Nu version of IMAGINE by Herbie Hancock won a Grammy.
Imagine all the people living life in peace...
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
Happy birthday Yoko-san..your words inspire all of us.
オノ・ヨーコさんの78回目の誕生日を祝って、アイスランド、レイキャビク市は2011年2月18日の夜（アイスランド時間）に、イマジン・ピースタワーを点灯。点灯時間は、日本時間で2月19日の午前4時頃から、午前9時頃まで。
イマジン・ピース・タワーは、アイスランドの首都、レイキャビクのビーズエイ島にあり、ヨーコが、ジョンとの思い出から着想した公共芸術作品の光の塔です。2007年10月9日、ジョンの67回目の誕生日に行なわれた除幕式で、ヨーコによってジョンに捧げられました。
ジョンとヨーコの、世界平和のための継続的キャンペーンを象徴しています。
毎年、10月9日（ジョンの誕生日）から12月8日（ジョンの命日）まで点灯され、その光は天高くまでとどきます。加えて、タワーは冬至（12月21日〜28日）、大晦日（12月31日）、そして春の第一週目（3月21日〜28日）にも点灯します。タワーは日没２時間後から夜12時まで点灯します、元日には日の出まで点灯します。
イマジン・ピース・タワーの心奪われる特徴のひとつは、アイスランド固有の気候とともに断続的に変化する、光の強さとまばゆさです。雲のない夜には、くっきりとして光の柱を作り、雨や雪の日には虹の屈折で、虹色の光を作り、雲の層を通して壮大に反射します。 イマジン・ピース・タワーは、ヨーコのアート作品ウィッシュツリーと密接に関連しています。ウィッシュツリーは、世界中で開催された個展で、平和のための願い事を書いて、木の枝に吊る参加型のアート作品です。世界中から集まった願い事は、現在、８５万件に及んでいます。それらの願い事は、イマジン・ピース・タワーの周りにタイプカプセルに収められ永遠に保管されています。
Sunday, February 6, 2011
CONTROL
How much control do we have in our hands for our life? Only the God knows or do we all know? 自分たちの手中にどれくらいのコントロールはあるのか。神のみぞ知る？それとも皆が自分で分かっている？
絵の島のアーティストが言うように、astonishing truth。まさに驚愕の事実。whatever happens それでも地球は止まるなく回っているということ。
そしてYoko-sanが言うように、in the end, we're all water in the same ocean.
M+B
とってもステキなギャラリー。
LAに行く際はみなさん、ぜひ。今は下記を開催中とのこと。
Young Fulani Shepherds, Mali, 1972, gelatin silver print
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M+B is pleased to announce THE EYE OF BAMAKO, an exhibition of over thirty contemporary and vintage gelatin silver prints and chemises by internationally acclaimed Malian photographer Malick Sidibé. The 75-year-old "Eye of Bamako's" magnificent portraits of sweeping personal and cultural changes in post-colonial Africa have been celebrated around the world. Relatively unknown outside of Mali until the mid-1990s, Malick Sidibé was the first photographer to receive the prestigious Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007. The exhibition will include his iconic black and white photographs that recorded the history of his countrymen as well as the lesser-known "chemises," or vintage proof sheet style works on construction paper. Positioned at the junction of Malian independence and a period of rapid modernization, the works exhibited bear witness to the joy, insouciance, and confidence of Africa's youth revolution. The exhibition will run from February 5 through April 9, 2011, with an opening reception on Saturday, February 5, 2011 from 6 - 8 pm.
Sidbé's ebullient images take place in a variety of settings: either outdoors in one of Mali's newly minted nightclubs, house parties spinning the latest James Brown album, picnics on the bank of the River Niger or indoors at Studio Malick. Regardless of the setting or content, all his portraits vibrate with an energy that comes from mutual trust and collaborative effort between artist and subjects. As a privileged documentarian of tremendous cultural change, Sidibé's distinguished work is both memoir and testimony to youth culture.
Beginning his photographic career as an apprentice at Gérard Guillat-Guignard's Photo Service Boutique, the European "GG" would take photos of the white events, while Sidibé would record African events. In 1958, he opened his own studio to take photographs of "Africans for Africans," and by 1965, the young people knew to go to Studio Malick with their Vespas and latest goods straight from Saint Germain des Prés. Sometimes the props in the portrait did not belong to the client but reflected the aspiration of the sitter, making Studio Malick a powerful place to realize the dreams of an emergent culture.
Born in 1935 outside of Bamako, Mali, Malick Sidibé continues to run Studio Malick with the help of his sons. Since the initial world premier of his work in 1997, Sidibé has received the Hasselblad Award for Photography(2003), the Venice Biennale's Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), and the Internal Center of Photography'sInfinity Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008). His work has been exhibited at the Fondation Cartier (2004) and can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), SFMoMA (San Francisco), Birmingham Museum of Art, Studio Museum of Harlem, High Museum of Art (Atlanta) and the ICP (New York). This will be his first exhibition with M+B and is held in association with Fifty-One Fine Art Photography.
For further information, please contact Shannon Richardson at 310 550 0050, shannon@mbart.com, or visit our website www.mbart.com.
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