10/30/2007

FACES


Laurent, 2004

Christophe Beauregard


au putain inconnu, 1973

Michel Journiac

NEONS (5)


Ouray II, 2004
neon


Bertrand Lavier
courtesy Bertrand Lavier, galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

10/28/2007

MONSTERS & CO


Amaryllis, 2002

Lee Bul

10/25/2007

PISS & LOVE


Piss Christ, 1987

Andres Serrano

WALLS (3)


walls (R)

all pictures by edfpl (c) 2006
all rights reserved (in hell)

MOON LOVERS (1)





private moon, 2004-2005

Leonid Tishkov and B. Bendikov

10/23/2007

WHY DID YOU ABANDON ME ?


oil painting

Val Denham

Discover the strange and beautiful world ov Val Denham (collages, drawings and paintings) 'a musician and a tranny poet with compulsive disorder', HERE.

10/21/2007

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES


Bidibidobidiboo, 1996

Maurizio Cattelan

IMPOSSIBLE FAREWELL


L'Adieu Impossible, 2006

Les Deux Garçons

10/19/2007

DROPS OV HAPPINESS


My Lonsesome Cowboy, 1998

Takashi Murakami

10/18/2007

NEONS (4)


M_US_EUM, 2007
neon and video

TJ Norris

10/17/2007

THERE'S A WAR...


Iraq War Memorial featuring the Death of Prince Harry, the Martyr of Maysan Province, 2007
bronze sculpture, Union Jack flag and flowers

Daniel Edwards

A sculpture of a dead and mutilated Prince Harry is set to stun the British public.

The artwork, which features the second-in-line to the Windsor throne laid out on a slab with pennies on his eyes and his ears cut off, will be unveiled at the Bridge Art Fair at the Trafalgar Hotel in London next Thursday.

The memorial features 'Harry' laid out in front of the Union Jack with his head resting on a Bible and a bloodied Welsh flag in his hands while his gun remains holstered.

The statue is earless because militia leaders threatened to send him back to Britain without them: bronze castings of the ears will also be displayed and are set to be auctioned on eBay.

SLF-PORTRAITS (1)


Self Suck, 2007
collage

Gio Black Peter

And more (drawings, photographs, collages and news ov Black Peter Group), HERE.

10/15/2007

NEONS (3)


anormal, 2007
neon


Claude Lévêque

10/14/2007

IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM !


They are coming to get you Barbara, 2006-2007
wood, speakers, cd

Philippe Comtesse

LOVE STORY


Giulietta, 1993
crashed alfa-romeo

Bertrand Lavier

10/13/2007

PAINT IT, RED


Kreuzwegstation, 2005
acrylic on canvas

Hermann Nitsch

The Saatchi Gallery features an interesting selection of splatter paintings by H. Nitsch, HERE.

NEONS (2)


Péter la forme, 2006
orange neon & box

Anne-Marie Jugnet & Alain Clairet

10/12/2007

WALLS (2)


walls (face)

all pictures by edfpl (c) 2005
all rights reserved (in hell)

ABOUT DESIRES & DEATH


Incorruptible Flesh, 2007
Ron Athey

"Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love."

"Man goes constantly in fear of himself. His erotic urges terrify him."
Georges Bataille


Ron Athey continues to explore the relationships between death and desire, sexuality and politics. After the incredible performance at Nancy (Self Obliteration : Double Bill with Dominic Johnson. Read the french review by Marie Lechner, Liberation, HERE) during Souterrain Porte IV Festival, this amazing modern queer shaman will offer us a new part ov 'Ecstatic' performances' serie at the Abode Of Chaos (Lyon) invited by Thierry Ehrmann, the 13th october.

YOUR BODY


your body is a battleground, 1989
collage

Barbara Kruger

NEONS (1)



Egoiste, 2000
neon

Sylvie Fleury

10/10/2007

FALL'S FRAGRANCES


we filled our pockets with dry leaves
window prints
by Jonsi Birgisson & Alex Somers




Jonsi Birgisson (Sigur Ros) has started with his friend, Alex Somers, a new side project called Riceboy Sleeps. It's more an multi-art project than a band. They have put together a book tittled Riceboy Sleeps, forty-eight pages ov poetical and melancholic images. They feature their precious work @ Gertrude Contemporary Art Space at Melbourne (oct.12 / nov.10).

ANIMALS


News of the Wolf (I), 2007

Becky Beasley

"Beasley's work addresses the question of time: what is worth photographing, what should be remembered in the future ? (...) By choosing the unexpected, undervalued and overlooked, she questions the value of the objective, obsessive archiving of our contemporary society in an attempt to fight amnesia. Combining a documentary look with fictional writing and studio ‘portraits' of object, Beasley succeeds in making the viewer pause and, among other things, reflect upon our mechanisms of memory and melancholia."
by Roos Gortzak

...and the Beasley's labyrinth, HERE.

10/08/2007

ME, MYSELF & I (3)


untitled (self-portrait experience - the desk), 2005
by edfpl
all rights reserved

WALLS




walls (dimanche 7 / juin200fr / guitar heroe)
all pictures by edfpl (c) 2006, 2007
all rights reserved

INFINITY & DOTS


Infinity Mirrored Room (rain in early spring 2002), 2002

Yayoi Kusama
(born in 1929)

...and a Kusama's portfolio, HERE.

10/06/2007

ME, MYSELF & I (2)


untitled (self-portrait experience - blue), 2007
by edfpl
all rights reserved

ICARUS' WINGS


icarus, 04/13/1973
Venice, California

Chris Burden

A 18:00, trois spectateurs invités arrivèrent dans mon atelier. L'espace ne faisaient que 5 m sur 8 et était bien éclairé par la lumière naturelle. Ne portant aucun vêtement, je suis arrrivé d'une petite pièce du fond. Deux assistants ont posé sur chacune de mes épaules deux plaques de verre rectangulaire de 1,90 m. Les plaques descendaient sur le sol à angle droit. Les assistants les ont aspergées d'essence. En reculant, ils ont jeté des allumettes pour enflammer l'essence. Après quelques secodnes, j'ai fait un bond en avant en laissant le verre s'écraser au sol. Je suis retourné ensuite vers la petite pièce du fond.


At 6 pm, three invited spectators came to my studio. The room was fifteen by twenty-five feet and well lit by natural light. Wearing no clothes, I entered the space from a small room at the back. Two assistants lifted onto each shoulder one end of six foot sheets of plate glass. The sheets sloped onto the floor at right angles from my body. The assistants poured gasoline down the sheets of glass. Stepping back, they threw matches to ignite the gasoline. After a few seconds, I jumped up, sending the burning glass crashing to the floor. I walked into the back room.

DARK SIDE


untitled sequence
graphite on paper

Marc Hulson

begun in 1998, untitled sequence of drawings is a (hypothetically) endless series. Each identical in size and medium, and returning continually to variations on the same themes. The drawings are intented to work as a whole from which continual rearrangements, regroupings, episodes and subsets can be formed.

INDUSTRIAL ART FOR INDUSTRIAL PEOPLE


Machine turn quickly (1916/1918)
tempera on paper

Francis Picabia (1879-1953)

10/04/2007

LOVE SONG


untiled (perfect lovers) (1987-1990)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
2 commercial clocks

BIG HEAD


Medusa's Head (1990)
Chris Burden (born 1946)
Plywood, steel, cement, rock, model railroad trains and tracks

10/01/2007

ME, MYSELF & I (1)


untitled (self-portrait experience), 2006
by edfpl
all rights reserved

BODY & POLITICS


hanging rubberman #4 (2002)





head (2004)

rubberman (2002)

all artworks by Monica Majoli.
Born in 1963, lives in Los Angeles (California)

Monica Majoli's figurative paintings from the early 1990s to the present have depicted scenes of sexual fetishism— painstakingly actuated self-portraits with dildos or claustrophobically populated representations of S&M encounters between men. But she focuses less on the transcription of physical experience than on the suggestion of its most obdurate, if ineffable, psychological aspects and ramifications. Investigating themes and rituals of identity, intimacy, and mortality, Majoli's work is both a site for catharsis and an admission of its irresolution.
from 2006 Whitney Biennal's catalogue