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Marli Hoppe-Ritter and Rita Ernst (Picture by © Museum Ritter)
The Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch, Germany has two exhibitons at the moment. For one Brigitte Kowanz’s Think Outside the Box and Rita Ernst’s Travelling the Cosmos.
The Swiss painter Rita Ernst has steadily pursued her artistic career for some 30 years now within the field of constructivist art. In her various cycles of works she has sounded out all manner of variations in abstract–geometric design and each time come up with her own specific cosmos of colours and forms. While always remaining close to the concrete tradition from her elective home of Zurich and taking it as her point of departure, from the very outset she has allowed herself the liberty of finding her own means of composition.
Similar as in the Majerus exhibition, I had the problem that I was not able to understand what exactly the artist was trying to achieve with her works. It was said that she is interested in translation, but to me it was not obvious what exactly she was translating. Partly she was using buildings as inspiration and creating her own abstractions of them. It would have been helpful to see the original buildings, to get an idea how she actually translated them. To me her works seemed to be arranged by chance, although she obviously was striving for an ordering principle and is counted to the Constructivist stream of art history. Maybe it was not visible to me, maybe it was not there.
Date: 09.10.2011 – 15.04.2012
Venue: Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
More information:
Rita Ernst’s website
Round tour through the exhibition
Rita Ernst. (2011). Unterwegs im Kosmos, Museum Ritter 2011, Barbara Willert/Hsiaosung Kok Verlag Das Wunderhorn.
Tags: 2011, 2012, museum ritter, rita ernst, traveling the cosmos, waldenbuch
Michel Majerus, Gold, 2000, Sammlung Rudolf und Ute Scharpff, © Michel Majerus Estate, 2000, courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is showing a retrospective of Michel Majerus until April. I have to say that his art does not really tell me anything. Desperately I was trying to find out what he was trying to express or what he was experimenting with but nothing really popped up. Now in one of the video interviews it was said that his works are so timeless because they are open for different meanings. To me I must admit they rather seem meaningless. The only piece I got more interested in was his media installation Olympia 2050. For all who want to see it for themselves, you will still have the chance until April.
Venue: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Date: 26.11.2011-09.04.2012
More information:
Gemaltes Kunstgoogle (Zeit.de, 03.12.2011)
Im Rausch der Reize (art-magazin.de, 09.12.2011)
Michel Majerus, XXX, 2001,Picture by Jens Zehe, © Michel Majerus Estate, 2001, courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Tags: 2011, 2012, exhibition, kunstmuseum, michel majerus, retrospective, stuttgart
I have recently visited the “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” exhibition in the Naturkundemuseum in Reutlingen, Germany. As always one could see some amazing pictures of wildlife and landscapes. Bence Mate from Hungary was the winner of the 2010 competition with the below photograph:
Bence Mate's winning photo for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010
Another brilliant image by Bence Mate
Esa Malkonen's submission for the Wildlife Photographer Competition
More information:
In pictures: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 (BBC.co.uk)
Tags: 2011, bence mate, competition, naturkundemuseum, photography, reutlingen, wildlife photographer of the year
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Matthias Gephart has created a series of photographs he entitled Mysteries in Aerosol which was to be seen at the Neonchocolate Gallery in the Off the beaten tracks exhibition.
Ruins of industrial architecture have shaped our landscapes: that´s our civilisation shaped in denial of progress, materialised as a melancholic victory over hope. I want my painting to give birth to new life in abandoned spaces, under old railroad bridges and along forgotten trails and factories,let them use & transform the gloomy & beautiful aesthetics of decay. The Magic Moment is the point at the end of thae painting process, it contains accumulated hours of intense activity, added up to the history of the place. It also might depict a parallel world, close to us, but hidden in silence.
behance.net
More information:
Interview at westberlingallery.com (14.01.2011)
Tags: graffiti, matthias gephart, mysteries in aerosol, photography
Stippling, defined as the act of marking a given surface with numerous dots and small pecks, is one of art’s most tedious techniques. For one Miami-based web developer/stipple enthusiast, it’s also the ticket to Internet stardom.
(Miami New times, Victor Gonzalez, 08.12.2011)
More information:
http://miguelendara.com/
Interview with M. Endara (Miami New times, Victor Gonzalez, 08.12.2011)
Tags: drawing, Miguel Endara, stippling
(Picture by justin_case@Flickr)
(Picture by liborious@Flickr)
Tell us a bit about your background and how you became a street artist.
I live in Bogotá since 1985 when my parents returned to Colombia after their passage through Mexico. Since I could do it I started to walk back and forth the city without a fixed course, especially in the center and its surroundings. I found all kinds of people, places and images. I think all that did that years later I would not only scratch the walls of my house but the ones in the street as well. I joined a couple of close people with common interests and willingness to paint what happened to us on the street, without asking permission and using what we had on hand.
Geo Street Art (12.05.2011)
(Picture by bixentro@Flickr)
(Picture by liborius@Flickr)
More information:
http://www.stink.tk/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stinkfishate
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