Paradisical Cachaça reviewed over at She Makes Music

Thanks Helena Evans, for the writeup on the new single Cachaça over at She Makes Music.

“‘Cachaça’ bridges Alivenique’s passion for a late night party, and her sense of wanderlust we heard in her debut record Legends under her own name, only more extroverted and sonically standing you on your ear.

An emergence song, she writes reflecting on maximalist party, the lushness of being who you are. It’s her “tropicalism as a philosophy” and “Party of Ceremony” thesis she throws around, “I love to throw parties and ‘Cachaça’ has musical connections with some of my ideal party components – tropical plants, magical night time vibes, canoes with torches going up and down the river, and a festive dance spirit filling the night. I know it sounds silly, but I’m totally serious.”

Musically the song features an artistic summer blend of world percussion with synth and modern drum sounds, while the catchy syncopated vocals pave the way the entire time.”

Read the whole story here.

Solo Exhibition in Baja Sur, Mexico

Very Excited to announce my first solo show in Mexico, with the lovely team En Blanco.

Parallels opens May 5 and is on view through June.

Conceptual and visual artist Ali Beletic produces sculpture, environmental works and paintings in conversation with art as a representation for us to experience, dialogue and celebrate our shared, pluralist and global lineages of humanity.  Utilizing the canvas and context of the art world to create an atmosphere and spirit where we can broadly dialogue between a more modern “self-aware” and informed version of ourselves, and a deeper more latent archaic sense of humanity that is intertwined with the natural world.  This juxtaposition recalls, what Charles Olsen dubbed the “Archaic Post-Modern”.  Naturally, this leads her to mixed use of materials, juxtaposing clays with spraypaints, soapstone and fire with brass, and turning her gestural abstraction toward modern subjects.   In addition, her practice leaves nothing sacred to be unexplored and throws lineages of art in juxtaposition, reflecting her pluralist philosophy: ancient, pop, abstract expressionism, current cultural movements, and even throwing parties to be thrown in conversation with one another, just as vast and broad as we are today.

Naturally due to her subject matter, her work grapples with the imminent desire to hold on to the beauty of our ancient selves and values, while also discussing how we can move forward, employing modern sensibilities, techniques and technologies, and intends to allow that conversation to celebrate both intelligences and allow them to be in discussion.

Her installation light environments, more subtle and peaceful, have been time based, and intend, to entice the audience into a stream of conscious peace of mind state, allowing the sense of space to expand to the reaches of the stars, from day into night and the vastness of the landscape around them, the clouds that send rain to earth, reflecting the vastness of space and light and perception and the boundaries of ourselves. 

Year of the Statement

Under the moniker Alivenique, Ali Beletic makes futuristic, vibrant music that falls somewhere between the sounds of L'Rain, Yeasayer, and Tune-Yards. Her latest single “Year of the Statement” is built upon syncopated rhythms and soaring vocals— with a splash of hyperpop. Bubbling synths rest atop driving percussion, with Beletic blearily belting a powerful hook. “La revolución del arte,” she sings on the chorus, her voice drenched in warm distortion. The track serves as a rallying cry, and finds Beletic embracing her raucous femininity.

“This song is dedicated to the dreamers, the provocateurs,” Beletic says of the track. “It’s not about a medium, it’s about a spirit, a trickster. It’s about taking matters into your own hands and being provocative, but through action and change, rather than philosophical means. In a way it’s a call to action for my fellow artists, writers, creatives; it’s about not conforming ourselves. It’s a very self-empowered song; it’s about using your own hands to create what you want. Not using verbiage, and the beat reflects that. I produced it to riff on a super modern, badass, celebrational, and ultrafeminine sense of power.”

“Year of the Statement” hits streaming services today and precedes the album of the same name, which is due September 22 on Lightning Studios.

Exhibition during Frieze week in LA

We are thrilled to announce, Ali will have a sculpture work from her series Modern Objects for Primitive Living in the upcoming Frieze week LA show “Vessels” at the Sized Gallery space in Hollywood.

The show is recommended as What Not to Miss around Frieze Week Los Angeles 2022, by Frieze Fair Director Christine Messineo.

On View February 16th - 27th // 526 N Western Ave, Los Angeles, 90004 // Come out LA!!!!! RSVP HERE.

If you’d like to purchase the work, you can shop it at Sized.

Artists include: 1000 Incorporated, Addison Wolseley, Ali Beletic, Alma Allen, Amelia Stevens, André Thuret, Antonio Forteleoni, Ashley Martin, Ashwini Bhat, Avi Kovacevich, Base 10, Ben Medansky, Blum & Poe, Brett Robinson, Cat Snodgrass, Charlotte Perriand, Chic by Accident, Chris Fusaro, Chris Miller, Chris Wolston, Christian Vargas, Christopher Al-Jumah, Claudia Girbau, Clive Sithole, Comme de Garçons, Commune Design, D.I.M., Dana Arbib, David Cressey, DEN, Dinna Satti, Disciplina Studio, Donna Green, Eddie Olin, Ei Arakawa, Elliot Bergman, Emmanuel Olunkwa, Emmanuel Röhss, Eric Oglander, Ethan Caflisch, Fai Khadra, Formative Modern, Gaetano Pesce, Giovanni Leonardo Bassan, Grace Prince, h.e.m. Casa at Lee Stanton, Heven Glass, Hostler & Burrows, Hot Cactus, Illya Goldman Gubin, Isamu Noguchi. J.M. Szymanski, Jean Boris Lacroix, Jean Luce, Jeff Martin, JF Chen, Jim McDowell, Jonny Ribeiro, Joseph Massé, Jude Pauli, Kati Tuominen-niittylä, Kazunori Hamana, Kelly Wearstler, Kevin Stalh, Kit Howland. Klaus Jürgen Schmidt, Kwangho Lee, Leena Similu, Lianne Barnes, Logan Wannamaker, LS Gomma, Lukas Stoever, Marc Leschelier, Marta Gallery, Massimiliano Locatelli, Matty Fisher, Max Lamb, Minjae Kim, Nevine Mahmoud, NFS, Nick Gianetti, Nonaka-Hill, Overduin & co, Pablo Picasso, Philippe Malouin, RA Workshop - Rich Aybar, Radford Gallery, Ravi GuneWardena, Reinaldo Sanguino, Rick Owens Furniture, RIO Estudio. Roger Herman, Rooms Studio, Salon 94 Design, Scarlett Rouge, Seth Rogen, Shane Gabier, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Shozo Michikawa, Shun Kinoshita, Skylar Haskard, Sonja Duò-Meyer, Studio Balestra, Studio IMA, Studio Jake Arnold, Studio Paolini, Sumner, Susan for Susan, The Tappan Collective, The Art Reporter, The Future Perfect, The Tropics, The Window. Thomas Barger, Tienda X, Tino Seubert, TIWA Select, Tory J. Lowitz, Ulysses Desanti, Vanessa Beecroft, Walter Mingledorff

Alivenique Debut on Teasers and Dares

Alivenique X Crush Club

The new Alivenique x Crush Club “Tune In” celebrated on Teasers and Dares, next to Lou Hater, Confidence Man, and Baltra. Couldn’t be more stoked and honored!

Alivenique makes her debut on T&D and we found her thanks to Crush Club who we have featured a heap of times. ‘Tune In’ is a chugging banger on the Crush Club rework with flashes of uplifting tropical house too. Alivenique’s album ‘Year of the Statement’ will arrive next year.

Ali Beletic’s Materialism and the Sensual next to Iconic Shepard Fairey in Laguna

Ali Beletic’s painting Materialism and the Sensual, alongside work by Shepard Fairey and other eclectic and iconic artists.

Art Wise curator for Hotel Laguna selected Ali’s work Materialism and the Sensual, for a festive and fun art room. We can’t wait to stop by and have a negroni and check out the art books.

Crush Club Remix of Alivenique Track

Couldn’t be more honored to have the party starting duo Crush Club (TC Milan and Le Chev) collaborate with me on re-imagining my track Tune In. It’s the perfect “Party as Ceremony” kick off to the end of the year, and getting ready for my upcoming record Year of the Statement, coming out next year. Completely stoked and floored — PS it’s the perfect BPM, and you should definitely add it to your new years playlist!!

Eva Chen Curatorial and thoughts on Neon Primitivism

Honored to be included in the smart and festive Eva Chen’s curatorial over at Tappan. Read more below and follow the link to shop the new paintings.

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Eva Chen says

"My family will be celebrating the holidays from our new weekend house for the first time this winter. We designed the space (with the marvelous Hendricks Churchill) to be a respite from NYC. As such, we were immediately drawn to soothing abstract art. Ali Beletic's serene but joyful work is a foundation for the aesthetic in our house—and similarly serves as my inspiration for this curation. "

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VINYL ; LEGENDS OF THESE LANDS LEFT TO LIVE

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NPR ALBUM REVIEW

"..It was there, in one of North America's hottest places, that Beletic communed with the wild, mystical beast of rock 'n' roll, communing with its spirits and, amidst a trail of bleached skeletons, found stories that needed telling...."

Vinyl for Legends is available via Spotify Merch Bar / Discogs / Amazon

NEON PRIMITIVISM

The colorful explosion of modern neon colors and primitive forms in Neon Primitivism is a natural extension of both Ali’s primitivist ideology and her commitment to rock n roll.  This new series celebrates the canvas and painting as a form with the power to transfer primitivism, sensuality and emotion to a space in a modern return to Ab Ex style, mixing the ultra mattes of Mexican folk art with earthy clays, and vibrant charcoals and oils, and pointing to forms that enlight the viewer towards the multiple directions of cave paintings, the new york school, ceremonial body paints, line work, weathered artifacts, Charles Olsen’s 'Archaic Post Modern' and pop art.

Ali’s work across multiple mediums has always been founded conceptually in both her nature and survival skills studies as well as her ‘bringing the party and the fun’.  It is here that Ali’s conceptual work led naturally to the crossover that would lead her to explore paintings based on sensuality and dimension - the feeling, the experience and the space they create.  It was here that she derived the process of working with clays, dried plant materials, botanical dyes, and paints made of finely crushed rare minerals and gems, to explore glowing mattes and chalky earthy textures.  This follows in the tradition of her prior sculptural work (almost an artistic take on experimental archeology) which traces primitive technologies, and works with the experiential and the sensual - i.e. hand building mahogany and glass rain catchments, working with fire as a sculptural element, exploring artifact creation using primitive tools and techniques as a means to explore primitivism, lighting up a boulder strewn desert for invitees to walk through, and even building a surfboard from Tule reeds.

Her directness of emotion communicated through primal, rugged gestures, juxtaposed with an integration of ancient philosophies explores the thin line between symbolic totems, anthropomorphic figuration, gestural abstraction and a modern pop sensibility.  Her confident and rule shattering sensibility pulls on us to be 21st century rebels once again and to seek wildness, experience, humanity, and mythos.

MAKE WAVES

Grateful for all the enthusiasm about my Freerider Flags recently. The Freerider Flags have been featured on SF Girl, Vogue Paris, Goop, Lonny, Chang & Co. Design and featured over at the iconic Surfrider hotel as well as in the Gilian Segal curatorial as well as the Cara Woodhouse Curatorial as well as Tappan’s At Home Curatorial.

If you are interested in purchasing a work, click the link below to explore the available editions.



Ali Beletic’s “Freerider Flags” demonstrate her interest in free rider culture, which she describes as a philosophy and way of life that celebrates new experiences beyond existing boundaries. The linen textiles are inspired by the words of journalist Hunter S. Thompson and the stories of vanguards who lived simply with hedonic spirit. Take “Party Wave” for example—the phrase originates from surf culture and describes when multiple surfers share a wave. Beletic’s flag champions the term and its unlimited, inclusive attitude.

Inspired in part by an ex-San Francisco surfer who paddled around Kauai on a 9.0 surfboard, sleeps in a beach cave, and fishes his own food – and other like surfers and vanguards out there surfing/living for the love of life and true hedonic spirit.

It is completely my intention to directly participate in this philosophy, intently promote a freerider culture and illuminate that which already celebrates life beyond boundaries and to forge new experiences with that which does and does not yet exist.

Flags featured as part of the collection at Casa Shelter Half, The Surfrider Hotel, Lightning, The Rosewood / Miramar Hotel and are currently available as part of the curatorial over at Tappan.







Pray for Surf

Pray for Surf featured at the Surfrider Hotel.

Pray for Surf featured at the Surfrider Hotel.

Super stoked to be one of the featured artists next to the one and only architect and artist Le Corbusier in the collection over at The Surfrider Hotel - a work of art in it's own right.  There is an interview with the owner of the hotel Emma Goodwin-Crowther talking her philosophy and artistic choices over at Rip & Tan.  Honored to be a part.

If you are interested in purchasing a work, click the link below to explore the available editions.

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