Friday, July 3, 2009

shock

Yinka Shonibare

How to Blow up two heads at once (Ladies), 2006




Gallantry and Criminal Conversation, 2002

in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Space Walk(detail), 2002



more info at Shonibare's website

Monday, June 29, 2009

Decalcomanias of Shuzo Takiguchi

Touch Me Not, 1962

Touch Me Not, 1962

Origin of Solitude, 1962

"Shuzo Takiguchi (1903 - 1979) worked extensively as a poet, art critic, and artist. He was a leading Japanese authority on surrealism, devoting his life to exemplifying the movement in its orthodox form. Starting in the 1950s, he began offering new experimental outlets for young postwar avant-garde artists who lacked opportunities for presenting their work in formats other than group exhibitions."

(from a journey round my skull)



^^shot in my house in the 80s. what a trip.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

in case you didn't know

1993/94 self portrait

BLEK LE RAT

"1981 to 1983 the beginning of the stencil graffiti art. I had the idea to use stencil to make graffiti for one reason. I did not want to imitate the American graffiti that I had seen in NYC in 1971 during a journey I had done over there. I wanted to have my own style in the street... I began to spray some small rats in the streets of Paris because rats are the only wild living animals in cities and only rats will survive when the human race will have disappeared and died out."

(more at bleklerat.free.fr)

Friday, June 12, 2009

Thursday, June 11, 2009

waste some time

rodigan

night run



"...photos at six second intervals during a trip outbound on the Houston Ship Channel."