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International Tattoo Convention

Mike Foster — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:35:00 +0000

This weekend of the 27th & 28th March is the 6th annual International Tattoo Converntion of Aquitaine.

Where: Espace du Lac Bordeaux
Hours: Saturday – 11am until midnight ; Sunday 11am until 7pm
Price: €8 per day
Prizes:

2 CORT custom guitars
2 x weekend pass for Hellfest 2010
2 x weenend pass for Show Bike 2010
Special Offers on price reductions

There will be animations of tattoo’s and body piercing with special prizes to win. Grab a bite at one of the food and drink outlets proivided or stick around to rock out with one of the bands that will be playing (plus a laser show, wow!)

www.conventiontattoobordeaux.com

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SPATIAL – Urban Art

Mike Foster — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:39:00 +0000

This month at the Gallery A (l’espace Valcucine) there is a display of urban art and design.

The show is held over two floors of the gallery, being the basement and showroom, and concentrates on the design and graffiti aspects of urban art.

Design, presents pieces that have been scultpted using pieces of furniture and old lamps which were designed mainly between 1950 and 1980, by architects, designers and interior designer.

Graffiti, presents a selection of work from major French artists who pinoneered the Graffiti movement in France . Their work which has recently toured internationally tries to interact with the public to involve them in this artistic street universe.

Where: Espace Valcucine, 15 rue Fondaudège, 33000 Bordeaux
When: 8th April until the 8th May
Cost: Free!

www.galerie-a.blogspot.com

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Cinésites Festival – Out door Cinema

Mike Foster — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Since 1993, the Cinésites Festival has been organising open air movie projections during the summer months throughout France.

The locations of the festival can be considered world-class for kicking back with a bucket of popcorn. Some of the prettiest backdrops in the France (castles, abbeys, old villages, etc) are offered as an attractive way to enjoy the warm weather and movies from yesteryear and today.

The events are free to the public and run through the months of May until September. The selection of movies range from classics and recent releases, with some films presented in their original format (i.e: English with French subtitles).

When: May – September
Where: France (Check guide for details)
Cost: Free!

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Jim Shaw – Left Behind

Mike Foster — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The exhibition presents for the first time about 15 monumental pictures that have been painted by the artist Jim Shaw in the last decade, together with sculptures and a gigantic inflatable sculpture. It also presents for the first time the artist’s collection of Christian objects making use of apocalyptic iconography. From If Everybody had an Ocean. Brian Wilson, an exhibition (curated by Alex Farquharson), which took a fresh look at different art developments from the 1960s on through the prism of the life and music of the Beach Boys’ composer, to Insiders – Pratiques, usages, savoir-faire/Experience, Practices, Know-how, an exhibition in the form of an investigation into the links between contemporary artwork and folklore today, the CAPC musée d’art contemporain is continuing to delve into the realm of subculture with this solo show devoted to the artist Jim Shaw.

Painting, drawing, sculpture, video, installation and performance are all media used by this American artist since the late 1970s, helping him to put across an encyclopaedic and hectic vision. Jim Shaw is an atypical figure in California’s art circles, sharing with Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley the same desire to produce a visual body of work aimed at exploring the dark side of an American society that is conformist and standardized. Jim Shaw draws his inspiration from a vernacular culture on this side of the pigeonholes established by art history: pictures by amateur artists unearthed in bric-à-brac stores, popular cult objects, comics, rock music, B movies, etc.

After putting together a collection of more than 400 canvases by ‘visionary’ Sunday painters (Thrift Store Paintings), and after drawing his dreams (Dreams) for more than ten years, since 2002 the artist has been involved with a project to do with inventing a religion which recycles the country’s ground-breaking myths and various crypto-sectarian American beliefs (Oism).

For his exhibition in Bordeaux, the artist is showing his latest output, consisting of some fifteen monumental pictures accompanied by sculptures in the museum’s nave. In outmoded cityscapes from old theatre sets, the forms painted by the artist seem to float, apparition-like. Inspired by William Burroughs’s cut-up technique, Shaw here offers a vision of schizoid America, somewhere between dream and nightmare. As an accumulation of moments of a personal history and bits and pieces of a collective cultural history, the heterogeneity of the illustrative sources is both surprising and intriguing: episodes from the artist’s life, iconic symbols of American culture, references from modern art history, biblical imagery, Hollywood imagery, political and media personalities, depictions of consumerism, visions of 9/11.

To this is added their equally as disparate stylistic treatment, mixing different visual languages: modernist abstraction, cinematic hyperrealism, western imagery, and advertisements from the 1950s, along with a diagrammatic treatment of the comic strip and Hollywood movies. Distortion, fragmentation and multiplication all bolster the impression of deliquescence, and the sensation of a world that doesn’t make sense.

For several years now, fascinated as he is by millenarian movements preaching the end of the world, the artist has been collecting objects making use of apocalyptic iconography. This collection is on view for the first time in the CAPC exhibition.

This is specific to the core aspect of the “Left Behind” series : as Jim Shaw said, it is about “the death of the labor movement due to Reaganism and globalization and their displacement by duped born again Christians, as well as the burial of the New Deal era small town capitalism, replaced by the casino capitalism of the 00s.”

When: Until the 19th September, 2010
Where: CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, 7 Rue Ferrère, 33000 Bordeaux
Cost: €5.00

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Art Chartrons

Mike Foster — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:10:00 +0000

From the 4th to 14th of Novemeber, Bordeaux will be the home of some pretty snazzy contemporary art displayed around the Chartrons and Bassins à Flots.

Paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, performances: the art will be shown in 27 different locations, open free to the public.

The Chartrons is a great place to take a stroll any old day of the week and as there is a lot on offer from the invited artists and Fine Art graduates.

When: 4th to 14th November, 2010
Where: Chartrons / Bassins à Flot
Cost: Free!

Website

Facebook Event

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Dystopia by Mark von Schlegell @ CAPC

Mike Foster — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:05:00 +0000

Here is an exhibition that throws us off from the beginning: those who will be able to decipher the title will be the very happy few. For all the rest of us, dystopia is the contrary of utopia. It was thought of by a writer of science-fiction, Mark von Schlegell, and it tries to show how many of our current avant-gardes have been contaminated by the consumerist creed.

Mathieu Tonetti Rancho Mirage, RM-144, 2010. Lightbox, print on Ecolatex Boite lumineuse, tirage sur Ecolatex

180 x 135cm © Mathieu Tonetti

Our world is described in New Dystopia, the title of the author’s latest book, and it is clearly apocalyptic. To do so he brought together the works of some fifty artists (from Cyprien Gaillard to Franz West) who describe hostile spaces, explosions, radiations, solitary existences.

There is nevertheless some space for hope: at the bottom of this black hole, of this industrial catastrophe, new utopias can come to life. The catalogue itself is quite original, as it is presented as a novel, written by the same curator.

Artists
Wallace Berman / Cosima von Bonin / Brian Calvin /Tony Carter / Marc Camille Chaimowicz / Peter Coffin / Simon Denny / Andreas Dobler / Roe Ethridge / Keith Farquhar / Hans-Peter Feldmann / Aurélien Froment / Cyprien Gaillard / Isa Genzken / Dan Graham / Robert Grosvenor / Sebastian Hammwöhner / Roger Hiorns / Ull Hohn / Des Hughes / Peter Hutchinson / Sergej Jensen / On Kawara / Michael Krebber / Jesús Mari Lazkano / Rita McBride / John Miller / Pathetic Sympathy Seekers / Manfred Pernice / Stephen G. Rhodes / Glen Rubsamen / Sterling Ruby / Julia Scher / Frances Scholz / Michael Scott / Markus Selg / Reena Spaulings / Michael Stevenson / Tommy Støckel / Josef Strau / Blair Thurman / Mathieu Tonetti / Oscar Tuazon / Franz West / Jordan Wolfson

catastrophe Eugène Isabey
curator Alexis Vaillant

*Content taken from pbart.com

When: 14th May until 28 August 2011
Where: CAPC musée d’art contemporain, 7 Rue Ferrère, 33000 Bordeaux
Cost: €5

CAPC website.

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Galerie 121 – Contemporary Art in Bordeaux

Mike Foster — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:14:00 +0000

Bordeaux has recently seen a soaring augmentation of tourists visiting the city over the summer and has been dubbed as a cultural destination by local newspapers. With a 14% increase of tourists compared to July 2010, and with 32% of the total being foreigners it seems only right that there are more cultural centres for people to visit.

Perhaps sensing this need to support local and international culture, Samira and Derek Phillips are launching into something that will hopefully offer Bordelaise and tourists alike an avenue to appreciate Contemporary art.

Galerie 121will have its vernissage and official opening on the 15th September. Their first exhibition will display works from Vincent Richeux, a local artist, who’s colourful work is inspired by street art and comic book characters.

Samira and Derek have lived in France since 1983. Samira is a teacher and Derek has been in Major Sports Events all over the world. Samira is English from Irish/Moroccan stock and Derek is from Scotland.

When asked why they were opening Gallery in Bordeaux, they’re swift reply was: “We love taking risks!”.

To request an invitation to Galerie 121’s opening, send an email to: galerie121@gmail.com

When : 15 September 2011 @ 6.30pm

Cost : Contact the Gallery directly for an invitation

Where : Galerie 121, 121 rue Fondaudège, 33000 Bordeaux

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Galerie 121 – New Exhibition – SCHWABE

Mike Foster — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:25:00 +0000

The Galerie 121 is currently in the midst of showing their new exhibition from French artist, Jean-Pierre Schwabe.

The Gallery is open Tuesday to Friday from 2pm to 7pm and Saturday from 10am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 6pm. They are also available for private showings at other times with a couple of days notice.

Each canvas exhibited in the Galerie 121 carries a description in French/English and the artist is present in the gallery at least 3 days every week to meet and discuss his work with all visitors.

About the Artist:

Jean-Pierre Schwabe was born into a family of artists. He is the grand-son of Carlos Schwabe, a symbolist painter from Geneva and the son of Jean Schwabe, a model painter.

He was at the service of the National Education for 30 years and from now on he can fully devote himself to his art.

Inspiration came from his masters,surrealist Dali,Chirico, Magritte and also Soulages for his handling of the black colour.

His paintings deal with urban life,the environment,society,the founding myths.The latest show an increasing interest in abstract expression.

When: 19th May until 30th June, 2012
Where: Galerie 121, 121 rue Fondaudège, 33000 Bordeaux
Cost: Free Entry

Contact the Galerie 121
www.jpschwabe-artistepeintre.com

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BDX – LAX / Urban and Contemporary Art Project

Mike Foster — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:53:00 +0000

The cultural project BDX-LAX from Flash aims to link, support, and promote Bordeaux contemporary and urban art scene, facilitating exchanges between Bordeaux and Los Angeles (twin cities since 1964).

BDX-LAX aims to be the link between artists with common influences (graffiti, street art, Comics underground, freestyle,) as a unique gathering point for a strong and alternative cultural scene, effervescent, often not visible, with multiple artistic scopes.

OPENING EXHIBITION

June 15 – 6/9 pm – Saint-Remi Space

Opening of the exhibition, video projection, happening by Skinjackin, surprises, cocktail party & music by DJ Kubik.

With : Dave Kinsey, Victor Marco, Specio, Derik, Bobaxx, Steven Burke, LLcool Jo, Sylvain Havec, Mehdi Beneitez and the collective Skinjakin.

AFTER SHOW

June 15 – from 11 pm – IBOAT

Discovery of the mural painting realized by the artists BDX LAX, video projection by LLCool Jo and happenning by Skinjackin.

Outside Bar : Set by DJ Kubik.

Club : special guest the label ED BANGER feat DJ FEADZ + Live KRAZY BALDHEAD.

CHILDREN WORKSHOPS

June the 20th & the 27th – IBOAT

Urban Art workshop with Skinjackin and our partner POSCA.
Initiation via the realization of a wall collective work and short-lived tattoos ” drawing, calligraphic approach, techniques of construction of simple letterings, put in color, work of composition “.

For the children from 6 to 10 years old / From 2:30 pm till 4:30 pm.

Incriptions by e-mail programmation@iboat.eu or by phone: 05 56 10 48 23

For more info, visit: www.bdx-lax.fr

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London Photo Exhibition

Mike Foster — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:35:00 +0000

Londres, rues et visages – London streets and faces

A London photography exhibition from Sylvain Harrison is taking place at the Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine until the end of this month.

Copywrite Sylvain Harrison

“The personality of the city of London fascinates me and inspires me in its human diversity and contrasts, I cast a fleeting and instinctive glance.”

The exhibition is of 15 large format photographs (120 x 80 cm).

When: 5th – 31st July (Monday to Friday / 8:30am to pm)
Where: Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine , 14 rue François de Sourdis, 33000 Bordeaux
Cost: Free!

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