untitled (2000),
works on paper
Nayland Blake
11/02/2008
8/23/2008
6/18/2008
5/27/2008
NEW
Slava Mogutin , the notorious russian subversive star returns with a second monograph (after Lost Boys). NYC GoGo, something defined like 'a tribute to the Golden Age ov New-York City nightlife.'
A book published by powerHouse Books with an essay of Bruce Benderson.
More about NYC GoGo, HERE.
5/14/2008
4/25/2008
4/15/2008
4/12/2008
4/10/2008
4/04/2008
ANIMALS
I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974performance
Joseph Beuys
Beuys’s most famous Action took place in May 1974, when he spent three days in a room with a coyote. After flying into New York, he was swathed in felt and loaded into an ambulance, then driven to the gallery where the Action took place, without having once touched American soil. As Beuys later explained: ‘I wanted to isolate myself, insulate myself, see nothing of America other than the coyote.’ The title of the work is filled with irony. Beuys opposed American military actions in Vietnam, and his work as an artist was a challenge to the hegemony of American art.
Beuys’s felt blankets, walking stick and gloves became sculptural props throughout the Action. In addition, fifty new copies of the Wall Street Journal were introduced each day, which the coyote acknowledged by urinating on them. Beuys regularly performed the same series of actions with his eyes continuously fixed on the coyote. At other times he would rest or gather the felt around him to suggest the figure of a shepherd with his crook. The coyote’s behaviour shifted throughout the three days, becoming cautious, detached, aggressive and sometimes companionable. At the end of the Action, Beuys was again wrapped in felt and returned to the airport.
Beuys’s felt blankets, walking stick and gloves became sculptural props throughout the Action. In addition, fifty new copies of the Wall Street Journal were introduced each day, which the coyote acknowledged by urinating on them. Beuys regularly performed the same series of actions with his eyes continuously fixed on the coyote. At other times he would rest or gather the felt around him to suggest the figure of a shepherd with his crook. The coyote’s behaviour shifted throughout the three days, becoming cautious, detached, aggressive and sometimes companionable. At the end of the Action, Beuys was again wrapped in felt and returned to the airport.
3/29/2008
3/25/2008
LOST LIGHTS
pictures by edfpf (c) 2007
(all rights reserved (in hell))
(all rights reserved (in hell))
mon repos, 2007
les arques (france)
2007 (lost), group show by atelier des arques
curated by chiara parisi
Claude Lévêque
(with thoughts for my neighbour, moreismore)
3/22/2008
SPRINGTIME FLOWERS
untitled, 2007
mixed media
from Blooming - A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things, an exhibition at Collection Lambert, Avignon (France) during Summer 2007.
Cy Twombly
3/16/2008
HISTORY OF PORTRAIT
Vito Acconci in the US Marine Platoon Leader Corps - Quantico, VA 1959
(for VA : Rehearsals for Architecture), 1959
Vito Acconci
3/11/2008
3/09/2008
MODERN SHAMANIC EXPERIENCE
24th type of ambiguity #98
16th type of ambiguity #117
12th type of ambiguity #3
11th type of ambiguity #26
10th type of ambiguity #7
5th type of ambiguity #15
4th type of ambiguity #11
2d type of ambiguity #22
1st type of ambiguity #2
all photographies by Thierry Kupferschmid
Thierry Kupferschmid is born in 1970 at Lausanne (Switzerland) and he lives at Lausanne and New-York (USA).
His artwork (drawings, paintings, photographies, performances) explores the borders between human beings and natural elements (mineral, vegetal, animal), and btw it asks about what is exactly the human conditions. Like a modern shaman, he tries to change and to mute anger, frustrations and desires into creative energies.
His artwork (drawings, paintings, photographies, performances) explores the borders between human beings and natural elements (mineral, vegetal, animal), and btw it asks about what is exactly the human conditions. Like a modern shaman, he tries to change and to mute anger, frustrations and desires into creative energies.