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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:30:22 -0400

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

- Oscar Wilde

Axel Hoedt - Fastnacht (2010) “A document of the famous...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:00:12 -0400

Axel Hoedt - Fastnacht (2010)

“A document of the famous ‘Fastnacht Festival’, which literally translates to ‘the night before fasting’, is a festival celebrated throughout Austria and Switzerland too. The annual adornment of masks that are inherently frightening and grotesque stems from the aim of chasing away ‘the spirits of winter away in preparation for the coming spring and new harvest’. The carnival-like festivities stem from both Christian and Pagan traditions.”

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Louise Bourgeois, ‘Arch of Hysteria’, 1993

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:30:17 -0400

Louise Bourgeois, ‘Arch of Hysteria’, 1993

Baron of the Godswood by *TLCook

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:00:16 -0400

Baron of the Godswood by *TLCook

Black Contemporary Art Julien Sinzogan was born in 1957 in...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:30:17 -0400

Black Contemporary Art

Julien Sinzogan was born in 1957 in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin. He studied architecture in Paris at the École Spéciale des Travaux Public, and lives and works in France.

Sinzogan’s work expresses the way of life informed and inspired by the Yoruba divinatory and religious system known as Ifa. The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin in West Africa see life as taking a cyclical trajectory through which individuals experience the tangible world (aye), depart to the spirit world (orun) and are reborn. Sinzogan’s works explore the journeys between these different but closely related worlds. The voyages between such realms lie at the heart of religious practice across much of the Atlantic world, a world forever shaped by another voyage: the middle passage of the Atlantic slave trade.

Omar Ba is a Senegalese artist who holds a degree from l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Dakar, and has been living in Geneva, Switzerland, since 2003, where he completed an MA at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts.

He has since has participated in four separate exhibitions at the Galerie Anne De Villepoix, as well as the Guy Bartschi gallery, and in 2011 won the prestigious Swiss Art Award.

Omar Ba’s paintings present a colorful, fantastic, at times chaotic world where the order of things as we perceive them in the visible world is turned on its head. Giant plants tower over a miniature human world gripped by globalization; huge mother and father figures become hybrid godlike creatures at once terrifying and seductive because of the sheer beauty of Omar Ba’s craftsmanship and decorative use of saturated color.

Erik Olson, 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:00:13 -0400

Erik Olson, 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

SAMO©

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:30:12 -0400

SAMO©

Things Come Apart - A Teardown Manual for Modern Living by Todd...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:30:08 -0400

Things Come Apart - A Teardown Manual for Modern Living by Todd McLellan

Things Come Apart is an expansion of the original Disassembly Series. This new set of images explores retro to modern daily items that have, are, or will be in our everyday lives. The book “Things Come Apart” published by Thames & Hudson.

ISBN 0500516766
ISBN 9780500516768
Publication Date: May 7, 2013
Format: Paperback
Price: $29.95
128 pages
181 color illustrations
9.75 in x 13.75 in

Zadok Ben-David - Blackfield (2006-9) - Hand-painted steel and...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:00:06 -0400

Zadok Ben-David - Blackfield (2006-9) - Hand-painted steel and sand

“Blackfield is a space-specific floor installation containing steel etched flowers deriving from 19th-century Victorian encyclopedias. The work reflects over notions such as perception and perspective, and in its delicate modesty the installation brings up powerful questions regarding life and death.”

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:30:12 -0400

“world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:50:13 -0400

“world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:49:53 -0400

“Poems,” Nearly God, Tricky

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“Poems,” Nearly God, Tricky

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:26:12 -0400

There’s no telling how many times I’ve seen this...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:24:54 -0400

There’s no telling how many times I’ve seen this video.

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