Vanitas

Kerry Skarbakka is a visual artist working in photography and video. He received his B.A. in Studio Art with an emphasis in Sculpture in 1994 from the University of Washington School of Art. In 2003 he completed his MFA in Photography from Columbia College in Chicago. Skarbakka’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and art fairs.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Fifty-One Fine Art Photography in Antwerp, Belgium and Lawrimore Project in Seattle. His work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virgina and the Warhol Museum. His work has been featured in many publications including Art and America, ArtReview International and the Summer 2005 edition of Aperture Magazine in which he was given the cover. He is represented by Fifty One Fine Art Photography (Antwerp, Belgium), Irvine Contemporary (Washington DC), and Lawrimore Project (Seattle, Washington).

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

http://www.skarbakka.com/index.htm

martedì 12 gennaio 2010

Liu Baojun

Liu Baojun is a modern Chinese painter whose work encountered in the Shanghai ‘SOHO’ of New York lore, the Moganshan District. The Moganshan District is set off from droll tiers of concrete apartment skyscrapers by the low scroll of a 6 foot graffiti wall. The District itself is a maze of warehouse galleries, nooked with tiny workspaces for the artists who display there.

Liu Baojun’s work was a clear standout from the din, both in subject matter and technique. While technical excellence in China is itself not unusual, nonconformity in subject matter and technical excellence was, most certainly.

Interestingly, the women that he paints are not of the diminutive, ladylike portraiture traditional in China. Rather, the women appear in Western, Eastern and no dress and are in various positions of repose, smoking (a taboo for women in China). This art is playful, beautiful and provocative in a thoughtful way. It has content that doesn’t dead end in rumination.
From the inside of (the)painting to the outside of (the) painting, there is nothing, no passage.

http://www.arcticoak.net/posts/skill-and-whimsy-in-modern-china/
http://www.galeriedumonde.com/artist/canvas/LiuBaojun/page1/

domenica 10 gennaio 2010

Henry Cartier Bresson a Genova

Oltre 40 fotografie di Henri Cartier-Bresson, scattate durante i suoi viaggi in Russia, sono esposte a Palazzo Ducale, nella Loggia degli Abati, dal 4 dicembre 2009 al 14 febbraio 2010.
La mostra “Henri Cartier-Bresson. Russia”, uno straordinario documento storico, presenta per la prima volta in Italia, a Genova, insieme ad alcuni degli scatti più famosi del fotografo francese, altre immagini meno note e difficili da incontrare.

Henri Cartier-Bresson è stato il primo fotografo occidentale autorizzato a fotografare in Unione Sovietica dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale.