RITA MITSOUKO

 

KERAMIC

weiner werkstatte ceramic.

AITOR THROUP

art crush, big time.  he does clothing and sculpture and draws the most beautiful things.  see a fraction of that here on his website.  i have been doing sort of planar figures, messing with proportions and exaggerating, giving lines weight...i found him at a good time,  serendipitous.

JOHN FEODOROV

John Feodorov does alot of work that deals with modern societies need for spirituality, and the kitcshy treatment of the existing tribal cultures.  i was most impressed by his "Collectibles" series of altered family photos that he added text to from those mail-outs for cheesy porcelain native american statuettes.   

I liked too his altered 'see and say.'  we all had them, i loved mine (muppet and farm-friends versions.)  feodorov made his into a ritualistic implement.  i think more than anything i like his work because it establishes this current trend of putting feathers and rainbows on everything in a solid artistic tradition.  while i think some contemporaries of mine may or may not share his ideas, it sort of allows me to like their work in spite of a general feeling that it lacks content.  of course there is a history of artists working with these ideas, it never stopped from the time when it was simply what people were and did, to what people lack and long-for and try to mimic or reproduce.  

it was ignorant of me to think it sprung a year ago from nowhere as a fad.  long live animal skulls and neon geometrics!

PERSIAN LAMB

i'm obsessed with persian lamb.  it is the most disgusting beautiful texture ever.  its a brain of hair.  i am hunting for a coat of it in black.

ROSSY DE PALMA

i was google imaging the actress Rossy De Palma, for obvious reasons...when i discovered that 1.) pedro almodovar has a blog.  2.) he has a new film due for release in march 2009!

i fall more in love with his movies everytime i see them.  and every new one i see becomes a favourite.  i recently saw The Law of Desire.  incredible!  as per  usual a synopsis is impossible.  i love that he'll have a woman play a transexual man, and a transexual actress (Bibiana Fernandez) play a woman and mother.  also i always thought Antonio Banderas was just cheese, but he was a looker when he was young, pre-pony-tail, and a pretty good actor.

i could go on and on but just watch his films. 

i still need to see High Heels, Labyrinth of Passions, Pepi, Luci, Bom, What Have I done to Deserve This?, and Matador.