20/03/2015

"There's a hole in my soul like a cavity"...



"There's a hole in my soul like a cavity
Seems like the world is out to gather just by gravity"...


This quote from a Massive Attack song defines those days' mood around here.

Equinox, solar eclipse, planets' arrangement and atmosphere of ending eras...

Listen if you will:

From Blue Lines




Beautiful live version: 





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                                                   "Hymn Of The Big Wheel"

[Horace Andy]

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

There's a hole in my soul like a cavity
Seems like the world is out to gather just by gravity
The wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging
Look my son the weather is changing

I'd like to feel that you could be free
Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
Sometime again
You'll turn green and the sea turns red
My son I said the power of axis over my head
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

We sang about the sun and danced among the trees
And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze
Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone
Down within the shadows where the factories drone
On the surface of the wheel they build another town
And so the green come tumbling down
Yes close your eyes and hold me tight
And i'll show you sunset sometime again

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
As a child's silent prayer my hope hides in disguise
While satellites and cameras watch from the skies
An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
It washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me
And all the king's men cannot put it back again
But the ghetto sun will nurture life
And mend my soul sometime again

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
One man struggle while another relaxes...
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BRISTOL SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE: EXHIBITION IN JUNE


Great news from Bristol!!



SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE: BRISTOL – official launch of
 a new photographic exhibition

Saturday, June 13 at 2:00pm in UTC+01

Colston Hall in Bristol, United Kingdom




SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE: BRISTOL

Exhibition launch event
13 June, 2–4pm

Exhibition and sound installation
8 June–17 July 2015
Opening times: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 2pm–4pm
Free admission

Colston Hall is proud to present Sound System Culture: Bristol, an exhibition documenting Bristol’s rich history of reggae sound systems through photographs, audio recordings, archive film footage and other memorabilia. As part of the display, visitors will have an opportunity to interact with Heritage HiFi, a vintage-style sound system custom-built for the project, consisting of a record deck, amps and speaker boxes. 

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More soon.


Bristolian Nick Walker show in Paris



 Graffiti on canevas are not as powerful as on walls, but come on, Nick Walker is a legend.
His paintings are to be seen in Paris, 40 rue Volta, 75003.

Preview, pictures by myself:









More, closer

Impressive "Choice":





My favourite: "Haunted Love"




Se mettre en scène...



More, again:




"Double Trouble"



Speaks for itself:



The gallery







Iconic: "Silver Heart"




"Bow Ties":




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Vicious Beauty, du 19 mars au 4 avril
Signature du livre The Art Of Nick Walker le samedi 21 mars à 16h
Galerie Brugier – Rigail, 40 rue Volta 75003 Paris
Nick Walker's website:

Bristol in Paris: Nick Walker's exhibition opening

Bristol in memories. Bristol in dreams.



"Write hard and clear about what hurts", Hemingway on the board of Café Kino, Bristol, on Feb. 17, my winter paradise
 — in Stokes Croft.






19/03/2015

Interview with Daher Ahmed Farah, Djibouti's main opposition leader


DJIBOUTI IN THE NEWS


Interview with Daher Ahmed Farah,

 Djibouti's main opposition leader


On RFI English



Djibouti opposition leader is in Europe to raise attention about the tense political and social situation in the strategic Horn of Africa country.
Daher Ahmed Farah has been leading demonstration in Djibouti since the last parliamentary elections two years ago, where the opposition claims it's been rigged of MP seats.
An agreement has been signe last December to settle a compromise but has never been finalised.
In the meantime the country remains at the heart of security strategy for Western power in the Horn of Africa, in the fight against piracy, terrorists and against instabilities inside neighbouring countries as Eritrea and Sudan / South Sudan.
France has for instance thousands of troops as well as warships, aircraft and armoured vehicles and the US has stationed hundreds of troops in Djibouti, its only African base, in an effort to counter terrorism in the region.
But Daher Ahmed Farah told RFI's Melissa Chemam security cannot come without democratisation and good governance.

Listen on RFI English' webpage today:

And anytime here: 
https://soundcloud.com/melissa-chemam/interview-with-daher-ahmed-farah-djiboutis-main-opposition-leader



England calling again: More of 3D's artwork



Well kown...


1994
1994
2013
112 cm x 91 cm
Screen print and silver leaf on paper

Red Attack
Red Attack
2013
93 cm x 82 cm
Red and black glitter screen print on hand painted paper



Old or new


Protection 1
Protection 1
2013
92 cm x 65 cm
White glitter screenprint on cardboard with red glitter hands


Safe From Harm
Safe From Harm
2013
89 cm x 68 cm
Gun metal and black screen print on cardboard


How to Sneak a Bomb into a Gallery
How to Sneak a Bomb into a Gallery
2008
120 cm x 120 cm
Mixed media on canvas

Insecurity Guard
Insecurity Guard
2013
122 cm x 76 cm
Pink, blue, green and orange glitter screenprint on paper


But also unbelievably beautiful...



Unbelievable
Unbelievable
2008
79 cm x 110 cm
Hand-finished archival pigment print on canvas


Glossheart
Glossheart
2013
86 cm x 87 cm
Screen print, aerosol and acrylic on paper


Cherry Coke
Cherry Coke
2013
91 cm x 61 cm
Ink jet, aerosol and acrylic on hand painted paper.


Burroughs
Burroughs
2013
123 cm x 95 cm
Ink jet, aerosol and acrylic on hand painted paper


4 Noble Truths - Fire Sale
4 Noble Truths - Fire Sale
2013
124 cm x 95 cm
Screen print, aerosol and acrylic on paper


Bristol Round 3 - Theatre and Music and More


 I look forward to another week in my newly found, inspiring, full of talent home, Bristol.

Always interested in new bands and music, I'm open to suggestions and will probably head to The Exchange, on Old Market, iconic music venue I only visited in the daytime for now, for an interview with its adorable and funny owner.



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Bristol's Old Vic Theatre is also on my list, with: 




The Accordion Shop

by Cush Jumbo

Mister Ellody has quietly kept his accordion shop going on his local high street for generations.
One day, he steps out of his door and witnesses an extraordinary incident: hundreds of young people are surging onto the street, and they've all received the same text message on their phones which simply says "RIOT. THE ROAD. 7pm TONIGHT."

Tue 24 Mar, 8.30pm
Performed by Cheltenham Youth Theatre
Thu 26 Mar, 8.30pm
Performed by JCG youth theatre


more here: 
http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/ntconnections15.html



Remote

by Stef Smith

A girl called Antler steps out of her front door and throws her phone on the ground. She stamps on it. She then climbs the tallest tree in the park. She doesn't want to be found, not by anyone. Seven teenagers' lives all intertwine over the course of a single evening as they make their way through the park on a seemingly normal Autumn's night.
Remote is a play about protest, power and protecting yourself.

Wed 25 Mar, 8.30pm
Performed by Springs Youth Company


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More of Bristol cultural scene next week:


Bristol Premiere screening of the documentary film "Atomised Mothers"


The Bristol Premiere screening of the documentary film Atomised Mothers, a film about Isolation, Austerity and the Politics of Parenthood; and an evening of short talks and discussion. With Professor Harriet Bradley (UWE, author of many publications on women and work), Anna Mapson (Bristol Fawcett Society), Helen Mott (UWE and Bristol Fawcett Society), Michal Nahman (anthropologist,film director, UWE), Anthony Killick (co-writer, editor, Liverpool).

Co-hosted by: The Social Science Research Group,UWE, Bristol Radical Film Festival, Single Parents Action Network (SPAN)

FREE TEA AND COFFEE!
https://atomisedmothers.wordpress.com/

This event is part of UWE's International Women's Month:

http://info.uwe.ac.uk/events/eventlisting.aspx?categoryID=129


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Isabelle CornaroTémoins oculaires
Spike Isl and and the South London Gallery join forces for a two-pa rt solo exhibition by the French artist Is abelle Corn aro, the winner of the prestigious Prix Ric ard in 2010. The presenta tion in Bristol, Témoins ocula ires (mea ning ‘eye witnesses’), focuses on new a nd recent work and runs from 24 January to 29 March 2015.
Isa belle Corna ro works with pa inting, sculpture, film a nd insta lla tion to explore the influence of history a nd culture on our perception of rea lity. A tra ined art historia n, specia lising in sixteenth-century Europea n M annerism, her visua l la nguage dra ws on a wide a rr ay of references, from the Ba roque to modernist abstr action. Corna ro uses found objects imbued with emotiona l va lue or symbolic potentia l such a s h air, jewellery, mea suring tools, coins or rugs, which she presents in different media a nd types of displa y to revea l the subtle shifts of mea ning induced by processes of reproduction a nd tra nsla tion.
At Spike Island, Cornaro presents a series of specially commissioned installations in which she continues her investigation into composition, visual perception and interpretation. These tableaux, which could be described as physical representations of the act of watching, activate specific viewpoints reminiscent of cinematic and editing techniques (framing, focus, close-up, wide angle, tracking, sequence shot etc.). Each tableau creates a self-contained space with varying perspectives, in which the objects are returned to their ‘destiny of fetishes, which is to shine from a distance’, in the words of the French film critic Serge Daney.
Paysage avec poussin (South London Gallery) and Témoins oculaires(Spike Island) is the first collaboration of its kind between two leading public British galleries.
Preview: Friday 23 January, 6–9pm

Isabelle Cornaro

Isabelle Cornaro (born 1974, France) lives and works in Paris and Zurich. She studied at the École du Louvre and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, from which she graduated in 1996 and 2002 respectively.
She has exhibited extensively across France as well as internationally, including solo exhibitions at M – Museum (cur. Valerie Verhack), Leuven; Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles; Balice Hertling, Paris; Kunsthalle Bern (cur. Fabrice Stroun), Bern; Le Magasin (cur. Yves Aupetitallot), Grenoble; Frac Aquitaine (cur. Claire Jacquet), Bordeaux; Collège des Bernardins (cur. Jean de Loisy and Alain Berland), Paris; and 1m3 (cur. Jeanne Graff), Lausanne. 
Recent group exhibitions include Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Palazzo Cavour, Turin; Public Fiction, Los Angeles; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Mercer Union, Toronto; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; and SculptureCenter, New-York.  Her work can be found in a number of collections including those of Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Île-de-France, Paris; and Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Aquitaine, Bordeaux.
<i>Scenes # 4</i> (2015) (detail). Photograph by Stuart Whipps
Isabelle Cornaro Scenes # 4 (2015) (detail). Photograph by Stuart Whipps

Date

24 January to 29 March 2015

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