Venice

I'm going to the Venice Biennale opening chaos tomorrow. I'll be blogging direct to dazeddigital.com with some pics and snippets from the acres of art that will be covering the city. A perfect chance to share some of Nicholas Roeg's genius - the rather gruesome but brilliant ending to Don't Look Now.

On the Radio today

I'm doing a musical timeline on Diesel Radio today!
2-4pm UK (9-11am US)
I'm playing a musical timeline. One song from every year since 1952 until the time runs out.
Listen.

http://cult.diesel.com/radio/dum_radio.html

Reviews

Creative Space getting some more mentions out in the ether

Dazed (with an image of my favourite, Wes Lang's space)


Office's mag (featuring Gary Card's home)

Dreamtime, Toulouse, Paris

I went to France for five days last week to look at art.



I went to the most insane exhibition in prehistoric caves in Mas-D'Azil an hour out of Toulouse called Dreamtime / Temps du reve. (There was a joint show at Toulouse Abbatoirs but it couldnt really compete). Think David Altmejd sculptures in dark caves like weird sci-fi guardians.



In Paris Beatriz Milhazes show at the Fondation Cartier made William Eggleston downstairs seem dull and colourless

I also played Where's Wally with Renaissance paintings at a wicked Archimoldo et al show at the Grand Palais, 'une image peut en cacher une autre' The catalogue's rather amazing to - these even spot varnish the invisible faces in paintings. (Couldnt decide if this technique was annoying or I loved it.)

I'm going to get a bloody camera so i can put my own photos up here...

Mati Klarwein

Stumbled online to a piece I wrote a few years back on Mati Klarwein

I curated a whole exhibition, 'Improved', in Klarwein's memory around 4 years ago. He would take fleamarket paintings and work on top of them. So rare to actually see any of his work in life, but i glimpsed this Tree of Life at Riflemaker's Voodoo show a few months back....

Koh Creatives

Had lots of nice online mentions about Creative Space recently (Here's a sample page from Julie Verhoeven's home) including Acne, Grafik magazine and itsnicethat.com

And I did a four page interview with Terence Koh which is out in the June issue of Elle (British edition)...