Message from Christine Tarantino

FLUX-USA / NEW NEW ART welcomes visitors from over 30 countries daily. Artists, curators, and other arts leaders who want to contribute to this blog, please contact me. tarantinochristine@yahoo.com

The art movement called FLUXUS (1961/2 - 1978) ended a long time ago, but the spirit of 'flowing change' can never end. --Christine Tarantino

Fluxus 50th Anniversary is 2012!

TARANTINO NewNew NEWS

February 2012
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 Belgian artists Guido Vermeulen and Gerson Wenglinski. 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. Work by Christine Tarantino: http://christinetarantino.blogspot.com/2012/01/outgoing-wooden-postcards-mail-art.html
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-417-american-women-artists-as-tree.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/brotkatze-catalogue-hjuler.html
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

28.2.10

secret public event





secret public event by matt taggart billings montana

Franticham's Fluxus Island Assembling Box

KLANG! CD & DVD presented in Viareggio - March 5th 2010


KLANG! at the GaMC
Friday March 5th hr. 5,00 PM 5 at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Viareggio (Italy), the BAU cultural association will present the CD and DVD that document the festival KLANG! suoni contemporanei, curated by Vittore Baroni on August 7-8-9th 2009 at the Villa Paolina in Viareggio, with sound installations, performances and works by over a hundred authors.
The documentary Klang! by video artist GianLuca Cupisti will be projected, together with short videos by Guglielmo Manenti and Bruno De Angelis in homage to Luigi Russolo in the Centennial of Futurism. The CD and DVD complete the original KLANG! catalogue, designed by Gumdesign.


Vittore / BAU Cultural Association

I SANTINI DEL PRETE


on piece on peace of mine of mind, homeless poet


ELIODORO SPECCHI - cittadino USA il 24 aprile 1855

(Photo of Eliodoro Specchi  - courtesy - Museo del Risorgimento di Bologna)

CHIROT: MANIAFESTO &MANIFOTOFESTO


27.2.10

GREEN SEEN Mail Art Exhibit update, February 27th

Bill GRUTERS


Caterina Davinio's Video 2010 - Virtual Installation

Caterina Davinio Video 2010 - The virtual installation

Fluxus Dakota/Brad


Bill GRUTERS


24.2.10

Dawson in Snow, Tarantino

Photographed today at D'Wildwood Studio woods, Wendell, Massachusetts, by Christine Tarantino.

Minimal Full colors



Collages.
Clippings "rolled" between two layers of acetate,
then with the ability to see both sides.

Facciamo Finta: Il Gioco di Alice - 61 autori per Lewis Carroll a MXM Arte Contemporanea - Milano 8-17 marzo 2010

LET'S PRETEND: ALICE'S GAME
61 authors for Lewis Carroll at MXM Arte Contemporanea
The project Let's Pretend: Alice's Game curated by Vittore Baroni, Marco Maffei and the BAU cultural association opens on March 8th at 5.00 PM in the art space MXM Arte Contemporanea in Milan (Via dei Fontanili 20). While a new version of Alice in Wonderland by cult director Tim Burton reaches the movie theaters, sixty-one international artists revisit the timeless imaginary world of Lewis Carroll and of the young dreamchild.
(kindness of Vittore Baroni)

19.2.10

VerbaManent news, 12 Literary Cakes, Italia












(Photos by Loredana Mottur)

(kindness of)
Maddalena Castegnaro
Presidente Associazione VerbaManent
Responsabile del Presìdio del Libro IDROMELE di ARADEO-SANNICOLA-TUGLIE
Responsabile del Fondo Archivio del Libro d'Artista DROSOS-ARADEO