House of house, strangers of strangers, pure love, etc.

Legendary tattoo-photographer and reporter (and Sang Bleu friend) Traveling Mick finally started a website. Check it out and get your mind blown!

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Travelin’ Mick is a photographer and journalist, who has been relentlessly roaming the world in search of the last remaining tattoo cultures of this planet to record and thus conserve them for posterity.

It is his distinctive goal to promote the understanding of the importance of tattooing to the history and culture of mankind and as a veritable form of art.

Tattoos have been an integral part of the shaping of identities of societies and individuals throughout our history over thousands of years as well as a possibility to express our individuality and creativity.

Thorough research is meant to find out more about the relation of mankind and its societies with body art.

By visiting and documenting the last remaining traditional tattooing practices on all continents, he tries to preserve those cultures and show them to the world in images that express the beauty and pride of ethnic groups and traditional communities, who still bear the marks of their people.

Ultra exciting film event showing the likes of Karen Finley, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Richard Kern, Lung Leg, Kembra Pfahler, Casandra Stark Mele, Tommy Turner, David Wojnarowicz, Nick Zedd and close Sang Bleu contributor Lydia Lunch!

At the KW Institute in Berlin from February 19, 2012  to April 9, 2012!

More information here: http://www.kw-berlin.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=22&Itemid=39&lang=en

 

 

it seems our dear Maxime Ballesteros has a thing for heels. As much as we do? <3

CERCASI BALLERINO / ATLETA / MODELLO A ROMA PER EVENTO ARTISTICO PRIVATO CHE OSPITERÀ PERSONALITÀ DI SPICCO IL 19 GENNAIO (È RICHIESTA LA DISPONIBILITÀ PER IL TRUCCO DALLE 5 DI POMERIGGIO E PIÙ AVANTI)
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RECHERCHE DANSEUR / ATHLÈTE/ MANNEQUIN A ROME POUR UN ÉVÉNEMENT ARTISTIQUE PRIVÉ LE 19 JANVIER RÉUNISSANT DES PERSONNALITÉS D’EXCEPTION (ÊTRE LIBRE À PARTIR DE 5 HEURES DE L’APRÈS MIDI POUR LE MAQUILLAGE)
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CALL FOR DANCER / ATHLETE / MODEL IN ROME FOR 1-2 HOUR PRIVATE ART EVENT ON JANUARY 19TH, GATHERING EXCEPTIONAL PERSONALITIES (PRESENCE NEEDED FOR PROVISIONAL MAKEUP 5PM AND FORWARD)

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contact: jsr@sangbleu.com

http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/

… as re-named by Chad Muska after 4 days of total debauchery

Kehinde Wiley
Houdon Paul-Louis
2011
Bronze with polished stone base
34 x 26 x 19 in (86,4 x 66,0 x 48,3 cm)
Ed 1/3 (2AP)
Roberts & Tilton

Senga Nengudi
R.S.V.P. Reverie-G
1977/2011
Nylon mesh, sand
68 x 24 inches
172,7 x 61 cm
Tilton Gallery

Jumana Manna
Resting Flag
2011
rusted water pipe, pigmented silicon, leather, string, pink marble
Dimensions variable

Hans Bellmer

Oscar Tuazon
Alloy (For Steve Baer)
2011
20 hax nuts, assembled and welded into a sphere, steel
diameter 7″, 13.7lb (diameter 18cm, 6,2kg)
Ed 45/XX, signed and numbered certificate
Parkett 89

Sam Durant
There’s Still A War Going On
2007
mirror and spray enamel, mounted on plywood, and digital print
200 x 130 x 2,5 cm / 78 3/4 x 51 1/8 x 1 in
unique
Sadie Coles

This is the (almost) first post of a series on and about my visit to the Miami Art Basel fair. It took me a while to process all the images but even more time to process the experience to tell the truth. Do not expect a very coherent report, but more like a series of impressions. First of all I wish to thank the people I hung out with and who basically made this stay so f****n awesome. Among others and in no particular order: Dani Smith, Harif Guzman, Chad Muska, Angel, Lauren Devine, Mike Nouveau, Ashley, Nicole, Valissa, Adrienne, Mira, Adrien Sauvage, Jessica Silverman, Franklin, Fabiola Beracase, Hannah Warner, Jack Dononghue and obviously, the usual Liam Sparkes and Danny Fox.

Now let me start with an overall impression and I’ll get more specific as I keep posting: I arrived on the Wednesday. Went directly to the Salem show at the Delano (Hosted by the Hole). Caught up with Fabiola (first and last time I saw her of the week!), watched the show, then went to see Harif and Dani at the Soho house. I slept in a derelict room of the Shelborn Hotel and still made it to the fair on the next day though. Liam and Danny had not arrived yet. I saw a lot of very beautiful things things and basically from there onwards, everything is a big misty chaos of memories.

S♠LEM

A R T B A S E L

Olafur Eliasson
Your plural view
2011
mirror, stainless steel, aluminium
78 1/2 x 76 x 74 inches; 199.4 x 193 x 188 cm

Tomas Saraceno
As yet untitled (3+5 module makrolon cloud)
2011
acrylic, polyester rope, acylic hardware
cloud of 3/ 43 1/4 x 37 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches; 110x 95 x 65 cm
cloud of 5: 57 x 45 1/4 x 43 1/4 inches; 145 x 115 x 110 cm

Kumie Tsuda
Walking and memorizing (Echo Park)
2011
ceramic
176 x 173 x h. 19 cm
Tomio Koyama Gallery

more posts on the same topics soon!