Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Moby photographed in his studio by Justin Hollar
Moby, Destroyed, Desert California
By Kiša Lala – Part 2 of Interview. Read Part One
The crowd pictures are not really about individual people.
Sometimes things become very familiar to us. So much so that we don’t see them, have no insight into them… I’m more drawn to places that people have created but not occupied. It’s almost like forensics, looking and then trying to understand what led humans to create these bizarre, empty, isolated places.
The last 160 years of photography, it’s safe to say that 99% of the pictures taken have been of people.
This is your first photography project?
Yes. I have made a lot of records. There is this dialectic created when you put a record out into the world. There is a relationship to the person experiencing it, because they re-present my work back to me, which enables me to see the work more clearly, and because the work is personal, it allows me to see myself with a degree of objectivity.
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Tags: Interview, Kisa Lala, Los Angeles, Moby, new york, Photography
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Moby photographed in his studio by Justin Hollar
Moby – Destroyed, lausanne a sea of people. i particularly like how the form of the crowd reflects the topography.
Pathways connect cities, direct travelers through them. In between lies fallow earth, empty lots, desert plains. Moby’s new book captures the density of space as it expands and condenses around city centres and rarefies to the ether above. His gaze falls outside of things into places never looked at, empty sky over urban sprawls, arid lands, the foam-flecked seas, the spaces between cities where forests grow. Estranged in a metal tube afloat in space Moby’s vision seems to hover, then plummet through city ports past tunnels, terminals and paths into arenas of convulsing crowds.
A big part of the artist’s life is based on touring and he launches into another soon for his new album and book entitled Destroyed – inspired by, and created during touring (The title comes from the LED display that reads “Unattended Luggage Will be Destroyed,” which Moby snapped as it flashed up in a deserted hallway at NY’s La Guardia airport).
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Tags: Interview, Kisa Lala, Los Angeles, Moby, new york, Photography
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Scott Campbell, Noblesse Oblige, 2011, Cut uncut US currency sheets, copper box, 21 x 25 x 18.75 inches
Tattoo artist Scott Campbell has migrated his etchings from skin to galleries – OHWOW inaugurated their new space yesterday in Los Angeles with a show of Campbell’s new work inked on the insides of ostrich eggs and stacks of paper money, using styles of vanitas imagery traditionally associated with the arena of tattooing.
Campbell, who is probably making a mint through his recent collaboration with Louis Vuitton, had enough currency on hand to carve a skull from $11,000 of uncut sheets of US dollar bills. The show, titled Nobelesse Oblige, signifies the artist’s pride in his blue-collar heritage, and plays with the idea of what is precious by removing value from social currency or placing value on the artefacts of common trade (by gold plating copper plates made with his tattoo gun).
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Tags: Aaron Bondaroff, Al Moran, Kisa Lala, Lisa Farmer, Los Angeles, louis vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Miami, new york, OHWOW, Richard Prince, Scott Campbell, Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, Wim Delvoye
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
The Brooklyn Griffin, © Robots, GiantRobots.co.uk
Robots an art collective in London creates public interactive sculptures, giant robots, from recycled furniture, old wood and rejects from leftover trash that prove for them, that ‘one man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure.’ The two artists, former movie-set builders, Jimmy Bumble and Leonard White, also constructed the Brooklyn Griffin on a trip to New York last year.
Slinkachu's Relics, 2009. Photograph: Slinkachu ©Slinkachu
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Tags: Banksy, Brooklyn, Giant Robots, Kisa Lala, London, Los Angeles, Mr. Brainwash, new york, Oscars, Phlegm, ROA, Robots, Street art
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, Adams Theater, Detroit
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre met online in 2002, drawn by their love of contemporary ruins. Meffre was only aged 15 when he met Marchand, and they began visiting ruins in the suburbs of Paris to capture the lost grandeur of old movie theaters and document architecture in decline. In the beginning they took images separately, but after investing in a large format 4×5, they began their collaboration. They spoke to me recently from Paris about their photographic project, “Detroit in Ruins,” published by Steidl in 2010.
Their visions of Detroit are the record of a fallen empire. What makes the duo’s work different from Robert Polidori’s photographs of post-deluge New Orleans and Chernobyl is that their focus is not a record of the aftermath of a natural disaster but of slow decay, caused by neglect. The photographs reveal the exotic in the ordinary and observe what is overlooked: dilapidated habitations, the hidden backs of dwellings, obsolete machinery, utilities in disrepair, the absurdity of once hi-tech systems, the extravagance of architecture devoid of function. The simple poignancy of a disused dentist’s chair seems to reflect on the collective failure of a civilization to rise. But Detroit is only one of many world cities, and these images are universal in their depiction of the fragility of human empire-building.
© Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, Detroit in Ruins, Ticket Lobby Michigan Central Station
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Tags: Architecture, Detroit, Detroit in Ruins, History, Kisa Lala, Los Angeles, new york, Paris, Photographs, Romain Meffre, Steidl, theater, Urban Development, Yves Marchand
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Roa on Hanbury Street, Courtesy of artist and Six Oranges
By Kiša Lala
Belgian artist Roa created one of the biggest displays of street art in Hanbury Street in East London earlier this year. The event was filmed by Six Oranges who sponsored the artist’s work for their documentary on Brick Lane.
This week the artist had a solo show in LA at New Puppy Gallery presented by Thinkspace. The gallery show, which runs through Nov 24th, exhibits many of Roa’s creatures but the artist’s work is best viewed in the urbanscape, in places like Zaragoza in Spain, where he painted rabbits, crows and squirrels using the uneven textures of the walls while incorporating existing features like cables and ropes into the paintings. His work can be seen on abandoned buildings, billboards and warehouses in industrial suburbs of many cities like Ghent, Berlin and Brooklyn.
ROA - photo by RomanyWG - Courtesy of Pure Evil
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Tags: Brooklyn, Kisa Lala, London, Los Angeles, New Puppy Gallery, new york, Pure Evil, ROA, Six Oranges, Spain
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Shepard Fairey and friends
SPREAD|Artculture magazine co-hosted a party with The Supper Club in honor of iconic artist Shepard Fairey at the H.Wood Tea Room. Party-goers were treated to bespoke Bombay Sapphire tea-based cocktails that were paired with sumptuous Indian food from Deep Sethi, owner of Bombay Palace and Nirvana in Beverly Hills.
Shepard Fairey is the founder of creative agency Studio Number One. At the after party, Studio Number One’s animated art became part of an interactive texting experience where guests were invited to text their answers to the question “The secret of happiness is…”. Answers were displayed throughout the night for everyone to see.
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Tags: events, h.wood tea room, Los Angeles, Shepard Fairey, studio number one, Supper Club
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
By JRS
MOCA's new director, Jeffrey Deitch
Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art has officially ended its worldwide search for a new museum director today, announcing that renowned New York gallery owner/art dealer Jeffrey Deitch would take the reins effective June 1, 2010. Deitch stated publicly, “MOCA has an extraordinary history, and it’s my goal to position MOCA as the most innovative and influential contemporary art museum in the world. I am excited by the opportunity to play a role in making MOCA and Los Angeles the leading contemporary art destination.” (more…)
Tags: Jean Michel Basquiat, Jeffrey Deitch, Keith Haring, Los Angeles, Maria Bell, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ryan McGuinness
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