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by Suzanne on April 14th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
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James wants you to appreciate this day:
(Avril 14th by Aphex Twin)
Please excuse the bad sound quality.
Thank you for your attention and solve the bloody riddle, you lazy sods!
I miss my piano. :’(
WurzelCompetition No. 7938612
by Suzanne on April 8th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
Hello there, my beloved readership.
Fret not, there are many, many posts in planning, but due to the preparations for tomorrow’s Jessica Albarn show, I didn’t get to spend a lot of time here on the picturesque interwebs.
So instead, let’s have another competition, shall we?
Mainly because I’m so super generous but also, because you proved how very smart you are in the last few riddles and I was so deeply impressed that I actually believe we should all found a neo-Platonic iAcademy where we start growing impressive beards and walk up and down columned halls on ChatRoulette mumbling nonsensical Greek theorems while rubbing our collective chin. Oh, yes, it will be a new dawn of braiiiiins!
Anyhow, so today’s conundrum is therefore especially challenging, but if you kept up to date with the WurzelBlog since its infancy, and happen to have very keen eyes, you should be able to solve this mystery.
Here we go:
What is so very clever about the blocks in Koen Hauser’s Nigredo photograph from his Opus Magnum Atomium series (see image above)?
Jessica Joslin’s Brass & Bone at Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
by Suzanne on March 28th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
Clio & Loci by Jessica Joslin, antique hardware and findings, painted wood, brass, silver, bone, beads, chain, glove leather, glass eyes, 2010 - click to enlarge
My friend Jessica Joslin has been working tirelessly on an all new menagerie of handsome chaps made of bone and brass that’s due to go on show at the Lisa Sette Gallery this coming week.
It’s difficult to pick favourites amongst all these charismatic filigree beasties proudly dressed in velvet and glove leather, but I must admit that I’ve grown rather fond of black casqued hornbill Almeria and conjoined kitties Clio & Loci (see images below).
Loci (detail) by Jessica Joslin, antique hardware and findings, painted wood, brass, silver, bone, beads, chain, glove leather, glass eyes, 2010 - click to enlarge
So yes, my dears, if you happen to find yourself in Arizona from April 1 to April 24, please do go down to Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale to mingle with the brassy awesomeness that is Jessica Joslin’s Brass & Bone.
Almeria (detail) by Jessica Joslin, antique hardware and findings, bone, velvet, silver, vestment trim, glove leather, cast pewter, glass eyes, 2010 - click to enlarge
Opening reception: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 7 - 9 PM - Jessica will be in attendance
On show: April 1 - 24, 2010
Address: Lisa Sette Gallery, 4142 North Marshall Way, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 85251-3838, tel: 480-990-7342 | Map
Gallery hours: Tue - Fri: 10 AM - 5 PM, Sat: 12 AM - 5 PM
Ana Mendieta at Alison Jacques, London: Closing, closing, closed!
by Suzanne on March 20th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
On Giving Life by Ana Mendieta, 1975, colour photograph, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
So there’s the MoMA going all “Uuuuh! Look at us! We have an exhibition webcam with Marina Abramović doing craaaaazy things on the shiny polished floor.” and then there’s those small, quiet galleries hidden away somewhere behind the BT Tower and almost impossible to find that don’t need webcams but just a very poetic exhibition concept.
Untitled (Chicken Piece) by Ana Mendieta, 1972, super-8 colour, silent film, 6 minutes, 20 seconds
Alison Jacques Gallery is showing Ana Mendieta’s Silueta and Silence for the very last day today. Go down there and see Ana dancing with skeletons, chickens, candles, fire and water or just grab a few free exhibition posters to Mendietafy your toilet!
Ñáñigo Burial by Ana Mendieta, 1976, forty-eight black ritual candles, 152.4 x 102.9 cm
Closing: Today, March 20, 2010, 6 PM
Address: Alison Jacques Gallery, 16-18 Berners Street, London, W1T 3LN, UK, tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 4720
Admission: Free
Sweating Blood by Ana Mendieta, 1973, super-8 colour, silent film, 3 minutes
I should wear more white.
by Suzanne on March 19th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
The White Wurzel Queen (well, that’s what I’ll call it anyway!) by Lotekk, 2010 - click to enlarge
Thanks, Lotekk. This definitely creeped the living shit out of me on my daily unsuspecting journey through my RSS feeds. o_O
Shame (but no surprise) it’s such a disgrace of a movie and even WORSE, the guy at the Barbican wanted the 3D glasses back. Pffft.
P.S.: These even look like my hands, but I cannot recall ever having taken a picture of my hands. Where the hell did you source them from?! I have my bare paws floating around on the interwebs?! PARAAANOOOIAAAA! O_o
Chiharu Shiota & Jitish Kallat at Haunch of Venison, London
by Suzanne on March 18th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
The Astronomy of the Subway (detail) by Jitish Kallat, resin, steel, 2009
It’s been another epic Art Thursday. I’m so happy that I don’t have weekends, but Wednesdays and Thursdays off. This way, I get to see the best art in town with no-one around AND I get to go to SpitFields Antiques Market. Weeeeeeee!
I was thinking of maybe turning my Art Thursdays into little tours so that other art enthusiasts could join me, but alas, I have way too many ideas to improve this metropolis with a dose of Wurzelness already but too little time. Anyways, it’s something to keep in mind… free WurzelArt® Thursdays. Yessir.
Anyways, after buying my yet tiniest doll at SpitFields, I headed off to the Gagosian, Alison Jacques Gallery and finally Haunch of Venison.
One Place (detail) by Chiharu Shiota, 400 windows (Eastside of Berlin), 2010
I would like to selfishly take this opportunity to manifest once and for all that I absolutely hate going to the Gagosian because of its ridiculous subliminal haute couture dress code and 3 security guards per room. Yes, I do look like a tramp, Larry, my dear, but I do admire your collection greatly and for one believe that interchangeable noir designer fashion has absolutely NADA to do with great art, so why don’t you GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK and stop treating me like a terrorist for once just because I don’t wear YSL and actually have a brain where your vacuous employees have a bottomless perfume reservoir. The reason why I get close up with your art is because I need to figure out how things are MADE! I’m analytic and thorough like that. SRSLY, your place is beginning to piss me off epically and I don’t need a guy to open the door for me. It’s retarded very passé.
Anyways, more about the actual show later. There were two of my favourite Bellmers, so yes, it was rather sweet.
Kudos to Alison Jacques for handing out free exhibition posters. These things always make me come back. I’m a sucker for freebies. Particularly if it’s a depiction of a skeleton and a naked woman. Yay! More about their Ana Mendieta exhibition later too.
During Sleep by Chiharu Shiota, black wool, bed, 2010
So on to the best show of the day which was Chiharu Shiota at Haunch of Venison who exhibited alongside Jitish Kallat (top picture).
I missed her twice and was overjoyed to make it this time. And I wasn’t disappointed.
HoV’s vast, kafkaesque rooms were completely empty so I found myself very small and exposed standing in the middle of During Sleep (see above).
There’s a lot of bullshit labelled as “existentialist art”, but this is the real deal. Shiota’s installations change your heartbeat, remind you of long forgotten childhood incidences in the forest and stop your breath. This was the most dreamlike, most fragile, most painful, most saddening exhibition I’ve ever seen. You stumble through During Sleep and you come out different in space and time and experience.
I remember Stéphane Blanquet doing something very similar to my psyche with his bedroom installation Beautycity at Fumetto 07 (my article in German) and most recently Alice Anderson with her Alice in Wonderland hair claustrophobica at Riflemaker (more later!), but Shiota reached deeper, maybe because my dream bedrooms are very similar to hers and I often dream about being very small and caught up in a ball of yarn and growing ever smaller and smaller and rooms expanding like lungs around me, forever inhaling.
So there I was, standing in my very own dream, 5 minutes from Piccadilly Circus at 2 PM.
Trauma / Alltag (dress) by Chiharu Shiota, steel frame, wool thread, plaster paint, dress, 2009
I love this city.
And I love my signed and numbered edition of Insecticides by Mat Collishaw for £25. Yay!
On show: February 19 - March 27, 2010
Address: Haunch of Venison, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, W1S 3ET, UK, tel: +44(0)20 7495 5050 | Map
Gallery hours: Mon - Fri: 10 AM - 6 PM, Sat: 10 AM - 5 PM
Admission: Free
Featured artists: Chiharu Shiota & Jitish Kallat
Ray Caesar et al. at Jonathan LeVine’s Anniversary Show
by Suzanne on March 17th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
Arabesque by Ray Caesar, 2009
March seems to be the month for anniversary shows.
In Berlin, Strychnin just celebrated the 7 Year Itch, in Santa Monica, Hi-Fructose Magazine is currently holding celebrations for its 5th birthday (more later) and in New York, Jonathan LeVine who started out in Philly with Tin Man Alley, celebrates 5 years of hard slave work for the lowbrow / pop-surrealist / neo-fantastic / eye-candy / super-flat / christ-i-don’t-know-what-to-call-it-anymore art.
The line-up is impressive and eclectic, to say the least. From urban art luminaries such as Blek Le Rat, Shepard Fairey, Calma and Invader over to sculpture and assemblage art represented by Adam Wallacavage and AJ Fosik on to the “classics” of christ-i-don’t-know-what-to-call-it-anymore art like Ray Caesar, Ron English, Xiaoqing Ding, Scott Musgrove, Dave Cooper, Gary Baseman, Esao Andrews, Isabel Samaras, James Jean and further on to the phantasmagoric horrorscapes of Chris Mars and the subculture photo-realism of Dan Witz.
So yes, there’s something for everyone!
… and hopefully, CAEK! (^_^)
Returns of the Day by Ray Caesar, 2009
On show: February 27 - March 27, 2010
Address: Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA, tel: 212-243-3822 | Map
Gallery hours: Tue - Sat: 11 AM - 6 PM
Featured artists (selection): Adam Wallacavage, AJ Fosik, Andrew Brandou, Andy Kehoe, Chris Mars, Dan Witz, Dave Cooper, Eric White, Erik Mark Sandberg, Esao Andrews, Gary Baseman, Isabel Samaras, James Jean, Miss Van, Ray Caesar, Ron English, Scott Musgrove, Stephan Doitschinoff (aka Calma), Xiaoqing Ding
… and in totally unrelated news, I’m relieved and happy to say that I finally found the perfect male homo sapiens sapiens: Voilà! Sexeh!
WurzelArt Gazette March 2010 - Grab A Sammich
by Suzanne on March 12th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
Work in progress by Joao Ruas, 2010
Thank you all for the kind birthday wishes and please pardon the radio silence. Our Angelique Houtkamp show was insanely busy and Angelique is now back home in Amsterdam and I can’t tell you how relieved I am that she didn’t get squeezed to death. Even our glass domes and the baby skulls are still intact - which clearly defies logic if you’ve seen the crowds at the opening reception. Some originals and the baby skulls are still for sale, so keep your eyes glued to Nelly Duff - I will upload details soonish.
Anyhow, it’s March; which means the spring awakening of the beaux arts. Lots and lots and lots to report about. But since I have absolutely no idea where to start, I decided to give you some sneak previews of what my favourite WurzelArtists® have been up to recently.
This is only a small selection, but as you can see, people have been as busy as bees on coke and 2010 is going to be an amazing year for the visual arts, methinks.
Fables cover #94 by Joao Ruas, 2010 - click to enlarge
Joao has been up to A LOT and it’s always fascinating to see all the diverse things he’s directing his talents to besides his work for Fables.
Skin Deep by Jeremy Enecio, watercolour and acrylic on paper, 2010 - click to enlarge
The maître of tentacles and albino amazons has recently impressingly widened his repertoire to zombies for Zombies in Love at Gallery Nucleus.
Jeremy Enecio’s contribution to 100 Heads for Haiti, 2010 - click to enlarge
Oh, and he’s just finishing the piece above for the 100 Heads for Haiti fundraiser. Nice.
Bruise and a study by Adara Sánchez Anguiano, 2009-2010 - click to enlarge
For those who hadn’t noticed: Egon Schiele has been reincarnated in the shell of Adara Sánchez Anguiano and given a box of happy coloured crayons.
Further (in progress) by Eric Fortune, oil on canvas, 2010 - click to enlarge
Eric keeps on bringing the chiaroscuro to his futuristic faces. Further will be on show at CoproGallery from this weekend onwards.
The Raft by Tiffany Bozic, 2009-2010 - click to enlarge
Tiffany’s Raft print is finally available through Joshua Liner Gallery.
Dive (detail) by James Jean, 2010 - click to enlarge
James Jean’s Dive has been given the posh Pressure Printing treatment.
Pull the Blinds by Christopher Conn Askew - click to enlarge
If, however, you’re on a much smaller budget, get your hands on one of Chris Conn Askew’s gorgeous new open edition prints.
Poupées by Miss Van - click to enlarge
Meanwhile, does it seem like someone’s slowly running out of ideas?! Miss Van releases an overpriced giclee of her 5-year-old Poupées. Hmm…
Cixi (in progress) by Marina Bychkova, 2010 - click to enlarge
Marina, au contraire, has been tirelessly working her poor little paws off on one of her newest creations, Cixi. Here seen in progress.
Véruka Vampirica (Blythe custom) by Julien Martinez, 2010 - click to enlarge
In other doll news, Julien Martinez has spookified yet another unsuspecting Blythe doll. Say hello to Véruka Vampirica.
Wither by Isabelle Royet-Journoud, 2010 - click to enlarge
… and finally, Mme Isabelle Royet-Journoud looks a bit like a customised undead Blythe doll herself in this masterpiece of a self-portrait.
While here at Wurzeltod HQ, I’ve been mainly standing annoyingly in front of yet even more great art…
x
Suzanne
Happy B-Day, Happy V-Day!
by Suzanne on February 14th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
Heart to Heart by Ione Rucquoi
Happy birthday to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and happy Valentine’s Day to all you lovers, haters, saints and sinners.
Here are Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking singing you a friendly song of sweet intergalactic love:
Next up is RocketToTheSky spreading a little forest love to fellow city dwellers:
And finally, let’s give it up for the Danish police force handing out bike helmets and love like it’s 2009:
Oh, and if you’re bored and ronery, make sure to check out last year’s WurzelValentineSpecial®.
Have a lovely day everyone!
So much love & monkey brains to each and every single one of you.
And remember, there’s no love without a little pain..
From New Photography in China by John Millichap (ed.) - click to enlarge
xox
Suzanne
Daphne Wright at Frith Street Gallery, London
by Suzanne on February 13th, 2010 | BBC Wikipedia
Primate by Daphne Wright, marble dust, onyx, resin, paint, and silk embroidery, 14.5 H x 76 L x 46.5 W cm, 2009 - click to enlarge
I usually refrain from attending exhibitions that are all about “letting the works breathe” and “showing the interaction between exhibit and architectural surrounding” because it normally just means that the curators who couldn’t be bothered to fly more artworks in try to sell you a show as being all zen and stuff when there’s really just a super pretentious nihil gaping in the middle of a giant concrete gallery cube.
In the case of Frith Street Gallery’s Daphne Wright exhibition however, I must admit that I’m very glad I made an exception. Yes, there were only two works on show (apart from a series of obscure drawings and an awkward video installation in their super Doomesque downstairs room), but their presence was magnificent and yes, the unfinished architecture of the place is stunning and very inspiring indeed.
Stallion by Daphne Wright, marble dust and resin, 160 H x 380 L x 140 W cm, 2009, edition of 2
I must say though that these two installation views do Daphne’s work zero justice. Her Stallion has the icy shine of marble dust and seems frozen and conserved yet so very potent and virile and her Primate’s fur is hand-embroidered with the most surreal shimmery and exquisitely silky silver thread and you really just want to lie down on the gallery floor and become statuesque yourself - become part of a magical triangle between horse, monkey, man.
Daphne Wright’s Traits of Sidney is on show until the end of the month. Please note that Frith Street Gallery isn’t on Frith Street, but very close to Piccadilly Circus. Further details below.
On show: January 14 - February 27, 2010
Address: Frith Street Gallery, 17–18 Golden Square, London, W1F 9JJ, UK | Map
Gallery hours: Tue - Fri: 10 AM - 6 PM | Sat: 11 AM - 5 PM