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Horiyoshi III exhibition at Somerset House

Reba Maybury — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:45:37 +0000

Kokoro: The Art of Horiyoshi III

Courtyard Rooms, South Wing, Somerset House, London

Horiyoshi III, the internationally renowned tattoo artist currently has his first exhibition in London at the esteemed Somerset House.

Horiyoshi belongs to a royal line of horishi tattoo artists: those specialising in the traditional full-body tattoo called Irezumi. This exhibition studies his paintings on silk as well as displaying tattoo instruments and paint brushes.

Kokoro means ‘heart‘ and ‘feeling‘ in Japanese and through the paintings exhibited Horiyoshi III preserves traditional Japanese culture and mythology through incredibly beautiful silk paintings. Each painting shows typical Japanese images such as dragons, koi’s and white phoenix’s, but each one is depicted is varying sensitivity, intricacy and harshness depending on the story told. The diverse nature of each painting gives the exhibition an eclectic feel considering that most of the paintings are all the same size and repetitively placed beside one another. The varying brush strokes and colours used also add to this fantastic effect.

Having “vowed to never be lazy until the day I die”, he still tattoos six days a week after thirty years of practice. You can see a video of Horiyoshi III at work here which The Guardian recently made.

After meeting Ed Hardy (the exhibition opens with a quote from Hardy about Horiyoshi’s pioneering impact on tattoo culture and history) and becoming close friends, Horiyoshi started to use the electric needle alongside using traditional techniques and pioneered a new form of Japanese tattooing.

The exhibition is free and runs from now until until the 1st of June, it is open every day from 10.00-18.00. More information can be found here

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Laurant got more work done by Xed LeHead

Maxime Buchi — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:52:54 +0000

Stunning.

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“A Girl” by Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:26:47 +0000

“Butoh” is the collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement inspired by the Ankoku-Butoh movement. It typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is traditionally “performed” in white-body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion, with or without an audience. But there is no set style, and it may be purely conceptual with no movement at all. Its origins have been attributed to Japanese dance legends Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.

“A Girl” is a 1973 performance. It lasts 91 minutes.

Hijikata A Girl (part 1)
envoyé par rhizomelee. – Regardez plus de courts métrages.

a hat and a tattoo

Maxime Buchi — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:15:31 +0000

Yesterday, paying a little visit to Mr Hooper I had the pleasure to find there as well my old friend Frank Carter (some of you saw him on the cover of SB 0!). When I met him, he was “just” a tattooer at Frith Street London, but he since became a superstar singer for a band called the Gallows. More than for his music that I must admit not being my “cup of tea”, I always had a big respect for Frank’s extremely good taste in tattooing. The ones he makes and the one he gets. On his head, Frank has an amazing snake by Ian Flower.

laurent & xed

Maxime Buchi — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:59:46 +0000

Our friend, (pretty photogenic) tattoo artist Laurent Maina recently got this amazing headpiece by superstar, tattoo-pioneer Xed. Here he is just outside Rinzing’s Sacred Yantra studio in Lausanne.

Photography © Maxime Büchi

when tattoo magazines used to be good

Maxime Buchi — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:36:24 +0000

If I lived those days, I’d be missing them.
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NY—PARIS

Maxime Buchi — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:23:46 +0000

I have to leave my flat (actually, Mauricio’s flat, thank you bro) on Rue st Maur to get to the train station, and I will be blogging more fashion shows tonight. But in the meanwhile, let me introduce you to Nick who is Men’s Fashion Director for Bergdorf Goodman, NY. Hard not to notice the very stylish and colorful Nick outside of a fashion show. His beautiful tattoos (executed by our friend Shinji of NYadorned and Dave Davenport in Los Angeles). I have rarely seen people play that nicely with the colorways of their tats and their outfit. And additionally, he is a warm and friendly person.Great encounter.

words & images ©Maxime Büchi

Today’s reading: The Dance of Shiva

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:50:42 +0000

“In the night of Brahma, nature is inert, and cannot dance till Shiva wills it: He rises from his rapture, and dancing sends through inert matter pulsing waves of awakening sound, and matter also dances appearing as a glory round about him. Dancing, he sustains its manifold phenomena. In the fulness of time, still dancing, he destroys all forms and names by fire and gives new rest. This is poetry; but none the less, science.”

Coomaraswamy, Ananda, “The Dance of Shiva; fourteen Indian Essays”, 1970, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Dehli.

NEW SHIBARI CLASS IN KREUZBERG, BERLIN

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:26:10 +0000

Every Wednesday Dasniya Sommer will be teaching an additional and regular Shibari class in Kreuzberg. The focus will lie on the technical aspects of Japanese Rope Bondage and on how to tie, untie and suspend a person. She says “By clearly engaging in the technique we will try to raise our technical levels and see how they can be combined. On a long run, we could think of a staged group situation besides the individual games.”

WEDNESDAYS
20 – 22 pm
10 €
@ Buffet – Queer Art Studio
Schlesische Straße 38
2nd backyard: ‘Mühlengebäude’
First Floor
10997 Berlin Kreuzberg

more infos + contact: http://www.dasniyasommer.de/

Chris O’Donnell on VBS.TV

Thomas Hooper — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:04:53 +0000

Click here to watch it………………………….

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/art-talk/chris-o-donnell

look for an interview with chris in SB 5…………….

TH.

irezumi

Maxime Buchi — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:12:55 +0000

A simple and good documentary like I wish there were more.
Thank you Patrick for the link.

Dasniya Sommer

Florence Tetier — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:47:42 +0000

Dasniya Sommer is a dancer and performer, and founder of Schwelle7, an experimental place in Berlin. She’s been exploring the limits of the body and mind throughout her performances, experiencing yoga, contemporary dance and japanese bondage.

See a trailer of her performance at Tanzforum Berlin:
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See an interview here:
http://www.arte.tv/fr/Videos-sur-ARTE-TV/2151166,CmC=2824940.html (in german)

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new tattoo by Rinzing

Maxime Buchi — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:43:26 +0000

I acquired a new piece. I am so happy! I don’t like to show off ;) but this one I’m really proud of. Thanx Rinz!

girls that fuckin rule No2—Claudia de Rossi

Maxime Buchi — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:37:02 +0000

She has already been interviewed in SB, presented, commented, but I still can’t get enough of her.

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a wow one

Maxime Buchi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:15:45 +0000

Tattoo artist turned iconic singer Frank Carter of The Gallows just got his skull tattooed by Ian Flower. Amazing! (Photography by Ian Flower)

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