Opening:
the 19th of July until the 11th September 2010

Address:
Hay Hill Gallery: 5a Cork Street, London W1S 3NY
Tel: +44 (0)20 7439 1001, Tel/Fax: +44 (0)20 7439 2299
Fax: +44 (0)87 0056 8948, +44 (0)87 0051 8410

About the exhibition:
Big Scenes combines photography, video and performance, bringing together larger than life characters and stories to play out a world of fantasy, grandeur and drama. Big Scenes is a dreamlike, decadent world reminiscent of Surrealism and the visual and performing arts of the glamorous golden age of the 1920s and 30s. Sanges’ double award-winning short film Circumstances (Best Art Film – Portobello Film Festival, London 2008 and Best Experimental Art Video, Open Cinema, St Petersburg, Russia, 2009) will be screened in the lower ground floor gallery. A series of photographs from the accompanying book Circumstances will be shown alongside the film for the very first time.

About the photographer:
Marco Sanges was born in Rome in 1970. He started work in a photographic studio near Rome. Fascinated by fashion, he became a photographer for Vogue Italia before moving to London, where he now lives. An imaginative and innovative photographer, he has exhibited worldwide. His clients include Vogue, The Sunday Telegraph, Trace, Elle, Creative Review and Dolce&Gabbana. His previous solo exhibitions include: Big Scenes, Hackney Empire, London (2010); Beyond Decadence, Arts Centre, Windsor (2010); Savile Row, B-Store, London (2006); Purity, Cobden Club, London (2004). Group exhibitions include: Take Home a Nude, Academy of Arts, New York (2009); British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London (2008 and 2009); London Art Fair, Business Design Centre (2009); Art London, Royal Hospital, Chelsea (2008); and 20th Anniversary, Jonathan Cooper, London (2008). Awards include Best Art Film at the Portobello Film Festival 2008 and Open Cinema Film Festival 2009 (St. Petersburg, Russia) for the short Circumstances. His books include: Circumstances, Venus, Animal, and Erotic Photography.

Yours Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition FLIGHTS 91_08 by Wojtek Wieteska. The opening night will be on 10th June and the show will run from 11th June until 31st August 2010.

FLIGHTS 91_08 is a continuation of the artist’s ongoing project from 1991 until 2008. During several extended stays in Japan, he devoted his work exclusively to this project. It is a story about the human condition at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first century in a very modern reality of Japanese megalopolis.

In Japan, the essence of human dignity is inextricably linked with the cult of tradition. Tradition, understood not only as a ritual, but also a set of standards and orders, is for the contemporary Japanese man voluntarily worn armor to protect his identity and sense of individuality in the XXI century Japanese society.
Noticeable at every turn, the past and the future create a very distinct dichotomy in which one man there is like two people.
So while shooting, I’ve arranged reality and I tried to capture the existing tension between these two worlds. Therefore, I deliberately chose a crowd of a million single figures and the surrounding scenery – fragments. (“Tokyo”, 2000, Wojtek Wieteska)

Of his method of work Wieteska says: The ease of shooting in Japan is apparent. Elements of otherness and alienation are making the distance, which was inspirational for me, and this is where I appointed my point of view.

Portfolio

The exhibition is accompanied by the release of limited edition, archival-quality series portfolio, which contains five different sets of 98 black and white and color photography, in the format 42 x 60 cm. Mounted portfolios are numbered and signed by the author, contain from 16 to 30 photos.

Wojtek Wieteska (1964) lives and works in Warsaw and Berlin. He studied Art History at the Warsaw University and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He graduated from the National School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz. His photographs stand on the border of the individual style of the document, which is characterized by conceptual and sophisticated approach to reality. Travels around the world are the inspiration for implementation in the following series: “36 x Paris”, “Reality,” “Far West”, “Tokyo”, “NYC # 02 “. Wojtek is also the author of the projects “Stacja Warszawa” and “Wide Circle”. He exhibited his works in the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, in the Centre for Art and Technology Manggha in Krakow, in Photoplasticon in Warsaw.

cute{tastrophe} is a New York City based Graphic Designer, Illustrator, and Painter. She received her BA from The School of Visual Arts for Graphic Design in 2007. Having spent most of the past 7 years working in-front of screens, she turns to painting and illustrating to revisit her love of the tactile process. Her characters reside in colorful, dream-like settings while reflecting themes grounded in reality. Life, according to cute{tastrophe}, is a series of fantastically-grim dualities (light/dark, knowledge/ignorance, etc) that make up one’s total experience.

The Fearless Project

The Fearless Project is an art and cultural initiative bringing together artists, outsiders, thinkers, musicians, designers, writers, creatives: anyone who has ever had the urge to do something outside of their comfort zone. The project encourages and celebrates the bold, the creative, the daring – the fearless in every one of us.

As an emerging force in the downtown fashion and art communities, Justin Violini curates atmospheres that explore our own individual boundaries. Justin’s consistent interest in bridging the art and fashion communities are fused with his own references such as Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, Warhol, Jenny Livingston’s ‘Paris Is Burning’.

“Andy Warhol said ‘Art is what you can get away with’. Redefining the context of art is definitely a part of this process. But really, pushing personal limits play a far larger role in the Fearless Project,” says Mr. Violini.

The inaugural exhibition is titled ‘Instant’ and like its name, it is here and gone in an instant: a one night only event. The installation features a film component and a Polaroid display featuring over 75 individual male facial expressions at orgasm. The curator not only explores the relationship between you and the subject but also the authenticity of the moment.

Initial presentation of the work requires altering the gallery space itself. ‘Instant’ will integrate street art elements from neighborhoods known for their creative influences including downtown NYC and E. Berlin. This includes Xerox, stickers and graffiti.

Artist Jan Wandrag and Adam Baran will also be presenting an exclusive preview of their project

The event will take place in Thursday, June 17th from 6:30 – 9 at the Robert Goff Gallery. This includes viewing of the installation and a variety of programming curated exclusively for the evening.

Contributing artists of note confirmed at the time of release for Instant include photographer John Arsenault, Gio Black Peter, David M. Buisán and Stuart Sandford. The range of participants features emerging, established, uptown and downtown personalities from around the world.

Don’t be afraid.

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents an exhibition exploring the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) in its Octagonal Gallery. This is the first North American museum exhibition devoted to Xenakis’s paper-based works. The exhibition, which opened on 14 January 2010 at The Drawing Center in New York, travels to Montréal, where it will be on display between 17 June and 17 October 2010, before being presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) from 7 November 2010 to 30 January 2011. During its showing in Montréal, the exhibition serves as a touchstone for musical performances at the CCA by Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Sixtrum, and Ensemble Transmission, as well as the screening of films touching on Xenakis’s life and work in addition to public programming throughout the city.

Xenakis was one of the most influential avant-garde composers of the late twentieth century. He earned international acclaim thanks to his interdisciplinary works and fascinating personal and professional life, having also worked with Le Corbusier on architectural projects. Among his many creations, Montréal audiences are likely to be most familiar with the Polytope de Montréal, the 2 spectacular sound and light show Xenakis designed for the central space of the French pavilion at Expo 67.

Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores several of the artist’s musical and architectural innovations that first appeared on paper, in the form of hundreds of captivating graphical documents that reveal Xenakis’s profound sensitivity, unique aesthetic, and ability to translate image into sound with exceptional acuity. Influenced by new advanced mathematical concepts exploring the notions of contingency and relativism, he employed probability distributions and stochastic methods to create masses of sound, linear permutations, and sonic pointillism. In conceptualising his meticulously drawn works, he made use of coloured pencils; his training and natural talent in drawing allowed him to compose complete pieces of music through this process of “thinking through the hand.”

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Featuring more than sixty seldom-seen documents, dating from 1953 to 1984, this retrospective celebrates the architect, engineer and composer by presenting handwritten and computer-generated musical scores, architectural blueprints, precomposition renderings, notebooks, and archival photographs sourced mainly from the Archives Xenakis at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, and from the personal archives of his widow, the French novelist Françoise Xenakis, who lived with Iannis for more than fifty years. The exhibition also includes conceptual
drawings and renderings by Xenakis for his multimedia “Polytopes.” These sitespecific installations are advanced explorations of the spatial intersections between light, colour, sound, and architecture. Individualised encounters with Xenakis’s unique musical scores will be made possible through listening stations and portable iPods. The complex graphic sketches for Pithoprakta (1955-1956) will be projected during the playback of the delicately yet primitively textured music. The exhibition will also feature a listening station for Mycenae Alpha, with a projection of the graphic score Xenakis created using the composer’s UPIC interface (Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu*). The machine symbolises the composer’s lifelong fascination with innovation and his ongoing speculation on the transformations brought to late twentieth-century life by technological advances.

(Thanks to the CCA press office for providing the text and the images)

Gio Black Peter: EYES ON THE PRIZE
Paintings, Drawings & Sculptures

My friend Gio Black has got a new exibition / performance at S.E Kalfarveien Gallery in Bergen (Norway)
That started today until the 27 June.

More info at:
Gallery S.E Kalfarveien 76, 5018 Bergen, Norway,
+47 55 31 57 55

Here some images of the exibition!

Zara
The T-shirts feature a background powerful colours such as green, red or yellow and also neutral tones such as white, black or grey, in contrast with the colourful graphics, not to be missed is the self-portrait of Keith Haring himself at one of models an homage to his works and figure.

Illustrations by Matteo Menotto

Mi laureo in architettura allo IUAV di Venezia e specializzo al Politecnico di Milano. Nel mentre seguo corsi di illustrazione e design presso il Central Saint Martin’s College of Art&Design di Londra.

Alla collaborazione con studi di architettura alterno attività free-lance nell’illustrazione e nel disegno di moda lavorando anche alla progettazione e customizzazione di capi d’abbigliamento. Dal 2007 collaboro con IED ModaLab di Milano come docente di “Personal Design” e con il Politecnico come cultore della materia.