Our reflections in Gerard Richters work.  

CPH, SMK April 2011.

Ai Wei Wei's "A Study of Perspective: Tian'anmen Square", 1995-2003

For an upcoming group exhibition I've paraphrased it as a comment to his
disappearance since April 3 2011.

temporary portfolio. 

Group exhibition coming up and I felt the need of a platform solely for my artwork. 

Any suggestions of other platforms that does not require great knowledge in html codes? 

I've mentioned her before, her illustrations never seize to amaze me. 

Love her artwork so so so much. 

Eri Wakiyama, remember that name. 

when i'm not reading. sleeping or eating.
structures and boundaries.
lines. transparency.

"Exist" by Kelly Mark.

Testaments Betrayed, LouLou Cherinet.

I met Loulou last April during Street View, a group exhibition produced by MAP, she was one of the trio GoodTV which showed the work This Image Is No More along with Jean-Pedro Fabra Guemberana and Michele Masucci. I was engaged in their work by being a volunteer at the whole exhibition but I also ended up as one of their storytellers. (I'll explain another time)

I had no previous knowledge about them, nor did I grasp what kind of art they were doing when flying solo. But I was sure of that it wouldn't be boring.

Testaments Betrayed is what she calls the exhibition, mixed with a new work and older works. She works in moving visuals, video art, and engages the viewers in race, gender, ethnicity and identity issues. I know I know, when I first read that, I thought, oh that's new... and wasn't to keen on that simple description which is inserted in most of the contemporary art today. But I had to go to the exhibition to see for myself, and most of all I wanted to meet her again. (social networking is crucial in the art world.) In the rooms and in the cathedral of Röda Sten I found video art that moved me. Many times, here comes a confession, video art has been much of a monotonous bore, but not this. She's not just making arty videos and playing hard to get, well she does that too, but it's not entirely abstract video art. She adresses the issues directly and far more visual than I'd like them to.

For instance in one of her works, Bleeding Men, she has several dark colored men lying in a what I assume is a bathroom floor, a lot like the showers in gymhalls, anyway, they are lying there all dressed in white tunics, and then you see them cutting themselves in the arm. It was like it was one person and you just saw them in different angles at once, and you see them bleeding and in the end they stand up walk away and all there's left is pools of blood on the floor. I actually saw it in reverse order, it was even more powerful. I walked in on the video, going in loops, at the end of it, so I saw the pools first and then the beginning with them lying there. That's what so unpredictable with video art, you can catch fragments of it if you don't watch the whole or start from the beginning or get another experience from it that intended.

Another video work is White Women. Where several black men sitting around a table eating and telling stories of their first encounters with white women. The hierarchy, patriarchy and and race-difference is discussed without disguise. They talk and laugh freely about these white women as their conquers, encounters and broken loves and so on. They all wear the same red striped shirt and the camera is placed in the middle rotating as one of them is telling their own story. You're not so sure if it's OK to laugh at the stories they are telling, you are not sure if to identify with them or with the women they are talking about or as another authority to morally judge them. Because many of the stories are quite discriminating, both in race and in gender and at times offensive but also hilarious.

One with dual screens which I did not catch the name of was screening two different landscapes but same motifs. One of Sweden and one of another what we might call third world country. Where the difference between two women in respectively country is shopping for groceries and another screen of the accomodation, graffiti on the walls, the sea, the trees. What can be found in one country can be found in another, but there's still a significant difference. But also very much like the other.

There were several works which I have not covered here and those I did were only fragments. My poor description of this exhibition does not do it justice and I have even left out one of the great parts, the building itself. So go there if you can. It's worth it.

www.cherinet.com

Vito Acconci - Lobby for the time being, Bronx Museum.

source. Purple-diary.

Andy Denzler.

corps sculpture 1964-1967

ORLAN.

Mostly known for her surgeries during the nineties. "The reincarnation of Saint-Orlan" Where she transformed herself into elements from paintings and sculptures of women. She picked Boticellis Venus' chin, Jean-Léon Gérômes Psyche's nose, Leonardo's Mona Lisas forehead, the lips of Francois Boucher's Europa and the eyes of Diana in a Fontainebleu painting from the sixteenth-century. Every each of them because of their stories, not for their canons in their beauty they represent. Psyche for her fragility and vulnerability within her soul, Dianas power over godesses and women but inferior to the gods and men, Mona Lisa for her beauty and anti-beauty, Europa for her adventure and Venus for her carnal beauty.

I'm in awe for her belief in art, and how she as an artist has chosen to approach and attack problems within and without the boundaries in art and femininity.

ORLAN.net

"Hon" at the Modern Museum STHLM, 1966.

A cathedral where you entered between her legs and inside you'd find a milkbar, art exhibitions and much more.

niki de saint phalle and jean tinguley. Art worlds Bonnie & Clyde. with whom she made art collaborations, life partner and friend. art saved her from a nervous break down at 22, art became her therapy.

moo said the cow. maybe it's a bull, the pink confuses me. but of course it's a bull.

Aurel Schmidt doesn't only do pussy.

I wish my next big trip will be NYC, people keep telling me that it would be the perfect place for me. I have to yet check it out.

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it's my name day today. Happy name-day to me. I know it's weird, Swedish stuff.

Morrissey/Paul Weller. Lawrence Watson.

it's sign right. it must be.

FOTOUTSTÄLLNING PÅ WHYRED. förfest innan WAY OUT.