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| I am a photographer living and working in Paris. I am a permanent resident of the National Foundation for Graphic and Plastic Arts in Paris Since 2004. I was initially trained as a biochemist, which influenced me to base my work around the human being’s evolution, identity, and history. I primarily use photography as a medium, although I also use video and sound for my installations. Titans’ Land is a work in progress started in 2006. It consists of different series: Identity, Intimity (“intimacy” in French), Titans’ Eyes, Titans’ Memory, Press, and Landscape Invasion. I mask and then photograph people in their daily intimate scenarios.
These photographed situations show familiarity with our own lives, the
only difference being that the models’ faces are hidden behind Mexican
wrestler’s masks. The idea is to interlink the legendary and the
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The Museum of Modern Art, in association with Cinecittà Holding, presents the New York premiere of Ferzan Ozpetek’s most recent film, Un Giorno Perfetto (A Perfect Day) (2008), as one of the features of Filmmaker in Focus: Ferzan Ozpetek, a seven-film exhibition of one of the most successful contemporary Italian filmmakers. The premiere of A Perfect Day this past December was introduced by actor Stefano Accorsi, and followed by a Q&A with Ozpetek and Laura Delli Colli, film critic and author of a monograph that was released in conjunction with the exhibition, titled Ferzan Ozpetek: Eyes Wide Open, edited by Mondadori. Filmmaker in Focus: Ferzan Ozpetek screened in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters at MoMA this past December, and was organized by Jytte Jensen, curator, Department of Film, and Camilla Cormanni and Paola Ruggiero, Cinecittà Holding, Rome.
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| Images of the human form have a long history in photographic practice, and with a few notable exceptions it has predominantly been the male gaze upon the naked female body. This pattern has been preserved up until today in the form of the classic black-and-white photographic nude. Nudity, of course, is an amazingly loaded topic in the conservative cultural and political climate of the United States. Nudity is routinely equated with sex, a fact carefully and skillfully exploited by an unusual alliance of conservative politicians and the advertizing industry. Despite agitating toward different goals, this alliance has succeeded
in cementing the idea that where there are images of the nude human
form, sexual activity is mostly likely not far. |
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| To be in the company of the artist, Loveariel, preparation is a must. First, you should start by keeping a vampire’s hours. Loveariel peaks creatively when most of her peers who share the Surry Hills studio have packed up and left for the evening. Second, you should read up on matters of the occult, the supernatural, and any texts regarding the 2012 prophecies. Without much coaxing, Loveariel is happy to launch into a deep and meaningful discussion about her spiritual connections. “It’s a story; it’s religion,” she says. “But by 2012 there’s going to be an extra planet. All of the planets in the solar system are going to align to create a cosmic shift, evolution, big bang, or maybe nothing at all. The government tries to hide it all, but once you really study these things, it all makes sense.” Loveariel’s beliefs do more than fuel her insatiable curiosity; they inform her body of work. | 
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In this interview, Mao Xu-Hui, important participant of ’85 New Wave, primary organizer of New Figurative Movement and Southwest Art Research Group, talks about the essential reason for his consecutive experiments and change of painting languages since the beginning of his artistic creation in 1973. That is to respect history, to respect individual survival experience, and to respect art.
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