Inspiration

Inspiration

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Larry Clark's "Kiss the Past Hello" x MAM Paris

I really enjoyed Larry Clark's controversial "Kiss the Past Hello" expo at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. So much so that I took this video to show you a couple of the photos. I felt that it was important to keep an open mind when I was walking through rooms full of semi-to-full-on-pornographic imagery. Nudity doesn't bother me at all, on the contrary I find it to be beautiful when presented in the right metaphorical and sometimes literal light, but some of the photos taken by Larry Clark were downright disturbing - a pregnant woman injecting herself with heroin being one of those examples. Then again, the whole point seemed to be about how far he can take his lens, which buttons he can push and how many fires he can spark through a showing of some very tough realities. Enjoy!

Jean-Michel Basquiat x Musée d'Art Moderne

First, a brief note on the beauty of the museum itself. I mean, I've visited it before, but this time I really noticed some of the funky artchitechture they've got. I regret not taking any pictures of the outside area, where young sk8rs ollied on graffiti-covered concrete. These neon lights were beautiful, hung up behind the ticket counters.

Translates to: "I posess neither the museum of modern art nor the black star" (installation by Pierre Huygue) and "enough with this sureal world" (installation by Claude Lévêque).

Now, onto the dopeness that is Basquiat. One of my all time favorites. I wasn't expecting to visit such an extensive collection! It was wonderful to see so many of his works. It felt like I would walk into one room where there were about a dozen paintings, then a "expo continues this way" sign, then another dozen, then another sign, then more, then more, then more! There were over a hundred paintings, sculptures and drawings from several North American and European galleries exposed in honor of the artists' birthday. The expo was organized so as to recreate the chronological path of Basquiat's life as one of the linchpin artists of the 1980s. It's baffling to think that he died at the young age of 27 and completed such an incredible array of works in such a short time. (Please excuse the surreptitious photography, as I had to pull some sketchy moves to take them).

This last one wasn't taken by me, but was at the show. I was so excited to finally see (in real life) the works from the Basquiat/Warhol collaboration that took place between 1984 and 1987.
DOPE!

FIAC 2010 Part 3

J-M Basquiat


Ivan Navarro - this one was sweet because the neon letters were only half-letters that reflected off the different sections of the drum kit to become whole words.

Gun Gordillo

Liz Larner's "Lux Interior", 2010

John Miller

I'd also like to point out that there was some Antony Gormley (the guy who created the series of statues on the rooftops around Madison Square Park in NYC) as well as some Larry Clark (the guy who photographs teens and their sexuality).

WOWZA

I love it! Catchy, colorful and overall amazing. It's like M.I.A. + Andy Warhol + Jean-Michel Basquiat + Keith Haring + something I can't quite put my finger on but the sped up dancing at 3:12 reminds me of it. 'Nuff said.