all images © NICHOLAS POMEROY

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NICHOLAS POMEROY is a self-taught photographer based in London whose work primarily captures all the frenetic energy of his daily life, his friends and of the city! Make sure you check out all of NICHOLAS’ work via his flickr.

Not all those who wander are lost.- J.R.R. TOLKIEN

Distance Piece, 2011
sonor installation in the courtyard of the SculptureCenter
image courtesy of SculptureCenter, Long Island City

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Mem1 & STEVE RODEN. 2009

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STEVE RODEN is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance and has been exhibiting since the mid 1980’s in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including museums, galleries and arts spaces in USA, Italy, France, Japan, Bulgaria, Slovenia, England, among others.

“Distance Piece” is a new sonor installation created for the exhibition “Time Again”, curated by FIONN MEADE at the SculptureCenter; a show challenging the established concepts of past and present through a variety of media and approaches (on view until July 25, 2011).

Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (Apple), 2008

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Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (1912-1952), 200
Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (The Body is a Machine Alan Turing age 5, 1917), 2008

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Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (I am, Sir, Your Obedient Servant), 2008
Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (1936), 2008

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Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (The Body Underneath the Skin, Alan Turing circa 1926), 2008
Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (Alan Turing with Replica, age 16), 2008

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Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (A virtual system, capable of simulating the behaviour of any other machine, even, and including itself), 2008

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Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (Electric), 2008
Some Illustrations to the Life of Alan Turing (Bodies without Organs), 2008

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How do I make myself a body, 2008

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The Body is a Machine, 2010

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Papa-Mama-ich, 2009, computer printouts on newsprint

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Papa-Mama-ich, 2009, computer printouts on newsprint

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Papa-Mama-ich, 2009, computer printouts on newsprint

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Papa-Mama-ich, 2009, computer printouts on newsprint

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The Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel is actually presenting a retrosprective exhibition of the oeuvre created by Danish artist HENRIK OLESEN which features a selection from his works of the past fifteen years.

The exhibition, which runs over two floors, gives the public the opportunity to see the artist’s development and approach. Since 1998 HENRIK OLESEN explores the body and gender as well as their representation, by means of collages, posters, sculptures, texts and three-dimensional architectural interventions. He focuses on and explores homosexuality based on the political consequences of daily life, the media and society’s power structures. OLESEN introduces the homosexual body in order to draw our attention to the general repression and suppression of homosexuality throughout history.

Most recently, he created a historical and imagined portrait—in photo-text collages and sculptural objects—of British mathematician and inventor of the binary code ALAN TURING, who was persecuted for his sexual orientation by the British authorities to undergo female hormone treatments designed to reduced libido.

What interests me about the TURING biography is not only the way it illustrates the boundaries and histories of the 20th century, but that it also seems almost like a gendered prophecy. In a horrifying way, TURING ’s body was injured by the violence of modern ideology, he lost his own body, in a way, but he also made a new one. In 1936, he published a theoretical model of a machine that was to constitute the basis of all post-war computing, making him the father of all modern computer science. And this part of his biography is a futuristic tale about thinking machines, artificial intelligence and the appearance of possible future bodies. And to me, this is a long-needed escape from biological, heterosexual reproduction. – HENRIK OLESEN for Mousse Magazine

HENRIK OLESEN studied at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Staatliche Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany. His first retrospective of his work was organized by and presented at Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden (December 4, 2010– January 30, 2011) and is actually on view in Basel at the Museum of Contemporary Art until 11 September, 2011.

from the series Promenons-nous dans les bois…, 2010

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from the series Promenons-nous dans les bois…, 2010

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from the series Promenons-nous dans les bois…, 2010

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from the series Promenons-nous dans les bois…, 2010

all images and works © LÉONIE ZIKOS

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LÉONIE ZIKOS‘ work is strongly linked to the landscape and give a feeling of suspension, as if something that we can’t see in the frame could actually happen all of a sudden. These pleasantly haunting photos are just a few from her extremely diverse portfolio.

LÉONIE lives in France in a small town (next to the Swiss border) where she is currently learning art therapy.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer —ALBERT CAMUS

all images from the series: 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears (2011)
Credit: Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects

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365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears is a the latest photographic series of LAUREL NAKADATE (previously featured on WFW) which documents a year of daily sobs both real and performed. The result is three hundred sixty-five color photographs of herself before, during and after weeping every single day for an entire year.

NAKADATE‘s performance was a disciplined, durational exercise that required her to “take part in sadness each day” during the normal course of her life. Photographs were made in her New York apartment, her childhood bedroom in Iowa, at the top of the Space Needle in Seattle, and on planes, trains and in hotel rooms in places as varied as Talinn, Estonia, and Saratoga Springs, New York.

Taking part in sadness and not running from it. I originally came up with the idea when I noticed that on social networking sites like facebook or Myspace, everyone pretends to be happy all the time. There are all of these normal people, all around the world, pretending to be happy. Maybe it’s a performance that they’re not totally conscious of, but there are all these normal people doing these performances every day. People hold their iPhone an arm’s length from their face and do a self-portrait and put it up on facebook every day. These layman’s daily self-portraits became interesting to me because of the idea that the self-portraits had to be happy. So I thought I would do a performance every day where I deliberately turn away from happiness, and deliberately take part in sadness. So that’s how the performance was conceived. – LAUREL NAKADATE in conversation with ROBERT AYERS

And good news: you can view 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York until 25 June, 2011. Additionally, MoMA PS1 is presenting her work until 8 August, 2011.

Estaría bien poner un título aquí by ALBA YRUELA
Printed in June 2011 by PogoBooks
32 Pages, Softcover, 14,8 x 21 cm
Color Offset on 150gr Recycling Paper

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Earlier this month, German publisher Pogobooks highlighted the creative and artistic mind of ALBA YRUELA in a small book entitled Estaría bien poner un título aquí. And it’s everything I expected: full of stunningly wild images coming straight out of the life of ALBA.

And earlier last month, WFW featured ALBA’s work: read more about ALBA YRUELA!

Get your copy here !

NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF ( group show) at A Palazzo, 2011
in collaboration with Balice Hertling gallery
Image courtesy of A Palazzo

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NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF ( group show) at A Palazzo, 2011
in collaboration with Balice Hertling gallery
Image courtesy of A Palazzo

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NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF ( group show) at A Palazzo, 2011
in collaboration with Balice Hertling gallery
Image courtesy of A Palazzo

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NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF ( group show) at A Palazzo, 2011
in collaboration with Balice Hertling gallery
Image courtesy of A Palazzo

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Untitled, 2010, 18 x 24 inch, newspaper on canvas
Images courtesy of the artist and New Jerseyy, Basel

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Untitled, 2010, 16 x 24 inch, newspaper on canvas
Images courtesy of the artist and New Jerseyy, Basel

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NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF (detail) at Art Positions during Art Basel Miami Beach, 2010

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Six things you need to know about NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF:

1. He was born in 1979 in Germany
2. He currently lives and works in New York
3. after having graduated in 2007 at Bard’s College MFA
4. Often using painting as a medium he questions himself on what
   painting is and could be
5. He has exhibited internationally: at the Sculpture Center, New York, at the PS1, New York, at the Kunsthalle Bergen and at the Kunsthalle Zürich
6. His upcoming projects include a solo show at the Swiss Institute in New York

And good news: his work is actually part of a group show at A Palazzo Gallery in Brescia, Italy on view until the 13th September, 2011

Soft Rock – repeat
from the series super fake. 2009
Digital Repeat fabric

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Soft Rock – repeat
from the series super fake. 2009
Digital Repeat fabric

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Soft Rock – repeat
from the series super fake. 2009
Digital Repeat fabric:  Soft Rock – repeat, was originally a file used to choose colour ways for the Hard Rock furniture. However I became fascinated with making a fake of a fake, re-interpretation interpretation the laminates, which often are interpretations themselves. The pattern is inspired by the patternations found in rocks and minerals. Also available as Rolled rock digitally printed wallpaper

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BETHAN LAURA WOOD photographed by ANDREAS LARSSON for PIN-UP Magazine #10
Pattern: Soft Wood-particle repeat from the series super fake. 2011 and Teeth: Headpiece

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Teeth sketches

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BETHAN LAURA WOOD photographed by ANDREAS LARSSON for PIN-UP Magazine #10
Pattern: Soft Wood-particle repeat from the series super fake. 2011 and Particle-Jewellery and Soft Rock scarf

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British designer BETHAN LAURA WOOD graduated of 3D Design from the University of Brighton and subsequent from the Royal College of Art, where she studied under the tuition of JURGEN BEY and MARTINO GAMPER, in the Design Product department. Simultaneously, she set up her own practice, WOOD London, designing and producing a range of objects, from jewellery to ceramics, as well as large-scale interventions and collaborative projects.

BETHAN LAURA WOOD is interested in the relationship between the user and the object, particularly in why people discard or hold onto objects, creating products that explore how different attributes of the mundane can be celebrated and rediscovered.

I actually used to be very militant about the fact that the way I dress had very little to do with my work. But now that I’ve started doing this very patterned, very color-based work in laminates, I can’t really deny the connection. I now even dress in my own work, with the fabrics that I design. – BETHAN LAURA WOOD about her stunning style for PIN-UP Magazine #10.

Be sure to view more via her website http://www.woodlondon.co.uk/

Liste 16. Sunday 19 June, 2011
General Strike (KOW Issue 8),
a newspaper by ALEXANDER KOCH from KOW gallery, Berlin
image © WFW

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Its over kids: Art 42 Basel officially closed!
but good news: we will see us tomorrow for a daily selection of creative delights,
Stay wild

SIGALIT LANDAU at Kamel Mennour Gallery. Saturday 18 June, 2011
during her key making performance “Give & Take & Send Away”
image © WFW

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During her performance Give & Take & Send Away this afternoon, Israeli artist SIGALIT LANDAU offered the public a gift made on-site. Based on the visitors own key, an exact negative form is produced – symbolizing the “right of return”: be it a home in Europe or in Palestine: A refugee is left with keys to a place that exists no more.

Moreover, SIGALIT LANDAU has created a political and environmental installation for the Israeli Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale entitled One Man’s Floor is Another Man’s Feelings which presents a series of video, sculpture and image imbued with symbolic gesture (on view until 27 November 2011).

Hall 2.1/ Nicolas Krupp Gallery. Saturday 18 June, 2011
detail of a work by MONICA STUDER & CHRISTOPH VAN DEN BERG
image © WFW

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MONICA STUDER and CHRISTOPH VAN DEN BERG are working together since 1990 and exclusively with computers. Starting from software they conceive themselves, they have created works about a variety of themes, from the presence or absence of buildings in a town-planning map,  to the 3D representation of a soul or to virtual holidays on the Internet (a much-acclaimed Internet project entitled Hotel Vue des Alpes).

Artists Records. Saturday 18 June, 2011
one of the tattoos of TRYSTAN MATTHEY aka TRIBANDE JOYCE
image © WFW

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Another day, another tattoo from Geneva spotted on a 19-year-old future art student and incidentally tumblr kid: http://tribandejoyce.tumblr.com/ !

Art Feature at 100 Tonson Gallery. Saturday 18 June, 2011
RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA (blue shirt) and his assistant tasting Masaman Curry
image © WFW

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Masaman Curry:

500 gram beef brisket (sliced into bite sized pieces)
2 tablespoons roasted peanuts
100 gram white onions (quartered)
3 bay leaves
6 cardamon seeds (roasted)
1 stick cinnamon (roasted)
5 cloves
2 tablespoons masman curry paste
2 cups coconut milk
1 cup coconut cream
4 tablespoons palm sugar
6 tablespoons fish sauce
6 tablespoons puree of tamarind
4 tablespoons white vinegar
3 tablespoons vegetable oil

In a pot boil two cups of coconut milk and pre-boil all the sliced beef until tender ● In a separate curry pot, boil the coconut cream and stir-fry the masaman curry paste until fragrant, and add to the pot of meat ● Add peanuts and season with fish sauce, tamarind and vinegar ● Add the bay leaves, the roasted cinnamon stick and cardamon seeds, quartered onions and potatoes ● Simmer the curry until the beef is very tender ● Remove from the heat and serve with jasmine rice

delightful, stay on WFW and read more about this artist!

Art Feature at Tanya Leighton Gallery. Friday 16 June, 2011
Om (1986) by © JOHN SMITH
4 mins. Colour. Sound. 16mm.

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Six things you need to know about British artist JOHN SMITH:

1. he graduated in 1977 from the Royal College of Art
2. since 1972 he has made over fifty films, videos and installation works
3. which deftly subvert the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction
4. Om (watch above) explores our response to stereotypes: aural, visual and ideological
5. he teaches part-time at the University of East London
6. he is represented by Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

Back wall of the Kunsthalle Basel. Friday 16 June, 2011
wood sculptures installation “Sculpture Exquise” by PEDRO WIRZ
image © WFW