Previously on Skandalon: Christoph Niemann
“A man with x-ray vision, Nick Veasy creates images that show what it is really like inside. Nick’s work with radiographic imaging equipment takes the x-ray to another level. everyday objects are transformed from the banal to the beguiling and the layers and the make-up of natural items are shown in fantastic detail.”
Previously on Skandalon: radiology art.
About the Honey Pie project:
Her lips are full pink. Her teal green eyes are intense and inviting. Her black eyeliner accentuates her high cheekbones and her strawberry hair complements her light African skin. Her metallic halter dress holds her supple thighs and pushes on her round breast. She is the result of careful attention and workmanship. When you see her up close, you can’t help but stare. At $6000, she’s certainly not a cheap date. For creator Matt McMullen, she’s a work of art. For everyone else, she’s a Real Doll.
California is a place also produced a video of their visit to the Real Doll factory. Read an interview with Matt McMullen over at the MONK Magazine. Visit the official website of Real Doll and learn more about those on wikipedia.
California is a place is produced, directed, and shot by Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari. Full credit for the Honey Pie project :
On Camera: Matt McMullen
Produced by: Zackary Canepari & Drea Cooper
Directed by: Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari
Cinematography by: Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari
Edited by: Drea Cooper
Still Photographer: Zackary Canepari
Music Composed & Produced by: Dave Janusko and Skyrider
The photos above were taken by Zackary Canepari : visit his blog and official website for more of his work.
 | There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. In the dark, the fear of an unexpected touch can mount to panic. Even clothes give insufficient security: it is easy to tear them and pierce through to the naked, smooth, defenceless flesh of the victim. All the distances which men create round themselves are dictated by this fear. They shut themselves in houses which noone may enter, and only there feel some measure of security. The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. |
Artist statement:
“I got involved in looking at and describing the human form through watching war films. It occurred to me, after a while, that their images were pornographic in nature – both alluring, seductive and repulsive. That got me into looking at porn films. I began to think that they were like life drawings, only with all the rules broken. They have very limited narrative: often no script, virtually no dialogue, just the hovering gaze. I described these films moment by moment, in my own words, and made very big pictures from them. They take something very private and domestic, and make it heroic. After that, I worked with a striptease artist. She came to my studio and undressed, and I began describing her act verbally. It became a kind of striptease in words.” (more)
About Fiona Banner:
“Fiona Banner was born in Merseyside and now lives in London. She studied at Kingston University and completed her MA at Goldsmiths College in 1993. The next year she held her first solo show at City Racing. Following her shows at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein,and Dundee Contemporary Arts, she was nominated for the Turner Prize. More recent shows include at The Power Plant, Toronto, and Live/Work, at MOMA, New York.” (wikipedia)
| So the community does you no damn good! |
Who ever said that community was supposed to do good things for you? Really? I’m aware that most of us think that way, but where is this idea coming from? And what about another idea : community is a problem, not a solution. Consider this:
(…) what is meant by this word body politic, and how it signifieth not the concord, but the union of many men.
We are together, yes, but not necessarily because we love or agree with each other. This quote is taken from the book Elements of Law by Thomas Hobbes, chap. 8, §7, 1651.
Rodgers late paintings are somehow reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis novel Glamorama.
About Terry Rodgers:
“Rodgers’ current work focuses on portraying contemporary body politics. His rendering of the upper-class leisure life stands as an iconic vision of today’s society. The resulting paintings are not snapshots or slices of life, not verite records of actual moments in actual party or family situations, or diaristic records of his life, but carefully constructed and composited fictions, designed to elicit the most meaning and sustain the maximum amount of ambiguity.
Terry Rodgers attended Amherst College, with a major in the Fine Arts. His strong interest in film and photography influenced his style in the direction of representational realism in art.” (more)
Artist statement:
“Importantly, however, is that nothing I create is meant to judge or criticize. I am merely looking closely at who we are, the density of influences upon us, the choices we make, and the recognitions that occur in trying to comprehend a universe with no signposts.” (more)
First spotted via This Isn’t Happiness.
“Lick Line is a series of mouths floating in space and rendered in exacting detail. Aiming to seduce, glistening and salacious tongues poke out and beckon the viewer to come close. Seen as a group, the tongues undulate and bounce. Like many voices talking at once, they invade our space with eroticism, strangeness and perverse possibility.” (press release : Julia Randall: Going Solo)
More of her drawings over at the Jeff Bailey Gallery.
