BRIAN KENNY: November 2010

November 26, 2010

You masked for it

Slava and I jut received a package came from Thomas, a studly artist from Houston. Beautifully packaged, amazing masks, handmade using shoelaces. Thomas also stars in Gio Black Peter's upcoming music video "Revolving Door", directed by Bruce LaBruce

November 25, 2010

Drawing It Out, The Conservatory of Try Again Heroes

Drawing it out (22.5 x 34 in)

Home Aid Hero (22.5 x 34 in)

Conservatory (22.5 x 34 in)

November 22, 2010

INFIDELS

THE INFIDELS

International group exhibition curated by Guy Berube
December 3 - 28, 2010

La Petite Mort Gallery : OTTAWA, ON, Canada
December 3 to 28, 2010

Abnormals Gallery: BERLIN, Germany
Feb 5 to 12 March 12, 2011

Abnormals Gallery: POZNAN, Poland
March 26 to April 30, 2011
www.lapetitemortgallery.com

www.abnormalsgallery.com

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Joseph Anderson (Canada), Adam J. Ansell (USA), Aleks Bartosik (Canada), Martin Brouillette (Canada), Matthew Dayler (USA), Andrej Dubravsky (Slovakia), Erik Foss (USA), Greta Grip (Canada), Meaghan Haughian (Canada), Matthias Herrmann (Austria), Ashkan Honarvar (Iran), James Huctwith (Canada), Philippe Jusforgues (France),
Brian Kenny (USA), Scooter LaForge (USA), Andree Leduc (Canada), Zachari Logan (Canada), Jay Barry Matthews (Australia), Slava Mogutin (Russia-USA), Maldo Nollimerg (Switzerland), Juan Carlos Noria (Spain), Peter Shmelzer (Canada), Denis Stepanovic (Austria), Matthew Stradling (UK), Pat Thompson (Canada), Boris Torres (USA), Barnaby Whitfield (USA), Kara Williams (Canada)

We are the Infidels.
At once innocent and ruthless, our bodies are beyond faith.
The seduction of chaos and the chaos of seduction,
Render visible the wounds in the flesh.
- Ryah Stelmanssen, 1862

Brian Kenny

The Latin word infidelis means “one without faith”. Far from its medieval Christian (and Islamic) origins, the word is reborn here with a new vibrancy to embrace aesthetic practices puncturing the sanctuary of the body.

Aleks Bartosik

This group of Canadian and international artists working in various media, are connected by their highly-personal explorations of the estranged body. Emerging artists, self-taught artists, artists struggling with mental health issues, participate alongside formally trained artists to foster the dialectic the body as a site for both contemplation and stigmata.

Marc Nerbonne

The human figure is predominantly featured, presented in ways that serve to obstruct our formulation of an eroticized frame for viewing. Rather, the lush beauty of a brushstroke, the forensic detail of a camera’s surveillance, the evocative trace of the pencil lead to human landscapes which are haunting and disturbing revelations.

Zachari Logan

The images create provocative ambiguous vignettes – ephemeral fragments of time sliced from a presumably largely coherent narrative. As beholders, we are then required to participate by “completing the story”: we imbue to the performing body of the image our own subjective life experiences, creating a “mash up” of meanings conflating the artist’s diaristic expression, and subsequently our own.

The physical body as a contested site for the workings of psychological trauma and veneration links to modern (post-Freudian) practices arguably best known through the harrowing figure studies and portraits by Francis Bacon, the extreme viscerality of photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin, and the confrontational self-lacerating performances by conceptual artists Vito Acconci and Marina Abramovic.

Martin Brouillette

As an intangible metaphor and a tangible presentation of images, INFIDELS represents an exploration of the transgressive body through complex meetings of the physical and the psychical, the real and the imaginary, the artist and the beholder.

November 21, 2010

The eternal surface of an organized and efficient mind

my android symbol cycle send tense

Not all lines straight

wave hello center

Being a good recognition boy

stable representatives of the hole league open

Nicola Tessellation Mandala llama

Facing interpolate forward extrapolate

action element arms figure

nice currency to see revolver you

Let's make get over it a dance!

November 17, 2010

ART is TRASH is ART

a local juxtaposition in green and black...

art now inside Gavin Brown Enterprises

trash on the sidewalk outside the gallery...

November 16, 2010

ɐɯǝʇsʎs or; Art works

˙uoıʇɔɐ sʎɐd puɐ ʎɐןd ɹǝʍod spuɐdxǝ ɥɔɹɐǝsǝɹ pıɔnן ؛ɯbıpɐɹɐd ʍǝu ɐ oʇ pǝɔnpoɹʇuı sɐʍ ı '”pooɟ bunʞ“ oʇ ǝןqɐɹɐdɯoɔ sǝןʇıʇ ɔıɹǝuǝb pǝןןıʞs ʎןɥbıɥ ɟo ɯɐǝʇ ɐ ɥʇıʍ buıʎɐןd uo pǝsnɔoɟ sɹʎʇɹɐɯ ןɐıʇɹɐ snoıɹɐʌ ɟo sɹǝʇsɐɯ ˙sǝnbıuɥɔǝʇ buıpuǝןoıʌ ɟo ʇno ǝןdoǝd buıʞɹoʍ uǝɥʍ pıɐd oʇ ʇǝb ʎןuo qoظ qooq sıɥʇ pɹɐnbʎpoq ʎןןɐuosɹǝd oʇ ɥbnouǝ ʎʞɔnן sɐʍ ı ˙ʎɹɹǝʇ ǝǝuıɐɹʇ ʎuuɐɹʇ uoʇʇnq ʇoɥ ǝuo sıɥʇ sɐʍ ɯǝɥʇ buoɯɐ ˙ɯooɹ buıʇıɐʍ ǝɥʇ uı spʍoɹɔ ɟo ɯʎb sɐʌuɐɔ ɐ dn buıןןıɟ 'ʇɥbıǝʍ ɟo sqן +071 dıʌ ǝɥʇ buıʇʇıɥ ʇnq 'buıxǝןɟ ɹo buıqqɐɹb uo ʇsnظ ʇou 'sǝʇǝןɥʇɐ ǝɹǝʍ ןןɐ ˙sʇsıʇɹɐ 'sɹǝɥdosoןıɥd 'sɹoʇɐʇıpǝɯ 'suoıdɯɐɥɔ ןɐuoıʇɐuɹǝʇuı ɹǝɯɹoɟ ןɐıɔıɟɟo pǝʞuɐɹ-ɥbıɥ ɐ ɟo ɯɐǝʇ ɐ ɥʇıʍ ʇɹıןɟ oʇ ɥbnouǝ ʎʞɔnן sɐʍ ı 'ןןǝʍ ¿buıʇunɥ qoظ It other words; art works

˙ʎʇıןıɔɐɟ buıʇɐɹǝuǝb-ǝɯoɔuı ʎoq ɯɹɐɟ ʎʇıןıqıssod ʎqɹɐǝu ɐ ɟo ɹǝuʍo ǝɥʇ sɐ sɐǝpı buıuɹɐǝ ʇɐ ǝbɹǝɯǝ ןןǝʍ sɐ ʇɥbıɯ noʎ 'ןןıʍ ǝǝɹɟ uʍo ɹnoʎ ɟo sʞɹɐds buıʇɐǝ ǝɹ’noʎ ɟı 'os ˙sǝbɐɔ uı pǝsıɐɹ ǝq oʇ ʇuɐǝɯ ʇou ǝɹɐ suɐɯnɥ qɯnp ןןɐ 'ʇno ʇuıod ןןıʍ ǝɹnʇnɟ ǝɥʇ sɐ ʇnq ˙sǝʌɐןs ǝbɐʍ buoןǝɟıן ǝןqɐʞɹoʍ buıuıɐʇuoɔ sʞooq pɹɐnbʎpoq ɥʇıʍ pǝןןıɟ sןɐpǝɯ ɹo sǝןʇıʇ ןɐʇnɹq ʎɹǝʌ oʇuı pǝʇɐɹodɹoɔuı ǝɹɐ sǝɹnsoןɔ ǝɯoɔuı ˙ɹoʇɔnɹʇsuı ɥɔɐǝ ʎq pǝʇdɐpɐ ɹo ǝןqɐpuɐʇsɹǝpun sǝnןɐʌ ɹǝʌıןǝp uǝʌǝ ʇ’uop 'pןınq uɐıɔıʇıןod ɹo 'ɟɟo ǝɥɔʎsd ɹıǝɥʇ ssɐd oʇ buıob sı ǝɯıʇ ɥɔıɥʍ ɟo ʇsoɯ 'sɐɯǝʇsʎs ɹǝɥʇo ʇnq 'ǝnןɐʌ ǝɥʇ ɹǝʌıןǝp ʎɐɯ buıʌɹǝs-qǝʍ sıɥʇ ˙ʇuǝbıןןǝʇuı puɐ ǝןqɐıןǝɹ sı uoıʇɔǝʇoɹd ןɐuosɹǝd buıʞuıɥʇ oʇuı ɹɐǝʎ ɹǝʇɟɐ ɹɐǝʎ pǝıɹp puɐ pǝɥsɐʍuıɐɹq pǝɹǝʌoɔsıpǝɹ ǝɹɐ spǝǝu ʎɹɐɹodɯǝʇuoɔ puɐ ʎɹɐʇıןıɯ 'ɥʇuoɯ ɐ sɹɐןןop puɐsnoɥʇ pǝɹpunɥ ɐ ʎq pǝbuɐɥɔ Among them is and will always be, the artist.