Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Pablo Picasso, Nude Woman with Necklace, 1968, drying oil and oil/alkyd on canvas, 1135mm x 1617mm. Tate Gallery, London (cat. no. T03670) being examined with a stereo microscope.microscope. © Succession Picasso/DACS 1999. Photograph by Fotini Koussiaki.
The old days’ pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture – then I destroy it. In the end, though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.
Statement by Pablo Picasso, 1935
I can hardly understand the importance given to the word research in connection with modern painting. In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing. Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the pocketbook that fortune should put in his path. The one who finds something no matter what it might be even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration.
Statement by Pablo Picasso, 1923
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010

I participated at the Pecha Kucha Paris volume 12 – Haiti / Lendemain(s) last saturday. The experience was something new for me… I spoke like a timid guy…maybe this is what I am… See the video stream here I am at the end of the conference.
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Coming out soon ‘Welcome to the Feast’ a documentary by John McNulty tracing an american cultural diaspora to an old art capital (Paris).
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Monday, October 19th, 2009

Hélène Mougin, a dear friend and artist now showing her interesting artwork at the box


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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Christian Curiel, a miami artist who’s work I discovered last year is in Paris for a solo show… more here


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Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Ajit Chauhan does some art defacing by sanding out all faces of album covers… comes to you via artinfo


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Monday, October 12th, 2009

See more on Milana Braslavsky’s artwork via Colectiva
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Monday, October 12th, 2009

Krištof Kintera
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Michael Zavros, Debaser/Belstaff, 2007, 122 x 86 cm, charcoal on paper
Michael Zavros does some art defacing to beautifully rendered fashion guys… see more here
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo, Connected, 79 x 220 inches, 200 x 560 cm, 2009, Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas
Join me for a defacing performance November 4th at 7:30 pm at Le 104CENTQUATRE as part of my ongoing Defacing Art Project.
Exhibition runs from November 4th to the 8th, 2009. Vernissage opening starts at 6:00 pm
Le 104CENTQUATRE
104 rue d’Aubervilliers / 5 rue Curial 75019 Paris
M : Stalingrad (ligne 2) , Crimée ou Riquet (ligne 7)
Vélib’: bornes rue d’Aubervilliers, rue Curial, rue Riquet

Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo, Marilyn Monroe, 77 x 51 inches, 195 x 130 cm, 2009, Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas

Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo, JFK, 77 x 51 inches, 195 x 130 cm, 2009, Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas

Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo, Bay of Pigs, 79 x 118 inches, 200 x 300 cm, 2009, Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009

I still love Fito Paez and Tatuaje Falso
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

I continue my preemptive Defacing in Paris at this cool studio with a beautiful light. What do JFK, Marilyn Monroe and some unknown soldiers at Bay of Pigs have to do together? this is a triptych I am working on… linking an orgy from the past.


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