download : Rise Ashen : Deepworld 1.mp3
1. Intro - Frederic Galliano 
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
mp3 : Rise Ashen : Deepworld 1
Converse Canvas Experiment
The kids over at Converse have turned their sneaker brand into an art project with the launch of the Canvas Experiment. The Canvas Experiment was a 5m x 4m wall of 500 Chucks creatively placed to make a 400 kg interactive screen that can display words, patterns and images. Converse showcased their art creative with music, video games and motion sensors to create a creative shoes palette.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
49 Days
Zhang Huan, Pagoda, 2009 // Gray brick, steel, taxidermied pig // 244 (height) x 335 (diameter) inches (619.8 x 851 centimeters) // Photo credit: Samuel Kahn // Image courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
ZHANG HUAN / 49 Days // May 21 until July 9, 2011 // BLUM & POE // Los Angeles
Blum & Poe is pleased to present 49 Days, a monumental exhibition of new brick sculpture by Chinese-based artist Zhang Huan. This is Zhang Huan's first solo exhibition with Blum & Poe in LA.
Zhang has developed a vast body of work ranging from endurance-based body performance (while living in New York) to large-scale public commissions, painting and sculpting with incense ash and even reinterpreting Handel's classic opera Semele at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Belgium and the Poly Theater, Beijing.
Central to his exhibition at Blum & Poe will be Pagoda, 2009, an imposing brick sculpture originally displayed at the Shanghai Art Museum. The twenty-two foot tall bell shaped pagoda is comprised of salvaged brick collected from demolition sites surrounding Shanghai (centuries old buildings that have been bulldozed in place of modern architectural progress). Near the center of the structure is a carved window from which a taxidermied pig periodically emerges and from where clouds of incense ash are dramatically emitted into the gallery.
Pagoda serves partly as a tribute to Zhu Gangqiang, or the "Cast-Iron Pig", now famous for having survived 49 days in rubble, following China's historic 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Upon hearing its story of survival, Zhang negotiated the pig's purchase and has subsequently adopted him into his studio, employing a full-time caretaker and making his likeness a central part of his artistic practice. The number "49" (from which the show takes its title) is dually significant, both for its relationship to Zhu Gangqiang's story and for its connection to Buddhist thought, as the Buddhists believe 49 days is the amount of time ones soul remains on earth between death and reincarnation.
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Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011)
Gil Scott-Heron has made the transition to the next dimension. We will be posting some of our favorite pieces by Mr. Scott-Heron this weekend on our blog and on our on-demand mondomedeusah music stream on blip.fm as a tribute to the legend, Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011).
Vintage Boutique Lookbook Spring/Summer 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Étoile
The Black Book Collective Series by mondomedeusah creative. A collection of erotica photography and film by mondomedeusah creative (circa 2003 - 2010) open to the public Autumn 2011 in Montréal.
studio : mondomedeusah.ca
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Breach of Privacy
Breach of Privacy // Yasmine Chatila, Hilo Chen, Adam Krueger, Alyssa Monks +Jaclyn Santos // curated by Simmy Swinder // May 21 – June 11, 2011 // opening reception Saturday May 21, 2011 @ 18 h until 20 h // Carmichael Gallery // Culver City, CA
Breach of Privacy is a group exhibition featuring works by Yasmine Chatila, Hilo Chen, Adam Krueger, Alyssa Monks and Jaclyn Santos, five New York-based artists whose creative practices span a disparate range of media as it explores voyeurism in its shifting states of ecstasy, release and isolation. Via exhilarating photorealistic oils, hauntingly subtractive mixed media works and raw black and white photography, each artist fashions his or her own unique voyeuristic allegory, some oblique, others candid, but all bound by a bittersweet philosophical thread that delves far deeper than that which is externally revealed.
HILO CHEN // Bathroom 11 // 1977 // Watercolor on Paper // 26 x 38 (66.04 x 96.52 cm) // $22,000
HILO CHEN // Beach 163 // 2009 // Oil on Canvas // 36 x 48 inches (91.44 x 121.92 cm) // $35,200
ADAM KRUEGER // Original Premium // 2009 // Oil on Canvas Mounted to PVC Plastic, Cut out and arranged on black wall // 80 x 48 inches (203.2 x 121.92 cm) // $12,000
ADAM KRUEGER // My Mattress // 2007 // Oil on Canvas mounted to pvc plastic, spray paint, Cut out and arranged on wall // 25 x 72 inches (63.5 x 182.88cm) // $5,000
JACLYN SANTOS // Immersion // 2011 // Oil on Canvas // 30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm) // $9,000
