CHRISTINE A. TARANTINO ART NEWS

September 2012

Christine A. Tarantino - Hjuler BROTKATZE collaborations on exhibit at FzKKe Gallery, Germany, Sept. 1 - 30, 2012. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/brotkatzen-exhibit-opens-sept-1.html

With the Blood of a Daylily - Poems & Drawings by the Homeless Poet by Christine A. Tarantino, published by Words of Light:http://wordsoflightbooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/with-blood-of-daylily-poems-drawings-by.html

THESE HANDS PRAY FOR GERONIMO, a visual poem of American Indians, by Christine A. Tarantino, published by Words of Light:http://wordsoflightbooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/these-hands-pray-for-geronimo-by.html

Christine A. Tarantino's ECDYSIS, snake skin artist book exhibited with 99 other book artists in Italy, curated by Maddalena Castegnaro. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/mirabilibrimostra-internazionale-di.html

August
Christine A. Tarantino, Sign and Language Group Exhibit, Open Stal, The Netherlands.http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/08/christine-tarantino-sign-language-group.html

Christine A. Tarantino series of 40,"Being Human"
published by Redfoxpress, Assembling Box #20,
Ireland.http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/08/assembling-box-20-christine-tarantino.html


RED LIPS - What is Your Version for Me? by Christine Tarantino is published by Words of Light now available in print or eBook formats. New version includes ALL 42 artists from 13 countries plus additional text and images by Christine Tarantino.http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-red-lips-book-available-at-lulucom.html

August internet art exhibit @ CHRISTINE TARANTINO
COLLECTION
features artist STEVE RANDOM.
http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/08/steve-random-usa.html

July
WORDS OF LIGHT BOOKS, Art Publications By
Contemporary Artists, new blog offering various format books
published by Christine A. Tarantino. www.wordsoflightbooks.blogspot.com

Christine A. Tarantino/Words of Light publishes THE
SKY EMBRACES THE GREAT WORLD
by Walter Festuccia. http://www.lulu.com/shop/walter-festuccia/the-sky-embraces-the-great-world/paperback/product-20294750.html

Christine Tarantino, "Instant Person 1 & 2", self-portraits with Polaroid Camera for POLAROID MADNESS, project of Franticham, Ireland. On-line exhibit and exhibition Kassel, Germany during the DOCUMENTA 2012.http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/02/no-426-instant-person-1-2.htmlExhibition "INSTANT PEOPLE"250 polaroid self-portraits by 175 artists from 22 countries.11.– 23. Juli 2012 Zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung am Mittwoch, dem 11. Juli 2012 ab 19 Uhr möchten wir Sie und Ihre Freunde herzlich in denKasseler KunstvereinWerner-Hilpert-Straße 2334117 Kassel, einladen.

Christine A. TARANTINO, "Ecdysis" artist book exhibited at Villa Excelsa, Sannicola, Italia. Curator, Maddalena Castegnarohttp://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/06/christine-tarantino-anna-boschi-alfonso.html
Opening night: http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/07/naturalia-animalia-artist-book-exhibit.html

July internet art exhibit @ Christine Tarantino Collection features Anna Banana, Darlene Altschul, & John Mountain.http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/07/anna-banana-darlene-altschul-john.html

June
"THESE HANDS" call for entries, newest project from Christine TARANTINO.http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/06/these-hands-newest-christine-tarantino.html

June internet art exhibit @ Christine Tarantino Collection features Antoni Miró.
http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/06/antoni-miro.html

May
"Fear No NewNew Art" artist book published by Redfoxpress, Assembling Box #19, Ireland.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/fluxus-assembling-box-19-redfoxpress.html

"E-mail Between the Artist & Her Lover" artist book exhibited Villa Giulia, Italia. Curator Marisa Cortese.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/tarantino-artist-book-villa-giulia.html

"WHO AM I?" artist book exhibited Mostra Internazionale, Italia. Curator Virginia Milici.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/tarantino-artist-book-who-am-i-in.html

"RED LIPS of Christine Tarantino", art booklet by Bruno Chiarlone published in Italy. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/red-lips-of-christine-tarantino-by.html

May internet art exhibit @ CHRISTINE TARANTINO COLLECTION features artist RYOSUKE COHEN.
http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/05/ryosuke-cohen-japan.html

April
Christine TARANTINO, "RED LIPS FOR DALAI LAMA" exhibition @ INviso, Padiglione TIBET, AssociazioneSal Viana frazione Saliana Pianello del Lario (CO)curated by Ruggero Maggi. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/04/inviso-padiglione-tibet-cura-di-ruggero.html

April internet art exhibit @ CHRISTINE TARANTINO COLLECTION features artists Daniel C. Boyer and Richard Canard. http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/04/daniel-c-boyer-richard-canard.html

March
Christine Tarantino, "NEWNEW ART Mono-Prints"
published in"Franticham's Fluxus Assembling Box Nr 18",
Redfoxpress, IRELAND.http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/11/no-402-newnew-mono-print-series.htmlhttp://www.redfoxpress.com/ass.box18.html

DODODADIANI featured this month
in internet art exhibit at Christine Tarantino Collection. Dododadiani
internet art exhibit
.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/03/dododadiani-christine-tarantino.html

February
RED LIPS Project: What is your
version for me? Send to:tarantinochristine@yahoo.com or RED LIPS, Box
121, Wendell, MA 01379 USA
"Sometimes I need red apple. Sometimes I need
redlips."-- Nam June Paik
Your RED LIPS art modification will yield
online documentation, maileddocumentation, and potential publication. Please
include a mailing address withyour submission.

Christine Tarantino, "Better Together: Harmony; Radiance; Consciousness; Evolution", International Mother Language Day Art Exhibit, Kathmandu, NEPAL, by invitation of Rafique Sulayman, Curator. http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-412-better-together-harmony-radiance.html

Christine Tarantino, "Flux-USA Gallery of Stars with Lucy Chew Intervention" http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-403-flux-usa-galaxy.html exhibited in Group Show: Fluxfest Chicago 2012 (Chicago, USA) FROM THE ARCHIVE Mailart and Fluxus from the archives of Fluxus/St. Louis. Opening reception Chicago Art Institute, Joan Flasch Library.

February online art exhibits from 'The Christine Tarantino Collection' features Guido Vermeulen and Gerson Wenglinski this month, both artists from Belgium. http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/01/guido-vermeulen-and-gerson-wenglinski.html

January
Christine Tarantino, "RED-BERRY Series" published in "Franticham's Fluxus Assembling Box Nr 17", Redfoxpress, IRELAND.
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-377-red-berry-stained-series.html
http://www.redfoxpress.com/ass.box17.html

FAX Exhibit, The DeVos Art Museum, Michigan, USA, curated by Ribas; organized by The Drawing Center and ICI, NYC. TARANTINO "I of the EYE-FAX", asemic writing series: http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-416-i-of-eye-fax.html

Wooden Postcard Exhibit, Stehekin Post Office, Stehekin, Washington, USA. Christine Tarantino work:
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-417-american-women-artists-as-tree.html
http://christinetarantino.blogspot.com/2012/01/outgoing-wooden-postcards-mail-art.html

Christine Tarantino, "PhotoBooth" work published in new book, "Photobooth Performances" by Ginny Lloyd. http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/07/no-379-photobooth-book-performance.html http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/photobooth-performances-by-ginny-lloyd.html

Christine Tarantino, Mail Art and Video Performance at Galleriea Terre Rare, Bologna, Italy, January 28 - February 8, 2012. Project of Maurizio Follin, Italia. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-commercial-potential-phaze-ii-show.html
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-commercial-potential-phaze-ii-show_29.htm

Christine Tarantino, RED LIPS for Dalai Lama, collage exhibited at Venice Biennial Tibet Pavilion – Palazzo delle Esposizioni Sala Nervi - Torino, project of Ruggero Maggi, Milan, Italy.
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-409-red-lips-for-dalai-llama.html

Christine Tarantino exhibited at Foundation IK New Year Celebration Exhibit "I WISH", The Netherlands, by invitation of Ko de Jonge.
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-406-ik-wens-i-wish.html

The Christine Tarantino Collection, newest Christine Tarantino art blog started on January 1, 2012. Showcasing selected works from my 20 year collection of works on paper from artists around the globe.
http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/

Christine Tarantino-Hjuler BROTKATZE Collaboration exhibited at GALERIE "Offenes Atelier D.U. Design", Austria, Barbara Rapp, Curator.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/hjuler-brotkatze-exhibit-austria.html
http://www.offenesatelier.com/kommissar-hjulers-brotkatze-kollaborationen-1401-01022012/
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/austrian-exhibit-tarantino-and-mamabaer.html
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/brotkatze-catalogue-hjuler.html

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Vittore Baroni, ITALIA


Don’t You Rock Me Dada-O

a new artist book by

Vittore Baroni

for Redfoxpress - “C’Est Mon Dada” collection

July 2008 - 40 pages in colour - size A6

hardcover - thread and quarter cloth binding - laser printing on ivory paper
for more pages and details see http://www.redfoxpress.com/dada-baroni.html

This book is the product of a deranged mix-up of details from collages, photos and mixed-media works (ca. 1975-2008) handpicked from my archive, then scanned and multi-layered on the pc with a primitive graphic programme.

Combining my lifelong obsessions for the history of r’n’r and Dada, Don’t You Rock Me Dada-O is respectfully dedicated to the CabVolt Contingent with thanks to Lonnie D. & The Vipers.

V.B.

Questo libro è il risultato di un folle frullato di dettagli da collage, foto e lavori mixed-media (ca. 1975-2008) selezionati dal mio archivio, scannerizzati e stratificati utilizzando un primitivo programma di computergrafica. Combinando la mia perdurante ossessione per la storia del r'n'r e del movimento Dada, Don’t You Rock Me Dada-O è rispettosamente dedicato al Contingente del Cabaret Voltaire con tante grazie a Lonnie Donegan & The Vipers.

V.B.

DON’T YOU ROCK ME DADA-O

(traditional, arr. Vittore Baroni)

Now me and Tristan went to town

(sing along Man Ray, sing along)

We went to buy Max Ernst a gown

(sing along Man Ray, sing along)

But charmed we were by a sound so unreal

(sing away Man Ray, sing away)

Weirder than Hugo Ball’s Krippenspiel

(sing away Man Ray, sing away)

Oh, don’t you rock me

Dada-O

Well, don’t you rock me

Dada-O

Now...

John and Raoul also came to town

(sing away Man Ray, sing away)

Elsa Von Freytag was leadin’ a hound

(sing away Man Ray, sing away)

Hound dog bark, the Baroness got drink

(swoon away Man Ray, swoon away)

When I first saw her, my heart sunk

(swoon away Man Ray, swoon away)

Now, don’t you rock me

Dada-O...

She yelled “Piffle piffle, where’s Marcel?

(get along lady, get along)

I play a mean skiffle and I love you like hell”

(get along lady, get along)

She tried the green corn, she tried the red

(sail away lady, sail away)

I’ll have it Grosz, that’s what she said

(sail away lady, sail away)

Oh, don’t you rock me

Dada-O...

I was burning inside, yes I was sizzling hot

(sing away ladies)

Dada turned that fire into a Merz knot

(sing away ladies)

Marcel pissed inside a fountain

(shy away ladies)

Then he disappeared on top of a mountain

(shy away ladies)

Arthur got himself into another fight

(sail away ladies)

I think we won’t be home soon tonight

(sail away ladies)

Oh, don’t you rock me

Dada-O...

(middle eight)

I tried pop, I tried conceptual and land art

I tried street art preaching on a stump

- But my mind is fixed on Hans Arp

I tried to date a woman, I tried to kiss her

I tried so hard to dig Net.art

- But my heart is bound to Schwitters

I played on mandoline a mellow serenata

I tried to fall in love with someone else

- But my heart belongs to Dada

Oh, don’t you rock me

Dada-O

Well, don’t you rock me

Dada-O

So I gathered all my uncherished memories

I took all my photos, threw ‘em in the mix

(sail away Vittore, sail away)

I scribbled these lyrics on a banknote

Pray I won’t miss the last train to Marcel Janco

(sail away Vittore, sail away)

Anna was in bloom, Francis Peeked-a-boo

Lonnie and the Vipers are runnin’ after you!

(sing away Vittore)

Beatrice and Sophie refuse to hear my call

Mina is a perfect walking talking living doll

(sing away Vittore)

Jean and Theodor showered Yvonne in gold

Down on a corner, I’m left totally cold

Well, don’t you rock me

Dada-O...

I tried to write, I tried to sing this song

(sail away Man Ray, sail away)

But it looks like everything went Rongwrong

(sail away Man Ray, sail away)

I’ll lock myself up in room 291

(sing away Man Ray, sing away)

And spend the night talking with the Blind Man

(sing away Man Ray, sing away)

Oh, don’t you rock me,

Dada-O

Well, won’t you rock me

Dada-O

Vittore Baroni (Forte dei Marmi, 1956)

is an Italian music critic, visual poet and explorer of the counter-cultures. Since the mid-1970’s he is also one of the most active frequenters of the planetary circuits of Mail Art. He has published several books on aspects of the “networking cultures” that anticipated Internet, on electronic music and on various forms of fringe art. Contact: vittorebaroni@alice.it

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