FACES

kirsten, star, 1997
C-print on plexiglass


Inez VAN LEMSWEERDE


Visit Air de Paris Gallery (Paris), HERE, to see more work of Van Lemsweerde


"the face is more enigma than answer. No sooner do we think we have grasped it than it escapes."

AMERICA AMERICA (2)

US surpasses all the genocide records, 1968
flag poster

George Maciunas
(Fluxus)

PROMISED LAND

mutated pipe, 1989
(MMK Frankfurt)

Cady Noland

PAUL & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

chocolate santa, 2007
chocolate

Paul McCarthy

Chocolate Santa is 10" and is made with 14 oz. of Guittard semi-sweet dark chocolate and comes with a podium. Chocolate Santa is $100.

World-renowned american enfant terrible Paul McCarthy, together with Maccarone Gallery in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth, has embarked on a project that will transform the 6,000 square-foot Maccarone Gallery into a completely functional Chocolate Factory and retail store open to the public seven days a week from mid-November through the end of 2007.
The gallery will be divided into four sections: retail store, chocolate manufacturing, packaging and storage. The factory will produce 1,000 chocolate figurines daily, a new chocolate iteration of the iconic (ironic?) "Santa" sculpture exhibited at Art Basel in June 2007.
In preparation for the transformation of the location into a retail-factory setting, the gallery underwent extensive alteration, including replacing plumbing, electrical and HVAC to meet New York City Code and manufacturing requirements, as well as purchasing and installing the finest professional chocolate manufacturing equipment. The melting, tempering, molding, and other processes will be visible to visitors through observation windows. A conveyor belt will move the chocolates throughout the space, from the manufacturing hub, to packing and storage. The remaining portion of the gallery is devoted to retail sales.

More details @ PeterPaul Chocolates, HERE.

ANDY SAID...

some Warhol photostrips
(courtesy ov Warhol Foundation)



Drella said :


Being born is like being kidnapped and then sold into slavery.

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous."

Sex is most exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to earn how to be babies longer.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

TO THINK LIKE A...

gun, c. 1981/1982

Andy Warhol



When you’ve begun to think like a gun
The days of the year have suddenly gone
Once you’ve begun to think like a gun
The days of the year have already gone

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

target, 2006

Brian Kenny

NEONS (7)

hooligan, 2006
neon tube


Claude Lévêque

PLAY TIME

espace ballons, 1990

Gérard Deschamps

SKIN FLICK

true north, 1989
oil on canvas

Attila Richard Lukacs

PRAYER BY UNCLE BILLY

thanksgiving prayer,
a poem read by William S. Burroughs,
and filmed by Gus Van Sant, nov 28 1986

Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts.


Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving the
carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves
and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until
the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK.

For nigger-killin' lawmen,
feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women,
with their mean, pinched, bitter,
evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for
Christ" stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the
war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where
nobody's allowed to mind the
own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the
memories-- all right let's see
your arms!

You always were a headache and
you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest
betrayal of the last and greatest
of human dreams.

WANNA BE YOUR DOG

family of the future, 2000-2006
colour photography

Oleg Kulik

"The realization of oneself a s a the body is a fundamental difference of the man from animals".
Jaques Lacan

DETAILS

Larry Clark

INSTINCTS

instincts, 2007


Claude Lévêque

NEONS (6)

Strike (K. font V.I), 2007
tubes fluorescent, red gelatine filters, wall-mounted steel frame, movement detector and circuit-breaker

Claire Fontaine (Fulvia Carnevale & James Thornhill)


courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel
photo : Claire Fontaine

THIS KID...

one day, this kid...

David Wojnarowicz

WILD BOYZ, WOLVES AND SKULLS

Heartworms, 2004
gouache and paper on board



Black Shuck I, 2007
watercolor on paper

Scott Treleaven



“It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin… [it is] intended to produce very definite results.”
William S. Burroughs


Scott Treleaven is a Toronto-based artist, a filmmaker, a visual artist and a writer. And also the founder ov the famed, mysterious and magickal zine ‘This is The Salivation Army’, a ‘paganfaggotpunk’ zine featuring the adventures ov a mystical gang ov mutineeres.
His artwork is placed under heavy references : William Blake, Aleister Crowley and his cryptic invocations, William Burroughs and his wild boyz’ teams, Brion Gysin, Kenneth Anger, the radical-queer-punk filmmaker Derek Jarman and at last, the pandrogynous creature Genesis Breyer P. Orridge.
His collages and paintings are mixing shirtless wild guyz, flowers, skulls, alchemical symbols and wolves.

more Treleaven's artwork, HERE.
Freedom Ov Salivation, a text by Genesis P. Orridge, HERE.

HEROES

(1)

(2)


(3)


(1) - last riot 2 (tondo #13), 2006
(2) - last riot 2 (tondo #22), 2005-2006
(3) - last riot 2 (tondo #3), 2005

digital impressions

AES+F

“The heroes of new epos have only one identity, the identity of the rebel of last riot. The last riot , where all are fighting against all and against themselves, where no difference exists any more between victim and aggressor, male and female. This world celebrates the end of ideology, history and ethic.”



AES+F is a collective formed by Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky & Vladimir Fridkes.
The collective lives and works at Moscow and features a multimedia artwork (video, photography, drawings), these artists use to subvert reality with new technologies and feature an apocalyptic description ov our post-modern era.

GOLDEN SHOWER

in the piss, 1997

Gilbert & George

10 commandments by G& G

Thou shalt fight conformism
Thou shalt be the messenger of freedoms
Thou shalt make use of sex
Thou shalt reinvent life
Thou shalt create artificial art
Thou shalt have a sense of purpose
Thou shalt not know exactly what thou dost, but thou shalt do it
Thou shalt give thy love
Thou shalt grab the soul
Thou shalt give something back

MIGRATION

curry 2 (4), 2005
stainless steel


curry 2, 2005
stainless steel



Subodh Gupta,

"Subodh Gupta is one of India’s most prolific artists and has participated in numerous highly-acclaimed international exhibitions. Gupta works in a wide range of mediums from sculpture and painting to installation, photography, video and performance. He elevates the status of found objects from everyday items to artworks; using the products of rural India such as cow dung, milk buckets, kitchen utensils, scooters, guns and gulal powder as his materials. The objects that Gupta chooses to work with refer to the current state of India’s shifting society, migration, a sense of home and place and the effects and frictions caused by a rapidly globalising society. Because of his subject matter and materials Gupta effectively manages to communicate on both a local and global level. "

from Manchester International Festival, catalog (2007)