IN RESIDENCE @ APEXART WITH MARINE KARBOWSKI

Post-Residency's blog with APEXART

2010-06-04T03:18:00.000-07:00

You can follow me on my Post-Residency's blog in Apexart here:

http://apexpostresidencykarbowski.blogspot.com/?spref=fb

I will share what happened in Paris in cultural and Art worlds.

May 7th

2010-05-06T18:52:00.000-07:00

THE WONDERFUL APEXART

Julian Gilbert-Davis

Cybele Maylone

Julia Knight

Steven Rand

Follow my "Post-Apexart" Blog very soon.

May 5th

2010-05-05T16:27:00.000-07:00

HARLEM AND THE CLOISTERS

Chaim Gross foundation in Soho

Opening of Gerard Mosse's exhibition in Chelsea

Julian is working at Apexart

Talk with the painter Mimi Gross

Private joke

May 3rd

2010-05-03T19:03:00.000-07:00

THE UNITED NATIONS (ONU)

Lecture of Poetry : Alien language for me in English...

I visited the studio of Satyakam SAHA
http://www.mysculpture.net/satya/

In fact, I am to drunk to do correctly my blog today!
But I tried !!!!!

May 2nd

2010-05-02T14:52:00.000-07:00

WAVE HILL

Who is remembering a wave?

En latin, pinceau veut dire "petit penis"
In latin, bruch (penicillus) means "little penis"

Funny way my road.

No need for mushrooms.

Jellyfishes in summer time are always in dark red.

Listening Archie Shepp.

Or "Sound of vision"

Put your instincts away.

DRAWINGS OF THE DAY

2010-05-01T15:58:00.000-07:00

GRAND CENTRAL STATION to Beacon

It takes one hour and half to go to DIA, a modern art foundation.
The train is going along the river Hudson's side.

The collection is very impressive, they show monumental pieces of major's artists of the 20th century.

Joseph Beuys

Louise Bourgeois

Richard Serra

Ther was also a performance of the dancer Trisha Brown. Unfortunately no more tickets...I was so disappointed because I love her work !
For those who don't know her, check the link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86I6icDKH3M&NR=1
And many more....
The website of DIA Beacon http://www.diacenter.org/sites/main/beacon

Saturday evening in New York : The barbecue.

April 30th

2010-04-30T16:19:00.001-07:00

SOHO the pink street

Walter De Maria's installation : an apartment completely covered in 22 inches of earth.

T.W.O The work office.
Katarina Jerinic and Naomi Miller received me to talk about this wonderful idea of their space.
This Art project is disguised as an employment agency. Artists apply for a "Job", get hire, and get pay in return (23 dollars by week, exactly the price in the 30's crisis) They reinvent the system of that time, I think that idea is very smart and very funny.
http://www.theworkoffice.com/

Sarah is an Employer of the T.W.O
Her work is so great.
She installed a "Bureau of existential crisis services" where people are supposed to speak about their moods problems. I tried it, but the problem is that I have none....We laughted about that and speak about the insecure feelings of Americans people. Thing that we don't have in France...
I learned a lot about American's personal issues.

Beautiful girls in a beautiful project.

Direction The American Folk Art Museum to listen to a concert.

April 29th

2010-04-29T17:19:00.001-07:00

EMOTIONAL DAY : All in softness

I had the pleasure today to meet the artist Peter Soriano.

His studio is in Brooklyn, but he moves actually for a new place in Wall Street.
I was completely dreaming on his work. The sculptures, that he called each "Other side", are very powerful and poetic. You can see it better on his website here :
http://www.petersoriano.com/
I really enjoyed this moment, and was very glad to discover a wonderful work (it is not everyday!)

For lunch, I met Gaspar Dietrich, a photographer. Unfortunately his website is under construction, so I can't show you any pictures.

Get back to 14 Wall Street to live a unique experience.

I couldn't take any pictures obviously because it was a Blind dance.
We had a blindfold before enter the theater, so we couldn't estimate the space.
Then, an amazing dance and sounds piece started. The relationships between dance, space, sounds, colors were very interesting. As a painter, it was a real difficulty to admit the blindness, but a few minutes later, I was in another world. Totally MAGIC.

I finished the day on a workshop of a play about the status of transexuels in New York.
I learned that sexuals differences in this city seems to be more difficult than in Paris.

I think that day was really full of emotions and it was a perfect one !
I still feel so lucky to be trough all that things. I wish that everybody, one month in his life, should have the chance to appreciate the benefit of Art and Knowledge as I live it now !
What a wonderful world, so many scores and variations, so many feelings and moods. I never saturate, my brain is so wildly opened that I could fill it with everything. Moreover, I start to feel a conscience of the whole world, it means that I don't feel french anymore but the participant of a huge community where everyone has a role to play. I hope that my own role as an artist, can make things grown up.
As you can see, I feel more comfortable with english language....And I can express myself a little bit more....Just when I have to live....Too bad, you won't know Marine Karbowski the famous New Yorker's writer. (me neither i guess...)
I think it is a matter of EMERGENCY. It's now or never.
Thanks for following me along this blog.

April 28th

2010-04-28T17:33:00.001-07:00

WALL STREET and the Museum of American Finance
History of the money, the bounds, and Hamilton under Washington presidency.

The revue "Fortune"

The fight is timeless.

THE QUEENS

This is the Louis Amstrong's house. I visited the inside, it's gorgeous and wealthy.

The Flushing Meadows Corona Park in the Queens

And the Queen's Museum

The Queen's zoo. Because of the bad weather, I was almost alone, it was fantastic.

Because I could see that for example.

Or That....

Even American's ducks live together and share...

If someone knows the name of "That", it will be helpful.

Always magic.

A talk in Apexart about painting.

with
Kamrooz Aram ; http://www.kamroozaram.com/
Dike Blair ; http://www.thing.net/~lilyvac/
Holly Coulis ; http://www.cherryandmartin.com/artistDetail.php?id=10
Deborah Kass' ; http://www.deborahkass.com/
Tom Sanford ; http://www.tomsanford.com/

April 27th

2010-04-27T15:56:00.000-07:00

MUSEUMS MARATHON
Not less than three museums today.
Who can do better?

Museum of the city of New York
This museum relate the story of the city.

There was also an exhibition about old toys.

This game is made with cards where images are deformed and to see it in normal way, you have to use the reflecting cylinder.

These toys should have make a generation of frighten children...

The Guggenheim Museum

The Metropolitan Museum

John Hoppner

I saw three paintings of E. Hopper for the first time of my life! I was so happy!

Don't know how to resume the museums, so many things to see, so many history to learn. In fact, nothing is better than going there : French guys, buy your tickets for New York and do it by yourself!

I listened to that talk of Joanne Dolan Ingersoll, she is a curator of costume and textiles at the museum of Art.

At night, Apexart scheduled a live music show at coco 66. It should be so exciting !!! I really wanted to see that!! But how can I make a step forward after such a day ? I regret not to be a super champion of marathon...

April 26th

2010-04-26T19:02:00.001-07:00

The oldest Synagogue of New York : The Eldridge Street Synagogue

I met Petrushka Bazin for lunch, she is the curatorial Fellow at "The Kitchen"

After that, I run to meet Mimi Gross a painter of New York.
Her apartment/studio is extraordinary, located in Manhattan, it looks exactly how you imagine it : spacious, full of amazing paintings.
(That one is mine, so lucky again!)

This is the Grolier Club. They presented a show about the stories along the Mississippi.

Davy Crockett, Tom Sawyer etc...

A submarine.

I wasted a long moment wondering how they could trap us in restrooms with advertising...

At night, I saw that performance about the human will to fly. Sigourney Weaver was speaking with the music and images broadcast on the screen : A real American show as they are so good to do it !

April 25th

2010-04-25T16:17:00.000-07:00

My first rainy day in New York

The New York Marble cemetery opens its doors maybe three or four sundays in the year.

Bowery Street and its horrible stores of chinese's lamps

Mahayana Buddhist temple on the left. I prefer the view of the Manhattan bridge beyond the door.

April 24th

2010-04-24T15:27:00.000-07:00

Chelsea and its Art's Galleries

Elizabeth Peyton

Lisa Yuskavage...Her paintings are so close from John Currin...I thought it was him...

Chelsea Market.

MIAM MIAM

I saw probably about 30 galleries.
I think that I do an overdose of pictures and Art.

April 23th / Washington DC / Part II

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The National Gallery of Art designed by IM Pei ( Does it remind you something?)

Egon Schiele by Egon Schiele

Nice vue of the White House on the top of the old Post Office Pavillon.

The Hirshhorn Museum

Franck Stella

A beautiful Motherwell

The tiny black point on the canvas is a fly.

A Richter's painting.

Don't know what to think about the Washington's ducks...

If I would do better, I couldn't !!!! Love that !

For sure : Nobody does it better !!!

APEXART GIVE ME YOUR SECRET !

April 22th / Washington DC

2010-04-23T19:46:00.000-07:00

WASH IN TOWN

I met Casey Smith, a poet.
We had a very nice time, Thank you Casey!

The Corcoran Museum

A long walk along the Potomac river.

A gospel concert at The Kennedy Center

A dinner

The receptionist of the hotel gave me his best room with two beds just because I was French.

April 21th

2010-04-21T17:46:00.000-07:00

SPEED OF LIFE

Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Try to find the animal hidden in this pic (answer at the end of the note...)

PEOPLE ARE STRANGE

This concert was probably the worst concert of Bach that I ever heard. It was a massacre.
That is the reason why I stayed : All those wrong notes, those couic and couac, her face so fascinating when she played...A hudge poem....Wonderful.

SPRING CAN REALLY HANG YOU UP THE MOST

Grant's Tomb

TAKE A WALK ON WILD SIDE
I walked along the 51st Street west to east. Beautiful.

I SING JUST TO FEEL THAT I'M ALIVE

The Four season Bar is a beautiful bar from the fifties.
I had a nice drink with David Adler.

And I saw the exhibition of Jean-Baptiste Perrot : http://jbperrot.net/

I met Stephanie De Rouge (a very great photographer) :http://www.stephaniederouge.com/

Answer : a peacock asleep.

I am going to washington DC.
No posts during two days.
I hope you will miss me !

April 20th

2010-04-20T18:35:00.000-07:00

Wall Street to meet Nathalie Angles, the program manager of "residency unlimited"
http://www.residencyunlimited.org/

I also met there
Eva K Tremblay an artist : http://www.evektremblay.com/Eve_K_Tremblay.html
Santo Tolone ( artist in Milano) : http://www.residencyunlimited.org/artists/2010/02/santo-tolone/
Yuka Yokoyama ( Director and co-founder of Marginal Utility in Philadelphia : www.marginalutility.org
Remisko Bartek ( curator in Poland)

I visited the Seaport Museum always in Wall Street.
The problem is that I am sick on boats....So that took me maybe one second...
(But anyway, there was also an exhibition on the ground)

Central Park

And a private tour of the Whitney Museum followed by a very chic cocktail with Julia Knight.

I think that we were the most beautiful girls in that party !!!

Some links of American's artists that I remember

roland flexner http://www.rolandflexner.com/
Marianne Vitale http://www.mariannevitale.com/MARIANNE_VITALE.html
Storm Tharp ; http://pdxcontemporaryart.com/tharp
Maureen Gallace : http://www.303gallery.com/artists/maureen_gallace/
Dawn Clements : http://www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/clementsd.html

Just in front of my appartment, Snoop Dogg is given a concert right now. Too bad that apexart didn't bring me there....
Who want that gorgeous sticker???

Thanks to everyone who read this blog. But who read it? I have no idea....

April 19th

2010-04-19T20:02:00.001-07:00

The Brooklyn College.

I had a very nice lunch with Eric Alterman, a political journalist. He writes sometimes for "le monde diplomatique".
After that, I assisted to a talk in the college. You can see him on the left.

This is the Brooklyn College.

In the afternoon, I met Thodoris Colovos, a greek art magazine editor. We went to a show for a magazine.

And met his friends at that amazing bar in a hotel where you can see all the city in a panoramic vue. It is gorgeous.

We had a dinner together. Great to have a "human time" in New York.

April 18th

2010-04-18T19:31:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn and Prospect Park

I had a nice time here with Julia. We had a brunch together, listening jazz musicians. Peaceful time.

If you look closely, you will recognize Julia on the right...

Spent my sunday afternoon in Prospect Park. Perfect weather for a perfect time.

At 6pm, I have listened in the "theater company", a piece of Daniel Damiano. It was excellent..

Look at the roof party on the top of the house.

Dad, what are you doing here? I told you not to come with me in NYC...

As the night falls down, my heart is still happy.

Concert in "Death by audio" in Brooklyn.
Very dirty place where we can smoke. Enjoyed it.

The singer was Unbunny.

I feel like a big brain on big calves.

Or like a big brain with tidy hair.

Or like a nightingale also with tidy hair.
(My computer didn't want to turn it. Sorry...)

April 17th

2010-04-17T19:06:00.001-07:00

Center for book arts. The exhibition was about the sixtie's japanese manga.

The queens with the PS1 Moma, a contemporary art center. Where I saw many videos. There were also concerts.

Few links for you:
Ryan Trecartin (so funny) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FMHxu9Gvk
Yayoi Kusama : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh6TBqjDNYM
Paul McCarthy (I love it!) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozubKHdprMI&feature=related

Look at the floor...

This is for Julia Knight : Look at the video!

This is an old poster of Joseph Beuys

There was also a little part talking about Dada

In the evening, I saw the performance of Shana Moulton and Nick Hallet at "The Kitchen".

Three screens were broadcast images. Shana Moulton moved into that space while three musicians were playing.

New York at night, just for the fun.

And the sentence of the day.

April 16th

2010-04-16T16:13:00.000-07:00

The Bronx and Grand Concourse Avenue

I went to the Bronx Museum to see that exhibition about Dr. Martin Luther King's movement.
Pictures were very powerful and impressed me a lot.
Dr. Martin Luther King was killed in 1968, so close to us....
http://www.bronxmuseum.org/freedom.html

There was also an exhibition of new black generation artists and I recommend you to have a look of those videos by Jefferson Pinder ( In the bottom of the page, the one called " car wash" is excellent).
http://www.gfineartdc.com/artists-detail.cfm?recordID=9

Picture of the Bronx (North Manhattan for those who don't know)

This talk in Manhattan was bout the history of the Grand Concourse road in the Bronx.
In fact, at the beginning of the 20th century, this area was a rich place and they built this huge avenue with gorgeous buildings to make like the " Champs-Elysees " in Paris.
But it didn't last, and as the drug and the poverty came up, the area changed a lot.

This gallery is the White Columns

Well, this his the new Van Gogh of Manhattan I suppose...

This artist is Horst Ademeit
Quite difficult to explain what he is doing in English, so let's check his page here
http://www.whitecolumns.org/view.html?type=exhibitions&status=current&id=491
It is very interesting.

I came back to Brooklyn. I feel so good in its streets.

This place is the ISCP, a art residency place.

This piece is from Zena Verda Pesta
"My mother's favorite color was yellow - Yeah fine with me, it looks like a penis" 2008

Terence Gower

Curiosity of the day... For us, french people....

Subway was full, it amused me.

Sorry, i didn't turn it.

Hope you enjoy the day like I did.

April 15th

2010-04-15T18:55:00.001-07:00

I went to see an Auction at Christie's.

After that MOMA

With the Marina Abramovic exhibition : Unforgettable....

And the Tim Burton's...

I met Krista Saunders and Mario Giacalone in the performing arts center
www.tribecapac.org

And go to a talk of Steven V.Roberts about his last book "From every end of this world"

To finish with a Hip Hop music show where they didn't let me in because i didn't have my id card. I tried to charm the guy ; but without any success...

Today, my name was Mary

I must use an English name till tomorrow..

April 14th

2010-04-14T17:53:00.000-07:00

Let's start with that beautiful tree and tulips.
Do we make so much efforts in our country to have so beautiful squares?

Well, the day started with a visit in the FIT which is a museum of fashion. The exhibition was called "Night and Day". No pictures were allowed so I made few drawings.

After that, I went to the Himalayan Art Museum. Et de deux....
Nice Harmony.

This is "TARA" God of all activities. I'm in, she is my master for now, forget about St Christopher and Ste Rita!!!

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Welcome to the Antony Gormley in Madison Square Park.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/arts/design/19gormley.html
This is the iron model put on the ground. Then, you have to find where they are perched on ledges and rooftops. The anecdote at the beginning was that people thought that those statues were real persons wanted to suicide themselves....
It was really beautiful and full of poetry and symbols.
So Find them now...

Now that your eyes are totally destroyed, look at that very funny picture.
In fact, you have to give your name at the desk and they call you when your hamburger is ready.
I repeated 3 times my name to the girl and look what she wrote ;

Marvin Karbowski....

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Now that my eyes and my belly were full, let's feed my ears with this talk in that library.
The topic was the food.

If you mix up the two museums I've done today it gives you that ( That is my own special recipe of the day)

APEXART , GIVE ME MORE !

April 13th

2010-04-13T19:14:00.000-07:00

we left in the morning at Penn Station to go to New Jersey to visit Julie Martin.
What an amazing time we had with her.
A short explanation :
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) was a non-profit and tax-exempt organization established to develop collaborations between artists and engineers. It was officially launched in 1967 by the engineers Billy Kluver and Fred Waldhauer and the artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman. Julie is Billy Kluver's wife and she still manage the experiences they had in the sixties when technology started to be developped.
Many famous artists like Christo or Warhol did worked with them.
Julie Martin is an exellent francophile, I am sure that she speaks fluently french. She knows what the "ordinateur individuel" is....And also that we had the "minitel" in France.
We saw her books, her pictures, her archives. She received us so kindly, and she is a very smart person. I feel so lucky to met her...
She owns the organization's memory and what we saw at her home was an extraordinary precious memory of Art in the sixties and seventies.
She wants now to translate all the reports she has on files in a computer.
I can't express the feeling of touching so closely a major part of Art history.
This is Julie Martin on the left and Julia Knight from Apexart on the right.
Thanks both for this amazing time.

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Dear Pierre, you were right.... Somebody can find what the problem is on this picture?

Sun was falling down as I arrived to Brooklyn for a performance between a chemist ( Kent Kirshenbaum) and a Chef (Will Goldfarb) at the Bell House.
Love that area of New York with all that olds factories.

Obviously they talked about " El Bulli "Ferran Adria Which is THE place that I want to go before Dying...Ferran was Elected best chef in the world and you have to book one year before going. His cook is a mixed of food science and Art.
Have a look :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DY1lRh16HQ

Well I think that soon my brain will explose.
What a unforgettable day...

April 12th

2010-04-12T19:04:00.000-07:00

Julia wanted me to go to a cruise on the Hudson River. Although, as a New-yorker, she has never been herself...It was (how can I say that?) so "touristic".

It is the Liberty statue (oups, I missed it...)

After that, I walked along the quay of the west side, sunny was very hot, I always feel like "The stranger" Of Albert Camus when I walk under the sun.
This horse is a memorial of died policemen.

I forgot my swimsuit again.

This is "Icons" Gallery

Portraits are made with Vinyl's pieces

In the evening, I had a very interesting classroom at an Art University with professor Melissa Rachleff-Burtt. Students were presenting two art places of New-York.

Today was the day of the running tulips dogs

And the winner is Marine car Bone Husky

Sunday, April 11th

2010-04-11T19:23:00.000-07:00

Today, I went to the Antiquarian Book Fair.

I saw many rare illustrations and some of my childhood.
I loved Babar's adventures, but the story of this elephant is so sad...
Hopefully, I am still an happy person despite of these tragical readings.

This is the entrance of the book art fair.

This one shows little monkeys playing humans behaviors.

This one is for my Mum...She knows of what i am talking about (private request)

Japanese illustrations of sex.

Classical but always funny

A letter of Walt Whitman

Warhol Matisse and friends.

But let's speak about that one.
This is a very interesting case.
I dreamt to have it but can't afford it. It costs 2000 dollars.
In fact, it is double. Mainly, this is a juridic book BUT you can see those illustrations which are a control of the size of the fish that you have fishing. It means that if your fish is bigger than the illustration, put it back in the river. The seller explains me that you could both reading your manual and go fishing. WHOUAOUH. GREAT.
It is a german book.

Our National Boltanski will come exhibit in that place in May

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After that, I went to the Czech center to see a movie called "Hooked". I love it, well done Adrien Sitaru ( the director)

Then, evening arrived and my shoe is still in good health...I listened to a great jazz concert in "The Stone". Tim Sparks on guitar. He knows very well immigration history in eastern Europe. Percussions was amazing. I spent a great time listen to them.

A short video

Good Night, sleep well.

DAY 4 / Part 4 / Exhibition of Joanna Ebenstein

2010-04-10T19:04:00.000-07:00

Then, in the evening, I met Joanna for his Exhibition called "the secret museum"

In this factory which used to be a box factory
More pictures of her show
For further information about the artist click here
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/

Pictures of the day

That is how die paintings

Too late....

And put it on the bin

I knew that I spent a wonderful time today, everything was just

DAY 4 / Part 3 / Brooklyn museum - 2

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DAY 4 / Part 2 / Brooklyn museum

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CHINA DOGA

COWA

AFRICA HEADA

NEW YORKA ARTISTA

EGYPTIAN DUCKA

INDIA CONCERTA

DAY 4 / Part 1 / Botanic Garden

2010-04-10T18:15:00.000-07:00

I started my very sunny saturday by a walk in the botanic garden in Brooklyn. Spring is here and my heart doesn't feel lonely.

WE ALL LIVE IN A

DAY THREE

2010-04-09T18:23:00.000-07:00

Jazz Concert at the National Art Club.Built in 1840s
Concert is given by amateur musicians which the oldest one had 97 years old today (his friend told me). They all were doctors or lawyers.

The lunch was as excellent as the place.

Then I went in Williamsburg. Walking in this area during the afternoon.
I saw that great exhibition in Pierogi gallery.The artist's name is Jim Torok. It is funny because he made the very realistic paintings besides the other ones, much more energetic. In France, art market doesn't like artists who mixed several ways of research as if Art were just one only voice...This kind of exhibition could not happened.It was nice to see it and make sens to me. Love it.

A little drink listening to Ari Shine in the evening.

I want to share those particulars pictures taken during the day.

I was very touched to find a key.

Toilets are the most inspired places in the world...

Well, I thought she knew how to fly...Perplexed....

Guiness effect.

DAY TWO

2010-04-08T18:57:00.000-07:00

Today, I went to the Skyscraper Museum. It explains the architecture of skyscrapers in New York compares to China (Shanghai is actually the most active city in skyscrapers constructions)
It was a very nice start to discover the city: it is really true that in spite of the height of the buildings, you never feel crushed. I liked walking in this area and get lost enough to see how they like tulips...
Then I attended in Apexart gallery to a talk between Carlo McCormick and Jeffrey Deitch. I must confess that I didn't get the whole content of this meeting, but fortunately these two men was very attractive and I contented my eyes, for still an enjoyable moment.
Now that I have been very serious, I can share some of the drawings that skyscrapers inspired me:

To summarize the day : I can say that a silly big smile was stuck on my mouth all day long.

Day one

2010-04-08T06:55:00.000-07:00

Good Morning

Already feel like home!

I couldn't imagine that New York does exist for real: for me, this city was just a movie on a screen. A cliché deeply entrenched in my mind.

But yes it is real, even all the people I talked to.

And I am surprised how I felt a part of it yesterday, walking errand in the center, talking with people, taking wrong ways.

Being lost is such an amazing feeling! my territory has suddenly and wildly grown up.
I m not a writer or a journalist, I am a painter. How will I deal with all this shapes and color?

Maybe through drawings that I will post here on this blog. Or thru some photos.

In that way, I hope that every one can follow me closely in this new city adventure.