Shout out of my film in the NY Times!

Quoted from "‘I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With Joy’: ‘An Obsession With Pier Paolo Pasolini’" by Holland Cotter in the NY Times:

 "Film images turn up in Terence Hannum’s boxed zines and in two very different videos, one by Doug Ischar, the other by Brian Kenny. Both are based on Pasolini’s “Medea,”with Mr. Kenny’s short piece, “Today You’re 5 and I Want to Tell You the Truth,” a funhouse-mirror version of the myth of this murderous mother."

 Read the whole article HERE

and watch the film!


If you're in New York anytime until March 23, check out this interesting Pasolini-inspired group exhibition at Allegra LaViola gallery.

I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With Joy: An Obsession With Pier Paolo Pasolini.

INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is pleased to present

I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With Joy: 

An Obsession with Pier Paolo Pasolini 

at Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York.
Opening Friday, February 22: 6-8PM
February 22 - March 23, 2013
179 E. Broadway

Participating Artists: Michael Bilsborough, Lizzi Bougatsos, BREYER P-ORRIDGE, Asger Carlsen, Troels Carlsen, Walt Cassidy, Andy Coolquitt, Vaginal Davis, Carlton DeWoody, Joey Frank, Paul Gabrielli, Ludovica Gioscia, Luis Gispert, Terence Hannum, Karen Heagle, Timothy Hull, Doug Ischar, Brian Kenny, Jeremy Kost, Aaron Krach, Yeni Mao, Leigha Mason, Mark McCoy, Robert Melee, Lucas Michael, Jennifer Needleman, Brent Owens, Paul P., Paolo Di Paolo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franklin Preston, John Russell, Xaviera Simmons, Duston Spear, Scott Treleaven, Ramon Vega, Jordan Wolfson, Dustin Yellin


(from the press release)

Pier Paolo Pasolini - the filmmaker, poet, sentimental leftist, and transgressive legend - lived a life marked by curious contradiction and unimpeachable integrity. Sculpted by a nomadic Italian childhood filled with religion, war, Socialism, Facism, and run-ins with the law, Pasolini reconceived, in a prodigious obsessive body of remarkably diverse work, the entire patrimony of post-WWII-Italy as a personal mythology refracted by the urgent demands of modern continental life and contemporary politics in an age of extremes.
Beginning with his first film, Accatone (1961) on through to the game-changing Sálo (1975), Pasolini worked in an era in which avant-garde artistic gestures felt still truly dangerous, in which artists retained the power to shock, and in which the imposition of a personal artistic vision felt still like a radical, rather than narcissistic, act. Pasolini made the most of that power, and has become in the decades since an object of personal obsession for thousands of contemporary artists, many of whom offer up here, in a showcase that is as much open tribute as it is narrow appreciation, their own idiosyncratic homage to a person who has had an outsized influence on a whole generation enamored of radical gestures in a skeptical, ironic age.
Pasolini is a mercurial, even arcane influence on the 38 artists whose work is assembled here—sculptors, photographers, video and multimedia artists, romantics and transgressives, advocacy artists and ironists. The tributes are in some cases straightforward — painted portraits of Pasolini subjects, collage and video sourced from his own work — and in others cases more oblique — sculptures addressing the subject of restraint, watery sketches in which figures dissolve into gothic ethereality. Some are hardly tributes at all—idiosyncratic arguments instead with particular corners of Pasolini’s practice, often revealing far more about the work and obsessions of the contemporary artist than the too-divergent-to-be-uncontradictorially-contained miscellaneous Italian master. The result is a social-networking-style and purposefully-loosely curated exhibition that points in 38 directions at once—possibly more.

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I will be presenting my short film Today you're 5 and I want to tell you the truth, made using reworked sound and footage from Pasolini's MEDEA (1969) starring Maria Callas.









 

THE NEW MODERN HAIR

SILVIA PRADA, THE NEW MODERN HAIR
 



Pacific Design Center
Blue Building 2nd Floor B255
8687 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood CA 90069


January 18th to February 26th, 2013
 

Contributions by Marc Balet, Damien Blottière, Bruce LaBruce, Michael Forrey, Kim Ann Foxman, Robert Knoke, Brian Kenny & Robert W. Richards, Slava Mogutin, Xevi Muntané, Jimmy Paul,  Daniel Riera, Collier Schorr & Holli Smith, Saya Solana, A.L. Steiner + OTHERWILD, Daniel Trese and Luis Venegas.

Produced by cultureEDIT
Link to press release:
http://www.culture-edit.com/thenewmodernhair/

Hairy Secrets (2009)
Brian Kenny + Robert W. Richards
Ink and gouache on paper

Slava's scarf for the exhibition

SUPERM's latest Cover!

Slava’s and my “SPORES HOLES” from our ENTROPY PARADE series, now on this week’s cover of THE STRANGER (Seattle). You can see the entire ENTROPY PARADE series HERE

Francois Sagat delivers Rimbaud in SUPERM's latest film BEAUTY and HELL, now online

"Yes we are two people but we are one artist."

Check out Slava's full shoot and interview for the cover of Whitewall Magazine HERE

BEAUTY and HELL

BEAUTY

 HELL

"I think I am in Hell, and therefore I am" -Arthur Rimbaud

Beauty / Hell
Nov 15-29 (131 Chrystie Street) + Nov 29-Dec 31(87 Rivington Street)

envoy enterprises is pleased to present BEAUTY and HELL, a two-part exhibition by the art duo SUPERM. BEAUTY will be on view at the gallery's 131 Chrystie Street Location followed by HELL which will be on view at the gallery's 87 Rivington Space.

Inspired by the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud and the art of Hans Bellmer and Pierre MOlinier, this dual exhibition combines a new series of collages entitled SKINGRAPHS, which represent BEAUTY, with the latest SUPERM video featuring Francois Sagat with contributions by Josh Lee, Nick Theobald, Gio Black Peter and Erica Keck, which represent HELL.

SUPERM is a collaborative art project by Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny. Their work has been exhibited at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, The Haifa Museum of Art in Israel, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon in Spain, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and, most recently, at Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston. This show marks 8 years of fruitful collaboration between the two artists. 

I swear to tell

THE HOLE TRUTH

a solo exhibition by BRIAN KENNY

envoy enterprises

131 Chrystie St, NYC

20 June - 22 July 2012. Wed-Sun. 12 - 6

Opening Reception Wednesday June 20 6-8 pm

Here been soft

alONE born

tap tap tap

Caught red handed

Bare bones

Face HERe!

Cross the on fire line

How we reinvent the trophy

That’s how we roll

Rain again fallen stars

Lets not fight out of order

The hole truth

Sewn together

Fingers for the people of fate

Sage race

Time walk

Rest in hide and seek peace

Under the totally honest influence

Held no further questions hostage

Brian I rest my case Kenny 2012

envoy enterprises is pleased to present The Hole Truth, our first solo exhibition with New York based artist Brian Kenny.

Working with fabric for the first time, Kenny learned how to sew to construct a series of iconic objects – altered and reconfigured US flags, reflecting on what it means to be a disaffected gay American in the age of Occupy, the issues of social inequality and injustice. Devalued and depraved symbols, fallen or removed stars and stripes, the distortion and disfiguration evoke feelings of this discontent.

Mastering his primary medium of free-associative drawing, Kenny also created a series of large scale drawings on vintage police shooting targets – obsessive and intricate compositions depicting personal fantasies, fears and fetishes, as well as esoteric symbols and hand signs borrowed from sign language and urban subcultures. This new body of work serves as both artist’s intimate diary and passionate commentary on gender and sexuality, religion and guilt, finding inspiration in chaos while fighting the demons within – The Hole Truth and nothing but the truth.

Brian Kenny is a New York based American artist. Born 1982, in Heidelburg, Germany. He works across drawing, painting, sculpture, text, sound, video, and blogging. In 2004, Brian and his partner Slava Mogutin formed SUPERM, an ongoing collaborative art project.

 

Sewn Together (2012)

ink, acrylic and thread on vintage American police shooting target paper

22.5 x 34 inches

AMERICAN SUPERM

new SUPERM polaroids

film provided by Impossible
featuring my new flags..

East Village Boys presents "For Personal Use @ Impossible Project

SUPERM (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny) 2012

East Village Boys presents:

 FOR PERSONAL USE

June 5-15, 2012

The Impossible Project Space

425 Broadway, 5th Floor, NYC

 Once upon a time horny boys, pornography dilettantes, sneaky voyeurs and slutty exhibitionists, the curious and the depraved, and queers of all types were confined to instant photography to document their private activities and tastes in all things a little less than appropriate. As a part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival, the infamous East Village Boys are bringing together their favorite artists to create work on instant analog film for a new exhibition. “For Personal Use” celebrates New York City’s historical queer community through controversial and thought provoking imagery. -EVB


ARTISTS:

Mx Justin Vivian Bond

Jeff Hahn

Josh McNey

 

Christian Schoeler

Andrew Yang

Jayson Keeling

SUPERM (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny)

EAST VILLAGE BOYS

IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT