Dara Friedman, a German artist, focuses on ideas of performance and individuality in the urban, public space through video installations and film. She is hosting an exhibit at The Hammer museum in Los Angeles. She explores notions of performativity, urban space, and the individual in the public sphere in her ebullient, poetic films and videos.
For ‘Dancer’ (2011), she enlisted Miami-based dancers of all stripes to dance through the city streets for the camera. Shot on 16mm black-and-white film and transferred to HD video, it celebrates both the city and the medium of dance. With the city streets as a backdrop, dancers improvise, expressing the specificity of their styles and skills and making meaning through movement.
Hani Zurob, a Palestinian exile working in Paris, makes abstract and figurative works that straddle the line between Paul Gauguin and Lucien Freud. Favorite concepts for the artist include identity, collective belonging and movement, and he often incorporates images of his son within his work. Though he has only been working as an artist since the early 2000s, he is the subject of a recently released book entitled ‘Between Exits: Paintings by Hani Zarub’.
Mexican artist Pedro Reyes is a multimedia artist whose works, ranging from sculpture, architecture, performance and video, highlight the importance of individual and collective participation in social and cultural events. On the other hand, Toshio Saeki, a Japanese artist who mixes traditional Eastern imagery with Otaku subject matter, to create vibrant and erotic ink drawings. He is showcasing his first UK exhibition at the Print House Gallery at the age of 67. The show will be on view March 8-31, 2013.
Known as one among Japan’s masters of erotic art, he has influenced some of his country’s most known contemporary artists, including Aida Makoto and Takashi Murakami. His paintings often feature men and women as well as demons, animals, corpses, and other creatures in various erotic or violent settings.
(Information courtesy: Katherine Brooks; The Huffington Post)
For ‘Dancer’ (2011), she enlisted Miami-based dancers of all stripes to dance through the city streets for the camera. Shot on 16mm black-and-white film and transferred to HD video, it celebrates both the city and the medium of dance. With the city streets as a backdrop, dancers improvise, expressing the specificity of their styles and skills and making meaning through movement.
Hani Zurob, a Palestinian exile working in Paris, makes abstract and figurative works that straddle the line between Paul Gauguin and Lucien Freud. Favorite concepts for the artist include identity, collective belonging and movement, and he often incorporates images of his son within his work. Though he has only been working as an artist since the early 2000s, he is the subject of a recently released book entitled ‘Between Exits: Paintings by Hani Zarub’.
Mexican artist Pedro Reyes is a multimedia artist whose works, ranging from sculpture, architecture, performance and video, highlight the importance of individual and collective participation in social and cultural events. On the other hand, Toshio Saeki, a Japanese artist who mixes traditional Eastern imagery with Otaku subject matter, to create vibrant and erotic ink drawings. He is showcasing his first UK exhibition at the Print House Gallery at the age of 67. The show will be on view March 8-31, 2013.
Known as one among Japan’s masters of erotic art, he has influenced some of his country’s most known contemporary artists, including Aida Makoto and Takashi Murakami. His paintings often feature men and women as well as demons, animals, corpses, and other creatures in various erotic or violent settings.
(Information courtesy: Katherine Brooks; The Huffington Post)
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