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EE FREE FREE FREE 05 | HOT & COOL ART DRAWING ON SKIN SHR-YUNG CHEN Brave Tattoo Studio Hsinchu City, Taiwan DAVID HEPHER LACE, CONCRETE AND GLASS, AN ELEGY FOR THE AYLESBURY ESTATE 20 JANUARY - 25 FEBRUARY 2012 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 Cristina Bertoni 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 20 January –2 March 2012 HOT & COOL ART 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,