The e-Mona L Show
This entry was written by , posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:30 am, filed under Art, Folk. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Opening tomorrow! Join us for a drink
Tomorrow at LhGWR in The Hague, our Divas will be shown during the exhibition Somehow, somewhat in the middle of things.
Curated in collaboration with Hester Keijser (Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai), LhGWR presents a group exhibition with a remarkable international line-up, pairing work from both a non-Western and a Western background. At the heart of the exhibit lie a shared search for identity and the struggle for a place within society, challenging the boundaries that politics or social conventions has set. Point of departure has been the work of Mary Sibande (ZA) and Julia Gunther (DE), who both bring the role of black women in South Africa into view. Based on association, the line-up for the exhibition expanded to seven artists from a generation that has grown up to navigate with ease in a world gone global, hybrid, fragmented, and open to re-appropriation.
Participating artists: Mary Sibande, Newsha Tavakolian, Larissa Sansour, Waheeda Malullah, Pinar & Viola, Iris Vetter, Julia Gunther
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This entry was written by , posted on March 23, 2012 at 1:48 pm, filed under Art, Exhibition, Pinar&Viola, Vernissage. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
My home dog fly biscuit with peach jam on da side how ya popin?
A lil sneak peak from our next capsule collection 4EVA
The perfect girlfriend n boyfriend message service
In April, during Paradiso phone expo, we’ll launch 4EVA, our next capsule collection. A boyfriend n girlfriend message service. You can read more information about the event here.
This entry was written by , posted on March 22, 2012 at 5:53 pm, filed under Art, Digitalization, Ecstatic Surface Design, Exhibition, Internet, Pinar&Viola, Published, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
The Blonde Bombshell
This entry was written by , posted on March 18, 2012 at 12:25 am, filed under Art, Craftsmanship, Folk, Persona, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Woman’s day special edition, Shamsia Hassani
Shamsia Hassani and her friend and fellow artist Qasem Foushanji are Afghanistan’s first street artists who use graffiti to chronicle violence and oppression.
The female-male duo surreptitiously spray-paint the crumbling and dilapidated walls of buildings in the capital Kabul, abandoned and destroyed during 30 years of war that still rages today.
Talking of her woman on the steps, Shamsia Hassani, 24, said: “She is wondering if she can get up, or if she will fall down. Women in Afghanistan need to be careful with every step they take.”
The austere rule of the Taliban frowned upon painting and banned images depicting peoples’ faces, saying it was un-Islamic. They banned cinema, music and theatre outright.
Both Hassani and Foushanji said that stigma translates into harassment and disapproval from government officials. And like graffiti artists in other countries, they face attempts to stop them spray-painting public buildings.
Via dawn.com
This entry was written by , posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:54 am, filed under Art, Ghetto gold, Information Wars, Political glam, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Kazakh senator with JC
A Kazakhstan senator was shocked to discover his face painted onto a Cathedral fresco depicting men welcoming Jesus to Jerusalem. Sergey Kulagin was touring a new cathedral in Rudniy, in northwest Kazakhstan, near the Russian border, where until earlier this month he had been governor.
The centrepiece of the new cathedral’s interior was a large fresco on the dome depicting a group of robed and bearded men with Jesus.
But standing at the back of this crowd, clean shaven and jowly, was Mr Kulagin.
The fresco shows Mr Kulagin standing passively and wearing a pink robe with a blue sash. In front of him several men earnestly welcome Jesus, who is riding on a donkey. Behind Jesus are the 12 apostles.
The senator described the painting as “a sacrilege”.
This entry was written by , posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:03 pm, filed under Art, Decadence, Folk, Political glam, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
TV as a Fireplace, visions of tranquility
Still from TV as a Fire Place, Jan Dibbets (1969)
On the last eight evenings of 1969, WDR 3 television marked the close of transmission by broadcasting in colour the picture of a burning coal fire. There was no mention of the artist or the art character of the broadcast – and precisely this reticence enabled ‘TV as a Fireplace’ to blend into everyday life almost as if it had always been part of it. Dibbets demonstrated that TV is a collective experience. Even if lone viewers and families were in separate living-rooms, they were united, like prehistoric cave-dwellers, by a communal fire. The relaxation and diversion the piece offers is not dependent on this cultural-historical background, however, and it is hardly surprising that videotape cassettes of open hearth fires were commercially available 20 years later.
Two years ago, we made a proposal to Stedelijk Museum within the Visibly Absent project. The aim was to represent the contemporary commercial mutation of Jan Dibbet’s work. Instead, our other proposal, Les Rêves de la Perruche et de la Sirène was accepted. This post is also a commemoration to Marten Jongema, Stedelijk Museum‘s former curator, who left us last year in April. We miss you.
This entry was written by , posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:50 pm, filed under Art, Digitalization, Video. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Pièce de résistance
We discovered a shop of colorful clothes with allover printed reproductions of old masters. The title of this clothing line is all-encompassing: Famous Painters Wear. The enhanced quality of the textile prints levels with a glossy art book.
Famous Painters Wear sells their artful collection in Amsterdam on the Waterlooplein market and on their webshop.
This entry was written by , posted on January 22, 2012 at 12:31 pm, filed under Amsterdam, Art, Fashion, Folk, Other ecstatics. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Anna’s hyper zone
“The form of the Ensemble is my offer of interaction. It appears to some to be subjectivist, autistic, monomaniacal. And yet I would like to be a mediator between the different disciplines, between reason and sensual perception, between art and science, between ordinary citizen and outsider.” Anna Oppermann
Ensembles is the title that German artist Anna Oppermann (1940-1993) gave to her large-scale installations, they are a special mix of conceptual, processual, graphical, and spatial art.
Oppermann saw the world and human relations as “Ensembles,” as mutable constellations of perception and reflection, of norms, stories, emotions, and theories. Observing her private and social everyday life in detail, she sought to find objects, images, and concepts that seemed to her to encapsulate its abysses, absurdities, and areas of conflict. She made drawings, photographs, paintings, described what she found, she collected texts and quotations, and arranged all these components in Ensembles. These installations were photographed from various perspectives and in changing constellations and the photographs were then in turn integrated in new stagings, lending her works their unique openness.
This post is made possible by Jana Aylin.
This entry was written by , posted on January 20, 2012 at 4:37 pm, filed under Art, Other ecstatics, Photography, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Augustin Lesange
Augustin Lesange is a French Spiritualist artist (1876-1954). Lesage is one of the most fascinating figures associated with Art Brut.
By Christian Delacampagne: The first large painting of Augustin Lesage is one of the most daring in modern art. Although not, strictly speaking, non-figurative (figures both architectural and anthropomorphic abound), it explores almost all possibilities of abstraction—lyrical as well as geometric—at a time when the latter, among professional artists, was still in its infancy. They are no less ornamental and decorative than the works of Kandinsky, Lesage’s spiritual contemporary. Indeed, is the distance so great between the the Theosophy dear to the Russian artist and the Spiritualism embraced by the French? The former hearkens to Rudolf Steiner, the latter to Léon Denis.
This entry was written by , posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:57 pm, filed under Art. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
KIKI mania
Meet glorious glow-in-the-dark KIKI from Amsterdam, she dedicates her life to art, music and love.
Get some KIKI here: KIKI Art, KIKI Solo, Bimbo Hardrock.
This post is made possible by our most precious Christi Taartjesmaker.
This entry was written by , posted on December 10, 2011 at 2:58 pm, filed under Art, Fashion, Friends. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Plastic carboy as a new Art ideology
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