Existing somewhere within the aftermath of a collision between Classical Art, the macabre and the deconstruction of the human form, lies the work of Italian Oil Painter and Sculptor Nicola Samori. By using darkness as an alienating and overpowering element within his paintings, Samori is able to dramatise and bring his subjects to life, in a way that is both grotesque and hauntingly realistic.

His sculpting work is scattered with tell-tale origins of an elaborate Greco-Roman approach, but have violently been moulded into twisted figures reminiscent of melted humanoid’s. Painting on a mix of copper, wood and linen, he incorporates a range of techniques such as staining, action painting and in many cases actual incompletion; leaving dominant spaces blank or heavily obscured. Peril is at home within his work as decay, but-none-the-less an air of beauty is able to creep through, as we look to his subjects with an equal amount of pity as deserving grace.

 

www.nicolasamori.com

 

 

 

Trying to explain exactly what Jim Shaw’s (a contributor to Sang Bleu 6) newest exhibition is about seemed a truly difficult task with out just quoting from the press release:

”For Jim Shaw’s exhibition at Metro Pictures the Los Angeles-based artist presents a large mural and 20 drawings comprising a comic book that center on his fictional religion Oism, a narrative Shaw has been developing for more than 20 years. The works draw on eccentric aspects of American history and quirky old imagery to illustrate part two of Shaw’s proposed, four-part Oist prog rock opera. Its story, told through the comic book, follows two small-time crooks as they break into the Museum of Oist History in Omaha. Seeking refuge from encroaching FBI agents the pair ducks into a 24-hour wig museum where a helpful curator hides them beneath wigs that inexplicably render them invisible and transport them to the ancient homeland of the religion’s founding deity O.”

The exhibition will run from tonight until April the 21st at Metro Pictures in New York

More information here

 

Mexicali Rose is a community media center and gallery in the Mexican border city Mexicali. Artists Space will be will exhibiting the work of artists, journalists, activists and filmmakers on both sides of the border.

Founded by Mexicali-born filmmaker Marco Vera in 2007 as an audio-visual workshop for neighborhood kids in border-adjacent Pueblo Nuevo, the workshop quickly expanded to include craft and trade classes, a community gallery exhibiting the work of local and international artists, a cinema club that showcases the work of Mexican and foreign filmmakers, and a radio station formed to provide a free and uncensored platform for local youth.

The exhibition features a wide range of work from this innovative space, including experimental and documentary films produced by the workshop; photographs and collages by Mexicali-based, international artists Pablo Castaneda, Carlos Coronado and Julio Torres; photographs by documentarians Rafael Veytia and Odette Barajas and Zeta journalist Sergio Haro, and an original mural created by Fernando Corona.
Concurrent with the exhibition, Artists Space will present the symposium The City Machine and Its Streets – Anomalous Ecologies on March 31-April 1, featuring conversations between renowned Mexico City writer and journalist Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez, Los Angeles writer and journalist Ben Ehrenreich, Zeta journalist Sergio Haro and Marco Vera, hosted by writer Chris Kraus.

The exhibition will run from the 31st of March until the 27th of May 2012

More information here

Ryan Hope reveals Garage magazines ambitious project which tattooed pieces of the most contemporary and prestigious artwork on to willing volunteers. With the likes of Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Raymond Pettibon images being tattooed by other tattooers  this project brought up many interesting questions about ownership and prices of the tattoos made.

Other than bringing up these intriguing questions the film has been made in the most detailed and achingly stylistic way. The film also gives a voice to the tattooed and their own personal experiences rather than the hugely famous artists who created the images.

Watch it here:

Dazed Digital interview Aaron Chan and premier this exciting new collaboration. The film has been chosen for Channel 4′s Random Acts series too. Check out more now! Links underneath:

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/12519/1/random-acts-aaron-chan

http://randomacts.channel4.com/#view/179

 

 

Choreographer and composer Hofesh Schechter and sculptor Antony Gormley have teamed up to create an exciting new performance called Survivor premiering at the Barbican in London later this month.

For tickets and more information look here : http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=12883

last images of Miami.

NICOLAS PARTY


Our dear, old friend Nicolas Party (incidentally, brother of Ian Party) is represented by The Modern Institute, in Glasgow. It is always so nice to see someone you grew up with and shared so many ideas with make it “this high” in the artistic food-chain. We are very proud of him. And obviously, big fans of his art!

“Complementary Colors Face-to-Face”, by Richard Jackson

VIVIANE SASSEN

RYAN McGINLEY

Ushio Shinohara
Boxing Painting
2010
oil on canvas
143 x 87 cm (56 x 34 inches)

ZANELE MUHOLI

Efithis Patsourakis
Horizon #4
2011
Found oil paintings of amateur painters on canvas, 4 pieces
307 x 71 cm
Eleni Koroneou Gallery

Wolfgang Tillmans

Alexandra Bircken

ANONYMOUS
(photography my myself :P )