The now and again Five Pieces of Art thing feature again. Well why not (again)? Again and again (and again and again), all this art flowing past on various feeds or wrapped up in press releases or jumping off actual gallery walls or wrapping chips or passing on the side of those Whitechapel white vans. So we ask (again) why not five pieces of art every couple of weeks or so alongside everything else that appears on these fractured pages on a daily basis? Can you think of one good reason why not to? Well besides the time involved and the this and the that and the dancing around and the skins on the tins of paint and the man at the door…
Five pieces of art then, a semi regular feature, just five pieces of art that have passed our way in the last few days, nothing more (or less) than that. Nothing really to do with an upcoming show or anything else (although maybe they are), just a simple, semi regular five pieces of art feature. Let’s do it again…
1: Jennifer Binnie – Now this is something worth celebrating, a photo of a Goddess or two or three; “So excited to see my Red Woman painting in a line of goddesses, next to a Burne Jones painting at Sussex Modernism, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne” said Jennifer Binnie.
Previous Jennifer Binnie on these pages:
ORGAN THING: Celebrating the subversive with the Neo Naturists…
2: Zenji Fujiyama – “A work of art is not just there to decorate a room. It is a weapon in the fight against the enemy” (Picasso), a quote Lith Li posted with the image of a collaboration with Tokyo based artist/photographer Zenji Fujiyama who in turn prints the photos on Japanese paper and creates with fine collages like this one featuring Lith Li and Lily Yurika (a dancer and performer from Tokyo). The art of Lith Li has featured on these pages a number of times of course, including being part of one of our Mixtapes – Cultivate presents Mixtape No.7 – an online art exhibition…
3: Marton Nemes – Good to see Something New and how Marton Nemes continues to evolve, although this looks like a walk down a side road for him rather then evolution maybe? “My deepest love project is the collaboration piece with Christian Holze for Back to Back to Back at Reiter Leipzig in Berlin”. Marton is an artist we’ve been enjoying and featuring for a number of years now.
4: Kwadwo A. Asiedu (b. 1987) is a Ghanaian self-taught artist (whatever that actually means?) and photographer who was born in Mexico and is based in Ibadan, Nigeria, those are two of his paintings up there.. He holds a master’s degree in Environmental Management from the University of Hertfordshire, England which, as well as telling us he gets around, I guess influences his art rather a lot. “Asiedu grew up in a Nigerian agricultural institute which holds the largest protected rainforest, rich in biodiversity and intrigue. His practice revolves around the translation of nature’s charm. Approaching art as a form of dialogue with the living environment, he alters scale in order to reconsider the exploitative relationship between humans and the earth”. Kwadwo‘s art popped up in the Organ inbox rarlier today, it caught an eye, he has a show on at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery‘s West Palm Beach space in Florida right now. Find him on Instagram
5: Hazard One – More from the ever productive Hazard One (AKA artist Harriet Wood), do love her use of colour, you instantly know it as one of her pieces, you don’t really need to be told. This piece is on the Prince of Wales pub, Bishopston on Hazard One’s home terf of Bristol – “I painted this tropical, leafy goodness as part of the refurb. Thanks for all the car beeps and hellos, been so nice to see so many familiar faces! Glorious sunshine for the whole paint apart from a cheeky hail and rain downpour for about 15mins on the Sunday, which of course I was in the top of the scaff for”
More Hazard One colour…
THE ORGAN 