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• Heidi Taillefer’s “Muses and Heroes” at Irvine Contemporary, Washington D.C.
• Pieter Hugo & friends in Luxembourg
• Julie Heffernan at Catharine Clark Gallery, S.F.
• Bah humbug
• Red For Love - Black For Evil

And another L.A. (well, Culver City) show coming right up: Long-time WurzelMacBook desktop image favourite Joao Ruas is presenting new works at ThinkSpace in a show most efficiently called III.

Morning II by Joao Ruas, oil on mounted canvas, 2010 - click to enlarge

He’s been überprolific and it’s beautiful to see how unafraid he is of venturing into new styles and techniques. I’m particularly fond of the gold leaved works and the graphite drawings on Fabriano paper. Well done once again, Joao!

On show: May 7 - June 4, 2010

Artist’s website

Related articles:

• Joao Ruas at ThinkSpace L.A.
• Edward Walton Wilcox’s “Fanatic” at Merry Karnowsky, L.A.
• Estelle Hanania’s Myriorama at Fat Galerie, Paris
• Charles Krafft at StolenSpace, London
• Tom Bagshaw at Knifesmith Gallery, Bristol

Edward Walton Wilcox’s second solo show has just opened at Merry Karnowsky in L.A. and as always, it looks refreshingly monochromatic and earthy - in a rather Goyaesque way.

Death and the Maiden by Edward Walton Wilcox, oil on panel, 2008 - click to enlarge

From what I can gather from the online preview, there will be three or four installation pieces on show too which is nice because despite of what you might have assumed from looking at his rather subdued colour palette, Edward is not a post-apocalyptic one-trick pony. Au contraire, he’s a very multi-talented chap indeed. But don’t take my word for it - go check Fanatic out yourself if you’re in L.A.

Laughing Stock by Edward Walton Wilcox, bitumen and tempera on panel, 2010

On show: May 15 - June 12, 2010

Artist’s website

Related articles:

• Joao Ruas at Thinkspace, Culver City
• Estelle Hanania’s Myriorama at Fat Galerie, Paris
• Charles Krafft at StolenSpace, London
• Tom Bagshaw at Knifesmith Gallery, Bristol
• Stuart Pearson Wright at Riflemaker, London

Five days to go to the opening of Estelle Hanania’s Myriorama show at Fat Galerie in Paris. Maybe an excuse to waste all my hard-earned money on an overpriced EuroStar seat and go and see the Takeshi Kitano show as well?

From the Shady series by Estelle Hanania, 2005

Anyways, as a great lover of central Swiss carnival folklore, I must say that it has always deeply amazed and impressed me that a metropolitan Parisian captured the surreal, archaic, pagan and otherwordly ongoings in a time of seasonal and spiritual transition best and her images fill me with great longing to travel back in time to my homeland to an era of frugality, carnalness and happy witch burnings and Protestant bashing for the whole family. But then again, I could just tune in to a Kenyan news channel, couldn’t I?

From the Shady series by Estelle Hanania, 2005

Opening reception: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 5 - 9 PM

Artist’s website

Related articles:

• Le grandiose monsieur Ray Caesar à Paris!
• Joao Ruas at Thinkspace, Culver City
• Edward Walton Wilcox’s “Fanatic” at Merry Karnowsky, L.A.
• Charles Krafft at StolenSpace, London
• Tom Bagshaw at Knifesmith Gallery, Bristol

The lovely Beth from StolenSpace informed me about Charles Krafft’s (previously featured here) new show at their Old Truman Brewery premises.

FORGIVENESS Soap by Charles Krafft, soap and porcelain

Charles exhibits alongside Mike Leavitt of Art Army fame and if you love a bit of disasterware™, you should totally head down there.

Ahmadinejad Bust by Charles Krafft and Mike Leavitt, hand painted porcelain - click to enlarge

On show: May 14 - 30, 2010

Artist’s website

Related articles:

• “Many Dead Things - The Specimens of Alex CF” at Superette Gallery, London
• Stuart Pearson Wright at Riflemaker, London
• Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Barbican’s Curve, London
• Exhibition Reminder: Alice Anderson’s “Time Reversal” closing at Riflemaker, London
• Ana Mendieta at Alison Jacques, London: Closing, closing, closed!

Looks like Bristol is still profiting from last year’s Banksy Factor and decided to put on some big shows.

Maybe time for me to review my bad experiences with B-Town and head back there. Yay, Megabus!

There has definitely been enough press on the Art From The New World show at the Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery by now (Christ! They still don’t have a webshite?!)), so let’s look at Tom Bagshaw’s solo show at the Knifesmith Gallery instead.

Nukekubi by Tom Bagshaw

An exhibition entitled Yokai Dreams promises preternatural creepiness and demonic supernaturalia, but I somehow can’t help feeling it all looks a bit too… uhmm… fashiony and European. Maybe a more lighthearted theme/programme with a group show featuring Tom alongside mayhaps Femke Hiemstra would have been a bit more compelling? I guess I’ll go check it out anyway.

On show: May 8 - 29, 2010

Artist’s website

Related articles:

• Joao Ruas at Thinkspace, Culver City
• Edward Walton Wilcox’s “Fanatic” at Merry Karnowsky, L.A.
• Estelle Hanania’s Myriorama at Fat Galerie, Paris
• Charles Krafft at StolenSpace, London
• Stuart Pearson Wright at Riflemaker, London

I won’t bore you with more praises for the Riflemaker, so let me just say this:

Riflemaker’s new show, Stuart Pearson Wright’s I Remember You, is absolutely gorgeous. I had no concept whatsoever of how small his works really are and how intricate and precise his brushwork is.

Yellow Rose of Texas by Stuart Pearson Wright, oil on found panel - click to enlarge

It was also most magnificent to see how his characters (normally the artist himself and his fiancée) pop out from the backdrop of the random kitschy landscape which, btw, was in almost all cases upcycled from found thrift store paintings.

Another impressive factor was Stuart’s use of more or less untreated tree trunks and branches as frames and the general conceptual and sensory purity of the whole show - even the record that was playing on the ground floor was the work of Mr Wright.

And in stammering fangirl news, I’m thrilled to say that I had the great pleasure to bump into the artist in the upstairs gallery and got him to sign my copy of the catalogue (proof). Weeeeeeee!

I’ll Never Stop Loving You by Stuart Pearson Wright, oil on found panel - click to enlarge

On show: May 5 - June 26, 2010

Artist’s website

Related articles:

• Exhibition Reminder: Alice Anderson’s “Time Reversal” closing at Riflemaker, London
• Charles Krafft at StolenSpace, London
• Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Barbican’s Curve, London
• “Many Dead Things - The Specimens of Alex CF” at Superette Gallery, London
• Ana Mendieta at Alison Jacques, London: Closing, closing, closed!

Earlier this year, the Barbican commissioned composer/artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot to produce a bird installation starring zebra finches banging on cymbals and twanging Gibson Les Pauls while going about their daily business like bathing, eating, nesting, shitting, fucking, sleeping, reading the Financial Times and going all OMG! OMG! on ChatRoulette.

It’s an absolutely exhilarating installation that will make you realise that if birds had ears they would so be going to Maschinenfest.

On show: Feb 27 - May 23, 2010

Related articles:

• Charles Krafft at StolenSpace, London
• Stuart Pearson Wright at Riflemaker, London
• “Many Dead Things - The Specimens of Alex CF” at Superette Gallery, London
• Exhibition Reminder: Alice Anderson’s “Time Reversal” closing at Riflemaker, London
• Ana Mendieta at Alison Jacques, London: Closing, closing, closed!

L’enfant Diabolique by Alex CF, mixed media, 2010 – click to enlarge

First up is my partner in crime Alex CF’s first solo show entitled Many Dead Things - The Specimens of Alex CF.

The exhibition will take place at the Superette Gallery just off Brick Lane from May 27 - June 2, 2010.

Werewolf Anatomical Research Case by Alex CF, mixed media, 2008 – click to enlarge

Alex will be in attendance throughout the show and sign his monograph at the opening reception. I will mainly try to look existential and starved cause that’s what people generally seem to do in Brick Lane.

Anyhow, do come along and bring your friends, rats, pickled brains, hangovers and exaggerated praise!

Public opening reception: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 6 - 9 PM | RSVP

Artist’s website

Related articles:

• Charles Krafft at StolenSpace, London
• Stuart Pearson Wright at Riflemaker, London
• Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Barbican’s Curve, London
• Exhibition Reminder: Alice Anderson’s “Time Reversal” closing at Riflemaker, London
• Ana Mendieta at Alison Jacques, London: Closing, closing, closed!

Please apologise for the long silence - I’ve been busy doing things of great importance and global urgency that I can’t actually remember anymore. Hmmm.

Anyhow, here’s a super late reminder for my London mates who should be waking up around about now (except Corran of course who tends to wake up with the bats).

Rapunzel by Alice Anderson, synthetic dolls hair, 3000 metres, 2008

Today is the final day of Alice Anderson’s very hairy Time Reversal show at the beautiful Riflemaker - my favourite gallery space in town.

So get your sorry arses down/up to Soho and thank me later with drugs and strippers cakes and puppies!

Still from Doll’s Day by Alice Anderson, 2008

Oh, and you can buy a lovely little exhibition booklet (powered by Riflemaker) at the gallery (or get your scissors and Pritt® sticks ready and download a PDF of it here)

Closing: Tonight, Saturday, April 24, 2010, 6 PM

Artist’s website

Related articles:

• Stuart Pearson Wright at Riflemaker, London
• Charles Krafft at StolenSpace, London
• Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Barbican’s Curve, London
• “Many Dead Things - The Specimens of Alex CF” at Superette Gallery, London
• Ana Mendieta at Alison Jacques, London: Closing, closing, closed!