Untitled (red, yellow, white),  2008.

Brachfeld Gallery

present

I Am Yours to Keep by Todd Cole

September 3—26, 2009

Opening reception Thursday, September 3

6—9pm

With I Am Yours to Keep, Todd Cole intends to reveal, to the ones who take time to see, a story about him. Originally shot to be published as a book, the images function like words, and the words put together create a visual poem. Indeed, I Am Yours to Keep is a metaphor about Cole’s teenage years trough his early twenties growing up in Houston, Texas, a period and a place in his life where he felt emotionally displaced, and sometimes hurted, while at the same time holding a strong desire to transcend beyond the known. The story—shot in southern California in the counties of San Bernardino, Fontana, The Redlands, and Riverside— is composed into three of the primary driving emotions he felt as growing up and continues to feel today living in LA: displacement, sexuality and transcendence.

Todd Cole’s photography tries to create with honesty and immediacy, images that are not loaded with history, or a particular contemporary visual language but break from some of the traditional visual signifiers in modern photography: a well defined subject within the frame, graphic compositions that lead the eye to the subject, or horizontal landscape compositions. His work has already been shown in Paris at colette (2003), and in Mexico City at Monclova Gallery (2005). In addition to the development of his personal work, Todd Cole’s photography features regularly in International magazines including i-D, Purple, Self Service, Art Review, Beaux Art, Liberation, London Sunday Telegraph Magazine, Big, o32c, Fantastic Man, W, and Vogue Hommes

International.

Brachfeld Gallery
78 r ue des Archives, Paris 3
Tuesday—Saturday, 2—6pm

www.brachfeldgaller y.blogspot.com

A POLAROID GROUP SHOW

AT GALLERY SPACE
AUGUST 21–SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

In conjunction with the release of the special edition Polaroid film and camera kits, Gallery space at Space 15 Twenty in Los Angeles is hosting a month-long group show of Polaroid photography. The original Polaroid instant photographs on view in Everything is Possible will reflect the unlimited possibilities of working with this unique format. Everything is possible.

The exhibition features work from Alana Celii, Ali Bosworth, Andrew Post, Arthur Ou, Brad Troemel, Cass Bird, Charlie Engman, Dusdin Condren, Hasisi Park, Jackson Eaton, Jason Rosenberg, Jessica Williams, Kava Gorna, Leon Batchelor, Lina Scheynius, Madi Ju, Marcelo Gomes, Margaret Durow, Mark Borthwick, Mikaylah Bowman, Michael Hemy, Mordechai S. Rubinstein, Nicholas Gottlund, Nicole Lesser, Peter Zachary Voelker, Serge Leblon, Vava Ribeiro, Wai Lin Tse and Ye Rin Mok.

This exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, available August 21st.

For more information about Everything is Possible: A Polaroid group Show, visit space15twenty.com.

Michael Hemy, Untitled.

Michael Hemy, Untitled.

Mark Borthwick, Alleged, 2001.

Mark Borthwick, Us 3, 2000.

Arthur Ou, Untitled 1.

Arthur Ou, Untitled 2.

Arthur Ou, Untitled 3.

Vava Ribiero, Life Line Lingers 1.

Vava Ribiero, Life Line Lingers 2.

Vava Ribiero, Life Line Lingers 3.

Serge Leblon, Untitled Polaroid Series.

Serge Leblon, Untitled Polaroid Series.

Serge Leblon, Untitled Polaroid Series.

IKO IKO
is
happy
to
present
a
performance
by

MARK BORTHWICK

&

BOW RIBBONS

sunday, august 23, 3 pm

at

IKO IKO
1298 w. sunset blvd, los angeles, ca 9006
323.719.1079 / info@ikoikospace.com

In addition to the performance there will be limited signed copies of his latest book project Not in Fashion available for sale, as well as select items from his collection.

For further inquiries or to pre-purchase Not in Fashion, please contact:

323.719.1079 / info@ikoikospace.com

IKO IKO
1298 sunset blvd.
los angeles, ca 90026
323.719.1079 / info@ikoikospace.com
ikoikospace.com / ikoikospace.blogspot.com

OBJETS d’ART II

Young Art presents Objets d’Art II ; a group exhibition of new work from artists Stephen Aldahl, Paul Forney, Christine Frerichs, Alex Johnstone, Miles Jopling, Jed Ochmanek, Asher Penn and Louise Wynne. The show consists of paintings, sculpture, works on paper and will be accompanied by musical performances from Monster, Nite Jewel and Universe.

Monster – Sincere Blues from Carson Mell.

Objets d’Art II is a preview for Young Art’s upcoming solo exhibitions.

The opening reception will be held Saturday, August 22 2009 from 7-11 pm

and the bands are scheduled to perform at 9:30 pm.

Holidays are over for Paris, LA nevertheless our logic is to entertain as much as we can the idea of liberty and pleasure . So here is miscellaneous great stuff P/LA’s  friends distilled while we were away. We though it’d be nice to share it to keep the holiday spirit alive while going back to work!

Love always,

–dp

(photo via in light of tomorrow)

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LISTENING TO MY TROUBLE MIND

The Gaslamp Killer

My Troubled Mind EP

[Brainfeeder, 2009]

1. Intro A
2. Anything Worse
3. Turk Mex
4. Intro B
5. Baiafro
6. Ruskie Electric
7. Birthday Music

My Troubled Mind ultimately portrays the eccentricity and multiple personalities of the wildest DJ in Los Angeles. Raw drum breaks glide over the deep sample palette of GLK’s prestigious world psych/funk collection, making the My Troubled Mind EP a true voyage into sound. The Gaslamp Killer experiments with freak-out sound effects and analog delays, married with analog synth lines provided by close friend and collaborator Computer Jay. The result is a truly remarkable audio experience, meshing perfectly with the unclassifiable sonic aesthetic of Brainfeeder. –Kevin Marques Moo (alphapuprecords.com)

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READING THE COMING INSURRECTION

The Invisible Committee

The Coming Insurrection

[semiotext(e), 2009]

“It’s useless to wait—for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality the me must choose sides.”

The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to “spread anarchy and live communism.”

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SEEING HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU, AGAIN

HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU, AGAIN

Richard Artschwager, Belgium, Johnny Cash, elles, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Wojciech Gilewicz, David Hammons, Bertrand Lavier, George Lois, Gustav Metzger, Oscar Tuazon, Josip Vanista, B. Wurtz, Klaus Wyborny

A group show currated by Anthony Huberman at castillo/corrales

65 rue Rebéval, Paris 20

from August 10 to September 26, 2009

There was another exhibition like this one two years ago, and there will be another one two years from now, and then again two years after that, and so on. Like a biennial. It is a biennial. And always with the same curator, like Muenster, kind of.

nb: The gallery will be closed from Friday, August 14, to Wednesday, September 2

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WISHING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OOGA BOOGA

Ooga Booga — the only store in LA offering a perculiar selection of books, zines, clothes, art and music, and founded by the genius Wendy Yao — happened to turn five during the summer!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OOGA BOOGA & LONG LIFE TO YOU!!!!