JR – Women are Heroes (Paris)
Featured JR before. Here’s a fresh video that documents the installation and eventual tear down of the outdoor Paris exhibit.
JR expo Paris de Women are Heroes from La Boite Concept on Vimeo.
Featured JR before. Here’s a fresh video that documents the installation and eventual tear down of the outdoor Paris exhibit.
JR expo Paris de Women are Heroes from La Boite Concept on Vimeo.
documentary. i want to see.
We showed up late and missed all of the performances. Oh well, that didn’t stop us from having fun.
The main room at the LeBasse opening catered to the works of Yoshitaka Amano, which were decidedly anime. Though not my cup of tea, I could appreciate the work and finish of each piece – specifically, the use of glittery paint for background to give depth to each of the character portraits. In any case, the crowd was eclectic (with a few even in cosplay), and there were free drinks!
Saturday is art night for the cool kids. First on the agenda was an opening at LeBasse Gallery in Culver City…
… where one of the featured artists was Yoskay Yamamoto, who first caught my eye a couple of years ago with Koibito. Without going too much into it, I attended the opening reception expecting similar works of art. Instead, Yamamoto presented something cooler. … Continue Reading
Picked up this 6-color screen print from Pictures on Walls.
Released to celebrate Steve Powers’ latest, most-awesome exhibition in Philly, A Love Letter For You.
Sooj and I attended the Opening Reception for Herb Alpert’s Black Totem Series at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills. Lots of people dressed in black (myself included), free booze, news camera, sculptures. It was fun.
Personally paying for the cost of the prints, David Choe has requested that all proceeds go to Yele Haiti, a foundation created by Wyclef Jean. This print measures 18″x24″ inches and is a Giclee print on archival paper. Limited to 50 editions, the print is hand-signed by David Choe.
..to benefit Yéle Haiti. Buy >>HERE<<
Of the piece, Gupta said…
… “Very Hungry God”, was made in 2006 for the Nuit Blanche annual all-night festival in Paris. My work was conceived to be shown in a church in Barbes on the outskirts of Paris which is largely inhabited by an immigrant population.
I made the work in response to the stories I read in the news about how soup kitchens in Paris were serving food with pork so that Muslims would not eat it. It was a strange and twisted form of charity that did not continue for long but raised conflicting ideas of giving and the way we have become now.
Outside the church I served vegetarian daal soup as a form of “prasad” (in India when you go to a temple or a guduwara you are offered food with the blessing). I liked the mix of the Catholic church and my intervention using a symbol that many artists have used before – the skull – and its many connotations.
‘Very Hungry God’ is like a vanity, but also the idea of food and the utensils is very much part of my language dealing with ideas of the everyday and turning them into iconic symbols.
Link: Subodh Gupta
