Sang Bleu is happy and proud to announce its first official event in NYC! Hosted by Envoy Enterprises, the show will present a selection of works by Thomas Hooper, renowned tattoo artist and editor of Sang Bleu. Thomas’ pictorial work although directly complementary to his skin-based work, sails far from the world of tattooing to explore a very medium-orientated abstraction. Mixing with ease orthodox and unorthodox painting techniques, organic textures with computer-enhanced patterns, accidental stains with geometrical entities, witnessing an undeniable although alienated legacy from Abstract Expressionism. In addition to the paintings, a projected composition based of found 8mm footages turn decay and memory into an abstract artistic language.

The second part of the launch will feature performances curated by performance artist Jack Ferver whose work combines confession, explicit choreography, and a darkly knowing gaze to elicit contradictory intellectual and visceral responses from the audience.

The Sang Bleu Family is looking forward to welcoming you to this double-sided New York event, which will be followed by a party at the Envoy Bar.

SAVE THE DATE! Friday June 11th: SANG BLEU IN NYC! event and exhibition in collaboration with Thomas Hooper and Jack Ferver, in the framework of a show by David Flinn! Official release tomorrow!

And another good reason to spend a lot of time in The Pride of Spitalfields.

On May 20th we visited PS1 and danced the day away with Holli Smith and David Benjamin Sherry thanks to Michael Magnan, New York’s favorite house dj. We witnessed big brother, Humberto Petit giving some very deep throated advice to Kalup Lindsay. Best of all… an illegible, yet perfectly clear, art history lecture by one Mr. Terence Koh featuring some of my all time favorite influences: the irreplaceable Collin de Land, John Waters and Divine, Rem Koolhaas, Jack Pierson, Rei Kawakuba’s unmatched spring 1997 collection, and my personal favorite, Mended Veil hitting the slopes at Rob Pruitt’s legendary 1998 Cocaine Buffet (seen here in the third video).

Terence Koh from Rija Munfar on Vimeo.

Terence Koh from Rija Munfar on Vimeo.

Terence Koh from Rija Munfar on Vimeo.

The Skin exhibition opens at the Wellcome Collection in London on June 10th and includes a collection of dry-prepared tattooed human skin specimens amassed by Dr ‘La Valette’ in the 19th century. Mostly homemade stuff but with some early machined pieces too. Shown to explore the fascination criminologists at the time had with tattoos as visual codes, seen as the harbinger of social degeneration. I’m more interested in how he got his hands on them…

From Morrissey’s Kill Uncle

From Rainer Fassbinder’s Rio Das Mortes

To Who Knows Where