. . . if you’re in PARIS !! you can also check out the premiere screening of the new COCO ROSIE video: ‘God has a voice, She speaks through me’ !!
FRIDAY MAY 9, 2008 – at 6PM.
MAD VICKY’S TEA GALLERY – 3 rue Nicolet, PARIS 18eme
~Coco Rosie/Paris | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 9th, 2008, 7:35am
CHARWEI TSAI is presenting a new project, ‘MUSHROOM MANTRA’ at the CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE !!
it opens today, WED MAY 7, 2008 and runs until AUGUST 11, 2008
so, if you’re in Paris, (or, will be this summer) – you’re lucky, you can check it out !
. . . the show seems to be called: ‘TRACES DU SACRE’ – and Charwei seems to have a project called ‘Mushroom Mantra’ in it ? the poster is beautiful, isn’t it.
So, actually this is a pretty big group show, multi-media in scope, with more than 350 works by over 200 internationally known artists. It aims to be a major survey of the dialog between art and spirituality in the 20th C., starting with work from the 19th C and going right up on to – today – that would be Charwei, among others. !!!
(” ..’Traces du Sacre’ est concu comme une encyclopedia des rapports entre l’art et la spiritualite au XXe Siecle.”)
It also appears to be initiating a major new ‘audience interactive’ system at the Centre Pompidou, with gallery goers encouraged to enter their comments and engage in digital ‘discussion boards’.
see: CENTRE POMPIDOU/’TRACES DU SACRE’
PHOTO/COURTESY: CHARWEI TSAI
CHARWEI TSAI, at the ‘LOVELY DAZE’ Issue #1 magazine launch, PRINTED MATTER, OCT 22, 2005
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
. . . we first met CHARWEI TSAI at PRINTED MATTER, on the occasion of the very first magazine launch for her self-published ‘LOVELY DAZE’ – a limited edition quarterly publication, which highlighted “artist writings and artwork”. Looking back it was quite a sweet and low-fi publication – it had the aspect & style of an actual kind of ‘sketchbook’ with different artist pages. mostly young and, usually well-beyond, the mainstream radar – it felt much more like an artwork – itself – than a publication.
you can see archival artlovers coverage: here !!!/OCT 2005
. . . that’s kind of an interesting report – OCT 2005 – it starts with pix of the – now super hot !! – trio: SCOTT, ELYSIA & TYSON REEDER – at their ‘EARLY SHOW’ !! – a show of artists and their early artwork, (incl. RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA !! JIM DRAIN !! & BRIAN BELOTT !!) which they curated for WHITE COLUMNS . . . and, then still on the top row – we get a photo of SPENCER TUNNICK !!- who figured in the recent ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’ – he was the video/cameraman for the early GALLERYBEAT, and the film also included brief snippets of one of his epic city nudescapes, as well.
. . . then the photos move over to MICHAEL MAHALCHICK and his ‘UNNATURAL DESIRES’ at CANADA, and then, in big turnaround – we get the very goth – one person S/HE GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE show at the old PARTICIPANT on Rivington St, and last, a big bunch of photos on the CHARWEI TSAI ‘LOVELY DAZE’ event !! incl. CORY ARCANGEL, and many other of the young contributors and their art. there’s a good feel for the magazine itself. looking back now, it seems even more ‘gentle’ in its vision and touch, very intimate – as opposed to, say, the journal or ANP QUARTERLY, just as examples – of 2 other published magazine/collections of artist writings & work, with unique/signature styles of their own.
. . . the report ends with a big bang !! photos from – the ‘LOVELY DAZE’ Issue #1 after-party – a night not easily forgotten !! – JAPANTHER – played at a tiny dive bar, the ICU BAR on the fringes of the meatpacking district before the street got taken over by gentrification. OCT 22, 2005 !! MATT REILLY even had work in the ‘LOVELY DAZE’ inaugural issue.
see: the ‘LOVELY DAZE’ website/its quite beautiful – with issue archives !!
~CHARWEI TSAI/POMPIDOU | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 7th, 2008, 4:03pm
. . . while at atm – we spied some new TOMOO GOKITA ink drawings, on the back wall !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~TOMOO GOKITA | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 7th, 2008, 3:57pm
atm’s BILL BRADY with photographer DAVID ADAMS, originally from Australia, now living in Rotterdam. in the ERIC SALL exhibition currently up at atm Gallery thru Saturday, May 10, 2008 (ERIC SALL, ‘Thick Freakness’, in the background)
check out: DAVID ADAMS/website
the photos are quite beautiful. very documentary style.
FRANK JULIUS TAAL, curator of contemporary art projects, at DE AANSCHOUW and DE KUNSTSUPER, both in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. also drops by the ERIC SALL exhibit at atm Gallery. (beside him, ERIC SALL’S ‘Joy Rebellion’).
De Aanschouw is a kind of ‘vitrine’ or glass window display case/exhibition space.
(it seems to be kind of like: Mauritizio Cattelan’s old ‘Wrong Door’ Gallery – that used to be in a faux glass door display case next to the former 20th St./Chelsea location of the Andrew Kreps Gallery, before it moved to its current larger space, on 22nd St.)
De KunstSuper is a larger more conventional gallery.
check out: de Aanschouw/80b
also a pretty interesting website !! and ….
check out: De KunstSuper
which also looks to be a very cutting edge exhibition space.
FRANK JULIUS TAAL showed us some images via computer from a recent project at De Aanschouw – in which successive artists painted over the same surface. De Aanschouw is located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, (incl. last 3 of computer/photo images)
atm Gallery, Chelsea, NYC,
Saturday, APRIL 26, 2008
Frank Julius Tall also showed us some postcards from previous de Aanschhouw exhibits !! here are 2.
PHOTOGRAPHY: BAS WEIJKAMP
PHOTOGRAPHY: BAS WEIJKAMP
and here is a sample image from the DAVID ADAMS ‘fotografie’ website:
PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID ADAMS
~Rotterdam visitors at atm | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 6th, 2008, 9:45am
card for the show/ERIC SALL, ‘Joy Rebellion’, 2008, oil on canvas, 65 x 51 ins.
ERIC SALL – ‘SOLID LIQUID – up thru this SAT MAY 10, 2008
APRIL 4 – MAY 10, 2008
atm Gallery – 621 W 27TH ST – CHELSEA
ERIC SALL with ‘Thick Freakness’, oil on canvas, behind him.
Eric Sall has a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He was awarded the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in 2004. He has work in the SAATCHI COLLECTION and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Eric’s wife, multi-media artist, RACHEL HAYES. She is from Virginia, Eric hails from Kansas City, guess they met while he was in graduate school in Virginia. They moved to Brooklyn, last June 2007.
ERIC SALL, ‘Chemical Reaction’, 36 x 40 ins.
ERIC SALL, ‘Chemical Reaction’, 2008, oil on canvas, 36 x 40 ins.
ERIC SALL, ‘Icy Hot’, 2008, oil on canvas, 30 x 22 ins.
ERIC SALL, ‘Icy Hot’, above the gallery desk, to the right, atm assistant director, SARAH MATTES.
ERIC SALL, ‘Joy Rebellion’, 2008, oil on canvas, 65 x 51 ins.
ERIC SALL, ‘Gutted’, 2008, oil on canvas, 65 x 51 ins.
detail, ERIC SALL, ‘Gutted’, 2008
ERIC SALL, ‘Never Enough’, 2008, oil on canvas, 65 x 51 ins.
detail, ERIC SALL, ‘Never Enough’, 2008
detail, ERIC SALL, ‘Never Enough’, 2008
detail, ERIC SALL, ‘Never Enough’, 2008
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~ERIC SALL/atm/last week !! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 6th, 2008, 7:59am
all images from the YouTube clip: Cindy Sherman Filmed in 1986/State of the Art/ILLUMINATIONS TV/CO/UK
~CINDY SHERMAN/1986 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 5th, 2008, 10:53am
PAUL H-O & CINDY SHERMAN in ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’/PHOTO COURTESY/’Guest of Cindy Sherman’
PAUL H-O . . . and
. . TOM DONAHUE, co-directors of ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’
at the afterparty, THE CUTTING ROOM, NYC, TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL,
APRIL 27, 2008
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
IMAGE COURTESY/’Guest of Cindy Sherman’
‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’ had its premiere in the last week’s TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL – APRIL 2008
JAN ALBERT – loved the movie !! – read: her review
check out: ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’/official website
(don’t miss the YouTube links !!)
ORIGINAL ARTLOVERS HOME PAGE/POSTED/APRIL 24, 2008:
** YO!! listen up !! **
there’s a great little art world film – premiering in the TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL THIS WEEK !!!
FUNNY, SWIFT, COMPELLING, WITH SWEET HIGHS & LOWS
this is a REAL insider’s look behind the photos !!
and the art world careers.
PAUL H-O who churned out GalleryBeat on Public Access TV – in the early 90s – with WALTER ROBINSON !! – (that’s what you did when you wanted to rock the artworld before there was the web) – & – TOM DONAHUE of ‘WASHINGTON HEIGHTS’ acclaim – have put together a really intimate & witty reflective documentary – that you don’t often get to see – I wonder, why! …. that it includes footage of some of our favorite people in the art world, and what a diff 5 years can make – is the icing on the cake. this IS the one to go see….
just saw it, last nite .. and I’m still fascinated by it . .
* it’s got black & white surfer titles just like that only other really great art movie – ‘BASQIUAT’ – in fact, it even has vintage Julian Schnabel footage – (classic Julian throwing a fit) – and, even, CHARLIE FINCH gets a star turn – with a cameo appearance !! *
* but unlike ‘BASQUIAT’ – it’s got the REAL characters – playing themselves – what could be better !! !! *
* ‘GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN’ – a FILMLIKE PRODUCTION – !! – has its premiere this SUNDAY, APRIL 27th at 9PM !! *
UP-DATE: MON MAY 12, 2008
happier days – PAUL H-O (HASEWAGA-OVERACKER) and CINDY SHERMAN, at the FALL 2004 opening of CINDY SHERMAN’S ‘CLOWN’ photographs, METRO PICTURES, MAY 7, 2004
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
see: the original post
~Guest of Cindy Sherman | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 5th, 2008, 9:55am
. . . all I could get out of them – was: they’re bringing instruments !!!
SCOTT REEDER & TYSON REEDER – EGG FUGUE – To-NITE – FRI MAY 2, 2008
FROM 7:45 – TO COINCIDE WITH SUNSET
DANIEL REICH GALLERY – 537 W 23Rd STREET – CHELSEA
and, YO !! YO !! – their show of mostly small, magical, yin/yang bro. paintings – is still up !! check it out !!
(finally – a little competition for JOE BRADLEY’S BIG-BEIGE !!)
SCOTT REEDER – ‘Bread and Butter (Night)’
TYSON REEDER – ‘Woman with Vase’
TYSON REEDER -‘Woman with Keyboard’
SCOTT REEDER – ‘Rectangles Relaxing’
the large painting on the left, SCOTT REEDER – ‘Paper at Night’, and on the floor, at left, SCOTT REEDER – ‘Untitled’ – ceramic sculpture
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~SCOTT REEDER & TYSON REEDER/EGG FUGUE/TO-NITE !! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 2nd, 2008, 2:56pm
KEN KAGAMI / SNOOPEE / ZINE RELEASE – To-NITE – FRI MAY 2 – 6-9 PM
show runs: MAY 2 – MAY 9, 2008
the journal Gallery – 168 NORTH 1ST STREET – BROOKLYN
gallery hours: MON-SUN 12PM – 6PM
This exhibit is presented in co-ordination with the release of Ken Kagami’s SnooPee – a zine published by PictureBox.
you gotta check out this guy’s website – it’s pretty wild !!
the journal
PictureBox
~KEN KAGAMI/PICTUREBOX/zine launch/to-nite !! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 2nd, 2008, 2:40pm
KADAR BROCK – ‘HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH’ – opens to-nite !! THURS – MAY 1 – 6-8
the show runs: MAY 1 – MAY 31, 2008
BUIA GALLERY – 541 W. 23RD ST – CHELSEA
. . a great ‘Doc’ card – but definite not, NOT a ‘Doc’ show – unless you go for a really wild stretch – as in ‘Doc’ portrait of the artist – from the inside – out ?
its good old painting.
UP-DATE: TUES MAY 13, 2008 – PIX FROM THE OPENING
KADAR BROCK in front of … ‘Uptown Boogaloo’, 2008, 72 x 60 ins.
KENNY SCHARF drops by, Kadar Brock at right.
. . . KENNY told us the colorful ceramic tabletop sculptures, exhibited & produced by CerealArt at the recent ARMORY ART FAIR – are – BONGS !!! maybe, they are worth the money, after all !!
see: ARMORY MARCH 2008/scroll down towards bottom
KENNY SCHARF sports some custom designed bling !! his work seems to be having a renaissance – lucky KENNY !!!
KADAR BROCK, ‘Uptown Boogaloo’, 2008, 72 x 60 ins., acrylic, oil, flashe, and spraypaint
KADAR BROCK, ‘November Rain’, 2008, 72 x 60 ins.
KADAR BROCK, ‘Thunderbird’, 2008, 72 x 60 ins.
SHERRY WONG and pal, RAYLENE GORUM catch up, in front of KADAR BROCK’S ‘Thunderbird’.
SIMON CERIGO – artlovers’ esteemed music critic & art-critic-at-large, not to mention non-stop partier, was an early BUIA GALLERY supporter.
TIMOTHY HULL
from left: TIMOTHY HULL, CHRISTIAN DIETKUS, and PAUL SEPUYA make the scene.
VANESSA BUIA, takes a break on 23RD ST. – where her storefront gallery is located, on one of Chelsea’s main thoroughfares. some of her most recent shows, including a beautiful TOM FRUIN exhibit and a stunning show, seriously, of large ‘face’ paintings, titled ‘EVERLASTING’ by MATT JONES – have brought her – some new consideration.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
BUIA GALLERY
~KADAR BROCK/BUIA/to-nite!! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 1st, 2008, 2:35pm
