Monday, September 29, 2008
Rafael Goldchain "On Family Ground"
‘on familial ground’ by rafael goldchain is an autobiographical installation work that includes digitally altered self-portrait photographs. however these self-portraits aren’t of goldchain. each one features the artist re-enacting ancestral figure from his family, many of whom are no longer alive. by dressing up in period costume and applying prosthetic makeup, goldchain mimics 56 of his relatives. the works were compiled in exhibitions and now are features in the book ‘I am my family’.
‘the self-portraits in ‘on familial ground’ suggest that we look at family photographs in order to know ourselves through the photographic trace left by the lost ancestral other.’
http://www.rafaelgoldchain.com
‘the self-portraits in ‘on familial ground’ suggest that we look at family photographs in order to know ourselves through the photographic trace left by the lost ancestral other.’
http://www.rafaelgoldchain.com
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Charles Burns
Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is an award-winning U.S. cartoonist and illustrator. He is renowned for his meticulous, high-contrast and creepy artwork and stories.Charles Burns' earliest prominent works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine and contributions to Art Spiegelman's comic magazine RAW. Most of his short stories, published in various supports over the decades, have been collected in the three volumes of the "Charles Burns' Library" (hardcovers from Fantagraphics Books): El Borbah (1999), Big Baby (2000), and Skin Deep (2001). (A fourth and last volume, Bad Vibes, has yet to be published, which would have the Library collecting the entirety of his pre-Black Hole comics work.) From 1993 to 2004, he serialized the 12 chapters of his Harvey Award-winning graphic novel Black Hole (12 issues from Kitchen Sink Press and Fantagraphics Books). In October 2005, he released a slightly remastered collection of Black Hole (hardcover from Pantheon Books). In 2007 Burns contributed material for the French made animated horror anthology Peur(s) Du Noir.
Monday, September 22, 2008
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