Hyper Hyper

Ed Ruscha Busted Glass, 2007

The most poetic and beautiful work, recently rediscovered in a book shelf in New York. Fruit juice stains on moiré evolved into transparent fractures drawn on grainy paper. Fragile and painstaking.
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Exquisite Corpse

1. Bruce Nauman Prayer Wheel, 1986
2. Anna Gaskell Anagram, 2003
3. Acne Spring/Summer 2015
4. Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2015

An associative drawing in an associative culture. Copy has been replaced by collage. What is begun by one is to be continued by another. Body parts as vegetable as luxury goods as commodity products. And again printed on body parts.
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Floating/Nothingness

1. Yrjö Edelmann Fundamental Aspects Of Floating Parcel, 2006
2. Yrjö Edelmann Flashlighted Floated Parcel In Stormy Ocean And Sky, 2007
3. Ed Ruscha Blue Bowling Ball, 1972
4. Ed Ruscha Black And Pink Ball, 1972

Yrjö and Ed. Packages and bowling. Photo-realism and photo-realism. Of things that do not exist. Wafting in the surrealist space of fiction projected onto realist landscapes. It is the summary of the world we live in.
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Shop-A-Holistic

Matias Faldbakken Untitled (Plastic Bag), 2010

The artist who seeks to be liked. Because of the awkwardness of the art space, his art and self. 'It's foggy and strange and vague. And ya, that's what I like to be so here I am.'
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ER - A - (S...)ER

1. Michael Krebber Systemic Relevance, 2014
2. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 1998
3. Jil Sander Spring/Summer 1996
4. Ed Ruscha Rabbit, 1986

Flying from Krebber to Ruscha via Sander. For obvious reasons, I am still faithful to the brand. Although left anonymous now. But besides all personality talk, it is the moment and concept that count.
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Granularity X

1. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
2. Helmut Lang Surrogate Skin, 2008
3. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014
4. Helmut Lang Make It Hard, 2011
5. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
6. Helmut Lang Arbor, 2008
7. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
8. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
9. Helmut Lang Arbor, 2008
10. Helmut Lang Fall/Winter 1996 & Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
11. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
12. Helmut Lang Front Row, 2009
13. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014

The Raf Sandior universe is a hermeneutic one. Like father, like son. Or like 'Fathers Fathers' and 'Abus(ive) Lang(uage)'. And as we know, this letter similitude is no coincidence. What would father say?
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Apples, Cigarettes etc.

Artworks Roe Ethridge

Hunger for photorealism of photos of realism. Realist photos. Naturalist photos. Outdoor food sex. Exhibitionist fruit, nicotine fruit, the slurp of aphrodisiac.
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The Camp Of Plagiarism II

Alex Katz Round Hill, 1977
Steven Meisel An Interpretation, 1997

It is not a secret. For the Spring/Summer 2015 campaign, the newly redefined Loewe brand (directed by J.W. Anderson) is appropriating the work of Steven Meisel, who himself is appropriating a painting by Alex Katz. The truth is never/always sad.
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See also Nudist Camp

A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XVII

1. Unknown (X-MEN)
2. Cary Kwok Pop In The Eye, 2013
3. Unknown (Disney)
4. Unknown
5. Raymond Pettibon Unknown
6. Comme des Garçons Shirt Spring/Summer 2008
7. John Wesley Woman On Top (detail), 1996
8. John Wesley Untitled (Woman With Glasses, detail), 2004

Sex metaphors within comic. Usually a pastiche or web manipulation, the signals of intercourse via flat colour fields are a recurring fantasy in a seemingly forbidden, sexually neutral, non-physical, hypothetic and pre-adulthood cultural context. Sex in comic is another last taboo.
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Tokyo Diaries XVII

A mental travel preparation.

Joseph Beuys Nikka Whisky, 1984

And then you suddenly realize that 'Lost In Translation' should have been based on German Fluxus super artist Joseph Beuys. Politically engaged posing with a glass of whisky amidst a snowy forest, advertising for the good cause of protecting nature.
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