A HUMBLE REASSESSMENT

My good, dear, flawed friend, David Schoffman has served as my eyes and ears, tracking the cultural climate of sunny southern California. Our arrangement goes back several decades and I am pleased to report that we are experiencing the dramatic effects of profound Climate Change.

For years we Parisians had dismissed the west coast of the United States as a tepid backwater of middlebrow mumbo jumbo, a mosh pit of pedestrian bromides masquerading as art. I'm pleased that this is no longer the case.

Schoffman has been urging me for the better part of the year to start listening to the Los Angeles podcaster Timmy Black. Having no idea what a 'podcaster' was, I dismissed his suggestion as just another endorsement for some new but ultimately fugitive trend.

Boy was I wrong!!!  

DAVID SCHOFFMAN: MOTORMOUTH

YES, I DIRECTED THIS VIDEO

NO, I HAD NO CREATIVE INPUT

ART IS HELL

To remint a hackneyed cliché, sometimes truth is more frivolous than fiction. My dear Los Angeles comrade David Schoffman seems to have single-handedly resurrected early modernism's infatuation with criminality.

Not since the days of Jean Genet and John-Paul Sartre has the frisson of transgression been so acute.

It seems that David has been combing the underworld, employing the skills of con men the way his colleagues exploit the eager ambitions of unpaid interns.

Somehow Schoffman got his hands on one of three extant copies of Nel Mondo Gramo, the famous 18th century progenitor of today's graphic novel. This eccentric visual rendering of Dante's Inferno has been erratically circulating through the antiquarian world for years. 

David claims his to be the finest and cleanest one.

But it doesn't stop there!

With the lucky panache of a true post-modernist, Schoffman "hired" a well known check-floating passport forger to reproduce, page for page, this precious document.

To make matters even more hilarious, he has exhibited his counterfeit manuscript under the dubious cover of Dadaist pranksterism.

I envy the American art world! Over in the States, literally anything goes ...

DAVID SCHOFFMAN (OVER)EXPOSED!!!

There's been much mystery and speculation surrounding the life and work of my dear friend David Schoffman. I receive letters, texts, emails, IM's, telegrams and even the occasional telephone call all expressing interest in the oeuvre of my elusive comrade.

J'en ai marre!!

To put a kibosh on all these intrusive reminders that my colleague David has a greater purchase on the collective imagination than I do, I set my studio assistant on the task of compiling all the strange and varied projects that Schoffman is responsible for.

Below you will find an undoubtedly incomplete list of his uneven antics with the appropriate links.

Good luck!!

Podcast 

The Podcast, Timmy Black Presents: The Lives of Contemporary Artists can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Anchor and various other platforms.

Websites

Paintings (Schoffman) 

Currado Malaspina  

Video

YouTube channel 

Literature

Currado Malaspina’s author page on AMAZON  

Currado’s essays published on ThriveGlobal 

Instagram

Instagram 1 – (the art collective PDP™)  

Instagram 2 – (Currado Malaspina)  

Instagram 3 – (also Currado Malaspina)  

Instagram 4 – (Dahlia Danton)  

Instagram 5 – (Spark Boon) 

Instagram 6 – (Timmy Black)  

Blogs

 Blog 1 – (about Schoffman, written by Currado Malaspina)  

Blog 2 – (about Currado Malaspina, written by David Schoffman)  

Blog 3 – (about Dahlia Danton, written by Danton)  

Blog 4 – (about Faun Roberts, written by Orestia Shestov)  

Blog 5 – (by Sofia Lagrimar)  

Blog 6 – (by Clement Digby) 

Blog 7 – (about Micah Carpentier by his nephew, Ezra)  

Blog 8 – (about Micah Carpentier by another nephew, Roberto)  

Blog 9 – (another one about Schoffman by Currado Malaspina)  

Blog 10 – (by Spark Boon)  

Blog 11 – (another one by Spark Boon)   

Blog 12 – (Spark Boon’s drawings)  

Blog 13 – (about Boris Lemon, written by Boris Lemon)  

Blog 14 – (another one about Currado Malaspina, written by Schoffman)  

Blog 15 – (Horoscopes from 2016, by Yoyota)

Miscellaneous   

You can also find David Schoffman, Dahlia Danton, Currado Malaspina, Spark Boon, Micah Carpentier and The Plausible Deniability Project on Facebook

You can find short stories by David Schoffman, Spark Boon, Sophia Lagrimar, Currado Malaspina and Dahlia Danton on Short-Édition - https://short-edition.com/en/

You can find Currado Malaspina on LinkedIn and Spark Boon on Twitter

MY SPOTIFY

While listening to my playlist, a roster of French chanson, Death-Wish Metal, Indonesian Gamelan ballads and K-Pop I stumbled upon a strange and unique podcast.

 TIMMY BLACK PRESENTS: THE LIVES OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS

Two episodes about my good friend David Schoffman appeared and, wouldn't you know it, I, Currado Malaspina, was mentioned in them as well.

Please listen: