Chat Perdu / Lost Cat : New Print

Lose your cat? Lose your cat in France?

Chat Perdu, a new print by Matthew Rose and printed by Mariela Cadiz, measures 30 x 40 cm, and is signed and dated on fine art paper.

Only 11 available. Inquiries: Chat Perdu.

Interested in fine art editions and printing them in Paris, contact Burning Boy Press Paris.  

Sweet By Gavin Harrison

Life is a bowl of terribly ripe cherries in Gavin Harrison's newest print, Sweet. A confection of half-veiled rag dolls, roses, birds and butterflies, Sweet a 50-piece limited edition fine art pigment print measures 50 cm x 70 cm. A smaller size, 40 x 50 cm, is also available. Each is signed and numbered by the artist.

The print is based upon an original collage by Harrison and offers a tangy marriage of Wizard of Oz and Chutes and Ladders, with characters like a female with a dog's head dancing inexplicably with a pony. Birds examine the bows affixed to bits of the reality Harrison has created while butterflies flit through it all on their way to work.  Roses dot the space while a number of other beings – a large number of them rag dolls of one sort or another – populate other areas under a gossamer of color.  The word "SWEET" is written across the work as if it were a message in lipstick in a hotel room mirror.

Sweet is available directly from the artist here: Gavin Harrison. The large print sells for £140.00, the smaller print for £110.00.

See more of Gavin Harrison's work here: http://theeloquenceofwantoncuriosity.blogspot/

Gavin Harrison : Corrosion

British fashion photographer and artist Gavin Harrison has just released his first fine art pigment print, Corrosion.  The print is 40 cm x 50 cm and printed by Mariela Cadiz in association with Burning Boy Press onto heavy German Etching paper using archival inks process. The edition is limited to 50, each signed, numbered and dated by Harrison.

Gavin, a professional illustrator and fashion photographer, says he fully embraced the freedom of self publishing and used all his skills to produce a rich, highly detailed work about portraiture and time. "I wanted to make this print for myself," he says. "For my own walls.  And to make something something that would work off vintage furnishings and contemporary design. A piece that brought together a collection of surfaces to reflect the world that I live in...and maybe some other people as well."

The artist pulled together a number of different media like aged paper, flaking iron, and a stenciled wall – oxidation in all its forms – and something iconic and British: The school boy photograph from the early 20th century.  The effect is nostalgic – an essay on decay, loss, memory and in the end, civilization. The result is dark but humorous and visually compelling.

Corrosion is available directly from Gavin Harrison for £120.00.  You can order the work here.

Gavin has long worked as a photographer for numerous fashion and editorial projects in the UK and internationally. His portraits of both men and women, sometimes whimsically attired and posed, are humorous, scintillating and extremely sexy.

See more of Gavin Harrison's work: http://gharrisonphotography.com/ 

Shop: http://gavinhemporium.bigcartel.com/
Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ukfoto
Blog: http://theeloquenceofwantoncuriosity.blogspot.com/

Burning Boy Press Paris produces limited edition fine art pigment prints for artists, photographers and designers in Paris.  We work with the finest technology and the highest quality papers.  We are also tri-lingual: English, French and Spanish.  Contact us here.

Markus Hansen: With My Own Eyes At Espace Ricard Paris

Burning Boy Press Paris is happy to announce the production of the exhibition prints for Markus Hansen. The prints will be featured in the exhibition at the Espace d'Enterprise Ricard in Paris. 

The two large pigment prints, "Calf With My Own Eyes" and "Pig With My Own Eyes," each measure 150 x 200 cm.  The artist inserted his own eyes into the photographs of these two animals. 

These pigment prints are produced on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth 305 gsm.  Each print is then mounted on Dibond 3mm.  Click on the images to enlarge.

In these photos, Mariela is showing the test prints to Markus and Bruno Scotti. A number of different papers were tested.  The studio in Paris is set up so that the light is strong but neutral so that a range of paper qualities can be judged without bias.

Vernissage: Monday, June 6th at 18h30. Exhibition from June 7 - July 9, 2011.  Espace d’entreprise Ricard  12 rue Boissy d’Anglas 75008 Paris, France.
  

Exhibition information: http://fondation-entreprise-ricard.com/expositions/rituels/pres/
 
For more information about Markus Hansen and his work, please visit his web site: Markus Hansen.

To find out about print with Burning Boy Press in Paris and to set up a studio visit, please send an e mail: Contact Burning Boy.

Kosta Kulundzic : St Georges & The Double Headed Dragon. New Print.

Kosta Kulundzic : St Georges & The Double Headed Dragon.  Pigment-ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308. Edition: 40, signed and numbered. Format: 60 x 60 cm.

This and other works by the Franco-Serbian artist were recently produced in our Paris digital arts printing studio. For more about the artist and his work please see: Kosta Kulundzic Studio: http://www.kulundzic.com/

Kosta Kulundzic : St George at Yokohama Beach

Kosta Kulundzic, the well known Franco-Serbian painter, signing his most recent prints at the studio here in Paris.  His piece, "St George at Yokohama Beach" is a pigment ink print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308.  Edition is 40, each signed and numbered.  Format 80 x 45 cm.

Visit: Kosta Kulendzic Studio.

Meilleurs Voeux pour 2011! Happy New Year!

Meilleurs Voeux pour 2011!

Cette année la carte de voeux de Photo Online et Burning Boy Press a été faite avec la collaboration de Matthew Rose, artiste americain qui habite à Paris. Avec son merveilleux photocollage "Mittwoch" nous vous souhaitons à tous une très bonne et très inspirée nouvelle année!

Tirage pigmentaire sur papier fine art coton 100%, 300 gsm

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Happy New 2011!

This year Photo Online's new year's card for 2011 has been made in collaboration with Matthew Rose, american artist based in Paris.

With his beautiful photocollage "Mittwoch," we wish you a very inspired 2011!

Pigment print on 100% cotton fine art paper, 300 gsm

If you'd like to receive a printed card send us a message with your address!

Ricardo Bloch's Ali Baba's Cave: Galerie Thalie Paris Opening Thursday Oct 21, 2010

Remember Ali Baba from 1001 Nights?  "One day Ali Baba is at work collecting and cutting firewood in the forest, and he happens to overhear a group of forty thieves visiting their treasure store. The treasure is in a cave, the mouth of which is sealed by magic. It opens on the words 'Open Sesame' and seals itself on the words 'Close, Sesame'. When the thieves are gone, Ali Baba enters the cave himself, and takes some of the treasure home."

That folk tale serves as the adventure of Ricardo Bloch's new series of some 20 large photographs, set to debut at Galerie Thalie in Paris. Bloch enters the cave and does take something: magical photographs of what he finds there.

The photographs form the suite for Bloch's Ali Baba's Cave, in reality a packed warehouse of theater and film company props.  The mannequins form small armies of bald-headed boys; other works are of vast stores of empty bottles, string-wrapped books, old microscopes, mantle-piece clocks and dusty chandeliers, large bird cages, golden statues (an Oscar or two), spools of copper and steel wire, hundreds of canes, sunglasses, shiny Buddhas and dozens upon dozens of vintage toys. It's a dreamscape of the past, and yet extremely contemporary.

"Each composition, found in situ, is a fragment of an eclectic and obsessive cabinet de curiosités, a non-scientific and totally incomplete catalogue of 20th century memorabilia," explains Bloch. "Unrelated objects acquire a synergy by proximity that suggests more than it reveals."

Ricardo Bloch's photographs inevitably recall surrealist protocols, where accident makes cohabitation pregnant with links to the vast image libraries of the unconscious.

The suite of photographs was produced by Mariela Cadiz and Burning Boy Press Paris. "These are pigment prints on Photo Rag Baryta, 315 gram paper," she says. "Each print was meticulously made as I worked closely with Ricardo in a series of proofs that satisfied both the color, depth and textures he required.  We couldn't be happier with the results."

Click the images to enlarge.

The technique and paper suits the subject of Ricardo's photographs very well, giving the works a poetic look with regards to massive accumulation, storage and abandonment of objects. "Part of what we do in printing is to find the exact paper for the subject with respect to the fine detail and the overall look of the works," adds Mariela.

Opening/Vernissage:  Thursday, October 21, 6-9 pm, Galerie Thalie, 26, rue Robert Fleury, 75015 Paris.  Tel: (06) 81 45 33 83. 


See a selection Ricardo Bloch's Ali Baba's Cave Series here.

Bloch's Shandy Books is here.

For more information about printing with Burning Boy Press, please click here.

Matthew Rose's YOU-->ME : A Silkscreen Edition

You ––> Me : Silkscreen print, after collage, 47.5 x 38 cm, three colors, on Arches Rives, 300 gram paper. Edition: 100. All prints are signed and numbered.  Some 20 artist proofs were also produced on a variety of fine art papers, along with several prints on fine art papers in gold, silver, and pink.

The print is a little piece of visual poetry, a sort of lexical love song, a Valentine.

The print was published by Burning Boy Press. Burning Boy Press produces mostly high-quality digital prints in Paris.

The original collage, measures 47.5 x 38 cm, dates from 1999 and was exhibited in Berlin at Galerie Tristesse (2006) and in Paris at Bernard Matussière (2009), the original is available for purchase. [Contact for price].

You ––> Me, 2010, was printed at Michel Hosszù's atelier in Paris in a single day.  Photograph of Michel Hosszù (below) taken in front of his massive silkscreen piece "Grimaces" in his studio in the Bastille section of Paris.

Michel Hosszù designed the screens for printing using three separate colors – two shades of gray and one final black.  Together we moved through the edition, racking up the pieces (photo, right), finally playing with the registration for some of the proofs and off-edition works at the end of the day.  The gold, silver and pink pieces were spray painted prior to printing. Two pieces – one gold, one silver – were printed on A3-sized canvases.

Of note: As a boy I was often working with my father in Queens, New York, producing silkscreens for his retail clients.  The screens – some as large as four meters wide and with as many as 28 colors – were beautiful in themselves.  The variety of paints and lacquers and the teamwork needed to pull the giant squeegee across such a giant screens remain potent images in my mind about the process of reproducing images. There is a gorgeous (although somewhat toxic) perfume involved in silkscreening.

As a teenager, I held many jobs in the silkscreen shop, from stretching the dylon fabric over the frames to spreading out the emulsion, position the frame for printing, then blotting out the tiny holes left after the UV printing lamp hit the acetate positive with the image.  Back then the image silhouettes were often cut out of ruby lith, and not punched out of a laser printer via Photoshop file.  It's a process that combines photography, handiwork, low end technology, but with spectacular results.  Sadly, a great deal of silkscreen production has been taken over by digital printing; and while both are wonderful, there is nothing like the creation of a silkscreen print. It's beautiful and delightfully messy.

The YOU --> ME prints are available through Keep Calm Gallery while a few will also be available at my exhibition SCARED BUT FRESH at Orange Dot Gallery in London on October 6, 2010.  

To purchase a YOU --> ME print, please contact Keep Calm Gallery, by clicking here.