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Online Auction to Support KET‚s Defense Fund

Shepard has joined many of Alain Ket Mariduena‚s friends in supporting his
on going battle with the NYC courts by presenting an Art Benefit for Alain
Ket‚s Legal Defense. Art will be auctioned off on July 26th and an event
will be held on August 1st in NYC with proceeds going towards the defense
fund.

Alain Ket Maridueña is a publisher, writer, Hip Hop historian, activist and
graffiti artist from New York City. He was charged in New York City courts
(Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan) on counts of felony criminal mischief,
possession of graffiti tools, and X., all relating to a search performed on
his home in New York City in late 2006.

Alain Maridueña‚s arrest had come in the context of a growing anti-graffiti
sentiment in city government due to the growing gentrification of New York
City and as part of the Mayor Bloomberg‚s quality of life push, one started
by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Alain‚s arrest appears to be politically
motivated attack for his involvement with Marc Ecko and Ecko‚s successful
lawsuits against the city of New York in order to hold a graffiti event and
repealing a spray paint sales ban to 18 year olds. Many consider the charges
against Alain excessive.

Alain‚s court cases are ongoing and his family and friends will be raising
funds to pay his legal defense, setting up public events to educate people
about the incarceration of artists, and providing financial, logistical, and
legal support to Alain throughout his proceedings.

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Kei Takemura
“even if we’re not together”
1 – 29 September, 2007

Kei Takemura “renovated K.K.’s tea cup” 2007
Japanese silk thread, Italian synthetic cloth, K.K.’s tea cup which K.T.
used at her home, 13 x 12 x 6 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Taka Ishii Gallery

Kei Takemura “even if we’re not together” 2007
Japanese silk thread, Italian synthetic cloth, colour print, B&W print which image
was taken by M.B. somewhere in Africa, colour spray, 260 x 530 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Taka Ishii Gallery

Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our solo exhibition
“even if we’re not together” with Berlin-based artist Kei Takemura.
This exhibition is her second solo exhibition with the gallery, and includes
a new installation of four large works (100″ x 127″) comprised of two layers
of embroidery and photograph/drawing, as well as small sculptures from the
series “renovation.”

I made my latest works considering as a motif people who live in parallel time with me.
The scene M.B. saw during his stay in Africa, the coast I saw in Miami.
The room of my friend R.M. who moved to Berlin after January 17th quake.
A destroyed house near my parent’s house.
The scene A.F. saw when he visited his hometown, Abadan.
The scene M.H. saw when he passed through Tel Aviv.
A hundred flowers that my friend, an old German woman E.G. hand-crocheted.

I chose some of scenes from photographs given to me by people I know, scenes in which
I did not participate yet touched my memory, then I overlapped my memory of other places
and times to transform images. By this process, I consciously tried to make a composition
of image and a selection of color which might best serve to embody memories.

Kei Takemura

For Takemura, the act of embroidery is to create a state of being “tentative.”
She considers her memory through an objective practice. This state of “tentative”
is embodied in her action and is based on her thought that this status equals the
present state of art. She presents her works as a point of view, as means to find
beauty itself and also as a prompt to consider the relationship between a point
of view and an environment.
When the light falls on photographs and drawings peek through organdy, and
the shadow of embroidery is layered in line, the memory of place is evoked through
the image. The artist’s memory does not consist of her memory but interrelated
memories of an other. This traverses a border gradually and evokes universal memories
which may involve unknown people.

Biography
Kei Takemura was born in 1975, Tokyo. Lives and works in Berlin.
2002 Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, MA
2004 Berlin Art Academy, Prof. Lother Baumgarten, BA
2004-2007 Agency for cultural Affairs, Japan Scholarship.
2004 Debut exhibition “For dearest You” at Taka Ishii Gallery,
“Kei Takemura” at Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin.
2006 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Publication: “Takemura Kei in Berlin 2000-2005” (2005, Taka Ishii Gallery)

MOGADISHNI AAR proudly presents the exhibition ”No Tears” by Italian artist Davide Zucco (b. 1981). In 2000 Davide Zucco received an Art Diploma in Graphics and Printing from Istituto Statale d’Arte, Vittorio Veneto, Italy and is otherwise self-taught. Despite his young age Zucco has exhibited in a long range of solo shows, group shows and various festivals.

Ancient and contemporary artistic traditions meet in Davide Zucco’s exhibition ”No Tears”. The show consists of 9 black and white drawings, 5 colour drawings, a large-scale wall piece and an illustrative audio piece. Rooted in the underground environment and its experiments with new artistic crossovers Davide Zucco’s art encompasses an intrinsic passion for drawing, street art, electronic performances but it also reveals his strong fascination of ancient cultures, which gives his show an old-world feel mixed with a modern approach.

The Good and the Bad, angels and demons are played out against each other in an archaic illustrative playground. The formal expression of Zucco’s works leads the mind to religious art from various cultures, which tends to stress a delicate separation of colours and layers and has a refined sharpness in detail as seen in Maya Indian art, Byzantine icons and Gothic murals. The creatures found in Zucco’s works have reminiscences of the demons and monsters that appear in the periphery of religious scripts and in church interiors of the Middle Ages. But Zucco’s art equally connects with the renaissance of the “monstrous”, observable in today’s preoccupation with various forms of Fantasy such as Dungeons and Dragons, “The Lord of the Rings”, “Harry Potter” and so on.

The legends and divinities created by ancient civilizations out of a respect and fear for nature and the incomprehensible, have always fascinated Davide Zucco. This is why the inspiration for many of his creatures is found in ancient statues, which brings a magical and mysterious feel to the artist’s otherwise contemporary aesthetic. The delicate and dark subjects with the intriguing gazes in Zucco’s works wander between the human, the godlike, the ultra terrestrial as a new sort of species, that seems to incarnate the internal emotional struggles, the hopes and fears that we can all find in ourselves, thus connecting ancient civilizations and modern Man.

‘Fuckface’ – Kendell Geers, 2005
Spray paint on human skull, 22 x 14 x 15cm

Old work, but still cool and very nice works.

New works from Marc looking very nice.