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Lovely Daze is a curatorial journal of artist’s writings and artworks published by artist Charwei Tsai (risd ’02) twice a year in limited editions. Issue 8: Pilgrimage takes the reader through a journey of Nature, Death, and Light, in search of what is beyond the self.

This collection of works begins with painting of Buddhist monks marching through unstable grounds by G.R. Iranna, photographic images of a parade through death and torture by CHEN Chieh-Jen, pages from travel journal by Mark Borthwick, an eclipse transitioning in colors by Peter Coffin, and a spill of sarcasm by Wilfredo Prieto.

Other featured artists in this issue are: Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Yukinori Maeda from Cosmic Wonder, Domingo Milella, Kyoko Murase, Annie Ratti, Chi-tsung Wu, and Yuan Goang-ming Yuan.

Contributing Editors: Kelly Carmena, Lesley Ma, Cristina Rodriguez, and Sabrina Lea Finlay

Available at Printed Matter
195 Tenth Avenue, NYC 10011

http://www.lovelydaze.com

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“Printed Matter is pleased to launch Lovely Daze, a curatorial journal of artist’s writings and artworks published by Taiwanese artist Charwei Tsai twice a year in limited editions. Join us Friday, December 9th, 6-8 PM, for a reception with Tsai and contributing artist Mark Borthwick. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue, at 22nd Street.

Issue 8: Pilgrimage takes the reader through a journey of nature, death, and light, in search of what is beyond the Self. The collection of illuminating artworks ranges from oil painting of a row of Buddhist monks marching through unstable grounds by G.R. Iranna, images of a parade through death and torture by Chen Chieh-Jen, and a short film of a red balloon passing through the city of Paris by Annie Ratti.

Contributing editors include Kelly Carmena, Lesley Ma, and Sabrina Shaffer, with artwork from Hisham Bharoocha, Mark Borthwick, Chen Chieh-Jen, Peter Coffin, G.R. Iranna, Yukinori Maeda from Cosmic Wonder, Domingo Milella, Kyoko Murase, Wilfredo Prieto, Annie Ratti, Wu Chi-Tsung and Yuan Goang-Ming.

Cover image by G.G. Iranna, Bhiksu (detail), 52×132″, acrylic on tarpaulin, 2011.

Lovely Daze, Issue 8:Pilgrimage is published my Charwei Tsai in a signed and numbered edition of 500. Issue 8 retails for $18.00 and is available at the Printed Matter storefront or online here“

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“I have lived before and after the conquest of space (man on the moon). Before, I remember looking at a village with the sensation of my thoughts being drawn up toward the heavens. Afterwards, viewing the same place, it was as though I saw it from above, from out of this world. Before doing the mirror-paintings I looked at art and wondered how to progress, now I look back and go ahead without problems. I used to feel that there was something, somewhere that had to ‘come out’ – it was the mirror. (…) Conceptual art is the highest secular endeavor of an antique spiritual gaze towards the heavens. But art reached this goal and when we are already returning from the moon. Capsized by the mirrored-dome we returned upside down to see the great monuments and tiny villages on the face of the earth. What I really want to say is that the only thing has changed in art, with respect to the past, is that now the ‘sacred’ is produced via a descent instead of an ascent.”
—Michelangelo Pistoletto. “Soul”, 1983.

Issue 7: Good Intentions Lead to Hell? is an exploration on how artists intend to engage their artistic practice with broader social and political issues…

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