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Jos Hachmang, Sculptures

Jos Hachmang (b. 1957) is a Dutch visual artist. Working in a wide range of media including painting, printmaking and sculpture, Hachmang specializes in monumental sculpture work, highly influenced by 1950s sci-fi and Googie Modernism. A recurring motif seems to be a distinctive almond shape, at once a Space Age rocket, an H-bomb, as well as a phallic symbol, in an ongoing attempt to combine the two major themes Life and Death in a single three-dimensional object.

Loveseat (2010)

Diamond in the Rough (2008)

IQ (2006)

Lift-Off (2000)

Maritime Delicate (2000)

Space Cowboys (1997)

Change of Idols (1993)

Rockette (1988)

Stylized Wound (1990)

Narcissus (1989)

Link: Jos Hachmang’s website

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Clint Jukkala

Monument (2008)

Receiver (2008)

Revelator (2007)

Prelude (2007)

Intruder (2006)

Flicker (2006)

Interference (2005)

Interruption (2005)

Link: Clint Jukkala’s website

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Rose Adler (1892 – 1969), Book Bindings

Colette – La Treille Muscate (1930)

Paul Valéry – Fragments du Narcisse (date unknown)

Jean Giraudoux – Suzanne et le Pacifique (1930)

Colette – Chéri (1920)

Colette – L’Envers du Music Hall (1926)

Guillaume Apollinaire – Calligrammes: Poémes de la Paix et de la Guerre (1918)

Comte de Villiers de l’Isle AdamMichel Leiris – Simulacre (1927)

Comte de Villiers de l’Isle Adam – Trois Contes Cruels (1928)

Portrait of Rose Adler (date unknown)

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Shimon Okshteyn

Smoking Woman (date unknown), silkscreen on canvas

Smoking Lady (date unknown), silkscreen

Walking the Dog (date unknown), silkscreen

La Couple (date unknown), silkscreen

Cover Girls (date unknown), silkscreen

Mains Croisées (date unknown), silkscreen

Link: Shimon Okshteyn’s website

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Richard Pinkney

Untitled (1972), from Approval Stamp Offer

A Verse from the Death of a Guiser (1971), from Tetrad Pamphlets Vol. I Nos. I-X

The Alphabet Twice (1971), from Tetrad Pamphlets Vol. I Nos. I-X

Title Unknown (1971), from Spare Parts

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Martin Sharp

Nimrod Theatre – Kold Komfort Kaffee (date unknown)

Nimrod Theatre – Sideshow in Burlesco (1982)

Nimrod Theatre – Mo (date unknown)

Nimrod Theatre – The Venetian Twins (date unknown)

Nimrod Theatre – 10 (1980)

The Sydney Opera House is Ten (1983)

The Festival of Sydney (1981)

Tiny Tim – Eternal Troubadour (1982)

Tiny Paddo Masquerade (1982)

Dog Trumpet Strange Brew (date unknown)

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Tony Fitzpatrick

Tony Fitzpatrick (b. 1958) is a self-taught artist based in Chicago. He works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, etching and collage. His visual work is a dense collection of recurring personal symbols. Though he doesn’t explain them, he does put several of the images up on a website to accompany his rambling prose.

The Misfits (2011), etching

Dime Bag Dog and His Ghosts (2012), etching

Lost Angel (2012), etching

Snake Pussy (2011), etching

Speak of the Devil…and He Appears (2012), etching

The Fish Ghost (2011), etching

Tiger (2012), etching

The Dust and the Ache (2011), etching

The White Knight (2012), etching

The Fish Market (2011), etching

Alphabet of Songbirds…G (2012), etching

Alphabet of Songbirds…J (2012), etching

The Tiger Koi (2011), etching

Koi for Li-Po (2009), collage

Devil Dance Down Decatur Street (2012), collage

Link: Tony Fitzpatrick’s website

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Mordechai Rosenstein

Pursue (date unknown)

Friend (date unknown)

Justice (date unknown)

Miracle (date unknown)

Content (date unknown)

Jubilee (date unknown)

Inscribe Us in the Book of Life (date unknown)

Isaiah (date unknown)

Sing (date unknown)

Shalom (date unknown)

Zachor (date unknown)

Heavens Will Rejoice (date unknown)

Woman of Valor (date unknown)

Numbers (date unknown)

Title Unknown (date unknown)

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Aníbal Brizuela

Aníbal Brizuela’s past is shrouded in mystery: he is a patient at the Colonia d’Oliveros psychiatric hospital, a few miles from Rosario, Argentina, yet no member of his family has ever tried to contact him. He is thought to be seventy-four. A small, thin man, he rarely talks; instead, he draws compulsively. He leaves his works in various parts of the hospital, like messages. His guardian describes them as his oracles. On the occasion of a 2007 exhibition of his work, Aníbal wrote, “I was fishing one day by the river when I saw a flying saucer. […] I looked at my fishing rod and when I looked back up, it had vanished. I didn’t think it was important”. His highly structured works are rich in mystical and political references and symbols, mixed with references to current events.

Untitled (date unknown), ballpoint pen on paper

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Kunizo Matsumoto

Kunizo Matsumoto (b. 1962) works as a dishwasher in the Chinese restaurant run by his relatives in Osaka, Japan. In 1995, he joined Atelier Hiko, a small art studio for mentally disabled adults. Matsumoto was fascinated by the notes that the staff at the establishment wrote in little notebooks and he attempted to reproduce them, even though he had never learnt to write.

Subsequently, Kunizo Matsumoto developed his own personal written work. Very frequently he transforms characters or elaborates new imaginary ideograms, manipulating parts of existing letters. Kunizo is fascinated by Kabuki and gathers together all documents concerning this form of traditional Japanese dramatic art, as well as everything dealing with the tea ceremony. He collects numerous types of printed matter (calendars, tourist guides and catalogues of painting exhibitions) which he piles up in his room and no-one is allowed to touch.