creator curator
ive been busy shooting university of westminster degree shows for the marketing department…leading up to my own degree show this week! hype… heres some portraits of artists and their work
fishtank fest
i was invited by vahakn to shoot some pictures of ‘the pack’ a sculptural design thing featuring horses (quadrepeds) and along the way some people span around on the floor and girls got their pants out. word
curatorial glow
in march i co-curated an exhibition in westbourne park. heres some insight into how to put together a world class art show.
vahakn picker city
my associate vahakn is putting together a map of all the fruit trees in london to create a fruit picking/poaching/jamming/pickling etc commuity. hes also custom built a fruit picker + backback to harvest said fruits. wooop. we took to a traffic island in swiss cottage to take some shots for the final exhibition of his masters in design/products at the RCA!
new website/new exhibition!
i have a new website to promote my professional events and weddings work, im available for bookings and commisions… click here to visit www.mikemassaro.co.uk
ive also got an exhibition on now at the everyman cinema running throughout june, a showcase of my recent work 08/09. its open midday – 11pm every day in june – click here for a map of where it is….
home/performance – george henriques
George was always part of my circle of friends, having become recently closer, working with me curating art exhibitions. He can be a quiet person, only interested in talking when something really interests him. However when his ideas and thoughts materialise its hard to stop them rolling out of his head. He is softly spoken yet extremely physically strong, expert in kung fu. I photograph him as a sculptor, which I see as the dominant part of his creative output, as opposed to his bass playing alter ego, in the heavy metal band ‘Blood Meridian’.
I chose to include a visual artist to go with the performance artists as I feel that George projects his character and mindset through the sculpture and in exhibiting them presents them as a performance of ideas. Likewise as the art has its own character and life, observers interact and react to it similarly to the audience at a musical or theatre performance.
George lives in Hackney Wick, a typically creative area with two other visual artists and a cat in a warehouse space. He has a small bedroom and a sculpture studio built into the space. The rooms reflect his scruffy yet peaceful self, elegantly decaying and very silent.
killer driller
george (driller) henrique’s sculptures, from the leftovers in the gallery exhibition. master of geometry and shape abstraction (or some bullshit like that)
leftovers in the gallery
Last week i (along with george henriques and alice old) curated, promoted and exhibited in a showcase exhibition of 10 leftovers artists, at the rather swish gallery 118 in westbourne grove, portobello. Lots of hard work but it paid off by how dam sexy it looked in there. Unfortunately only on for 5 days, its inspired me to do things bigger, better and longer. soon. check out the leftovers website for more pix and artworks from the show
