From listadmin@worldwidereview.com Fri Dec 21 01:06:50 2007 From: listadmin@worldwidereview.com (rudi hotmail) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:06:50 -0000 Subject: [wwreview]Jasper Joffe's Beauty Show, Private View 18th January 2008 Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00BF_01C8436D.C43B0E40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jasper Joffe's Beauty Show =20 V22 ASHWINSTREET Press Release - December 2007 V22 Ashwin Street is pleased to announce Jasper Joffe's = Beauty Show, an exhibition which puts the ass back into aesthetics and = pubic hair back into fashion. Joffe loves old Vogues from the 70s and 80s. The models are = less stick thin. These mags are full of beautiful pictures of beautiful = women, who are now of course old and botoxed. Joffe looks in some = vintage Homes and Garden magazines and sees an ad for a shower company = which shows most of a naked lady, he is nostalgic for the early innocent = years of masturbation. In the good old days you still sometimes saw = untopiarized bushes. The ugly side is Nazis. Look into their eyes. There is a = something wrong with painting Hitler. Joffe once tried to make abstract = paintings of Hitler in order to prove painting's romantic supremacy over = subject matter. Now he paints him and his nasty friends as is. They = represent MEN. The gawking, ogling, there's a lovely girl, guys like = Joffe that like to look at ladies in their knickers. Crush these ugly and beautiful subjects together in a = painting show. You get Fashism. The queasy melding of images which = leaves you looking at the whirls of beauty and ugliness without being = sure which is which, or whose side you are on. As an aesthetic experiment Joffe will be inviting ugly and = beautiful people to the opening. One gallery will be populated by models = and people who think they look like models. The other gallery will be = peopled by ugly people or people who think they are ugly. He is = interested whether the contents of the room will affect the reception of = the paintings. Jasper Joffe born 1975 is a painter, writer, and used to be = quite good looking. Great successes include 24 paintings in 24 hours at = the Chisenhale Gallery in 2000 and solo shows in London, Milan, Brno, = and Rome (Spot the odd one out.) Major success includes his first novel = Water being published by Telegram Books in 2006. Medium successes = include his founding of The Free Art Fair and his paintings having been = collected by Charles Saatchi.=20 Jasper Joffe is represented by Sartorial Contemporary Art OPENING Private view Friday, 18th January 2008=20 Show 19 January to 24 February 2008=20 10-16 ASHWIN STREET, LONDON, E8 3DL CONTACT Tel. +44 (0)207 159 6790=20 tara@v22london.com lois@v22london.com tom@v22ashwinstreet.com WEB www.v22ashwinstreet.com www.v22collection.com=20 =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_00BF_01C8436D.C43B0E40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jasper Joffe's Beauty Show
 

V22=20 ASHWINSTREET Press Release =96 December 2007

V22=20 Ashwin Street is pleased to announce Jasper Joffe's Beauty = Show, an=20 exhibition which puts the ass back into aesthetics and pubic = hair=20 back into fashion.

Joffe=20 loves old Vogues from the 70s and 80s. The models are less = stick=20 thin. These mags are full of beautiful pictures of beautiful = women,=20 who are now of course old and botoxed. Joffe looks in some = vintage=20 Homes and Garden magazines and sees an ad for a shower = company which=20 shows most of a naked lady, he is nostalgic for the early = innocent=20 years of masturbation. In the good old days you still = sometimes saw=20 untopiarized bushes.

The=20 ugly side is Nazis. Look into their eyes. There is a = something wrong=20 with painting Hitler. Joffe once tried to make abstract = paintings of=20 Hitler in order to prove painting's romantic supremacy over = subject=20 matter. Now he paints him and his nasty friends as is. They=20 represent MEN. The gawking, ogling, there's a lovely girl, = guys like=20 Joffe that like to look at ladies in their knickers.

Crush=20 these ugly and beautiful subjects together in a painting = show. You=20 get Fashism. The queasy melding of images which leaves you = looking=20 at the whirls of beauty and ugliness without being sure = which is=20 which, or whose side you are on.

As=20 an aesthetic experiment Joffe will be inviting ugly and = beautiful=20 people to the opening. One gallery will be populated by = models and=20 people who think they look like models. The other gallery = will be=20 peopled by ugly people or people who think they are ugly. He = is=20 interested whether the contents of the room will affect the=20 reception of the paintings.

Jasper=20 Joffe born 1975 is a painter, writer, and used to be quite = good=20 looking. Great successes include 24 paintings in 24 hours at = the=20 Chisenhale Gallery in 2000 and solo shows in London, Milan, = Brno,=20 and Rome (Spot the odd one out.) Major success includes his = first=20 novel Water being published by Telegram Books in 2006. = Medium=20 successes include his founding of The Free Art Fair and his=20 paintings having been collected by Charles Saatchi.

Jasper=20 Joffe is represented by Sartorial Contemporary Art

OPENING

Private=20 view Friday, 18th January 2008
Show 19 January to 24 = February=20 2008
10-16 ASHWIN STREET, LONDON, E8 3DL

CONTACT

Tel.=20 +44 (0)207 159 6790

tara@v22london.com
lois@v22london.com
tom@v22ashwinstreet.com

WEB
www.v22ashwinstreet.com
www.v22collection.com=20 =  

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