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
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Wang Du
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
Defacing Dictators
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:
Annie Kevans
Annie Kevans, Boys Series, Francois Duvalier, 2004, Oil on paper, 50 x 40 cm
While researching the images to use in upcoming exhibition Not Welcome from my Defacing Art Project, I found this artist that imagines portraits of dictators as boys. I found this approach to representation of power and sociopolitical systems very interesting:
“My paintings reflect my interests in power, manipulation and the role of the individual in inherited belief systems. It is important for me to examine the duality of truth and falsehood throughout my work, which I do by creating ‘portraits’ which may or may not be based on real documentation.
The series ‘Boys’, in which dictators were depicted as children, looked at purity and corruption and, in particular, the notion of the ‘Innocent Child’. The series ‘Girls’ looked at the continuing media-led sexualisation of childhood and raised questions about our collusion in the deification and commodification of female child stars, from Shirley Temple to Britney Spears. Whereas the boys had to make a name for themselves as Pol Pot or Hitler, the girls were found, sought out, and their image given to them. The process of self invention, innocence and culpability touches both series differently.”
Find out more here
Ludovic Le Couster & Sébastien Preschoux
Ludovic Le Couster and Sebastien Prechoux
While hicking on the the outskirts forests of Paris (right around where Vincent van Gogh lived his last days: Auvers Sur Oise) we found some installations while we were walking… later on that afternoon we met one of the artists doing the installations and were happy to talk installation art in the forest… I took a couple of pics to share… (information via comptineduquotidien)
See Italy and Die
L'origine du monde by Gustave Courbet
We were invited to the opening reception of See Italy and Die at the Musée d’Orsay and it was OK… but what we really liked was to walk on an empty museum without guards…(defacing was not on my head… not really!… OK maybe just a little) We stumble into some beauties by Degas and others…
Replay Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris is a chilling representation of an artist’s life with his replays where he did his self forgeries to get back at critics and buyers… learn more, google.
Yan Pei-Ming at the Louvre
Yan Pei-Ming - Mona Lisa’s Funeral
It was nice to see Yan Pei-Ming – Mona Lisa’s Funeral at the Louvre… A portrait of Ming’s Father alive, then Mona Lisa, then a portrait of Ming dead. I am not sure what it means but I would have liked to see Yan Pei Ming to try do Mona Lisa in his signature style and not just a reproduction with a couple of drips in her face. Read more here, Flickr it here
Portraits d’Amis Vernissage
Here is a few pictures of the Vernissage Portraits d’Amis, an exhibition at Galerie Jeune Creation by Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo. I made tried making portraits of friends and proposed for them to be errased by my friends, here are some pics of that performance.
Portraits d’Amis
Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo, Kofi, 39 x 31 inches, 100 x 80 cm, 2008, Charcoal and Acrylic on Canvas, before and after
Galerie Jeune Création
presents
“Portraits d’Amis”
Pablo González Trejo
Vernissage Thursday September 11th 2008, 18h00
Exhibition runs from September 12th to October 3rd 2008
Ten friends’ portraits made prior to the reception will be erased during the reception by the friends themselves.
6, Villa Guelma
75018 Paris, France
Métro Pigalle (L2)
Call for times and appointment 01 42 54 76 36
info@jeunecreation.org
www.jeunecreation.org
Black is Beautiful
Black is Beautiful is an exhibition we saw a couple of weeks ago in Amsterdam at the Nieuwe Kerk. I though it might interest you… it is an exhibition that covers the representation of blacks in the low countries art through the centuries… check out their exhibition statement.
