Kaari Upson, drawing
The 12 of November at 19.00 in Via Ventura 5 – Milan, the Massimo De Carlo Gallery opens a new exhibition entitled Berlin – Los Angeles.
Simon Fujiwara, Klara Liden, Dan Rees, Kirstine Roepstorff, Nora Schultz, Josef Strau, Klaus Weber, Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz, Frank Benson, Aaron Curry, Elad Lassry, Scott Olson and Kaari Upson – artists living and working in the two cities – will present their new works.
Bri Mendoza Crum, art director of the event, invited me a couple of months ago, and now a Lelel board is on its way to Dallas.
The Art of Skateboarding is an annual event raising money for The Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Dallas. We have 200 skateboards that are designed by all different artists: painters, graphic designers, fashion designers, etc…and, they are all auctioned off. 20 of them will be live auction and the rest are silent auction. It will be an evening of cocktails, food, dj, and fun! The Captain and Casey show will be coming out to be our emcee’s for the evening and we are also bringing out the half-pipe for the guys to skate. Our honorary chairs are Al Coker and John Comer. Last year we raised $44,000 and this year our goal is $100,000. Tickets are only $25! Come out and have fun…and support a good cause!
On Tuesday October 27th at 18,30, Oscuro Scrutare will grand open at Galleria Patricia Armocida in Milano. It will feature the works of Tommaso Gorla, Marco Klefisch, Scarful, Luca Barcellona, Dem, 108, Allegra Corbo, MP5 and a live experimental jazz performance with Gianluca Petrella and Cristiano Calcagnile.
Thursday October 29th from 7:00 PM at bastard store starts The Future of the Past, personal exhibit of Rise Above (aka Marcello Crescenzi) with a review of works and personal trips between a rock past and a psychedelic future.
It will be possible to buy silkscreens, Rise Above’s t-shirts and the poster above, in limited and signed edition.
It’s simply impossible to keep track of Spike Jonze! Yesterday I was listening to a radio station, RadioPopolare, where they have this nice program named Alaska. I found out that he has eventually finished his new movie – out tomorrow in the U.S. and in few weeks in Italy – called WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, inspired by a popular children book and very, very promising! In the meantime Jonze has put up a new blog and made a documentary about the author of the book, Maurice Sendak. If you think this is not enough you should know that the MoMA is celebrating the director with an exhibition titled The First 80 Years. You can visit Alaska blog for more information… But how come we have Obama leading the planet instead of Spike Jonze?
Hmm… I would describe me as an artist who tries to inject human pathos into robots. Trying to breathe life into robots. That’s what I do. At least I try to. […]”
That’s what Eric Joyner thinks about himself. He is a californian artist, author and main character of “ROBOTS & DONUTS“, the last arrival at bastard’s Bookstore.
All the drawings inside this book portray improbable robotic scenarios: robots shooting laser beams against mega killer donuts, pirate robots, robots fighting on a ring, space candy but also romantic robots in bucolic contexts. An amazing visionary collection of pure surreal Pop Art…
The curious selection of more than 50 titles that you can find at the Bastard’s Bookstore, has nothing to do with classic fiction, we decided to give room to photography, design, graphics and illustration, music, street-art and obviously skateboarding.
P.S. I’m Ambra and I’m the newbie at bastard store. I work here with Edo paris and I answer to mailbox/gtalk store@bastard.it
In the Art area of freestyle.ch it has just been published an interview with Lukas Goller. Starting 2009 he put his contribution to the bastard snowboard project.
The itw is in german language but you can see a selection of his works (the one above is for Milano Centrale skateboards)… I can’t understand what is written but I can follow the only link written and I remember Lukas often talks about this: Trailer Park Boys.
This afternoon Jim Houser visited us (…and checked out the bastard bowl). Today at 6:30PM he opens his show The Tip of the Sword at Galleria Patricia Armocida in Milan.
Have a look to his interview on Fecal Face.
Canedicoda will present his new work called “Non è possibile uscire dal corpo”.
Canedicoda is one of the creative minds behind dumb skatebords and co-designer of the dumb skateboards products featured in the JAMMIN’ line.
It’s the most important exhibition regarding the artist, 36 new serigraphic pieces in all, one video on colors and sounds recordered with Andrea Giotto.
Opening on the April 15th at Marsèlleria, Via Paullo 12/A, Milan, closing day May 12th.
Timetable: 9:30 AM to 1 PM and 2 to 6 PM
I just came back from Paris Photo 2008, a must go in the international photography scenario. All the main galleries and agencies worldwide were showing their images at the Carrousell du Louvre de Paris. And many interesting shows all around town, grand openings and whatnot. Guest of Honour was Japan, well portrayed with the work of the legendary Nobuyoshi Araki and many others.
Altough the three days at the Carroussell finished on Sunday November 16th, many exhibitions that were opened up in these days will stay up until January, some even ’til February. So if you happen to be in Paris in the next two months and you’re interested in photography, i suggest to give it a look.
Among the many things, i recommend “Exactitudes”; an interesting project that put a smile on my face. Rotterdam based photographer Arli Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek shot in the last 14 years trying to strike the heterogenous “dress codes” of the street. So they bless us with these 112 panels of “urban types”. Below is the panel titled “Skaters”, a little bit of an oldie, but still close to us. Funny watching the skate community “frozen” in 1997, so far away style-wise, but so close in memories. Besides Skaters, Rockers and Hipsters you can check’em all out at exactitudes.com.
