XXXX MAGAZINE AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART – “FACETS OF FIGURATION” EXHIBIT

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FACETS OF FIGURATION AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BENEFIT EXHIBITION

On September 12, 2011, XXXX Magazine presented 19 video art productions from the magazine at the Metropolitan Museum of Art “Facets of Figuration” Art Benefit Exhibit presented by Rodman and Renshaw and curated by Gary Krimershmoys.  Over 2200 guests entered the Metropolitan Museum with the XXXX Magazine videos projected simultaneously over four of the massive walls of the main exhibit hall in a looped 40 minute presentation of the 19 video art productions, while they were served champagne and canapés. “The exhibition Facets of Figuration… highlights an exciting group of artists exploring the contemporary permutations and possibilities of figurative art… From XXXX Magazine, The “Untitled” Magazine, you will see beauty, art and fashion intermingled….The featured directors that are showcased at the exhibition walk the line between art, fashion and film, embodying the new directions of the video medium. Showcased are Paul Windridge with I Turned and Walked Away, Indira Cesarine with The Spell, The Kiss and Live Art Series: 3 Videos, John Paul Zuviate with The Face, Blind Mice with Apollo and Daphne and Patrick Andersson with Fire Dancer and Daughters of Black Dahlia, among others.” Additional artists and directors in the XXXX Magazine screening at the exhibit included Iris Brosch, Zaiba Jabbar, Phantasmic TV, Bo Sul Kim, Peter Phillip Luckner and Benjamin Marlowe. Creative Director and Founder of XXXX Magazine, Indira Cesarine, worked with curator Gary Krimershmoys to select and present the screening for the exhibit and represented the magazine at the event.

Other artists featured in Facets of Figuration included Alexander Melamid, Joseph Wolf Grazi and Amir Baradaran who were featured at the XXXX Magazine Voyeur exhibit at Art Basel Miami, December, 2011, as well as Andres Serrano, Paco Cao, David Kramer, Anya Rubin, Beata Drozd, Xiaowei Chen and Aitor Lajarin.

“Even during pre-historic times, primitive cave-dwelling humans wanted, even needed, to express the world around them. From the prehistoric art of Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany, Chauvet, France and even Bradshaw art of Western Australia, humans have been depicting the people and animals around them. Fast forward thousands of years and we still find artists exploring the figure, with a range of inspirations, from Renaissance’s classical depictions to post-modern distortions using a wide range of materials and techniques.

After the advent of photography artist started questioning the need for representational drawing, as the camera would render an image more precisely. As Modernism and Post-modernism questioned the relevance of figuration, the contemporary art world reaffirmed a firm place for the inherent interest and relevance of artists’ representation of the figures around us. This exhibition shows that the figurative practices are varied, probing, visually and intellectually stimulating and a key component of artists’ dialogue in our contemporary discourse.

The artworks for this exhibition come from an eclectic range of artists, from world renowned impresarios to emerging talent, that all have a figurative resonance within their practices.”

Following the exhibit guests made their way via the grand staircase accompanied by trumpeters through the halls of the museum while admiring the priceless art on the walls of the permanent collection, to a gala dinner in each wing of the museum.

For more information on the artists in the exhibit, view the exhibition catalogue or website.

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM – SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

FACETS OF FIGURATION BENEFIT ART EXHIBITION

FEATURED VIDEO ART IN THE XXXX MAGAZINE SCREENING

 

THE SPELL

Created by By Indira Cesarine & Phantasmic Tv

Starring Beata Grabowska and Jessica Bertoncello

Produced By Indira Cesarine

Edited By Phantasmic TV

Music By BN Weurtz

Cinematography By Phantasmic TV

Photography By Indira Cesarine

Makeup By Bernadine Bibiano

Hair By Rutger

Assistants David Lincoln, John Paul Zuviate, Kaitlyn Barlow, Chelsea Cohen,  Maria Cristina Cuyco, Taylor Rhodes, Adriana Favero

Equipment Provided By K & M Camera

 

I TURNED AND WALKED AWAY

Created By Paul Windridge

Music By Dj 00 Newchair

 

I U  

Created by Zaiba Jabbar

Starring The Lovely Jonjo

Music by The Vile Bodies

Edited by Zaiba Jabbar

 

FIREDANCER

Directed & Edited by Patrick Andersson

Starring Claire Du Luxe

Music by Bix @ Soundpets

 

LIVE ART 1

Created by Indira Cesarine

Starring Taylor Bagley

Paintings by Deborah Freedman

Music by Daniel Freedman

Body Painting & Makeup by Bernadine Bibiano

Cinematography by Indira Cesarine

Photography by Indira Cesarine

Assistants to the director Kaitlyn Barlow, JP Zuviate, Jeffrey Gamble, Katie Thurber

Lighting provided by K & M Camera

 

DANSE FLORAE

Created By Phantasmic TV

Executive Producer Indira Cesarine

Starring Erisy Watt

Choreography and Make Up By Lauren Watt

Hair By Jenna Trouchet-Watt

Music By Tchaikovsky

 

 

THE FACE

Created by John Paul Zuviate

Music by Worst Friends

 

APOLLO & DAPHNE 

Created by Alba M. Ruiz & Carolina Costa of Blindmice

Featuring Guilherme Logullo & Murillo Brito

Music by Carlos Gualda

Styling by Fernanda Vianna

 

COCOON

Created by Bo Sul Kim

Music by Thadeus Frazier Reed

 

BENEDICTION

Directed by Iris Brosch

Featuring Benedicte De Baron

Edited by Natalie Braxton

Styling by Irma Birka

 

THE DAUGHTERS OF BLACK DAHLIA

Directed By Patrik Andersson

Produced by Patrick Andersson & Indira Cesarine

Starring Aleksandra Martynku, Mariah Bonner, Marta Morilla, Mikaaela, Olga A, Valentina, Valeria Leonova, Adrienne Smith, Meagan Lee Farrel

Fashion by Jenke-Ahmed Tailly

Music By The Hollywood Undead

 

 

BREAKTHROUGH

Created by Peter Philip Luckner

 

LIVE ART 3

Created by Indira Cesarine

Featuring Mey Bun

Paintings by Deborah Freedman

Music by Daniel Freedman

Body Painting & Makeup by Bernadine Bibiano

Cinematography by Indira Cesarine

Photography by Indira Cesarine

Assistants to the Director Kaitlyn Barlow, JP Zuviate, Jeffrey Gamble, Katie Thurber

Lighting provided by K & M Camera

 

SELF PORTRAIT

Created By Benjamin Marlowe

 

THE KISS  

Directed by Indira Cesarine

Featuring Tyler Kenyon, Joost, Nique, Michelle Vawer, Maritza Veer, Trevor, Valeria Leonova, AJ, Tassara, Julia G, Gabriel, Marcella,  Fernando, Bekah Jenkins, Luke Lysdahl, Frederik Ferrier, Olga, Charlotte, Ilona Struzik & Chris Fawcett

Produced by Indira Cesarine

Edited by Bernice Gonzalez

Music by Moby

Cinematography by Industrial Color & Indira Cesarine

Additional Camera Don Frasco

Styling by Cannon

Hair by Kozmo

Makeup by Bernadine Bibiano and Tanya Kern

Lighting Provided by K&M Camera