Hasta La Creative!

Advertising Agency: Uncle Grey, Oslo, Norway
Creative Director / Copywriter: Frank Nystuen
Art director: Anders Aasheim

Advertising Agency: JWT Kuwait
Executive Creative Director: Mazen Fayad
Art Director: Johnny Boulos
Copywriter: Laila Al-Gharabally

When the caribou is in danger, we are too.
By saving the woodland caribou’s remaining Boreal Forest habitat, we’ll also help protect one of the world’s largest natural carbon reserves, and slow the effects of climate change. Help us.
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Advertising Agency: TAXI Montréal, Canada
Creative Directors: Stéphane Charier, Alexandre Gadoua
Art Director: Maxime Jenniss
Copywriter: Jérôme Diez
Photographer: Jocelyn Michel
Published: January 2008

Margarita Mayhem.
Five flavors. Frozen or on-the-rocks.
Be warned, they bite.

Advertising Agency: 22 Squared, USA
Creative Director: Tom McMahon
Art Director: Danny Corrales
Copywriter: Paul Korel
Photographer: Minds Eye Atlanta
Published: February 2008

Margarita Mayhem.
Five flavors. Frozen or on-the-rocks.
Be warned, they bite.

Advertising Agency: 22 Squared, USA
Creative Director: Tom McMahon
Art Director: Danny Corrales
Copywriter: Paul Korel
Photographer: Minds Eye Atlanta
Published: February 2008

Advertising Agency: Olabuenaga Chemistri, México City, México
Executive Creative Director: Jorge Cuchi
Group Creative Director: Pablo Ferrari
Copywriter: Pablo Ferrari
Producer: Roberto Collazo
Production Company: Central Films
Director: Rodrigo García
Aired: October 2007

For bigger eyes.

Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson, Bangkok, Thailand
Art Director: Akararoj Vorabunpott
Copywriters: Pairath Hanwattanawutti, Jac Rodrigo
Illustrator: Visionary
Account Supervisor: Opapen Kittipanyakul
Account Manager: Sakon Taweelerdniti
Published: July 2007

Take music wherever you want. More than one thousand of your favourite songs in the new Motoroker. Hellomoto.

Advertising Agency: O&M Colombia
Creative directors: John Raúl Forero, Juan José Posada
Copywriters: Ciro Sarmiento, Andrés Lamprea
Music engineer: Andrés Lamprea

“Think of the children! Won’t somebody think of the children!”

The Ad Council has just come out with a campaign they trot out the old “think of the children” idea.

What a tired old idea. Remember the Daisy girl?

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Back in New York for a few days and walking around Chelsea with a long list of shows to visit (as usual ArCal has helped me select them.)

On Friday i fell in love with the work of Marcel Dzama at the Gallery David Zwirner.

Fist Born 2007

Even the Ghost of the Past, Dzama’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, includes drawings, collages, costumes, installations, dioramas, and a film. They evoke fairy tales but with an added streak of terrorism, jazz-era nostalgia, sexual perversion and cruelty.

La Verdad está Muerta Room Full of Liars, 2007

Inspired by the religious shrines he found in Mexico and the work of Joseph Cornell, the Canadian artist has created a series of five dioramas. Recessed into the wall, they recall a child’s puppet theatre or the didactic displays found in natural history museums.

On the Banks of the Red River, 2008

Nearly 300 ceramic sculptures were used to compose the biggest diorama in the show. On the banks of the red river recreates the apocalyptic cover image of his 2005 exhibition catalogue, The Course of Human History Personified. Dozens of haughty aristocratic hunters, guns in hand, are massacring forest animals. The lovely fawn lays with its tongue out, the bird had its head severed from the body, the fate of the little dead frog leaves the hunters indifferent, bats and flowers are flying, etc. Great care has been taken to make the corpse as cute as possible. The cuteness of the animal kingdom turn into perversion with the Infidels diorama where adorable little bats flap their wings above a dead bear.

Infidels, 2008

Dzama also created an installation that pays homage to and almost demystifies Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés, 1946-66. Like Duchamp, Dzama has created an intricate tableau only visible to viewers through a peephole. The artist imagines what could have provoked Duchamp’s scene of a nude splayed in the woods. Dzama’s interpretation proposes a wily fox is to blame, knocking-out both the nude and her lover with a slingshot.

Even the Ghost of the Past, 2008

In a room at the back of the gallery, the silent film The Lotus Eaters recalls a time when black-and-white mute movies were accompanied by live pianists. The title suggests Homer’s mythical race whose favored food induced a dreamy and contented forgetfulness.

Lotus Eaters, 2005

Using a combination of 8mm and 16mm film, Dzama also incorporates footage shot by a Fisher-Price PixelVision camcorder – his childhood camera. Embodying the unique combination of homespun aesthetic and referential complexity that characterizes Dzama’s production, the film makes vivid not only the characters who occupy the artist’s imagination, but also the essential nature of the creative process.

Untitled (Page 8 of 13), 2007

In Dzama’s drawings and collages, distinct characters take center stage against a blank background, most notably the masked and armed “terrorist.” The character is repeated amongst cowboys, archers, and femmes fatales. What the artist really meant to evoke is up to everyone’s imagination. It’s hard not to think of the climate of paranoia at the forefront of American politics.

Weep our sad bosoms empty, 2007

More images. And i took some photos.

On view at David Zwirner gallery, through April 19, 2008.