The Techno Anthology

lemagicalgirl:

”Spoke Art is San Francisco’s newest art gallery and publishing house. Following a year of pop up exhibits in New York City, San Francisco and Oakland, we have finally settled down into our new permanent space on Sutter Street in San Francisco’s dynamic Lower Nob Hill neighborhood. We specialize in emerging new contemporary artists with a firm emphasis on figurative and illustrative works. Our regular exhibits open the first Thursday of every month, and we specialize in connecting collectors with secondary market works namely in the fields of pop surrealism, low brow and street art. Please visit us at 816 Sutter Street (at Jones) or send us an email at spokeartgallery@gmail.com”

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lemagicalgirl:

”Ahae’s studio looks out onto a dramatic landscape populated with wild  life and birds. The ‘window’ is nothing more than just a normal window on the west-facing side of his studio building some way behind which is an ordinary suburban terrain of roads, cars and houses. In the last two years the artist has taken more than an estimated one million shots through this simple window, all of which record countless episodes with woodland creatures and bird life, and the subtle changes of light, colour, form and movement across the days, months and seasons from this single vantage point. Some are dramatic, some almost intangible; some are comic and some tragic.”

What is the aim?

”For AHAE is well able to travel the world to any exotic site of his choosing. he has claimed two dynamics inform his works. The first: as an artist, he wishes to demonstrate a successful ‘usage’ of natural light - the sun and the moon - and how it might reveal moments that can never be repeated using skill, patience, and the artist’s ‘eye’. The second is to educate the public to be aware of their immediate surroundings. he has cultivated (that is: protected and let nature run free) his land for over a decade. As a result, over 20% of Korea’s bird life visit and many wild animals inhabit the terrain. AHAE declares that if one man can do this, how much change and improvement could be achieved by many? And he has extended this philosophy in a practical way, supporting, through generous contributions, various charities helping underpriviledged children around the world and fighting for the sustainability of endangered animal species.”

lemagicalgirl:

Richard Simpkin - richard and famous

Open Eye Gallery is one of my favourite places to visit as interesting exhibitions are often displayed there. They used to be on Wood street but has now moved down to the new building close to Albert Dock. 

This month, they are featuring ‘celebrities’, not actual celebrities but artists expressing their concept through the visual language that celebrities images gives. 

Richard Simpkin set himself a lifelong project since 1989 to present of taking any chances to take pictures with the most well-known people in the world. There is a long timeline with designated pictures that he took with celebrities he encountered in certain years. He has sofar met 414 well known people and has photos taken with them. it is said that this project documents the journey of his teen to adulthood, in addition to the almost impossible achievement that is to get access to celebrities and have pictures taken with them nowadays, it has been a big success to him. It also says that ”the project shows them almost to be puppets in his own game of charades” (by Martin Parr) which linked me to be thinking: seeing a row and another row of pictures of him taken with celebrities people may think about who the guy next to the artist is prior to the actual artist’s purposes, and if you look at the timeline as an overall image, it shows that the famous person in the picture are not the celebrities but the artist himself.

I read the interview and information about the details of the project, and what I most remember him saying was that he doesn’t consider today’s so-called celebrities to be real celebrities but rather people with fame who will be dissolved in the near future, he calls them plastic celebrities. Real celebrities are, to him, people such as 

Katherine Hepburn (American Actress)

Elizabeth Taylor (British American Actress)
 

and some others. However I have realised that he doesn’t really follow the trend and fashion of celebrities like other crazy fans do. Sometimes he doesn’t even know how they look like until somebody tells him or after he does research, or after seeing a few times. Some revieweres considerer his piece of artwork as:

”The work could be said to be self-absorbing, egotistical and a little disturbing, after all, there’s a case for him being a serial stalker. And to put on an exhibition (and book) with hundreds of photographs of yourself surely feeds your ego!”

Here are some of the pictures from his project:

lemagicalgirl:

I went to Bluecoat today and realised they have changed the exhibitions again, this time they feature quite a lot of artists at the same time and some of them were really interesting. There is an artist’s work that most amazed me her name is Abigail Reynolds.

Her work consists of collages, books and simple materials that allow her to reconstruct already existed images and combine them into one image. I am not sure how to explain but it is better to see it in real in the gallery in that case you will understand, I can’t find her works in her website neither google either… But her reconstructed images is like a rock that has its other pieces stuck back to its own forming into a whole new original body?…not sure what I mean.. but her work is awesome!