The artist, the thief, his wife & her lover

Let's talk ART THEFT.
And by talk really I mean lets read, watch and look at different approaches to it, because... maybe it isn't all bad?

Click the links to find out the how, why and what.

READ!

FBI Art Crime Team Founder Talks Art Theft


WATCH!




LOOK!

Anahita Razmi... appropriator extraordinaire 

Bjork, Silver Pants and the Innards of your Television

Enough said.

Carpet Compendium

Halloween is coming, time to get weird.

Anahita Razmi - Psyco Slut carpet subversion

Antonio Santin - Trompe l'oeil painting

TV TV TV

“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye” (Bill Hicks) But who doesn't like a little "its so bad... it's good"?

Totally absorbed by Anahita Razmi at MOVING IMAGE London

Whether you think TV is brain rot, imagination inducing, or eye opening... Anahita Razmi likes it. Right now at Moving Image Fair London, she has a video installation of popular Austrian TV presenters reciting Lucio Fontana's 1952 manifesto... about TV, of course. 

An excerpt from Fontana's Television Manifesto of the Spatial Movement:

"...the still unknown spaces of the cosmos - spaces to which we address ourselves as data of intuition and mystery, the typical data of art as divination. For us, television is a means that we have been waiting for to give completeness to our concepts."

Anahita Razmi - Replays/Replace video still - 2013
His face says it all, don't you think?

And just for kicks Korean installation artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006). 

TV. So versatile. 

Nam June Paik - TV Cello - 1971

Nam June Paik - TV Garden - 1974

Shout-out of a shout-out

We are in London with Anahita Razmi (resident pop-culture appropriating artist). See what ARTINFO had to say about us at Moving Image Fair (if you can't bear the wait, it says we are a highlight of the fair).

Follow the signs...

We are currently at Vienna Fair (Oct 10-13).

Serious business, this art-fair stuff is.

Visitors checking out Anahita Razmi, our cheeky Iranian-German artist

Don't worry about not being able to find us.
Just follow the signs.

Prime location

It's the weekend!

As the work week draws to a close, time to unleash that alter-ego and get to that weekend fun-time. Speaking of alter-egos, which goes along the lines of casual appropriation of something we like, dislike, or just want to try... Anahita Razmi (b. 1981) is an artist who takes pop culture and puts her own spin on it. Whether an hommage to Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece"(1965) or relinquishing her inner bad-girl via Tracey Emin... the German-Iranian artist does it tongue-in-cheek. Predominantly using the medium of video, there is a grounded-ness and accessibility to her works that maybe...some other video artists might be missing?

But in a technology-screen age, sitting down for a little visual stimulation should be no extra hassle, and Razmi is definitely worth finding and sitting through.

Lucky we can find her video works a few places right now:

VIENNA! (Vienna Fair, Oct 10-13)
LONDON! (Moving Image Fair, Oct 17-20)
VENICE! (Venice Biennale, until Nov 24)
VANCOUVER! (Access Gallery, until Oct 26)

And since it is the weekend, let's keep with the theme...

Anahita Razmi - Walking drunk in in high shoes (2010)
http://www.anahitarazmi.de/drunk.php