Josh McNey at Casa de Costa, NYC

Opening Reception on April 29th, 6-10 PM

Speaking about the exhibition McNey said, “Being afraid of my sexuality made me afraid to stare. I didn’t want to be ‘caught’ looking at guys.  I think this teenage strategy of visual chastity made it all the more urgent that I find a way to legitimize staring.  Photography became for me both an apparatus and a metaphor for coming out as a gay man. Showing the work is one more step in that direction.”

Photo Josh McNey.

NEW YORK, APRIL 2011 —

Casa de Costa is pleased to announce Protect from Light, a solo photography exhibition by artist Josh McNey.  The show at Casa de Costa marks the debut of the firm’s new salon and studio at 11 Stone Street in historic Lower Manhattan.

Protect from Light features nearly thirty unpublished photographs, including landscapes, still life and portraits primarily from McNey’s work with college wrestlers, professional bull riders and other athletes. Showcasing just some selections from a decade-long practice, Protect from Light provides the first opportunity to see a substantial collection of finished work by the artist. McNey’s landscape and still life work comprises almost half of this exhibition and reminds viewers of the serene beauty of the everyday. The images also evoke questions about the relationship between nature and engineering, the gendering of dominance and submission, and the transience of our daily lives.
Josh McNey grew up in a suburban enclave of Los Angeles, where he developed an early interest in photography; his subjects included his three brothers, the Southern California landscape and small still life arrangements.  At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the US Marines and served in an elite Force Reconnaissance unit for more than seven years.  During that time he expanded his practice, shooting editorial portraits and increasingly, men. His personal portrait work has evolved into a hybrid of diary and staging, creating what writer Alistair McCartney described as, “the ideal universe inhabited by the ideal boy.” McNey’s male subjects evoke an unmistakable sense of strength and classical beauty tempered by vulnerability.

Josh McNey has lived in various places in the US and now resides in New York City. His portrait work has appeared in Tokion, Out, XLR8R, K48, Paris/LA and other select magazines and has been exhibited in group shows in the US and Europe.

Josh McNey – Protect from Light
April 29 – June 9
Opening Reception on April 29th, 6-10 PM at 11 Stone Street, 6th Floor

Photo Josh McNey.

PARIS, LA #6

TOKYO FASHION

SPRING 2011

— NOTEBOOK

L’Empereur Hon-Seki by the French author Pierre Vinclair.

— ART

A man fights, and fights, and then fights some more. Because surrender is death, and death is for pussies.

A visual portrait of the artists Gardar  Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon by Keiichi Nitta.

— DESIGN

The Joker by Sanghon Kim.

— FASHION

spring and summer emotions

Late in the evening when it gets dark you can fall by Camille Vivier.

All the colors make me feel the same about you by Yasunari Kikuma.

Long was the year by Anders Edström.

special Comme des Garçons

I’m not a brunette, I’m a down and dusky blonde by Todd Cole.

photographic essay

Runaway Boy by Julien David.

collages

日本からのご挨拶 by Rosie Roberts.

— PHOTO

A Subjective History of Photography Before and After Literature by the online publication ART iT.

— POSTER

132 5. ISSEY MIYAKE

A conversation with Monsieur Issey Miyake on the future of making things .

>>>>> DOPE STORE

Untitled, 2011.

A film created by Alexandra Ruiz and Sandro Santoro for the exhibit

“An Evocation of Japan” at Ra, Antwerp.

A PARIS, LA EXHIBITION AT RA, ANTWERP

OPENING SATURDAY, APRIL 16,
RUNNING UNTIL SATURDAY, MAY 14.

“An Evocation of Japan” is an exhibition held in concordance with the new issue of PARIS, LA that is for the first time a special TOKYO FASHION issue. The choice of the city of Tokyo was stimulated by its geographical context, combined with the radical conceptual dimension of Japanese designers. Dorothée Perret, founder and editor of PARIS, LA, asked long time contributors to create a piece of work. The exhibition gathers a selection of creative friends—artists, poets, stylists, graphic designers—to create an original work that evokes Japan, in the keen spirit of PARIS, LA.

“AN EVOCATION OF JAPAN” INSTALLATION VIEW .

REAR: LOTTA VOLKOVA ADAM, MANNEQUIN II, 2011.

FRONT : PIERRE FRANçOIS LETUÉ, CENTERED, 2001-2011.

REAR : CÉDRIC RIVRAIN, ONE EYE, 2009 (left), PLASTER II, 2009 (right).

FRONT : LOTTA VOLKOVA ADAM, MANNEQUIN I, 2011.

PIERRE VINCLAIR, POÈMES VISUELS (Shibuya, Tamachi, Nishi-Nippori, Tabata, Okachimachi).

ALEXANDRA RUIZ & SANDRO SANTORO, SILL FROM THE MOVIE UNTITLED, 2011.

PARIS, LA #6 POSTER,  THE FUTURE OF MAKING THINGS.

OSCAR TUAZON, LA PUSH, 2011.

FULL MOON DURING THE NIGHT OF THE OPENING.

VIEW ON THE WALLPAPER MADE WITH PARIS, LA #6 POSTERS.

BLUE SIGN ON THE DOCKS.

Photos ©PARIS, LA.

“…do as the romans…”

After having hosted in their hometown 60 artists from NY for the exhibition New York Minute a group of roman artists will migrate to LA for a group show presenting their work and works by some artists from preceding generations.

The show will be conceived in 3 parts: an exhibition component at the IIC, a special project at the Hammer Museum and a site-specific collaboration with La><Art.

Curated dy Luca Lo Pinto in collaboration with Valerio Mannucci

Opening Wednesday, April 20, 2011

5pm AMENHAMMERAMENO.

A performance by Luigi Ontani at the Hammer Museum

6.30PM 
Opening of the show at IIC

Show running from April 20 – May 21 2011

Visit their blog for more info: http://wir.departfoundation.com/

Text Giulia Ruberti