Thursday 30 April 2009

VALERIO CARRUBBA





Valerio Carrubba is a hyperrealist painter. His images are anatomically accurate, showing his peaceful patients with their internal organs exposed. Shocking, realistic and at the same time extremely surreal, Valerio's paintings are technically beautiful and provocative.

VALERIO CARRUBBA
Born in Syracuse (Sicily), IT. 1975
Lives and works in Milan, IT.

EDUCATION

1994 - 2000 Studied with Alberto Garutti, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, IT.
1997 Invitation to a pointless investigation, Workshop with Jimmie Durham, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Viafarini, Milan, IT.
Advanced Course in Visual Arts of the Antonio Ratti Foundation, Visiting Professor Allan Kaprow, Como, IT.

Pianissimo
Interview in Don't Panic
trend.land

YANG SHAOBIN





☞WHAT?

ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING presents YANG SHAOBIN | SILENCE
☞ WHEN?
May 2nd - 30th 2009 / Opening night:Friday, May 1st 2009, 5 - 9 pm
☞ WHERE?
ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING
Sophienstrasse 21, ground floor
10178 Berlin
Germany



"Yang Shaobin, painter and sculptor, lives in Beijing. In 1999 Harald Szeemann exhibited the Chinese artist at the Venice Biennale with paintings set in a dark-red colour that reminds of blood, showing them in correspondence with works of Sigmar Polke. The painting of Yang Shaobin had a directness and intensity that almost ubruptly engraved in the collective unconsciousness of the international art world.

The critic Sebastian Preuss who lives in Berlin wrote: 'The first encounter (with the works) remains unforgettable. (…)suddenly these paintings were spellbinding, and all else was forgotten. First, it was a shock to the eyes, but then increasingly an attack on the soul' – and on the world.

Violence was always the subject of Yang Shaobin; the experience of violence and destruction, 'impulses' of self-destruction as well as the necessity of displaying and arranging it were always part of his work, helping him to endure the inner pressure.

The exhibition SILENCE follows two central paintings and thus two central motives: an atomic mushroom cloud, its emergence not further defined, and the destroyed, with bandages beyond recognition 'bandaged' self portrait of an artist.

In 1979 Martin Kippenberger, one of the operators of the legendary Berlin club SO 36, was beaten up by some Punks, the 'friends of Ratten-Jenny'. Kippenberger declared this physical attack to be an artistic project, a 'dialogue with the youth'. Still in hospital bed he explained himself a victim and had himself photographed.

Yang Shaobin returns in his painting to his 'blood-red' period and adapts the face of Kippenberger, which is marked by violence and destruction. Although of course in its new Chinese context it loses the ironical context of Berlin of the Seventies." (re-title)


Yang Shaobin
1963 Born in Tangshan, Hebei Province, China
1983 Graduated from the Polytechnic University, Hebei
1991 Moved to the artist village Yuanmingyuan, Beijing
1995 Relocated to Tongxian, in the suburbs of Beijing
2000 Prize for Contemporary Chinese Art (CCAA)

Alexander Ochs Galleries
Artnet
Interview in Art Realization
White Space Beijing

SUN YOUNG BYUN






Sun Young Byun
Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1967
Education :
1986 Seoul Art High School, Seoul, South Korea

1991 BFA, Hong-Ik University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea

1994 MFA, Hong-Ik University, Painting Department,Seoul, South Korea

1997 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA

Now Changdong International Artist Studio Program South Korea


Alexander Ochs Galleries
Artnet

Wednesday 29 April 2009

MUSUBI





MUSUBI

JESSICA CRAIG MARTIN








JESSICA CRAIG MARTIN
Born in Hanover, NH.
Lives and works in New York.

Education
1982-84 New York University, NY
1996-96 The New School / Parsons, NY
1996-97 International Center Photography, NY


Jessica Craig-Martin became famous for her photographs of high society, capturing awkward and often not-so-glamorous exchanges between the beau monde. Identities of the rich and famous were usually obscured, cropped to show only a garish detail, a midsection, or a hand reaching for a tray of hors d'oeuvres. A favorite at American Vogue and Vanity Fair, Craig-Martin has since widened her range to include reportage, fashion, and still life. She has fostered a unique point-of-view that has led to solo shows at P.S.1/MoMA and Collette, and dynamic campaign for clients such as H&M and Kate Spade.(the artist and his model)



Artnet
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
Article in The NY Observer
David Cohen's critic in Art Critical

Monday 27 April 2009

FUMIKO AMANO







Fumiko Amano
Born: Japan
Lives: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Education:
2000 California Design College, Los Angeles, Certificate Program-Fashion Design/CAD
1993 University of Wisconsin, BA-Art & Design, Painting and Printmaking
1989 Toyo Women’s College, Tokyo, AD-English Literature


"Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?" (John Cage)
For the last fifteen years I have been incorporating poetry, architecture, Japanese comics, dreams, sound and textiles into my sonic landscapes. Every city is filled with sounds that combine to form a sonic landscape. I turn these sounds into color."Fumiko Amano

FUMIKO AMANO

Sunday 26 April 2009

MARILYN MINTER





New Photographs and Paintings by Marilyn Minter

Continuing her critique of the underbelly of glamour, for her second solo exhibition, Green Pink Caviar at Salon 94. Marilyn Minter will present monumental paintings alongside large scale photographs. By showing extreme close ups of tattooed and freckled skin, mouths blowing bubbles and tongues licking candy her work undermines our cultural taste for the clean and flawless. Playing with her own vocabulary of zooming and focusing in and out of the body, Minter finds the exact moment before the bubble bursts, the sweat dries or the candy melts. Minter’s monumental 15-foot painting, Pop Rocks, her largest to date, she explores the idea of painting with the tongue. Directing her models to lick brightly colored candies, Minter shot photos from underneath a glass plate. The tongues mixed the ‘paint’ with saliva, slurping and pushing the color around the glass surface. The result of this very Minter-esque action paintings are featured in two photographs, in which the models seem to regurgitate their own makeup, Gimmie and Chewing Pink.(green pink caviar)



green pink caviar
44 1/2
Marilyn Minter on le Zèbre
salon 94
Art in America
Pictures of the opening night on W mag's Gallery Go-Round
video interview from Creative Time

CRAIG FISHER






Craig Fisher
Born 1976, lives and works in Nottingham and London

Education

1999 - 2000 MA Fine Art (Distinction) Goldsmiths College, University of London
1996 - 1999 BA Hons Fine Art (First Class) University of Northumbria at Newcastle
1995 - 1996 BTEC Diploma, Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Wigan & Leigh College



Craig Fisher Statement :

"Currently I am making large scale sculptural installations using various fabrics that question representations of violence, disaster and macho stereotypes. I reference and make work from cloth (including my recent wallpaintings) due to its rich wealth of associations. I employ textiles/craft, which are traditionally perceived as being associated to women to question people’s assumptions about what I’m allowed to be as a man and how masculinity is defined.
I am particularly interested in playing with boundaries, mixing techniques of art and craft I reference both high and low culture and compose narratives that sit between reality and fantasy. I make work that operates in a space in between disciplines/boundaries, the work is not identifiable as any one thing, be it image or object, craft/fashion or art, furniture or sculpture, high or low, masculine or feminine, functional or dysfunctional. I explore these boundaries as potential spaces of slippage, of accidents, which allow for discoveries beyond confined and referenced fields of art production. The audience will hopefully perceive this ‘state-in-between’ as a challenge to their habits of looking.
While the individual details of the installations I make may reference the latest in avant garde design, the overall impression is that you are being transported by your TV to the latest media disaster: Or is it a film set – Kill Bill meets South Park, The Shining via The Wizard of Oz and then back again through Bowling for Columbine! I am trying to create an aftermath of multiple popular references, which need to be unpicked. Familiarity, confused by representational play recedes leaving a nightmarish playground of soft-edged things to consider."

CRAIG FISHER

SPARKY CAMPANELLA




Portrait by Sparky Campanella

"portrait is both literally and conceptually skin deep. The minimalist sensibility of the series expunges all of the traditional waypoints of a portrait: artistic manipulation, personality, environment and narrative. All we see is the trace of a person’s life, a vulnerability that’s written on that sensual surface which we present to the world.

When Jackson Pollock took his canvas off the wall he made a seemingly minor change that completely transformed his process and result. With similar intent I have broken the portrait into dozens of discrete photos, splintering the frame and replacing relational composition with composition by repetition. The decisive moment of traditional portraiture is supplanted by visual persistence.

Each portrait is displayed as dozens of individually mounted photos, not a monolithic print; the grid pattern is formed by the empty space between each skin “cell”. Viewing the work is an intimate experience; the detail in each individual cell is only apparent when you’re inches away.

These images constitute the anonymous physicality we present to the world. They revisit the Warholian question of to what extent the real person is hidden beneath the surface versus being entirely surface."


Sparky Campanella
2008


SPARKY CAMPANELLA

CELINA ALVARADO




"I take pictures of martians. Intelligent, innocent, objective and witty, they help me to see as they see while exploring our crazy world." Celina Alvarado



CELINA ALVARADO
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