Keep Calm: House & Home Ireland

Keep Calm Gallery was featured this month in House And Home (an Irish interiors magazine). A selection of prints, some produced by Lalande Digital Art Press, appeared as part of a four page photo shoot. Check out what's new at the Gallery.

Lalande has been working with Keep Calm Gallery in the London for more than a year and a half printing fine art digital prints for a number of artists including Amy Ross, Alysson Fox and soon, Wilhelm Staehle.  

Mittwoch, Haushalten & Whirlaway - 3 New Prints By Matthew Rose For Keep Calm Gallery

Lalande Digital Press is happy to be working with Keep Calm Gallery, the hip-online gallery for fine art prints in the UK. The newest works from Matthew Rose are from his A KICK IN THE KUNST series, exhibited at Galerie Rossella Junck Berlin.

Mittwoch, 2007, is German for "Wednesday," (literally middle of the week) and artist Matthew Rose's puppet-master/puppet collage. First exhibited in Berlin at Galerie Rossella Junck, Mittwoch (Limited signed and numbered edition of 21) plays with both silhouette and shadow, each exhibiting a presence but Mittwoch is oddly absent an actual protagonist. The artist says this is something of a self-portrait, and he is somewhere in the gap of here and there.

Haushalten is German for "keeping house," and in this piece, the house is not what it seems to be: constructed of 1950s advertising, the woman of the house shows off her newest gadget, a giant thingamajig, or if you like, a...dohickey, gizmo, gismo, or a thingamabob – on an ancient Roman pedestal. The surreal qualities of this good housekeeping moment – the blue sky blows through the gadget – points to terribly sunny days ahead from America's recent past. Haushalten, was produced in an edition of 19, is signed and number; it is also part of the A Kick in the Kunst series exhibited in Berlin at Galerie Rossella Junck.

Whirlaway, 2007, is one of the more complex of Matthew Rose's collage works from the A Kick in the Kunst series. The name, a feature from a mid-century Oldsmobile, purports a strange and perhaps violent future as a man hacks away at a tree. In the panel opposite, a girl and her shadow climb in a nether-space, a plate of prunes and cereal functioning as her head. The artist, who grew up in the American suburbs, reiterates the hidden and bizarre drama of the American middle-class dream. Whirlaway is produced in a limited edition of 12, each signed and numbered on high quality cotton paper.

Interested in these prints? Get in contact with Haley and Lucas at Keep Calm Gallery. Interested in making your own prints? Get in touch with Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. CLICK HERE : to discover our prices and how we can help you with your own print series. We're happy to work with you.

Wahsoh: New Print For Keep Calm UK

Keep Calm and Carry On: A new print, Wahsoh (2008) by Matthew Rose for KEEP CALM GALLERY is now available exclusively through the web site.

The edition is signed, dated and numbered, edition of 50, A2-sized (18" x 25") full-color print on fine acid-free paper, printed by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. Price: 55 UK Pounds. This print is typical of Matthew Rose's increasingly mad world. Originally a 50 x 50 cm collage exhibited in "Herzschmerz" in 2006 Berlin at Gallery Tristesse Deluxe, the piece was destroyed (and has subsequently been remade). Here, obsessive worlds of sex and language collide in a miasma of metaphor and mistaken identity. The artist takes his collage technique to not only reading and spelling, but seeing and hearing, with this unique "all-over" piece.

Click on the image above to enlarge Wahsoh.

Two exhibitions by Matthew Rose are planned for May and June. In May, The David Turner Gallery, in Atlanta, Georgia will present more than 30 large-format prints from the A Perfect Friend series as well as a series of drawings and collages for the gallery's inaugural exhibition. In June, Galerie Rosella Junck, Augustrasse 28, Berlin will feature new collage works, drawings and objects in a show entitled "A KICK IN THE KUNST."

E-mail Keep Calm's Lucas or Hayley to purchase by clicking here : KEEP CALM.

The Queen Bitch : A Vendre

Nouveau offre sur notre site LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS PRINTS. New offering on our print site. Clickez sur l'image pour agrandir. Voir d'autres images : A Perfect Friend.

THE QUEEN BITCH, MATTHEW ROSE. © 2003. ARTIST PROOF. 92 cm x 64 cm. DIGITAL PRINT ON FINE ARCHES PAPER. SIGNED. 370 EUROS. PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, OMAHA, BY GARRY DAY.

Stanley Greene & Friends Launch Noor Photoagency

Stanley Greene is one of the craziest people I know. He's usually all in black leather in the dead of summer, toting a kilo of jewelry, sporting strange hats or a newly razed and shiny head and is often just off the plane after a month photographing a war zone. (Photo © Marion Mozzi)

Greene, who won the prestigious Eugene Smith Award, has long worked for the Paris photoagency VU, but has now launched his own – NOOR – with eight other high-octane award-winning photographers: Samantha Appleton (United States), Jodi Bieber (South Africa), Philip Blenkinsop (Australia), Pep Bonet (Spain), Jan Grarup (Denmark), Yuri Kozyrev (Russia), Kadir van Lohuizen (The Netherlands) and Francesco Zizola (Italy). The group has a gritty black and and white outlook on the world. These will not be pretty pictures, but they will be in your face. "Yeah," says Stanley. "There's still a lot of death out there."

I met Stanley years ago when he needed someone to scribble some text about a chemical pollution story for The New York Times Magazine. That city, Dzerzhinsk, "wasn't even on official maps, planes weren't allowed to fly over it and people lived off of gnarled carrots and roots from their fields opposite the 'White Lake' – a toxic pond the size of the 4th arrondisdement," says Stanley. Originally from Harlem, he's more at home getting shot at in the mountains outside of Grozny (where bullets have actually grazed his ass). Over the years my American friend would bop in and out of Paris in between trips to Kabul, Baghdad, New Orleans, Chechnya (his best known work), Haiti or the latest global disaster and we always got together for a writing session (applications, captions, rereading the manuscript for his book, Open Wound – now published by Trolley Press, left) or a drink and a chat. Or when he asked Lalande to adjust the color on the Chechen solider (below, right) and produce a large print (75 x 56 cm) for an exhibition here in Paris. Tech wizard Robert Ruscoe worked for several hours with Stanley to get the skin tones just right.

Noor's official launch is Thursday evening, 6 September at Visa Pour L’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan this and next week, during a screening of work of the member photographers.

LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS is happy and eager to work with professional photographers producing limited-edition, signed prints. We use a variety of paper and canvas supports and produce high-quality prints for exhibitions. Contact Lalande to discuss your projects.