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The Imaginary Foundation

The Imaginary Foundation is a think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination. They hold dear a belief in human potential and seek progress in all directions. The small clandestine team is headed up by the mysterious "Director" a 70 something uber intellectual who's father founded the Dadaist movement. Avoiding direct public-ity the team has sought streetwear as an unlikely vehicle for bringing their ideas beyond the academic realm and into popular culture.

In his vision for the Imaginary Foundation, the Director knew that the human mind has more than one mode, that indeed it has an "ecology" of being. He knew that imagination, intuition, inspi-ration are basic to psyche. . . . A philosophy of research began to form: imagination as fundamental to all learning; artistic making as a model of integrating vision, mate-rials, structure, and imagery.What makes true vision is the poetry of life and the richness of nature.

Element Skateboarding Co.

Who would have ever thought that coming from such a disfunc-tional background would have set the destiny for an individual to build the most positive and influential skateboard company of all time. Fate or not; it took knowledge, passion, and endur-ance for this person to find their craft.Johnny Schillereff was just in his youth with only a fewthings keeping him grounded; the sub-cultures he submerged himself into and the skateboard under his feet.

But after years of following a wayward path Johnny made a concious decision to re-shape his life, get on the right path and make the commitment to do something positive with his pas-sions. This was time when his “Elementality” began to surface, and things would never be the same.

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FILM: Spotlight on Festival du Nouveau Cine`...PG.10VISUAL ARTS: Tricia Middleton Speaks About Her Work...PG.33MUSIC: Q+A for A+C with the INFAMOUS BARN BURNER...PG.42LITERATURE: Curator’s Corner: Channel 192-Celmins & Eliot Wei...PG.53PERFORMING ARTS: Belgorientation-Making Art on the Spot...PG.102

ControversySellSFeatured Artist: Hulbert Waldroup

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into the present. But as the American art critic William Coombe has stated: ”We are not jarred. Rather we are intrigued”.

Hulbert Waldroup’s oeuvre includes as diverse sub-jects as portraits of women, musicians and negroes. Some of his early canvases have a humorous, satirical touch, like his version of a ’Disney Guernica’(year ?), while other works are distinctly political and con-troversial, such as the much debated ’Diallo mural’ (year ?). What these art works have in common, however, is that in both their realism and surreal-ism they are mistakenly urban and industrial. What makes them intriguing to the viewer is that they seem deceptively simple. Everything appears to be laid out and mapped out for the viewer’s eyes. The subjects come from anywhere and anything – that is, what these art works are made of finds its provenance from the landscape of the typical American city.

Waldroup’s powerful portraits of American musicians share that distinct urban feeling. Even though his art-ists are portrayed with their characteristic features their suggestive power derives from the type they represent – rather than from the individual human being they are an image of. Without exceptions his musicians radiate an air of energy and powerfulness which in some of his paintings almost literally mate-rializes on the canvas. Dense clouds of smoke or elec-tric sparks seem to surround these musicians or the vibrating energy reemerges from the bold highlights and brush work in the paintings. The most overwhelm-ing feeling, however, when viewing Waldroup’s paintings, is that what we sense exuding from these

The present oeuvre of the American artist Hulbert Waldroup does not lend itself to easy classification. His approach in art can most accurately be described as that of a postmodernist who brings realism and sur-realism unwillingly, one might almost say resistingly,

Hulbert Waldroup explains why...

charismatic figures, these energetic lines and explo-sive colors, is an aspect of typical American urban life.

And this is what the artist does. His post-modern ap-proach to realism and surrealism consists in capturing simple, sometimes almost banal subjects of modern American city life and transforming them. Turning them into something meaningful and intelligible and giving them back to us.

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NYPD MURAL: 2003oil paintingThe first dinner: 2006oil paintingThe Confusion: 2000oil painting

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