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DRAWING ON SKIN SHR-YUNG CHEN Brave Tattoo Studio Hsinchu City, Taiwan DAVID HEPHER

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82 Kingsland Road London E2 8DP +44 (0)20 7920 7777 www.flowersgalleries.com >> IN THIS ISSUE TRANSITION The Inner Image Revisited COVER Expanding Form, Materials, Image: Leicester, Cardiff 1960-68 IMAGE

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Laurie Burt SHR-JUNG CHEN Brave Tattoo Studio, Michael Chilton Taiwan John Gingell 3 Shr-Jung Chen’s full length image depicts a Phoenix (on a female: Huang) which causes the wind to blow when it Tom Hudson flaps its wings. Tattooists usually create a design in fire red which follows and moves in accordance to the contours of the body. Victor Newsome The development of drawing on skin in China is very distinct from that of Japan – or from the West – insofar as the natural AHMED ALSOUDANI WALID SITI Robin Page reticence and reserve of the Chinese temperament isn’t conducive to the extrovert nature of the art. However, in contemporary 08 | Finding a Voice 10 | Remembrance of Things Past tattoo culture, Taiwan is a dominant force with many innovative Michael Sandle artists based in Hsinchu City and Taipei. Traditional Chinese motifs and iconography are given a modernist interpretation. Terry Setch Norman Toynton

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EDITOR BUREAU CHIEFS Michaela Freeman Lyle Owerko [email protected] NEW YORK ART SPACE GALLERY Michael Richardson Contemporary Art 10 minutes walk Anne Chabrol PUBLISHER 84 St Peter’s Street, London N1 8JS from the Business Karl Skogland PARIS [email protected] www.artspacegallery.co.uk Tel: 020 7359 7002 Design Centre [email protected] David Tidball BERLIN DRAWING ON SKIN ED BAXTER’S WAY EDITORIAL The Fine Art of the Tattoo The Crest of a Wave DIRECTOR William Wright 12 | 16 | Mike von Joel SYDNEY [email protected] Elizabeth Crompton MELBOURNE MY FATHERS CRAFT DESIGN DIRECTOR Tor Soreide DISTRIBUTION [email protected] 3RD JANUARY 2012 - 31ST MARCH 2012 & SUBSCRIPTIONS Julie Milne AD EXECUTIVES STUART DUFF Julie Milne [email protected] James Manning PUBLISHED BY CORRESPONDENTS State Media Ltd. Clare Henry LONDON Jeremy Hunt [email protected] Ian McKay LICE NDERSON OURTH STATE PRINTED BY A A F E William Varley Garnett Dickinson The Importance of Being Books for the Enquiring Mind Georgina Turner Rotherham S63 5DL 18 | 20 |

STATE MAGAZINE is available through selected galleries, libraries, art schools, museums and other art venues across the UK. STATE has now entered its second year. It is not new anymore but still hopes to stimulate readers with an idiosyncratic take on news from the world of art! Totally free, STATE is about new manoeuvres in painting and the IN THIS ISSUE STATE discusses two There is a shortage of red doll's hair in Britain, visual arts – combined with f22, non-traditional genres which have both had to for Alice Anderson uses kilometres of the stuff. a supplement on developments in fight for acceptance in the contemporary art She recently moved from a safer, easily read style the fusion of art & photography. scene. Tattoo, the bold and colourful art of into more ambitious, abstract projects, and is an drawing on skin has, along with its practitioners, artist to look out for in 2012. It is not a review magazine – EDITORIAL long been disparaged by the mainstream. The it is about PEOPLE worth serious photographer, Chris Wroblewski, dedicated STATE is always happy to hear from original consideration; PLACES that Michaela Freeman himself to documenting Tattoo art and artists writers and photographers (see our website for are hot and happening; and for many years, but couldn't find a gallery or more details). Especially as the magazine expands PROJECTS developing in the publisher to even look at his work. with supplements and foreign edition projects international art world. during 2012. In this issue, STATE is pleased And Radio. Sound art installations regularly pop to introduce the work of emerging talent, ANDREW KÖTTING sROBERT SAMPLE s MARTIN BROCKMAN up in art venues but as Ed Baxter – the head of Ed Sykes, a London-based photographer who ALAN RANKLE s KIRSTEN REYNOLDS s ROD HARMAN To apply to stock STATE Magazine, please mail London-based Resonance FM radio – notes, he is already making his mark around Town. ZAC WALSH s CHRIS MILTON s CRAIG HUDSON Julie Milne: [email protected] still needs to remind people that radio is actually a vibrant medium to work with. w: www.theblackshedgallery.org.uk t: 01580 881247 s e: [email protected] www.state-media.com

www.state-media.com STATE 05 | 5 ...... AN ART ‘How lovely yellow is’ LINKS ‘What a horrible thing yellow is’ NEWS VINCENT VAN GOGH EDITIONS EDGAR DEGAS RESTATE MONITOR { In a letter to his brother } TECHNOLOGY { In Note Books.1858 } ...... Work No. 925 2008, Chairs (c) Martin Creed. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Galleria Lorcan O'Neill QUOTEUNQUOTE

Tracey Emin International New Chief Operating Officer 'For professional curators, FOLLOWING her famous project with Sarah at the Henry Moore selecting specific paintings for Lucas almost 20 years ago, Tracey Emin THE HENRY MOORE Foundation, one of the an exhibition is a daunting has opened a shop in Spitalfields to sell her UK's leading art charities, has appointed prospect, far too revealing a art and editions. The wares include t-shirts, Lesley Wake, a formerly at Arts & Business, demonstration of their lack homeware, accessories and prints. Emin as new Chief Operating Officer. Based at the of what we in the trade call also produced a Writing Paper and Matching Foundation's headquarters in Perry Green, "an eye". They prefer to Envelope Sets for last year’s pop-up Hertfordshire, on the artist's former

Yoko Ono, Smile 2010 © Ono exhibition Posted, still available from their estate, she will support Director Richard exhibit videos, and those website. The set comprises five sheets of Calvocoressi managing its activities there, incomprehensible post- writing paper with matching envelopes at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, and conceptual installations and a printed, signed letter from the artist. worldwide. and photo-text panels, for www.postedprojects.co.uk Source: www.henry-moore.org Food For Thought the approval of their equally ‘I WANT THE whole world to be in it,’ insecure and myopic peers.' says Martin Creed of his new project, a Johnny YesNo Redux restaurant he’s due to design, including CHARLES SAATCHI FILMED IN 1982, but made to look like the cutlery and the menus, for London’s writing a rare personal opinion the 1960’s, the cult experimental film Sketch. Opening on 1 March 2012 to piece in the Guardian by Peter Care with a soundtrack by ...... celebrate their 10th anniversary, it’s the Smile For ONO ...... Cabaret Voltaire has recently been first of projects turning the Gallery room THE SERPENTINE GALLERY’s major exhibition of the work by Yoko Ono this summer is released by Mute in a 4-disc edition into a multifunctional venue to enjoy part of the London 2012 Festival, a 12-week UK-wide event. For her large scale installation, (2 DVDs and 2 CDs). Two hours of the both art and food, and blur the Smile, Ono is asking people to upload a photo of their smile to ‘create a global anthology extensive bonus material includes the boundaries between design and of portraits’. Other artists in the 2012 Festival include Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and original film, the director’s cut, and a functionality. sketch.uk.com David Hockney. Source: www.serpentinegallery.org recent remake in California. www.mute.com ......

'Gracias al Dr. Ramón Parres, HOT&COLD gracias al Dr. Glusker, gracias al Art Feminists on Film Dr. Farill, gracias al Dr. Polo...' THE ARTIST Lynn Hershman Leeson’s new documentary film, !Women Art Revolution FRIDA KAHLO (!W.A.R.), has just been published on DVD by Zeitgeist Films to coincide with an exhibition obsessed with elective surgery, at the Walker Art Center. It brings together interviews, artwork, and a rare archival film and writing in her diary (thanking her video footage from the past 40 years, which follow the history of the feminist art movement www.walkerart.org doctors for their integrity, their in the United States from 1968 to the present. 3 REHABILITATED 3 PUBLISHING Photo ©Sue Barr intelligence, their affection). ALAN YENTOB EBOOK RIP OFFS Imagine just gets better price-fixing ebooks to match paperback version 3 NEW MUSEUM WAL M-ART 3 MARKET Christopher Le Brun Crystal Bridges Museum of DROIT DE SUITE 2012 Elected Royal Academy American Art, Arkansas, funded EU dealers & auctions pay 4% by chain store heiress is of resale value to artists’ heirs – President Will You Die This Year? outstanding success but not so in Hong Kong, NYC, Painter, printer and sculptor, Christopher L-13’s limited edition calendar for Moscow and Switzerland! 3 GALLERY Le Brun, has become the 26th president 2012 comes smaller, an ‘austerity 3 GALLERY of the Royal Academy of Arts, succeeding 'Five years ago we did a book edition’. Entitled Will You Die This Year?, SAATCHI CHELSEA Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. The Slade School with Gerhard Richter and it it has random dates circled each month, new multimedia video and film SPOTS before the eyes, Hirst at all

...... screening room of Fine Art and Chelsea School of Art accompanied by a disclaimer. The ...... included a limited edition that 11 Gagosian galleries graduate said he ‘relished the challenges cost 6,000 euros – one of which artists say that as far as they’re aware, 3 JOB 3 COLLOQUIALISM Mission Impossible of taking the Royal Academy into the has just been sold at auction no one has died on the marked day future and building on its past successes’. since it was first produced in 2006 as PARK AVENUE 3 GLACIERS UP NORTH might be melting that a glacier can be created by solar energy for 58,000 euros.' COOL Members of the Academy, founded in an experiment ‘with irreverence, bad well said – if you fast but Dutch artist, Ap Verheggen, is and without using water. ‘SunGlacier ARMORY are under 30 creating an artificial one in a dessert, an demonstrates the dynamic connection 1768, are elected by their peers. Current WALTHER KÖNIG ideas, branding, and making un-saleable Manchester Festival’s Alex Poots appointed new artistic director art piece called SunGlacier. Why? between climate and culture and wants to members include David Hockney, talking to fellow art-book legend, stuff with the minimum of effort in the He’s interested in the ‘impossible made be a symbol for hope and creativity’. Sir Peter Blake and Antony Gormley. Benedikt Taschen, on how the art boom hope it might take off’. possible’. An initial set of tests revealed www.sunglacier.com ...... Source: BBC has affected publishing www.l-13.org Harry Adams, The World Famous Will You Die This Year Art Calendar 2011. Image courtesy of L-13

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1 Untitled 2011 Charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 279.4 x 256.5 cm

7 Untitled 2011 Charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 222.3 x 161.3 cm

For all their strange discordance, these art historical mash-ups with their steaming, moving, breeding com- post heap of symbolism, finished in an unlikely mix of charcoal and oil, have their own order. They somehow work together to create unified whole canvases with a very distinctly recognisable style of their own. Is his greatest talent balancing chaos with order, I wonder? ‘That is the hardest part of painting,’ he says. ‘But it’s also like knitting a scarf. You cannot have a hole in the middle. It has to be the same length, throughout. I think about it all the time. It’s exhausting.’

Following his extraordinary recent success in the auction rooms, there’s no respite on the horizon. During the Frieze week in October 2011, one of his paintings went for £713,000. It was originally bought in 2008 by Charles Saatchi for around £20,000. It's not surprising Alsoudani has six solo shows lined 7 Untitled 2008 Depicts the looting of the Baghdad Museum. Sold in October 2011 for £713,000. up for this year already. But receiving the graces of Saatchi is no longer the baptism into the art world that it used to be. The current climate is volatile for young But his latest and first solo show in the UK saw the Tributes to one of his great heroes of American painting, artists, particularly those who are competing in what artist embark on a new journey. What used to be a mere Philip Guston, are everywhere in these latest works. Not has become a flooded market of art from the Arab footnote in his warscapes, has become a major theme here, only is Alsoudani of the same school of Neo-Expressionism world, so there are a lot of eyes on his next steps. What and makes much bolder references to art history. The first as Guston but, like him, he layers his paintings with are they to be? ANATOMY OF CHAOS obvious change is in his palette, which is more vibrant symbols including the unmistakably Guston-esque glove, He’s off to see Gerhard Richter’s show at the Tate than ever before, with grounds of California orange or or dismembered hand. This ever-present limb alludes to Modern, he tells me nonchalantly, mysteriously. He In 2011, Ahmed Alsoudani’s vivid and violent canvases made the auction had left Iraq before being able to give a voice to their cadmium blue, and splashes the brutality of war, but wouldn’t miss it. Richter is another of his heroes, and country of birth. Alsoudani fled Baghdad after the first of luminous fleshy pinks all 'Alsoudani’s instantly perhaps also – for an an artist who helps make sense of all the Untitled works A-list and conquered the Venice Biennale. At his first London show, the Gulf War, aged 20. He spent four years in Syria competing for attention in artist with a manically in Alsoudani’s show. ‘Art,’ said Richter, ‘takes away our Bagdad-born painter owned his debt to America – and why he likens his and arrived in America in 1999 as an asylum seeker. the light-filled white space recognisable forms trigger overloaded inventory of certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning Before he was even fluent in English, the language of of the newly revamped an uneasy sense of imagery – is a powerful and its name’. practice to knitting scarves. TEXT FLORENCE WATERS | PORTRAIT ALIX SMITH Western painting is what gave Alsoudani a means to Haunch of Venison in West motif connected to the excavate his own past: ‘I came to America an empty vessel London. And although the the familiar.' impotence of expression. Florence Waters writes for the Daily Telegraph. and I opened my eyes to their painters’. He decided to ten new works, all Untitled, { } Alsoudani’s instantly HREE YEARS after graduating, the New York- try and get to an art school. In 2008, he graduated with are no less full of turmoil and disgust than the last, they recognisable forms trigger an uneasy sense of the Ahmed Alsoudani’s solo exhibition was at based artist is already approaching the heights of an MA in painting from Yale, having already staged make no explicit reference to his origins. familiar. One of the paintings, for example, takes the Haunch of Venison gallery from international stardom, thanks to paintings of his exhibitions in New York and Berlin. the template of the 16th century Italian painter, 14 October – 16 November 2011. war-torn native city. The series, which included ‘To paint you need a certain tool and that tool I learned Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who created portrait heads out an image of the looting of the Baghdad Museum His Baghdad works echo his heroes of European in America. I learned from their artists, I learned from the of fruit and vegetables. Framing the head with exactly LINKS Tand another that alludes to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, painting: he cited Goya’s Disasters of War prints as a teacher who taught me the colour wheel. I have to be fair the same traditional, closely-cropped profile as Haunch of Venison earned him a spot in the Saatchi Gallery’s pivotal 2009 show, point of reference, moments of which can be found in to the culture I have taken from. However, memory is my Arcimboldo – and his more conventional Renaissance haunchofvenison.com Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East. It paved his way to his compositions, and in the distorted monochrome treasure, and most of the imagery I choose has almost contemporaries – Alsoudani has created a portrait of Robert Goff (NYC) the Venice Biennale last year, where he was representing Iraq limbs which pervade the series. If you look for it hard everything to do with where I come from,’ he says. an anonymous general but in the place of cabbage www.robertgoffgallery.com in the country’s first pavilion there for 35 years. enough, you can also catch a bloody whiff of Francis Revealingly, when I ask what kind of feedback he got and onions are pieces of a uniform, a monkey, A fascinating BBC documentary presented by Alan Yentob Bacon in the man-beasts who inhabit his claustrophobic from Iraq after their pavilion garnered so much attention a microphone, light bulbs, and the back side of Saatchi followed the lives of the artists in the pavilion, all of whom spaces. in Venice last year, he says he hasn't heard anything at all. a reptile. www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists

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1 Walid Siti Mountains (Series) 2010

1 Michael Birt: Walid Siti 1 Walid Siti Mountains (Series) 2010 FROM THERE TO HERE Although Siti likes to work on both question is how to strike a balance between FACT Art might be an international language but it has a national accent large and small scale, it remains intimate family tradition and the society you have Called the 'cradle of civilisation', by 3,000 BC, Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) PORTRAIT & TEXT MICHAEL BIRT whatever their size. Not only are his moved to.’ Family Ties, 1997-2007, is about images visually seductive but also have this attachment and conflict. had already invented the wheel, developed writing, and created the world's first cities a tranquility. ‘I was not originally calm but and monumental architecture. ALID SITI WAITS The mountains and rivers of Siti’s fueled by upheaval, political tension and In recent years, Siti has been working outside his studio in ‘...there was much violence, fighting at night homeland play an important role in being a refugee. I settled slowly, bit by on installations, using his familiar motifs. NOTES London Fields, and sometimes during the day, even owning Kurdish identity. A source of food, water bit and my work has reflected that very In Handle with Care!, 2006, he asked a Walid Siti is contributing to Hajj: Hackney. There is and refuge. His hometown is surrounded accurately.’ stonecutter in Duhok to produce 500 stones Journey to the Heart of Islam, at The British no bell. He has a a typewriter could mean an arrest.’ by mountains on three sides and while (5 x 6 x 9 cm). Each one was numbered as Museum, 26 January - 15 April 2012. bright, welcoming face, is dressed in blue exiled in London, they became a constant Siti applies the same mesmeric lines to The in the printmaking process and wrapped in W { } Walid Siti’s work is in the public overalls, splattered with a palette of quiet in his work. The Mountains series on River Zei series. The brushstrokes look like thick clear plastic to form a mountain. collections of The British Museum; colours, and shows a demeanour which is was much violence, fighting at night and ‘In 1982, the political situation in Iraq canvas and paper are painted with great teeming rain, their fluidity dazzles and Visitors to the exhibition were free to take The Imperial War Museum and Victoria polite and modest. Siti’s studio is crowded sometimes during the day, even owning a had worsened and as an opponent to the detail in acrylic; this quick drying medium fascinates. While flying over Kurdistan on a individual pieces away. ‘By taking the stone & Albert Museum in London; The National with work – large paintings, stacks of typewriter could mean an arrest.’ His Ba’athists, it was impossible for me to stay allows for over-painting, sometimes trip home in 2010, he ‘saw that the river and presenting it in a new setting, I wanted, Gallery of Amman, Jordan; and The World Bank and The Iraq Memory Foundation, drawings and small installations filling the father was a political activist and the first in Ljubljana or return to Iraq.’ diluted to create a translucent effect. forms a snaking, green body of water in a in part, to convey the delicate relationship 1 Walid Siti Pyramid (Series) floor. He has painted the windowpanes a person to establish a trade union in Instead, Siti travelled to London dry and golden landscape.’ The aerial view between the Kurdish people and the both in Washington DC. translucent white to soften the light, which Duhok, often involved in conflicts and where, with the help of a friend, applied The light in his work is vibrant and revealed the dry tributaries that once fed the intensive and chaotic reconstruction Exhibitions in 2011: looks like one of his canvases. imprisoned. for political asylum. Eventually from a animated. He says, for some reason, the waters of the Zei and its fragility. work now underway.’ • Pavilion of Iraq at the 54th Venice Biennale studio-come-bedsit in Tufnell Park, Siti light often comes from the right. His complex array of experiences. ‘In the past • Erbil – Dubai, Chasing Utopia, His journey to London has been long and In 1977, Siti left for Ljubljana, Slovenia. began his life as an artist in London. palette is of a few well-chosen earthy Coming from a large family, Siti wanted to Walid Siti’s journey has been unlike that of few years, I have discovered more about my • XVA Gallery Dubai rigorous. Born in Duhok, Kurdistan-Iraq, Iraq had good relations with the former He was unable to return to Iraq for colours; the paintings appear abstract, explore what it is that brings them together. many artists, with a poignant distance from work and me. Not always is everything • The River Zei, Rose Issa Projects, in 1954, he graduated from the Academy Yugoslavia at the time. Here he studied another 16 years until a self-governing with their numberless narrow lines but ‘It is good to be part of something, but at his homeland, and often alone in his early apparent when I do it. The process of my • Kensington, London. of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1976. ‘At that printmaking, which was to be the Kurdistan was formed in the north they do bear a visual resemblance to the the same time personal freedom can be days in London. He has produced a body work develops and rejuvenates me and I am LINKS time, it was politically charged, there foundation for his painting and drawing. of Iraq. mountains around Duhok. restricted by the social structure. The of work of dramatic beauty that carries a sometimes surprised by what I do.’ walidsiti.com

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1 Yann Black Glamart Studio Montreal QC

DRAWING ON SKIN Now the fine art of the tattoo has been rehabilitated, traditional values are being discarded by contemporary fans.

TEXT MIKE VON JOEL | MAIN IMAGES COURTESY OF MATTHIAS REUSS

N 1991, a thaw in the Italian Alps continued underground and illegally. It was reinstated revealed the torso of a man who had lived by the US occupation forces in 1948, but for many some 5,300 years ago. Subsequently years, traditional tattoos were associated with the nicknamed Ötzi, after the Ötztal (Ötz yakuza (mafia, or gokudo) and businesses in Japan Valley) where he was found, the frozen (such as public baths, fitness centres and hot springs) mummy has provided a unique insight still ban customers with tattoos. Irezumi (or horimono) into Chalcolithic (Copper Age) life. More is painful, time-consuming and expensive. A typical, surprising was the discovery that the traditional bodysuit (covering the arms, back, upper Iceman’s body is covered with over 50 tattoos in the legs and chest, but leaving a clear space down the Iform of groups of lines and crosses, made by means centre of the body) can take one to five years of of fine incisions into which charcoal had been weekly visits and cost in excess of £20,000. rubbed. Furthermore, ‘All tattoo cultures have motifs There is a clearly defined menu of Ötzi’s tattoos are images: Plum, Waves (good luck); located at points loaded with meaning and the Chrysanthemum (long life); where his body experienced eye can read an Butterfly (grace, immortality, had been subjected pleasure); Dragon (water, heaven, to considerable inked body like a book.’ power); Koi (perseverance); strain and were Goldfish (success); plus a myriad probably intended of other animals, flowers, Buddhist as medical aids rather than being mere symbols. It gods and spirits – also calling on the woodblock appears the Iceman had undergone pain-relieving print tradition (ukiyo-e) made famous by Toyokuni, therapy on multiple occasions because, astonishingly, Hiroshige and Hokusai. The work of each master the tattoos correspond to acupuncture meridians and tattoo artist is as recognisable to connoisseurs as a points – a treatment thought to have originated some Warhol would be to an art collector. 3 Shih-Min Wu Night Action Tattoo Studio Taiwan two thousand years later, in Asia. All tattoo cultures have motifs loaded with meaning Tattooing the body is an ancient ritual that exists in and the experienced eye can read an inked body like almost all cultures. In more recent times, it was the a book. Perhaps the most recent revelations concern Japanese who elevated drawing on skin to a high art, the prison tattoos of the Russian criminal class. A full of traditional and complex symbolism. Irezumi series of books and movies have exposed the intricate refers to the insertion of ink under the skin to leave star-based designs that act as a detailed ‘rap sheet’ a permanent mark. Tattooing for spiritual and for the individual concerned, with dire penalties for decorative purposes in Japan is thought to extend any Russian wearing a mark to which they are not back to the Jomon or Paleolithic era (approximately entitled. Amongst the Chicano gangs in California, 10,000 BC). At the beginning of the Meiji period the tear drop originally indicated the wearer was the Japanese government banned irezumi, which a murderer (one interpretation); whilst in France,

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7 Chris Wroblewski Michael Wilson, The Illustrated Man, Coney Island, 1987 Camera: Olympus OM2n Film: Ilford HP5 XP1

1 Steph D Dimitri Tatouage St. Germain en Laye, France closing many studios down and drastic action was necessary. That's how I got three dots on the hand mean mort aux flics involved. By offering to help out with (death to cops). publicity and getting the message across to other tattooists. What had initially The art of inking the body has seen a started out as a short documentary now massive resurgence in the last 20 years, turned into a full blown love affair. especially amongst young women, No publisher, editor or gallery owner tattooing being historically a male wanted to look at tattoo images. Society preserve. Inspired by gang culture, despised tattoos. No one funded my it became fashionable to follow the research after graduating. I didn't care. footballer, David Beckham, down the No one back then knew how to assess road to monochrome Sanskrit letter tattooing, which is still fundamentally forms and heavy, black, Polynesian and a performance art. It took 5 years Maori pattern work. There has also been before Skin Show – The Art of Tattoo a disturbing trend towards full face was published in 1981. Then came the inking for men, previously a highly cult classic City Indians, which also set restricted sub-cult. the benchmark for future publications. It was tough work getting publishers to Along with this very public popularity has show some guts and print my work back come a radical departure in the designs in the 1980's. and nature of the marks themselves. The In 1987, I appeared on the David trend today is for visible body tattoos that Letterman show to promote a new title, break with the traditional lexicons and are Pigments of Imagination, co-published provocative and adopt contemporary 1 Olivier Julliand Glamart Studio Montreal QC 5 Te Ching Wu East Tattoo Shop Taiwan with Virgin Books and Alfred Van Der ‘street’ idioms. Traditional symbolism has Marck editions in New York. That was given way to images derived from comic surreal, because tattooing was still illegal books and pop culture, even stylised During this time, tattooists enjoyed the I had no idea ‘During this time, tattooists often making in NYC (banned between 1961-1997 drawings more familiar on walls of graffiti same notoriety as back street abortionists; what was gruesome headlines. on health grounds). In 2006, I exhibited than body art. The method of execution the media portrayed them as human going on enjoyed the same notoriety Most tattooists works at Beijing’s Sunshine Gallery, has also deviated from the precise, skilled graffiti scratchers who lacked morals or in the world as back street abortionists’ hadn't a clue how who hosted the first Chinese tattoo application of the trained Horishi to a any sense of aesthetics. They had a point. of tattooing to sterilise their show. It attracted 2000+ fans and loose style more akin to that of a comic Most tattooists would inscribe anything when I first equipment. It was artists from all around the country – artist or cartoonist. The pin-up, manga, f-16 the client wanted – even on kids – I had met Fred all blamed on the unimaginable under the reign bubble letters and airbrush are the A photographer’s mine done when I was 14 (Brighton, Young, whose tattoo parlour was close 'back street scratcher'. The problem was of Mao. language of the ‘New School’ of body 1964) which is why the Government to the legendary Baseball Ground in that everyone attending this meeting was a artists and their clientele. And the culture personal journey passed a law in 1969 that henceforth Derby. When Rams fans marched by, scratcher. They hadn't studied art or knew At the beginning of my documentary, has already produced its star performers no one under the age of 18 could get the building shook. Fred would pause for how to draw. Back then you could describe 30 years ago, I had witnessed a global whose work is highly desirable; these also IN 1976, I began photographing tattooed. a moment, light a fag, check the pulse tattooing as 'painting by numbers'. quarantine towards tattooing, when include female artists like Holly Azarra, tattooists and their studios in Derby Tattoo parlours were scary places located on his victim, then continue. We soon Anyone could do it. But to survive – and every religion and society had something ‘Morof’ and Kristel Oreto. The new wave and Nottingham for a documentary in downtown areas, next to red light became friends and one day he took deal with all the drunks and hardnuts – negative to say about tattoos. Today of tattooists, notably Yann Black in Paris, project at Trent Polytechnic/Derby districts, or tucked behind railway me along to an emergency meeting of required something tougher than artistic ink has become a global trademark, broke through the boundaries of tradition College of Art. It was a brilliant terminals along with the porn shops and tattooists, being held in Newcastle under sensibility. You needed balls of iron. promoted on every media channel, to create a truly avant-garde movement in place to study. I'd just finished a cheap liquor stores. You never found a Lyme. It was a serious discussion and a Tattooing was a renegade art form. It embraced by every sector of society. skin decoration. workshop with Tim Gidal, and tattooist in a city centre. In fact, you really pivotal moment in British tattoo history. wasn't for the weak-hearted. It was crude The stigma has vanished – perhaps the attended a lecture by Minor White. had to track them down – no adverts or Tattooists were now enjoying the lowest and rude, a type of cave art that was magic too. Nevertheless it's been a German-based publisher, Matthias Reuss, Paul Hill, John Blakemore, and fancy signs – tattooists kept their doors points of their careers. Regular outbreaks patronised by thugs, malcontents and remarkable journey. has dedicated himself to documenting the Thomas Cooper were incredible firmly locked to outsiders and journalists. of hepatitis, linked to dirty needles, were quite a few incredible travelling freaks! whole spectrum of body art through large- tutors who inspired us all. I tore into format, illustrated books written and this project like a blunt 12 gauge Most tattooists had amazing life stories NOTES NOTES • Color Tattoo Art photographed by experts inside the culture needle, knowing full well that it and characters to match; they'd sailed the f-16 will be available as an ebook @ 5 euros Nagasode: Arm tattoo, to the wrist • Black & Grey Tattoo (Vols 1-3) which also include a glossary of artists and was going to disturb many folks – South Seas or worked as circus strongmen. A deluxe edition, printed in Germany. Shichibu: Tattoo 7/10ths of the sleeve to • Kalinga Tattoo Signed 1000 copies. studio addresses. Combining interviews the forearm • Black Tattoo Art including my girlfriend, who hated They didn't use tissues to wipe their nose. Perfect bound/boxed @ 100 euros and profiles on the leading talents, with Gobu: Tattoo 5/10ths of the sleeve • Tattoo in Japan tattoos and left me when I got my Now, tattooing was about to become legal, (incl p&p worldwide). Spring 2012. historical overviews and illustrations of to above the elbow third one in 1980. I knew that this sanitised and sterile. No more dirty fags, their work, Editions Reuss are one of the FURTHER READING subject was not consumer friendly. beer bottles or blood stained tissues China Tattoo is available from leading authorities on the genre. With LINKS For a definitive overview of Tattoo Art scattered over the floor. And definitely no lastgasp.com German/English/French texts and high editionreuss.de in cultures old and new: more dirty needles or colours. It was quality images, Reuss’ authors reveal a For specialist books on: The World of Tattoo: An Illustrated History time to clean up or go out of business, LINKS sub-culture that is being redefined as a • Chinese Tattoo Art Maarten Hesselt van Dinter. KIT 2007 1 Chris Wroblewski Amsterdam Tattoo show, 1984 1 Chris Wroblewski Tin Tin, Zurich tattoo show, 1986 the Government was considering ways of chriswroblewski.com mainstream art form for the 21st century. • Latino Art Collection ISBN: 978-9068321920

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7 Ed Baxter, director of Resonance FM

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART SALE

Artists include Banksy Anthony Benjamin John Bratby Helen Brough Louise Cattrell 4EXVMGO'EYP½IPH In 2011, they installed a temporary No editorial agenda is handed out to the radio art project at Raven Row, in a bid presenters, instead they’re encouraged ‘to Jake & Dinos Chapman to promote the medium. ‘There is a lack speak from their own experience, rather Fred Cuming of imagination or knowledge of sound art than read a press release, and to voice Ben Eine in the visual arts community, a reluctance their own thoughts rather than regard to admit it into its space. They don’t what people want to hear’. Baxter’s Per Fronth perceive Resonance 104.4fm as an selection criteria are based more on Josef Hermann artwork itself, which it is. We want to what he doesn’t want the station to be: Gary Hume use the radio instrumentally, in a playful ‘The other radio stations are so completely and aesthetic way as much as a distribution monotonous and repetitious and give out Estelle Muriel Kerr device for raw data and information, the air of demoralised notion of culture, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner which differentiates bound up in the Robert Mapplethorpe it from other radio creation of stations.’ You economic wealth Pablo Picasso certainly won’t hear and ‘professionali- Alan Rankle a weather forecast sation’ of expertise or latest hits playlist – that doesn’t have Katy Shepherd on 104.4FM, quite much to do with Mette Rishøj the contrary. Some ‘If you think about it real life’. Enrico Savi of the programmes Just having an have been testing in the punk rock terms, eclectic record the medium (and everybody has a collection will 8,)30(+6%2%6=ˆ;%8)60336(ˆ'6%2&633/ˆ/)2882.5ˆ the audiences!) in not get you a spot, *6-(%=XL1%6',TQTQˆ-009786%8)('%8%03+9)%:%-0%&0) enquiries@FIRXPI]WOIRXGSQ an unprecedented radio programme but a proposal way. Baxter’s inside them’ to analyse one Alan Rankle Study for Bargain Buddha at Chadderton Asda 2011 Oils on canvs 50 x 40 cm own ‘ponderous record to great conceptual art lengths just might, pieces’, as he calls as it’s about them, include a 48-hour broadcast from stretching the boundaries and a walk around Glasgow, and a five-hour experimentation. ‘If you think about it broadcast from a mountain climb – only in the punk rock terms, everybody has a ending when the climber’s mobile phone radio programme inside them, unless you battery ran out. His ideal programme get it out. We offer them this tool and would be a month-long broadcast of a time. We have a lot of time so if we lonely yachts woman on an around-the- interview somebody, they can talk for an world sail. ‘Who would tune in? Me!’ hour. On a cultural programme on Radio he exclaims. 4, they’ll get about 3 minutes.’

At the moment there are weekly radio Listen out for the Resonance 104.4fm experiments from Slade students, Make anniversary celebration this year – Your Own Dam Music hosted by Bob & a variety of artists including Bill Roberta Smith, alongside regular Clear Drummond, Susan Stenger, Stewart O WE STILL need the Meltdown festival at the South Bank Spots run by various artists. A radio Lee and Bob & Roberta Smith are all ‘physical’ radio stations Centre in 1998, organised by the London drama by an interesting emerging artist, being invited to programme their own when there are much Musicians Collective. In 2001, they applied Mike Cooter, is in the pipeline. Other 24-hours broadcast. easier and cheaper ways for a permanent licence and launched the programmes range from ‘fairly straight’ Far from being bored of the station to produce broadcasts station a year later. Bored with the other music shows, free improvisations, through after running it for 10 years, Baxter still and individual sound UK radio stations, they set out to do to shows that you associate with any finds it inspiring: ‘Every day something Dchannels online? The programming something to ‘reflect the locale of Central community radio like the Bike Show happens that makes you to reconsider director of the only art community 104.4FM London, cover things that bind the culture about cycling, programmes in foreign your relations to other people and the radio in London, Resonance 104.4fm, Drive inside the broadcasting range of Resonance in the city together and promote the language from the Somali, Taiwanese and incredibly complex matter of culture.’ Ed Baxter, thinks so: ‘The radio station notion of the human mind that was Polish communities. Also programmes is something palpable. Its linear, ethereal, 104.4fm (limited to a 3km radius from their studio wide-ranging and hungry for information about hedge funds and politics, film LINKS disembodied presence means you can be rather than narrowly focused’. and comics. resonancefm.com surprised’. Also, the physicality of the near London Bridge) and your radio might pick up studio is an integral part of their existence. Around 200 volunteers come in every That was 10 years ago, so what about some very unusual waves. TEXT MICHAELA FREEMAN | PORTRAIT ED SYKES 5 week to use the resources alongside now, with the moving image dominating Resonance FM live broadcasting at Frieze 2007 three members of staff, and new the communication stratosphere? Isn’t ideas come from these, often unusual, Glasshouse Trust and the Art Council area – and nearly two million online – the medium of radio becoming a little meetings. England, the support has recently been which puts them on the same level as obscure and obsolete, something reserved extended and also increased. It might be Radio Wales and BBC Asian Network, for retro-lovers? Not if you view it as a The station runs on a very small budget because they’re still very good value for and close to 1Xtra and BBC 6 Music. valid art medium, according to Baxter: and with no advertising income (a choice money, with an estimated cost per ‘You are not limited, but liberated by of freedom they might have to surrender listener being 9p. Their listeners’ base is The idea for the radio station came out sound. You should consider it as you in the future). Funded mostly from The about 300,000 in the Central London of a pilot broadcast during the John Peel would do oil paint or clay’.

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365 DAYS OF HAIR Alice Anderson’s trademark material, metre after metre of dolls’ hair, eerily the same red shade as her own, indicates the autobiographical connections in her work. But for the artist, hair is just a material to work with, as good as any…

INTERVIEW MICHAELA FREEMAN | PORTRAIT ED SYKES

ITH AN MA from Something important happened at the Freud Museum Goldsmiths in 2004, while I was working with Anna Freud’s loom. For the first half-English, half-French, time, I totally engaged with geometry. I’d created a series Anderson grew up mostly of grids, working with horizontal and vertical bars. At in France but moved back CoExist, the bars of the sculpture were made by the same to London in 2011. process. In this exhibition, I gave shape to an autobio- Originally she worked graphical timescale. I was counting days, recalling body with the film, but lately has produced installations changes and organising a series of protective elements. graduallyW growing in scale, culminating in the Freud 365 Days was a sculpture consisting of 365 vertical bars Museum’s building wrap, or rather a tie up (2011). of copper and dolls’ hair. Stretching from floor to ceiling, Moving indoors for her most recent exhibition, Years after the bars divide the whole of the gallery’s space, whilst still Years at the CoExist Galleries in Southend-on-Sea, she allowing the visitor to navigate inside. filled the space with iron bars wrapped in dolls’ hair, their placing just about allowing passage for an average-sized Why 365? adult, whilst reducing the visitors’ movements to a Each bar marks a day of the year that I've spent in Algeria at peculiar dance performance. the age of eleven. I wanted to make a sculpture representing I’ve pushed the material of dolls hair to new boundaries time which could function as a calendar. The series of bars ‘The process of the making by repeating an action of dividing and separating the Do you like living in London? represent a specific time and space, becoming a ritual material itself. By stretching it, spinning it, creating I adore London. As a child I spent hours and hours space by reactivating physical and psychological states. The is all about unleashing tensions and under the permanent action of weight, imagining the city. I was born here, to an English man and sculpture was the result of my performances generated by energy, a power, a strength this non-traditional material is eventually forming skins a French-Jewish mother from Algeria. I was three when experiences that took place there. The repetition of which seem endless. they separated and left London with my mother. We lived ‘obsessively’ winding the bars every day aimed to unleash through a performance’ in France and also in Algeria for a while. At home it wasn’t energy, a power, a strength that would be kept in each bars. { } You’ve worked both outside and inside the buildings, possible to speak English or to mention the country and what do you prefer? my father! Can the audience understand this personal, them as an act of connection and also protection. I guess It doesn’t matter. For me the sculpture operates a space autobiographical connection? I am using dolls’ hair material much as Joseph Beuys was and links the human body and the site itself. So was moving to the UK kind of a rebellion? It doesn’t matter because the whole idea for them is to using felt. 1 365 Days, Years after Years CoExist Galleries, 2011 1 Alice Anderson in 365 Days, Years after Years CoExist Galleries, 2011 I think more than that. I deeply wanted to know where experience the body constraints created by the grid as well What are your plans for 2012? I was coming from, to build my identity. as the energy generated by the bars. In that case, why not use the ropes or threads? I am preparing several solo exhibitions in Milan, Tokyo, There is something very compelling but also sinister Nevertheless, it will inevitably remind people of human Because of all the possibilities it offers, its thinness and New York and participating in group shows. My main Have you found that now or is that process still ongoing? Why red dolls’ hair? about hair, especially loose, long hair, like in your hair, as the dolls' hair is its imitation, will it not? also the way it reacts to certain gestures. The process of the focus and attention will be the work of coordinating the I wish I could give you an answer. Because it refers to my childhood rituals. I remember previous installations. Why do you think it is? For me, it’s only a way of reminiscing about the rituals that making is all about unleashing energy, a power, a strength body experience with the space experience. inventing rituals with my own hair and threads to calm my I have to insist on the fact that I am not using real hair. I was doing with my own hair when I was a child. But through a performance – where the sculpture is the How is the Years after Years exhibition related to the anxieties when I was left alone at home for many long I am using dolls’ hair coming from a dolls’ factory. now, after many sculptures and site-specific projects using receptacle of the action. Also, in the new sculptures such LINKS Freud Museum project, also a large-scale installation hours. Now I symbolically use dolls’ hair material to refer I am using this material as if I was using thread, rope or this material, I no longer see it as my hair. I see threads, as Dance (a 2 metre cocoon at the Midland Art Centre) alice-anderson.org using hair? to those memories. rusted metal. ropes or copper (which is a conductive material.) And I use or Monolith (Latitude Contemporary Art Commission) www.coexist.org.uk

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THE REMAINS OF A DAY When the iconic bookseller, George Whitman, passed away in Paris on 14 December 2011, a slice of literary history disappeared forever.

HAKESPEARE & CO., the bookshop that would become a scruffy chaotic bookshop Paris literary institution – in 2006 on the supposed site of a he was awarded the Ordre des Arts 16th century monastery et Lettres by the French Minister 1 Glasgow and New York, Anchor Line 1 Messageries Maritimes S (at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, near Place of Culture. Artist: Kenneth D. Shoesmith, 1923 Artist: Bernard Lachevre, 1928 Saint-Michel, just steps from the Printed: Thomas Forman & Sons, Nottingham Printed: Françaises Reuniés, Paris Seine, Notre Dame and the Île de la George Whitman opened in Cité) was a beacon for the literati. 1951, originally as Le Mistral, And bohemian but renamed designs. The rail journeys themselves ‘Posters associated narrative at a glance. For all the Paris. The leading ‘Whitman offered Shakespeare & oozed romance and promoted ideas of Photoshop acrobatics, modern lights of the Beat Company in 1964 excitement and refined luxury: the with travel – rail and advertising design seems somehow Generation were shelter, work and in tribute to Sylvia Orient Express; the Golden Arrow; the sea – have developed lacking in comparison – and certainly frequent visitors – support to countless Beach after her Night Scotsman; the Trans-Siberian the promise is much less enticing. Allen Ginsberg, death. Once a Railway; and the advertising images a special niche of Lawrence travelling writers bankrupt grocery, reinforced this sense of adventure. Ferlinghetti, Jack he turned it into In the days before mass travel turned their own, along Kerouac, Gregory and had a particular a library and book- the experience into a nightmare of with Olympics, Corso, William S. eye for young and store – and also congestion and monotony, wagon lits Burroughs – and a ad hoc hostel. and the Pullman coaches (in Britain) skiing, war and customers included pretty female The shop had seduced travellers with a taste of propaganda.’ Henry Miller, Anaïs graduates’ tiny little beds in Victorian and Edwardian elegance. Nin, Samuel random corners Beckett, Lawrence throughout, one If railways offered the promise of a Durrell, Bertholt closet with a 1 LMS/LNER: By Night Train to Scotland Artist: Philip Zec, 1932 Printed: McCorquodale & Co. deluxe trip, the great ocean-going Mouron Cassandre, from the Mucha Brecht and Arthur Miller. Burroughs combination lock to store back- liners of the inter-war years guaranteed school of graphic design, developed the consulted Whitman’s medical and packs, no bathroom, just a little images are associated with it. Less affordable than train travel and Art Nouveau style into that of Art Deco psychiatric books while working on sink. Whitman offered shelter, railways and ocean liners. with lengthier journeys, often to and became one of the leading lights of Naked Lunch. Ginsberg ‘blotted his work and support to countless more exotic destinations, the major poster art, with outstanding work for copybook by stealing back the travelling writers and had a THE GENIUS OF THE From the 1880’s to the 1930’s, shipping lines provided those of both French shipping (Normandie) and RAILWAY POSTERS illustrated notebooks he had sold to particular eye for young and pretty Thierry Favre posters were produced using the means with grand hotel style facilities. railways (Nord Express), but also – Antique Collectors' Club Whitman for $100 each’. female graduates on a sabbatical laborious and highly skilled process Trans-Atlantic routes were fiercely memorably – Dubonnet. Hb. 184pp. 201 col illus. from the confines of the USA. of stone lithography, just as in fine competed for, and national rivalries ISBN: 978-1851496723 The original Shakespeare & PRINTED POSTER atelier prints by artists like Matisse saw the dominant European countries Whilst the resurgence of the art poster Company had been founded by Whitman died peacefully at home and Picasso. Typically a stone for vying for the prestige of carrying a in 1960’s rock'n'roll culture is often the legendary Sylvia Beach, an in the apartment above the shop – When the world of possibilities was conjured by a single, static image yellow, red, blue (cyan) and black, wealthy clientele, notably Germany, referred back to the 1890’s, and to American expatriate, on 17 having suffered a stroke two which created a distinguished France and Great Britain. The great Mucha, Chéret and Toulouse-Lautrec, November 1919 at 8 rue Dupuytren, months before – two days after EEN OBSERVERS of There is a famous story in the print Rouge, made a record $300,000 vibrancy of colour and surface names in shipping have resonated a closer examination might reveal before moving to larger premises his 98th birthday. His daughter, auction trends have trade of how, in 1963, during a at auction in 1989 – it is worth five texture unsurpassed by modern down the years: Cunard; Red Star Line; that the 20th century poster work of at 12 rue de l'Odéon in the 6th Sylvia Beach Whitman, has noted the steady rise in renovation of the offices of a Parisian times that much today. derivatives using metal plates. P&O; White Star Line (owners of innumerable commercial studios arrondissement in 1922. Paris had taken over with the same modus interest and hammer literary journal, workmen found Because these were made to be the Titanic); French Line CGT (the was equally influential. The Antique become the spiritual home for operandi, allowing young writers prices for commercial hundreds of Toulouse-Lautrec The market for vintage posters pasted onto walls and billboards, Normandie) and the Hamburg-Amerika Collector’s Club has issued two, large- Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, to live and work on the premises. lithographic posters, posters rolled up under the emerged in the late 1970’s with proportionately few examples of Line; each and every one decimated format, companion volumes which T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and She has also started a biennial Kwith vintage examples dominating floorboards. The ones in the best the Belle Epoque and Art Nouveau the original print run survived intact, by war and the advance of commercial examine the artworks, artists, and the Gertrude Stein, all regulars at literary festival, FestivalandCo, the sales. But not just the blue chip condition could be bought for a few proving particularly popular, let alone in mint condition. This airlines. companies that commissioned them, in Sylvia’s soirées. It was closed which has hosted such writers 1 See the Peak District classics of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec hundred dollars. Even by the 1970’s, especially the graphic work of scarcity factor, when combined fine detail. Reproducing some of the by the Nazis in 1941 during the as Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Artist: S.R. Wyatt, c.1935 and Jules Chéret. Pre-World War II one dealer reputedly had a 100 Alphonse Mucha. Posters associated with the fame of the artist involved To reinforce the performance and famous, much loved posters alongside occupation and never re-opened. Jeanette Winterson, Jung Chang Printed: McCorquodale & Co. travel posters have been re-discovered copies of Toulouse-Lautrec's Divan with travel – rail and sea – have (and the large scale of the prints) glamour of these luxury giant liners, lesser known but equally striking and Marjane Satrapi. Whitman’s and their fine art qualities and Japonais, selling at only £500 each developed a special niche of their has made what is essentially The heyday of the great – highly artists created eye-catching and graphics, Railway Posters and Ocean OCEAN LINER POSTERS Born on 12 December, 1913, in East favourite novel was Dostoyevsky’s outstanding graphic design have (currently these are more like own, along with Olympics, skiing, ephemera into works of art that competitive – European railway mouth-watering images that stirred the Liner Posters demonstrate the power Gabriele Cadringher & Anne Massey Orange, New Jersey (not the son The Idiot and he often confessed Antique Collectors' Club created a specialised and £25,000 apiece). The most famous war and propaganda. And some of equal that of other recognised companies resulted in some imagination – one where the perils of of the single, static image – and its Hb. 184pp. 240 col illus. of poet Walt Whitman as was to feeling he was the main burgeoning market. Toulouse-Lautrec image, Moulin the strongest and most appealing fine art editions. decorative and often dramatic poster ocean-going never featured. Adolphe ability to convey a multi-layered ISBN: 978-1851496730 rumoured) George moved to Paris character ‘lost in the labyrinth in 1948 and duly launched the of existence’.

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