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Emmanuel Fremin Gallery is pleased to announce its grand re-opening 1/5/12

January 4, 2012

EXHIBITION: INDEPENSENSE by GIUSEPPE MASTROMATTEO

Emmanuel Fremin Gallery  is pleased to announce its grand re-opening in
its new, larger Chelsea space located at  547 West 27 Street, suite 508.
The gallery first vernissage will be held on January 5, 2012 from 6-8 PM,
introducing a 5 week solo show for Italian born artist Giuseppe
Mastromatteo for his “Indepensense” series. Following a wide acclaim
reception in 2011 at Art Hamptons, the AAF, Greenwich Art Fair and Red Dot
Miami, this will be be the first solo show for Giuseppe in the United
States.

Giuseppe Mastromatteo was born in Italy in1970 . After a period spent as a
recordist’s assistant inside a record company, he graduated from Accademia
di Comunicazione di Milano in art direction. He writes about the Arts,
teaches Advertising at various significant academic institutions, and
collaborates with the Triennale Museum of Milan in the role of art
director. Since 2005 his works have been exhibited at the Fabbrica Eos Art
Gallery, Milan as well as at national and international art fairs. He
currently lives and works in Milan.

Mastromatteo’s portraits bring poetic Surrealism back to life. They could
be collages, but take advantage of the subtlety of digital technology to
reproduce humanity in impossible and illusory dimensions. Ripped faces,
eyes and ears which run through hands, are the centre of an imaginary truth
that draws inspiration from the visions of Magritte and Man Ray to land
inside a new visual synthesis with stylistic patterns representing the most
contemporary photography of our time, in a continuous overlapping of visual
languages that live in the world of advertising and genuine research.
Backgrounds are white, the light homogeneous: nothing averts the detailed
expressions in the characters of this silent and fascinating theatre of the
absurd. Transfigured bodies, pierced and lacerated do not show any form of
violence, but instead pose solemnly in front of the photographer=92s lens,
beyond any suffering. No expression exists in these faces, there is no
tension, but rather a sense of timelessness that leaves us open to reflect
about the uncertainty of this third millennium. The observer’s eye is
immediately attracted by the extravagance of these creatures, which at the
same time produces a true sense of discomfort and uneasiness. Mastromatteo
intervenes in the interior sense of beauty. The models he chooses for his
images bring to the stage classic canons of harmony and equilibrium
creating a complex dialectict between fascination and repulsion. From here
the evident sensation emerges of discovering oneself in front of a Pantheon
where every possibility of self identification is precluded. A universe
unto itself is the object of aesthetic contemplation and intriguing
reverence, magnified by the means with which this is all narrated because
photography continues to maintain a link with an indissoluble reality of
facts. The process of recognition inherent in portrait photography appears
as something distant. Physiognomy comes to light only to recover the
aesthetic detail of our time. Reality and fiction appear as outdated ideas
with full attention focusing on memory. As a conclusion, in order to bring
together feelings and fragments of this project, photography in itself
seems not enough and becomes something more, transforming into a metaphor
of itself, reaching the final objective of communicating through other
forms and channels.

Denis Curti.

Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
547 West 27 Street suite 508, New York, NY 10001
646.245.3240

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Challenging the Forces of Xenophobia with Art, one picture at a time

December 26, 2011

 

Jan Banning's 'National Identities' project includes his version of Manet's 'Olympia' Painting

With a new series of images called “National Identities,” Dutch photographer Jan Banning re-creates works by Old Masters with a multicultural twist as a means of challenging the rising forces of xenophobia in Europe. His version of Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window” (c. 1657) for instance, features a young Muslim woman wearing a headscarf, reading by a closed window. A proud Turkish laborer posed for his recreation of Rembrandt’s 1654 portrait of the artist’s friend and patron, Jan Six. And his homage to Manet’s “Olympia” (c. 1863) switches the black and white subjects of the original, so the nude woman is black and the lady-in-waiting is white.

“By doing this, I question the concept of homogeneous ‘national identities’ of European countries,” Banning writes in Newsweek International, which recently published the images. Banning, who is himself the son of immigrants to the Netherlands, explains to PDN that “[Anti-immigration parties] are stressing the importance of national culture all over Europe. The idea is that immigrants should adapt to [European] cultures, or they should get out.

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On his Web site, Banning reminds readers that during the Dutch golden age of the 17th century, “the percentage of immigrants was about the same as it is now.” Not only were many proletarians from foreign countries, but so were various men of arts and letters, including Descartes and Spinoza.

Banning says he got the idea for his project five or six years ago when he was studying the work of various Enlightenment painters. Looking at the work of Vermeer in particular, he says, “It struck me that so many of the women in his paintings are wearing scarves.” He recalled how his mother, a Christian, wore a headscarf to church services when Banning was a boy. But now, he says, scarves are the lightning rod of debate and a symbol of “other” because Muslim women wear them. “People are making such a fuss,” he says.

Jan Banning's version of Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window” (c. 1657)

That led to his first piece in the series, showing a Muslim girl reading an application for a citizenship course by a window. The challenge was finding a location that matched the scene of the original Vermeer. After looking at 25 possibilities, Banning came upon a suitable room inside a museum for religious art near his home in Utrecht. The subject of the photograph is the daughter of his long-time housekeeper, who is Moroccan. “She is very modern, and a practicing Muslim,” Banning says. The image seems to dare Western viewers to deny her culture—and humanity—without casting a shadow over their own.

“His creative solution to addressing the hypocrisy in the right wing’s position on immigration in Europe is brilliant,” says Newsweek senior photo editor Jamie Wellford.

Jan Banning's Turkish Turkish laborer posed for his recreation of Rembrandt’s (c 1654)

Banning says he struggled for months over the symbols and meanings of the original paintings before recreating them. “I didn’t want to do this in a superficial way,” he says. “I really wanted to grasp the ideas of the original paintings.

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The “Olympia” work presented several challenges, both technical and symbolic. Switching the black and white subjects was the easy part. But what, he wondered, was the importance of the expression of the original “Olympia”? What was the significance of the cat? And of the dog, in an earlier Titian painting that Manet’s painting referenced? Banning eventually figured out that the dog signified the naked subject’s loyalty, while the cat signified just the opposite. But, what animal to put in his own image as an international symbol? A hawk, he thought, “could be kind of absurd.” So he ended up choosing a mouse (look closely) to symbolize his subject’s vulnerability, in a political sense.

At first, he tried to imitate the lighting of the Manet painting. “I got pretty close, but once you transpose that [painting] to photography, it becomes very boring,” he says. (He ended up using lighting that was far less flat.) Banning also discovered that a barely noticeable opening in the curtain behind the servant in the Manet painting was not trivial. “I thought, let’s leave it out. But then I found it was hard to balance the composition without it.” (He included the opening, adding a reproduction of a small Rembrandt painting in the gap.)

Banning says the image still needs work. “I’m not happy with the mouse. I’m OK with the idea of the mouse, but I didn’t get the particular mouse that I wanted. I also have my doubts about the clothing of the white woman in the background, and maybe the expression could be better,” he says.

It’s a painstaking project, and because of the effort he has to put into each image, he expects to create only two or three more. Currently he’s planning an image of the Annunciation, for which he is now studying many different renditions. He also decided to release the first images before the series is complete, because xenophobia is a pressing issue right now. “My idea is to use it in a political context. I didn’t want to wait,” he says.

Asked about the danger that political messages pose to the integrity of artistic works, Banning says, “Of course I’ve been wondering: Is this simply propaganda? I don’t think it is. At least that is my hope. I have no problem putting messages in my work that are commenting about society, and raising questions. What I try to stay away from is suggesting a one-dimensional solution to things.”

By David Walker for Photo District News

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Musée de l’Elysée suspends Prize in wake of censorship of Palestinian artist

December 22, 2011

 

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Photo from an exhibition of works by Larissa Sansour: Ex-Terrestrial, Kulturhuset, Stockholm. 23 October 2010 – 13 February 2011. (http://www.larissasansour.com)

Introduced in 2010 to support young photographers, the prestigious €25,000 Lacoste Elysée Prize is awarded by the Swiss Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne Switzerland, with sponsorship from Lacoste, the clothing brand.

The Musée de l’Elysée has decided to suspend the organisation of the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011 in response to the decision of the organizers to exclude the work of Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour’s work.

Sansour was among eight finalists shortlisted for the 2011 prize

Eight nominees for the 2011 prize were selected to take part in the contest, and asked to produce three photographs on the theme la joie de vivre.

With the help of a grant of €4,000, each nominee had “carte blanche” to interpret the theme how they saw fit, whether directly or indirectly. The nominees were free to make a submission based upon their existing work or as an entirely new project.

An expert jury was scheduled to meet at the end of January 2012 to select the winner of the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011.

Larissa Sansour was among the eight artists shortlisted for the 2011 prize. In December 2011, sponsor Lacoste demanded that Sansour’s nomination be revoked. Lacoste stated their refusal to support Sansour’s work, describing it as “too pro-Palestinian.”

In November 2011, three photos from Sansour’s ‘Nation Estate’ project were accepted, and she was congratulated by the prize administrators for her work and professionalism. Sansour’s name was subsequently included in all literature relating to the prize and on the website as an official nominee. Her name has since been removed, however, and her project was withdrawn from an upcoming issue of contemporary art magazine ArtReview introducing the nominated artists.

Sansour was asked to approve a statement saying that she voluntarily withdrew her nomination “in order to pursue other opportunities.” Sansour refused to agree to such a statement.

Sansour says, “I am very sad and shocked by this development. This year Palestine was officially admitted to UNESCO, yet we are still being silenced. As a politically involved artist I am no stranger to opposition, but never before have I been censored by the very same people who nominated me in the first place. Lacoste’s prejudice and censorship puts a major dent in the idea of corporate involvement in the arts. It is deeply worrying.”

Sansour’s multimedia project ‘Nation Estate’ was “conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for UN membership. Nation Estate depicts a science fiction-style Palestinian state in the form of a single skyscraper housing the entire Palestinian population. Inside this new Nation Estate, the residents have recreated their lost cities on separate floors: Jerusalem on 3, Ramallah on 4, Sansour’s own hometown of Bethlehem on 5, etc.

Sansour’s shortlisted work, ‘Nation Estate,’ conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for UN membership, is a multimedia science fiction project that imagines a future Palestinian state in the form of a skyscraper. The single skyscraper houses the entire Palestinian population, with residents recreating their lost cities on separate floors.

Sansour from Bethlehem is a prominent Palestinian artist and filmmaker. Her most recent film, ‘A Space Exodus,’ was nominated for the short-film category at the Dubai International Film Festival

The Musée de l’Elysée has announced its suspension of the 2011 Prize and has offered to exhibit ‘Nation Estate’ outside the framework of the prize and Lacoste’s sponsorship.

originally reported in ahramonline

more on Larissa Sansour rejection at Artinfo or see her web site larissasonsour for more info on her.

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thoughts for today, no nudes opps

December 18, 2011

i know it’s almost christmas time and a lot of people come here for the nude photos, some of my work is about human figure studies and yes at my age i still enjoy naked bodies. i’ve always thought bodies are beautiful even a 747 is a lovely designed body.

some internet groups i belong to don’t really enjoy my work, hey maybe i don’t still belong to them i’d better check. i am like groucho marx who said ‘he’d not join a group who’d have him’ or something like that. my previous post on cindy sherman is about an artist/photographer doing what they want to do and not worrying about what people thought about their work, picasso also comes to mind as another. yet people are clamoring for their work. i’ve one collector who said they wanted to hang my ‘Puppy love’ next to sherman. how cool is that?

puppy love

Puppy love

do i think my work should be considered with these artist, why not ? all though i am not reinventing the wheel, well maybe my own red wagon. well then i am doing what i want more or less as this graphic shows ‘whats the problem ?’

ok no problem

 well since it is christmas week i’ll give in a little and post what i call an ‘Angel ‘ yes it’s a nude….. my public demands it.

Angel

have a safe and happy holiday !

jene

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tis the holiday season of mary’s & artstrong art wrapping….. but wait there’s more

November 28, 2011

this trip we are all involved with called life is pretty amazing, damn mind blowing if one tries to figure it out and i don’t have much mind left to blow away so i just try go along with it, believe me when i say it’s not an easy task at times as i do want to meddle with it.

reading this press release the other day from friends of ours, mary and emmanuel and letting it gestate for a few days it occurred to me how much my wife mary has changed my life for better than it was before meeting her. here is another couple who seem together more than they were as separates.  a charming couple whom we met through mary’s photography journey, she met emamnuel through a photo shoot, at about the same time she and i were developing our relationship they were developing theirs.

so in a way we both developed together, as couples separately. we always enjoy getting together, mostly now it’s been at their art opening at The Emmauel Fremin Gallery, they are a busy couple traveling here mostly following the fine art market while we travel to different  points of interest. Hawaii is ou next destination which we are planning now. very exciting thinking of whales jumping out of the ocean or walking on volcanos, heart be still.

mary and emmanuel  have come up with an unique solution from transporting art from across town to across the world. well  i am not really sure who came up with the idea but it’s sure neat. saves me a lot of hassle wrapping pics in bubble wrap, which i have way too much of.

ARTSTRONG BAGS REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY TO SHIP AND STORE PRECIOUS ART

ArtStrong Inc. launches ArtStrong bags to satisfy needs of art enthusiasts for more efficient, cost saving, and eco-friendly way to transport and store artwork at Red Dot Miami Art Fair.

Frustrated by the arduous, repetitive task of wrapping and unwrapping each work of art in bubble wrap, ArtStrong Inc. has created the efficient, eco-conscious ArtStrong bag. This revolutionary bag satisfies the art industry’s needs for the ultimate packaging and storage solution while saving time and money, benefitting the environment and looking chic.

A classic example of where necessity is the mother of all inventions, ArtStrong bags blend the best practices of the art, building insulation and shipping industries. Providing 5x the protection of other bags, ArtStrong bags are made with 2 layers of polyethylene bubbles, shock-absorbing foam, brushed neo-technological fabric and all surrounded by a metallized film. The edges are bound in their signature orange twill tape creating the most durable bags in the marketplace.

Using the bags is as easy as 1-2-3. Open – Insert – Close. 

“As gallery owners and frequent exhibitors of numerous art fairs around the world, we would dread the process of packing and unpacking for a show. Countless hours and rolls upon rolls of bubble wrap and tape would be used only to be thrown away as soon as the artwork was delivered. The amount of waste was abominable,” Mary Nguyen, Co-Owner of ArtStrong Inc., explained. “After a very long R&D process, we are confident that our bags will not only live up to the expectations and needs of the gallery owners, artists, and collectors alike, but will save you tremendous time and money.
Protect what’s precious!”

“It’s the bag you never knew you always needed and the uses reach far beyond the art industry,” Nguyen said.

The main features are:

  •  Over 1 ½” of layered cushioned padding providing 5x the   
  • protection of other bags.
  •  Reinforced with sewn on binding.
  •  Reusable and resealable with industrial strength velcro.
  •  Resistant to extreme temperature, mold, and mildew.
  •  Reflective, eye-catching aesthetic.

ARTSTRONG BAGS REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY TO SHIP AND STORE PRECIOUS ART

Available in 15 standard sizes from 18” x 20” to 65” x 70”, the prices range from $30 to $150 retail. Customized sizes are also available for larger pieces of art.

so strong you can even ship dogs in them but who’d want to do that?

ArtStrong bags will launch at the Red Dot Miami Art Fair on November 29th, 2011 and is sponsoring the opening reception of Art Now Fair at the Catalina Hotel on Thursday, December 1 to benefit the Diakonos International Orphanage. The bags will be sold at their showroom/retail store on 547 West 27th Street, in the heart of New York’s Chelsea Art District as well as online at http://www.artstrongbags.com. Orders delivered within Manhattan get free shipping and the bags are available to ship worldwide. For
more information, please visit http://www.artstrongbags.com.

     About ArtStrong Inc.:
ArtStrong Inc. was created by Mary Nguyen,    Co-President and creative director and  Emmanuel Fremin, Co-President and director of the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery. Based in New York, ArtStrong is committed to preserving natural resources for future generations and supporting the economy with all production done in the US. ArtStrong also partners with Diakonos International (www.diakonosintl.org), a charitable organization that serves and brings hope to the orphans and homeless children of Haiti, and Girls Educational & Mentoring Service (GEMS) (www.gems-girls.org) whose mission is to empower and serve girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic
trafficking.

Contact:
Mary Nguyen, President
ArtStrong Inc.
547 West 27th Street, #508
New York, NY 10001
Ph: 877.281.9990
http://www.artstrongbags.com
press@artstrongbags.com

Here is the more 

December 15th at The Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, 547 West 27th Street Suite 508 NY, NY, The Art of Beauty Experience will be on display for the public to the mutual benefit of GEMS (www.gems-girls.org) in New York and the Diakonos Orphanage (www.diakonosintl.org) in Carrefour, Haiti. The sale of original artworks by orphans in Haiti and girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking here in New York will advance the needs of both groups aspiring to empower other children, like themselves.

The exhibit and gala event will be held at the gallery on the evening of December fifteenth from 7-10pm featuring hors d’oeuvre, wine, and a special musical performance by SRC signed music recording star ‘Shontelle’ (www.shontellemusic.com). Beauty activists, Ford supermodel & Founder of Art In Motion Monica Watkins and “Makeup Stylist to the Stars” Leora Edut, realized that fashion and beauty can serve as a catalyst to empower young, at-risk women in the areas of self-esteem, creativity, diversity, and access to financial freedom. When women experience their own beauty from the inside out, other areas of their lives transform.

The Art of Beauty Experience is a bi-national initiative created for young, disadvantaged women living a world apart to celebrate and embrace their common inner-beauty and charitable hearts. The children of the Diakonos Orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti are starving for the educational and artistic opportunities that we take for granted in the U.S. GEMS is committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact sexually exploited youth. By linking the two organizations, and inspiring a myriad of supporters across all disciplines, the possibilities for personal growth and future success for the children are limitless.

sounds like a wonderful place to stop by next month and you could be helping some children of the world realize that life can be beautiful shared with others whom you don’t know just because you’re human.

let us not forget our Cambodian Children’s Hospital art auction http://www.biddingforgood.com/FWAB

We invite you to Bid4Friends, a new online auction which runs from
November 25th through December 18th!

We have collected 44 beautiful prints taken by artists from all over the world and made them available to you online this holiday season. The proceeds from the auction will support Angkor Hospital for Children and associated programs.

Prints are available to view online before the auction goes live by clicking on this link Bidding for Good

metta

jene

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The Hionas Gallery to Show Unique Photography by Warwick Saint

November 28, 2011

Written by Gavin Southport Sunday, 27 November 2011 21:36

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New York City.- Hionas Gallery is pleased to present “Warwick Saint: Body Of Work”, on view at the gallery from December 1st through December 30th. This will be the very first solo exhibition from one of the style & fashion world’s most sought-after photographers.

For this show, Saint and gallery owner Peter Hionas have carefully compiled a selection of twenty photographs from the artist’s recent work with tattooed models, artists and other acquaintances. The resulting collection – provocative, sultry and noir all at once – is both indicative of Saint’s extensive work with nudes and starlets, and something of a departure from his oeuvre, revealing a more in-depth narrative with his subjects. There will be an opening reception for the artist from 6:00 to 8:00pm on Wednesday, November 30th.

artwork: Warwick Saint - "Sumari", 2008 - Photograph Edition of 7 - 24" x 20" Courtesy Hionas Gallery, NYC A partial nude ascends a shadowy staircase, every inch of her shoulders, back and thighs covered with tattoos; a seductive blonde stands in mid turn, most likely toward our gaze, holding a glistening six-shooter in one hand, with a desolate junkyard as the backdrop. In these portraits and others, such as Night Hotel, in which Saint’s lovely subject grasps a drink and cigarette while lying prone on a white leather sofa, a story is being told that is for the viewer to decide, even inhabit if they’re so daring. While many photos of movie stars or models can feel fleeting, given the subjects’ built-in celebrity and all that entails, Saint captures a permanence with these women that is unmistakable.

Each tattooed model he photographs is a living and breathing work of art, with flesh as canvas. Whether their body art is a coat of armor, spiritual decoration or something else altogether, the artist’s lens performs a balancing act each time: “I’m giving them a character, a part to play in the photo shoot,” says Saint of his subjects. “There’s a sensuality I wanted to bring out…but I’m always respectful of the fact that they are both woman and canvas.” In “Body Of Work”, as with all of the artist’s work, the viewer is no mere voyeur. For Saint, beautiful women who bear equally beautiful body art is worthy of portraiture that invites us in, to view their story and find some element within that strikes a chord. However, Saint insists that any symbolism of particular tattoos or these women’s respective motives for each work is not an element of this collection. “For me it’s about showing these women in a certain light,” he continues, “to elevate them, make them beautiful without judgment.”

Warwick Saint (b. 1972) is a New York based photographer of South African extraction. Saint’s portraiture is in constant demand from celebrities such as Drew Barrymore, Lady Gaga, Cate Blanchett, Jeff Bridges, Liv Tyler, Paz de la Huerta and countless others. His work has been featured on the covers of dozens of fashion and lifestyle magazine, including L’Oficiel, BlackBook, Arena, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Gotham, Inked and Flaunt, among others. Additionally, Saint has photographed hundreds of models, celebrities, and advertisements for publications like Whitewall, Interview, London Sunday Times, and Rolling Stone.

From a very early age, Saint displayed a preternatural skill and love for the art of photography, often removing himself to the African bush to shoot landscapes and the local fauna. His father, the late Kenny Saint, was founder and Creative Director of Grapplegroup, a groundbreaking graphic design studio in South Africa and the UK. Spending many hours at his father’s side in the studio, Saint quickly developed an eye for color and style. Meanwhile, Saint’s mother, Deborah, worked as a model, and at the age of 9 months Saint made his first magazine appearance, being held by his mother on the cover of the South African SARIE. Saint earned his BA in Art and Philosophy, with honors, from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Body Of Work is his first solo gallery exhibition. He lives and works between New York and Los Angeles.Hionas Gallery is a 500 sf. exhibition space located at 89 Franklin Street, in a classic TriBeCa storefront. The gallery invites contemporary and emerging artists, working in all variety of media, to participate in monthly solo exhibitions to showcase their latest work and artistic vision. The gallery space doubles as the storefront for the personal fitness studio, Peter Anthony Fitness, owned and operated by Peter Hionas. Over the years, Hionas has personally trained hundreds of celebrities and other high profile figures, including a number of artists and art world luminaries. This list includes the artists Marina Abramovic, Terry Winters and Dan Colen, collector Adam Sender, architect David Rockwell, and MoMA P.S.1 founder Alanna Heiss, among many others. Gallery owners Peter and Maria Hionas officially opened the gallery in June 2011. “We have been avid collectors of contemporary art since 1991,” says Peter Hionas. “It’s a modest storefront we have here, but also really spacious and versatile. I see us as operating in the tradition of the old Betty Parsons Gallery in midtown, or the original White Cube in St. James’; small spaces that just show great art.” Visit the gallery’s website at … www.hionasgallery.com

originally published at Art Knowledge News

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some one is going to Budapest for an art residency, is it you?

November 8, 2011

AIR-Budapest 2012 Info+Application Form

A.I.R./International Artist Residencies, 2012
AIR/HMC, Budapest
Workshop/Seminar/Exhibition/VideoFest

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for 2012

2012 Dates:

Please indicate (X) when would you like to participate

___Session 1: Tuesday May 15, 2011 – Thursday, June 7, 2012 Deadline: February 10, 2012

___Session 2: Monday, June 11, 2011 – Thursday, July 5, 2012 Deadline: March 10, 2012

___Session 3: Monday, July 9, 2011 – Thursday, August 2, 2012 Deadline: April 6, 2012

___Session 4: Monday, August 2, 2011 – Sunday August 26, 2012 Deadline: April 6, 2012

___Session 5: Thursday, December 27 – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (Fee $950 or Euro 700) Deadline: August 11, 2012

Online Application Only!

Applications should consist of:

* Application form

* Artist’s statement/Project Description/One-page resume/CV

* $35 application fee by PayPal (see instruction at the end of the Application Form)
* Visual Artists: Provide 5 jpg images representing your most recent work.
* Video/Performance/Time-based Artists   Link to work on YouTube.

* Curators/writers  sample of written work(s). Maximum 6 pages.

Further Information and Costs:

Applications accepted on basis of availability and quality of work.

While HMC does not provide funding for residencies, we are helping to facilitate the creation of program, the cost of the exhibitions and cover %40 of total cost, artists cover %60.   We encourage the applicants to apply for a grant or scholarship.

The residence offers shared room/bath as living quarters, and working area, few single rooms may be available at an extra fee.  Exhibition, Artist Talk, field trip, gallery tour are included in the cost.

There is a cost to attend the residency of $1250 or Euro 900.  Longer or shorter stays can be arranged.  Artists are expected to pay all travel expenses, personal costs, visa (if necessary), insurance, and to supply artist materials for their use during the residency.   We can provide basic materials and tools. Artists are expected to give at least one informal public audio-visual presentation about their work during their residency and to leave one piece of work made during the residency as a donation to the HMC.

Successful applicant wish to be accompanied by family members or an assistant, it is necessary to consult with HMC beforehand.

Artists will give at least one informal public slide/powerpoint/DVD/CD presentation (30 – 45 minutes) about their work during their stay at the HMC and leave one exhibition ready art work made during the residency as a donation to the HMC.  Exhibitions are arranged at the Pen Club and at Raday Konyveshaz Gallery, Budapest in August, 2012.

The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc.® (HMC), 501(c)(3), Dallas, TX/Budapest, Hungary based non-profit organization.  The HMC dedicated to inspiring, connecting, exhibiting, and promoting artists.  The HMC invites interested visual artists, writers, performers  to submit application for its residency program in Budapest, Hungary.  The residencies offer participants to interact with other artists representing a variety of cultures and backgrounds.

End of your residency we are asking a Residency Evaluation submitted by you (1page) detailing your experience at Budapest and what you were able to accomplish during your residency regarding your specific Art project.

We very much look forward to receiving and reviewing your Project Proposal!

The Arts Team at HMC
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Residencies Application Form

AIR/HMC, Budapest – International Artist Residencies 2012

APPLICATION FORM

First Name     Last Name

Address

Phone     Email

Website

Nationality     Male/Female

HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS PROGRAM?

Short description of project:

Images

1 title, media, dimensions, date

2 title, media, dimensions, date

3 title, media, dimensions, date

4 title, media, dimensions, date

5 title, media, dimensions, date

Please indicate (X) when would you like to participate

Session 1: Tuesday May 15, 2011 – Thursday, June 7, 2012 Deadline: February 10, 2012

Session 2: Monday, June 11, 2011 – Thursday, July 5, 2012 Deadline: March 10, 2012

Session 3: Monday, July 9, 2011 – Thursday, August 2, 2012 Deadline: April 6, 2012

Session 4: Monday, August 2, 2011 – Sunday August 26, 2012 Deadline: April 6, 2012

Session 5: Thursday, December 27 – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (Fee $950 or Euro 700) Deadline: August 11, 2012

*Please pay by PayPal the application fee $35.  Applicants also can pay the fee in their own country’s currency equivalent through HMC’s secure PayPal account.  Simply go to PayPal at http://www.paypal.com.  Login or create an account, then click the “send money” tab.  Fill in the recipient email: bszechy@yahoo.com. Currency should be US dollars (PayPal will calculate from the current exchange rate). Category of Purchase is HMC-Cash.  Email subject should be “Residencies Hungary ” and you can add an email message if you’d like.  Upon receipt of your PayPal payment, you will receive an email from PayPal and the HMC confirming your payment, which will be matched up with your applications.

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George Braque @ Acquavella gallery

October 17, 2011

The Acquavella Galleries’ splendid Georges Braque exhibition is a 42-gun salute to this pioneering French Modernist. The first large Braque survey to be staged in New York in more than 20 years, it musters a vigorous if compressed account of more than five decades of art making, with 42 paintings and collages, almost all top-notch. More than half have been borrowed from American and European museums; the rest come from private collections and in several cases have not been on public display in quite some time.

Organized by Dieter Buchhart, an Austrian critic, art historian and independent curator, the Acquavella show rarely lets down its guard. In nearly every effort Braque is at his most elaborate and ambitious, from his slightly over-heated Fauvist efforts of 1906-7 to his opulent still lifes of the 1930s and ’40s and his crowded and shadowy studio interiors of the 1950s. In the show’s middle portion, of course, we see Braque the Cubist.

says the new york times review

Acquavella Galleries located at 18 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075-0188  (212) 734-6300

an interesting web page here GEORGES BRAQUE his quotes on painting, collage art, still life and portrait by the Cubist painter artist Braque who started Cubism with Picasso in Paris; + biography facts

jene

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this is a crazy city : N.Y. artist can paint nude models only after dark

October 13, 2011

NEW YORK (Reuters) – An artist arrested for applying body paint to a nude model in New York’s Times Square will have charges against him dropped if his models strip naked only after dark, according to a court agreement reached on Thursday.

Police arrested Andy Golub, 45, in July and charged him with violating public exposure and lewdness laws. He has been painting nude models for about three years.

Golub’s lawyer, Ronald Kuby, argued that New York laws do not prohibit public nudity in the name of art, and a compromise was reached that was the basis of the court ruling.

Under the agreement, “he is permitted to paint bare breasts any time, anywhere, but the G-strings have to stay on until daylight goes out,” Kuby said after a hearing in Manhattan criminal court.

State laws against public exposure exempt “any person entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition, show or entertainment,” Kuby said. Municipalities are allowed to devise their own restrictions, but New York City generally does not do so, Kuby said.

Golub, of Nyack, New York, said he likes to paint nude models because their bodies have energy and dynamism that he finds lacking in canvas.

“I feel that when I do live body painting it’s a good thing, a positive thing,” he said.

Charges against Golub will be dropped in six months if he abides by the terms of the agreement and is not arrested again. Charges against Karla Storie, a model from Texas arrested with him, will be dismissed if she too is not arrested again in the next six months.

Golub said he was planning to return to criminal court on Friday and paint a nude model in a park near the courthouse.

(Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Jerry Norton)

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Art party November 12th, 2011* 6pm- November 13, 2011* 10pm

October 12, 2011

an artist we’ve met, Penelope Fox at Hoboken open studios, is having an art party next month at Hudson Terrace, 621 west 46th Street,, NYC, NY

Terrace-Art-Splatters-Event

this should be an interesting event, so if you’re in town why not drop by and see for yourself what’s going on. am i showing any of my art? i haven’t been invited so i am just passing along this information.

jene

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