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Passage 12
Ed Jansen writes again to notify me that the latest number of his web magazine, Passage, is now online, about which he says:
In Passage nr. 12 there are articles about a 17th century garden in The Hague, about the mysterious visit to The Hague by the Comte De Saint Germain. Was he really a enlightened man or a fraud? If you’re an occultist you’ll tend to believe the first, the historian thinks otherwise. Then there are the photos of the dancer and performer Hiroake Umeda. Strange movements underlined by light-effects. Living in a Capsule is a combination of the paintings by the Dutch artist Tjebbe Beekman and the work of J.G. Ballard. Lastly there is an article about Jan Bastiaans, the doctor who experimented with LSD to ‘free’ the victims of the concentration camps of the nightmares and repressed memories.
Once again the text content is in Dutch but that doesn’t exclude all visitors here. I hadn’t come across the work of Tjebbe Beekman before. His paintings of urban desolation are indeed a good match for one aspect of Ballard’s work, and they make an interesting contrast with Dick French’s earlier views of the author’s Drowned World.
Trust by Tjebbe Beekman (2005).
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Drowned Worlds
• Passage 11
• Passage 10
The art of Laurie Hogin
Song of Retail #1 (Pink Skull Monkey) (2004).
Retail might be more interesting if it involved pink monkeys beating skulls. There’s more at Laurie Hogin’s website and at Littlejohn Contemporary. Via Chateau Thombeau.
Diorama with Palliated Species (2007).
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The fantastic art archive
The recurrent pose 30
The previous post in this series showed Flandrin’s Jeune Homme Assis au Bord de la Mer (1836) being used as a book cover illustration and here it is again, confirming once again how easily the painting fits the world of homoerotica whatever the original intention of the artist. I hadn’t come across this book before but it looks like it may be worth buying despite the mixed reviews.
And a recent posting from this Flickr user is another deliberate imitation of Flandrin’s pose.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive
The art of Christian rex Van Minnen
Cathartes.
Paintings from this gallery of portraits and still lifes. I suspect Jeff VanderMeer would appreciate the Manfungus series. Via Chateau Thombeau.
Manfungus 1.4.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The fantastic art archive