Sea-sick, Syphilitic Sailors, Slippery Sluts And Other Sumptuous Snippets

Dear avid reader of Eaten By Ducks,

I know, from all the fan-mail that we have been recieving, amounting to mountains of petabyte that are now blocking the Google-servers, that you have been incessantly asking for some news from the art-world, namely, most acutely, the art world of Marcus Nyblom and his cronies.

Ages have passed -the middle ages, the industrial revolution, the plastic age, the invention of the modern kitchen as we know it- since any blogpost of significance was passed through the needles' eye of careful censorship that constitutes the impeccable and inscrutable agency of this most profound institution of digital art-enquiries. Therefore, I am most obliged to bring forward to you a few morsels of petty importance, only designed to entice you into spending your well-earned, meagre wages on useless art-works, foremost pertaining to filthy subject-matters.

Mr. Marcus Nyblom has visited the illustrious, legendary, downtrodden ruins of the port-town of Marseille, France, located by the blistering blue barnacled sea, infested with sea-sick, syphilitic sailors and slippery sluts smothering in the heavy smoldering gauloise-cigarette odor that permeates every dirty, smelly café, etc. etc. Well, that's just part of it. The rest is, of course, filled with pastis, heavy rock of some incarnation or other, and last but not least, the world's most notoriously fantastic art-publisher/studio of the last twenty years: Le Dernier Cri. In fact, 2013 is. no less, the anniversary of the founding of Le Dernier Cri!

Urged by this excellently decadent company to join them for an exhibition of Scandinavian artist this November, 2013, (our show titled "Les Horreurs Boreales") as part of the Marseille Cultural Capital 2013-thingee, "The Mauvais Oeil" (Evil Eye), consists of 12 different shows through the whole year.

With this exhibition, Mr. Nyblom had the opportunity to print for the LDC a silk-screen hand-made poster in three colors. You will find it and buy it for €25 only, by navigating to the webshop at Le Dernier Cri, then clicking the "poster"-button. Simple and uncomplicated, powered by Paypal. LDC ships all over the world.

Thank you and au revoir!

Behind the mask and poster the slave at LDC is posing. Every time a new poster is hand-made, he has to be shot.  Many art-slaves have perished at LDC this way. Therefore, we ask you to contribute to our cause by donating as much as you can to the Community of Perished Art-Slaves, CPAS. This community has been fighting for years to uphold the rights of art-slaves, and have now gathered a substantial support from the EBD and other important agents. Please donate to this organisation by way of pressing the "Paypal"-button found beside the image of this poster at the site of Le Dernier Cri. Consider this, and be richly rewarded. It is only a small fee of €25. You will thereafter become a lifetime member of the Artistic Appreciation Community, AAC. As a token of our appreciation and gratitude, the poster on the image will be sent to you.

Me: An Introduction

The picture attached at the beginning of this post is only significative of one fact, that the bookshelf belongs to me. I recently arranged most of my books alphabetically and accordning to genre. This hasn't happened in my life in a long time, if ever before. Mainly, the reasons are of course because that I, like anyone else, have moved to new locations, live with someone, and have had to stow away books, and that I now needed to get them out of the basement because it filled with water. I also have left my studio where I stored most of my art-books.

Anyway, the bookshelf is supposed to introduce you to my person. I love literature and art, and books, or, I like being surrounded by books. The picture of the shelf is only representative in a certain aspect, since it doesn’t show all -I read a lot as well, fiction as well as fact.

Collecting, when it comes to text-based books, is mostly inadvertent for me. I have no intention of buying first editions of this or that book. Still, I love books that are great to look at, as well as read.
This does not really form the basis of my philosophy when it comes to life, but may well be grounds for my view on the arts. Movies are subject to the same kind of interest and scrutiny. There should be motive, depth, vision, an underlying aesthetic.

Well, what's the deal, really? Nuthin', I just had to stick something in here to make it more interesting. This is a sketch for a comic I'll never get around to make, but I wish I did though.

What´s gonna happen? Well, the guy goes off to get some dope, and something goes wrong. This is me -not the character, but me, the person with many ideas that may never come to fruition.

I was asked to contribute to this blog, one reason being that some of my fellow writers here supposedly are fans. I am really most grateful. I'm also a fan, no doubt about it. Like all of you, we nowadays can flood our eyes with great art through the screens of our computers, and the internet has been accessory for me to many new discoveries of an interesting and overwhelming kind.

I think the solely most interesting artist for me in many ways in latter years whose work I've encountered -on the internet by the way- is Aleksandra Walizsewska.
I don't know much about her person, and I'm not sure what other people and the artworld knows about her, all I know is that I declare her art to be truly great. It is of a kind very different than most, elevated and profound. It transcends the usual art that I come across, whether it be our lovely company of graphics-surrealist-mania or any ”high-brow”-equivalent. Walizsewska is high-brow, to me, in the best of senses, but how we categorize art is less important.

Above: painting by A. Walizsewska

 

In an interview performed here at this blog, Walizsewska states that she’s “bored to death by 99% of so-called contemporary art. Old painting is still very vital for me, it makes me really emotional while approaching it”.
It's a quote that naturally tells me alot about her art, but also about her. She is apparently influenced by Renaissance art, and I can certainly relate to this. Also, the fact that she's bored with contemporary art is just great to read, simply because I think her own work is evidence that her sentiments are universally true. Her work is contained within the 1% that isn't boring, to me and the intelligent minds that have encountered it.

So, I was supposed to introduce myself. Well, this is my sort of introduction, and the part of me that is Marcus the artist and art-appreciator. I've been recognized by my peers, I think, to some extent, and that is enough. I think for me a couple of achievements are to have been published by Le Dernier Cri, one of the greatest and most interesting artist-book studios around.  I'm currently taking part in an exhibition curated by the great Stéphane Blanquet/United Dead Artists and Artsfactory in Paris, which opened in September 2012, showing works by many great colleagues of mine.

 My hobbies lie in the field of reading and writing. I am currently trying to learn French, which is difficult, but I wish to decipher all of Serge Gainsbourg's songs, as well as being able to talk, read and some day write like French people do.

That's all, folks!!

I have promised to make a book for Le Dernier Cri, also, a small book for Re:Surgo (formerly BonGout, that have published me before) and I am currently waiting for a short graphic-novel (about 60-pages) of mine to be issued by an undisclosed Swedish company. I have recently opened an art-gallery showcasing some good friends and aquaintances, and paradoxically, I've never before felt so disinterested in making pictures as of today.
That's a very short resumé. I'm not sure what the future holds for me with respect to the arts, all I know is that I'm glad to be part of it all.

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