David Johansen at ELLIOT TEMPLETON ARTS Cynthia Talmadge at 56 HENRY

David Johansen at ELLIOTT TEMPLETON FINE ARTS Cynthia Talmadge at 56 HENRY
James Kalm is sweating his way through the first summer heat wave. Your correspondent is back on the bike, and back on the street. David Johansen Paintings at Elloitt Templeton Fine Arts is a collection of paintings from the early twenty teens that display Johansen’s proclivity towards the exotic. Mostly single figure studies of men wearing fezzes, these paintings are thickly built up giving the subjects and framing elements a three-dimensional presence in glittering pigment. They also contrast ironically the image of byzantine icons with the assumed Islamic characters portrayed, and stylistically the notion of “Bad Painting” and the “Pattern&Decorative” movement.
“Sail -By Salute” is a tilted room installation featuring a massive pointillist depiction of the Costa Concordia disaster. From Wikipedia: The Costa Concordia disaster, the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13, 2012, after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. More than 4,200 people were rescued, though 32 people died in the disaster”. Talmage has rendered the sinking ship in high detail tiny strokes which contrasts the idea of timely image creation against the speed of which this disaster actually happened.
A BONUS ROUND featuring DUBUFFET X GIACOMETTI at NAHMAD CONTEMPORARY, from the press release “Despite moving in the same Parisian circles, sharing a gallerist and concurrently introducing their unique postwar European sensibilities to New York, Jean Dubuffet (1901-85) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) have only once been presented together in a dedicated pairing: at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, in 1968. After more than half a century and countless solo and group exhibitions across the globe, Dubuffet x Giacometti juxtaposes a careful selection of more than 20 works by these iconic artists, including paintings and sculptures.” #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk

[@thirdrockjul2224]

Thank you Kate! ❤

[@johnjones3714]

Been a David Johansen fan forever. So delighted that he is a visual artist. Very pleasantly surprised. Thank you Kate.

[@dorianhorton6805]

Thank you for my Dada fix!😙

[@jameskalmroughcut]

Any time...JK

[@MorrisRicker-is6vg]

The Giacometti portraits. Oh yeah. So much can be explored with these earthy tones. I agree, there are Baselitz similarities here.

[@ag7958]

Baselitz, and I would say Bacon, at least that first one with its haunting distorted face. Loved these! Had never seen Giacometti's non-sculptural work before

[@MorrisRicker-is6vg]

I agree.

[@hannawagenknecht6378]

Merci❤❤Paris and the singer( rin)is wonderful 😧😲💖

[@johntaylor1948]

thank you Kate, and thank you James

[@tonsfocus]

Wow, a banked gallery floor (for the cruise ship wreak painting)! I can just see the gallery's lawyer frantically calling from his beach house on Long Island... Those Giacometti portraits. Just mind bending and deep. Interesting to compare them mentally to Baselitz' figures. As for Dubuffet, I read somewhere that he was extremely prolific in *writing* about art. He emerged right after WWII as quite the thought leader in France. Would love to read some of that. Thanks James, thanks Kate!

[@jameskalmroughcut]

Yes, Dubuffet was a prolific and influential writer. Also proposed a new aesthetic appreciation of the untrained, uneducated artist. He's the Godfather of art brut...JK

[@stepladder13]

Thanks for the close-ups of the Dubuffet for me to get my teeth into. Also, the guy in the fountain: I couldn't make out what was written on his sign, so was this a performance of some kind or was he just crazy from the heat?🤔

[@jameskalmroughcut]

Regarding the "guy in the fountain", if you read the sigh, it seems he's a comedian/poet just trying to get noticed...

[@hannawagenknecht6378]

And the Artist? Very🤗❤❤

[@danielkunkel3630]

Is it that masks make people crazy, or crazy people just like the masks? Thank you Kate!

[@vinces5751]

Did you just not want to bother him or did you just not recognize him?

[@jameskalmroughcut]

Recognize who??? Of course I recognized him, been a fan since the early New York Dolls (though I was never that much into Punk) Seems he was engaged with his cell phone, and as you know, you don't wanna get between someone and their phone...JK

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- А Вашим преданным зрителям из России, не хотите передать привет?..

[@jameskalmroughcut]

Shout Out to all the James Kalm viewers in Russia. Thanks...JK

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@@jameskalmroughcut - обожаю Ваши видео, лично мне они очень помогли. Хочется пожелать Вам крепкого здоровья и ещё много-много любимых нами в России видео!.. - Спасибо, Кейт.