Pipilotti Rist makes me smile, again

I am so happy I had a second visit to Pipilotti Rist exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. I saw more things that I didn't see the first time like this hole in the wall where you can see this lovely video-sculpture made of underware from her family members.
There were more surprises and effects that I have not noticed. She remind me of my childhood years and made me conscious of how I play sometimes with light, shadow and my hands in the mornings when I don't want to stand up from bed.
Until 8th of January 2012.

Haroon Mirza makes music

Nice art afternoon with Michiel Morel and Marion de Bruin at Camden Arts Centre. I took this photo at Haroon Mirza's exhibition briefly before we were prohibited to take photos as it is in most art galleries and museums in London.

Gustav Metzger talking at Cubitt

The artist Gustav Metzger (born 1926) could have not agreed better with TJ Demos at Cubitt Gallery London last week. Interesting discussion on Project Stockholm, energy, ecology and religion. 

When an artist have always known what he wants, that in huge contrast with his fragile appearance.

Mexico meets Berlin

Iván Abreu

Marisa Polin

Heriberto Quesnel

Mexiko trifft Berlin
A group exhibition of five Mexican artists at EMERSON Gallery in Berlin: 

Iván Abreu, Vanessa Farfán, Lucero Hernández, Marisa Polin, Heriberto Quesnel.

Opening:  22.07.11   7pm
Exhibition:  23.07.2011 - 04. 09.2011
Tuesday -Friday  2 -7 pm.

-Iván Abreu (La Habana Cuba 1967). Video, drawings, performance.
Iván Abreu's work articulates art, design and technology by using multiple media such as electronic devices, software development, sound experimentation, Internet, industrial design, documents, video and photography. For Abreu the use of technology as an artistic strategy allows the coupling of situations that were not designed to operate together to create singular effects. Technology activates these unions in art that in referencing social and political, transforms relations from cause and effect to cause and consequence.
-Vanessa Farfán (Mexico City 1977). Painting, installation.
Using different media as paint, threats, fabric and objects, her works show the result of situations created by intention or by accident. Structured spaces are transgressed by the movement of the elements which live in there. For Farfán, the relation space+time=movement is an important formula in her work.
-Lucero Hernández (Jalisco, México 1980). Installation, performance.
The women's murders in Ciudad Juárez, the role of the women in the Mexican society and the cultural shock are the topics of Lucero's work. In her performances, Hernández takes part of the Mexican everyday life and she places it out of context,making the meaning of this "Mexican situations" stronger.
-Marisa Polin (Mexico City 1965). Painting.
Images from newspapers and publications are reinterpreted in paintings. The work of Polin makes a synthesis of the weak and strong points of contemporary Mexico, always with a critical point of view.
-Heriberto Quesnel (Mexico City 1971). Painting, collage.
Critic of the social behavior through the cultures , Heriberto uses humor to point out the terrifying situations
of the political and social structures nowadays. He uses commercial, social, cultural or political icons to play around the context and the meaning of them.

EMERSON Gallery 
Gartenstr. 1, 10115 Berlin / (030) 24 04 72 95 /
info@emersongallery.de  / http://www.emerson-gallery.de/
Tue-Fr   2 - 7 pm

 

Do you want to see my working studio? Trendbeheer.

More than a compliment

I find somekind of hommage from Andrew Salgado to Jenny Saville at the Saatchi website.

Jenny Saville UK, (first three paintings) Andrew Salgado Canada (last two paintings) - UK,  for those who want and can't pay a Saville's painting.

Jenny Saville 3x

Andrew Salgado 2x

99%

Ripo

Jeroen Bosch, The Netherlands

Polink introduces Bolink

Merijn Bolink, Sculpture, Nederland.
Merijn Bolink has won the art prize Straatkunstprijs 2011.
More.

Alberto Lizalde

Alberto Lizalde, Spain

Giant Needlework

The impressive work Look at you 05 by Sara Vrugt in the The Hague Municipality Building. A work realized at Hier with the participation of many: 3000 hours by 250 people.

Artists ex-change and curate

Jonathan den Breejen explaining the non-rules game of the Fitax500 at Nest in The Hague.

The boys

And mostly the girls

One of the (D) collectors frustrated of not being allowed to buy.

  Jeroen Kuster

Marisa Polin meets Niels Post without being able to interpret it, but leading to an ex-change.

The laughing artist trio. Apparently good friends.
Aquil Copier, , Michiel Schepers, Michiel Hogenboom

Nest hard kern hosting.

Never missing a good art evening.

Host and participant Bérénice Staiger(r) with Rozemarijn Westerink.

Nearly in my hands, by Barbara Witteveen

Kees Koomen, Ellemieke Schoenmaker and Barbara Witteveen


More: Kees Koomen, Tupajumi, Trendbeheer

Gravity doughnuts

Kinke Kooi, Gravity 2010

Marisa Polin, Fruit Bowl 2009

Japan-stalgie in The Hague

'NEKO JITA' !2 artists inpired by Japan.  Saturday 18 June, 7pm: opening 'Neko Jita' works by Seekee Chung, Karin van Dam, Sybille Eimermacher, Robin de Goede, Daan van Golden, Erik-Jan Ligtvoet, Huub van der Loo, Nico Kos, Rens Krikhaar, Stefanie Scholte, Martine Stig, Wassink Lundgren. Curators: Erik-Jan Ligtvoet and Rens Krikhaar.   Quartair, Bilderdijkstraat 141, The Hague from 18 June t/m 9 July th-sat 13:00 uur tot 17:00 hours. Design: Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk

Tattoo drawing on old photographs

Julie Cockburn UK vs. Dr Lakra Mexico
The first work is bij Julie Cockburn and the last 3 by Dr. Lakra.
Both artists use old 'actresses' photographs as background to 'draw' tattoos on them.

Invitation to My Open Studio

I hope you can come to my open studio, a kind of good bye to things as they are now.

The last works from the serie Guilty and some of the last portraits will be there either hanging or stapled for you to look at them. Also you could see some of the recent mini sculptures.

The garden will be open too.

On that day 44 other art studios in Benoordenhout will be open (maps available).

See you Sunday 5th of June between 11am and 5 pm at Jozef Israelslaan 36b, Benoordenhout in The Hague. www.marisapolin.com

Orozco at the Tate

My only photo of the exhibition.

This is the photo I have of Gabriel Orozo's exhibition at the Tate Modern. It is not allowed to take photographs at the museum. It is always frustrating not been able to take some pics home. 
The work that impressed me the most is the one with the intriguing obituaries taken from the newspaper. The exhibition has a few more weeks to go.

Ambition

Ambition. (Monica Pretelini, the candidate's wife). 2011©Marisa Polin 

My last painting, based on Mexico State's governor Enrique Peña Nieto's wife who died 4 years ago.

Fools

Christopher Wool

Fabian Ugalde