Thanks to my brother in law Olivier Schmid recorded and edited this short video from my private view on 13 January 2010 - Geneva, Switzerland
02/02/2010
My Solo Exhibition- Geneva, Switzerland 2010, January 13th
Thanks to my brother in law Olivier Schmid recorded and edited this short video from my private view on 13 January 2010 - Geneva, Switzerland
11/01/2010
maybe there is an ongoing act of giving birth to what we want to become....
« If I am not grotesque, i am nothing » A.Beardsley
06/01/2010
Plato
Plato is (Astronomy) a crater in the NW quadrant of the moon, about 100 km in diameter, that has a conspicuous dark floor...
40x40cm Acrylic on Canvas
Bonbon Selavy
50x50cm Acrylic+Pastel on Canvas
J'vous ai apporté des bonbons....Parc' que les fleurs c'est périssable
Puis les bonbons c'est tell'ment bon
Bien qu'les fleurs soient plus présentables
Surtout quand elles sont en boutons
J'vous ai apporté des bonbons.... Flowers are more presentable but I brought you BONBON ;))
30/12/2009
12/12/2009
egg-eye no3
80X60cm Acrylic and Pastel on Canvas
For Bakhtin (1968), one of the most important aspects of grotesque realism is its function of degradation. He explains,
Degradation here means coming down to earth, the contact with earth as an element that swallows up and gives birth at the same time.
egg-eye no4
80x80cm Acrylic on Canvas
I like to believe in change and dynamics and energy. As E.Grosz says “BODY IS A SITE FOR THE CIRCULATION OF ENERGETIC INTENSITIES THAT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND VERBALIZE”
30/11/2009
'Carnival celebrates the body, the senses, the unofficial, uncanonized relations amongst... Carnivalesque takes fiction as truth and makes the extraordinary or magical as viable a possibility as the ordinary or real, so that no true distinction is perceived or acknowledged between the two...' The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque by David K. Danow
Photography+photoshop 2009
Rosi Braidotti points out: "The monster is the bodily incarnation of difference from the basic human norm; it is a deviant, an a-nomaly, it is abnormal... the very notion of the human body rests upon an image that is intrinsically prescriptive: a normally formed human being is the zero-degree of monstrosity.
Photography
Overdone-Underdone
"[G]ender is instituted through the stylization of the body and, hence, must be understood as the mundane way in which bodily gestures, movements, and enactments of various kinds constitute the illusion of an abiding gendered self." Judith Butler
25/11/2009
26/08/2009
24/08/2009
Hospital paintings and drawings
These series are done when I was at hospital for about 2 weeks. They were painful and vulnerable days... I was mostly under narcotic pain relievers and half sleepy half awake...luckily I had my sketchbook and 12 oil pastels waiting beside my bed ;)
Thanks to my Frederic, I looked after well and still do. Recovering is slow but everyday ;)
12/07/2009
09/07/2009
16/05/2009
'Western culture privilages talk and text as legitimate forms of communication, yet there may be no words or language to name and communicate certain forms of experience, particularly physical sensation and it's contribution to subjectivity.'Howson, Embodying Gender
14/05/2009
Peepshow Carnival
2009- 2nd year show (The body cannot be thought seperately from the social formation... from 'The Politics and Poetics of Transgression: Peter Stallybrass, Allon White' )
03/02/2009
28/01/2009
08/11/2008
05/11/2008
26/10/2008
10/10/2008
20/09/2008
14/09/2008
Hajdúböszörmény 3-23 July 2008
This summer between 3-23 July I was invited to a wonderful place for artists named as The International Artists' Colony of Hajdú Region. These photos are from that time. It was an excellent time and I've enjoyed very much to be surrounded with great painters. I felt like the town was belonged only to artists... it was a dreamland. I've managed to paint around 17 paintings. The atmosphere was very suitable to concentrate and practice. But of course we had various times to party as well :)
After the colony I went to Budapest to meet my husband. I was few days early so I had a great chance to stay with Krajcsovics Éva. She offered me a bed in her lovely studio flat. The building is in the very heart of Pest side and it was lovely to spend time with her. Even though we didn't speak each others language :) She is a great artist and a very intellectual woman. I love her.
It was great knowing you all. Thanks for the good times... And mostly thank you Zsusza for being there.
http://www.hajdusagimuvesztelep.hu/2008.php
http://www.hajdusagimuvesztelep.hu/ ( you can find more about the colony and the artists from this website)
06/06/2008
02/06/2008
Getting Pretty
Crucifixion! This way please...
Fitter than ever20x16" Acrylic on Canvas ( 40.6x50.8 cm)
29/03/2008
19/02/2008
Sailor
blue exile is calling...and the wind is my best friend...
18X14" Acrylic on canvas (45.7X35.6cm)
11/02/2008
06/02/2008
Organic Sculpture ( newspapers )
I've moved a lot ... and good packaging was always essential...BA-Fine Art 1st year show pieces- 1)video performance in London, at Kings Cross
2)video recording of a candle on henna
3)video performance of me clowning
01/01/2008
Dick Whittington and His Cat
27.12.07 HACKNEY EMPIRE Panto
There are people who think that philosophy is a very serious matter. It wouldn't do to discuss questions of Life, the Universe and Everything in a lighthearted manner, they think. Seriousness is all good and fine in its place, but you can have too much of it. This is how the idea for the Performance Event developed: finding a way of making philosophy more fun.
Why do men dress up as women and women with seemingly endless legs slap their thighs and pretend to be men - usually without the slightest glimmer of innuendo?
In the late 19th century it provided an excuse for female Music Hall stars to titillate a morally repressed audience by showing off their legs as well as their other talents.Oxford English Dictionary, which defines pantomime as "dramatic entertainment based on a fairy tale with singing, dancing, slapstick, topical jokes and audience participation."Pantomime has its roots in ancient Greece, and came to fashion in the theatres of Imperial Rome during the reign of the Emperor Augustus. Stories were then done in "dumb-show" and dance accompanied by music and a chorus who sang the story that was being enacted. The tradition carried on in various forms over the years and aspects of the modern-day version of pantomime can be traced back to the commedia dell'arte of 16th century Italy. This form of colourful entertainment flourished in Italy and France; performers would take the show to England, where it was adopted by the populace in the 17th century and started on the road to what we know it as today.Good triumphs over evil, the principal boy and girl get married in the end, the baddies get their comeuppance; the Dame spins a thread of hilarity through the piece, and there is always an animal to win the hearts of a young audience. (And speaking of tradition, did you know that in panto, good should always enter from the right of the stage, and evil from the left?)
Reading:
http://www.longlongtimeago.com/llta_folktales_dickwhittington.html
http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Panto.htm
http://www.its-behind-you.com/history.html
15/12/2007
Winter Spider
(Photograph taken by me ;)12/12/2007)It is a very cold morning
Please Mother! Don't wake me up!
I don't want to eat, I don't want to meet...
Please Mother! Don't wake me up!
26/11/2007
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15/11/2007
Identity and Change
Quoting Douglas Adams from the book Last Chance to See:
I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn't weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century. "So it isn't the original building?" I had asked my Japanese guide.
"But yes, of course it is," he insisted, rather surprised at my question.
"But it's burnt down?"
"Yes."
"Twice."
"Many times."
"And rebuilt."
"Of course. It is an important and historic building."
"With completely new materials."
"But of course. It was burnt down."
"So how can it be the same building?"
"It is always the same building."
I had to admit to myself that this was in fact a perfectly rational point of view, it merely started from an unexpected premise. The idea of the building, the intention of it, its design, are all immutable and are the essence of the building. The intention of the original builders is what survives. The wood of which the design is constructed decays and is replaced when necessary. To be overly concerned with the original materials, which are merely sentimental souvenirs of the past, is to fail to see the living building itself."
There is a reference to the paradox in the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses. The character Trigger, who is a road sweeper, wins an award for having used the same broom for many years and thus saving money. When he is asked about it, he reveals naively that both the handle and head of the broom have been replaced several times. Trigger is a dim-witted character who makes foolish remarks, and the joke here is that he believes the broom to be the same one as he has always had.
P.S.Have a look at Simon Starling's "shedboatshed" work!The same materials and supplies are being used; yet they have taken on a new form. This relates to the concept of recreation vs. destruction.
I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn't weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century. "So it isn't the original building?" I had asked my Japanese guide.
"But yes, of course it is," he insisted, rather surprised at my question.
"But it's burnt down?"
"Yes."
"Twice."
"Many times."
"And rebuilt."
"Of course. It is an important and historic building."
"With completely new materials."
"But of course. It was burnt down."
"So how can it be the same building?"
"It is always the same building."
I had to admit to myself that this was in fact a perfectly rational point of view, it merely started from an unexpected premise. The idea of the building, the intention of it, its design, are all immutable and are the essence of the building. The intention of the original builders is what survives. The wood of which the design is constructed decays and is replaced when necessary. To be overly concerned with the original materials, which are merely sentimental souvenirs of the past, is to fail to see the living building itself."
There is a reference to the paradox in the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses. The character Trigger, who is a road sweeper, wins an award for having used the same broom for many years and thus saving money. When he is asked about it, he reveals naively that both the handle and head of the broom have been replaced several times. Trigger is a dim-witted character who makes foolish remarks, and the joke here is that he believes the broom to be the same one as he has always had.
P.S.Have a look at Simon Starling's "shedboatshed" work!The same materials and supplies are being used; yet they have taken on a new form. This relates to the concept of recreation vs. destruction.
It is said that all the particles (atoms) that form a human body change during a period of seven years (although this is not actually so). This means that seven years ago, almost all our atoms were not the same as those of our current body. Does this mean that we are not the same (identical) person as we were, seven years ago?
02/11/2007
Creating a self-portrait....
Her hair was fallen gently on her face but you could see her sharp eyes and yet childish look...she was playing her own game to make the bond stronger between life and herself. That was a conscious speculation of her creative mind; it wasn't just a simple game...
A-"There! There she is! That's the Artist and her self-portrait."
B-"It's been more than 20 minutes and she is still staring at that corner.She seems a bit adolescent, don't you think so? "
A-"I think she is desperately earnest, she doesn't seem to be shy. Look at the way she stands and still examining her painting."
B-"In this Self-Portrait, she seems lonely and stares out of the canvas. Looks a bit melancholic to me."
A-"I think she clearly doesn't like some parts of that painting"
B-"In the painting, her face is covered with paint and looks overshadowed by reticent sadness."
A-"She doesn't seem to give up. I believe she is still searching for the essence of life.I think she's got rebellious look in her eyes."
B-"From the colors feels like she is beside a river or a sea."
A-"The most effective part is the eyes, looking right into you!"
B-"The lines are very thick and the forms abstract. Impasto technique, isn't it?"
A-"Yes and the shapes are mostly square or rectangular. It adds solidity."
B-"She looks very masculine in the painting"
A-"Do you think she is !?"
B-"I am not sure."
A-"Her body is covered in red, like a burning flame from inside."
B-"What is the meaning of this square at the bottom corner?"
A-"It looks like an easel and she is holding a brush with palette in her hand."
B-"Perhaps it signifies art for her?"
A-"I don't like her ;She gives the impression that she is far too cocky."
B-"I loved the colors though! There is harmony within and it grows if you keep staring at it. Left part has warm colors and right has cold.
I think she created a lovely contrasts with her complementary colors!"
A-"I think anyone could have done it!"
B-"Sometimes things that look simple can be more difficult than we think. To me; explorative and vivid coloring, I think!.."
A-"To me, it's sloppy!"
B-"She has got a certain verve in that painting."
A-"I could do better than this! It is simple and doesn't make me feel anything."
B-"It irritates me that you criticize and yet you're not open-minded."
A-"Well...She seems like she is hiding behind her own truth? Don't you think so?"
B-"You may be right!"
It seems that her aesthetic is easy to predict.To me; she seems relatively open-minded. At least she is trying to understand. I wish we could speak to her. I think to create a self-portrait is a though work!"
A-"At least it doesn't look like a photograph. I am heartily sick of the abject dependence on photography."
She might be criticizing herself by the way she looks."
B- "Maybe!...but she doesn't seem like one of those overweening vanity."
A-"Not sure!"
B-"I think we shouldn't judge people before we hear what they say."
A-"Let's watch closer and see how she goes on with it!"
B-"Good thinking!"
C- " Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude but I just overheard your conversation. It is interesting how people can interpret the expressions differently. I personally thought that she's lonely in this long journey of creation but she's definitely got the passion to keep her way light.
Shall we find out?
She thought "I have a feeling these people are looking at me, do they know me?! I don't know them? Do I?.."
"Anyway...Whenever I look at this painting I feel different. Maybe it's because of my moods at these moments. Now I feel angry and impatient.So I am leaving right now to start another one."
"I'd better be painting more..."
Bibliography
"The Unknown Masterpiece" by Honore de Balzac
Translated from the French by Richard Howard
Introduction by Arthur C. Danto
Marcel Duchamp "The Richard Mutt Case"(1917), in Art in Theory 1900-1990, eds Harrison and Wood, Blackwells, p.248
Mark Rothko, "The Romantics were prompted..."(1947) in Art in Theory 1900-1990, pp.563-4
Andy Warhol, " Interview with Gene Swenson" (1969) Art in Theory 1900-1990, pp.730-4
Billy Childish's Stuckist Manifesto at http://www.billychildish.com/manifestos.html
A-"There! There she is! That's the Artist and her self-portrait."
B-"It's been more than 20 minutes and she is still staring at that corner.She seems a bit adolescent, don't you think so? "
A-"I think she is desperately earnest, she doesn't seem to be shy. Look at the way she stands and still examining her painting."
B-"In this Self-Portrait, she seems lonely and stares out of the canvas. Looks a bit melancholic to me."
A-"I think she clearly doesn't like some parts of that painting"
B-"In the painting, her face is covered with paint and looks overshadowed by reticent sadness."
A-"She doesn't seem to give up. I believe she is still searching for the essence of life.I think she's got rebellious look in her eyes."
B-"From the colors feels like she is beside a river or a sea."
A-"The most effective part is the eyes, looking right into you!"
B-"The lines are very thick and the forms abstract. Impasto technique, isn't it?"
A-"Yes and the shapes are mostly square or rectangular. It adds solidity."
B-"She looks very masculine in the painting"
A-"Do you think she is !?"
B-"I am not sure."
A-"Her body is covered in red, like a burning flame from inside."
B-"What is the meaning of this square at the bottom corner?"
A-"It looks like an easel and she is holding a brush with palette in her hand."
B-"Perhaps it signifies art for her?"
A-"I don't like her ;She gives the impression that she is far too cocky."
B-"I loved the colors though! There is harmony within and it grows if you keep staring at it. Left part has warm colors and right has cold.
I think she created a lovely contrasts with her complementary colors!"
A-"I think anyone could have done it!"
B-"Sometimes things that look simple can be more difficult than we think. To me; explorative and vivid coloring, I think!.."
A-"To me, it's sloppy!"
B-"She has got a certain verve in that painting."
A-"I could do better than this! It is simple and doesn't make me feel anything."
B-"It irritates me that you criticize and yet you're not open-minded."
A-"Well...She seems like she is hiding behind her own truth? Don't you think so?"
B-"You may be right!"
It seems that her aesthetic is easy to predict.To me; she seems relatively open-minded. At least she is trying to understand. I wish we could speak to her. I think to create a self-portrait is a though work!"
A-"At least it doesn't look like a photograph. I am heartily sick of the abject dependence on photography."
She might be criticizing herself by the way she looks."
B- "Maybe!...but she doesn't seem like one of those overweening vanity."
A-"Not sure!"
B-"I think we shouldn't judge people before we hear what they say."
A-"Let's watch closer and see how she goes on with it!"
B-"Good thinking!"
C- " Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude but I just overheard your conversation. It is interesting how people can interpret the expressions differently. I personally thought that she's lonely in this long journey of creation but she's definitely got the passion to keep her way light.
Shall we find out?
She thought "I have a feeling these people are looking at me, do they know me?! I don't know them? Do I?.."
"Anyway...Whenever I look at this painting I feel different. Maybe it's because of my moods at these moments. Now I feel angry and impatient.So I am leaving right now to start another one."
"I'd better be painting more..."
Bibliography
"The Unknown Masterpiece" by Honore de Balzac
Translated from the French by Richard Howard
Introduction by Arthur C. Danto
Marcel Duchamp "The Richard Mutt Case"(1917), in Art in Theory 1900-1990, eds Harrison and Wood, Blackwells, p.248
Mark Rothko, "The Romantics were prompted..."(1947) in Art in Theory 1900-1990, pp.563-4
Andy Warhol, " Interview with Gene Swenson" (1969) Art in Theory 1900-1990, pp.730-4
Billy Childish's Stuckist Manifesto at http://www.billychildish.com/manifestos.html
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