James Franco “The Dangerous Book Four Boys” at Peres Projects Berlin
James Franco and those circling him are stacking everything possible on his Academy Award nomination; milking it dry to get the biggest boost. Unfortunately, some of that milk is sour. His current show, The Dangerous Book Four Boys (DBFB) at Peres Projects Berlin, should not be on the shelf.
The opening for DBFB was on 12 February 2011 at both Peres Projects locations in Berlin. I chose to visit the Kreuzberg location on opening night. Entering the gallery, I found large partially melted plastic play houses, a pile of rubbish, faux houses and benches made of cheap plywood, photographs, Polaroid’s in a room darkened for a video (they couldn’t be viewed without your flashlight…err…cellphone), and two rooms with looping video sequences. That was just the Kreuzberg location.
Looking at the work in Kreuzberg, I could make out one subject area “dangerous”: explosions, flaming arrows, burning, motorcycle tricks and the like. However, there were many pieces in the exhibit which were completely unrelated to this; the rubbish, Polaroid’s, Star Trek soft porn, Goat Boy, …they just didn’t fit. This isn’t a limit of my imagination. Rather, it is a disorganization and lack of focus that repeats itself throughout the exhibit.
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Bruce LaBruce: “Helter Skelter”
This saturday evening the opening of Bruce LaBruce‘s new exhibition “Helter Skelter” will take place at Peres Projects, Berlin. La Bruce will not only be presenting several prints of photographs he took of Francois Sagat during the shooting of L.A. Zombie, there is also going to be a screening of the movie itself in its latest cut (which is supposed to be pretty close to the the final version). And if you’re not the kind of person who is impressed by attending an official European premiere of a movie you may have your little personal premiere by meeting the real Francois Sagat who will also be around. Could be pretty crowded. More about the exhibtion here.
Bruce La Bruce/ Francois Sagat: Sexy Massacre
Francois Sagat is into horror these days. He recently played a small speaking role as a drug addict in “Saw VI” (
no joke) which is going to be released in October and since yesterday you find a long row of pictures of him on his blog playing a zombie in a Bruce La Bruce performance. It was shown in the context of the opening of Bruces his new exhibition at Peres Projects (L.A.) called “Untiteled Hardcore Zombie Project”. You find the pictures
here. Looks like they had fun. (UPDATE: For anbody who’s not really into this whole zombie thing and who rather wants to see Mr. Sagat posing in
David Mason’s spandax gear in the sun of L.A. while undressing from time to time mabye
his website is the better choice today.)
