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New Gothic
New Gothic or Neo-Gothic is a contemporary art movement that emphasizes darkness and horror. Manifesto "The Art Manifesto" was written by Gothic subculture artist Charles Moffat in 2001, who also coined the term in an effort to differentiate it from Gothic architecture. The manifesto was later updated in 2003, but both versions emphasize rebellion against normality. Gothic exhibition, Boston 1997 The style may be said to have begun (even if named later) with the "Gothic" exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, curated by Christoph Grunenberg, which took place April 24 – July 6, 1997.Grunenberg 1997. This exhibit included work by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mike Kelley (artist), Mike Kelley, Gregory Crewdson, Robert Gober, Jim Hodges (artist), Jim Hodges, Douglas Gordon, Abigail Lane, Tony Oursler, Alexis Rockman, and Cindy Sherman. Francesca Gavin's reformulation Gavin's 2008 book ''Hell Bound'' continued to theorize the existence of the movement. She h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo-Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly serious and learned admirers of the neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, intending to complement or even supersede the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws upon features of medieval examples, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, and hood moulds. By the middle of the 19th century, Gothic had become the preeminent architectural style in the Western world, only to fall out of fashion in the 1880s and early 1890s. The Gothic Revival movement's roots are intertwined with philosophical movements associated with Catholicism and a re-awakening of high church or Anglo-Catholic belief concerned by the growth of religious nonconformism. Ultimately, the "Anglo-Catholicism" tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Noonan (artist)
David Noonan (born 1969) is an Australian artist who lives and works in London. His work was shown at Tate Modern in 2006. Early life and education Noonan was born in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. He received his BFA (Painting) in 1989 from Ballarat University College and his MFA in 1992 from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Work His work is included in the March 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ..., which is titled "Monster Theatres". Solo exhibitions 2020 *Stagecraft, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, VIC, Australia 2019 *Tapestries, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia *A Dark and Quiet Place, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA, Australia 2018 *A Dark and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn, June 16, 1957) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his older brother, Greg Ginn. He has subsequently become widely recognized in the fine art world for using American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, and religion to politics, sport, and sexuality. As Holland Cotter noted in ''The New York Times'': Early life The fourth of five children born to R.C.K. Ginn, an English teacher who published several spy novels; his mother was a housewife. Pettibon grew up in Hermosa Beach, California. He was raised Christian Scientist. He earned an economics degree from UCLA in 1977 and worked as a high school mathematics teacher in the L.A. public school system for a short period, before pursuing and completing his BFA in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970 in Tokyo) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese's (often multi-media) works include paintings, collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play, ''De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein - Dr. Ezodysseusszeusuzur'' in 2007 at the Volksbühne Theater. He is mainly concerned with personalities of world history, primordial myths and heroes. Jonathan Meese lives and works in Ahrensburg and Berlin. Life and work Childhood and youth (1970–1995) Jonathan Meese was born as a third child of his parents, a German and a Welsh, in Tokyo, Japan. His mother, Brigitte Renate Meese, returned to Germany in the mid-1970s. His father, the banker Reginald Selby Meese, born in Newport (Wales), lived in Japan until his death in 1988. Since Meese only spoke English after his return to Germany, he had difficulties adapting. After a period spent in Scotland, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joss McKinley
Joss McKinley is a British photographer. McKinley studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins, London. After graduating in 2003 he went on to a masters in photography at the University of the Arts London. He is both an art and commercial photographer and his works consist of still life, landscapes and portraits. His work has been collected by several public museums including the Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and the National Portrait Gallery, London. McKinley works on assignments for publications including ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', '' WSJ.'', '' W'', British ''Vogue'' and ''AnOther Magazine ''Another Magazine'', styled ''AnOther'', is an international fashion and culture bi-annual. Founded in 2001, its Editor-in-Chief is Susannah Frankel, who joined in January 2016. Frankel had been Fashion Features Director of the magazine since ...''. References External linksJoss McKinley's Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Vas
Abdul Vas (born 15 March 1981 in Maracay, Venezuela) is a contemporary artist. He grew up living between Suriname, Guyana, and Belgium. After studies at EAVRA in Maracay and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam he lives and works in Amsterdam and Madrid. He has created handmade books and zines, photographs, collages, drawings, paintings and murals. Vas's work has been discussed and reviewed in ''Vice'', ''Rolling Stone'', ABC (newspaper), ''Esquire'', and ''The New York Times''. In 2009, he was selected for the Beijing Biennale. His works are part of various collections internationally, and have been exhibited throughout the , |
Dr Lakra
Jerónimo López Ramírez (born 1972), known as Dr Lakra, is a Mexican artist and tattooist based in Oaxaca. Apart from tattooing, his art involves embellishing found images and objects—for instance, dolls, old medical illustrations, and pictures in 1950s Mexican magazines—with macabre or tattoo-style designs. He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including ''Stolen Bike'' at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City, ''Los Dos Amigos'' at MACO in Mexico, ''Pin Up'' at Tate Modern and ''Pierced Hearts and True Love'' at The Drawing Center in New York. In 2008 he participated in the ''Goth: Reality of the Departed World'' exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, curated by Eriko Kimura. He is the son of the graphic artist Francisco Toledo and Elisa Ramírez Castañeda, a Mexican anthropologist and poet. He is also the brother of Natalia Toledo (poet) and Laureana Toledo (artist). In 2007, he co-produced the book ''Los Dos Amigoswith artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tal R
Tal Rosenzweig (born 1967), known as Tal R, is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Life and work Tal R was born in Israel and moved to Denmark with his family when he was one year old. He studied at Billedskolen, Copenhagen, from 1986 to 1988 and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1994 to 2000. Tal R's painting style is described as "kolbojnik", which means "left-overs", a Hebrew word for "jack-of-all-trades." He has shown work in exhibitions including ''Bicycle Thieves'' at Beret International Gallery in Chicago, ''House of Prince'' at Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, ''The Gallery Show'' at the Royal Academy of Art in London and ''Ars Fennica'' at Henna and Pertti Niemisto Art Foundation in Helsinki. Tal R currently teaches at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. 2019 legal action In 2019, two Faroese artists bought one of Tal R's paintings, ''Paris Chic'', and announced plans to cut it up and use pieces of the canvas as decorative faces for a line of luxury wristwatches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Breuning
Olaf Breuning (born February 16, 1970)SIK ISEAOlaf Breuning/ref> is a Swiss-born artist, born in Schaffhausen, who lives in New York City. Works *''Home 1/Home 2'' (2004/7)--30 minute video starring Brian Kerstetter. ''Home 1'' is presented as a double-projection, where the main character can no longer distinguish the difference between reality and fiction. He wanders around a hotel room telling stories about himself and other people to the camera. As he tells the stories, they are simultaneously seen on the opposite screen. In '' Home 2'' Brian Kerstetter plays an ignorant tourist staggering around the world from Switzerland to Africa and Japan to Papua New Guinea, crashing his western mentality upon the exotic places he goes. *''Ugly Yelp'' (2000), ''Apes'' (2001), ''King'' (2001), ''Hello Darkness'' (2002)--With these installations, Breuning creates theatrical atmospheres using sound, video and light. These installations have been shown in many museums and are owned by col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Stone
Matthew Stone (born 1982 in London, England) is a London-based artist. He is part of the South London art collective !Wowow!. Stone graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, London in 2004. He currently stages performances and films. In 2007, his first solo show, entitled "Futurehindsight", took place at UNION in London. In November 2009, Stone topped the arts section in a "Power players Under 30" list compiled by the Sunday Times. Stone frequently collaborates with FKA Twigs and created the album artwork for 2019's '' Magdalene''. Waddoups, Ryan. (8 November 2019)The Transcendent Pain of FKA Twigs’ Magdalene ''Surface Mag.'' Retrieved October 19, 2020. In November 2011, Stone gave an exhibition at Kathy Grayson's "The Hole" Gallery Gallery or The Gallery may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Art gallery ** Contemporary art gallery Music * Gallery (band), an American soft rock band of the 1970s Albums * ''Gallery'' (Elaiza album), 2014 album * ''Gallery'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Koh
Terence Koh (born 1977 in Beijing, China ) is a Canadian artist who has also worked under the alias "asianpunkboy". The artist's work spans a range of media, including drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and the internet. Originally working under the alias asianpunkboy, Koh designed zines and custom-made books. His recent work has expanded to include durational performances, complex installations, and the exploration of natural ecosystems. Much of his diverse work involves queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities. In 2008, he was listed in '' Out'' magazine's "Out 100 People of the Year". Early life and education Koh was raised in Mississauga, Ontario, and now lives in Northern California. He is a Chinese-Canadian artist who received degrees from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver and The University of Waterloo, Ontario. Career Koh's work was included in the Whitney Biennial (2004), and the Yokohama Triennial (2008). In 2008, he was a finalist for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boo Saville
Boo Saville (born 15 January 1980) is a contemporary artist. She lives and works in London. Career Saville was born in Norwich. She graduated from Slade School of Fine Art in 2004, then worked at a makeshift studio in Pimlico in the front room of her friend Elisa Roche's apartment. Her sister is artist Jenny Saville and she also moonlights as a member of the band 'So Silage Crew'. Saville is known mainly for her detailed drawings using Biros as her main material, her work focusing on the decomposition of the body after death. She has exhibited widely in London and Europe. She received attention when her work was selected by Nicholas Forrest as Critics Choice at Saatchi Online. and had work exhibited in ''Black Dog- Yellow House,'' a group show curated by Rachel Howard. Her work has been associated with New Gothic Art.Gavin, Francesca. ''Hell Bound: New Gothic Art''. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2008 and she runs a blog collecting images and quotes from the internet abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
