AUG/SEPT 2009

THE

MEN’S

ISSUE

BEYOND

BROMANCE AND SPORTS

MELTDOWNS

SURF GUY

DILL NOIR FETE

WORLD

COMPLIMENTARY

ENRIQUE CIAPARA

Enrique Ciapara approaches the canvas as if it were a blank page of poetic text. In his paintings layers of color, schematicdrawing, and script create loosely threaded narratives that employallusion and dislocation. Suggestive figures, words, and abstractscribbles—all displaced from recognizable settings—are paintedor drawn over large fields of thinly applied color. The results areindebted to the dense pictorial space and gestural expressivityof Spanish

Art Informel

painter Antonio Saura (1930-1998), byway of Luis Moret, the Spanish painter and teacher who held aninformal salon of Tijuana artists for a brief time during the late1980’s.In different ways, both Saura and Moret appropriatedSurrealist techniques of automatic drawing and writing andintegrated these practices into their expressionist painting. WhatCiapara does, is overlay these influences with an awareness of Cy Twombly’s graffiti transgressions. Ciapara, who distrustedhis own significant drawing abilities, was encouraged by Moretto engage directly with the abstract language of painting. Theresults are works that demonstrate a palpable tension betweenrepresentational compositions and the dissolution of figurationinto the marks and colors and shapes of complete abstraction. He bridges the distance between these positions by the elaboration of intimate, even erotic, personal vocabulary that affirms above allvisual pleasure.

(arte256.com)

Enrique Ciapara ve el lienzo como si fuera una página en blancode un texto poético. En sus pinturas capas de colores, dibujoesquemático y texto crean narrativas apenas entrelazadas queemplean alusión y dislocación. Figuras sugestivas, palabras y anotaciones abstractas, todas desplazadas de entornosreconocibles, están pintadas o dibujadas sobre grandescampos de color delgadamente aplicado. Los resultados sele deben al denso espacio pictórico y expresividad gestual del pintor español del

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Antonio Saura (1930-1998) llegado a Ciapara por medio de Luis Moret, el pintor ydocente español quien tuviera durante breve tiempo un salónde artistas tijuanenses a finales de la década de 1980. De diferentes maneras, tanto Saura como Moret hicieron suyas las técnicas surrealistas automatizadas de dibujo yescritura y las integraron a sus pinturas expresionistas.Ciapara empalma estas influencias con su conocimiento delas transgresiones grafiteras de Cy Twombly. Ciapara, quienno confiaba en sus propias significantes habilidades de dibujo, fue alentado por Moret para que ahondara directamente enel lenguaje abstracto de la pintura. Él estrecha la distanciaentre estas posiciones creando un vocabulario íntimo yhasta erótico que afirma por sobre todo el placer visual.(arte256.com)

David HochbaumEnrique CiaparaJason Shawn Alexander

Emerging artists are the established artists of the future.Established artists are the essence of consecrated tal-ent. San Diego’s first Beyond the Border InternationalContemporary Art Fair is celebration of aptitude pairedwith luxury exhibitors, food and wine events, and cu-rated art installations: four million dollars in artwork andthree thousand attendees September 2-4, 2009 at theGrand Del Mar Resort.

Los artistas emergentes son los artistas establecidos del futuro. Losartistas establecidos son la esencia del talento consagrado. Laprimera Feria de Arte Contemporáneo Beyond the Border en SanDiego es una celebración de aptitudes y exhibiciones de lujo,eventos de comida y vino, e instalaciones de arte conservadas:cuatro millones de dólares en obra y tres mil asistentes del 2 al 4 deseptiembre, 2009 en el Grand Del Mar Resort.

G a b r i e l a H u s s o n g , E d i t o r

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A-LIST INTERNATIONAL

DAVID HOCHBAUM

Born in 1971, David Hochbaum was raisedin suburban New City, New York. Feelinglike an outsider, he connected with the en-ergy and decadence of Manhattan.Hochbaum turned to art as a form of self-expression and in 1991 attended the Schoolof the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mas-sachusetts. Upon graduation, he returnedto New York where he currently residesin Manhattan. Hochbaum is known for hisunique photo constructions—paintings builton photographs and images—which takeon a sculptural quality. He has exhibited innumerous galleries worldwide, includingMcCaig-Welles Gallery, James AnthonyGallery, Strychnin Gallery, in Berlin and New York, and the Standard Hotel in LosAngeles, and his work has been included inseveral art fairs such as Scope and BridgeArt Fair.

(davidhochbaum.com)

David Hochbaum nació en 1971 ycreció en el suburbio New City, NuevaYork. Sintiéndose que no encajaba allí,encontró la energía y decadencia deManhattan. Hochbaum se abocó a lasartes a manera de poder expresarse y en1991 asistió a la Escuela del Museo de Bellas Artes en Boston, Massachusetts. Al graduarse, regresó a Nueva York en donde volvió a hacer de Manhattan su hogar. A Hochbaum se le conoce por sus construcciones fotográficascaracterísticas —pinturas integradas a fotografías e imágenes— que adquierenuna cualidad escultural. Ha expuestoen numerosas galerías del mundo, entreellas, las galerías McCaig-Welles, James Anthony, Strychnin, en Berlín y NuevaYork, y en el hotel Standard en Los Ángeles, y su obra ha figurado en diversas ferias de arte, tales como la Scope and Bridge. (davidhochbaum.com)

JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER

Los Angeles artist Jason Shawn Alexander was born in Iowa and grew up in Tennessee.He is a self-taught painter whose earlychildhood experiences shaped his style andtechnique. Alexander’s father exposed himto the masters from the Renaissance era,and taught him how to draw and expresshimself through art. Influenced by the worldaround him, Alexander absorbs everythinghe sees, from films, books, art, music,life, and the news, to people-watchingon street corners and in coffee shops.His work has been shown in numerousgalleries and is included in the collectionsof director Darren Aronofsky, screenwriter Andrew Cosby, and novelist Greg Rucka.

(jasonshawnalexander.com)

El artista angelino Jason Shawn Alexander nació en el estado de Iowa y creció enTennessee. Es un pintor autodidactacuyas experiencias en su niñez tempranamoldearon su estilo y técnica. Su padre leexpuso a los maestros renacentistas, y leenseñó a dibujar y a expresarse por mediodel arte. Influenciado por el mundo que lerodea, Alexander absorbe todo lo que ve,desde filmes, libros, arte, música, vida ylas noticias, hasta la gente que ve pasar desde una esquina y en cafeterías. Suobra se ha expuesto en muchas galerías y forma parte de las colecciones del director Darren Aronofsky, del guionista Andrew Crosby y del novelista Greg Rucka. (jasonshawnalexander.com)

JAIME RUIZ OTIS

When he was a child, Jaime Ruiz Otis never imagined that he would be making art. Heenjoyed observing the passing of time; whatwas left. This is something that he nowreflects upon and finds within his creative processes. Ruiz Otis’ discovery of art wasmere coincidence; or perhaps art found himin 1993. He was 15 years old and to this datehe has not stopped from making art or artfrom making him. In 1999, he started work ata

maquiladora

in hazardous waste. At lunchtime, he would search for waste materials intrash containers. He did it as the primitiveman searched for survival resources. He soonfound a wealth of interesting and plasticallyrich materials: different kinds of toners,rolls of industrial foils in metallic colors,rolls of stickers, paper, etc. with which hestarted creating a piece called

The Leftovers

,transforming, integrating and transferringthese materials using techniques that, over time, he discovered or developed.

Daniel RuanovaGale Fulton RossJoshua Petker Franco MendezJaime RuizPaul Jenkins

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