Jon Cronin’s Stream Of Consciousness

LUXE/ STEPHAN STOYANOV GALLERY   29 Orchard  Street, New York, NY 10002 M: 646 407 2932  http://www.luxegallery.net  

Luxe Gallery has moved and is changing its name. Having vacated its Stanton Street premises, the gallery is now located at 29 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, where its collaboration with the French Institute Alliance Francaise—Marie Maillard’s Wall 0909—is currently on view. At the conclusion of the show, the gallery will take the name of its director of seven years, Stephan Stoyanov, and resume its program of group and solo shows of gallery artists.

Please join the gallery for it's inaugural reception celebrating Marie Maillard's exhibition WALL 0909 on Wednesday September 9th from 6 until 8pm at 29 Orchard Street between Hester and Canal on the Lower East Side.

For Immediate Release: 
Marie Maillard 

  « WALL 0909 » 
 
At a time of radical evolution in our information society, Marie Maillard transcribes the futures of an image that suddenly emerges in reality in order to reshape it. She anticipates the consequences of virtual reality’s intrusion in the day-to-day spaces of our lives. Her artworks test the becoming-image of our realities.

  With the new century came the age of the iconocrash. This confrontation between heterogeneous and apparently incompatible regimes of representation is based on an imaging principle at the heart of the functioning of hypermodernity. Reality generates its own representations in a continuous and simultaneous flow. In this context in which the image goes so far as to anticipate the event in order to engender a heightened reality, the frameworks of our lives are reshaped in terms of their physical and perceptual coordinates.

  Maillard’s Video-Wallpaper expresses the idea of an inhabitable, enveloping image that moves beyond the screen to take over architectural space. It is no longer an image that is looked at or read but rather an image one inhabits. The image is superimposed over reality, redefining it aesthetically.

  The artist’s collaborations with Jean Nouvel display this incorporating of the image into the experience of the contemporary city. The architectural building becomes a disseminator of an image that creates an interaction with its immediate environment while making it part of the atmospheric ambiance. Maillard’s works filter reality live in order to give back a representation of it that is informed by digital protocols.

  A similar effect appears in her photographs, where the pixels are stretched and elongated one by one to produce an extruded image, like an acceleration of iconic cells, offering a representation of the new digital horizon.

  Maillard’s chair and table sculptures seem to be infected with a virus generating the proliferation of bubbles on their surfaces, like a swelling of the object that reveals the vitality of the atoms composing it.

  Through these intrusions of an image that is endowed with an intelligence all its own, Marie Maillard introduces a doubt into our understanding of what distinguishes virtualities from realities. Welcome to the enigma of the virtual.
 
Pascal Beausse

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Romina Djelosevic
Gallery Manager

Luxe/ Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
29 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
T: 646 407 2932
M: 310 877 6904
E: galleryluxe@gmail.com
http://www.luxegallery.net

If you are in Milan this June, You should check out the show of our good friend and extremely talented photographer Giada Ripa. Good Luck Giada and we wish we could be there in person! FALL\NG \CONS Fotografie di GIADA RIPA June 18, 2009 at 6:00pm June 24, 2009 at 7:00pm Location: Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio - Antiquum Oratorium Passionis Piazza Sant'Ambrogio \a sinistra dell'ingresso principale\ Milano, Italy info@yahoo.it

LUXE Gallery Presents: ANTONIA’S LINE, Antonia Dias Leite LUXE GALLERY: 53 Stanton Street (between Eldridge & Forsythe) New York, NY 10002 HOURS: Wednesday- Saturday 11-6p, Sunday 12- 6p ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday June 19, 2009 6-8p LUXE Gallery is delighted to present the first solo exhibition by New York and Rio de Janeiro-based artist Antonia Dias Leite entitled, ANTONIA’S LINE. The new video works, Mildred’s Farewell and Miroir, Miroir, will screen at Luxe Gallery from June 19 – July 25, 2009.   Miroir, Miroir is short and sweet. A pointed work that digs deep into our definition of beauty and comes up laughing.  We see the artist seated at a cosmetic littered vanity, reflected in several mirrors.   She gradually applies make-up, growing more alluring with each line until she begins to use broad almost violent strokes, blackening her eyes and drawing a huge red ridiculous mouth.   She looks as if she is mimicking a young child at mother’s dressing table except her movements betray a knowing exasperation.  Finally, in a what seems a bitter capitulation, she rubs it all together, her expression stone then mocking. A carnivalesque soundtrack fades in at this point in the piece adding to the vaudevillian air.   So, it is a bit of a sinister laugh, as the beautiful artist stares through a clown-like mask, face a smear of red and black, into a mirror and our culpability; her ridicule deftly reflecting our own. With manic sensuality, Mildred’s Farewell weaves in and out of abstraction, disintegrating and reconstituting seamlessly in a total act of ambiguity, lusciously brushing away our rigid categories.   Floating in timeless, hidden places, figures, faces and bodies reveal themselves awash in light.  Textures we barely recognize hint at objects and then transform away, gathering up the reality of impermanence with a lawless combination of matter and non-matter.  Dias Leite’s mountainous intimacy lulls us and then turns wrathful giving us a slight finger waving at our assumption of trajectory and anything sound and steady.  Very minimal tones and sounds add to this exposition on the transient, her myth of presence.  And Antonia leads us through her tale of that myth like an aesthetic Dickens’ ghost, cradling us in memory and then violating us with existence. Mildred’s Farewell skewers presence and absence with a visceral tactility that posits the anachronistic showdown of mind and body as a raveled earthly whole.  Antonia Dias Leite questions our instincts as well as our reasoned justifications for distancing ourselves from them.

Despite the retail fiasco going on out there, ISAORA has managed to emerge from the snow covered slopes of Aspen Fashion Week super successful. Marc Daniels has informed me that "hope" is in the air and that things are heating up for them. Don't take his word for it, take a look at all of the press coverage and bloggers spreading the good news far and wide! Hypebeast High Snobiety Hope/Glory Urban Promoter ImFlashy Diamond-Surplus Aspen Daily News Don't Bet on Me For more information check out their blog!

It was only a matter of time before the honor of Best Men's Salon in New York was bestowed on Martial Vivot. Congratulations Martial!

Best Men's Salon Martial Vivot 39 W. 54th St., nr. Sixth Ave.; 212-956-2990 The former director of the men’s division at Paul Labrecque, Martial Vivot went on his own in 2008 with this devoted-to-men salon. Its sophisticated, neutral-toned interior and the bar with top-shelf liquors make it feel masculine and friendly but not overdesigned. There are basic services like manicures ($32), haircuts (from $125), and shaves (from $85), and more devoted groomers can get highlights (from $100) or a mint menthol scalp treatment (from $85).

David Shadrach Smith (director of The Revolution) latest film series is hitting the airwaves! Hard Time is a 6 hour mini series that was one year in the making and it is was well worth the wait!

It's a powerful look at one year's worth of life behind bars in a Georgia maximum security prison.  Unlike any prison shows you've seen before -- with unprecedented access and time -- this is a journey into the hearts and minds of the incarcerated and their keepers.

When: Monday nights at 9pm, starting February 23rd
Where: The National Geographic Channel (check your local listings)
For more info and web-only extras:

Have a look and let them know what you think over in Brooklyn at www.part2pictures.com
Congrats David!

Last Saturday I had the pleasure and honor of seeing one of the best plays I have seen in quite some time. The play "Brooklyn At Eye Level" was an inspirational and eclectic mix of personalities surrounding The Atlantic Yards development project. For all of you who don't know what that is, it is essentially a Frank Gehry and Forrester City Ratner project that involves building a stadium for the Brooklyn Nets as well as develop the surrounding area with homes and businesses in Downtown Brooklyn. Needless to say there are a number of points of view about the project and everyone has a different opinion about what that means to the fabric of Brooklyn. This play attempts to provide a voice for many of the people involved, from the shop keeper to the borough president. The cast was superb and each of the characters were actual characters interviewed for this project. Joaquin Torres was at his best when he embodied a whole range of strong personalities and ends the night with a song that brought the house down. If you get a chance to see the play when it comes to town again, you will not be disappointed and you may actually learn something.

 

BROOKLYN AT EYE LEVEL SITE

You should all check out this event next Monday from our good friends over at thehappycorp.

Next Monday, November 24th, we are hosting our 5th annual FSHNDL, a timed fashion design competition where two designers create clothes on live models out of a surprise material.

To celebrate the global financial crisis, the constant nuclear threat around the world and George Bush's last days, we're asking you to dress for the impending end of the world.

Watch fashion created from the ground up, dance to tunes courtesy of DJ Speedrail and enjoy complimentary drinks from Dewar's and Brooklyn Brewery.

You can get more info here and buy tickets here. Also, take a second to join our facebook group so we can keep you updated.

WHEN: MNDY, NVMBR 24 @ 8 PM WHERE: Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We'll let you know a few hours beforehand COST: $11 for members $22 for others