Category Archives: CONTEMPORARY ART

Underwater painting photographs by Mark Mawson

British photographer mark mawson explores the synthesis of color, ink and water in his series ‘aqueous II – the sequel’.

That means it has produced these amazing shots where the electric imagery follows the journey of paint as it plunges underwater — the submerged forms exposing the aftermath of mixing, dropping, and spinning various colored liquids in water.

The result is frozen motion, capturing billowing, hypnotic shapes and silhouettes swirling and rippling through a vast dark background. the photographs illustrate a variety of illusions — sunken mushroom clouds ballooning in space, vibrant jellyfish-like figures, and ghostly pigmented lines.

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Mark Mawson | Art-Pie

Mark Mawson | Art-Pie

Hors Les Murs, part of the FIAC fair

The FIAC art fair has opened its doors to the public until the 27/10 and while loads is happening, a stroll around the Parisians parks i a must as a bung of artist have dropped some outdoors installation. This event is called Hors-Les-Murs

Make sure to head down to the Tuileries Gardens, Jardin des Plantes, National History Museum, and Place Vendôme, the Petit Palais, and the banks of the Seine River, situated on the left bank between the Pont de Solférino and the Pont des Invalides and you shoud get your dose of art

Highlights include an installation by Tadashi Kawamata on the iconic Vendôme Column in Place Vendôme, working in collaboration with the Comité Vendôme and its members, in particular a number of major jewelers that are based in the mythic square. The piece is entitled “Tree Huts at Place Vendôme, 2013.”

Body painting by Choo San

I am sure that some of you will think that these pictures below have been retouched or altered with some software such as Photoshop and I would not blame you for believeing this since these acrylic body paint looks rather real and… creepy some might say.

Meet the artist, Chooo-San, who is a big fan of body painting

From the artist:
But I guess I was a little sick of everyone making pictures with their computers and wanted to see how far I can go without those technologies such as Photoshop. My works are all done with acrylic paints. They are all painted on skin directly and I don’t use computers or anything to change the picture afterwards.

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Jester Jacques Fine Art: October 2013 – January 2014

Jester Jacques Fine art collection | Art-PieAfter having spent almost a year building up a diverse, international and trendy collection of Contemporary and Investment Prints, Jester Jacques Art is now ready to present their Fine Art Collection.

Curated by the Directors of JJ Art,  the collection of paintings, sculptures, collages and photographs have been conscientiously selected to ensure quality, investment potential and one of a kind pieces from the finest artists from all over the world, already established in their careers.

With only 1 – 5 original pieces of artwork available by each artist, Jester Jacques provides an exclusive and limited range of beautiful, framed and ready to display pieces. The collection was created with the intention of supporting young and mid career artists and to develop a showcase for those artists beyond the galleries in which their work was usually seen.

Ready just in time for Christmas, the works on offer make excellent gifts, as original pieces by established artists allow for both unique, decorative pieces as well as serving as long term investments. Every single artist is profiled to show their selling history, achievements and exhibition lists.

Full Collection Available to purchase now until January 1st, 2014. Click to Shop.

Your stars by Cage One | Art-Pie
Your stars by Cage One

ABOUT JESTER JACQUES ART:
Jester Jacques Art is an all-encompassing website which boasts a Blog called ‘Trend Watch’, an Online Shop and a PR Service for Artists. With a strong online presence and a plethora of Press, JJ has had a Pop Up at Box Park, participated in the 2013 Other Art Fair in London and held a successful first exhibition in Shoreditch. 2014 will see more events and exhibitions.

Following the success of their Contemporary Art Print selection and Investment Street Art for sale online, Jester Jacques launches their Fine Art Collection in mid October 2013.

Jester Jacques Art has been described by Art Lyst as ”signal(ling) growth for Shoreditch art scene” and by Soapbox Press as “one step ahead of the rest.” Advertising Week  said ”JJ are always eager to get involved with the current trends, which allows them to deliver the best and most fresh work to the public.”

Here are the artists for this collection : Rob Bellman – Installation Artist | Sean Molloy – Painter | Mimi Norrgren – Sculptor | Kazuya Tsuji – Collage Artist | Dragomir Misina – Painter | Jack Sutherland – Painter | Simon Sarin – Photographer, Digital Artist and Painter | Jesse Treece – Collage Artist | Eric Carbrey – Painter |Cage One – Street Artist

The unnamable

When Context Take The Game | Art-Pie“Where now? Who Now? When now?

Unquestioning. I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on. Can it be that one day, off it goes on, that one day I simply stayed in, in where, instead of going out, in the old way, out to spend day and night as far away as possible, it wasn’t far. Perhaps that is how it began. You think you are simply resting, the better to act when the time comes, or for no reason, and you soon find yourself powerless ever to do anything again. No matter how it happened. It, say it, not knowing what. Perhaps I simply assented at last to an old thing. But I did nothing. I seem to speak, it is not I, about me, it is not about me. These few general remarks to begin with. What am I to do, what shall I do, what should I do, in my situation, how proceed? By aporia pure and simple? Or by affirmations and negations invalidated as uttered, or sooner or later?
Generally speaking. There must be other shifts. Otherwise it would be quite hopeless. But it is quite hopeless. I should mentions before going any further, any further on, that I say aporia without knowing what it means. Can one be ephectic otherwise than unawares? I don’t know. With the yesses and the noes it is different, they will come back to me as I go along and how, like a bird, to shit on them all without exception. The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never.”
Opening paragraph to The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

Contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou asks if we can name a truth, anticipating and forcing into knowledge all the elements contained in that truth, risking a totality of knowledge related to it; a problem, for example, in politics where this turns to totalitarianism. He says, “The construction of a truth is made by a choice within the indiscernible…But the potency of a truth depends on the hypothetical forcing…The problem is to know whether such a potency of anticipation [hypothetical forcing] is total…My answer is there is always, in any situation, a real point that resists this potency.

I call this point the unnameable of the situation. It is what, within the situation, never has a name in the eyes of truth. A term that consequently remains unforceable. This term fixes the limit of the potency of a truth. The unnambeable is what is excluded from having a proper name, and what is alone in such exclusion. The unnameable is then the proper of the proper, so singular in its singularity that it does not even tolerate having a proper name. The unnameable is the point where the situation in its most intimate being is submitted to thought; in the pure presence that no knowledge can circumscribe. The unnameable is something like the inexpressible real of everything a truth authorizes to be said.”
Alain Badiou from Infinite Thought

The unnameable is something I have personal experience with. The secret and the truth. I’ve held both of these things, safeguarding, I thought, others and myself. Both secret and truth can be destructive if kept silent. But it has been my experience that once spoken, the unnameable is an agent of transformation; it comes in facing what’s real.

Read more of my interview, When Context Takes The Game, conducted by Becky Huff Hunter for This ‘Me’ of Mine.

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Beckett, Samuel, Three Novels Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Grove Press, New York, The Unnamable, originally published under the title L’Innommable, copyright © 1953 by Les Editions de Minuit. Translation copyright © 1958 by the Estate of Samuel Beckett, pp. 285-6.

Badiou, Alain, Infinite Thought, Continuum International Publishing Group, London, New York. Trans and ed by Oliver Feltham and Justin Clemens, 2005 – 2011. “Philosophy and Truth”, pp. 43 to 51, originally titled “The ethic of truths: construction and potency” quote p.49.