tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441286895454904972024-03-14T02:27:37.083-04:00artocraziailka scobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01546696836670138502noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44128689545490497.post-52518818079604268922011-09-13T05:21:00.000-04:002011-09-13T05:21:33.966-04:00ALEX KATZ at GAVIN BROWNAmerican master Alex Katz unveiled thirteen new paintings at his first show with Gavin Brown. I loved seeing his iconic portraits of Ada, the artist's wife, and my friend Ulla, who now lives in Germany. A must see exhibition open until October 8th.ilka scobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01546696836670138502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44128689545490497.post-31778992069144202782011-09-12T20:47:00.000-04:002011-09-12T20:47:13.516-04:00ALEX KATZ at GAVIN BROWN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dedication of the Elizabeth Murray Art Wall at The Bowery Poetry Club</div>
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Forget Fashion Week… the real deal was the heartfelt community who gathered to celebrate the life and career of Elizabeth Murray. Husband and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club Bob Holman read from his latest book, “Picasso in Barcelona”, accompanied by Vito Ricci on guitar, beautiful daughter Sophia performed excerpts from two plays, and Jennifer Bartlett also spoke.<span> </span>Artists, poets and downtowners viewed a moving trailer from filmmaker Kristi Zea’s work in progress, “Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray.”</div>
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The first WIE Symposium, hosted by Sarah Brown, Ariana Huffington and Donna Karan, gathered 300 women, including world famous faces, political leaders, women from fashion, entertainment, and business, and young women from New York, Africa and Asia. Coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly, WIE focuses on improving worldwide womens and childrens healthcare. The fantastic art exhibition, curated by Pace Gallery director Nicola Vassell featured a dozen contemporary women artists. Yoko Ono's piece, two blank canvases, arrived with instructions for women to write memories of their mothers.<br />
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"I’m just a lone wolf," says <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/5274/jim-dine.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jim Dine</a>. Dinner is being prepared at his house in the Blue Mountain foothills of Walla Walla, Washington, which he shares with his wife, the photographer <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/725667/diana-michener.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Diana Michener</a>. Other guests include two printmakers, Ruth Lingen from New York and Julia D’Amaro from California, along with Jim’s assistant and wife, Jason and Crista Treffry. We sit down to a delicious meal of roast chicken, tomato and onion salad -- onions being Walla Walla’s most famous crop -- and Dine’s own Jerusalem artichoke puree.<br />
Often grouped with the Pop artists -- and it is not an association he relishes -- Jim Dine (b. 1935) has been a creative force in the art world since the 1960s. His current projects include a show of new prints at Alan Cristea Gallery in London in April 2010, a show at William Shearburn in San Francisco in July, a major survey of sculptures at the Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids in January 2011 and a show at Pace Gallery later that year.<br />
Jim and Diana lead a fairly nomadic life, and we first met at their newly renovated West Village home, a former carriage house that dates from 1860. In winter they regularly travel to Paris and Germany, and when we spoke they had just returned from a month of working in India. "I try to choose places I am comfortable in," Dine said. "India is fabulous and horrible. I completed 20 watercolors and Diana drew all day."<br />
In Walla Walla, Jim maintains several studios. The town boasts an exceptional fine-arts foundry, and Dine’s work here has changed the town itself, which now has his large bronze sculptures adorning the streets (along with works by<a href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/3413/deborah-butterfield.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Deborah Butterfield</a>, <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/12935/tom-otterness.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tom Otterness</a> and <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/15743/kiki-smith.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kiki Smith</a> as well).<br />
Part of our interview took place in one of Dine’s studios, where he, Ruth and Julia were working on an eight-color woodcut series. Jim then brought me first to his painting studio, and then to a sculpture studio filled with carved Pinocchios in various incarnations. There he inspected their Douglas Fir bodies for imperfections, and checked his sculpture <em>The Technicolor Heart</em><br />
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<strong>Ilka Scobie: </strong>How long have you had the New York house?<br />
<strong>Jim Dine:</strong> In the last 20 years I have always lived in SoHo or Tribeca, or here in the Village. I mean I have lived in this house for 12 years, so I prefer this neighborhood.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Do you have children?<strong></strong><br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Do I have children? Together we have five. I have three sons. We have 12 grandchildren, so that’s really why we come here, we just see all the kids, you know. Everybody is in New York.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Are any of your kids artists?<strong></strong><br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Well, more or less. One is a glassblower, one’s an architect and one’s a photographer. . . so yeah, they are artists.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>And how long have you and Diana been married?<br />
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<strong>JD:</strong> Five years. We’ve been together 20.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>And how is it to work with Pace?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> I’ve been there since ’76, a quarter of a century. The people there are helpful and I use the infrastructure well. It’s been a good relationship for both of us.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Do you think of yourself as part of an artistic community?<strong></strong><br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Do I? Oh no. Not really.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>And what about when you were younger.<strong></strong><br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Not as much as a lot of other people did.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Why is that?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Probably some social disaffection. I always got along better with poets. Now most of the ones I knew are dead, so I don’t have a lot of people to talk about poetry with.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Which poets are you close to?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Well I was very good friends with Robert Creeley and Kenneth Koch. I’ve known them for a long time<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>What do you think of the state of the art world now?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> I really don’t know what to tell you because I am not very involved. You know, I do what I do. I am 75 years old I am not going to change what I do, you know? I am just trying to get better.<br />
<strong>IS:</strong> What are you working on now?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Well there’s a group of things. One is I am carving a new group of Pinocchios in Walla Walla. I started last year, my assistant out there, he’s a great carver and I leave him with drawings on the wood and he roughs them out and I finish it, I put on the legs and the arms and set the poses.<br />
I am also working on a big cycle of paintings and using a lot of material in the paint, and we are making a book of Pinocchio lithographs. It’s 24 portraits, and I’ve made 24 poems to go with them. We’ll publish it in Paris, because my printer is there, and though it’s published in English the printer has already sold his lot to French collectors. The French collect books. It’s not a great tradition here.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Absolutely. Poetry is not really popular.<br />
<strong>JD: </strong>You know I was a bad boy in school primarily because I couldn’t read well, because I’m dyslexic. And the only thing I could read was poetry till I was 22 and I started to read novels. But you know, poetry kept me in the world of language.<br />
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<strong>IS: </strong>What are the things that currently inspire you?<strong></strong><br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Recently I have been listening to Indian music. My wife and I just stayed for a month in Delhi, not traveling but working, and I was able to go to concerts three times a week of really first-rate musicians. And that is very moving, it’s something that grabs you primordially. Plus, you know, I continue reading.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Does the music translate into visual effects?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> No, not specifically. I would not know how to do that. Oh, I’ll tell you something else that inspired me. I went to the Musée Maillol in Paris, set up by Dina Vierny, and there was this drawing by <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/13485/pablo-picasso.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pablo Picasso</a> in the permanent collection, a drawing of his own left hand. So he drew it with his right hand and I promise you it was really transcendent. I hadn’t had this experience in years and I can hardly speak about it to explain it to you. It was a physical experience. That day this guy was able to see something in his left hand that was bigger than his left hand.<br />
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<strong>IS: </strong>Where is your family from originally?<strong></strong><br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Well, on my father’s side both my grandparents were Lithuanian<strong>. </strong>On my mother’s side my grandpa was from Poland and my grandma from Virginia. They all came in the 19th century.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>But then your family went to Ohio?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Yes. Ohio is full of Polish Jews.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Were you an artist as a kid?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> I was drawing since I was two years old. I never thought of anything else. I went to art school because it was better than going to regular school.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Was your family supportive of your artistic ambitions?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Not particularly. They thought I would get over it.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>What did you dad do?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Not much, he was a bum. My mother died when I was 12, so I took care of myself.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>How have you balanced printmaking with painting?<u></u><br />
<strong>JD:</strong> One is as important as the other, I do them when I think it’s appropriate for what I am trying to do or when the opportunity arises. I mean I wouldn’t want to etch every day but during the year typically I make 10 or 15 prints because I love to do it. The printers I work with are just fantastic, we’ve been together 40 years, all of us.<br />
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<strong>IS: </strong>Where do your images come from?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> They don’t come from anywhere. They come from dreams and they come from my childhood.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Is it intuition or rational thoughts?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> I don’t have any rational thoughts.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>But what about the Pinocchio, you’ve been working with that image for a long time.<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> They’ve been working on me for a long time. I saw the Walt Disney movie when I was six, and I was very frightened by it, enchanted by it. And I identify with it. I was a liar, little boys are liars. And then in the ‘60s I found a Pinocchio doll in a junk store, and I bought it, it was a beautiful thing, it was papier-mâché with real clothes sewn by hand, probably made in Japan. And I kept it for years until, in the ‘90s I had to do something with it.<br />
All the time I was identifying with the boy, but now, you know it is a great story because it’s a metaphor for art, this old man brings the puppet to consciousness through his craft, and in the end I am Geppetto, I am no longer Pinocchio.<br />
<strong>IS:</strong> And what’s the fascination with the hearts? How many hearts have you made? Millions?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> Millions. . . . I have no idea but it’s mine and I use it as a template for all my emotions. It’s a landscape for everything. It’s like Indian classical music -- based on something very simple but building to a complicated structure. Within that you can do anything in the world. And that’s how I feel about my hearts.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>What about teaching, did you ever do much teaching?<strong></strong><br />
<strong>JD:</strong> I used to try to do it and then I needed the money and blah blah blah, and now I don’t need the money and I can’t stand hearing myself. I’ll tell you something: It’s not going to change anybody’s life. You can’t make anybody an artist.<br />
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<strong>IS: </strong>You travel so much, where do you feel the most creative and productive?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> I carry it on my back, you know, that’s why I travel. I couldn’t sit still and I never have sat still. Even when I had young kids and a wife in Vermont and everything I’d go off to England or France to print or just to see friends. I just couldn’t sit still.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>What do you think of the New York critics? I know you’ve had a tough time with some of them.<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> I really have no use for the <em>New York Times</em>. I try not to read that stuff, it’s too upsetting for me. It’s insulting most of the time, you know? They hate me.<strong> </strong>I wouldn’t even know who they are. I’ve never laid eyes on these people.<br />
When I get a virulent review, people ask, "What’s the deal? Have they got something personal against you?" During my career, I have not had much positive criticism. And I’ve never played the game, you see. All I want is to be left alone to work.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>Can you give us an example?<br />
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<strong>JD:</strong> My "52 Books" exhibition at Pace at the end of 2009 was just <a href="http://bit.ly/cifyqS" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">savaged</a>. Despite the reviews, everyone loved the show. And it was inaccurate because it was said that I was under the influence of Paul McCarthy! Someone told me that McCarthy was embarrassed by the comment, because of course I was there first. <br />
I do have people whose lives have been changed by my work. I know that. They said it to me.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>What do you see an artist’s responsibility?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> I don’t paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need. I am driven to create stuff.<br />
<strong>IS: </strong>And how is it to live with another artist?<br />
<strong>JD:</strong> It is totally inspiring, totally.<br />
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Nicola Vassell, co-director of Pace's 534 West 25th St. gallery invited me to the Sept. 16 extravaganza,</div>
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Eteri and her Art Dealer Viola Romoli (The Pool NYC). </div>
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I first met Georgian artist Eteri Chkadu at her show in Brooklyn's Rush Gallery and have followed her<br />
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Jamaica, Eteri came to NY for the Scope where her paintings graced the exhibition of The PoolNYC.ilka scobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01546696836670138502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44128689545490497.post-29058800344065881032010-02-25T17:18:00.000-05:002010-02-25T21:57:12.426-05:00New Images<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Here are computer "widgets" created by my husband Luigi Cazzaniga, from a photograph of his hometown Soncino, in Lombardia, Italy. He calls them "mollies" but I hate that name.
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<span style="font-size: small;">On a stormy Tuesday evening, we headed uptown to the Whitney Biennale. Two years ago, Madi Weinrib and I braved a frigid long line to check out the much anticipated show. But this year, the freezing rain was especially daunting. What's with these museums, that invite privileged and supportive patrons to openings, only to leave them standing on block long lines for admittance? After a quick and delicious dinner at nearby EAT, we again cruised past the Whitney and its formidable queue. Sloppy planning and basic inconsideration.... I'll hit the Whitney on a weekday.</span></div>ilka scobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01546696836670138502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44128689545490497.post-66909837753686556072010-02-18T16:49:00.000-05:002010-02-25T22:00:06.035-05:00Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention at the Jewish Museum<span class="Apple-style-span"></span><br />
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Man Ray,<i> La Fortune</i>, 1938, oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Purchase, with funds from the Simon Foundation, Inc. © 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.</div>
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The Jewish Museum’s May Ray exhibit is a blockbuster without the line, which is the result of the surprisingly little critical acclaim it has garnered. Curated by Mason Klein, this beautifully designed show is the most comprehensive and analytical since the survey of this seminal modern artist at the Fondazione Mazzotta, Milan, in 1999. “Alias Man Ray’ includes photographs, assemblages, and paintings, and introduces little known treasures like the1911 fabric piece <i>Tapestry </i>made in Brooklyn before the artist left his family home; the original assemblage piece, <i>Obstruction</i>, a mobile of 63 wooden hangers; and the protoPop masterpiece of two silhouetted profiles kissing, <i>Image a deux faces</i>, (1959). The 110 cloth blocks of <i>Tapestry</i>, gathered from his family’s sweatshop cutting room floor, sets the standard of Man Ray’s meticulous craftsmanship, his blurring of exquisite fabrication with modernist sensibility.<br />
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As a Brooklyn Jew myself, I always knew Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) as an almost-native son. Born in Philadelphia in 1890, he soon moved to Brooklyn with his family of Russian immigrants. What I did not realize, however, was Man Ray’s fierce dedication to obscuring his origins, to the point of cropping a family photo to leave only an image of himself and his mother. Assimilation provides the premise for this illuminating exhibition, as detailed in Klein’s incisive catalogue essay: “In changing his name from the colloquial Manny to the unmoored Man, the artist lost and found himself in anonymity.”<br />
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Man Ray began his artistic career as a teenager, and these adolescent works – high school mechanical drawings- reveal a lifelong fascination with duality and concealment. An early proponent of Dada, (and a lifelong bohemian), Man Ray’s first marriage to Adon Lacroix, a Belgian poet, introduced him to French culture. In 1920 he created <i>The Riddle</i> also knownn as<i>The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse, </i>a prescient work in view of his future allegiance with the Surrealists. An old sewing machine – aluding to the famous line from Lautreamont about the chance encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a dissecting table but also, perhaps, a reference to his sweatshop childhood – was wrapped in army blanket and rope, photographed and then discarded. Man Ray recreated the piece in 1971.</div>
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When Man Ray emigrated to Paris in 1921, Marcel Duchamp (who had befriended him in New York) welcomed him at the train station. Even before his arrival, fellow Dadaists knew Man Ray’s work. Two 1918 photos, one of an eggbeater, (<i>L’Homme</i>) and another of clothespins and light reflectors (<i>Woman</i> or <i>Integration of Shadows</i>) were included in Salon Dada: Exposition Internationale before the artist’s actual arrival.</div>
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It was in Paris that Man Ray became a professional photographer. Vanity Fair, under the editorship of Frank Crowninshield, published two early Rayographs for theirNovember 1922 issue. Rayographs derived from a process of solarization discovered by chance in the artist’s darkroom; they entail direct exposure of objects on the photographic plate without intervention of a camera. Man Ray used modern machinery parts,or everyday objects combined with human faces or hands, in a technique Jean Cocteau described as “painting with light.” Another early collector, famed couturier Paul Poiret made Man Ray’s portraits a chic and commodifiable entity.</div>
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The subject of many of his most beautiful photographs, the young American Lee Miller sought Man Ray out as both lover and mentor. Miller also inspired <i>Object of Desire</i>, a drawing of a metronome capped with a photo of Millar’s languid eye. Instructions commenced with “Cut the eye from a photo of one who has been loved but is seen no more.”</div>
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For twenty years, Man Ray worked as a Parisian artist, creating such surrealistic gems as <i>Le Violon d’Ingres</i>, (1924) and <i>La Fortune</i> (1938) with its foreboding primary colored clouds, a reaction to Europe’s increasingly dangerous political scene. His fashion and society images regularly appeared in Vogue and Harpers Bazaar.. He photographed the cool crowd –from Barbette, a drag queen championed by Cocteau to Ernest Hemingway, Meret Oppenheim, Kiki de Montparnasse (another of his lovers), Gertrude Stein, Picasso, and those tourists wealthy and connected enough to commission a portrait.</div>
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Joining European artists like Thomas Mann, Max Ernst, Luis Brunel and Salvador Dali, Man Ray fled the Nazis in 1940, and went to Hollywood where he married Juliet Browner in a dual ceremony with Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning. Juliet was his companion for the rest of his life, and they returned to Paris in 1951. Late pieces like the magnificent screen <i>Message to Marcia</i>(1958/65) and the <i>Smoking Device </i>(1959/1970), with its surgical tubing predating today’s vaporizers, show that the artist continued a fruitful creative life.<br />
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Man Ray lived to become an inspiration for Allan Kaprow, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol whose 1974 portrait paid homage to the artist, with its unusually complex composition and deliberately blurred edges.</div>
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The premise of the artist’s desire to obliterate his history is well illustrated and further documented by the wall text, and presents an intriguing addition to our understanding of his work. But even without its investigative information or theory, “Alias Man Ray’ is a revelation. Ray’s added artistic details are always inherently modernistic – from the solarized photos with their defining outlines, his use of inscription, to his 1947 lithograph self portrait and it’s linear bisection.</div>
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Transgressive, experimental, fiercely individualistic, Man Ray is an iconic artist who bridged European and American experience, worked creatively and commercially, and evaded any categories not of his own creation. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">1 7 oz jar or can of tuna</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Olive oil</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">2-3 peeled and diced garlic</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">1 small chopped onion (optional)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">1 28 oz. canned diced tomatoes</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">or if you’re not lazy 1 can plum tomatoes which you will chop up</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">½ teaspoon crushed red pepper</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">these are optional…..</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">2 Tb. Capers (I like salted, but remember to heavily rinse in hot water)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Some chopped black olives</span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Heat 2 tb. Olive oil, add chopped garlic, (and onion if you are so inclined)</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Now’s the time to add capers and olives, cook for 5 minutes.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Cook spaghetti until tender.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Stir in tuna and parsley.</li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I love this beautiful and elegant Alex Katz portrait of my dear friend (and blog guru) Ulla. It's just been finished and was shot in the artists studio. And here's Ulla again, painted by Alex for the Art Production Fund's taxi rooftop project. Yoko Ono and Shirin Neshat are the other participating artists. Check out the New York traffic for cruising artworks…..</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">check out her blog on www.modelsown.blogspot.com </span></div>ilka scobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01546696836670138502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44128689545490497.post-52633757800211979212010-02-01T14:21:00.000-05:002010-02-01T16:09:23.270-05:00My Terence Koh Story in Marie Claire Italy<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is in Italian, please refer to my former Terence Koh posting where I published this article in english.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HrvLlsVaxh4/S2cn3uxMUxI/AAAAAAAAAEo/92qRlfdHVkM/s1600-h/terence_koh_photogallery_selected-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HrvLlsVaxh4/S2cn3uxMUxI/AAAAAAAAAEo/92qRlfdHVkM/s400/terence_koh_photogallery_selected-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'normal Arial',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Minuto, elegante, enigmatico: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Koh" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Terence Koh</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> incarna alla perfezione l’artista del XXI secolo. Poeta, pornografo, filmmaker, mixa nuove tecnologie e media tradizionali come scultura e pittura. I suoi lavori sono estremi e molto, molto forti: mette in mostra escrementi laminati in oro ad </span><a href="http://www.artbasel.com/%20" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Art Basel</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, disegna abiti per una delle boutique più trendy di </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New York</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, sul suo </span><a href="http://www.asianpunkboy.com/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sito</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> si può fare shopping con i </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sex toys</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> che crea e gli piace fare la star (come all’ultima </span><a href="http://www.labiennale.org/it/arte/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Biennale di Venezia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Osannato dal mondo della </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">moda</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, amico delle celeb, ha la fama di essere un</span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">festaiolo </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">incallito (lo chiamano “party boy”). Espone a Parigi, Londra e Roma, possiede un personalissimo spazio espositivo dal nome provocatorio, </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ass </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(non pensate male, è l’acronimo di</span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Asia Song Society</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">), vende le sue opere nelle gallerie più glam e ha già al suo attivo delle personali al </span><a href="http://www.whitney.org/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whitney Museum</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> di</span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New York</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, alla </span><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tate Gallery</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> di </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Londra </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">e in diversi musei in </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Germania</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">,</span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Svizzera </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">e </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spagna</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ci incontriamo in fondo a </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chinatown</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, in un vecchio edificio di mattoni che gli serve sia da abitazione sia da luogo di lavoro. Quando arrivo, non c’è. Ma la sua presenza è anticipata da un mazzo di fiori appassiti disposti artisticamente, graffiti neri alle pareti e un campanello antiquato. Uno spazio tutto bianco, dalle scale fino all’ufficio, al soggiorno e all’atelier. Nel décor abbondano i temi che gli sono più cari: i conigli - o «coniglietti», come preferisce dire - teschi e sculture composte e ricomposte.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">È nato a Pechino, cresciuto a </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vancouver </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">eppure, quando arriva, </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Terence Koh </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sembra la quintessenza del newyorkese doc. E forse lo è. «Vivo nel Lower East Side da quindici anni. E sono un abitante di Downtown fino al midollo. Qualsiasi cosa al di sopra di Houston Street è un altro pianeta. Un’altra patria d’elezione?</span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parigi</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, dove c’è la </span><a href="http://www.ropac.net/%20" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Galérie Thaddeus Ropac</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> che da sempre ha creduto in me. Come la </span><a href="http://www.peresprojects.com/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Peres Projects</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> di Los Angeles.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Come vede il mondo? </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diceva John Lennon: «C’è tanto dolore che le droghe sono un cancello d’ingresso in uno stato normalizzato». Ecco, io credo che nel mondo d’oggi ci siano tante persone infelici con o senza l’utilizzo di additivi chimici.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lei si sente infelice?</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No (</span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sorride gesticolando elegantemente, ndr</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">), non sono infelice perché cerco di rendere il mondo più bello.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">E come pensa di riuscirci? Con la sua arte?</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No, parlando molto con me stesso. Il segreto sta tutto nel cervello.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Questo edificio è suo?</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mi piacerebbe comprarlo, ma sono a corto di contanti. Vivo qui da due anni e mezzo ma il successo, quello vero, è arrivato non più di sei anni fa. Per raggiungere i miei obiettivi devo imparare a risparmiare.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ha una relazione sentimentale?</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ma certo! Il mio compagno si chiama Garrick (</span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">i due si sono recentemente sposati indossando il velo bianco negli Hamptons, ndr</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Come si vive a New York?</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Si è completamente indipendenti. Questo da un lato ti dà un senso di libertà, dall’altro ti fa correre il rischio di vivere in una solitudine straziante. Vivo qui da molto, ma i primi due anni li ho passati da solo. Una vera sofferenza.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lei è canadese...</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sì, vengo da Vancouver, ma sono nato a Pechino e mi hanno abbandonato quando avevo soltanto tre anni.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Secondo lei le sue opere potrebbero essere esposte in Cina?</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Penso di sì. C’è stato dell’inutile sensazionalismo per molti miei lavori pornografici. Ma in realtà non c’è nulla di scandaloso.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So che partecipa anche a reading di poesia...</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> La scorsa primavera avrei dovuto partecipare a un happening dal titolo </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pax Americana</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Ma, come fece Andy Warhol, ho mandato un mio sosia: un ragazzino con una parrucca che mi ha sostituito.</span></div><div><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scrivo continuamente. Sul mio </span><a href="http://www.asianpunkboy.com/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sito</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> c’è una nuova poesia ogni giorno. È il modo migliore per rendere più belle le cose. Può essere una semplice frase o un racconto. Io, ad esempio, amo gli haiku di Basho e Tu Fu e</span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I fiori del male</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> di Baudelaire. Conservo questo libro sul comodino e ne leggo qualche pagina appena sveglio.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">È mai stato in Italia? </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sono stato a Venezia per la Biennale: al padiglione nordico ho presentato due sculture del David di Michelangelo, una di fronte all’altra. Era la prima volta che venivo in Laguna e l’ho amata moltissimo, soprattutto la notte quando è senza turisti. Ho poi esposto all’Ara Pacis di Roma, dove secoli fa venivano compiuti sacrifici agli dei. E infine, sono stato anche a Torino. Ma vuole sapere una cosa buffa? I miei contatti più intensi con l’Italia li ho quando vado a Long Island, a Bridge Hampton. Li vive la mia amica Jacquelyn Schnabel che ora sta con un italiano che cucina una meravigliosa pasta aglio e olio.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lei era molto amico di Dash Snow, discendente dei famosi collezionisti de Menil, scomparso lo scorso agosto... </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">La morte di </span><a href="http://www.marieclaire.it/magazine/fan-club/dash-snow" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dash</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> è stata una tragedia. Ero a Manchester, in Inghilterra. La notizia è arrivata nel bel mezzo di una performance di quattro ore che stavo tenendo insieme a </span><a href="http://www.marieclaire.it/magazine/fan-club/marina-abramovic" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marina Abramovic</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Mi sono messo a gridare anche se ero imbarazzatissimo. Marina poi mi ha consolato dicendomi che urlare è la cosa migliore da fare quando ci si sente molto vulnerabili.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Perché si veste sempre di bianco?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Perché mi piace l’impatto del candore negli occhi della gente che mi guarda.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ha disegnato la t-shirt ricamata di perle che indossa: quali legami fra arte e moda?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Amo la moda così come amo cinema e poesia. Ma credo che il messaggio che trasmette l’abbigliamento sia più immediato dell’arte e quindi più semplice da comprendere.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Come ha realizzato questa t-shirt?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">È stato complicato. Il mio assistente ha frantumato delle perle in un macinino da caffè e le ha incollate al tessuto. Il risultato? Una maglietta che costa 500 dollari perché ogni singolo esemplare è diverso dal’altro.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lavora anche con altri media?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sì, a Berlino ho realizzato un film di sei ore intitolato </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dio</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. L’ho mostrato a Miami e a Basilea. C’erano diverse scene in cui saltavo intorno ai cimiteri, mangiavo insalata e facevo sesso con due persone diverse. Proprio Dash aveva curato parte della fotografia. Ma compongo anche musica, cercando di non farmi influenzare da quello che ascolto.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Considera le sue opere omoerotiche?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ognuno ha diritto ad avere la sua opinione. Più che omoerotico io vorrei essere universale.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diventerà mai cittadino americano?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></b>Sono molto indeciso. Per il momento mi tengo il passaporto canadese.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">È felice per l’operato di Obama?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sì. «Ah, se i re potessero essere filosofi...». Non ricordo più chi l’ha detto, ma Barack Obama è per me proprio come un filosofo.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ha speranze per un futuro migliore?</span></b></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Denyse Thomasos Lollipop Nation 2009. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 54 inches. Courtesy Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. </span><br />
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<div class="text"><span style="font-size: small;">The ten paintings in “The Divide” are the powerful culmination of many years research and travel. Denyse Thomasos's long interest in the architecture of confinement has taken her to Europe. Africa, Asia, and most recently, to the new super jails Maryland. Merging indigenous structures such asMali mud huts and Indian dwellings with hi tech prison catwalks and a punchy palette, Thomasos has made an opulent creative breakthrough in this new body of work. Known previously for her monochromatic elegance, the unexpected jolts of cotton candy colors replicate industrial stairwells and the quirky hues of current fashions.</span><br />
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<div class="text"><span style="font-size: small;">While Thomasos shows widely in her native Canada (especially her monumental wall pieces) this is her first New York solo show in several years. In October, Lennon Weinberg included her more abstract 2001 painting, <i>Inside Wyoming</i>, in a superb group show, “Before Again”, alongside works by Joan Mitchell, Harriet Korman, Melissa Meyer, and Jill Moser. These new works of complexity and intensity are beautiful in their pattern making and pattern breaking, allegorical architectures that present new possibilities for painting.</span><br />
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<div class="text"><span style="font-size: small;">The artist portrays futuristic environments that reference slavery and imprisonment. There is also an element of fifties space age nostalgia in her diagonally floating crosshatched apparitions. Trinidadian by birth, raised in Canada, now a New Yorker, the artist has a sophisticated visual language in which intense dimensionality allows for a free flow of ideas and information. Her masterful hand reveals poetry in the political.</span> <br />
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</div></blockquote><blockquote><div align="left" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If early modernist abstraction was inspired by nature, Thomasos's vigorously contemporary abstraction is constructed upon imaginary metropolitan grids in which subterranean cages rise to skyscraper scale and architectural renderings blur into infinite space. In the receding passageways of <i>Inca Matrix </i>(2009)<i> </i>weirdly pastel swatches emblazon the skeletal blueprints while otherworldly structures are pierced by hot pink unwavering brushstrokes.</span><br />
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<div class="text"><span style="font-size: small;">Form and content are inseparable in <i>Lollipop Nation</i> (2009) where a cage imprisons a vermillion-saturated block, perhaps a bloody heart. Of this particular piece, the artist has said: “We can live in luxury and the invisibility of imprisoning mostly black kids.” The methodically built textural surfaces of her imaginary infrastructures, as if corresponding to cultural codifications, intimate a nuanced view of oppression. </span><br />
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</div></blockquote>ilka scobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01546696836670138502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44128689545490497.post-55887438848785885922010-01-05T16:32:00.001-05:002010-01-05T16:45:28.470-05:00Andres Serrano<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HrvLlsVaxh4/S0OIt9PZbiI/AAAAAAAAACE/JOh8OnKvpyc/s1600-h/f+small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HrvLlsVaxh4/S0OIt9PZbiI/AAAAAAAAACE/JOh8OnKvpyc/s400/f+small.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Self proclaimed “outsider” artist Andres Serrano has been a glamorous presence in the New York art world for over twenty years. In the midst of a bustling downtown block, he lives in a self-designed ecclesial space. Immense ceilings and Jerusalem stone walls create a dramatic serenity. The sole window looks out on a burst of urban greenery, as light floods the burnished wooden walls and Church furniture. His only bow to modernity is the 60 inch plasma TV downstairs. One of his large portraits of the Imperial Klan wizard, garbed in green, instead of the usual white hooded costume hangs on a wall. It’s the only 21<sup>st</sup> century artwork, except for a Jeff Koons piece and a Jenny Holzer work that remain stashed in a 17<sup>th</sup> century cupboard.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps best known for the controversy surrounding his infamous 1986 “Piss Christ”, Serrano became instantly famous as an unwilling soldier in the conservative cultural war of the late eighties. Senators denounced him, death threats were made, and for six months, he remembers not allowing his photo to be taken. Serrano recalls a Venetian monsignor telling La Stampa newspaper, he was “a transgressive artist, not a blasphemous one.”</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The half Honduran, half Afro Cuban New Yorker has exhibited widely and internationally, creating a magnificent body of work that portrays sexuality, death, guns, homeless people, Klu Klux Klanners, and in his last critically acclaimed show, feces.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: And how long did it take you to amass this?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: I have been collecting for about fifteen years... most of the stuff here is probably about the last ten years.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: Do you travel frequently?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: I do, sometimes. And a few of my things I have gotten on my travels, but most things I bought either at auction.. at Sotheby's or Christie's or a couple of dealers. My focus is 17th century and earlier. A lot of my things are 17th, 16th and 15th. I even have a 13th century Madonna in my bedroom. She is very Romanesque.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: You have been called a conceptualist with a camera rather than a photographer. How do you see yourself?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: I like that, as an artist with a camera, rather than a photographer because I studied sculpture and painting at the Brooklyn Museum art school. I was there in 67/ 68. I studied with Calvin Douglas, he was a black teacher. It was a great place.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: Did you live in Brooklyn?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">A: I was born in Manhattan but the family moved to Williamsburg when I was about 6 or 7, before it was gentrified. I think I was one of the first artists when I arrived in 1957 in Williamsburg. I grew up in Brooklyn until after art school when I was about 19 then I moved into Manhattan. I lived at 95 Havemeyer Street in a building that was owned by my grandmother. My mother and I rented from her and we lived on the 2nd floor. I once saw a receipt from that time and rent was $43 a month. Long gone.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I: Are you religious?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">A: I am not a practicing Catholic, I am a Christian... I go to churches first of all in Europe and I go to churches first of all for aesthetic reasons rather than spiritual ones. They are the temples of beauty. I find churches in the US are not old enough for my tastes. So I prefer the churches of Europe.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">A: There is a curiosity, I was scared, but mostly I was scared of coming back empty handed. First of all I asked the Klan that I met to pose for me, the ex imperial wizard at first refused to pose for me and only after his lawyer asked him several times, he finally relented and said 'yes'. Ironically his lawyer was Jewish. The clan had a Jewish lawyer defending him in the Supreme Court and it was a case where they were trying to wear their masks in public and they lost their case.</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: How were they as people?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: They would talk about niggers, jews and queers, but after they realized I wasn't there to confront them, to judge or debate them, they would settle down and act normal. They realized I was Latino I am sure, they knew I was not white. They were very normal looking, in fact, James .... the ex-imperial wizard was an old man and he looked very normal. But I found, no matter how nice they were to me, as soon as they put on their robes and masks, they assumed a different aura and it was very unsettling. I knew the men behind the masks, and yet once they had their masks on, they had another persona.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: The one thing I always really admired is that in going to one of your shows you really have a very in-depth and profound experience. What is the next thing you are working on?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">A: It’s a new project. Unbeknownst, music is my first love. I always wanted to be a singer, a musician. I didn’t have the courage. So I have been in the recording studio. What I’m working on is rock, soul, rhythm and blues, maybe a little punky. The record’s called “Vengeance is Mine.” I chose to do some songs I have always loved.While we were in the studio, I was asked, do you have any lyrics? and I said no.. but my girlfriend Irina Movmviga she said, wait a minute, I have to go home. I'll be back. And she came back 2 hours later with lyrics and I didn't even know she wrote songs. On the spot we created a melody and we recorded the song. The next day she wrote 2 other songs which were recorded too.. so there were three originals there, written by Irina on the spot.</span></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I really want to find a record label rather than market it myself. I developed a character, a persona, for this album as a recording artist. I won’t be recording as Andres Serrano but as Brutus Faust.</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: It is very simple.... you’ll have to see. Hopefully, if I get a label interested, I'll let you know and I'll send you a copy. I don't really want to perform at this point, I just want to record. If at some point in the future, I have to perform I'll get ready for that, but right now I just want to record the music and get ready for that. As a kid that music stuff was a dream but I never really tried it. I didn't sing as a child and I was afraid to, but I feel I know music even better than art. It is funny, art doesn't move me emotionally, even as a visual artist, I am not moved by my work, even though I enjoy doing it.</span></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Music moves me and film moves me. More than anything, music moves me. It gives you emotion, a lot of emotion. I feel the art world is very small compared to the people that buy music, who listen to music, to people who go see a movie, to sports, even people who go to wrestling matches. Art has a relatively small space in most people lives.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: All of my life I had a sense of passing through. I always had the sense that I am here now, for the time, but I am not really one of you. And that goes way back to the days of art school, when I became a drug addict, and for about eight years I did a lot of heavy drugs in the lower east side. And even then I felt, yes, I am a part of this but I am not really one of you.</span></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">And that feeling has even persisted in my years as an artist. So I always got the sense of passing through. And that allows me to do as many things as I have done in my life, meaning that I am not attached to any one thing.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: What's the next thing besides the music that you are interested in, like after doing the whole Shit show?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: For me shit was sort of like an end game, meaning that if I don't do anything from here, I am okay with that. I don't produce a show unless there is a reason for it, unless I have been asked by a gallery to do a show, unless there is a venue.</span></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Right now, there are no plans for me to do anything. The ideas are sort of on the back burner. I felt that "shit" was sort of a conclusion to a phase of my life and if I wouldn't do any more as an artist, I wouldn't miss it.</span></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> I feel that Marcel Duchamp had a similar attitude when he stopped doing any art work in the last 25 years of his life and just played chess. He knew that he had nothing more to say and rather than repeating himself ad nauseum he decided to leave it alone.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: I hope you don't. And all your admirers certainly hope you don't.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: If I am invited to do something, maybe I will.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: How long did it take to shoot the shit show?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: The shit show took me 2 months and most of the shit work was taken in Ecuador in about a two week period.</span></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">One of them was my shit, one of them was Luther, my dog's shit, but all the other shits were animal shits. Actually, there were two other human shits, 'Freudian Shit'; which came from my therapist and "Holy Shit" which came from a priest.</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: You did it in a studio in Ecuador? The light was so amazing.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: Most of it was done in a zoo in Ecuador, we just found a room and made it into a studio.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">LC: Did you ever do work with sperm?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: I did ejaculations in 1989.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">IS: Were you influenced by Piero Manzoni who put his shit in a can? </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: Not at all, because Manzoni put shit in a can. No one has ever taken pictures close up of shit and called it "shit". I feel it is two birds of a different color.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I: Where do you usually work?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">AS: I work here. The assistant puts up the equipment, I shoot the picture and then we put it away. I use a Mamiya rb 67. I don't use digital. I like film, I use ciba chrome, I print from scans, the originals are transparencies. 6x7 film. I use a tripod. I studied painting and sculpture, not photography. After two years of painting I felt I couldn't paint really and so after I left art school I lived with a woman called Milly Erwick and she owned a Konica camera. So I started using her camera, but always thinking of myself as an artist using a camera, rather than a photographer.</span></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I would like to write my memoirs one day, but again, I need a reason to write for example if a publisher came to me, I would write. I don't like to waste my time and I like to do my projects when I know where they are going. I work better with a deadline as well.</span></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I was 40 when success really started to happen. I am 59. I was already an older artist, I was surprised since I never thought I would make money from my work. I always wanted to show it and I always thought success would come for me after my death. So I was happily surprised that I'd come to a point where I could make a living off my work.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">A: I am a hardcore New Yorker, I have been here all of my life. I have lived for four months in Budapest, three months in Rome but I never gave up my apartment in New York. It's home. I remember a few days after Sept. 11 a lot of people were leaving the city and I asked a friend of mine from the Bronx, “Where are you gonna go?” and he said: “Where am I gonna go, I will stay here and defend the city”. And that was the attitude: we are going to stay here to the end.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I: And how do you think your art will be remembered?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">A: My artistic legacy is a lot of passion. My legacy as an artist is that I made an impression and that’s the best thing anyone could do.</span></span><br />
</div>ilka scobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01546696836670138502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44128689545490497.post-50185589742994443712010-01-05T16:31:00.001-05:002010-01-18T15:34:12.106-05:00Koh Baby<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Koh Baby: Terence Koh by Ilka Scobie photos by Luigi Cazzaniga</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elfin, elegant and enigmatic, Terence Koh represents an epitome of the twenty first century artist. Poet, pornographer, filmmaker, he also works in traditional mediums like sculpture and painting. His work is madly popular, selling gold plated feces at the Basel Art Fair, exhibiting in the Venice Biennale, designing clothes for one of NYC’s hippest boutiques, and peddling objects both erotic and witty on his personal website. He’s a fashion darling, friend of the famous, with a reputation as both party boy and provacatuer. Exhibited in Paris, London, and soon, Rome, Terence is a new breed of artist who maintains his own gallery, sells work through venerable New York galleries, as well as upstart ones, and has exhibited in New York’s Whitney Museum, London’s Tate Gallery, and museums in Germany, Switzerland and Spain.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We met at the end of Chinatown, in an old brick building that serves as both home and studio. An artfully arranged bunch of dying flowers, black scribbles of graffiti and an old fashioned bell announced his presence.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Terrence’s domicile is all white, from the narrow painted stairs, to his office, living space, and studio. Iconic themes abound both in décor and his work – rabbits, or bunnies, as he prefers, skulls, reworked sculptures, and everywhere, an expanse of white.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born in Beijing, raised in British Vancouver, Canada, Terence seems the quintessential New Yorker.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T. I have lived on the lower east side for twelve to fifteen years. I am a downtown New Yorker to the core. Anything above Houston Street is a different planet. My primary gallery in Galerie Thaddeus Ropac in Paris, France, where I will be showing a solo show on October 6<sup>th</sup>. I also show at Peres Projects in Los Angeles. Other artists that show at Ropac are Alex Katz, Francesco Clemente. The name of my upcoming show is “Magic Bunny Trees.” John Lennon said it well; “There is so much pain in the world that drugs are just a gateway to a normalized state.” I think that there are so many unhappy people in the world.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You are not unhappy?</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Terence smiles beautifully, and gestures with his elegant and expressive hands, as he replies.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“No, I am not unhappy because I try to make the world more beautiful.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But how are you going to make the world better?</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I just have to do it by myself. I have to talk to myself more, it’s all in the brain.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I ask him about his mercurial success.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I’ve lived here in this space for two and a half years, and I would love to buy the building but I’ve been cash strapped. I’ve really only had success for the past six years and now I have to learn how to save.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“My partner Garrick will come to visit me in Paris for the Ropac show. You know when you have been in a relationship long as Garrick and I have been, alone time is really important. I find that I think better when I am alone.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You’re lucky to have a partner in NY….</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Yes, because in New York you are on the verge of complete independence, which can be really freeing, at the same time excruciatingly lonely. I have been in Ny for ten years but the first two years I spent alone and it was painful. I came from Toronto but was born in Beijing and left when I was three. Last time I was in China was a year ago.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Would they show your work in China?</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I would think so, because a lot of my pornographic work ahs been sensationalized. A lot of my work is not controversial. I had an idea for a show but it was very apolitical.” </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last spring Terence was supposed to participate in an outdoor poetry reading, called “Pax Americana.” My friend Stefan Bondell curated the event, in which I also read. Like Andy Warhol did many years ago, Terence sent a proxy, a teenage kid with a wig, who performed Terence’s piece. I ask him about poetry.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I write poetry everyday. On my website asian punk boy there is a new poem everyday. A poem is again a way to make things more beautiful or clearer. Poetry can be a sentence or a narration. I have been reading haikus by Basho and Tu Fu and I am reading Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire. I have it by my bed so I read it the first thing when I get up and I am blind.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You have also shown with Vito Schnabel.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“He is one of my best friends. He is on a plane right now to Miami. IN the near future, we ‘re working on something for a public space. Then I am doing something for “New York Minute” in Rome. It will be a great show of NYC artists curated by Cathy Grayson from Deitch. There will be at least 60 artists, including the late Dash Snow.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In August, Dash Snow, grandson of the illustrious art family the de Menils, died of a heroin overdose. He left behind a child, Secret, and companion, Jade. Much loved in the downtown scene, Deitch Gallery mounted a tribute show of work by Dash’s many artist friends. Terence was a great friend of Dash’s and we speak about his sudden death. “It’s a tragedy, Dash was so beautiful.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Art has no limits. If I decide it’s for art itself, then I become brave. It’s almost like a switch is put on. Because when I was doing my performance in Manchester, England with Marina Abramovic, I exposed myself. When my friend Dash died, I was still performing a four hour piece – you expose yourself to an audience. I was crying and everything, and I was so embarrassed. And Marina said, “It’s the best thing when you’re vulnerable . People understand that.” </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I admire Terence’s self-designed pearl encrusted T shirt and ask him about the intersection between art and fashion.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I love fashion like I love film and poetry, because fashion is outward, it is easier defined. Fashion is easily understood. I am working with Opening Ceremony. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I did their windows.” </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the particuliars of his T-shirt?</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“My assistant crushed pearls in a coffee grinder and used fabric glue. It is $500 because everyone is different.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I congratulate Terence and Garrick on their recent marriage. They pose wrapped in white bridal netting, and tell me the ceremony took place in the Hamptons.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I question Terence about two of his trademarks, the bunny and the pervasive wearing and use of the color white.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why is the bunny your thing?</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I am genetically disposed.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do you always wear white?</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Yes, most of the time because I like the way life shows on the clothes. Just like on this T shirt, you can see all the dirt, form life itself. My parents are very proud and happy of my career, and they come to see my exhibitions. They love coming to my openings. I always dress them up for my openings, and if it is a white opening, I dress them all in white. I just like the color itself. In utero, everything is white.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do you work in photography?</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I do, and I have made a film of six hours called ‘God’. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I showed it in Miami Basel and it was different scenes of me jumping round cemeteries, eating salad, having sex with two different people. Dash did some photographing. I made it in Berlin and it is for imagery itself.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having listened to Terence’s haunting music on the computer, I ask him about it.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I do make music and it is in my own language.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What’s your relationship with the neighborhood? What do your neighbors think?</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I love living with the Chinese in Chinatown. Not because I love the food, especially here in New York. I like Chinese food cooked by my mom or in San Francisco. My favorite food is spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, it is comfort food.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do you consider your work homoerotic? </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“You have the rights to your opinion. I would like to be universal as opposed to homoerotic. It is best to be the universe.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are you going to become an American citizen”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Undecided. I have a Canadian passport.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Were you happy about Obama.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Yes, “If kings could be philosophers.” I am not sure who said that.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Obama is secretly a philosopher.”</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are you hopeful?</span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Yes, we all should be.”</span></span>ilka scobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01546696836670138502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44128689545490497.post-45821029885272045122010-01-05T16:29:00.001-05:002010-01-05T16:29:56.377-05:00Introduction<div class="ii gt" id=":6f" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">2010 is the start of a new decade, and for me, a new project.<br />
I'm a New York writer who works with my photographer husband.<br />
Recent stories for an Italian womens magazine have been on Chuck Close, Alex Katz, Kiki Smith, Eric Fischl .. My last piece for artnet was on the wondrous Dorothy Iannone, and that was months ago.<br />
My poetry teaching residencies have dwindled down to one Special Ed. School in Brooklyn's bowels. Goodbye So. Bronx and East Harlem elementary schools.<br />
Blessings to Brooklyn for keeping me demi-employed.<br />
Thus, Artocracia.<br />
December whizzed by with highlights; Deitch gallery director Nicola Vassell opened her Soho loft for a reading'Shamnen and Showmen” where I read, along with Vincent Katz, Jeff Wright, Anthony Hayden Guest, Jane LeCroy, Tavi Field and Samson Courhy all the way from Montreal) Art by Francesco Clemente, Ella Etrog, Pola Sieverding, Rashaad Newsome, Raqib Shaw, Zilvinas Kempinas, and more, curated by Nicola and Karline Moeller.<br />
Going to the New York City Ballet “Nutcracker” with a thousand third and fourth graders.<br />
The Man Ray Show at the Jewish Museum, magnificently curated by Mason Klein.<br />
The Denyse Thomasos show at Lennon Weinberg.<br />
Panettone brought back from Brescia, and devoured Christmas Day.<br />
Two artists I've recently interviewed are Andres Serrano and Terence Koh.<br />
Both the photographer and multimedia wunderkind are charismatic and articulate downtowners.<br />
Two glimpses of two important artists.<br />
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