Embracing female tattoo culture
Artist jirka väätäinen has created images of how Disney Princesses would look in real life. Of course they are a beautiful reflection of patriarchal ideals.
Innocent and curious Alice
Whimsical and delicate Snow White
Jasmine has a Kim Kardashian look about her
Youthful and alluring siren of the sea Ariel
Fiercely sexual Pochantantis
And then there’s Ursula in all her villainous glory
“There will be pain. Pain and blood.”
Jake and Dinos Chapman hope to raise £25,000 through Art Fund and their crowd-funding website Art Happens to open a tattoo art project at the Jerwood Gallery.
Those who donate can help bring the brothers back to their home town of Hastings, where their new art exhibition will be on display. Not only will the brother’s be painting over old junk shop finds, but they are encouraging the public to bring in art from their homes for the brothers to update with paint.
Jake and Dinos are also opening a pop-up tattoo parlour in the gallery, in which they will reward those who donated with specially-designed tattoos turning them into walking one-off pieces of art.
The original idea was to have Dinos tattooing in a wooden box, the victim – or lucky customer – would stick their arm through a hole in the box where it would be strapped down, totally hidden from site. Dinos would tattoo a design of his choosing onto their arm and on removal from the hole the recipient would see their new tattoo. Fortunately this idea was dismissed on health and safety grounds by Frieze Art Fair.
Neither one of the brothers has any formal training and Jake’s forearm is covered with blue scribbles done by Dinos.
He isn’t very good, and he really dug in with the needle – it was very painful.
Will you be donating? Would you let someone tattoo a mystery design on your skin?
Chapman Brothers quoted from The Guardian
Images from The Guardian and www.blouinartinfo.com
Artist Jessica Harrison has created these stunning figurines that we need in our (tattooed) lives!
These ladies are being exhibited, along with many others at Galerie L.J. in Paris 15th May- 24th June.
We are very pleased to announce that Sailor Jerry will be sponsoring the opening of IDENTITY – Portraits | Modification | Adornment – our exhibition at Into You London in May 2014.
Join and celebrate with us:
Thursday 22 May from 7pm
Into You, 144 St John St, London EC1V 4UA
RSVP here.
Sailor Jerry will be providing awesome cocktails including:
Jerry and Ginger Beer
Sailor Jerry and Coke
Jerry Mojito
Shave & a Haircut
Heavy Punch
. Respect his legacy, drink responsibly.
What more could you ask for? Ink, art and booze. See you on Thursday…
Cocktails recipes from Sailor Jerry coming soon. More information about the event here.
From the origins of body art 3,000 years ago to contemporary artwork, a new Paris exhibition from HEY magazine and tattoo artist Tin-Tin charts the history and significance of tattoos throughout civilization.
Tatoueurs Tatoues runs from 6 May 2014 until 18 October 2015 at the Musée du Quai Branly, 37 Quai Branly, 75007 Paris.
The exhibition is curated by journalists Julien and Anne, and includes photographs, tools, skulls and pieces of tattooed human skin.
“Tattooing is part of the common heritage of most of humanity, we wanted to do this exhibition for a long time because we feel it’s important to show that tattooing has a real history and is a pure product of humanity. There’s not a place in the world where mankind has been that has not used tattooing … It’s both artisan and artistic. In the past there was a fear of tattoos and people would hide them. Today attitudes have changed. People used to do it because they wanted to identify themselves as different to make a statement, but today it’s become fashionable and the opposite holds true. People want to be different so they don’t want tattoos.” Julien.
The exhibition explores the art of tattooing from around the world and maps the tattoo revolution. From traditional styles and techniques to the more mainstream and trendy ideas of tattooing.
All images from Vogue Hommes International