The tattoo, originally “the tatau” ornaments the skin and thus abstracts everyday life. The Tattoo is a masquerade of the skin and marks the body itself as the place of fantasy. Because through the painted body - through the tattoo - the body itself becomes exotic and therefore there is no normal everyday life anymore. Now there is only an exotic and erotic everyday life possible.
To cover the body with signs is like opening a door. A door to paradise, to another place, to an utopian place. The body itself becomes this heterotopos. The body itself becomes this utopian place. The door of the tattoo leads to the theater of illusions - just think of Genet -, to the theater of desires like in a dream. The door of the tattoo leads to the room of childhood, to the chambers of the unconscious.
To tattoo o...
« Nous sommes tous des cannibales. Le moyen le plus simple d’identifier autrui à soi-même, c’est encore de le manger. » Claude Lévi-Strauss,1993
Jusqu'au 15 mai 2011, la maison rouge organise une exposition consacrée à la question de l’anthropophagie et à ses représentations dans les arts plastiques aujourd’hui.
Jeanette Zwingenberger, la commissaire de l'exposition, a choisi de présenter un corpus d’œuvres réalisées majoritairement par une jeune génération d’artistes travaillant indépendamment les uns des autres sur le concept de l’incorporation. Des oeuvres contemporaines (photographie, vidéo, installation, sculpture, dessin et peinture) dialogue...
Tattoo
Curated by Peter Weibel, ZKM
The tattoo, originally "the tatau" ornaments the skin and thus abstracts everyday life. The Tattoo is a masquerade of the skin and marks the body itself as the place of fantasy. Because through the painted body - through the tattoo - the body itself becomes exotic and therefore there is no normal everyday life anymore. Now there is only an exotic and erotic everyday life possible.
To cover the body with signs is like opening a door. A door to paradise, to another place, to an utopian place. The body itself becomes this heterotopos. The body itself becomes this utopian place.
The door of the tattoo leads to the theater of illusions - just think of Genet -, to the theater of desires like in a dream. The door of the tattoo leads to the room of childhood, to t...
EXPRMNTL Galerie propose pour cette rentrée 2008, en parallèle au 'Printemps de Septembre' (Festival d'art contemporain), une sélection d’artistes internationaux en collaboration avec Jérome
Jacobs (Aéroplastics). Les oeuvres présentées manifestent un esprit de contestation affirmé voire parfois cruel et proposent aux visiteurs des visions et expériences 'physiques' voire troublantes de
l'art actuel.
Cette exposition dénonce à sa manière les paradoxes d’une société bâtie sur la raison du plus fort, les intérêts trop évidents, les mensonges flagrants, les raisonnements viciés, l’omniprésence des
guerres dont l’argent est l’unique moteur... Un monde dans...
Special Preview Opening
Thursday 11 january 2007
6pm - 9pm
"...and some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher..."
Captain Ahab from Moby Dick by Herman Melville
It is impossible to categorise or define the work of this mercurial British artist, and this is one of the properties of his work which John Isaacs consciously perpetrates, as if trying to conceal in a hall of mirrors the trail that leads back to himself. Isaacs produces such a wide range of work that many loose the sense of the individual identity behind it. However, whether it is directly in his titles, or in the physical manifestation of his work, Isaacs refers to previous artistic output, his own or others; from literature, music, science, film, and art, to guide the...
La Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise parraine le collectif « Icono verde » qui propose une exposition au Lieu Unique du 15/09/05 au 2/10/05.
Voir leur site : http://iconoverde.free.fr
© Iconoverde...