Keep Yer Coins

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

I am organizing an exhibition together with Barbora “Bashi” Kolibarova to collect funds for the Haiti Appeal of the Disasters Emergency Committee. The event will be sometime in April (dates to be confirmed) and we will be exhibiting the work of emerging talents.

If you wish to submit your work or help or sponsor us you can find all information at the weblog for the event.

Photo by Weegee

I’ve always liked his photographs, Im not a sadist, although there is a derived pleasure when looking at images like this. I guess that’s what makes Weegee such a great photographer.

There is an exhibition at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London running until the 9th of January 2010. I sure will have to make some time to go and see it this week. I was a bit confused when I read at their web page that they are including photographs by Sergei Vasiliev and Stan Healy. The first photographer that comes to my mind before these two is Enrique Mentinides.

photo by Enrique Mentinides

I ‘ve just erased a paragraph I wrote. In it I spoke about how art is governed by the market, etc, etc… Anyway, my point was that it would be good to see an exhibition of Weegee and Mentinides side by side.

Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror by Paul Normansell

A Gallery is proud to present work by artists Paul Normansell, Maximilian Wiedemann and Mikael Alacoque. The exhibition will run from the 11th of December until the 30th of December.

The gallery is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 11.00 – 18.00

PRIVATE VIEW – 10th December, 18.00 – 21.00
RSVP for entrance: fraser@agallery.co.uk

Wanted Gallery, 15b Blenheim Crescent
Notting Hill, London W11 2EE

From the Vogue paintings. by Maximilian Wiedemann

Liberte by Mikael Alacoque

Pieter Hugo… he’s been around for some time, but only last year he managed to impress most of us with The Hyena & Other Men. An amazing series of photographs about the creolization between wilderness and urban, and the relation between man and other species.

His new book, Nollywood, is a mix of horrific characters from the film industry of Africa and reality. Some of his images were at the Paris Photo and he is currently exhibiting Nollywood at Galleria Extraspazio in Rome.

Hugo seems to be going in the direction of an amalgamation of visual, cultural and social elements which give a sense of the fantastic to the worlds he constructs, and at the same time documents.

Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Lagos, Nigeria 2007

This year the westPhoto event will be big.  With many guests from the photographic industry it will be a good chance to network and enjoy a new years/x-mas drink.

I will surely be there harassing academics and curators…

Oh, and the poster/eflyer is by me.

The Art in Perpetuity Trust will be running the third Creekside Open Prize, where works of upcoming, London based artists will be exhibited. For more information visit the APT website.

Hi everybody, the day has finally come. The artists have set their work, and the lights set up. All that’s missing is your support, so I hope to see you tomorrow at 7pm under the Shoreditch Town Hall (380 Old Street).

An amazing variety of work is being displayed, all very talented international photographers and artists, so it is a great opportunity to see and understand contemporary art from the future generation of global artists.