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Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.     Hi there! Hello to all new subscribers. Thanks for reading my newsletter. Little note to start with: In case you haven't noticed, I made my website flash-free, so more user friendly. Hope you like it this way! If you don't want to receive this newsletter anymore, you are able to unsubscribe in the bottom part of this mailing. COMING SOON:  'Habba Habba' show @ Phone Booth Gallery - 6 November - mid December 2010 Yay! The 'Habba Habba' show at Phone Booth Gallery is coming closer. I will show 12 new artworks, one screen print and two giclée limited editions. The opening will be held at November 6 and will run till mid December. I will be there too, so I look very forward to meet you! Keep an eye on my website and facebook page for more information and the show. For now, check out some sneaks over here and here and I'm adding some extras right now... ^_^ Phone Booth Gallery is pleased to present it's third exhibition by Dutch artist Handiedan, an intricate opus of new mixed media work that expands the artist's exploration of bodies, sensuality and iconography. The exhibition opens with a reception on November 6th from 7-10pm. The all ages event is located at Phone Booth Gallery's exhibition space, 2533 East Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90803. After opening night, the work will be...... available through December 18, 2010 at the exhibition space, as well as www.phoneboothgallery.com. Handiedan's collage work, now even more layered and labyrinthine than in the past, feeds on the tainted history of pin-up girl posters, using torn, aged surfaces to subvert sexiness. At first glance, the images have a nostalgic feeling, fueled by their ornate details and seemingly straightforward compositions, but a closer look quickly reveals their brutality. Handiedan's work is neither clear-cut nor gentle. Limbs tangle with each other, eyes, or even whole swaths of figures' faces, have been scratched out or blurred to the point of obscurity; texts and flourishes from antique ads become almost sinister as environments for these nearly dismembered figures; tattoos and hidden patterns etched into the images add to the density; and gilt frames emphasize an already over stimulating effect. Like her equally obsessively predecessors Joseph Cornell and Hans Bellmer, Handiedan acts as a collector of the mundane and eccentric, telling visual stories that are familiar but far from linear. In this exhibition, her interest in Victorian erotica and burlesque meshes with Eastern influences—barely clad girls begin to resemble Hindu goddesses, with multiple limbs and towering headdresses. As divergent icons and eras merge, women become symbols of power as much as desire, yet it's not clear which, or if either, is better. Though her current work tends toward multi-faceted, multi-hued theatricality, it also embraces an element of noir-inspired starkness. For the first time, Handiedan has experimented with black and white imagery, and to haunting effect. In "Valkyries No. 2," a cool white skull becomes a habitat for two grayish, ghostly bodies and, in "Thats a damn fine coat your wearing No. 2," two gun-wielding women embrace each other with suaveness worthy of Bogart and Bacall. Ultimately, Handiedan presents a new history by repurposing an old one. Posters, icons, typography, constructs, and decorations of earlier eras are toggled together in a way that scratches away at the past's objectification while celebrating its glamour. Phone Booth Gallery * Long Beach, CA * www.phoneboothgallery.com COMING SOON @ THE 'HABBA HABBA' SHOW: 'Valkyries' The Newest Screen Print from Handiedan 5 colors 24" x 36" / 61 x 91.5 cm signed and numbered, edition: 100 www.phoneboothgallery.com NEW GALLERY: Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome  I am very proud that Mondo Bizzarro Gallery in Rome just addedToilet/Jane Stone No.5 to the gallery collection! It will be added to the MBG website soon. www.mondobizzarrogallery.com SCHEDULED SHOWS: Mondo Bizzarro Gallery - group show Rome, Italy  www.mondobizzarrogallery.com April 2011 Black Book Gallery - The London Police & HANDIEDAN Denver, CO www.theblackbookgallery.com May 2011 My Addiction Gallery - HANDIEDAN & Craww Tucson, AZ www.myaddictiongallery.com 3 - 30 September 2011 A big thank you again for your time! I hope you enjoyed it all and hope to meet you or speak again during the 'Habba Habba' show! Big cheers, Han  HANDIEDAN  You are receiving this email because you subscribed at www.handiedan.com and because you are my friend or family.  Unsubscribe chris@foodrap.com from this list. Forward this email to a friend Follow or join me:      HANDIEDAN  P.O. Box 16593 1001 RB Amsterdam Netherlands han@handiedan.com www.handiedan.com  Copyright © 2010 HANDIEDAN - All rights reserved.