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Exposition — Galerie Air de Paris — 14 septembre → 31 octobre 2013

L’exposition Paginations & Machinations présente des œuvres dont la forme précède tout juste celle du livre. A l’instar du destin de ces pages, appelées à être réunies, elles font état d’une rencontre éventuellement dans l’espace même de Air de Paris, quand le visiteur n’est pas appelé à réaliser lui-même cette rencontre dans la galerie.

Hana | 4:21pm - 6:46pm | Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Charcoal on paper
70 x 100cm

Exposition — Centre culturel canadien — 26 septembre 2013 → 17 janvier 2014

Regard rétrospectif sur le travail photographique réalisé par Stan Douglas dans la dernière décennie du 20e siècle, Abandon et splendeur expose les ruines de quelques grandes utopies occidentales en leur paradoxale beauté.

Joan Cornellà’s comic designs are clean and simple but pack a raunchy and provocative punch. His illustrations are light-hearted yet darkly humorous, relying more strongly on visual clues and gags as opposed to textual elements to indicate a simple narrative. Out of a simple bright color palette, Cornellà creates strange and uncomfortable images that can be weirdly funny and a bit gruesome. You can follow him on Facebook, where he updates frequently and has already amassed over 300,000 fans. Cornellà currently lives in Barcelona.

The Palais de Tokyo are labelling it anthropomorphic architecture and I’m finding it takes me straight back to the first time I watched Jumanji, except with more economic significance and jaw-dropping awe than Robin Williams ever provided the first time round. Either way, Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira’s new installation Baitogogo, as art of the Palais de Tokyo’s New Waves exhibition, has been kicking up quite a fuss.

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On-Off (Katowice, Poland)

On-Off (Katowice, Poland)

Wikileaks (Valencia, Spain)

Ne travaillez jamais (Besancon, France)

Gentrification (Valencia, Spain)

HELP (Praghe / Czech Republic)

El rescate del euro (Niort, France)

The Enlightened Vandalism (Vila-real, Spain)

Lock (Montreal, Canada)

Spanish muralist and street artist Escif hails from Valencia, Spain but is actively globally with recent works popping up throughout Canada, Italy, and France. His use of subdued colors and simple lines helps the artist communicate his humorous and often direct commentary on capitalism, politics, the economy and other sensitive social issues. His work is much more about the message than style. In an interview with Unurth the artist shares:

Although sometimes is not easy to separate, I try to focus my work around concepts, not just shapes. I try to found my style like the consequences of my own ideas. I understand the painting as an exercise of reflection that can be shared with people. I’m not looking for decorative paintings, I try to wake up viewers minds.

Above is just a tiny fraction of Escif’s work over the last two years or so. You can see much more on his blog Street Against, on Facebook, or over on Flickr. (via arrested motion)

Stuck on repeat at the office, the brand new compilation by Creaminal agency, La Crème Volume 1. Compiled by some music lovers (Creaminal has been advising film directors and creatives on their musical choices for 10 years now) La Crème #1 contains twelve tracks or we should rather say twelve “gems” all featured on a beautiful vinyl which has been designed by the talented Leslie David. With Toronto-based Phèdre, Visuals or Kirk Spencer this first volume is the perfect soundtrack for this – hot – summer. 

the nearly 5-meter high, bright blue bird soars amongst the surrounding historical architecture of london's trafalgar square.

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a dizzying circuit of organic material is integrated into the architecture of the palais de tokyo.

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Photos by Ester Grass Vergara. More below!

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hot tub cinema combines relaxing hot tubs, classic films and trendy spaces across east london.

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the digestion of a pigmented fluid allows houseflies to collaborate in abstract artistry.

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Nicolai Howalt’s ‘Car Crash Studies’ are vivid, intense and somewhat disturbing. This work is a thought provoking photographic study of cars, which have been involved in serious and potentially fatal accidents. With this series, Nicolai Howalt moves between documentation and abstraction. Confronting the viewer with the human fear of trauma and death, he leaves us with a duality of feelings we experience when becoming witnesses of accidents or catastrophes from a distance. Many images seem more like landscapes, with their highly enlarged details of dents, cracks and scratched metal. ‘These ‘color plains’ become the ultimate instance of beauty created from suffering, pain and destruction.’

All images © Nicolai Howalt

Spencer Tunick designs and installs nude human bodies into landscapes and photographs or films them. The blending of the color and texture of human skin with industrial or natural landscapes is stark and effective; the bodies themselves become their own landscape. Tunick has traveled the world staging photographs and videos of these large nude installations, and uses anywhere from a handful of voluntary participants to tens of thousands of them. The end result is a beautiful combination of art forms, including design, sculpture, performance, photography, and video. According to his website, Tunick has been arrested 5 times since 1992 while performing in New York City, and has gone to court to defend his First Amendment rights, which he won, but was still denied a permit from the city to practice his art. As a result, he creates his work abroad and has not performed in New York City in over 10 years.

Back when I was a kid I had a recipe book full of illustrations. It was a fantastic read, filled with fun pictures and great simple recipes. There must be something special about illustrated recipes as I still turn to that book today; always trying to measure out my ingredients just like the ones in the illustrations and dreaming of one day making perfect cartoon profiteroles. It’s perhaps because of this book that I often wonder why we rarely get to see illustrated recipes. Illustrators are so good at drawing food but we never really get to see them used in recipe books. Fortunately the Brighton-based illustrator Lucy Eldridge has a personal project where she’s painted some of her favorite recipes and they look delicious!

From scrambled eggs, watercress and smoked salmon; to oatmeal and raisin cookies as well as a fantastic looking carrot cake, Lucy’s illustrations are bound to get you racing to the kitchen. You can get a brief look at two of the recipes below but make sure to visit her site to see the recipes as big as possible. Bon appétit!