<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn0E3Vheay5PbD6C053VRI9t7fOsUI5qy6xefvgixjKdT30C9dGODN3M6T-7VBDxWa_uFRO7hTnoQ5w9BuXQAkg80oNupJcAumwqgUMg9hS6uIeEaD8Hq9QDYqfruqM19x4EqxYiXzvZQ/s1600/525593_10152180791260548_476580436_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div>"In this it is to be noted that Vincent Fecteau seems to color his sculptures less artistically, but rather <i><b>applies paint on them in the way a housepainter treats walls or rooms. </b></i>Mostly with relatively blunt, muted emulsion paint. Any spatial effects, shading, or even permitted stains or dirt seem to derive from the repertoire of a painter for stage designs. "<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvdwWRmx_sLbKz5OJ1FDq5_NNhtTYUVpgDLxosSJGy9_l5UAx32Bpzn9k_el3xcsTP0GIgWTU0wMG0xgYvBA1NyqxtZVBkLXNDBwMwCz6_VouKTnrMflUURvQe9aqT4d0zm7S9ILVfqA/s1600/VF2012_04c-800x551.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvdwWRmx_sLbKz5OJ1FDq5_NNhtTYUVpgDLxosSJGy9_l5UAx32Bpzn9k_el3xcsTP0GIgWTU0wMG0xgYvBA1NyqxtZVBkLXNDBwMwCz6_VouKTnrMflUURvQe9aqT4d0zm7S9ILVfqA/s640/VF2012_04c-800x551.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxKQhy5TnWkIn3SWOFEiOncAswMJ6PbquWUySSwb4NAcnCr9ii9hPTRviPGykTDTBUExB4Zim8PDDk6FUYcg255JUL0NXPLzIhmwEMiXqnvtf-XmLO7XHmql2IDMVE3zcZBNDMvQSzGg/s1600/VF2012_01d-800x554.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxKQhy5TnWkIn3SWOFEiOncAswMJ6PbquWUySSwb4NAcnCr9ii9hPTRviPGykTDTBUExB4Zim8PDDk6FUYcg255JUL0NXPLzIhmwEMiXqnvtf-XmLO7XHmql2IDMVE3zcZBNDMvQSzGg/s640/VF2012_01d-800x554.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><i><span style="font-size: small;">"Deepest </span>light, the secret lies </i></span><br /><i><span style="font-size: small;">Wishing well gives you all that you desire</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size: small;"> Homes and trains, and the greenest of plains </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size: small;">That you ever happened upon The silent wish, it calls you out </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size: small;">Calls you out by name Lays upon the plain, on the mountain high"<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0-YwHLOOqI">- B. M<span style="font-size: small;">o</span>uld</a></span></span></i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Vincent Fecteau</b></span></i> has so far always worked on a group of sculptures at the same time over a rather long period. He develops the final form through handling the material and only rarely and in small details does he work from preconceived ideas or sketches. In the past the creative process was determined by a core form determined by the material, for example an inflatable beach ball, or boxes to which he then applied layers of papier-mâché. These first layers were removed, cut up, re-assembled and in this way became the formal basis for numerous further formal modifications, until he arrived at the final shape of the sculpture. The coloring of the sculptures too goes through many different stages. In this it is to be noted that Vincent Fecteau seems to color his sculptures less artistically, but rather applies paint on them in the way a housepainter treats walls or rooms. Mostly with relatively blunt, muted emulsion paint. Any spatial effects, shading, or even permitted stains or dirt seem to derive from the repertoire of a painter for stage designs.<br /><br /><b>Galerie Buchholz </b><br /><a href="http://www.galeriebuchholz.de/index.php?menu_id=exhibitions">Vincent Fecteau  Fasanenstraße 30, Berlin (text from here)</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">---------------------</div>

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<i>a room in which to breathe <b>(modernism)</b></i><br /><i><b>aka</b></i><br /><i><span style="background-color: white;"><i>The mess I’m looking for</i></span><b><br /></b></i><br /><i><br />"(Thomas Houseago) His sensitivity both to the art of the Renaissance and the masters of Modernism, as well as his own innovative approach to figurative sculpture."</i><br /><i> </i> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFrUhbP8sW-wco1Bx7RfeKG6esfIkofpii_NhPiBpg6Fpi3YDcHg7-N4_MQMBK7f9pzoUsUomkGI6MqCxN11svvW_JKBnkn5MUnptubvEjxGfavtwWe5t6TzOFrgU__AiWoGrAUG-0lw/s1600/thomas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFrUhbP8sW-wco1Bx7RfeKG6esfIkofpii_NhPiBpg6Fpi3YDcHg7-N4_MQMBK7f9pzoUsUomkGI6MqCxN11svvW_JKBnkn5MUnptubvEjxGfavtwWe5t6TzOFrgU__AiWoGrAUG-0lw/s1600/thomas.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcMY3hPwcSeDgHaH18WGxWSat0zAFOYq6ZDE9e8w9XXy9cikqsRyu9sUuHS9ZW2PPfwqmb9v1pNRWc6U2uBXTQTQVZEyZp7EBbrfHLPuEzu5-oo-hgtEc8rgZiPtKRxVpnDZpaHS2f7c/s1600/charles+mckintosh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcMY3hPwcSeDgHaH18WGxWSat0zAFOYq6ZDE9e8w9XXy9cikqsRyu9sUuHS9ZW2PPfwqmb9v1pNRWc6U2uBXTQTQVZEyZp7EBbrfHLPuEzu5-oo-hgtEc8rgZiPtKRxVpnDZpaHS2f7c/s1600/charles+mckintosh.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><br />1. <b>Hauser & Wirth</b> is proud to present<span style="color: #999999;"><i><b> </b><span style="color: #444444;">‘The mess I’m looking for’</span></i></span>, an exhibition of works by <a href="http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1533/thomas-houseago-the-mess-i-m-looking-for/view/"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thomas Houseago.</b></span></i> </a>‘The mess I’m looking for’ will act as the third part in a trilogy of exhibitions comprising Houseago’s debut show with the gallery, with ‘I’ll be your sister’ and ‘Special Brew’, opening at Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row on 7 September. For his first solo show in Switzerland, Houseago will present a new, large-scale figure and a selection of wall works, including reliefs and masks. Together, these works showcase Houseago’s vast range of influences, from the abundance of nature and the sculpture of non-Western art to the superheroes and villains of comic books and cartoons. Houseago’s interpretation of these subjects highlights his sensitivity both to the art of the Renaissance and the masters of Modernism, as well as his own innovative approach to figurative sculpture.<br /><br />2.  "Even now, his work is not as well known as it deserves to be. Critics have never agreed where to place him. Some describe <span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Charles Rennie Mackintosh </b></i></span> as <span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>a prophet of modernism</b></i></span>; some call him an apostle of Art Nouveau. But, in fact, Mackintosh approached every building, every room, as if he were composing a different poem, using his imagination to create something special and whole."<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">----------</div>

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Fall Reading:<i><b> Interiors Atelier AM</b></i><br /><i>by Alexandra Misczynski and Michael Misczynski, </i><br /><i>Text by Mayer Rus,  Photographed by Francois Halard,</i><br /><i> Introduction by Axel Vervoordt  </i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs5D8U_J0XTUZLLwM7EKL-yMaiHj9Ahp4p3Zm0TXwHcG3MOI4Lx0_kdT8PRUsABnPdawPpuqTXkVVeMhF3tqwYQTVziU2e4EbzYUiqPMzO-sDPoO5aVgcuOgez1sYhyphenhyphengwPXuAS9RmZUqU/s1600/atelier+am.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs5D8U_J0XTUZLLwM7EKL-yMaiHj9Ahp4p3Zm0TXwHcG3MOI4Lx0_kdT8PRUsABnPdawPpuqTXkVVeMhF3tqwYQTVziU2e4EbzYUiqPMzO-sDPoO5aVgcuOgez1sYhyphenhyphengwPXuAS9RmZUqU/s1600/atelier+am.png" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs5D8U_J0XTUZLLwM7EKL-yMaiHj9Ahp4p3Zm0TXwHcG3MOI4Lx0_kdT8PRUsABnPdawPpuqTXkVVeMhF3tqwYQTVziU2e4EbzYUiqPMzO-sDPoO5aVgcuOgez1sYhyphenhyphengwPXuAS9RmZUqU/s1600/atelier+am.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-CSz79ddGgVgA1pkSCoeBrmdyZiGuh8wYs2ru4op4I-_xyVw8TdNAVK57j2FxKwWbCpDZ5ujqNJMM-oiBNVE78W-hW6SGZ8PgNHs0TP9mShlnzc8p1eyIqvoZd5WxmtYYjpGVSZfEtyQ/s1600/ate+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="507" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-CSz79ddGgVgA1pkSCoeBrmdyZiGuh8wYs2ru4op4I-_xyVw8TdNAVK57j2FxKwWbCpDZ5ujqNJMM-oiBNVE78W-hW6SGZ8PgNHs0TP9mShlnzc8p1eyIqvoZd5WxmtYYjpGVSZfEtyQ/s640/ate+2.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />"Enter a world of interiors by <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Atelier AM</b></span></i>, where classical proportions, varied finishes, and exquisite furnishings are masterfully combined, resulting in bold yet tranquil environments. A deft hand at creating interiors that mix materials, both<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-size: small;">rough-hewn and luxurious, antique and modern,</span> </b></span></i>marks the work of Alexandra and Michael Misczynski, the husband-and-wife team behind the Los Angeles–based firm Atelier AM. Only ten years after establishing their business, the couple has garnered a keen reputation for creating environments that are sensory experiences—visually sublime interiors enhanced with subtle, textural palettes. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century furniture commingle with modernist pieces and ancient objects. Background colors and materials are muted and refined. Interiors Atelier AM showcases a selection of residences—each exhibiting the firm’s skill at mixing furniture and objects with backgrounds such as antique flooring and Venetian plaster, with bold and modern results. Their high-profile clients include Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise and the Michael Eisners. The photography of François Halard beautifully documents each project, educating and inspiring a new generation of interior designers and connoisseurs. <br /><br /><br />About the Author Alexandra and Michael Misczynski are the team behind the renowned Los Angeles–based design firm Atelier AM. <a href="http://francoishalard.com/"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>François Halard</b></span></i></a> is an acclaimed photographer who contributes to numerous lifestyle periodicals and books. Axel Vervoordt is an antiques and art dealer in Belgium. Mayer Rus is the design and culture editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine.<a href="http://www.rizzoliusa.com/book.php?isbn=9780847838509"><i> (text taken from here)</i></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>---------------- </i></div>

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