Untitled (Object 3), 60x40in, digital C-type, 2011 (© Tomas Hein)

I’m showing my current project at the next Contact Editions slideshow. It will take place on the 1st of April, 19.00-00.00.

A Link.

Re: Control at the basement of The Oubliette, 8th of January, 2010. (photo: Peter Watkins)

The photography show Re: Control will be closing it’s doors on tuesday 12th of January together with the latest base of The Oubliette art house.  Unfortunately, the magnificent space on Shaftesbury Av. in central London will be once again vacant for rat’s and pigeons to do their thing.  It has still been a fruitful month for everyone involved in the shows, exhibition’s, performances and gigs that were organized by the fantastic crew of the Oub.  I look forward to the next interim base.

The Oubliette is currently located at 136 Shaftesbury Av.
If you wish to attend to the show, call the number on the door (open till late)

If you are reading this, it means you have free access to SchemaTonic.

An eclectic ensemble of music, film, photography, painting, and a cross-Atlantic unrehearsed performance by Helen Schoene and Antonio Martinez.

Last but not least, the enigmatic paintings and photographs of Christopher Brewer, one of the artists who helped us raise money for the Haiti exhibition earlier this year.

Also the exquisite winding psychedelia of the McCarricks‘ violin and cello.

The multipurpose IIAL always present !

There it’s no excuse… If you find yourself having another cold and lame evening at Vyner St. .. walk 2 minutes down to Unit 61, Regent Studios, E8 4QN . 8pm-12pm

Doug Rickard, A New American Picture

This year’s trip to Paris was great in many ways. If it is Paris Photo you want to know about, unfortunately there is not much to say about it.  I was hoping that at least there would be some interesting books and publishers, but not really.  Regarding books, publishers have turned to Offprint, a small in size, large in content independent book fair. (Here is a list of the publishing houses at the fair).

Amongst my favorite books was “Winning Mentality, Victor Starr” by Mishka Henner, “A New American Picture” by Doug Rickard.  Unfortunately due economical reasons I wasn’t able to get A New American picture… so if someone is feeling generous…

Then there was “Anonymes, L’Amerique Sans Nom: Photogrphie et Cinéma” at Le Bal curated by David Campany & Diane Dufour.  It included work from Walker Evans, Anthony Hernandez, Bruce Gilden, Sharon Lockhart (80′ brilliant film), Jeff Wall and Doug Rickard amongst others.

“Unamed America in Photography and Film
Since the 1930s the mainstream culture of America has celebrated individuality and the self, while nearly all its important image makers have addressed the nondescript, the flattening of daily experience and the pervading sense of anonymity. These have been the country’s twin gifts to the world’s visual culture and their contradictions and tensions are now experienced everywhere. Anonymes brings together work by some of the several generations of significant photographers and filmmakers of the post-war era who have found innovative ways of addressing this situation.”

-David Campany & Diane Dufour

The exhibition will continue until December 19, so if you are in Paris before that, I highly recommend you go have a look.  But don’t order the Ox tail at the restaurant if you happen to eat there.

I recommend for those going to Paris this week that you visit Offprint Paris, an artist book fair focused on independent publishing.  My friends from AMCBooks and ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative will be there, they are the friendliest guys you’ll come across in Paris this week… and they also publish interesting books.

Hope too see you.

The exhibition I am organizing to raise funds for haiti is starting to get some reach. This should likely help us reach a public that is interested in new acquisitions and charity.

Thanks to the help of photographer Seba Kurtis we’ve had a short feature on the British Journal of Photography online.

Visit www.genesisartforhaiti.org for more info on the exhibition and auction.

I’m happy to be showing my work in Bristol at the moment for a year long project called 204:2010 .  My work is being shown as part of the first cycle curated by Matthew Douglas.  It will be on until the 6th of March.

The project has a website that will be running all through out 2010.  There are four curators and each is selecting work of 4 artists.

www.2042010.com