PAKAYLA BIEHN

PAKAYLA BIEHN /// PAINTED DOUBLE EXPOSURE!


☁ PAKAYLA BIEHN

AGOSTINO ARRIVABENE

Very interesting works by AGOSTINO ARRIVABENE.

Agostino Arrivabene was born in 1967, lives and works in Gradella di Pandino (CR) Italy.


☁ AGOSTINO ARRIVABENE

JONATHAN SCHIPPER

JONATHAN SCHIPPER /// TO DUST

Two sculptures are hung from a mechanism that gently grinds them into each other. The sculptures will slide against one another for many years creating new unimagined form. This image is a detail of the sculptures the mechanism is 9 feet above and not in this photo.



☁ JONATHAN SCHIPPER

MIMMO JODICE

MIMMO JODICE

Mimmo Jodice is born in Naples where he lives and works. His name is well known in the history of Contemporary Photography.
When he was very young, he dedicated himself to painting and drawing and was passionately interested in arts, classical music and jazz.
In the early 1960’s he discovered Photography as a new means of expressions. He began to experiment different materials, abstract forms and all linguistic and tehnical aspects of Photography.
During the 1970’s he was in contact with the most important avant-garde artistis, who worked and exposed in Naples: Warhol, Beuys, Kounelis, De Dominicis, Paolini.Sol Lewitt, Kosuth and many others.
He was deeply involved with these new artistic movements and he devoted himself more and more to conceptual and creative Photography. But it was also a period of social urgency which Jodice answered with passionate engagement.

In 1969 he began teaching Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he taught until 1994.
His first solo exhibition was held at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino in 1968 and in 1970 his work “ Dentro Cartelle Ermetiche” was exhibited in Milan at the Galleria il Diaframma, with a texte by Cesare Zavattini. In 1980 he started to develop a new perspective in which human figure was no longer the protagonist, concentrating with a new empty, menacing, urban space, laden with metaphysical memories. His book “ Vedute di Napoli” marks a change in his language: his photographs will be more and more detached from reality , immersed in a visionary and silent dimension.
In 1981 he took part at the exhibition “ Expression of Human Condition” , with Diana Arbus , Larry Clark, Lisette Model and William Klein at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
In the following years a double thread ran through Jodice’s work : on the one hand a surreal and uneasy vision of urban landscapes and on the other hand an attention with the imprints of the past on the present and, at the same time, a research of his roots and the myths of Mediterranean.



☁ MIMMO JODICE

GABRIEL DAWE

GABRIEL DAWE was born in Mexico City where he grew up surrounded by the intensity and color of Mexican culture. After working as a graphic designer, he moved to Montreal, Canada in 2000 following a desire to explore foreign land. In search for creative freedom he started experimenting and creating artwork, which eventually led him to explore textiles and embroidery—activities traditionally associated with women and which were forbidden for a boy growing up in Mexico. Because of this, his work is subversive of notions of masculinity and machismo that are so ingrained in his culture. By working with thread and textiles, Dawe’s work has evolved into creating large-scale installations with thread, creating environments that deal with notions of social constructions and their relation to evolutionary theory and the self-organizing force of nature.

After seven years of living in Canada and gaining dual citizenship as a Mexican-Canadian, Gabriel moved to Texas to pursue graduate school at the University of Texas at Dallas where heworked on an MFA in Arts and Technology. His work has been exhibited in Dallas, Houston, Montreal, Toronto and Barcelona.


☁ GABRIEL DAWE