DONATIEN

Hello, The Opening of my show at Envoy gallery is Sunday,15th of March from 6-8 pm. Del Marquis from Scissors sisters will give a concert by 8 pm. looking forward to see you there........ xx Donatien envoy enterprises . 131 Chrystie Street . New York . NY 10002 B D train to Grand Str . F train to 2nd Ave or Delancey Str . J M Z to Bowery p: 212.226.4555 . e: office@envoyenterprises.com DONATIEN VEISMANN . MISTER NUDE PUNK AMERICA 12 MARCH — 19 APRIL 2008 . TUES – SUN . 12- 6 "Alice came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little key in the lock, ... Lewis Carroll Through a little door, one enters Donatien Veismann’s Mister Nude Punk America, a Wonderland that seems to expose the art industry as a secret closet as well as a place to experience beauty and to be challenged. Veismann’s video and photographic installation takes issue with the term ‘vulgar’. By putting the emphasis on the poetic and the beautiful, the artist chooses to challenge vulgarity by using poetry and beauty as a shield against the rules of the outside world. The walls of Veismann’s Wonderland show pictures of beautiful, sad boys and pictures of antique busts. Claws ready, a barn owl graced with gold leaf is standing on a pedestal, wisely watching over the surrounding beauty while secret albums with tutu boys are hidden in an old vitrine. A large section of prints, made from Polaroid’s of the artist’s Mister Nude Punk America series, show models that are art students or prostitutes, the line being intentionally blurry. As in Zürich’s Cabaret Voltaire, Veismann’s Wonderland is a place for artistic entertainment where guest artists, such as Del Marquis from the Scissor Sisters, give performances and readings that deal with social themes, beauty, political developments and intellectual criticism. The ‘soirees’ are meant to be raucous events with experimenting artists.