New Years Eve!!!
This special celebration will feature the sweet seduction of model Angela the tantalizing temptress.
We look forward to having you as we welcome 2012 with friends old and new, fine wines, bubbly champagne and the special delicacies of our host, Gilles Larrain whose culinary mastery is second only to his welcoming warmth.
Gilles Larrain Art Salon Party will be held on Sunday December 31st from 10:00pm till 3:00am. (Doors will close at 11:45pm) The Admission price for this select and special event will be $60.
As Gilles and Louda will be in Kauai for an exhibition at "galerie 103" there will be no Art Salons in January.
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November 2011 Gilles Larrain Art Salon Party Exhibiting Artist:
Matthew Green
Matthew Green spent most of his earlier years in Southern Arizona. He moved to New York in 2000. He Studied at The School of Visual Arts. Matt uses Cartoon Expressionism to depict subjective emotions and the relations between people. |
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Yana Schnitzler/ human kinetics movement arts
human kinetics movement arts creates site-specific movement installations blurring the boundaries between dance, visual arts and architecture. The company has been presented at numerous dance and art festivals, museums and galleries throughout Europe and the US, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY C, Hamburg Art Week, Germany, BMW Headquarter Munich, Opera Plage, Nice, France and PalomArt Festival Napoli, Italy.
Most recently, a photo book about human kinetics movement arts has been published. This over 100-pages book is the result of an eight-years long collaboration between Artistic Director Yana Schnitzler and her photographer, graphic designer and husband Harry Schnitzler.
http://www.humankinetics.org
http://www.blurb.com/books/2682660 - (Now Available)
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Valery Oisteanu
There's nothing like Jazz & Poetry for the New Years Eve of 2012!
Jazzoetry are poems selected from the book "Perks in Purgatory" by Valery Oisteanu,
poems inflected by jazz riffs and are blues-structured compositions.
Valery takes the audience on a sophisticated incursion into the subconscious domain
of surreal dreams, erotica-neurotica and repressed desires' resolution. |
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Darius Scheider
Darius Scheider is a versatile musician mainly known as a guitar player.
He will come that night as a singer, playing the guitar and will propose a repertoire of classic love songs borrowed to artists such as Sting or Stevie Wonder... and will also present some samples of his work as a song writer.
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| Photography by Gilles Larrain |
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Photography by Gilles Larrain
Gilles Larrain was first a painter who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and then became one of the pioneers in kinetic art in the 1960's, using air, smoke, light, water and neon tubes. Fascinated by the relationship between painting and photography, he later became a fine art photographer in Soho, where he realized among other works well-known album covers and posters of Miles Davis, Sting and Billy Joel. Gilles has also photographed John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jerry Rubin and Salvador Dali.
Captivated by the flamenco aesthetic, Gilles has since become a great follower of this art, even taking up the guitar. His camera has captured the soul of flamenco in one of those rare artistic conjunctions where technical wisdom and experience become melded with the most difficult to express emotions.
www.gilleslarrain.com
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| Portraits by Louda |
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Portraits by Louda
Louda will be drawing portraits of Art Salon Party attendees in the front gallery window. Louda captures the energy of her subject's personality with her expressive line quality and emotionally powerful sense of color.
www.loudacollection.com
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Gilles Larrain's "Idols" by powerHouse Books
http://www.powerhousebooks.com/site/?p=7334
"I can't remember when I first saw the book Idols by Gilles Larrain. All I know is that ever since I got it, it's been a huge influence on me. Idols is one of the best photographic books I've ever seen. It was published in 1973 and is a collection of studio portraits of trannies, gender-benders, and just generally awesome looking people in New York City. It's an incredible time capsule. There are Warhol people, like Taylor Mead and Holly Woodlawn, and members of the San Francisco-based psychedelic drag queen performance troupe the Cockettes.. The greatest fashion always originates with drag queens. The outfit you're wearing today was probably invented by a drag queen ten years ago."
-Ryan McGinley, Vice Magazine, New York City 2010
Idols, an authentic compendium of 1970s' New York style and attitude, and a confirmed masterpiece, began with an awestruck Larrain visiting Max's Kansas City in the explosively liberating early years of the gay rights movement, and befriending Taylor Meade and John Noble. Once they came to be photographed, the rest followed. Idols represents a generation of New York's most talented, outrageous, glamorous, and mostly gay personalities, after spending hours applying original makeup and costumes to pose for Gilles in his now legendary SoHo studio.
Gilles Larrain was born in Da Lat, Vietnam in 1938 to a diplomat/painter father and a pianist/painter mother. He traveled the world at a young age while growing up in the midst of Jesuit boarding schools in Chile, Argentina, Canada, and France. Gilles attended the Lycée Français in New York and he later attended L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he studied architecture and city planning. A trip to Oaxaca, Mexico in 1963 to document the sites of Monte Alban and Mitla opened the door to a burgeoning love of photography. Gilles moved back to New York City in 1965 and settled into his artistic life, mixing sculpture, inflatable structures, neon, painting, and photography. He currently resides and continues to make artwork in New York City.
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