NOT A LOVE SONG (5)

this is not a love song
(work in progress)

pictures by edfpf (c) 2007
all rights reserved

BLINDED BY LOVE

untitled
latest works by Franko B.


More about Franko B, HERE, HERE and THERE.

HISTORY OF GROTESQUE

Three Bears
2002




The Dining Room
2006 - 2007
@ galerie Vallois - Paris - 06-2007/07-2007

Richard Jackson's latest pieces are oscillating "between dry wit and the grotesque". His work is placed under the heavy Duchamp's references. And it's like Jackson was reloaded the painting and the surrealist theories with images and symbols of our post-modern era.
Born in 1939, he's an old school California artist, still in circulation.

more about Richard Jackson with Galerie Vallois, HERE.
visit Richard Jackson's studio with Giulo Frigo and FlashArt, HERE.

OUT OF RAINBOW'S WORLD

plus encore sur l'univers coloré et incroyablement léger de JulesJulien, illustrateur et graphiste français, ICI.




more about the full-coloured and slight universe of JulesJulien, a french illustrator, HERE.

all artwork by JulesJulien.

DARK WATER

Nous sommes tous des maisons hantées
Wladd_Mutagene présente le 29 septembre prochain sa collection de récits d’adultes de rêves faits enfants. Cette collection est la base d’un travail de création graphique via un procédé original nommé klecksoradiographie.
Ses images, mélanges de radios et d’infographie, plongent violemment le spectateur dans les eaux troubles de notre inconscient, faites de fantasmes et de peurs.

Exposition le 29/09/2007 à Lyon (Le Croiseur) à l’occasion de la sortie du #7 du magazine littéraire ‘Mercure Liquide’.
Plus d'informations, ICI.

We Are All Haunted Houses
With that new project Wladd_Mutagene features children’s nightmares reports, and uses this material as a base for his graphic creations. These words are complemented with images called klecksoradiographies, a new process mixing X-Ray pictures and infography.
Like a violent journey in the dark side ov the human subconscious.

Show at Lyon, 09/29/2007 at Le Croiseur.
More about the event, in collaboration with the review, Mercure Liquide, HERE.
More about the Wladd_Mutagene’s project, HERE.

all pictures by Wladd_Mutagene (c)

MY TRIBUTE TO VILLEGLE (3)

walls (un film à ne pas...)
all pictures by edfpl (c) 2006
all rights reserved

THEORY OF THE DERIVE

picture by the ghost in the machine (c)

"Les secteurs d’une ville sont, à un certain niveau, lisibles. Mais le sens qu’ils ont eu pour nous, personnellement, est intransmissible, comme toute cette clandestinité de la vie privée, sur laquelle on ne possède jamais que des documents dérisoires."
Guy Debord
Critique de la séparation, 1961

à propos de dérive, d'art psychogéographique et de géométrie, plus de détails avec ADRIFT, un blog situationniste sous haute influence.


In late 1950's, situationist protagonists, Raoul Vanegeim, Ralph Rumney and Guy Debord invented the art ov the derive and its theory called psychogeography, combining objective and subjective knowledge.

"In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there…But the dérive includes both this letting go and its necessary contradiction: the domination of psychogeographical variations by the knowledge and calculation of their possibilities."

Documentation about derive with ADRIFT's blog, HERE.

NOT A LOVE SONG (4)

this is not a love song
(work in progress)

pictures by edfpf (c) 2007
all rights reserved

JEWELS ETC...

you gotta be kidding me
Paola Pivi
(born in 1971, lives and works at Anchorage, Alaska)
la criée, rennes (france)
06/2007-09/2007

all pictures by edfpl

LEAP INTO THE VOID

« with the void, total empowerment »
Albert Camus to Yves Klein
1958

Cession de Zone de Sensibilité Immatérielle - Rituel
Juillet 1962, Paris.
Sur l’île de la Cité, Yves Klein organise la cession d’oeuvres strictement mentales réalisées –un espace céleste saturé de bleu invisible- sous forme de zones de sensibilité picturale immatérielle échangées dan le cadre d’actions symboliques contre de l’or pur avec le nouveau propriétaire. Yves Klein remet alors un recu portant la mention de l’échange et jette l’or à la Seine.
Yves Klein affirme : pour que la valeur fondamentale immatérielle de la zone lui appartienne définitivement et fasse corps avec lui, le propriétaire doit brûler solennellement son reçu.
Il ne restait plus qu’au collectionneur qu’à s’exécuter.





“Following the Ritual Rules for the Transfer of areas of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, in 1962, a buyer could purchase a space saturated with invisible blue in exchange for pure gold. If the buyer decided to stop at this point, then Yves Klein would keep the gold and the buyer would received a special receipt that resembled a bank cheque. To fully “authenticate” the transferral and receive a zone of immateriality, however, the buyer would have to burn the receipt while Klein, in the presence of a director of an art museum, a well-known art dealer, or an art critic, and two other witnesses, would throw half the gold into a place from which it could not be retrieved, such as a river or an ocean. Only then would the “…fundamental value of the zone definitively belong [to the buyer] and become embodied by him…” The destruction of the receipt as a legal contract and the useless expenditure of pure gold left the buyer in possession of nothing but burning desire and his own body as a spatial zone.”

MY TRIBUTE TO VILLEGLE (2)

walls
all pictures by edfpl (c) 2007
all rights reserved

SCRIPTURES

le lycanthrope
jacques villeglé
1992

MY TRIBUTE TO VILLEGLE

I'm walking in the streets. I see lacerated posters on the walls. I'm dreaming. I'm taking pictures like a maniac. And I'm thinking of Jacques Villeglé. A constant source of inspiration, since many years....

OR

Since many years, I dream of a constant source during my daily walk. I'm lacerating posters in the Jacques Villeglé's streets. I'm taking pictures of the walls. And I'm thinking like a maniac...


walls serie
pictures by edfpl (c) 2006, 2007

WILD BOYS, RAPES AND BUBBLE-GUM

osiris
2005


osiris seat
2006

steve in camouflage
2005



osiris , ascent and fall
2006



dissolving prophesies
2007


ambiguous myth
2007


rape of osiris
2006



David Haines
born in 1969
lives at London & Amsterdam

pencils with chewing-gums, blood and mosquitos

BUT HER MAJESTY'S ROASTBEEF...

but her majesty's roastbeef wouldn't open for him
a London exposition @ Blow de la Barra gallery
by superm (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny)
july 2007

(all pictures by Slava Mogutin)

DANCING ON GRAVES

spin-out vortex
2000

death in america #6
2003

the no tittle painting
2003

artiste new-yorkais, lucide nécrophile et dernier romantique, Steven Parrino, présente un travail à la croisée de différents modes d’expression (corps, performance, cinéma expérimental, video, dessin, écriture, collage, musique et peinture) et de différentes cultures -low et high.
Sous le nom d’Electrophilia, il a produit des œuvres musicales –rock et électrique- en collaboration avec d’autres artistes tels Jutta Koether.
Son œuvre picturale immédiatement identifiable –souvent des monochromes (noir emprunté à Frank Stella, argent emprunté à Andy Warhol) résulte d’une attitude libertaire et punk et reflète, selon ses propos, la violence.

S’attaquant autant à la matière qu’au support, il questionne la peinture et son histoire ; il arrache la toile, la froisse, la distend, la disloque, la tord et la replace, froissée et parfois décadrée sur son chassis d’origine.
Sa violence à l’égard de la toile est, au final, une forme d’hommage punk à la peinture et à son histoire, réalisme et néo-réalisme, modernisme et post-modernisme, abstraction, monochromes, pop et post-pop…
En dépit de cette dimension chaotique et ‘déformalisée’, sa peinture ‘parle de la réalité à travers la peinture abstraite, parle de la vie’.

Steven Parrino est né en 1958 à New York et décédé en 2005.

untitled
1997

'take a walk on the dark side'

The artwork of Steven Parrino -a conscious last romantic- is at the junction of different disciplines (body, performance, experimental movie, video, drawings, writtings, collage, music and painting), at the intersection of different levels ov cultures –high and low.
He produced some musical pieces –rock and electric- under the name of Electrophilia in collaboration with other artists, such as Jutta Koether.
His work challenges painting as art, yet references its history : tearing off the canvas, crushing it, distending it, breakin up it, twisting it and putting again the canvas on the original chassis.
His work is an answer to the question 'What is left after the death of painting.
His violence could be considered like a kind of punk tribute to painting and art history ?' : realism and neo realism, modernism and post modernism, abstraction, monochroms, pop and post pop.

Steven Parrino was born in 1958 and died in a motorcycle accident in 2005.

(special thanx to R.A. for his help and his advices)