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MA – teaser pour Ariane Moffatt

Simon-Pierre Gingras — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:04:26 +0000

Hello people!

De notre projet de travail en image avec Mlle Moffatt, le teaser est sorti depuis la semaine dernière et ça circule ici puis en france! Ariane court vite dans le noir!!!

Cliquer ici pour voir la vidéo.

Vidéo : SPG LePigeon
Stylisme : Melissa Matos / Trusst
Coiffure et maquillage : Andrew Lee / Trusst
Montage : Louis-Phillippe Charette

chanson: Hôtel Amour

Sterling Ruby

Simon-Pierre Gingras — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:40 +0000

A primary tension between repression and expression runs throughout L.A.-based Sterling Ruby’s multifaceted practice, at least as a jumping-off point. If for Ruby repression results from dogma—specifically the rigid tenets of Modernist art—then his work in turn expresses a thoughtful, pointed attempt to expose and counter any whiff of either. Minimalism has been a particular target (a much-cited print by Ruby declares “Kill Minimalism/Long Live the Amorphous Law”), and he mobilizes an inclusive, brash and often confrontational esthetic in heralding his charge.

-Art in America

ten songs that saved your life

Simon-Pierre Gingras — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:06 +0000

Don’t forget the songs
That made you cry
And the songs that saved your life

The Smith ” Rubber ring ”

Ten songs that saved your life is a very simple yet interesting website on which they ask artists, musicians and designers about the ten songs that saved their lives. Plus it is possible to listen to the people’s songs on official fm.

Lara Gasparotto

Simon-Pierre Gingras — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:23 +0000

Lara Gasparotto is a young belgian photographer. She shown her work at the exhibition “Borders/NoBorders : Historical and contemporary photography of Belgium” at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin, she also been selected for the Selections: Prix Voix Off 2011. She is represented by the Stieglitz 19 Gallery in Antwerp.

Keegan Mchargue

Simon-Pierre Gingras — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:57 +0000

Keegan Mchargue fascination with the subconscious forces the viewer to engage with is work in a way that we have to confront Mchargue’s twisted subconscious itself. We, as viewers, need to work at rearranging all these associations, multiple forms, shapes and colors as well as a weird kind of ordered randomness. The result is a charming blend of everyday objects and almost recognizable silhouettes that all seem to symphonize in a strange world.

Double

Simon-Pierre Gingras — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:00:03 +0000

Here is how double describe themselves;

Biannual / Semestriel

Fashion / Mode

Culture / Culture

Photography / Photographie

Real / Réel

Not real / Pas Réel

Conversation / Entretien

English / Français

Abc

Takashi Yasumura

Simon-Pierre Gingras — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:17 +0000

The photographs in Yasumura’s series, Domestic Scandals, were taken in his parents’ middle- class home in Japan over the course of seven years. Using a four-by-five-inch camera, the artist focuses on objects as found in the home’s interior, where traditional Japanese decorations and objects have been replaced by or are juxtaposed with modern, plastic and mass-produced goods. The color-saturated photographs of everyday items and backgrounds are void of the sentimentality thought to exist within the domestic realm.

Source: Yossi Milo Gallery

Louise Bourgeois

Simon-Pierre Gingras — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:00:57 +0000

Louise Bourgeois is in my personal opinion the most important women artist to have ever lived. Although she is mostly known for her spider sculptures, notably the one just outside our National Gallery in Ottawa, her body of work is gigantic and very diverse, always touching and hauntingly beautiful.

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She studied art at various schools there, including the Ecole du Louvre, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Académie Julian, and Atelier Fernand Léger. In 1938, she immigrated to the United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York. Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s she had turned her attention to sculptural work, for which she is now recognized as a twentieth-century leader. Greatly influenced by the influx of European Surrealist artists who immigrated to the United States after World War II, Bourgeois’s early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood. By the 1960s, she began to execute her work in rubber, bronze, and stone, and the pieces themselves became larger and more referential to what has become the dominant theme of her work: her childhood. She has famously stated, “My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.” Deeply symbolic, her work uses her relationship with her parents and the role sexuality played in her early family life as a vocabulary in which to understand and remake that history. The anthropomorphic shapes her pieces take—the female and male bodies are continually referenced and remade—are charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two. Bourgeois’s work is in the collections of most major museums around the world. She lived in New York, where she passed away in May 2010.

Source; PBS Art21. Please visit the Art21 website to watch her talk about her work.

Hassla

Simon-Pierre Gingras — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:00:12 +0000

So we are starting the new year by sharing our infinite love for books with an independent publishing company focusing obviously on photography but also on other forms of visual arts. Hassla was founded in 2007 in New Hampshire by David Schoerner and they are now operating from New York City. They are specializing in producing small editions of artist books and they focus on an intimate relation between publisher and artist to create an object that reflects the artist vision and essence. I find very interesting the fact that their catalogue offers a great mix of emerging and establish artist.

For those interested in independent publishing companies you can have a look at some previous post about MACK, Mörel, Nieves, Gottlung Verlag, and Je Suis Une Bande De Jeunes.

Pigeon a un oeil sur toi – 09

lepigeon — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:10:48 +0000

Foto : LePigeon
mua : Audray Adam
model : Fanny (scoop)