Check out Alex Prager’s photos here

Yesterday I went to a cool Vernisage of a group show called Corps à Faire at Galerie Jeune Creation were I saw a cool performance I did not understand where the shapes reminded me of an old Max Ernst painting.

The poetics of an empty landscape. I am happy to congratulate my good friend Guillaume Lemarchal for being awarded the HSBC grant. He is currently showing at Galerie Michèle Chomette and you can see a couple of shoots of his show here below. more on him here

©Shirin Neshat. Courtesy Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.

Recently, I saw an exhibition by Shirin Neshat at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont where we can see two amazing new color cinematographic videos entitled Munis and Faezeh, these two videos were of an enigmatic beauty rare in contemporary art today. Those of you who saw her work at MAM may remember how most of her videos were black and white, youtube her here if you want to catch a few reminders, but these new color films are color corrected in such a fine and delicate way that I was surprised and immersed in it… like a boy with cartoons… The colors were soft pastels colors. The subject matter of the two videos are based on Women Without Men, a novel by the Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipu depicting the perception of a young Iranian woman during the summer of 1953 in Iran’s political unrest and a psychological breakdown of a Muslim woman following a sexual assault. The two videos are stuning and remain in my mind even a few days later. I recommend you try to see this recent works when it comes to your town.

The new large scale photographs, some seen here below, which mainly feature portraits of middle east men and women have been hand tagged in Persian calligraphy. The large images take a position of a face to face confrontation with a culture that remains covered by the Media and rarely seen in contemporary art. I liked them!

Take a look at this contemporary artist Harald Fernagu. I went to school with him and I appreciate him very much, also the site was is my latest using css, flash and php, take a look here

This weekend we walked lots in the city and found just like that the Swiss Cultural Center where we saw an exhibition that included Lukas Wassmann, some friends of mine said it is gratuitous violent and sexual art and that it is all we see these days including my stuff … I happened to like it…

Someone posted Matthew Barney’s Cremaster (4 and 5) xvids on quicksilver… check it out here and here, more on cremaster here

Jay Ore, originally uploaded by pablogt.

Jay Ore… a miami artist that sees ufos… take a look at his site here

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The colors have arrived… go fetch here

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Sigmar Polke is the master… king of the biennale… it felt like he had the most wall space of any other artist, long time ago (97) I saw his retrospective in Germany with a title that never left me… The Three Lies of Painting, his exhibition made me changed my way of seeing painting… back then and today confirms it… his work is it for me… read about him here