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My thanks to the warm welcome from Clay, Tanya and Bronson (I hope I remembered the names correctly). Clay and I talked about how we watched the series when it originally aired and the anticipation of upgrading our originally aired tapings of the series to DVD.

The venue was packed, all three stories, and I was unable to see everything that was there. Besides what was in the previews floating around, there were several prints by DL himself from other photo series he’s done. The merchandise was exciting (my poor bank account!). DL’s organic coffee was available for purchase as well as a book of poetry by Grace Zabriskie.

Among the celebrities there were Catherine Coulson, Kimmie Robertson and Grace Zabriskie. There also was notice given that the event was being filmed by CBS. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that it will be an extra in an, as yet unscheduled, Blu Ray Twin Peaks set.

If you have any photos you’d like to share, please send them along to dugpa@dugpa.com or bookhouseboybob@dugpa.com

About David Lynch: Dark Splendor:
Parallel to the film career for which he is justly admired, David Lynch (born 1946) has always worked as an artist, having trained in painting at the Corcoran School of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the mid-1960s. Lynch’s photographs, paintings, prints, drawings, and more recently, musical compositions, are an indispensable part of his oeuvre and frequently a source of inspiration for his films. Fans of such classics as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive will readily conjure the director’s keen eye for lush but menacing neo-Surrealist tableaux, for instance, which are directly nourished by his artworks. Other hallmarks of the Lynchian style, such as cryptic messages and inscriptions, foreboding atmospherics and a famously left-field sense of humor likewise appear in the paintings, drawings and photographs collected in David Lynch: Dark Splendor — a landmark publication that reveals the breadth and accomplishment of his work in this realm. It contains such marvels as his matchbook drawings–pen-and-ink images of shrouded dreamscapes and interiors, inscribed on the inside of matchbooks–his wonderfully foreboding lithographs, in which scrawled captions jostle among murky figures, his photographs of industrial wastelands and his sinister paintings that incorporate materials and objects to further advance their gothic appeal. Dark Splendor presents these works in excellent reproductions, and will seduce fans of contemporary film and art alike.

About David Lynch – Lithos:
The workshop of Item Editions is sequestered in a back courtyard off the Rue du Montparnasse in Paris, where artists from all around the world have lithographs made on Solnhofener stones. Here, with the help of the historic presses that have printed masterworks by such artists as Picasso, Matisse and Miro, a durable artistic continues today. Filmmaker, photographer, painter and printmaker David Lynch (born 1946) was captivated by this place and its history, when he first chanced across it in 2007: “I fell in love,” he declared. Since his earliest experiments with zinc plates and prints in black and red, Lynch has continued to labor away at Item Editions, recently producing large black-and-white lithographs by drawing directly onto the stone (rather than using the medium to create multiples of pre-existing drawings), experimenting with textures to draw figurative imagery out of abstract patterns, and adding captions to further elucidate their themes. The content of these lithographs clusters around themes familiar to Lynch fans: love, eroticism, dreams and death. David Lynch: Lithos collects all of Lynch’s work in this genre. A conversation between Dominique Paini, former director of the French Cinematheque and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the artist, provides further insight into Lynch’s process.

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Thanks again to Hervé Love for the news!

- an exhibition called “I see myself”
- another called “Machines, Abstraction and Women”.
The opening is tonight. Sadly, even after a month or trying to get an invitation, our Paris Dugpa.com correspondent was told “no invitation for dugpa”. Lame that they would not let our corespondent cover the opening, as I am sure it would have been great to get the scoop. You can also check out the video below thanks to @lewub. Thanks to Hervé Love for the news. Discuss this article at the Discussion Board.

The next show is a Burlesque Tribute to David Lynch presented by the Peepshow Menagerie. The show on August 19th will feature a very special tribute to David Lynch hosted at Bordello in Los Angeles.

Thanks to Annie, Aaron Cooke, and Chris Beyond for the news.