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7/8/2007

Two exhibitions

Envoy enterprises, New York

Through the Lies of Your Dark Dark Eyes

Group show

Curated jointly by the Thorstein Foundation and Manuel Cirauqui, Through the Lies of Your Dark Dark Eyes is an exhibition in the sweeter side of sinister. The bits of sentiment behind deception, the loving touch of cruelty, the silent ease that comes with the night mix into an atmosphere of delicacy and wickedness.

Through the Lies of Your Dark Dark Eyes exploits the velvet under a blackened heart and the beautiful glow in blood. It is bare feet on cold pavement, the romanticism in revenge, calm in endless despair.

The works presented are not but ashes of a loving self-destruction, the uncertain steps before a dark, distinct decision is made. The beauty of decadence lies under every choice. The ideal is the unrealized, utopia is written on our clothes and manners. Traces of a refusal, of a thousand ones - they become a way of life. Like a moment of secret splendor before anything is done - and then nothing is done. Through the Lies of Your Dark Dark Eyes is a prelude, the title of a song that is yet to be written.

Featuring: Jared Buckhiester, France Fiction, Ben Grieme, Michael Hermann, Jessy Honrado, Esteban Rey, Santiago Reyes, Cedric Sartore, Susanna Vapnek.

Extra-muros: Performance by James J. Williams III . But Baby, There's Nobody to Fight, will be featured at Unisex Salon at the Delancey on August 9th.

Opening: Wednesday, August 8, 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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Alain Dister

Elegy For the Summer of Love

"When I first took some pictures in America, during the summer of 1966, I had no proper photographic education. After spending some time in Madagascar, I had bought an SLR Canon camera on my way back, with the intention of shooting landscapes. I was still drawing and painting, probably thinking I would photograph what I couldn't paint. When I landed in New York, I tried to focus more on people. The street action in the Village blew my mind. It was the beginning of a new era, with proto-hippies and older beatniks all over the place. I just went on, let my hair grow and picked up a drive-away to California. San Francisco and the Haight-Ashbury were in full bloom. Hitch-hiking my way up the coast, I was fortunate enough to get a ride with very well turned on and tuned in people who promptly introduced me to « the scene ». I kept coming back, and by the summer of 1967 - that famous « Summer of Love » - I had established my quarters among the local communes, moving from one to the other, experiencing various states of consciousness and social behavior. All the while, I tried and take pictures of what had become my natural environment. I paid for my films and printing paper by working as a dishwasher and newspaper street seller. Sometimes, people would object me carrying a camera, thus being un-natural. Often I wasn't, just digging whatever was happening. Those were the days.... Looking back at those pictures, they bring memories of a very special moment in the course of American history, with familiar faces of friends and lovers being allowed to live forever through the magic of photography."

Alain Dister was born in 1941 in Lyon, France. His work has been shown in museums in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy and in commercial galleries all over the world. To this day, seventeen books have been published about the artist's work. He started taking photographs in 1963, while traveling on the East Coast of Africa. In 1967 he met Jimi Hendrix and went on tour with him. It was the start of a number of rock star photo diaries. Featuring musicians such as Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, Zappa, Genesis, Gong, Ramones, Patti Smith, ...The body of work in this exhibition is a selection of pieces taken during the « Summer of Love » (1967-1968).

Envoy
East Village / Lower East Side
131 Chrystie Street - New York

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