Luci Eldridge
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Gelatin

Michael Borremans

Eberhard Havekost

Erwin Wurm

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Luke Rudolf

This is Luke Rudolf a painter I was introduced today by my good friend James Parkinson.

This is a small piece he has written about his work:
'My paintings hijack the visual language of modernist abstraction and the figurative tradition of portraiture by using the signifiers of abstraction itself to determine the features that form the resulting pseudo portraits. By creating a psychological domain that requires a cognitive, physiognomic and often darkly humorous unraveling on the part of the viewer, I propose a disruption through the destabilising of values and rationales that are brought to the work.'

Alex Virji

These great paintings reminded me of Yuko Nasu who I blogged about a while back so I thought I would put them here too. You can see more of her work here www.re-title.com and here www.beerslambert.com
Beers Lambert who represent Greg Eason and Alex Virji have a show coming up in Nottinghams Surface Gallery and you can see who is going to be in and when its on HERE.

Greg Eason

Read about him here!

Check his blog HERE

Re-Launch!

Vanilla Galleries has just re-vamped their website and blog.
Check it out it looks great.
www.vanillagalleries.com

Another Steal

I am afraid like a broken record I have again returned to the blog butdoesitfloat.com.
The only reason being these great drawings of minerals and crystals by Marissa Textor.







These also reminded me of the paintings done by Carly Waito shown on www.booooooom.com

Maybe theres a new fad for minerals and stuff coming like there was with bears and deer.

Fiona Banner

I have only ever known Fiona Banner from her Hollywood film descriptions made up into a book called The Nam. However after reading a great new website called butdoesitfloat.com I discovered her new work which has just been installed in Tate Britain just this week. Anyone that knows me knows I like planes, tanks, boats etc. Anything that symbolizes great mechanical design so these obviously attracted me. She has installed two real fighter planes into Tate Britain. One is a Harrier hanging from the ceiling, stripped of all its paint and markings and replaced with an effect that makes it look like it is made of feathers. The Jaguar, used in the first Gulf War lies belly up again stripped of all its markings, instead being highly polished reflecting its surroundings.

You can learn more by watching a video about the work here:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/duveenscommissionseries/fionabanner2010/default.shtm

And also watch a short interview about her Christmas Tree installation:

Robert Felix

I have been meaning to do this for a long time. Rob is a good friend of mine who I studied with during my foundation course. He reinforced my interests in photography especially film photography. He was never seen without a camera around his neck. He has been practising photography for a few years now photographing the likes of the late great Guru and the up and coming Ellie Goulding. He sees photography more of a craft creating images that fuel curiosity and intrigue.

His blog -
http://miseryistheriveroftheworld.blogspot.com/

Roger Hiorns

Roger Hiorns is a contemporary artist who had been nominated for the turner prize in 2009. He creates sculptures mostly and a few images usually encased in triangular frames. His object and images contain within them the paradox of being both inert and alive. Due to the processes and materials used many of the sculptures operate without the viewer. The crystals for example grow without any outside intervention and the foam keeps erupting from his cylindrical totems. This unnecessary relationship between the onlooker and the work reasserts the viewers freedom. As well as the materials that continue to change Hiorns also uses scents in his work. This activates another sense rarely used when looking at art.

You can read more about the Seizure project here -

http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=93&Title=Roger%20Hiorns,%20SEIZURE

Denis Darzacq

La Chute, 2006
Inspired by a report for the press, La Chute makes the link between photojournalism and contemporary art. It stages - without special effect -
in perfectly mastered compositions, dancers seized in an instant with a jump. The series constitutes a political metaphor of the situation of current youth. from acidolatte.blogspot.com

see more of his work at http://www.denis-darzacq.com/

Sarah Pickering

http://www.sarahpickering.co.uk/

Knuckles/Blake - What I like

KNUCKLES | BLAKE - WHAT I LIKE from Paul Bryan on Vimeo.

This is the new video for the song 'What I Like' directed by Paul Bryan and filmed in the underground rail system of Paris. Made into one of the features on the vimeo website and in three days already has over 20 000 views.

Read more at http://www.pmbryan.com/knuckles.html

and listen to more music by Knuckles at his MYSPACE page

Wilhelm Sasnal Interview

Read it if you like art as Sasnal is currently King Pin of contemporary painting,
reading it here SASNAL

Zine's

A couple of friends of mine make a small publication every so often. It usually depends on how busy they are so there isn't a regular release date. Its called Zeene and its another example of the growing culture of small books about anything and everything. Its great. The two lads, Greg and Nick are off to London to be part of the great London Zine Symposium which is at The Rag Factory on Heneage Street, just off Brick Lane. It starts at 12 and ends at 6. Loads of Zine's will be on sale there including their one.
Check out their blog http://www.vanillagalleries.com/zeene/
and also http://www.zineswap.com/ which is where you can watch short videos where zine's that have been sent it get flicked through.

Field Broadcast

Today marks the end of a Live streaming performance project curated by Robert Smith and Rebecca Birch. This is a place where artists who have proposed a performance of some kind get to do a live performance that you can stream and watch as it happens. Sorry that I have just posted this but hopefully the performances that have already occurred will be available to watch again. A few friends and I were involved in one such performance from Jonathan Ryall and Christopher Bassford where we had to play football in restricting outfits.
If you read this in time there are some performances today and if you download a widget that indicates to you when a performance is going live you can take a look.

Field Broadcast