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)

I will have my series Portraits, with a few new additions to the ones on my website, at Re: Control, a photography exhibition curated by Lorenzo Durantini as part of the cultural agenda of The Oubliette art house.

Private View:
6pm, Thursday 6th of January
136 Shaftesbury Avenue
W1D 5EZ

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

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.