Wallace Berman at Art Basel

June 8, 2009

Michael Kohn Gallery at Art Basel
Michael Kohn Gallery





Art Basel 40
Hall 2.0
Booth W7

http://www.kohngallery.com/

Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present never before seen works by Wallace Berman (1949-1976). Wallace Berman was born in 1926 in Staten Island, New York, and was widely considered to be the father of the assemblage movement. He began his career making sculptures from unused scraps and reject materials while working in an antique furniture factory. By the early 1950s, Berman had become an artist and active figure in the beat community in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Moving between the two cities, Berman devoted himself to his mail art publication, Semina, which contained a sampling of beat poetry and images selected by the artist. In 1963, Berman moved to Topanga Canyon in the Los Angeles area, and began work on verifax collages (printed images, often from magazines and newspapers, mounted in collage fashion onto a flat surface, sometimes with solid bright areas of acrylic paint). He continued creating these works, as well as rock assemblages, until his death in 1976.

In 2008 Wallace Berman was featured in a number of shows in Europe, including his first retrospective at the Camden Arts Centre in London as well as group shows at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2009, Michael Kohn Gallery hosted a well-received two-person show that focused on the work of Wallace Berman and Richard Prince and the way in which the artists portrayed women in their art. Berman’s work is included in public collections at numerous institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

For further inquiry please contact Laura Sumser at 323.658.8088, or info@kohngallery.com

Boris Vian's RED GRASS (L'Herbe Rouge)

Photo by Azoulay

TamTam Books is proud to announce that we have purchased the world English rights to Boris Vian's novel RED GRASS (L'Herbe Rouge). Paul knobloch who is currently working on the translation of the Gainsbourg biography, will do the translation for RED GRASS.

Boris Vian is a great among the greats, and we are thrilled to have another Boris Vian masterpiece under the TamTam Books banner. RED GRASS is scheduled to come out in 2011. Keep checking here for updates and info!

Issei Sagawa: "Excuse Me For Living"

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Current books I am looking at

Joe Meek's The Tornados

One of the great music videos ever made.

Serge Gainsbourg Night in Los Angeles

THIS TUESDAY @ LE CLUB DING-A-LING...

FREE HOT CREPES ALL NIGHT!!! Seriously!!!!!

The 1st Annual SERGE GAINSBOURG and '60s FRENCH POP TRIBUTE NIGHT!

If you're not hip to the groovy sounds of SERGE GAINSBOURG and all the
incredible '60s YE YE girl-pop he helped to elevate to a high art
form, then this evening will change your life!!! Even if you're well
steeped in the genre, chances are you haven't seen either of the
incredibly rare SERGE GAINSBOURG film / Television projects that we'll
be showing in their entirety -- namely the melancholy romantic comedy
he made for French television in the late '60s,

ANNA

starring ANNA KARINA, the hottie he was schtupping in between JANE
BIRKIN and BRIDGETTE BARDOT (poor guy!). We've also gotten a hold of a
copy of the equally rare and ultra-kewl

CANNABIS

a film about one of my favorite subjects... Both of these films are
tough enough to find in France, but nearly impossible to get a hold of
here, in the notoriously Francophobic USA!!

Plus, as if that's not enough, we've got hours of GAINSBOURG related
French Television Performances, Music Videos, Scopitones, film clips
and fashion videos featuring the likes of FRANCE GALL, JANE BIRKIN,
CLEO, FRANCOISE HARDY, LIO, PIERRE CARDIN, COUREGGES, DANI, etc... BUT
WAIT -- THERE'S MORE... we also have somehow acquired William Klein's
"MISTER FREEDOM" (featuring GAINSBOURG), and parts of Klein's rarely
seen "WHO ARE YOU, POLLY MAGOO?" and "MODE IN FRANCE".

You don't want to miss this unique opportunity to see all of this
insanely rare footage!!!

Spinning beaucoups of danceable French favorites we have our own MC /
audio miscreant DON BOLLES, DJ LEGS LEBROCK, PRICKLE, QUINN, DJ Mor
Elian and DJ/VJ "MIKIE"...

Serving up the continental suds will be NO-RA and her zany sidekick, MINGY...

So come on down, have some cake, and lose your head to the groovy
sights and sounds of the YE YE revolution! YE YE YE!!!!

It's all happening...
This Tuesday, March 10th
@ Le Club Ding-a-Ling
Hyperion Tavern
1941 Hyperion Blvd
Silverlake, 90026

and remember It's FREE!!!! Like the Free French!
Behold the man himself (and friend...)