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paulypaul
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Courtney Love @ Fred Torres (5/3/12)
« Thread Started on May 12, 2012, 8:08am »

I shit you not

http://www.fredtorres.com/exhibition-space/2012-05-03_courtney-love/

Fred Torres Collaborations is pleased to announce the exhibition Courtney Love And She’s Not Even Pretty on view from May 3 through June 15, 2012. This is the first exhibition of Courtney Love’s drawings, which will feature over 45 works by the artist. A limited edition catalogue has been published on occasion of the exhibition. Fred Torres Collaborations is located at 527 West 29th Street, New York.

Love’s drawings evince romantic hysteria, featuring doll-like women surrounded by Love’s emotionally fraught writing, excerpts of poetry, or compelling music lyrics. The women in works like Room 9 are often tormented, lamenting romances shattered and the devastation of rejection. In other works like March 2010 #2 Dublin sexual desire and the insecurity of new love are pushed to the forefront. The subjects of Love’s drawings are based on the artist’s personal experiences, friends, and her interest in fin de siècle paintings in which women are portrayed as powerful femme fatales, virtuous heroines, or as non-individual beings whose purpose is purely sexual. Through these drawings all of Love’s soul is bared for the viewer - the desire for love and the fear of loss. Working primarily with colored pencil, pastel and watercolor, Love creates highly charged dreamscapes, often containing a vibrant palette filled with gestural forms, and marks that are at times fluid, or compulsive and frenetic, which imbue a deeply moving psychological quality to the works.

"With pure line, color and raw emotion, Courtney Love makes drawings of turmoil and contradictions. Sometimes whimsical and carefree, they too express dark psychological states. Sometimes coy and sexually alluring, they ultimately speak of her vulnerability and longing for fairytale romance. Above all, they show it all, as Courtney always does."

– Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director, Creative Time

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Re: Courtney Love...!
« Reply #1 on May 12, 2012, 9:18am »

much as i think she might have a lot to offer ...

i still prefer micky love.

the oblivion boy.. at his darkest.

(never did see the comedy thread.... hey ho..)

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Re: Courtney Love...!
« Reply #2 on May 12, 2012, 2:36pm »

I'm particularly touched by the piece that has the statement 'She had 42 Birkin bags' above a distraught figure with 'Save Me' in large, desperate writing across the middle. Then I saw it cost 35 THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS and the whole of the universe ate itself in an irony overload, tumbling down a wormhole of lack of awareness into a void of are you fucking kidding...

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