Morgan Tepsic [VIDEO]
live from Oklahoma, USA
Morgan Tepsic takes a couple of minutes to chat to Grateful Grapefruit about the year of traveling and naked jumping he will embark on today; about his porn ambitions and Oklahoma (where he originally comes from). He also promised to visit Berlin coming winter. The shot you see above is the last from his home town which he shared with me for the launch of The Grateful Grapefruit video interviews. See Morgan in his room just before packing his cameras.
Hyper Hyper
No, I won’t bore you with Scooter.
The latest body of work by Parisian photographer Denis Darzacq is called Hyper and has been created 2007. In reference to the “hypermarché” or supermarkets and global retail chains that have ousted small groceries the photographer addresses issues of mass consumption, shopping obsession, mindless consumerism and predicts the coming financial crisis in 2009. Street dancers from Paris and Rouen perform in the aisles of these stores as a contrast between being and having. The most recent occasion to write about Darzacq is his latest exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles from June 10 – August 21, 2010.
Picks of the Hyper body work:
Bryan Schutmaat
Bryan Schutmaat is 26 and actually a history teacher in Houstom, Texas. It goes without saying that his favorite food are the burgers at Christian’s Tailgate Bar in Houston, Enchiladas con mole at El Patio in Presido, Texas, and the lasagna at Frenchie’s in Clear Lake, Texas.
Since he picked up photography in 2003, Bryan Schutmaat’s work has been exhibited and published in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Bryan is a member of Young Photographers United, and last year he was featured in the Humble Arts Foundation’s Collectors’ Guide to Emerging Art Photography. He holds a degree in history from the University of Houston and will pursue an MFA in photography in the fall of 2010.
In the gallery you see picks from his session Western Frieze, Heartland and Half-Damped Eyes.
Headmaster Mag
We are your new Headmasters and we are here to teach you a lesson. Lots of lessons, actually: social studies lessons, language arts lessons, phys ed lessons, science lessons and art lessons. If you’re lucky there may even be spelling and handwriting lessons. And we are not afraid to assign homework.
Sounds kinky doesn’t it? The headmasters will be a mind-blowing combination of science projects, studies, smart and sexy men (you can get that?!) who will demonstrate their witty writing skills and their nifty art projects. Quasi a print version of GRATEFUL GRAPEFRUIT. But bossier.
You wanna get educated too, don’t you bitch? Well then go and back Headmaster’s cause on kickstart.com and get the first issue. But that’s not all you get as their sponsor. Here are the different stages of matriculation: (weiterlesen…)
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
If you visit New York soon, you definitely need the address of Team Gallery, cuz they’re showing the newest Ryan McGinley exhibit till April 17th.
For his latest exhibition, Ryan McGinley has shifted his focus away from constructing a youthful sublime within the boundless American landscape and has concentrated instead on creating imagery within the confines of his New York studio. The result is a surprisingly restrained, open-ended study of black and white portraiture. Here we see McGinley not as a chronicler of youthful adventure, but as an engine for an almost scientific cataloging of a kind of emotional optimism.
McGinley’s portraits are the result of a meticulous studio practice, in which thousands of images are taken of each sitter; each shoot eventually being edited down to its one defining ›moment‹. During the course of two years, McGinley photographed about 150 hand-picked subjects from across the globe. Bringing these models into his studio and stripping them of their clothing, the artist has succeeded in answering his own question: “What would a classical Ryan McGinley black and white portrait look like?” (weiterlesen…)
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