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hallelujah! this one is really something i have been wishing about secretly, a movie about the great hiroshi sugimoto. well, maria anna tappeiner finally made it. sugimoto is the kind of artist you can’t get enough of, if you know what i mean? i always feel frustrated about not finding more stuff from him. i guess that’s what makes him so great. hiroshi sugimoto / visions in my mind. trailer. by pp’
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ogawa kazumasa – flowers
ogawa kazumasa is known as one of the pioneer in japanese photography. he came in the usa in 1882 when doing the trip from japan was not so common, there he learned the then new process of the dry plate as well as the collotype printing. upon his return to japan two years later, he opened the first photographic studio in tokyo and the first collotype business in japan few years later. even if he is widely known for the pictures he took as an assignment of tokyo’s 100 most attractive geishas, the flowers i discovered a week ago are to me, his one masterpiece, if you consider they were shot in the 1890’s then perhaps mapplethorpe, penn, blossfeldt and friends can consider him as their “papa”, love it! by pp’
robert longo for brooklyn surfer
“I developed the Brooklyn Surfer logo from a memory I had of being at the beach near Rockaway in Brooklyn. It was late in the day, the sun was bright, hanging low in the sky. As I looked west, down the shoreline into the setting sun, I saw in the distance the sharp silhouettes of surfers holding their boards checking out the surf. This image was burned into my brain. Rockaway is Brooklyn. Brooklyn may sound like an unlikely location for a surf spot, but in reality it is a real location with a decent break and at times some serious swells. It is a unique surfing experience. An extraordinary collision of urban and surf cultures. Not far form the beaches are the basketball black tops of city legends and the subway stations where many of the surfers arrive coming off the trains with their boards heading for the beach and the breaks.” i personally always thought that new york and surfing were kind of an absurd duo but whatever dude. by dd
ruscha x kerouac
in 1951, jack kerouac wrote “on the road” on his typewriter as a continuous 120 foot-long scroll. few years later, in 1966, ed ruscha photographed “every building on sunset strip” and presented it on a 27 foot-long scroll. ruscha since confessed his obsession for his road heir in a book released by the great steidl in association with gagosian gallery.
“over the last couple of years, ruscha has turned his attention to on the road, resulting in his own version of kerouac’s beat bible. kerouac’s entire text appears accompanied by black and white photographic illustrations that ruscha has either taken himself, commissioned from other photographers, or selected from found images to refer closely to the details and impressions that the author describes, from car parts to jazz instruments, from sandwich stacks to tire burns on a desert road.”
the leather-bound book comprises 228 pages, signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 350 and presented in a slip-case. we won’t write the price because it’s depressing… by pp’
ryan mcginley – everybody knows…
on top of being nyc star last week with the most crowded opening ever, ryan mcginley released this beautiful book, published in association with the great dashwood books store on bond street to celebrate “everybody knows this is nowhere”.
haven’t seen it for real (as the exhibition, see photo…) but looks really nice. by pp’
everyone knows this is nowhere – ryan mcginley at team gallery
i can’t believe i haven’t made it down to TEAM gallery to see this show in person yet. it may sound cliché to say ryan mcginley has a knack for capturing ‘modern beauty’, but i think it’s true. it’s plain to see this series freezes a taste of the vibe of people today, something we will feel more intensely when some time has passed. as for his images, it’s a beautiful evolution. by kl
just everyday matters 1963-2009: george porcari exhibition
this man is one of my all time heroes, and i must say that i don’t have many heroes really. of course i’m not talking about the one dressed up in the picture, but rather the artist geroge porcari. the openning is on march 27th (exhibit up through april 17th) china art objects 410 cottage home street, chinatown, los angeles. by dd
hilarious: Hitler lashes out at jeffrey deitch, moca, and lady gaga
o.k. this is genius: “hitler in his bunker hopes that he will get the job as director of the MOCA, but is told by his senior staff that the job has gone instead to the new york dealer jeffrey deitch, known for his business dealings and embrace of spectacle. upset, hitler lashes out at MOCA’s board of trustees, deitch, some of deitch’s artists (or those he admires) and the man who saved MOCA philanthropist eli broad.” by cdc
dale frank: black as black as Rembrandt’s black
tour de force: australian artist dale (leonard) frank‘s black painting sucks you in, and absorbs your soul, like an exxon oil spill… on the list of go-sees as this rich deep black simply beckons you to be there in person. beautiful indeed. by dd
hail rothko: the chapel of rothko
rothko’s chapel is a non denominational chapel in huston texas, that serves not only as a chapel, but also as a major work of modern art. perhaps that is not such a new concept, as historically, god has always been in the business of art. from michelangelo to le corbusier… and the investments have paid off… so while jesus saves, moses continues to invest… and as far as mohamad? he was always a big believer in cash. by dd
what are artists… who do books called?
name that tune to win a genuine tomorrow started t-shirt signed by us all. (sign in so we can get it to you of course – above piece by ed ruscha © 1976). by tm
robert gober: ouch
meticulously crafted sinks by gober: plaster, wood, steel, wire, lath, paint
half a leg and a foot – bees wax, human hair, and then sometonight i was trying to remember his name and kept saying, the guy with the sinks! so this post is just a reminder for the future. i recall when i first saw gobers work in los angels more than 10 years ago, i was really amazed, at the time all i had seen was the sinks, mounted to the gallery walls and ceiling corners… it was not until years later in london, at what i think was the sensation show, that i saw the bees wax pieces. still a sensation! by dd
