WEEGEE: Naked City

January 12, 2012 – February 25, 2012

Opening Reception: January 12, 6-8pm

Steven Kasher Gallery

New York

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Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to present Weegee: Naked City in conjunction with two major specifically-focused Weegee exhibitions, Weegee: Naked Hollywood at MoCA and Weegee: Murder is My Business at the ICP. With over 125 Weegee prints we explore the full emotional and satirical and aesthetic ranges of Weegee’s photographs of New Yorkers and other urbanites. The exhibition features multiple prints from each of Weegee’s basic subjects: Song and Dance, Drink, Party, Spectacle, Circus, Love and Sex, Crime and Disaster, Citizens, Celebrity, Art and Weegee Himself. The exhibition will also feature audio and film recordings of Weegee’s voice, one of the great guttural Jewish New Yorkese hybrids of spoken English… [continue reading]

Ball at Astor, ca. 1945

Transvestite in a Police Van, 1941

“This Sign, Advertising a Short Cut to Beauty, Blinked Two Stories Above the Fire”, September 2, 1941

Self-Portrait, ca. 1950 c

Bowery Savings Bank, 1944

lire la suite / continue reading : zdnd.tumblr.com

Les Failles de Mr Zeng (collaboration with Fredox)

Xixax Channel, recueil réalisé pour une exposition à Berlin (2006) / book made for an exhibition in Berlin (2006)

Document pour La Prothèse HRZ / Document for La Prothèse HRZ

Agent Schumacher, for Strapazin #67 (2002)

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the website: leoquievreux.net

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An interview with Aleksandra Waliszewska by Diego Gerlach:

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Miracles & Charms

Two free exhibitions exploring faith, hope and chance

6 October 2011 – 26 February 2012

Wellcome Collection

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Wellcome Collection’s autumn exhibition programme explores the extraordinary in the everyday with two shows: Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings, the first major display of Mexican votive paintings outside Mexico; and Felicity Powell: Charmed Life, an exhibition of unseen London amulets from Henry Wellcome’s collection, selected and arranged by the artist Felicity Powell. Drawing lines between faith, mortality and healing, Miracles & Charms offers a poignant insight into the tribulations of daily life and human responses to chance and suffering… (continue reading)

A selection of images from the exhibition

On 1 September 1937 I was attacked and wounded in my face and as a result I became ill and had to have an operation in a hospital in Monterrey. I asked Saint Francis of Real de Catorce with all my faith for my recovery, promising him this retablo. (Juan M. Perez).

I thank God and Saint Francis of Assisi because on this day, 25 years ago, I was saved after receiving 4 bullet shots in the city of San Luis Potosi, SLP.

I dedicate this retablo to Saint Francis of Assisi in memory of the miracle done after he saved me from a strong haemorrhage…I thank him with all my heart…

I thank Saint Francis of Assisi for saving me from this accident after being 63 days in hospital in the area of Monterrey, Nuevo León. (Sr. Irineo Ramos)

Guo Fengyi

18.11.2011 – 29.04.2010

Vernissage le jeudi 17 novembre à 18h30

Collection de l’Art Brut

11, av. des Bergières
CH – 1004 Lausanne

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Les peintures majestueuses de Guo Fengyi sont pareilles à des étendards poétiques. Les grands rouleaux de plusieurs mètres de haut présentent des figures historiques, ou ancestrales et divines, dont les visages, féeriques ou monstrueux, apparaissent au cœur de subtils entrelacs témoignant d’une finesse et d’un raffinement hors du commun. La thématique qui domine toute la production de la créatrice chinoise est le corps humain. Les sujets s’entremêlent en un réseau de traits et d’arabesques qui se succèdent et s’apparentent à des fils brodés. Sa quête spirituelle occupe une place primordiale dans son univers graphique… (continuez à lire)

Untitled, 2007

Untitled, 1992

ATAK / meanwhile

oeuvres choisies 2008 / 2011

4 – 20 novembre 2011

vernissage le jeudi 3 novembre 2011 de 17h à 21h

tous les jours de 14h à 20h

espace éof

15 rue saint fiacre 75002 paris / métro : grands boulevards

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Georg Barber – alias ATAK – expose, publie et enseigne partout en Europe, mais le coeur de son œuvre reste Berlin-Est où il est né en 1967. Le projet “Meanwhile” revient sur vingt ans de travail avec plusieurs événements itinérants, dont deux importantes rétrospectives déjà programmées cette année dans le cadre du festival de BD suisse Fumetto et au Bilderbuchmuseum de Cologne. L’étape parisienne proposée par Arts Factory se concentre sur la période 2008 / 2011 et présente un ensemble inédit d’œuvres récentes ( peintures, illustrations, sérigraphies …). Elle coïncide avec la publication aux éditions Frémok du livre “Pierre-Crignasse”, une réinterprétation par ATAK et l’auteur Berlinois FIL, du classique de la littérature jeunesse allemande “Der Struwwelpeter”

en partenariat avec

/ www.goethe.de/paris / www.fremok.org / www.wombat.tv /

Preserver (french) – to keep safe, to keep in existence

The images were taken over the course of three years at the Royal College of Surgeons, London. They are of 200 year old animal specimens which were preserved by pioneer anatomist John Hunter (1728 – 1793).

“For me, photography has become an ‘act of preservation’ and objects I focus on become the locators or igniters of memory. The traces and remnants we find in any landscape can spark recognition. They can even invoke a presence.” (From the website of the artist)

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(thanks to morbidanatomy for the suggestion)

Bradypus Tridactylus I

Dactylopterus Volitans II

Ophiura

Spheniscus

Charles Burns

Sérigraphies

The black hole teens

A l’occasion de l’exposition Teen Spirit, Arts Factory édite une suite de 20 sérigraphies particulièrement emblématiques de l’oeuvre de Charles Burns. Ces portraits – dessinés à l’origine pour les pages d’ouverture des comics Black Hole – et publiés aux Etats-Unis dès 1995, ne sont plus intégralement reproduits dans l’édition en monovolume de 2006… (continuez à lire ici)

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Blackstock

30 september 2011  – 11 february 2012

Vernissage: 29 september 2011 – 6h30 pm

Collection de l’Art Brut

Lausanne – CH

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Gregory L. Blackstock catalogues the world into pictorial lists. All have in common their clean lines, factual calligraphy and careful grouping dishwasher, Gregory L. Blackstock (1946) is an autistic savant who took up drawing at the age of forty. Currently retired, he lives in Seattle, Washington. (From the press release. Read more – in french – here)