The more I see movies that include Isabelle Huppert’s talents, the more I realize that she can easily be the subject of inspiration for infatuation, crazed, fascination and obsession. As redundant as all these adjectives may seem, I do mean their subtle and different meanings.

The more I see her movies, the more it is evident to me that the following characteristics appear again and again. She knows what she wants; she seduces à volonté, she is always ready to make herself happy, to fulfill her sexual desires without a care of her love ones, basically ready to deceive. She is smart, witty and manipulating. She is always ready to smile at a joke and play with hidden and private humor. She is always lovely. She feels her emotions all the way without self-consciousness. She is always ready for the unthinkable. She is trully all the way or no way, ready to play. She is ultra human. I have the impression that her true personality is not far from her multiple representations of herself in other movie characters.

Now, before starting this text, I of course googled her and found, not to my surprise, that she has being used for multiple infatuation acts by contemporary artists for what seems a couple decades already, many artists have capture her magic in photos and the latest seems to be Roni Horn where she portraits Isabelle in only facial expressions of her different movie roles, truly a masterpiece idea. Please visit the examples here to see my point: a, b, c, d.

Not realizing this, when I started this text, I had already painted her, well only her legs in a scene from I Heart Huckabees. I painted that painting because of the extreme erotic desire I felt when I saw that scene, which of course was not properly translated to oil but I felt this image could decipher as a single icon a part of our existence as well as going towards my wish of the portrayal of today’s desires.

Recently I leaped in to the hd bliss of Voom and its Gallery Channel. …Originally I came to it thinking it would be a dumb down channel for the masses, but quickly discovered this channel is closely tied up to the German/French celebrated and my favorite ARTE channel and of course it is all but dumb. I was dumb to assume this,…you will say!.

Quickly I was watching Julian Schnabel at his studio doing his oversized stuff, Kim Young Jim in Korea doing his amazing fluid realtime videos and Tony Oursler recording his videos. Now, you have to understand that I watch lots of movies in my tv but most of the time I do not watch flipping channels tv, and I have never up to this point watch any of the so called reality tv… but I was quickly seduced to see Jeffrey Deitch from Deitch Projects host a reality tv show called Artstar, a tv program where 8 emerging artists try to become a star… in our little niche?!… in 30 days, non the less!. It was very reminiscent to see the artists get another asshole by art critic Barbara Pollock and to see Jeff Koons in; what I imagine has to be his most diplomatic side, give artists suggestions on how to be a trendy artist. It was fun to see inside the studios of real artstars like Koons’ many painters assistants, as well as inside the studios of Kehinde Wiley, Ryan McGinness and Jon Kessler. I am not sure how long this show has being running but I am now one artstar reality tv fan(believer).

ps: for those of you who are tech cool, I have dvred this episode and soon will be sharing it on my msn messenger shared folder, send me an email if you want to get access to it. By the way, I like the girl with dreadlocks on the floor and be careful, the blonde on the right is a guy.

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Dr Andy Warhola has a Phd in Sensitivity in the Arts and if the arts gives you the shits this series is made for you! Art? Why is it so stupid? Architects? Why do they hate clients? Dr Andy tells you what it’s all about and what’s NOT art!

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The surprising thing of his podcast for me is that I agree with most of it myself.

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Here is what happens to artists when they work for Art Galleries, Art Centers and Museums for long; they drink a beer! What else did you expect? Suicide? Although it is almost recommended, we just keep going on the sidelines, making the art centers and recognized artist’s dreams come true.

 

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