untitled [2006]

via saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/john_stezaker

mask XXVI [2006]

via moma.org

evolution  [1996]

via rca.ac.uk

dissolved girl

the bird man

the dream collector

via myspace.com/nikkipinder

> nikkipinder.blogspot.com <

Art Nouveau Revival

1900 . 1933 . 1966 . 1974

Musée D’ Orsay

20.10.2009 – 04.02.2010

Paris

> musee-orsay.fr <

sanderson & co: art nouveau wallpapers inspired by aubrey beardsley

Rejected and scorned in the decades following its brief flowering, Art Nouveau was spectacularly rehabilitated in the 1960s. This re-evaluation offers a particularly interesting interlude in the history of style in that many different areas were affected at the same time by this phenomenon: the history of art, the art market, contemporary creative work, particularly design and graphics.

The exhibition aims to show how this rediscovery moved in various directions, and how it fitted into the spirit of the time. The great exhibitions in New York in 1959 (Art Nouveau. Art and Design at the Turn of the Century, The Museum of Modern Art) and in Paris in 1960 (Les Sources du XXe siècle. Les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, Musée national d’art moderne), that accorded Art Nouveau a place comparable with the other great artistic movements of the time – Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism and Cubism – were the first manifestations of this official recognition. However, their interpretations of forms were often reductive and limited to a simplistic contrast between straight line/ curved line. Moreover, they did not establish any relationship between the biomorphic, abstract forms of Guimard, Gaudí, Van de Velde, Bugatti, Pankok, Riemerschmid and Eckmann and the preoccupation of organic design that appeared at the end of the 1930, demonstrated by leading figures like Alvar Aalto, Charles Eames, Tapio Wirkkala and Carlo Mollino. Similarly, the Surrealists’ early enthusiasm for Art Nouveau is ignored by historians ofarchitecture, more concerned with modern Rationalism… (continue reading at atopos.gr)

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Le Dernier Cri: Vomir Des Yeux

CINDERS GALLERY

103 Havemeyer st.

Brookyln, NY 11211

718-388-2311

www.cindersgallery.com

Le Dernier Cri (The Last Cry), hail from Marseilles, France, where for the past 16 years they have been producing legendary volumes of painstakingly handmade, beautiful, vibrant and violent monograph prints, books, and videos featuring some of the most irreverent underground artists in the world.

Operating out of an abandoned maternity hospital, French artists Pakito Bolino had created a truly inspirational self publishing monster with an extremely prolific output of hundreds of books and posters, all hand silk-screened in small print runs of around 150, all under the radar of both the book and art worlds. Vomir Des Yeux appropriately translates to Puking Eyeballs and their extreme combination of loud colors, offensive imagery, scruffy line work, and a vehemently uncommercial attitude may invoke your eyeballs to pop out of your skull, just as it has provoked several customs borders to ban their works, confiscate their books and in Switzerland actually burn them. Stemming from a long tradition of satirical underground publishing in France, LDC grew out of the early 80s punk scene armed with rebellion and an adventurous spirit to experiment and push the boundaries of style, taste, and function.

This exhibition will include prints by Pakito Bolino, Caroline Sury, Mike Diana, Matt Brinkman, Ota Keiti, Leif Goldberg, Valium, Stu Mead, ATAK, Moolinex, Julien Rictus, LEO, Pigassou, Ichiba Daisuke, Emre Orhun, Fredox, Nemoto, and Ms. Bastian as well as many of their silk-screened books and mindbending animations. While having shown extensively in Europe with a recent 15 year retrospective in Paris, this marks their first ever show in NY and we are happy to have them. (from the press release)

from “paris” serie

group scene

jack spade bag boys

> jamesgallagher.blogspot.com <

> parajanov.com/museum <

arts factory winter show / 2009

feat. blex bolex / christophe blanc / ciou / véronique dorey / anna karlson / killoffer / camille lavaud / matthias lehmann / postics / rocco / amandine urruty

vernissage le mardi 24 novembre 2009 de 16h à 21h

exposition du 25 novembre au 12 décembre 2009
lundi au dimanche 12h30-19h30

espace beaurepaire

28 rue beaurepaire 75010 paris
métro : république

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girl boss guerrila [1972]

hot spring geisha [1972]

erotic nun story [19??]

> hyaenagallery.com <

> manchestergalleries.org/angelsofanarchy <

Tickets: £6 (concessions £4, free entry for under 18s and Manchester Art Gallery Friends) The first major exhibition of women artists and Surrealism to be held in Europe, Angels of Anarchy, opens this autumn at Manchester Art Gallery.

Featuring over 150 artworks by 32 women artists, the exhibition is a celebration of the crucial, but at the time not fully recognised, role that women artists have played within Surrealism. Paintings, prints, photographs, surreal objects and sculptures by well-known international artists including Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Leonora Carrington and Lee Miller will be exhibited alongside works by artists less well-known in the UK, such as Emila Medková, Jane Graverol, Mimi Parent, Kay Sage and Francesca Woodman.

Manchester Art Gallery is the only venue for this exhibition, making it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the works of so many significant women artists displayed together, with many of the works on loan from international public and private collections. Angels of Anarchy includes some of the most important, radical (and sometimes still shocking) Surrealist works produced during the 20th century by women artists from across the globe, including artists from Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Mexico, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. (from the press release)  

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