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Artist Daniel Hesidence Contemporary Art Work

January 5th, 2010

Daniel Hesidence approaches his practice as a philosophical totality. Situating himself as the inventor of an ever-expanding universe, Hesidence’s individual pieces provide mere glimpses into a creative infinite. Composing his work in ‘volumes’, Hesidence’s paintings document a self-propelled evolution. Each canvas is distinct yet interconnected, holding its own place in his ‘cosmological’ timeline. Untitled is indicative of Hesidence’s stream of consciousness process. Emerging from the blank white canvas, impassioned smears of colour form a halo around a suggested figure. Rather than defining an image, Hesidence uses the malleable qualities of paint to portray an emotional and psychological state. Distant and dream-like, the intricacies of sentient gesture form a physical representation of the intangibility and impermanence of thought.

Embracing painting as an unlimited form of expression, Daniel Hesidence’s works describe a means of sub-language communication, something primal and emotive that exceeds linguistic structure. Hesidence’s style ranges from figuration to abstraction, but his subject matter is always what lies beyond the surface. Ranging from dense impasto to delicate washes, frenzied brushmarks and disquieting voids, Hesidence’s refined techniques transform reticent sentiment into tactile physicality. Mapping out the idyllic meanderings of cerebral terrain, Untitled’s colourful fantasia playfully conveys amorphous vitality with an aura of pastoral calm.

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Zhang Dali, Zhang Dali Chinese Artist, Artist Zhang Dali, Zhang Dali Exhibitions, Zhang Dali Painting’s at Saatchi Gallery, Zhang Dali London Contemp

January 4th, 2010

Zhang Dali was born on 1963 and Born in Harbin, China. Zhang Dali has portrayed 100 immigrant workers in life-size resin sculptures of various postures, with a designated number, the artist’s signature and the work’s title “Chinese Offspring” tattooed onto each of their bodies. They are often hung upside down, indicating the uncertainty of their life and their powerlessness in changing their own fates.

The scrawled profiles of a human head are the work of 18K (aka AK47) – the artist formerly known as Zhang Dali. You wouldn’t notice them in a Western city because the simple drawings would be quickly sprayed over with graffiti done by thousands of other lay abouts, vandals, artists and political groups. 18K was born in Heilongjiang 36 years ago and came to Beijing after middle school to attend the prestigious Central Academy of Art and Design. He majored in traditional Chinese ink-and-brush painting but soon began producing abstract works and experimenting with different materials. In the late 1980s, 18K was the first artist to move to the village near Yuanmingyuan that later became a thriving colony of artists and bohemians until it was closed by Beijing authorities in the early 1990s. In 1988, 18K was one of several artists featured in independent filmmaker Wu Wenguang’s Bumming in Beijing (Liulang Beijin)

In fact, many of 18K’s tags are intentionally placed right next to “chai” characters. Not only is graffiti painted onto walls that will soon be rubble unlikely to stir the police into action, 18K also has artistic reasons for associating his heads with condemned structures: the work is an attempt to engage in a dialogue with Beijing, a city where buildings come down faster than they did in wartime Berlin and London. Like many young people involved in the arts, 18K left Beijing in 1989. He went to Italy where he spent six years living in different cities and working as an artist. On his return to Beijing in 1993 he conceived of his long running graffiti project which he entitles Dialogue because the intention is that the graffiti along with photographs and articles that document and criticize it will together comprise a dialogue about the changing face of Beijing

Selected EXHIBITIONS-

2006

• A Second History curated by Wu Hung, Walsh Gallery, Chicago

2005

• Sublimation curated by Wu Hung, Beijing Commune, China

2004

• Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London

2003

• Galleria Gariboldi, Milan, Italy

2002

• Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London

Conclusions:

Zhang Dali has portrayed 100 immigrant workers in life-size resin sculptures of various postures, with a designated number, the artist’s signature and the work’s title “Chinese Offspring” tattooed onto each of their bodies.

What to Do Next. . .

If you want any information about Zhang Huan or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www. saatchi-gallery. co. uk/artists/zhang_dali. htm

Vote for Finalists Artwork on Showdown at Saatchi-gallery

January 4th, 2010

The Saatchi Showdown was set up by Charles Saatchi on his online Saatchi Gallery and is located in London and has always focused on showing new, unknown artists to the world. Thousands of artists are registered with the site which receives over 50 million hits per day. In a recent effort to open up more opportunities for artists, Saatchi started an online competition which allows all artists worldwide to register and submit one work of art for a weekly Showdown. All submitted artwork is voted on by visitors to the website, and at the end of the week, the two highest rated works of art go head to head for another seven days to decide the winner.

In a new initiative to generate more exposure for the artists in Saatchi Online and to spotlight their work to as wide an audience as possible, they have created SHOWDOWN at the Saatchi gallery. Showdown is for all registered Saatchi Online and Stuart artists to enter their works for visitors to score. The winner of the final head-to-head vote will receive £1000 and the runner up will receive £750. The winning work will go on display at the new Saatchi gallery.

HOW IT WORKS

To submit your artwork in SHOWDOWN, you need to be a registered Saatchi Online or Stuart artist.

The process is as follows: on Monday mornings from 9 am (UK time) registered artists on Saatchi Online and Stuart have until 6 pm Sunday night (UK time) to load an image for Showdown

Voting takes place for the next seven days (Monday 9 am until the following Monday 9 am UK time). The two artworks with the highest overall scores go head-to-head. Visitors then vote on the two head-to-head works for a further seven days.

After twelve rounds all the head-to-head victors enter a knockout phase, until the final showdown, to choose an overall winner. Throughout the seven day head-to-head vote, artists are able to enter one of their works for the next round of the contest, so that the process is continuous. Artists are able to enter every round of the contest that they wish to.

VOTING system

Any visitor to the site can rate and vote for artworks in Showdown. All visitors are free to vote on all artworks, scoring them from one to ten (one being the lowest score and ten the highest). Although visitors can vote for as many artworks that have been entered as they like, to prevent multiple voting by one person for one work, only one vote per individual artwork will be accepted from each visitor.

The artworks are displayed randomly and constantly rotate. Each time an artwork is rated by clicking on a star to register a vote a new random artwork is displayed. To see more images please click on the ‘Click here to see more images’ displayed on the SHOWDOWN homepage.

If you have already rated an artwork, your rating will be displayed, and this rating cannot be changed.

Vote for Finalists artwork on Showdownat Saatchi Gallery to determine the winner. It is for all registered artists to enter their artworks for visitors to Vote.

The Saatchi Gallery’s Saleroom Online

January 3rd, 2010

Saleroom is where you may buy or sell artwork commission free on the Saatchi Online. The Saatchi Online Saleroom allows registered users to buy art free of commission from artists around the world. The site takes no commission form artists and charges no commission to buyers. You can simply buy the artwork you like directly from the artists using paypal or a suitable alternative payment method.

Saleroom is a great opportunity for buyers to buy artwork and also for sellers to sell their artwork within a community of artists. All artwork sold through the Saatchi Online, allow the buyers to pay through paypal securely ensuring a purchase protection up to the value of $2000.

The lack of a physical gallery space has allowed the Saatchi Online Gallery to flourish with the number of hits exceeding fifty million per day on most days. Primarily a space for artists to display their work and network with other artists, it was only going to be a matter of time before the ability for artists to sell their work through the gallery was included, and that time has come. The Saatchi Online Saleroom allows anyone to buy art free of commission from artists around the world. The site takes no commission from artists and charges no commission to buyers. You simply buy the work you like directly from the artist, using Paypal or a suitable alternative payment method.

To display your artwork, register with the Saatchi Gallery, alternatively if you already have a Saatchi Online or Stuart account you may get started right away.

The Saatchi Gallery’s Saleroom Online – Buy Art free of commission from Artists around the world. Our Website takes no commission from artists and charges no commission to buyers.

Selected Works by Thomas Helbig at the Saatchi-gallery

January 2nd, 2010

Thomas Helbig’s Rom emerges as a palimpsest of muted expression. Obliterated in a blizzard of gauzy brushwork, Helbig’s forms appear as half-articulate sentiments: architectural shapes, reticent drips, and mumbled textures surface through the mists as revenants of their former selves. Proposing a literally whitewashed narrative, Rom conceives landscape as intangible space, creating an epic romanticism tinged with disorienting solitude.

Commanding with a painterly dynamism, Thomas Helbig’s abstractions strive to capture the essence of power. Within his raw canvases, Helbig alludes to the unwieldy forces of nature, and the representational modes used to harness its vastness. Stylistically, Helbig recycles art history, implicating visual language as reflective of ideology: from the political subtexts of abstraction, to the religious spiritualism of romanticism. In Seele, Helbig creates a field of high drama, his blacks and blues churning with the unpredictable depth of night. Reminiscent of Turner’s climactic impressionism, Helbig’s Seele suggests both haunting landscape and stormy psychology.

Reworking the theme of Picasso’s Girl Before A Mirror, Thomas Helbig’s Wilde Mit Spiegel sets up a questionable allure, positing the perception of beauty as a consequence of excess. Hidden within an abstract field of wild brushwork and gory splatters, Helbig paints a figure, profiled as grotesque caricature. His Holbien-ish shrew is defined by her painterly construction, the mimetic qualities of the media bubbling as boils and warts, crackling like matted hair; above her head a chandelier of gobby yellow suggests tarnished halo. To the left, an orange vignette doubles as figurative mirror and comic speech bubble brandishing a sketchy image of pleasantry.

Thomas Helbig’s Jung Frau offers a morbid fascination. Using the textural contrasts of materials, Helbig creates a biomorphic abstraction veering between charred and fossilised remain and science fiction species. Embedding smooth moulded forms in rough globular material, Jung Frau possesses a tactile physicality at odds with itself: fragile and brutal, elevated and primitive. Coated in high gloss black paint, Helbig’s sculpture is both sinister and humorous, suggesting apocalyptic narratives that are glamorous and abject.

Conclusion:

At first glance Thomas Helbig’s sculptures appear to be futuristic ruins; bizarre and broken finds hinting at some remote gothic civilisation, glorifying its defunct authority.

what to Do Next. . .

Read more information about Thomas Helbig paintaings and ehibitions at

http://www. saatchi-gallery. co. uk/artists/thomas_helbig. htm

Art Live Chat Support

January 1st, 2010

Saatchi Gallery offers an opportunity for lovers, creators and producers of visual and performing art to get together and interact in real time through our Live Chat application. This interactive program brings together art aficionados from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds, and creates an atmosphere in which artistic tastes and ideas can be shared and discussed in a productive and liberal manner. The chat room can be accessed after a brief registration, and it allows people at all levels of artistic proficiency to meet and encourage each other in their artistic endeavours. It also allows them to seek out persons of similar interests and to form local and international groups for the discussion, creation, and critical analysis of art.

The application is also invaluable to the marketing aspect of organizations, as it allows directors or representatives to get in touch with real people and solicit real feedback regarding special upcoming events or recent presentations. The Live Chat feature allows art lovers and creators all over to keep themselves up to date with the contemporary trends, haunts, and preferences of other local and international artists. The application also supports the needs of local and international artists whose works are hosted on the site. They are accorded the chance to speak directly to the viewers of their work, make cash sales, and get direct feedback concerning the reception of their work by the public. This resource is a priceless tool that brings together talented persons and organizations that would otherwise never have had the chance to communicate. It allows for collaboration and generation of innovative and seminal ideas on the subject of visual and performing arts.

Daniel Richter’s Biography and Exhibitions at the Saatchi-gallery

January 1st, 2010

Daniel Richter was born on 1962 in Germany, Currently lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg. in 1991-1995 Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Hamburg. Daniel Richter’s paintings are elaborate in their deconstruction and recodification of art history. Drawing a wide range of reference from Goya, Munch, Ensor, to Immendorff and Doig, Richter offers a revisionist position for the crisis of painting in the 21st century.

Daniel Richter’s Jawohl und Gomorrah possesses an operatic quality. Borrowing themes from both Christianity and German history, Richter constructs his contemporary scene with theatrical flair: his figures are staged in Baroque composition, their outlandish costumes and mask-like faces lend an element of surreal spectacle. The fervent emotion of grand drama is carried through Richter’s frenetic style of painting: thick brushwork battles with translucent drizzles and impassioned smears; acid tones are electrified against the sombre ground. Reminiscent of Ensor’s nightmarish crowds, Richter infuses this street scene with apocalyptic celebration.

Richter’s work is often read with political motive. Working in the genre of epic historical painting, his images are fraught with a painterly anxiety. His work is infused with an apocalyptic energy, reflective of media induced paranoia. Beneath his highly seductive surfaces lies the portent of instability, violence, alienation and ideological subversion of a contemporary world in constant flux. Taking his subjects from pictures found in newspapers, comics, album and book covers, Richter repositions contemporary media imagery in the form of theatrical tableaux that are fantastical and timeless.

His nightmarish scenes are both terrifying and beautiful: rebellious mobs attacking the Berlin wall are staged with medieval religious zeal; gatherings of vagabonds glow with paranormal threat. Laden with the weight of implied history, Richter’s scenes extend beyond emblematic reading; their narratives take on the qualities of magical realism, extending a shiver of supernatural barbarism to depictions of current affairs.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005

• Daniel Richter Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

• Daniel Richter Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

2004

• The Morning After David Zwirner, New York

• Daniel Richter: Pink Flag, White Horse The Power Plant, Toronto

2003

• Hirn Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

• Hearn Galerie Benier/Eliades, Athens

2002

• Grünspan, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

2001

• La Cause du Peuple Patrick Painter Inc. , Los Angeles

• Billard um halb Zehn, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Conclusions:

Richter’s canvases are imbued with an alchemic affinity for paint. Copious techniques and applications deceptively flaunt the process of making, yet remain elusive in their overwhelming complexity.

What to Do Next. . .

Find more information about Daniel Richter Exhibitions or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www. saatchi-gallery. co. uk/artists/daniel_richter. htm

Jonathan Meese’s Biography and Exhibitions at Saatchi-gallery

January 1st, 2010

Jonathan Meese was born in Tokyo in 1971. Jonathan Meese is a self-proclaimed cultural exorcist. In his performances, sculptures and paintings he adopts a shamanistic role, channelling all manner of chaotic zeitgeist. His personal interests reverberate throughout his paintings: comic books, horror films, medieval crusades and outsider art merge into a compendium of morality and epic failure. In his paintings, clear-cut roles of good vs. evil are confused, ironic propaganda is served up with homebrew conviction and malevolent knaves become heroes of the disenfranchised.

Jonathan Meese draws from German Expressionism, a movement dominated by the horrors of war and social discontent, especially in painting and film. It was strongly concerned with the unique vision of the artist: a conception of artist-as-diviner that Meese readily embraces. In Catdim, Meese presents himself as an exotic oracle. His flat black mask sits with elegant form over his energetic gold colour-field, reminiscent of Emil Nolde’s Prophet. Meese infuses his images with immediacy and pathos, and his use of these values in a contemporary context lends authenticity to his B-movie alter-ego.

Jonathan Meese is a champion of the lost cause. His personal interests reverberate throughout his paintings: comic books, horror films, medieval crusades and outsider art merge into a compendium of morality and epic failure. In his paintings, clear-cut roles of good vs. evil are confused, ironic propaganda is served up with homebrew conviction, and malevolent knaves become heroes of the disenfranchised. In Der Suppenpharao, Meese invents a protagonist of questionable intent. Based on Zardoz’s savage executioner, his masked gladiator-cum-superman stars in a poster-like composition, brimming with promise of pulp fiction drama. Meese incorporates himself into his fantasy, as a tribe of snout-nosed nymphs approving the impending carnage.

In his self-portraits, Meese exaggerates his real-life ‘wild-man’ features, his image continuously mutating through a cast of characters – from demons to divas – to develop potential narratives exploring the nature of power and conspiracy underlying contemporary mythology. Through his many reinventions, Meese replicates celebrity image manufacturing to style himself as a cult figure: both symptom and cure of a corrupted belief system. His narrative works play out B-movie fantasies in feudal tableaux, hailing religion and politics as punk-style forgeries. Collectively Meese’s works operate as meta-narratives; feeding the fictional legacy of the artist as an almighty and immortal entity.

Conclusion:

Jonathan Meese Is Mother Parsifal set the young artist alone against the well-over-five hours of Wagner’s slow-moving epic in the vast scenery store-house of Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

what to Do Next. . .

Find more information about Jonathan Meese Exhibitions or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www. saatchi-gallery. co. uk/artists/jonathan_meese. htm

About Artist Stef Driesen Art Work and His Paintings at the Saatchi Gallery

December 31st, 2009

Influenced by the works of Northern European Old Masters, Stef Driesen’s paintings often incorporate references to art history through their colours, compositions, and subject matter. Through this lineage, Driesen draws from his own personal experiences to create beautifully expressive canvases evoking both emotional and physical sensuality. Using his own sexual identity as a platform for investigation, Driesen’s work expands upon the theme of man and nature: each canvas conceals a human form within his abstracted landscapes, creating a symbiosis between the romantic sublime and mortal carnality.

Using a fleshy, earthy palette, Driesen’s canvases blur the bounds between tangible and psychological space. Watery grounds, delicate brushwork, and intensified tones lend a sense of dream-like terrain, translating materiality of paint into ephemeral fields redolent with contemplation, desire, and loss. In their poetic articulation, Driesen’s paintings convey the intimacy of the human condition, rendering it equally fragile and heroic. Watery mountain scapes and dramatic skies frame ambiguously figurative foreground elements. Soft pinks and flashes of azure punctuate dark canvases highlighting rivers through the picture plane and revealing landscapes beyond. Ultimately Stef Driesen’s compositions expand space, opening up an imaginary dimension into a world full of the theatrical and fantastic.

Stef Driesen draws inspiration from the compositions, colour palettes, and themes explored by these Old Masters, and is inspired by the way in which they used all of these elements to project a vision of life in their time, political, religious, romantic or otherwise. Watery mountain scapes and dramatic skies frame ambiguously figurative foreground elements. Soft pinks and flashes of azure punctuate dark canvases highlighting rivers through the picture plane and revealing landscapes beyond. Ultimately Stef Driesen’s compositions expand space, opening up an imaginary dimension into a world full of the theatrical and fantastic.

What to Do Next. . .

If you want any information about Stef Driesen or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www. saatchi-gallery. co. uk/artists/stef_driesen. htm