a visual collective outlet of inspiration
if you miss the karl show at ex-deitch you can always catch another by dd
art
heeeeeer’s Zev
you gotta love the french, they manage to shove a nude girl in everything they do, from an espresso ad to an asprin ads. and they don’t stop on the street level… here’s pps favorite street artist zev creating his chanel liquidated logos series on a naked canvas at the outsiders. by dd
room for art
the clarion hotel in stockholm has announced that they will now be accepting art as payment for a room. this is great news for me, as going to my home town is expensive så bra jobbat sverige!
by wn
hide and seek
cecilia paredes paints these floral wallpaper designs on herself with body paint and blends with the background. by wn
cut that cord or why private schooling blows
coolness by italian woodpecker of an artist, gehard demetz. the piece is assembled from blocks of wood and worthy of a look up. by dd
TOM WESSELMANN: Smoking Cigarette 1980
man i really gotta quit… by dd
Self-Portrait Drawing Machine
this is pretty awesome, wish i had it back in art school, would have improved my grades significantly. by wn
les lalannes at paul kasmin
paul kasmin has been found of the lalanne(s) for quite some time, he even published a book of pictures he took when visiting their studios. these days he’s presenting a show which looks like a sort of retrospective since there is works from the 60’s as well as more recent ones. witty and beautiful as always by pp.
CHRISTIAN PATTERSON – REDHEADED PECKERWOOD
chacha told me about christian patterson’s book, redheaded peckerwood. it’s great indeed. by pp+chch
paint me a beautiful brick
done. its by swedish born norwegian noted artists odd nerdrum. just love that brick. by dd
DAVID LYNCH – lithographs
just really nice. by pp.
hanging by a thread: incredible “drawings”
on view at the kunstgaleriebonn gallery in bonn from june 6th to july 20, 2012
detail: the lines are actually thread glued down one at a time
“the thread has been adhered to the paper. the second layer… is adhered to the paper… at the intersections.”
incredible detail “drawing” by hadi tabatabi. that is if you can call them drawings, granted they are included in the sally & waynn kramarsky epic works-on-paper collection next to richard tuttle, robert smithson, jasper johns, eva hesse, donald judd, richard serra, john cage, and on and on. this new series is constructed with thread, a common material used by the artist in past work, but never in this manner… “in this new work there are two layers of thread. one layer sits directly on the paper, and the whole length of the thread has been adhered to the paper. the second layer which is perpendicular to the first layer sits on top of the first layer and is adhered to the paper only at the ends and to the first layer thread at the intersections.” this kind of patience and detail is something of an anomaly in our time, and that is exactly why i love this work. of course, nothing is like seeing these up-close. i bought a piece last year in new york from the danese gallery. if you are in germany in june/july check out the show “papier/paper III” at the kunstgaleriebonn, in bonn june 6th to july 20, and at the denese again in new york, june 14 through august 17. by wk
