My Picture is a sum of Destructions

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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Christian Curiel

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

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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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Connected

Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo, Connected, 79 x 220 inches, 200 x 560 cm, 2009, Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas

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, 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, 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

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

Banksy

Thursday, August 20th, 2009
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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

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José Toirac

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
José Toirac

José Toirac

José Toirac defaces with his son portraits of socialists icons. read article here

Valerie Hegarty

Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Valerie Hegarty

Valerie Hegarty

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

Allison Schulnik

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Allison Schulnik, Big Wooly Monkey Head, Oil on Canvas, 60 x60 inches, 2008

Allison Schulnik, Big Wooly Monkey Head, Oil on Canvas, 60 x60 inches, 2008

I like Allison Schulnik’s artwork, more on him here

Mirela Popa Defacing

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Here is a small clip from the exhibition Portraits d’Amies at the opening reception on September 11th 2008.

 
Video by Françoise Ellong & David Wolfer

Un nouveau concept en art

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Tate Triennial 2009

Tate Triennial 2009, Photo by suziesparkle

Posted on Le Monde on 04/09/09
by Emmanuelle Lequeux

Le Français Nicolas Bourriaud aime les concepts et ce n’est pas ce qu’il fait de plus mal. Cet ancien directeur du Palais de Tokyo, le principal centre d’art en France, a profité de son exil londonien pour développer son nouveau credo dans le cadre d’une exposition à la Tate Britain.

Dans les années 1990, il a forgé l’idée d’”esthétique relationnelle” : voir les oeuvres pour les liens sociaux qu’elles tissent et produisent entre elles et non comme des objets d’art autonomes. Dans les années 2000, il a défini les plasticiens comme des “sémionautes” : navigateurs sur un océan de signes.

Sa nouvelle recherche est joliment intitulée “Altermodernisme”. Pour Bourriaud, les vingt-cinq dernières années du XXe siècle “furent un long épisode mélancolique. Les oeuvres d’art se sont définies comme un après : après le mythe du progrès, l’utopie révolutionnaire, la défaite du colonialisme, les luttes d’émancipations politiques, sociales et sexuelles”. Il faut revenir au présent. Le terme altermodernisme suggère “une multitude d’alternatives à une voie unique. L’alterglobalisation définit la pluralité des oppositions locales à la standardisation économique, et donc la lutte pour la diversité”.

Reste à illustrer ce propos avec des oeuvres d’artistes, tous “nomades culturels”. Un énorme champignon atomique érigé dans de la vaisselle en Inox par l’Indien Subodh Gupta dit le chambardement nécessaire à l’émergence de cette pensée nouvelle. La suite est plus confuse, et la pensée de Bourriaud s’avère difficile à suivre. Même si on y ressent que le déplacement, dans le temps et l’espace, vaut leitmotiv.

Citons les frappantes peintures inspirées à Franz Ackerman par ses voyages mondialisés, ou le sublime environnement de cristal liquide de Gustav Metzger, octogénaire qui fait chanter les murs en moirures et moisissures. Ou enfin Katie Paterson qui nous met en relation téléphonique avec un glacier en pleine fonte…

“Altermodern” : Tate Triennal 2009, Tate Britain, Millbank, Londres. Jusqu’au 26 avril.

Replay Giorgio de Chirico

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

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.

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Portraits d’Amis

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo, Kofi, 39 x 31 inches, 100 x 80 cm, 2008, Charcoal and Acrylic on Canvas, before and after

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

Francis Bacon

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Francis Bacon at Tate Modern was still great to see… I was very surprise not to see any Lucian Freud’s

Aurélie Tomas-Bouil

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Aurélie Tomas-Bouil, 130 x 162 cm

Check out the artwork of this artist living and working here in paris.

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Peter Doig

Sunday, May 4th, 2008


Peter Doig
, originally uploaded by pablogt.

Check out Peter Doig at Tate Modern. See him talk about his artwork here.

Laurent de Raucourt

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Laurent de Raucourt

Take a look a the artwork of a good friend of mine Laurent de Raucourt:

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