Find here some pictures from last Venice Biennale 2009

See some Christian Boltanski’s pictures in Monumenta 2010. I liked this odd exhibition but like always… so far, so close. January 1st, 2010, my soon to be family in law had breakfast with Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager. These are artists that I will love to meet … but no luck. I’ll tell you the story. My future parents in law run a beautiful bed & breakfast (La Maison du Cordon) in a small town in Burgundy (Aignay-le-Duc) where a very important french artist lives (Bertand Lavier) … so far this reads like an art fairy tale and you will tell me it is not possible… but yes, they came to spend new year’s eve with Lavier and so they slept in my parents in law’s B&B. I think next New Year’s eve I will spend it in Burgundy … just in case.

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

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

Some cool Ad Art Defacing by Princess Hijab via rebelart

See more on Milana Braslavsky’s artwork via Colectiva

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

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.

Greg Sand, Likeness, Liquid Paper on antique photographs, 11" x 14"

Greg Sand does some digital defacing as well as some Liquid Paper defacing to find identity… he comes to us via acido latte

Eric Rondepierre, W189, tirage argentique sur aluminium, 47 x 70 cm, 1993-1995.

Eric Rondepierre finds frames eroded or defaced by time and the projector. find out more on him here

Valerie Hegarty

Valerie Hegarty does some kind of defacing… and comes to you via Acido Latte

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang comes to you via Acido Latte

Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare come to you via Acido Latte

Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson comes to you via acido latte

Dirk Skreber

Dirk Skreber comes to you via acido latte

Damián Ortega deconstructs, see more on him here

Jonathan Monk, Deflated Sculpture no. II, 2009, Stainless steel

Jonathan Monk’s artwork at Casey Kaplan Gallery seems/is like a defaced Jeff koons… more here

Warhol TV

As an undisclosed Warhol fan, fan, fan, I was extremely happy to see Warhol TV and all his media experiments with all these cool artist (except Courtney Love)

Wang Du, International Kebab, 2008, Rotating Installation

Wang Du’s International Kebab, a rotating installation where the public is invited to attack the art work with a bread cutting knife falls in the Defacing movement that I keep referencing in this blog. Can anybody else see it happening? More on Wang Du at La Force de l’art here

Drawing my friends for the second defacing project was an interesting and enriching process where I tried to match my perception of their personality with their portrait and that was quite a reminiscent approach that in most cases brought me a smile. Drawing dictators is dangerous proposition… in my case… I fell empathy for these guys while I was drawing them, I felt under their charisma. I never thought this would be possible. Hence the need to preempt the Defacing process… here are some samples and a couple of studio pics: