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Oxcars 2011
Barcelona much like Berlin has a personal & internal competition to become Europe's sharealike cultural capital. The Freecultural movement is alive and year after year the Oxcars night reminds us of such need. Artists and performers from all areas of Spanish and international culture take part in a "Gala" with all kind of surprises, pooling their efforts to demand a stop to culture being treated as merchandise by royalty management organisations and cultural industry lobbies. Internet criminalization, limiting access and…
Find out more »August 2010
Soul Survivors @ Galerie de l’Instant – Paris
Exile on Main Street, the Rolling Stones best album was remastered earlier this year (May) and to celebrate the Parisian art Gallery L'Instant is presenting until September 22nd the work of two "friends and contemporary witnesses": Dominique Tarlé & Ethan Russell. Dominique is known for being the only photographer who lived with the Rolling Stones while they were recording "Exile" for 6 months @ the famous VIlla Nellcôte by the French Riviera. Initially Dominique wasn't planning on staying at the Villa…
Find out more »September 2010
Nordic delight @ SI – Paris
Oh god, the Nordics are back again? These Vikings want to keep invading us huh? As if we didn't have enough with all the buzz around Royksopp's new album or all the Swedish music by Bounty, CEO & Avner, they've now decided to come and invade our little southern cities with their new young artists & music... Starting last week in Paris the Swedish Institute is exhibiting the "Nordic Delight" exhibition until October 24th curated by Sinziana Ravini. An interesting…
Find out more »An Art Exhibition @ MNCARS – Madrid
Kitsch? No, for Hans-Peter Feldmann there's no object, no poster, no collectable with such adjective. Everything is ordinary. "An art exhibition".... another one, because Hans-Peter Feldmann titles all his exhibitions this way. Why? He's declaring, asserting, stating that all you'll find inside the showing is art, even though you'll realize that great part of his works are mere ordinary objects... a plastic water bottle, a few cents, a package of cigarettes... things you wouldn't normally find inside a museum. Furthermore,…
Find out more »Experimentaclub’10 @ La Casa Encendida – Madrid
In its 10th edition Experimentaclub seems to have less of a push than its previous 2-3 editions, we're noticing less advertising and communication from their main sponsor Caja Madrid (via La Casa Encendida) & a far less ambitious line-up brought by the director Javier Piñango... crisis maybe? Anyway, we cannot ignore one of the best electronic & truly experimental music festivals that inaugurate the year in southern Europe: Experimentaclub '10 in Madrid. It's no Sonar ok? But the intimacy of…
Find out more »October 2010
Moebius Transe Forme @ Fondation Cartier – Paris
Jean Giraud is nowhere near the end of his creative culmination, at the age of 72 he keeps releasing his realistic or dreamlike drawings on a year basis and his 10-20-30 y.o. characters do never get old. Perhaps that's why the Parisian Fondation Cartier for contemporary art will be dedicating 6 months of their time&space @ their centric boulevard Raspail to the perhaps more imaginative, oniric and fascinating side of Jean: Moebius. Giraud is particularly well-known for his extraordinarily refined…
Find out more »Frieze + Superdesign – London
A double art dose this end of the week + weekend in London starting today: the renown Frieze art fair @ Regent's Park and an alternative (also free) option: Superdesign show @ the Victoria House basement. Both start today, and both just as recommendable.... Superdesign-London Contemporary design? We all have at least one piece in our homes, kitsch or not... and to give you new ideas on what's to come (or what you'll never afford to buy) the SD exhibition…
Find out more »Orixa
Marilene Oliver doesn't use rubberized bodies from dead Chinese prisoners for crafting the human body, she mainly creates her sculptures from CT scans using foam rubber & seed beads... Marilene Oliver gained a BA in Fine Art Printmaking and Photomedia at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and an MA in Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, both in London, and now lives in Rio de Janeiro. Her latest sculptures are based on a top-to-toe…
Find out more »Helm @ Collingwood Gallery – Melbourne
Mattle, Hasbro or any other toy company should seriously consider manufacturing gigantic heroes & villains masks like the ones Benjamin F. Guy paints in his "Helm" series... His oil paintings on canvas & wood are now being exhibited at the Collingwood Gallery (Melbourne) until November 4th, and we highly encourage you to visit them if you're down there. The HELM Portraits blend fantasy and reality while re-interpreting imagery from Benjamin's youth. The paintings become doorways into childhood imagination where myths…
Find out more »December 2010
Open City – London
Hey hey! One last contest and one last opportunity to demonstrate your talent before 2010 ends? A 4-day new festival from the hands of Michael Stewart, Andrew Steggall, Olivia Bellas & Jessie Teggin who have quite a few ambitions from the start although not that much budget. An International Documentary Film Festival that won't take place until next summer but they're already open for submissions... from both established and emerging talent. The doc Film Festival will be obviously all about documentaries…
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