EE FREE FREE 04 | HOT & COOL ART H.J. WARD Superman 1940 Lehman College, NYC. Pulpit in Empty Chapel Oil on canvas Bed under Window Oil on canvas ‘How potent are these as ‘This new work is terrific in images of enclosed the emptiness of psychic secrecies!’ space in today's society, and MEL GOODING of the fragility of the sacred. Special works.’ DONALD KUSPIT stephen newton Represented in Northern England Represented in Southern England Abbey Walk Gallery Baker-Mamonova Galleries 8 Abbey Walk 45-53 Norman Road Grimsby St. Leonards-on-Sea www.newton-art.com Lincolnshire DN311NB East Sussex TN38 2QE >> IN THIS ISSUE COVER .%'/&)00+%00)6= IMAGE ,%713:)( H.J. Ward Superman 1940 Lehman College, NYC. ;IPSSOJSV[EVHXSWIIMRK]SYEXSYVRI[ 3 The first ever painting of Superman is the work of Hugh TVIQMWIW1EWSRW=EVH0SRHSR7; Joseph Ward (1909-1945) who died tragically young at 35 from cancer. He spent a lot of his time creating the sensational covers for pulp crime magazines, usually young 'YVVIRXP]WLS[MRK0IW*ERXSQIW[MXL women suggestively half-dressed, as well as early comic CONJURING THE ELEMENTS STREET STYLE REDUX [SVOF]%FSYHME%JIH^M,YKLIW0ISRGI book heroes like The Lone Ranger and Green Hornet. His main Public Art Triumphs Pin-point Paul Jones employer was Trojan Publications, but around 1940, Ward 08| 10 | 6ETLEIP%KFSHNIPSY&ERHSQE4EE.SI was commissioned to paint the first ever full length portrait of Superman to coincide with a radio show. He was paid ,EQEHSY1EMKE $100. The painting hung in the chief’s office at DC comics until mysteriously disappearing in 1957 (see editorial). HOT & COOL ART .%'/&)00+%00)6= 8)0)4,32)1%7327=%6( EDITOR BUREAU CHIEFS 032(327;=&9 Michaela Freeman Lyle Owerko ;;;.%'/&)00+%00)6='31 [email protected] NEW YORK Anne Chabrol PUBLISHER Karl Skogland PARIS STATE LINE 0ISRGI6ETLEIP%KFSHNIPSY:SHSY (IXEMP [email protected] David Tidball The Wonder of DC Comics BERLIN | '4VMRXJVSQ2IKEXMZI 14 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR William Wright Mike von Joel SYDNEY [email protected] Elizabeth Crompton MELBOURNE DESIGN DIRECTOR Tor Soreide DISTRIBUTION POPPY SEBIRE [email protected] & SUBSCRIPTIONS Julie Milne AD EXECUTIVES Julie Milne [email protected] James Manning PUBLISHED BY CORRESPONDENTS State Media Ltd. Clare Henry LONDON Jeremy Hunt [email protected] Ian McKay HE OY OF EING PRINTED BY T J B FOURTH ESTATE William Varley Garnett Dickinson Free public art goes global Books for the Enquiring Mind Clifford Thurlow Rotherham S63 5DL 13 | 20 | STATE MAGAZINE is available through selected galleries, libraries, art schools, museums and other art venues across the UK. This issue of STATE has an accent on popular graphics, graffiti and art from (and on) the streets. Totally free, STATE is about new manoeuvres in painting and the THE IMAGE of DC Comics’ Superman is one of the simply took the painting home in 1957 and later it was visual arts – combined with f22, great Pop Art icons of all time, now recognisable across donated to Lehman College by his heirs. The brilliant a supplement on developments in the world. The first ever Superman painting hung in the graphic heritage of DC Comics has now been celebrated the fusion of art & photography. executive office of National Periodicals (later DC with typical brio by Taschen, in a magnificent, Comics) in New York. There is an archive photograph comprehensive, 720-page monograph. dated 1941, showing Harry Donenfeld and his team It is not a review magazine – EDITORIAL sitting in front of Hugh Ward’s picture. However, when The influence of comics on Street Art and Graffiti artists it is about PEOPLE worth serious Donenfeld retired in 1957, the painting mysteriously is pretty well documented. Street Art in the UK has consideration; PLACES that Michaela Freeman disappeared. It was finally tracked down by a writer and matured and former art guerrillas now collaborate with are hot and happening; and comic aficionado, David Saunders, to a wall in the the gallery system. In London, Paul Jones and the Elms PROJECTS developing in the Leonard Lief Library of Lehman College, situated in the Lesters Painting Rooms were in the vanguard of the international art world. Bronx. Staff and students obviously knew who it was, but move to present Graffiti and Street Art as work of merit had no idea of the historical importance and provenance and worthy of serious consideration. Meanwhile, out To apply to stock STATE Magazine, please mail of the almost life-size canvas. Saunders detective work on in Northampton, a public art project captured the Julie Milne: [email protected] the ‘lost’ painting revealed that Donenfeld, someone who imagination of the whole county. It’s all here in issue !" # $$%$$%$$&'()$* ++& ,*,& # ‘hobnobbed with the likes of Meyer Lansky, Frank four of STATE magazine – enjoy! Costello and Frank Sinatra’ according to his daughter, www.state-media.com www.state-media.com STATE 04 | 5 ...................... ...................... ...................... ...................... AN ART ‘Painting is easy when you don't know LINKS ‘Art is the only way to run away NEWS how, but very difficult when you do.’ EDITIONS without leaving home.’ RESTATE MONITOR { EDGAR DEGAS } TECHNOLOGY { TWYLA THARP } ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... QUOTEUNQUOTE 'Modern art [he wrote] should be Popular (designed for a mass audience), Transient (short-term solution), Expendable (easily forgotten), Low-cost, Mass-produced, Young (aimed at youth), Witty, 1 The White Cube's new space. Photo: Ben Westoby Sexy, Gimmicky, Glamorous, Heading South Big Business.' 3 WHITE CUBE’S opening of its third London venue, on Bermondsey Street, confirms RICHARD HAMILTON: the rise of the South London art scene. This 1970’s, 5440m2 ex-warehouse, allows more Most used obituary quote ambitious projects in its reincarnation as a gallery designed by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects. It also houses an auditorium, a bookshop and warehouse. www.whitecube.com 1 Matisse reimagined © Maxence Parache Tooth Fairy ............................................................................................................................... 3 ARTIST GINA CZARNECKI and stem 1 21st Century Matisse The Hepworth Wakefield. Photo © Iwan Baan cell biologist Professor Sara Rankin’s Maxence Parache’s version of Henri Matisse’s painting of five dancers, Dance II, was ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... collaborative project, The Palaces, wants one of nine works by classic artists recreated during the London Design Week at to raise awareness of the usually discarded Best Architectural Achievement Intel Remastered event in September. milk teeth as an underestimated source of The Best Architectural Achievement award at The British Design Awards 2011 went to the 3 IT USED WEB CAMS, mirrors, image- stem cells. They are asking children to newly opened art venue, The Hepworth Wakefield. mapping software and projections, allowing send in their milk teeth in exchange for visitors entering the space to multiply their an IOU token to put under their pillow 3 THE CONSTRUCTION of this largest Art Collection, contemporary artists’ movements and star in a unique version of the instead. The teeth will be used to gradually gallery in Yorkshire began in 2003 and exhibitions as well as rarely seen works by famous fauvist work. cover a 2m-tall resin sculpture shaped like was completed this year, at a cost of Barbara Hepworth. a coral castle as it tours around the UK, Alternative Funding £35 million. It brings together Wakefield’s www.hepworthwakefield.org www.maxenceparache.com launching at the Bluecoat Gallery in INDIEGOGO is a free (commission only) www.tentlondon.co.uk December. online tool to match funders and ideas. .............................................................................................................................. palaces.org.uk The calls are organised into various media and causes (such as Community, 'I was told that in the 1970’s Education, Environment) to make it easy when a letter arrived with a for potential sponsors to find an ideal HOT&COLD pledge to fund. Currently in the arts foreign stamp, it would be section: a book about performer Ron chucked in the bin unopened. 3 Athey; a gallery store by artist/curator The mentality was 3 REDISCOVERED MARKET 3 Kristen Lovelock; and Chelsea College of British-centric.' JOHN BERGER PICASSO Art & Design MA students – all are looking PILAR ORDOVAS Comment With Clout for funding. www.indiegogo.com PORTRAITS Recollects the good old days to Overpriced & unsold at Christie’s Bel Trew in the Evening Standard. 3 CULTURE NYC, 1st November. POP-UP EVERYTHING 3 EGO The New Business Opportunity MARIO TESTINO Asked to nominate a favourite Tributes Pulse DVD 3 GALLERY Taschen title chose his own Released Flip Ultra HD Kate Moss picture book .................................................. 3 DANISH PERCUSSIONIST Simon 3 AN INCREDIBLY easy-to-use video TURNER Medici’s Lever Game 3 CULTURE Christensen’s collaboration with American camera. Just point & shoot (2 hours DEVELOPED by John Kreidler, Medici’s Lever, MARGATE ........................................ independent filmmaker