The Creepy Toys Factory

Cuba is an “Eternal Paradise” for innovation and the economic development based on imitation and wear. 

The Creepy Toys Factory is a project inspired by the marketing of objects (toys) which are built as part of a system of an underground economy on the outskirts of the city. This industrial craft market, dedicated to the entertainment of children, is a real and widespread alternative that make up for the toys´ sales in the government stores. It offers significantly lower prices, and thus accessible, to the most of parents within Cuban society. However, the manufacture of these toys does not meet any of the international and national standards set for it, neither is it regulated by quality and security controls which are essential in objects intended for children. All type of trucks and cars, guns throwing plastic small spears that simulate shots, hybrids between Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, sharp swords, hand-made painted, and sometimes deformed, babies, and others singular toys are made from recycled plastic in illegal little factories. They can be settled down in the courtyard of a house or any other small space and the employees work in dangerous conditions by a relative small paid, so they could be defined as sweatshops. All these toys are copies of the ones imported and sold in government stores or personally imported by any person, but their quality and safety is significantly less. Sometimes, they feel apart from the original design through the incorporation of other elements to enrich their “aesthetic or beauty”. LINK Riera Studio Art

Meeting in Berlin

design and photography dolf pauw

Last weekend, we had a meeting in Berlin. First dinner and fun in one of the finest restaurants and hottest disco's of Berlin. The next day consultations about EXIT. Talking about the strategy and further developments of EXIT, you can follow it on Facebook or twitter on our site. The Exit team. 

Alicyn Henning and Dolf Pauw and thanks to Paul van Maanen

Link EXIT

Joep van Liefland

@ Art Rotterdam Video Pallace # 41

Since 2002, Berlin-based Dutch artist Joep van Liefland has installed more or less ephemeral franchises of his Video Palace in places ranging from parking lots to art galleries. Although no two incarnations are identical, most have included shelves of old VHS cases for films from a variety of exploitation genres, as well as monitors or projections that show either a montage of appropriated footage or one of Van Liefland’s own productions. In many cases, the latter present some mix of the porn and splatter genres and the language of commercials, exploring what Van Liefland calls “the media penetration of the social body” Link joepvanliefland

Ryan Mendoza

DetroitHome 
Photo Dolf Pauw

Detroit was once the largest centre of automotive industry in the world. Till the credit crunch that is when car factories like General Motors, Ford and Chrysler got into financial trouble and had to close down. People were dismissed and were left with immense mortgage debts. The crisis on the housing market was the final blow. Residents left their homes and entire neighborhoods were abandoned. What once was a prospering city with 1,8 million inhabitants is now a ghost town of less than 700.000 inhabitants with chaos, decline and crime as a result. Homes are sold at auction for as little as 1.000 dollar to prevent vacancy in the area. Houses dilapidate and are being torn down with bulldozers all the time. Visual artist Ryan Mendoza, born and raised in NewYork, lives and works in both Berlin and Naples. In 2013 he returns - after 20 years - to his home ground. It is then he sees in Detroit the reality of today. With his Detroit home he tells a story we’ve hardly heard of in Europe. LINK livingstone gallery

Art Rotterdam

The visitors @ Van Nelle Plant 
Photographs: Dolf Pauw

LINK Art Rotterdam

Malware Museum

Malware Example: KUKU.COM

Malware Example: HYMN.COM

The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Once they infected a system, they would sometimes show animation or messages that you had been infected. Through the use of emulations, and additionally removing any destructive routines within the viruses, this collection allows you to experience virus infection of decades ago with safety. LINK Malware Museum

Bulgarian tradition, Как в смолянското с. Гела съхраняват

Via George Trak See Link (in Bulgarian)

Sune Jørgensen

Student of architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark. Besides this he is an enthusiastic part time illustrator searching for a different graphic expression and another way of using architecture through a different media. LINK Sune Jørgensen

Anthony Barboza

@ Keith De Lellis Gallery New York

Beginning in 1963 and continuing into the present day, Anthony Barboza has enjoyed a long career in photography. One of the most important African American photographers of his generation, Barboza has excelled at capturing his subjects both on the street and in the studio. Perhaps best known for his photographs of singers and jazz musicians in the 1970's and '80's, Barboza's subjects span a wide range, from high-profile celebrities to anonymous children on the street of Jacksonville, Florida. The artist began his informal training in New York City, influenced and mentored by photographers Hugh Bell, Louis Draper, and Roy DeCarava. In these early days of Barboza's interest in photography, the artist was introduced to The Kamoinge Workshop, now Kamoinge, Inc., a network of professional photographers addressing the under-representation of black photographers in the art world. Kamoinge would be an important inspiration and support system for Barboza's photography throughout his career. Today, Barboza serves as president of the organization. LINK Keith De Lellis Gallery

Shadoks et Gibis

VARA television The Netherlands June 20, 1969
Shadoks and Gibis have one common goal: 
who will be the first touch down on earth.

In 1969, when I was fifteen years old, I always hurried me to see the broadcast of the Shadoks et Gibis. Even though it lasted only five minutes, I did not miss it. All the tedious chores, washing dishes, tidying room or even just help my mother with the wash tub was not a problem for me. If I but in time to see these fantastic French animation. Still, years later, I see the pictures and irony in front of me. 
LINK Shadoks et Gibis: les origines

exityourstoryteller.com One week on line

Go to EXIT Your Storyteller:

Or to TAGMAN for your own site:

David Bowie

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Chantal Joffe @ Victoria Miro

Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Chantal Joffe. Joffe primarily paints expressive portraits of women and children, often in very large scale, sometimes 10 feet (3 m) tall. In a 2009 interview with Stella McCartney, Joffe said, "I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me." Source images for her personality-filled oil paintings include family photos, advertising, fashion magazines, and pornography. Working roughly from her photographic source material, Joffe introduces distortions to her depictions. In the McCartney interview, Joffe mentioned the photography of Diane Arbus as an inspiration for her art: "I find photography massively influential. Specifically, Diane Arbus, who I've been obsessed with my whole life. Her work has everything about the portrait of a human that you can ever want." A reviewer said of her "big rude paintings" that "she paints with a kind of easy control - effortless without being slick."He further points out that her paintings may give an initial impression of simplicity, charm, or childishness, but "they have an unsettling quality which gives the exhibition an odd, rather menacing mood. LINK victoria miro

About two days

We lounge the site

Alicyn and Dolf we are looking forewards to you!
LINK test site

1966

"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" James Brown

The song's lyrics, which Rolling Stone characterized as "biblically chauvinistic", attribute all the works of modern civilization (the car, the train, the boat, and the electric light) to the efforts of men, but claim that it all would "mean nothing without a woman or a girl." The song also states that man made toys for the baby boys and girls, and makes a comment about the fact that "Man makes Money", from other men. Before the song's fade, Brown states that man is lost in his bitterness and in his emptiness. Brown's co-writer and onetime girlfriend, Betty Jean Newsome, wrote the lyrics based on her own observations of the relations between the sexes. LINK youtube

Top five last year

The sequence of this choice does not matter. The past year has art and music my eyes and ears passed. I hope you have enjoyed this blog. There is of course done much more, therefore, I invite you again to look back on my blog. Thanks! Dolf Pauw
Phoebus, Rotterdam NL
The Union of Plovdiv Artists Plovdiv BG
ArtEZ De eerste lichting: Lisa Weeda, Arnhem NL
Levee Dwellers, Rotterdam NL
EXIT is testing, Rotterdam, Berlijn, NL, D