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COLETTE | PREVIEW | PARIS 2009

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HERE A LITTLE PREVIEW FROM SOME OF THE DRAWINGS WE MADE FOR COLETTE. VISIT THE SHOW FROM 03. – 29. AUGUST 2009.

COLETTE
213 RUE SAINT-HONORÉ
75001 PARIS – FRANCE

MORE HERE: WWW.COLETTE.FR

drawing size: 21″ x 30″ / 56 cm x 76 cm)
medium: color pencils (caran d’ache / luminance) on handmade paper

YOU TUBE DRAWINGS | NEW YORK SERIES | 2009

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YOU TUBE DRAWINGS NEW YORK SERIES 2009.

Dramatic Chipmunk
SOLD. THANK YOU.

Star Wars Kid
SOLD. THANK YOU.

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scope art fair new york 2009

artinfo.com text by: robert ayers

So all-pervading is the cartoon theme that even a lot of the work that falls outside of it is infected by it. There is Without You Baby, There Ain’t No Us, a special project commissioned by the Scope Foundation from the young Swiss artists who call themselves The Invisible Heroes. This is the group who last year staged the hilariously Dada-esque installation with dollar bills for sale for a range of different prices. Apparently they are still looking for a buyer for the bill they priced at $4 million.

This time around they have produced a series of colored pencil drawings based on video clips sourced from YouTube. These are priced at $300 each, or $450 for some special “adult” examples based on YouPorn videos. Though these aren’t literally cartoon-based works — with one or two exceptions, like Buddy Rich at the Muppets Show — the combination of hand-drawn technique and video source material is enough for them to be dragged under the cartoonish spell of the fair. The same happens to Allison Schulnik’s Hobo Clown video at New York’s Mike Weiss Gallery, as well as Marc Séguin’s La Piñata, a stuffed American bald eagle painted with tar, presented by Miami’s Charest-Weinberg and suspended high above the fair’s entryway. In this context, the taxidermic bird seems to have flown in directly from the world of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.

Samantha Fox- Nothing’s gonna stop me now
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How Not To Be Seen
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Usain Bolt Celebrates Early … Very Early
BUY 300 EURO here

EVOLUTION OF DANCE
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Buddy Rich Live at the Muppets Show
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Thriller (original up load)
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We Are Sinking (German Coast Guard) (Berlitz Ad)
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Metallica-St. Anger
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fat kid falls nearly from roller coaster (stupid accident)
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lots of fail
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Bush Departs the White House as the Crowd Sings
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tow chinese boys:i want it that way
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commercial – Tang
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COMMISSION WORK | PARIS

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COMMISSION WORK. THANK YOU SOPHIE!

L’Institut Bonheur – Thérapie no. 3
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L’Institut Bonheur – Thérapie no. 3
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Institut Bonheur – Lecon 1: Dancer!
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Institut Bonheur – thérapie no. 6
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Institut Bonheur – thérapie no. 4
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Institut Bonheur – Lecon 5
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French Kiss World Record
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Institut Bonheur – Lecon 2: Faire du sport!
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129 DRAWINGS FOR THE al sabah art collection

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INSTALLATION VIEW / KUWAIT 2009

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al sabah art collection, kuwait in celebration of a new space, sheikh majed al sabah has commissioned swiss artists comenius roethlisberger and his partner admir jahic to develop a series of work in memory of arab icons such as um kalthoom, mohammed abdul wahab, farid al atrash and omar al sharif. the exhibition is a tribute to celebrity figures of the arab world juxtaposed with snippets of the region’s energetic youth culture in works such as “crazy arab car stunts” and “girl afraid of her own shadow”. the show is being held as inauguration of the space for al sabah art and design, newly situated at the corniche along the arabian gulf road in sha’ab kuwait.

the provocative and entertaining collection of 129 small images and 2 overbearingly sized portraits heightens the struggle between glory and the giant, icon and idol, which is often portrayed commensurably through media and propaganda. in an attempt to disrupt the haphazard collection of archieved videos that youtube has become, comenius and ado

transformed the visual (virtual) language of “broadcasting” back into physicality by producing illustrations on handmade paper from virtual references with elemental art materials to do what they do best, that is, add to the confusion.

in each drawing (measuring 21″ x 30″), the artists have rendered a freeze-frrame, complete with video title, user ratings and number of views. the resulting collection is both distressing and humorous in its ability to highlight our often-conditioned predilection of arabic stardom.

so how does revisiting an era when arabic culture was at its height revitalize a tradition of receptive engagement with the rest of the world? how can we reposition ourselves as active participants of an international art dialogue?

INSTALLATION DETAIL-VIEW / KUWAIT 2009

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YOU TUBE DRAWINGS | SCOPE ART FAIR | MIAMI 2008

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FIRST YOU TUBE DRAWING SERIES AT SCOPE MIAMI 2008 | ALL DRAWINGS SOLD OUT

INSTALLATION VIEW

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Without You Baby, There Ain’t No Us.

By Brian Fichtner (coolhunting.com)

One of my favorite installations at this year’s Scope Miami was “Without You Baby, There Ain’t No Us,” a special Scope project by Comenius Reothlisberger and Admir Jahic of The Invisible Heroes. Fascinated with the YouTube phenomenon, Comenius and Admir have created a series of drawings on handmade paper which document a variety of videos, from the utterly absurd (a video featuring an animated potato) to pop culture classics (like Apple’s famous Super Bowl commercial from 1984, above right).

In each drawing (measuring 21″ x 30″), the artists have rendered a freeze frame, complete with video title, user ratings, and number of views. The resulting collection is both distressing and humorous in its ability to highlight our often vulgar predilections.

INSTALLATION VIEW – DETAIL

INSTALLATION VIEW – DETAI

INSTALLATION VIEW – DETAIL