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How Television Shapes Our Worldview: Media Representations of Social Trends and Change Featuring Larry Ossei-Mensah
The art work for my book project has just been revealed. The book officially drops on May 16th. I’m really excited about this project hitting the market. I’m looking forward to sharing the final product with ya’ll. Check out more information about How Television Shapes Our Worldview: Media Representations of Social Trends and Change
Muses for #ChannelingMollino Art Installation
Next week visual artist Ramon Silva and myself will team up again to present Channeling Mollino at the Contemporary Art Fair NYC. Channeling Mollino is an interactive art installation and we are looking for female muses who would like to be photographed as part of this artistic experience. You can find more information about the exhibition and register to be a muse  by clicking here. – LOM
RAMON SILVA Presents Channeling Mollino Curated by LARRY OSSEI-MENSAH – May 9th to May 11th, 2014
RAMON SILVA
Presents
Channeling Mollino
Curated by LARRY OSSEI-MENSAH
May 9 – May 11, 2014
#ChannelingMollino
“Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic.†– Carlo Mollino
April 28th, 2014, New York, NY – Ramon Silva is pleased to present Channeling Mollino, at the Contemporary Art Fair NYC. Channeling Mollino is the latest collaboration between visual artist Ramon Silva and curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, who presented their critically acclaimed installation project Becoming Beyoncé during Armory Week 2014 at the Spring/Break Art Show. This newest exhibition explores the work of Italian artist Carlo Mollino and will be on view during Frieze Week New York at the Contemporary Art Fair NYC from May 9 – May 11, 2014.
Channeling Mollino is an interactive performance piece exploring the Polaroid Portraiture of Italian artist Carlo Mollino. Multi-disciplinary artist Ramon Silva will actively reinterpret these works as he channels himself as Mollino living in today’s landscape. This exhibition endeavors to investigate a series of queries that correlates with Mollino’s and Silva’s artistic practices. What would Mollino’s Polaroids look like today? What would the muses look like? What other forms of art making in relation to the photographs would he pursue? Silva makes a connection to Mollino’s multi-faceted oeuvre that included architecture, furniture and car design by utilizing many forms of media to create his art. Like Mollino, Silva creatively oscillates between a variety of mediums to express his dynamic, visual vocabulary.  During the exhibition Silva will transform an art fair booth into a pop up artist studio complete with visually inspired backdrops and props referencing Mollino’s Villa where this series of works were originally produced. In this space Silva will be conducting a series of “sittings†with his muses where the main images produced during these “sittings†will be a Polaroid photograph of the subject which is the entry point into Mollino’s work. Video will also be captured accompanied by a soundtrack designed by Silva for each muse’s interaction. A social media element will be incorporated where a mobile capture from the “sitting†will be on view at hashtag #ChannelingMollino.
Opening Preview:
Thursday, May 8: 4PM – 8PM
Open to the Public:
Friday, May 9: 10AM – 7PM
Saturday, May 10: 10AM – 7PM
Sunday, May 11: 11AM – 5PM
Location:
The Tunnel
269 11th Avenue
Between 27th & 28th Street
New York, NY 10011
How Television Shapes Our Worldview featuring Larry Ossei-Mensah
I got the word yesterday that we finally have a release date of May 16th, 2014 for the book that I contributed to with my co-writer Stylés I. Akira entitled: How Television Shapes Our Worldview Media Representations of Social Trends and Change. The release of this project is bittersweet because we put probably hundreds of hours in and to see it come to fruition is truly rewarding.
Shout out to my co-writer Stylés I. Akira, editors: Deborah A. Macey, Kathleen M. Ryan, and Noah J. Springer, in addition to our publisher Lexington Books/Rowman.
The section of the book we wrote is entitled: The Construction of Taste: Television and American Home Décor. This is an academic text chalk filled with gems that I look forward to sharing with the world. Check out below a full summary of the whole book. -LOM (more…)
