Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

SR.MARCELO HORACIO MAQUIEIRA REPORTS ON RIJKSAKADEMIE’S EQUESTRIAN “OPEN ATELIERS”

Rain didn’t keep those raw Art Lovers at home last Sunday in Amsterdam.  The annual “Open Ateliers” from the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten offered  impressive work by 50 international artists in their “studio white studios”. Though you did travel a non-stop artistic manifestation, each room seemed to be a new situation inviting you to forget the previous one and made you curious about the next ones. While looking through their windows, you could see the old cavalry barracks sharing a silent and intelligent concentration under the gray sky. The Rijksakademie in Amsterdam is a leading institute for artists who want to develop themselves further and strive for deepening, broadening and accelerating their art practice. My visit was in the early morning, and I did spot some empty beverage glasses from the evening before. A tradition of pushing the Saturday until late while sharing serious discussions between artists, curators, collectors and local art-parasites: a tribute to the word Akademia (exchange ideas and knowledge). Financed by the Culture Department of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; the Rijksakademie once again shared its prestigious aula counting with the international guarantee from its former residents as Fiona Tan, Alicia Framis, Gabriel Lester, Liza May Post, Jennifer Tee, Berend Strik . . . . enjoy the images!
http://www.openateliers.info/

                                                                                                                     Sharon Houkema(NL) + Patio Detail

+ Frank Koolen(NL)

                                                                                                                    David Hominal(FR/CH) + Alice Nikitinova(CZ)

+ Sarah Verbeek(NL)


Hallway Detail + Lev Ilizrov (IL)


+ Vitslois Mwilambwe Bondo(CG)

                                                                                                   Yaima Carrazana Ciudad(CU/ES) + Melanie Bonajo(NL)

+ Pim Blokker(NL)

                                                                                                                        Papa Adama(BF/NL) + Day detail

Rimology by Satch Hoyt and a preview of the 'Celestial Vessel'

Chrome wheel rims, motion sensor, audio components accompanied by a soundscape Dimensions 151x94x11

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Satch has been a friend since the early 90's, he is a musician and visual artist who makes paintings and drawings, sculptures and installations accompanied with soundscapes. His work is a reflection on the African Disapora. The soundscape here employs a vocal excerpt from a 1940's recording of a Luba Congolese Catholic Mass over a deep dancehall beat with a subsonic bass line. 

Rimology explores the opulence of bling rooted in automobile culture from an Afro carribean soundsystem sensibility. This sonic trajectory vibrates throughout the African diaspora. Within its layering Rimology investigates the history of Jamacian music such as mento, Blue Beat, Ska, Reggae and Dub, which in turn found its way to the island via the middle passage. In the 1970's the BMW became the most desired car among Jamaicans and was fondly refered to as Bob Marley and the Wailers after Marley purchased a BMW for each of the wailers. In the UK Yardie context it was also known as The Black Man Wagon. Rimology also investigates contemporary Dancehall and Hip Hop asserting that these two defining cultures are amongst the major music signifiers in present day global youth culture.

 

 

Satch's 'Celestial Vessel' is part of a future Nasher exhibition. Celestial Vessel reflects his interest in the African Diaspora and his interest in music particularly through the vinyl record. Duke University commissioned 'Celestial Vessel' which will be part of 'The Record' an exhibition that will open in August 2010 at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. The exhibit will include works in various media by artists whose subject matter is records.

Later,

Diane
 

www.satchhoyt.com

http://nashermuseumblogs.org/?p=670

 Later,

Diane

Kenny Scharf's Cosmic Cavern-a-Go-Go party, November 27 in NYC. Photos by Glenn Belverio

Dear Shaded Viewers,

As far as I can tell, New Yorkers didn't celebrate Black Friday by going shopping; they (the cool ones, at least) celebrated by going to a black light party at Kenny's automatically-legendary-by-definition loft in Williamsburg. Of course we all felt like we were back in the '80s, especially when we spotted Cynthia Social Lies--whom I knew from the early days of TUNNEL--working the door.

 

No, that's not John Galliano....it's Kenny Scharf!
  

 

Roger Padilha from MAO PR tries to shake Kenny down for his Alice B. Toklas brownies recipe.

 

 

 

Walt Cessna

 

Roger, me & Kenny

 

Scott Ewalt spun neon-friendly tracks

 

Mauricio Padilha & Bruce Benderson

 

Bruce shows off his neon Freddie Kruger press-on nails.

Love,

Glenn Belverio

GRIFFIN`S SHOOT WITH STEVE OLSON

11.17.09

I spent the day shooting with Diane and mine, good friend artist, legendary pro skater, and over all madman Steve Olson. Olson was one of the subject of the portrait series book HARMONY that I produced last year for ARC JAPAN. Olson and I are shooting his pieces for a new site that we are creating to feature his work. It will be the first time that his work is available on line for purchase. Ernesto, a director of photography friend of mine, came and helped us with the shoot. Below find some off shots from the shoot as well as a the first video from the STEVE'S RANTS series that will be featured on the site. Check back here for more info on Olson's work and the launch of site soon. 

- GRIFFIN 

 

OFF SHOTS by FREDERICK GUERRERO

Vaginal Davis with Pedro, Muriel & Esther plus Tony Clifton at Santos Party House during Performa in NYC, November 16. Photos by Glenn Belverio

Dear Shaded Viewers,

This past Monday we attended a rare reunion of Vaginal Davis's LA punk band PME and it was long overdue. Our black, bodacious giantess led the band into all their classic hits, from "Closet Case" to "Sawed-off Shotgun" to "Mushroom Head" to "Jewish Husband." ("My Jewish husband is a pseudo-intellectual...") There was noshing and moshing aplenty. 

 

The band's costumes were DIY Ku Klux Klan outfits made of black trash bags with glue-on glitter disks. Look for overwrought knock-offs of these costumes on John Galliano's runway next season.

 

 

I had no idea who this "man" was when I took the photo....later I found out it was my friend Bibbe Hansen! Bibbe used to play in Vag's other LA punk band Black Fag and she is also a Warhol legend and Beck's mom. She definitely wins the Best Drag King of the 21st Century Award with this look.

Beautiful Vaginal backstage after the PME set

 

 

I also ran into Tony Clifton and his "adopted daughter" backstage before his set

 

Tony definitely has one of the most polarizing acts in NYC. You either love him or you want to rush the stage and murder him with your bare hands (which my friend Bruce Benderson almost did). Tony did his usual repertoire of retro-filthy sexist, racist and homophobic jokes ("Why can a black man make love all night long? Because he doesn't have to go to work in the morning.") He also performed overly long versions of Vegas lounge classics plus cocktaily re-workings of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin songs. 

The show is an endurance piece, with Tony going on and on and on, seeing how long the audience can take it. When people heckle (and if this isn't an act designed for heckling, I don't know what is) Tony shoots back in old show-biz style without missing a beat. He doesn't care if people walk out; clearing the room is part of the piece. Before fleeing the club, my friend Carole from French Vogue referred to him as "that mustachioed pig."

 

 

Above: Tony is down but not out in the midst of a leggy daisy chain

Thanks for reading!

Love,

Glenn Belverio

Stedelijk Museum acquires two works by Andreas Gursky

The Stedelijk Museum already has two earlier works by Gursky. Andreas Gursky's photographs are noted for the confusing physical and spatial experience they present. Their monumental format is unusual in photography and literally forces viewers to distance themselves from the work, at the same time the viewer can easily loose themselves in the image. Gursky's photographs have no vanishing point, simply because since the early 1990's he has used digital manipulation techniques to combine different shots to create a single image. This is how he creates the confusing experience of micro and macro-nuances. The digitally manipulated colors further reinforce the decorative and abstract character of his pictures.

http://www.stedelijkindestad.nl/ 

Later,

Diane

Taj Mahal Travellers at Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm 20 November - 20 December

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Taj Mahal Travellers was a legendary Japanee inprov/sational group founded in 1969 by former Group Orgaku leader and Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi. They combined Eastern and Western instruments, electronics and vocal chants and used heavy post production processing to create unique long flowing jams with deep organic droning and pulsing. Their music is considered to be the pinnacle of Asian psychedelic music of the late 60's and early 70's. Their founder later became a classical composer, notably composing scores for the Merce Cunninigham Dance Company and presenting sound installations at a number of art festivals. 

The exhibition aims to recreate this experimental attitude with an openess to materials and conceptual positions outside a canonic perspective. The artists included in Taj Mahal Travellers blur the boundaries between process and material, pushing both to their extremes.

www.nordenhake.com

Later,

Diane

MARCUS LEATHERDALE 1980-1994 NEW YORK CITY

A retrospect of photographs from Leatherdale Studio in NYC from 1980-1994.
86 photographs, 160 pages Hardcover book.
Available online:  www.marcusleatherdale.com

Martin Butler and the Mauer Mob Project_Berlin Wall celebration

5,000 people in the areas by mauer park, posdam plaats, checkpoint charlie and east side gallery, plus smaller groups dotted around the city to the north and the south. 10,000 people registered on the website. 

"It was a strange unifying and at the same time isolating experience standing there in the pouring rain...old  people, young people, children together taking a moment to reflect together. I think it was an important thing to have done. .. " said Martin Butler

 

"LA VIDA ENTRE LOS DIAS" PAINTINGS BY DAMJANA JOKICH IN MADRID

Painting exhibition "LA VIDA ENTRE LOS DIAS" by the artist Damjana Jokich was opened on October 29 at the Serbian Embassy in Madrid, in the presence of a numerous European countries ambassadors.

Here is what Damjana Jokich says about the series of the exhibited works: "Each painting is, as well as its title, a bitter sediment of and experience and a witness of emotion beauty an simplicity. The dark side of life is simultaneously the picture of the world which inspires a lot in a pursuit of answers who we are, where we are and where are we going to. The pictures were created with the faith that the strongest part of every man is his own strength."

Damjana Jokich was born in 1979 in Novi Sad (Serbia). She graduated in 2002 at the Academy of Fine Arts, in the Graphic Arts Department, in Novi Sad. Damjana exhibited in a great number of exhibitions, in the country and abroad. She is a founder of the independent group of artists "Reality Producers" (Spain). She has been living and working in Madrid from 2003. Damjana Jokic is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Madrid (AVAM).

The exhibition "LA VIDA ENTRE LOS DIAS" is available to visit by the end of November.

Embajada de Serbia

Calle Velasquez, 162

Madrid

 

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