Oren Ambarchi
David Simon (creator of 'The Wire') has certainly got it wrong concerning blogs and bloggers.
Why did Piglet go to the toilet?
Voice (Julie Tippetts, Maggie Nichols, Phil Minton, Brian Eley)
(Photo by TimN)
I really can't find the words to adequately describe this blog...
This comic, written by Mairead Case
, is now appearing in a promo zine made by Light in the Attic Records. It celebrates their re-release of Serge Gainsbourg's classic "Melody Nelson" album.)
Jenny Saville: With the transvestite I was searching for a body that was between genders. I had explored that idea a little in Matrix. The idea of floating gender that is not fixed. The transvestite I worked with has a natural penis and false silicone breasts. Thirty or forty years ago this body couldn’t have existed and I was looking for a kind of contemporary architecture of the body. I wanted to paint a visual passage through gender – a sort of gender landscape. To scale from the penis, across a stomach to the breasts, and finally the head. I tried to make the lips and eyes be very seductive and use directional mark-making to move your eye around the flesh.Simon Schama: So you really do manipulate what’s in front of you through the mark-making. It’s very striking – I’m looking at a photograph of your transvestite painting Passage and that passage that moves from the penis and balls to the belly is really about the anatomy of paint as it constructs the body.
Jenny Saville: I have to really work at the tension between getting the paint to have the sensory quality that I want and be constructive in terms of building the form of a stomach, for example, or creating the inner crevice of a thigh. The more I do it, the more the space between abstraction and figuration becomes interesting. I want a painting realism. I try to consider the pace of a painting, of active and quiet areas. Listening to music helps a lot, especially music where there’s a hard sound and then soft breathable passages. In my earlier work my marks were less varied. I think of each mark or area as having the possibility of carrying a sensation. (Extract from ‘Interview with Jenny Saville by Simon Schama)
Saatchi Gallery here.
Superb site with lots of images here.
Glynn Griffiths, 'Jenny Saville in front of Plan', The Independent, Tuesday March 1, 1994
Christian Bale in 'The Machinist'.
The press release bill and the original poster (above) for the Coum Transmission's show 'Prostitution' at the ICA in 1976.
A great poster for what was a great gig back in '04!
