultural characters from the past that the author hasn't met directly. Both Burr and Macyntire avoid traditional commemorative styles of portraiture and instead features details that are only part of the subjects whole. (carlo prada)
more here at dianes' blog,
where you can see more of the show then in the gallery's website.

banana trauma

to prevent banana trauma
we need just get tha lovely sculpture looking fake banana
that will keep any banana from get traumatized.
isn't it cool.

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cheers to thor eide at http://www.pbase.com

how about the current war

if you have time to reflect upon the real war that is going on everyday in between the humans doings you my like to see what the "bak - basis voor actuele kunst" is trying to collect and expose some information through artists like renzo martens.
more at www.bak-utrecht.nl

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hereitgoesagain

and for those that did not had enough whatch the video at
hereitgoesagain
in fact, many artists ask me when i do show then this clip from _ok_go_ on_the_treadmills: are they an artists group or just musician? hereitgoesagain, you decide what is really ok_go. have fun.

vanessa is back to her roots

amazing that vanessa beecroft realized this new romantic, art historican, work. very close to home, it evokes, la bella italia, in a way that only catellan would approved of. tell me what you think about it.

teresa's death_line

teresa margolles at the duesseldorf kunstverein
was very simple not much to see but a lot to question and feel with the mistress of brutal formalism. i think they spected dead bodies from teresa but they just got dead treads. bravissima.

art and duesseldorf

what a contrast we have in this town, i never saw so much homelesness in a such a rich place. dusseldorf wants to have a big art event a quadrienale. a big art evente very for years just to be in the safer side. very clever. but the atmosphere is not of a big celebration, really.
the city is booming but the disparity between social economical situation are very presente. no much solidarity aparently.
the photo above could be a installation by elmgreen and dragset but i am quite sure it is the work of some homeless people. this park very near to k21 and the opera was full of them. see photo below


he show from francis baconwas quite impressive.
the bruce newman exhibition was quite ok, but you can see that it is a gallery show not a really great retrospective, as he really deserves fro his work. this show is related to the prize (€E250.000) that he was awarded by the city. in this case they are buying the prestige to have an artists getting their prize, nothing new in the art world but still a provincial attitude.
the worse part of this quadrienale is the pavilion by lupertz. is quite sureal to see next to the bilding where is bruce newman show. but the caravaggio exhibition i can not even talk about it, just for you to have an idea we could not see it till the end. enough is enough.

with friends from the kunstverein we went to a small exhibition space. i asked some artists what they think about of this spetacle that the city try to pull off. they said that the local artists are the ones that do enjoy it the less, because they can not be part of it at all.