Brossa

Latest crush (in the latest post in a sequence of posts that no one else would ever be interested in) is Joan Brossa.

Em and I tracked down his museum in Barcelona. He was a Catalan artist and writer, all about typography, visual puns, poetry, cabaret, theatre, cinema, magic & sleight of hand And fiercely keeping Catalan alive during the Franco years, when the fascists tried their best to stamp Catalan out entirely. (He kind of makes me sorry that I totally dissed and pooh-poohed Catalan for the two years I lived in Catalunya. Because otherwise I could understand his writing.)

You don't need Catalan to understand his sculptures and graphics though.

Swoon

Swoon couple
Originally uploaded by Slaminsky

January blues. What better to cheer you up than some Art? Art never lets you down. Going to start posting here again, and sharing the artists I love.

This is a blurry photo I took of Swoon's work, at the Black Rat gallery in London. It is strange seeing her work in a gallery setting, she started off pasting up her work in the streets in Brooklyn, before she got spotted by Deitch in New York, and ended up getting a solo show there (installation pictures here and here - click and marvel) and being collected by the Museum of Modern Art and all. I like her Expressionist style.

Not only is she ridiculously extravagantly talented, but she's also socially engaged, setting up the amazing Switchback Sisters project where a group of people made a boat out of junk and sailed it down the Hudson River, having events and parties along the way, to publicise issues about recycling.

She's done work for Haiti and I think is currently setting up an artists' project to help regenerate a recession-hit city in the States. All power to her elbow.

DIY America Ep #2 - Swoon from WKEntertainment on Vimeo.

Evan Hecox

I forget about this blog. Hello, little blog.

This is Colorado artist Evan Hecox. I love his work. More here.