Sep
05
For 42 years, Gilbert & George have been reflections of each other, identical twins alike in being different: not from each other but from the rest of the world, which is a dark and violent place filled with ambiguous pageantry.
The Jack Freak Pictures shows their ominous kaleidoscopic world, a chaotic pulse of medals, flags and street names. The freaks who walk these mean streets and spooky parks are Gilbert & George. Dressed up as a Union-Jacked dynamic duo and portraying themselves as dancing vaudevillians, robotic avatars, and mutating entities. Simultaneously being victim and monster, they seem to enjoy the disaster, sticking out impish tongues and blowing raspberries.
The Jack Freak Pictures feel unpleasantly two-faced, on several levels and to be honest… a little frightening.
Dec
01
Paris 28/11/2009 Galerie Magda Danysz
A life size statue giving the three fingered Serbian salute on a pedestal strewn with empty beer cans, while on one wall words in blinking lights proclaimed “No one like me”, pictures from the artist’s friends with the words “My friends are better artists than yours” were scrawled on the wall and photographs of glamorous looking people were presented with the statement, “My friends are better looking than yours”.
This installation about the ego of the artist presenting himself as a hero in a statue made of gold and the large format paintings and laser cut sculpture are all part of Serbian/French artist Vuk Vidor’s second stage of his American Quartet series.
His using of quickly identifiable elements, like the American comic book style and pop art, to define a new situation on the world’s political and power landscape is like a sugarcoating for a bitter reality.
Like kryptonite makes Superman helpless and weak, so are politics today making our world fragile and vulnerable. Vidor’s super-heroes are pathetic and deflated, dejected by the very system they fight to protect. Their conversation bubbles show no words anymore only silence and Captain America is a resurrected Atlas, no longer able to carry the weight of the American dream…
Nov
05
Mark Andrew Webber is a printmaker and graphic designer who specializes in traditional linocut prints. His Where in the World City Map series consists of linocut maps of Amsterdam, London, New York and now Paris. Webber uses names of places and landmarks to delineate the various areas of a city, much the way traditional maps use streets and geographical markers.
Artist: markandrewwebber.com
Apr
28
Surfing the net, not looking for anything in particulair .. STOP, what is this? .. Walton Ford, who is .. how is it possible I .. want that .. have to go to New York .. absolutely .. Taschen website .. Panacha Tantra ..
”I can’t afford one of his paintings (or even this book) but I can dream.”
Naturalist-gone-nuclear’s intricate, dazzling, and sometimes disturbing life-size watercolors. All painted with great technical skill. At first glance you think antiques until you notice some animals are engaged in ‘unnatural’ behavior. Walton Ford is Audubon on acid
Website: www.paulkasmingallery.com