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Nicholas Jones & Dan Tague via Art MoCo
There is fabulous interview with Australian artist Nicholas Jones over at Design Files, along with numerous photos of his work. Jones makes intricate sculptures out of old books, an elaborate series of cuts and folds.
Dan Tague’s prints of folded cash first look like crumpled up money, but when the viewer takes a moment to read the message created by carefully folding the bill just so, all is revealed. Via Notcot.
A Short Video Of Anthony Lister’s Painting Process 
Nice Banksy video w/Massive Attack in the background…Can’t really go wrong….
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We covered the amazing Ron Mueck several months ago right here at Dogmatic and now some more amazing photos of his work have surfaced.
Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi’s living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say, Mueck’s one of the leading contemporary artists of today.
His early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children’s television and films, notably the film “Labyrinth” staring Bowie. Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry. This eventually led him to conclude, “photography pretty much destroys the physical presence of the original object”, and so he turned to fine art, in particular, sculpture.
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Ron Mueck (Australian, b. 1958). Two Women, 2005. Mixed media, 33 1/2 x 18 7/8 x 15 in. (85.1 x 47.9 x 38.1 cm). Glenn Fuhrman Collection, New York
220 NEW YORK ARTISTS ARE SUDDENLY HOMELESS . . .YOU CAN HELP!
10-25-07 POST KEYWORDS: New York, Artists, Evicted, Help, NY1, SVA, Artsucks.com, Cojo
Doesn’t it suck when artists get fucked over? Some of my former SVA classmates contacted me over the last couple of days about a pretty serious situation involving 220 or so disfranchised tenants of an artist loft in Queens. 80-90 percent of the residents were artists of some sort; writers, photographers, designers, people in the fashion industry, art teachers, musicians, as well as painters and sculptors ( Many had pets, many were SVA alumni).
Here is an exclusive first hand description of what happened from one of my fellow alums detailing exactly what went down from the tenants’ perspective, and how you can help this artist community the city forgot. . . - CONTINUE READING
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| From the Bronx to Brooklyn, the second PERFORMA biennial inundates New York with four weeks of performance art events by more than 90 artists, touching down at 50-odd institutions, both established and emerging. Organized by performance art guru RoseLee Goldberg, PERFORMA 07 promises to restore a salient aspect of New York’s artistic legacy with a major retrospective of Allan Kaprow, various panel discussions, “late-night get-togethers” at select bars, PERFORMA TV streaming on the Internet, PERFORMA Radio, and even historical re-enactments by Eva and Franco Mattes in the virtual realm of Second Life.Ten commissioned works anchor the biennial, including an ambitious project by Italian provocateur Francesco Vezzoli, whose one-night, star-studded restaging of Luigi Pirandello’s 1917 play Right You Are (If You Think You Are) in the Guggenheim’s rotunda kicked off the festival. As with PERFORMA 05, the projected image is important to many artists’ work; Daria Martin builds her structuralist film Harpstrings and Lava from improvisational sessions with harpist Zeena Parkins and dancer Nina Fog, while Nathalie Djurberg’s new claymation film, performed with live accompaniment, depicts the grisly story of children fending off angry canines.
Dance also plays a central role in many of the commissioned works, including Kelly Nipper’s Floyd on the Floor — a hurricane-inspired work with a gigantic parachute — at the legendary Judson Church. In the atrium of 590 Madison Avenue, Mexican artist Carlos Amorales‘ 400-piece wooden platform, Spider Web Negative (stage), resonates with subsonic frequencies as a feral-costumed Galia Eibenschutz interacts with the sculpture and viewers. At the Hudson Theater, conceptual-dance pioneer-turned-heady filmmaker Yvonne Rainer draws inspiration for RoS Indexical from Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring. London-born filmmaker Isaac Julien enlists choreographer Russell Maliphant’s troupe to transform three of his multichannel epics — True North, Fantôme Afrique, and Small Boats — into a live performance at BAM. In a multisensory extravaganza at Performance Space 122, Brooklyn noise-rock band Japanther present a wry rock opera with a set designed by Dan Graham and frenetic dance by Robbinschilds. Sanford Biggers explores the complex legacy of early 20th-century minstrel shows in his multimedia, multi-performer work The Somethin’ Suite at the Box, and Adam Pendleton presents an experimental sermon, created with playwright Larry Kramer and poets Paolo Javier and Leslie Scalapino, for the music and spoken-word event The Revival at the Stephan Weiss Studio. PERFORMA 07 also hosts Beijing-based arts organization Long March Project, which sponsors its own range of events, including The Thunderstorm Is Slowly Approaching by artist Qiu Zhijie, featuring multimedia works and a dragon dance, a series of panels at Harlem’s Studio Museum, and conceptualist Xu Zhen’s performance In Just a Blink of an Eye at James Cohan Gallery. (HGM) PERFORMA continues in New York City through November 20. PERFORMA Radio broadcasts on WFMU 91.5, while PERFORMA TV streams live online for the duration of the biennial. |
Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man
Over twenty years, in 1986, some friends set fire to an effigy on a beach in San Francisco, little knowing this would be the start to a annual event dedicated to self-expression. Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man by Jessica Bruder is a compilation of facts and photos that sum up an event that now attracts 40,000 participants. A vibrant city arises form the desert of Nevada for a week every year and this is a visual account that does not provide answers, but context.Hardcover, 368 pages. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2007. $19.11 at Amazon.
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Mark Dean Veca’s new exhibition Imbroglio just opened at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York, a 17-piece installation of paintings on panel. Imbroglio is a contemporary toile de jouy, every bit as rococo as its antecedents. Lurking through the layers of green and blue are pop culture icons like Super Mario and Betty Boop, John Belushi and hamburgers. Each piece is either round or oval and fits into the site-specific installation.
“Manmade Mountains”via Art MoCo
James Naccarato’s current show The Inevitable March Into Madness is about man’s desire to dominate over everything he knows: science, technology and nature. Not a happy theme, greed eats up everything in sight and the madness is the ultimate dead end. Naccarato’s landscape is peopled with winged creatures, an abundance of eyeballs and growths that combine nature and science. It is an eerie one that shows us that the end can only be nigh.
Artist: James Naccarato
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The Inevitable March Into Madness runs at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City until November 3.
Following Exodus
The Mofo’s photos
LINK quote [You've probably seen a lot of bloggers and other artsy types who post a photo of themselves every single day for a year so that they can very slowly document the long, cold march of time as it descends slowly into the grasp of Death's grim embrace. (Maybe that's just our take.) Well, thankfully at least one of these web shutterbugs—the colorfully named "Mofo"—has decided that rather than look at some lonely dude sitting in his bedroom for one year straight, folks would probably rather see photos that he's taken of 365 hot chicks in various states of undress. Guess what? He's 100% right].
(via Fleshbot)
Shit We’re Diggin’: Edina Tokodi’s “Green Graffiti”
You can learn more about Edina’s work on Inhabitat.
Beauty and Sin
Beauty and Sin started as an art project to explore the line line between art and obscenity. It is now an online community for people to upload and share nude photos of themselves.
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Chicago Performance Artists please message me w/your contact info and any information you’d like to share about your performance….
I do events and I’m looking for very unique acts to book. I want to know you. N*
Beautiful work by Canadian photographer Barbara Cole.
Labels: fashion, photomanipulation - via Art Nudes
Natural Architecture by Alessandro Rocca looks at 66 site-specific installations that use nature to create architectural elements within the landscape. Ladders emerge from Japanese oak trees; steps are cut into fallen trunks. A greenhouse is made from the branches of a downed tree, while a shed is created at its roots. Willow boughs are bent to form tunnels; logs are planted into the ground and stand upright to act as a screen or put together to become a room; an organic gothic cathedral will continue to grow. The projects in this book are well illustrated and it is exciting to see such work started by nature, continued by man and then often left for nature to complete.Paperback, 215 pages. Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. $23.10 at Amazon.
Other than what we can find on his Flickr set, we don’t have any information on Jamal Vrno, but we know that we like his work. These three pieces are from a series entitled Slum Hero. The caption under Dreaming is “house paint and tears on table cloth” and Oscar Vrno is “the first opus created for the one man show entitled slum hero”. Urine Trouble bears the following message: “this is one of the first stencils i ever made. after a heavy night of wood staining i scribbled out the face. i dedicate this painting to anyone who looks at a dumpster and says ‘ah home sweet home’ “ More great work in the photostream.
Artist: Jamal Vrno
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John Phillip Davis
Artist Reception Friday October 12th 5-8pm
“Razorback” “Apollo”
Exhibit October 9th - November 24th
The most recent and arguably the boldest collection of work from john phillip davis will be on display at Moberg Gallery October 9 – November 24. “Magnus” is the result of a bold fusion of texture, color and narrative content reaching even beyond Davis’ norm. This limited series of imagery is a tale of the relationship between society and self; and epic tale of pleasure and pride.
I just posted 4-5 of my favorite fashion shows on my new myspace page
http://www.myspace.com/ambushuuu
Check them out…
Most of these shows are Alexander McQueen (if not all of them) and I’m trying to figure out who produced these shows. I found there website 2-3 years ago but can’t seem to find it now…If anyone can be of help that would be awesome…
btw: This is the page I will be continuing to update as I transition to Chicago…So be sure to add me…Thank you!
Religion, war, sex and red meat! Amazing work by London based illustrator Espira who “triumphantly mixes the beauty and style of haute coutre and historial costume with the mundane and commonplace such as shopping trollies, cigarettes, page 3 girls and kebabs, to create powerful surrealistic punk portraits”.
Simple and effective site for New York based fashion photographer Rony Shram.
Jazz is the inspiration behind Serena Bocchino’s paintings that combine oil and enamel on canvas. Bocchino’s abstracts are swirls and drips that impart a sense of rhythm and movement in a wide rang of colours. Focussing on the spiritual energies of the music, the artist’s goal is to translate the musical compositions into two-dimensional renditions, resulting in a freshness and spontaneity that comes across to the viewer.
Artist: Serena Bocchino
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Jackie Tileston’s paintings are rich tapestries of form, flow, colour and style. The artist mixes eastern and western aesthetics, having lived in Manila, India, London, Paris and the U.S. Tileston sources abstraction, classic Chinese landscapes, Hindu deities and computer images, creating a fascinating panorama. Her upcoming exhibit is entitled Adventures of the Semionauts and this quote sums up some of these ideas quite nicely: “The activities of DJs, Web Surfers, and postproduction artists imply a similar configuration of knowledge, which is characterized by the invention of paths through culture. All three are “semionauts” who produce original pathways through signs…..The semionaut imagines the links, the likely relations between disparate sites”. - Nicholas Bourriaud, “PostProduction” (p.18), 2005
Artist: Jackie Tileston
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I just stumbled onto this amazing illustrator, especially love the fashion illustration on her website - Marguerite Sauvage
Seen In Moscow
Artists: Grino and Pero from AZ crew
“Eusebio” from NAF in Lima Peru
You can learn more about NAF and the “Amazing Ghost Circus” project here.
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Suicide Girls
48 Hour Film Project Des Moines Best of City Screening
& Awards Presentation.
Fleur Cinema and Cafe-7:00 pm, Thursday August 16th
Witness the top 12 teams from 2007 entries, screened
in no particular order. Then find out the winners, as
all of the judges decisions are announced , including
Best of City. The winner from Des Moines will go onto
compete with teams from around the world.
Top 12 teams listed at www.48hourfilm.com/desmoines
A reception with refreshments will follow the awards
ceremony.
Tickets available now at www.iowatix.com or at the
Fleur Cinema and Cafe Box Office. (515)287-4545, $12
The Viral Garden’s Top 25 Marketing Blogs - Week 66
Here’s the standings for Week 66:
1 - Seth’s Blog - 10,379 (-16)(LW - 1)
2 - Gaping Void - 3,679 (-85)(LW - 2)
3 - Duct Tape Marketing - 2,682 (-3)(LW - 3)
4 - Logic + Emotion - 1,397 (+1)(LW - 4)
5 - Diva Marketing - 1,139 (No Change)(LW - 5)
6 - Daily Fix - 1,080 (-2)(LW - 6)
7 - What’s Next - 1,011 (+4)(LW - 
8 - Converstations - 990(-27)(LW - 7)
9 - Church of the Customer - 890 (-5)(LW - 9)
10 - Drew’s Marketing Minute - 855 (+5)(LW - 10)
11 - Jaffe Juice - 787 (-5)(LW - 11)
12 - Influential Marketing - 786 (+7)(LW - 12)
13 - Servant of Chaos - 699 (+7)(LW - 14)
14 - The Viral Garden - 643 (-80)(LW - 13)
15 - Brand Autopsy - 632 (-1)(LW - 16)
16 - Hee-Haw Marketing - 617 (-28)(LW - 15)
17 - Branding and Marketing - 594 (-6)(LW - 17)
18 - CrapHammer - 549 (-16)(LW - 1
18 - Customers Rock! - 549 (+2)(LW - 19)
20 - Marketing Headhunter - 522 (No Change)(LW - 21)
21 - Flooring the Consumer - 520 (-14)(LW - 20)
22 - Coolzor - 518 (No Change)(LW - 22)
23 - CK’s Blog - 500 (+1)(LW - 24)
24 - Community Guy - 480 (-20)(LW - 21)
24 - Marketing Hipster - 480 (-7)(LW - 25)
Little People Art Project
LINK quote [Slinkachu makes itty-bitty handpainted people and photographs them in the streets of London].
(via Boing Boing)
Art MoCo Meta
Meta: Jul 14, 2007
Sophie Calle is exhibiting in the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and her show is based on a break-up e-mail she received. It ended with the words “take care of yourself” and Calle asked 200 women of various professions to interpret this statement. Vernissage TV has a short video of the show.
And on a lighter note, Kristi Sword creates Sticker Interventions and Cupcake Sprinkle Interventions. Via Craftzine.
Body Painting: Masterpieces by Joanne Gair
Books: Jul 22, 2007
After witnessing a particularly cringe-making body-painting spectacle in an Italian disco, one would never have thought that it would be possible to have a title like Body Painting: Master Pieces by Joanne Gair catch one’s eye. However, the cover looked so tasteful that one was intrigued enough to take a look. And guess what? Joanne Gair is truly masterful. This make up artist uses the body as a canvas and this book presents 75 of her best works, covering a variety of show business celebs as well as models – all in body paint. Some of the most accomplished photographers of our time, like Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts and David LaChapelle, are behind the lens for the shoots. Who knew that such artful application of such thin layers of paint could provide such coverage?Hardcover, 156 pages. Universe, 2006. $26.40 at Amazon.
“Cannonball”
Installation: Jul 24, 2007
Among Andreas Kocks’ recent works is Cannonball, the site-specific installation made from multiple layers of paper cut into splashes and jumping from the gallery walls, as though a cannonball dive has just been executed by the visitor, now surrounded by waves. Passage (#607G) is another example of Kocks’ paperwork, but Beehive, an installation of gold-painted wood, shows a different aspect of his work in three dimensions.
Artist: Andreas Kocks
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