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World Art - October 2006

Junko Nakamura: Paintings

October 31st 2006 23:26
The Gallery at Crestanello Gran Caffe Italiano isl exhibiting the paintings of Junko Nakamura September 18 through November22, 2006. With more than 40 years experience as a Japanese artist and a kindergarten school teacher of traditoinal Japanese arts, ranging from painting to handicraft, Junko Nakamura has incorporated her wide experience to study the relationship between arts and human life.


Her life study transpire through the subjects anmd colors of her paintings which emanate a profound yet lively inner spirituality
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Tim Eitel: austere existentialism

October 31st 2006 22:56
Tim Eitel’s Boat (2004) depicts a man and a woman, their backs to the viewer, paddling a canoe through a flooded interior, bounded by two dark walls and opening out onto a mottled white expanse. The couple seems to be heading over the edge and into an area of pale, cloudy light that could be an opening beyond the horizon. The casualness of the figures’ attitudes and attire is disconcertingly at odds with the surreal character of their environment.


Eitel, 35, had been trying for some time to admit the outside world into his hermetic interiors, and he feels that he has finally found a way to deal with architecture and landscape simultaneously. “It’s a weird kind of ambiguity I’m looking for,” he says. “It has this sense of space and depth, but it’s also in a way abstract, like this big void.”
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Mauro Giaconi

October 31st 2006 22:49
Dot Fiftyone Gallery announces the premier of the first U.S. solo exhibition of the Argentinean Artist Mauro Giaconi, which was unveiled in cocktail opening reception Friday October 27, 2006. The exhibition will feature more than 24 artworks from the artist recent production. Includes drawings on canvas, paper and glass, three-dimensional objects and art video installations. For its uniqueness, creativity and powerful message, Mauro Giaconi's exhibition is a real gem for the US art scene. His work is a window and an interpretation of the chaos, that for those of us who live in big metropoles (going under deep transformations), we suffer as consequences of monumental office towers, skyscrapers, constructions and streets renovation. Cities nowadays are a clear example to these inconveniences we are exposed to.
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Neil Maizels: Australian avant- garde

October 30th 2006 22:47
Hailing from Melbourne, Neil Maizels has a new portfolio of work that he has just released. He attaches this epigram -

"Welcome to neil maizels's Portfolio. Browse neil maizels's body of work:
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Meeting Modernity - Traditional Indian Art Form Explores HIV, 9/11

October 30th 2006 22:41
Wandering from village to village, Patua scroll painters from West Bengal, India, traditionally made a living singing their own compositions while unrolling painted scrolls.

A new exhibition at the world reknown Sante Fe Gallery in New Mexico, US: 'Village of Painters: Narrative Scrolls' from West Bengal features a wide range of scrolls - from stories of Hindu gods and goddesses to HIV prevention - and examines how the artists embrace change and sustain their art form in the modern world. The genesis for the exhibition sprung from guest curator Frank Koroms fieldwork in India. Previously a curator at the Museum of International Folk Art, Korom is now an associate professor of anthropology and religion at Boston University. His book on the Patuas, Village of Painters: Narrative Scroll Paintings from West Bengal, will be published by Museum of New Mexico Press and is due out later this year
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Ronnie Coleman's recent Australian visit

October 26th 2006 04:20
As everyone is aware, ronnie Coleman was recently in Australia on promotional tour. For some reason ignored by local media Ronnie, 42, an 8 times Mr Olympia winner, did some low key training at an underground Sydney Gym. A mate of mine was there and managed to get a few snaps of the huge unit.


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Brokeback Top Gun - the sequel

October 25th 2006 23:26
For those who love the movie 'Top Gun' here's a new take on the '80s classic, coming to a cinema near you.

Cruise at his best
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Pavel Büchler: Absentmindedwindowgazing

October 25th 2006 22:55
Switzerland's Kunsthalle Bern is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition of Czech born artist Pavel Buchler. Also a lecturer and writer, Büchler is living in the United Kingdom since 1981, where he is also a Research Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. Summing up his own practice as 'making nothing happen', he is committed to the catalytic nature of art - its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as ultimately strange. His subtle interventions and wry texts are concerned with revealing the accepted and everyday as ultimately bizarre.

A key-operative mode in Pavel Büchler’s praxis is a reinvention of storytelling, in which he peels away the surfaces of modern and contemporary art replacing them with mere testimony. Büchler works with old technology, audio recording, light and the material and mental presence of texts in his installations that deal with the emergence of experience and meaning in art
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The Return: Hans Alexander Gerlanius

October 24th 2006 04:28
For international visitors: 'The Return', works by Swedish artist Hans Alexander Gerlanius, will be presented one day only, December 22, 2006, at the Grand Hotel, Stockholm, in the Armorie Hall.

For the fith year, Hans Alexander Gerlanius exhibited his latest oil paintings at the classical hotel in the heart of Stockholm Sweden. Hans Alexander Gerlanius - haG, is one of Swedens most famous artist, represented in U.S.A, Russia, Japan, Sweden and many other countries. Hans Alexander Gerlanius has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since February 2003.
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Call for Artists: International Artists at the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

October 24th 2006 04:20
In an incredible art first and a landmark in world art, the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art has opened - the first publicly funded contemporary art museum in mainland China. In keeping with its mission to support contemporary art and artists, the Duolun MoMA offers an international artist-in-residence program to bring artists from around the world to the museum to work on individual or collaborative projects proposed by the artists themselves.

It is intended to foster personal vision by offering a unique opportunity for working professional artists to expand their art and experience by making contact with Chinese and other international artists while working in the dynamic environment that the city of Shanghai and the Duolun MoMA provide
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Sydney artist promises $16m

October 20th 2006 22:50
A leading Sydney artist, James Gleeson, is set to pledge $16 million to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the largest individual fund ever established for the gallery.

In the first stage of the endowment, the painter, now in his 90s, is providing $6 million to buy works of Australian art for the gallery's collection.
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Sydney artist promises $16m

October 20th 2006 22:45
A leading Sydney artist, James Gleeson, is set to pledge $16 million to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the largest individual fund ever established for the gallery.

In the first stage of the endowment, the painter, now in his 90s, is providing $6 million to buy works of Australian art for the gallery's collection.
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Fumiko Amano: Sonic Landscapes

October 18th 2006 00:01
Lawrence Asher Gallery is curently presenting a special solo exhibition featuring one of Los Angeles’ most diverse and prolific artists. Fumiko Amano, the quintessential renaissance woman, draws on unique life experiences and all of her creative faculties to produce magical and alluring mosaics of media. Fumiko is a multi-talented, multi-cultural artist who subtly channels years of interest and dedication to all facets of popular culture into each creation.

This tastemaker and siren of the Los Angeles scene holds a mirror to our lives and a famed city to produce this exceptional collection. Fumiko Amano has been a Basic Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2005
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James Pyman: New Work

October 13th 2006 07:18
S1 gallery announces an exhibition of new work by James Pyman to mark the completion of his three month residency in the project space. James Pyman’s drawings assimilate imagery from photographs, cartoons, genre fiction, anecdotes and music. Large-scale, hazy pencil works narrate momentary daydreams or hallucinations in contoured objects.

A large black form rising from the sea could be a tail of a gargantuan whale or an ominous spectral figure. Uncanny doubling occurs as elements in a landscape begin to echo one another or a girl slumped at her desk absent-mindedly draws her mirror image. As with dreams, exotic or fantastical scenes may be followed by a banal situation in which something extraordinary is proposed.
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Wade Guyton: Paintings

October 11th 2006 00:00
For international visitors: westlondonprojects in London UK has announced the first UK solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Wade Guyton. Guyton’s paintings reveal themselves as a product of mechanical reproduction, reflecting his practice of making artworks using commercial inkjet printers. The abstraction and physicality arrived at through the printing process communicates a vocabulary of uniqueness with its attendant skips, spurts, drips and smears.

A mixture of primary sources, letters and signs as well as drawings and scanned printed matter, are abstracted and made singular by pushing an Epson 9600 inkjet printer to its limits. These representative aspects of the paintings persist as a digital trace of their original selves. The colour gamut offered by the 9600’s Ultrachrome inks provides a resolutely contemporary palette from which these graphic marks and images emerge.
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Margaret Aalders: Australian Landscapes

October 9th 2006 23:43
Margaret Aalders is an accomplished watercolourist, distinguished by ability to bring life and light to a medium which can become incestuously involved in its technique.

Whether Margaret Aalders indulges the stark reds and brilliant blues of the red centre and Kimberleys, the russet and khaki tones of the western slopes or the wintry frosts of the Blue Mountains, Margaret’s watercolours speak the visual dynamics of Australia.
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Bobby Flynn must win Australian Idol

October 5th 2006 07:33
Australian Idol is well outside the scope of this blog. I know that. But I have to comment about idol contestant Bobby Flynn. In my opinion this guy is amazing. Sure, he looks remarkably like that kid in 'Mask', that's not great, but looks aside Bobby Flynn is as talented an artist as I've seen in Aussie music since Tim Rogers or Tim Freedman. Flynn's interpretations are truly mesmerising and as Mark Holden has repeatedly commented Flynn's performance style, sound and image is unique. I'm absolutely throwing my support behind him for this year's Australian idol.

The official idol site give some background to Flynn that's pretty interesting. Here's a bit:
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More Ronnie!!!

October 4th 2006 06:55
To celebrate Ronnie Coleman's arrival in Australia here's some information about the big fella.

Personal
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Can 004: Faeces as Art

October 2nd 2006 07:25
Sometimes I think art is silly. This doesn't help. Apparently The Tate Gallery has paid £22,300 of public money for the canned faeces of Piero Manzoni, one of Italy's most controversial artists, which was bought by the gallery from a sale at Sotheby's.

'Can 004' is one of an "edition" of 90 tins of merda d'artista created by Manzoni in 1961 as an ironic statement on the art market. Each can contained 30 grams of his faeces and Manzoni sold it for the same price as if it were gold.
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