28.3.11

Araki Now!

Araki is probably best known for his photos documenting the Japanese sex industry, focusing on the Kabukicho district of Shinjuku in Tokyo in the 1980s. These were later published in "Tokyo Lucky Hole."


 
From the Series PaINting, 2010, Zurich


 
From the Series PaINting, 2010, Zurich


From the Series PaINting, 2010, Zurich


-For his exhibition in Zurich, Araki has produced small-scale silver gelatin prints, partially overpainted in India ink. Such a time-consuming and costly procedure seems quite anachronistic in this digital age of image production. But it is through such compositional constellations that he repeatedly succeeds in lending his photos an inexplicable allure.-




-Araki is arguably Japan’s greatest living photographer, and certainly its most controversial. His inexhaustible creative energy is attested to by the more than 300 books he has published in the last four decades, while his work, which often challenges social taboos surrounding sex and death, has drawn critical attention both at home and abroad.-



 
(ARAKI)


"I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection."
(ARAKI) 


“I can shackle the body of a woman, but not her mind. The bonds become an embrace.” 
(ARAKI) 



bob van orsouw

 

 

Nobuyoshi Araki on artnet

 


27.3.11

Photo Pop Art?

Beanstalk: Art Exhibition & Discussions 
"KeberAGAMAn"


 
Religiology #1
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan


 
Religiology #2
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan


 
Religiology #3
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan



Agama, Simbol, Sunyi

Donny Danardono*]

Beanstalk menampilkan foto pop-art, lukisan dan instalasi untuk mendorong orang kembali ke simbol-simbol toleransi beragama yang populer di Indonesia. Tapi, ini yang menarik, bukankah dengan demikian, pada dirinya sendiri, agama tidak selalu merupakan simbol sekaligus jalan ke yang-suci dan perdamaian?

Tapi manusia tak sabar, tak bisa membiarkan yang-maha-lain, yang-tak-terpadankan, yang-tak-terbahasakan, atau yang-suci itu dalam sunyi. Manusia berusaha membahasakannya, memberinya sosok dan meringkusnya dengan membangunkan doktrin-doktrinnya, tempat-tempat ibadah yang megah, dan merayakan hari-harinya.

Manusia telah dan terus menstrukturkan yang-suci atau sunyi itu. Padahal struktur adalah arsitektur kuasa atau siasat. Strukur tak hanya menyederhanakan yang-suci dan sunyi dalam sebuah konsep, tapi juga menandai dan membedakan bermacam bentuknya. Itulah asal dan dasar segala kekerasan atas nama agama.

Sekarang saya bisa menghapuskan kedua “koma” pada judul tulisan ini, sehingga ia terbaca sebagai “Agama Simbol Sunyi”. Agama adalah simbol bagi yang-tak-terbahasakan, bagi yang-suci dan sunyi itu. Kini saya membayangkan Beanstalk berkarya lagi tentang yang-suci dan sunyi itu. Karya-karya yang akan mendorong  kerendahan hati dalam bertuhan dan beragama. Sehingga makin banyak orang tak mengklaim konsep sendiri tentang tuhan dan agama sebagai paling baik dan benar.


*[Donny Danardono adalah pengajar filsafat di FH dan PMLP [Program Magister Lingkungan dan Perkotaan] Unika Soegijapranata, Semarang.]



"..Tommas Titus Kurniawan menampilkan problem toleransi itu dalam tiga foto pop-art yang sedap di mata.." 
(Donny Danardono, keberagaman exhibition)





 


Agama, Simbol, Sunyi

 

KELIR UPAYA MEMBAKAR PANCASILA

 


23.3.11

Emmanuel Radnitzky

1 "Dada"

..For the next 20 years in Montparnasse, Man Ray revolutionized the art of photography. Great artists of the day such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Cocteau posed for his camera.

With Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso, Man Ray was represented in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Gallerie Pierre in Paris in 1925..



 
Adam et Eve (Marcel Duchamp et Bronia Perlmutter-Claire)


2 "rayographs"

..In 1999, ARTnews magazine named him one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century, citing his groundbreaking photography as well as "his explorations of film, painting, sculpture, collage, assemblage, and prototypes of what would eventually be called performance art and conceptual art" and saying "Man Ray offered artists in all media an example of a creative intelligence that, in its 'pursuit of pleasure and liberty,'"—Man Ray's stated guiding principles—"unlocked every door it came to and walked freely where it would."[2]..

 

 

Coat Stand

  

3 "The Pioneering Surrealist Photographer"

..Ray was a successful photographer in Hollywood and New York, but missed France and finally returned to Paris in 1951. He continued to work on his paintings, and published his auto-biography in 1963 – titled ‘Self-Portrait’. 

Man Ray passed away in his studio in France at the age of 86. Some major exhibitions which showcased Ray’s art during the last two decades of his life include: Paris in 1962 and 1972, Los Angeles in 1966, Rotterdam in 1971, and New York in 1974. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York showcased 125 of his photographic works in 1973..



Mannequin designed by Joan Miro (for the 1938 Surrealist exhibition in Paris) 



Mannequin designed by Maurice Henry (for the 1938 Surrealist exhibition in Paris) 


Works by Emmanuel Radnitzky

Self Portrait


"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence." 
(Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1971)

"There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it." 
(Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1948)




Man Ray - Surrealist Photographer - The Art History Archive

 

Man Ray

 

Man Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Man Ray on artnet

Changing U'r Mind

-He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs. He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to photography in 1973.-


-He has traveled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects.-


For UNICEF "Changing the world with children"
Boy. Sudan, 1995


Girl. Ecuador, 1998


Boy. Afghanistan, 1995


Kurdish girl. Iraq, 1997

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.  
(Sebastião Salgado)

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things, and it is very difficult to tell you whether I photograph in one style or another.
(Sebastião Salgado)