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hippie coco’s planet

3 May 2013 | art, toys | 2 comments

exhibition at parabolica-bis – part one: 02 may to 13 may – part two: may 31 to june 17 – ¥500 admission, not sure how much access that grants you to other ongoing exhibitions in the building but keiko miyata particularly worth seeing

pictured above is “candy floss” – she eats our badness – the more badness she eats the more her candy floss hair grows – (then we eat her hair?!)

th #54

26 April 2013 | art, book, girls war, tb | 4 comments

new issue of “talking heads” magazine now out, almost! – no.54, a medical theme issue – contains 13 pages of tb (fittingly – 13 ♥ ) – 5 pages in color, 8 in black and white – includes a few new paintings, the couple shown above from “girls war” (“fight” and “drugs”) and one other unpublished work – an article entitled “trevors girls” – and a “20 year anniversary” interview – which after translation misunderstandings maybe bears little relation to what i actually said (which could be an improvement! – my answers were boring) – the only words in english i can read are “low blow art” which should be “low brow art” (haha! – i think “low blow” plobably better!)

also in this issue many tb favorites: moira, kenichi murata, lots of kenichi koyama medical works, tsurisaki kiyotaka, makoto aida, and much more – the bulk of the magazine is actually text but lots of nice art in this issue

pinxit

13 April 2013 | art, book | 2 comments

the first mark ryden book i’ve bought since… um, well, perhaps this is the first mark ryden book i’ve actually bought?! – i used to swap books with him and/or he was kind enough to send me complimentary copies – but i don’t have the tree or snow books (or gay 90′s book if there is one?) so this big “cheap” complete collection of everything worth picking up for me – most fans, however, will probably have bought much of the contents several times over already – there’s little that hasn’t been seen before – but, whatever, it’s cheap and big and pink so buy it anyway and get rid of all your old ryden books’n'ephemera on ebay : )

graham ovenden continued…

9 April 2013 | art, censorship, crime | 10 comments

another post to help redress the balance of graham ovenden images on the internet – a few “exclusives” here, including unusually playful things

the controversy still raging – the guardian fueling debate (here and here) – and the mail-online fueling hate (here and here) – besides the usual menagerie of internet “world put right by me” types who like to brag about their 127 iq and their belief in impartiality, treating everyone with equal respect (artists/”sick fat cunt”s who paint little girls NOT included obviously) – so time for trevor to put you right!

i think everything that could be said has been said by now – you can choose sides – i feel the “truth”, the extent of the actual sex crimes, has got a little buried however – so briefly, for the record (and as the ignorant media aren’t telling you), mr ovenden was convicted for:

1. getting into a bath tub with two girls asking one girl to wash his “john thomas” – no other sexual act
2. cupping his hands over the clothed chest of the same girl – both these charges (related to events up to 40 years old!) denied by ovenden
3. two photographs of a girl …who has continued to state she was never touched or mistreated by ovenden
4. one photograph of another girl with the now famous victorian nightdress and “black stickytape” blindfold – i’ve seen the photo – the blindfold is white, looks like cloth, and appears she could see out the bottom of it easily
5 and 6. “specimen” charges i don’t understand related to the act of repeated photography – being itself viewed as an indecent act even if the photographs not indecent themselves(???)

date for sentencing not set – we’re not done here yet

no charges for painting – his paintings are innocent okay! – at least until the tate decides otherwise – which effectively they already have? – the idea his paintings are evidence of paedophilia and/or trophies for all his supposed child sex conquests firmly implanted in the public’s mind now (even liberal guardian readers)

personally i think his lolita works tend to sit on the mildly titillating end of the sensual-to-erotic-to-pornographic scale – mostly simple nudes (or not even nudes) with abstract backgrounds and nothing happening – basically portraits! – admittedly a certain idiosyncratic (unwitting?) somberness (also prevalent in his landscapes) which gives his work it’s artistic edge – or alternatively viewed as something troubling – “sexualised” images?, if you must, but any sexualisation is largely by you the viewer?! – or by the gutter press – to whit the censored/pornographicised image below courtesy of the mail-online (they removed it after their duplicity pointed out to them!)

ovenden gave up photography 25 years ago i think i read – and has made no new little girl paintings for a similar time?

and produced more paintings of trees than girls?!

“pervert!”

5 April 2013 | art, censorship, crime | 5 comments

“Be careful of ‘googling’ this guy’s work, or you might find yourself charged with viewing child pornography.”

“Dirty old creep. This sick society’s riddled with them.”

“Another so called artist who believes he can do whatever he likes so long as he calls it “art”Hope he is banged up for a long while”

“…his portrait painting had been a ruse to aid his abuse of children.”

“Gross, disgusting, disgraceful man. Those poor children !”

“Strange that he was ill on the day of the verdict.”

“He’s sounds like a loathsome man. He’s typical of many people in the art world ,who think that normal rules of behavior don’t belong to them.”

“Hang on… just what has he been convicted of???… what did he actually do?…. its so nebulous to be untenable…. until you tell us… what did he do? actually?”