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I decided to go book shopping today, I wasn’t supposed to buy anything but… I have a strong weakness for books….

Today’s acquisitions:

Haruki Murakami’s After Dark. Thanks to Neon Delirium I decided I should read this book ASAP.

The ABC of Photography, Phaidon. Insanely in love with this book.

Publicity is dead, Long life to publicity! Blume. This is the best book in ground breaking publicity I’ve found, it describes all the new techniques for publicity, and they are incredibly creative. There’s even an installation related to water scarcity and it’s identical to the installation I did for my experimental art class last month:

The message was the same, to create awareness about water scarcity and how wasting it is one of the biggest issues in the world.

Moving on, I have incredible news. I’m working in a surprise interview with one of my favorite photographers in the world. She (first clue) was way too kind to be part of MademoiselleKarla and answer some interesting questions for me. I will share the interview with the mysterious photographer this week…. Stay tuned!

Photographies peintes

François Marie Barnier is not just a photographer. He has proved that being an artist doesn’t mean anymore focusing in a sole discipline. It is experimenting with your imagination and with the possibilities of creation. With his talent, he has created the most beautiful photographs I’ve seen. The combination between painting and photography has made of his work unique. The selection of colors and the movements of the paintbrush gives the photography its true essence, portraying specific emotions such as happiness, melancholy or even desperation.

He photographed and paint Natalia Vodianova for Diane Von Furstenberg’s SS 08 ad campaign using various techniques, from paint writing to huge brushes.

Images from DesignScene

Here is the behind the scenes video for the shoot with Natalia for DVF, a beautiful insight! C'est l'art!

Maco 2010

I’m sorry I haven’t posted a lot but I’ve been so busy lately, finishing film projects, exams and going to the MACO (Mexico Arte Contemporaneo). It is a contemporary art exhibition which lately has been gaining a lot of importance in the mexican art scene. The responsible of this event is Zelika García and the improvement this exhibition has had over the years is significantly huge. This time 96 galleries, 900 artists and 20 countries contributed to make this exhibition remarkable. Galleries such as Dean Gallery, Hilario Galguera Gallery (Mexican), The Pool NY, and Yautepec Gallery (Mexican) presented unique works of art along with all the galleries of Zona Maco Sur which gathers a set of gallerists of South America with original and fresh proposals.

I interviewed some gallerists, and I have to admit some of them were scared to answer the golden question “what is art?” but there was a particular answer that caught my attention, Dean Martin from Dean Gallery answered “Art is something that’s a challenge, it’s something you look at, you think about, and discover different narratives”. I agree completely, art should be something with a narrative discourse, a specific purpose which will challenge our senses in multiple ways and produce an unpredictable reaction.

Here are some of my favourite artworks.

My personal favourite, the interventions of Adrían Villar Rojas, it was an entire bibliotheque of intervened books.

When I saw this i almost screamed, Erwin Olaf is one of my favourite photographers! The picture is amazing, the palette of colors, the model direction, the art direction, everything!

This neon work of art remembered me of NeonDelirium, he loveeees neon!

Me, photographing a broken mirror. I promise I will post the gallerists’ interviews along with all the pictures soon, i need to make a documentary/audiovisual of it. Meanwhile hope you like this little insight to one of my favourites art exhibitions. I will be in Zona Maco 2011 definitely!