image du jour : Wayne Thiebaud

c'est beau, hein ? c'est Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud (né le 15 novembre 1920) est un peintre américain dont les œuvres les plus célèbres sont des gâteaux, des pâtisseries, des bottes, des toilettes, des jouets et des tubes de rouge à lèvres. D'une famille venue de France, son nom de famille se prononce encore à la française. Il est couramment associé au Pop Art en raison de son intérêt pour les objets de la culture de masse, bien que ses œuvres, exécutées dans les années cinquante et soixante soient, de ce fait, antérieures aux œuvres des artistes emblématiques de ce mouvement. Thiebaud utilise les pigments et couleurs crues pour peindre ses sujets, qu'il ombre avec la précision caractéristique de la publicité de l'époque. C'est d'ailleurs sa marque de fabrique.

chanson du jour : Goran Bregovic feat. Eugene Hütz (of Gogol Bordello) - Be That Man

tiens encore une vidéo drôle

Paris-Photo #6 : Joseph Sterling

 Joseph Sterling
The Age of Adolescence (guys leaning out of car)
1961 | Gelatin silver print | 14.5 x 22 in. 
2006 print. Signed and editioned 1/15 by artist on print verso

 Joseph Sterling
The Age of Adolescence (black pants on beach)
1961 | Gelatin silver print | 8.5 x 13 in. 
1960s print. Signed and stamped by artist on print verso

Je ne me souviens plus du nom de la galerie, ici un photographe Joseph Sterling.
Ici, d'où j'ai extrait un texte : 
Joseph Sterling (American 1936-2010 ) received his M.S. at the Institute of Design in 1962 where he studied under the renown teaching team of Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Sterling's immediate group included artists Joseph Jachna, Charles Swedlund, Ken Josephson and Ray Metzker; collectively, they were known as the "ID 5."  After graduating, Sterling pursued a career as a magazine and corporate/industrial photographer. He established the photography department at Columbia College of Chicago and has taught and lectured at both the Institute of Design and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Among other publications, Sterling's work has appeared in Aperture Magazine and Time Life's "This Fabulous Century." His photographs can also be found in the collections of MoMA, George Eastman House, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. In 2005 Sterling's monograph Age of Adolescence (Greybull Press - essay by David Travis) was released.

Paris-Photo #5 : Trine Sondergaard

 GULDNAKKE , 2012 

archival pigment print ; edition 3: 150 x 150 cm. ; edition 5: 110 x 110 cm / 60 x 60 cm

À la galerie Martin Asbaek Gallery, la photographe Trine Sondergaard

Re Génial, on peut voir un travail commun
de Trine Søndergaard avec Nicolai Howalt
How to Hunt , 

La Maison du Danemark, 
Paris, France
30.10.12 - 09.12.12

mardi-vendredi 13h-19h
samedi, dimanche et jours fériés 13h-18h
entrée libre

 

Trine Søndergaard (b. 1972) is a photography based visual artist, born and based in Denmark. She graduated from Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography in 1996. Her works range from documentary and diary sketches to conceptual photography. In recent years she has focused primarily on the landscape and portrait.

In 2000 she received the Albert Renger Patzsch Award and has since received numerous grants and fellowships, including a three-year working grant from The Danish Arts Foundation. Trine Søndergaard’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, and is represented in major public and private collections including MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; The Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and The Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark.In addition, she has completed public commissions for both museums and cultural institutions. Her first monograph, Now That You Are Mine, was published by Steidl in 2002. In 2009 Monochrome Portraits was published by Hatje Cantz.
Trine Søndergaard has also exhibited and published extensively with the Danish artist Nicolai Howalt. Their collaborations include the series How to Hunt published by ArtPeople in 2005, and TreeZone published by Hassla Books in 2009.

Trine Søndergaard is represented by Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, and Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York

Paris-Photo #4 : Hendrik Kerstens

Hairnet, June 2000
60 x 50 inch pigment print
Edition of 6

 Aluminium, March 2012
60 x 50 inch pigment print
Edition of 5

À la galerie new-yorkaise Danziger Gallery (celle de Scott S.), il y a ce photographe  Hendrik Kerstens.
Les noirs sont magnifiques, profonds et denses ; et la lumière sur le visage est lumineuse. Le photographe s'amuse entre le portrait classique -style école hollandaise- et les détails des coiffes qui sont complétement incongrus et contemporains (de l'alu, un filet, du plastique...). Le ressentit est magnifique.
Voir son site, il y a d'autres portraits.

Du coup, sous la coupole de Grand Palais, d'autres galeries présentaient aussi des portraits de ce genre.Grand format, noir et lumière, coiffe, nuque, regard de 3/4...
  
 

Paris-Photo #3

Alice, 2008

carbon, pigment print on rice paper
139,5 X 91 cm, edition of 3

À la galerie Frank Elbaz, ce photographe Ari Marcopoulos

Ari Marcopoulos (born 1957) is an Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker, living and working in New York and California. As a photographer, film artist and adventurist, Marcopoulos, who began his career in New York City assisting Andy Warhol, transplants himself into the intimate lives of people living on the edge. Artists, snowboarders, musicians and skateboarders have been both muses and commercial subject-matter throughout his quarter century career as a photographer. His stunning landscapes and playful portraiture offer a dramatic take on every day life, and a glimpse into all things awesome. The Berkeley Art Museum presented Marcopoulos’s first mid-career survey in the United States in 2010.

^{source wikipédia}

^{Une interview du photographe en anglais, ici}

 

chanson du jour : Jolene de Dolly Parton

une superbe version par The White Stripes,
mais impossible de prendre le lien intégrateur

et là, j'ai trouvé les paroles.
Hiaaa, les cows girls, à nous le play bac !!


Jolene lyrics
by Dolly Parton

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you, please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can.

Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin
And eyes of emerald green

Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain
I cannot compete with you, Jolene

he talks about you in his sleep
And there is nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name, Jolene

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can

Well I can easily understand
How you can easily take my man
But you don't know what he means to me, Jolene

Well you could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
He's the only one for me, Jolene

And I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
And whatever you decide to do, Jolene

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can