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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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.

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

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

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

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

Krištof Kintera

Find out more on Krištof Kintera here

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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

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 still love Fito Paez and Tatuaje Falso

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.

Banksy, Vandalised Phone Box, 2005

Banksy defaces Hirst as well as others… Defacing art seems a strong tendancy now more than ever…

Included in the Sotheby’s auction at Larry Gagosian’s Chelsea digs, is the vandalized phone booth that Banksy installed on a street in the UK in 2005. If memory serves correct about this piece, an old lady remarked that crazy art students were always out of control. Another is a defaced Damien Hirst Pharmaceutical (spot) painting, tited ‘KEEP IT SPOTLESS’. Expect this lot (34) to break any auction record Banksy bidders had set previously. The auction, which is on Valentines Day includes many other notable lots (veritably a who’s who’s of contemporary art), including Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Andreas Gursky, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, and Marc Quinn.  via TWBE

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

Steve Haslip, Bipolar Chair

See more on Steve Haslip here

Read article at guardian.co.uk about Orlan here