Encore un génie de la photographie oublié par l’histoire. Daniel Frasnay est un des derniers artistes vivants à appartenir au mouvement humaniste. Ce mot a été fait pour lui. Pourtant l’histoire cite toujours les mêmes, à savoir, Robert Doisneau, Izis, André Kertesz ou Édouard Boubat.
Sous l’objectif de Daniel Frasnay on parcourt la vie, l’amour et la mort à chaque cliché. Son regard de portraitiste est unique, et ce n’est pas pour rien que des écrivains comme Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Arthur Miller ou encore André Breton lui ont fait une confiance aveugle.
Et puis il y a eu les peintres et les sculpteurs comme Bernard Buffet, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, César, Max Ernst, Yves Klein, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí ou Joan Miró…Bref, de petits noms par-ci par-là.
Sans parler des étoiles du cinéma et de la chanson : Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Johnny Hallyday, Juliette Gréco, Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré, Michel Simon, Jean Cocteau, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau ou encore Brigitte Bardot…)
Pour gagner sa vie sans la perdre, il a aussi été un oiseau de nuit. Pendant quinze ans il a été le photographe officiel des spectacles du Lido, du Carrousel et des Folies Bergère.
Il a aujourd’hui 86 ans. Et nous allons tout faire pour le rencontrer et vous offrir ici le portrait d’un immense artiste qui n’aurait jamais dû quitter la lumière du jour et encore moins celle de la nuit.
![Predictive Journalism [Magazines] @virgilabloh @wmag](https://scontent-cdg2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/209584973_2957777841155347_4545370530577311983_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=zzvw2Q977pMAX9z0T0E&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=5e5da42eb1deb5a3c44f004986c86793&oe=616E367F "Predictive Journalism [Magazines] @virgilabloh @wmag")
![The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/196860070_809654653271496_8575323350180795315_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=TP1cxbc1pQsAX_pkWMe&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=71a66c4b2a89fd0b56bcadf9811dbe52&oe=616CCE49 "The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021")
![Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/172246940_241775834361086_412793993617799165_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=NsdBJGeJdKAAX9xoVs-&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=23c0b24cd8bea0d8a7dfccbbf2d75736&oe=616DAD75 "Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan")
