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April 13, 2012 0

Edvard Munch – Graphic Works from The Gundersen Collection

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The core of this exhibition features an outstanding group of fifty works on paper by Munch held in a private Norwegian collection, and will be the first time they have been shown in the UK. Featuring rare, hand-coloured versions of iconic images such as The Scream, Anxiety and Madonna, the exhibition explores Munch’s rigorous experimentation as he revisited subjects to heighten their emotive impact.
(National Galleries)

Lovely exhibition about Edvard Munch, giving a nice impression about his work with different colors in his graphic works.

Venue: National Galleries Modern Two, Edinburgh
Date: 7th April − 23rd September 2012

More information:
Scotsman (07.04.2012)

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April 13, 2012 0

LoveBytes

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From 22-24 March 2012 the LoveBytes took place in Sheffield, UK. I absolutely enjoyed having a look at some older and more recent pieces of media art in lovely Sheffield.

The exhibition An Art Exhibition in Celebration of the Life of Alan Turing was curated by Sue Gollifer, Nick Lambert and Anna Dumitriu and was
 supported by The University of Hertfordshire and the Computer Arts society (CAS).

Smoke and Mirrors Machine (2012) by Alex May, in collaboration with Anna Dumitriu and Professor Bruce Christianson (Picture by author)

Paul By Patrick Tresset (Picture by author)

Artists shownAnna Dumitriu and Alex MayPaul BrownboredomresearchErnest EdmondsGreg Garvey, Sue Gollifer, William LathamGordana Novakovic, Martin A Smith, Patrick Tresset, The Trope Troupe, Roman Verostko

At the Art and music events at Sheffield’s Central Library were shown several exhibits like the famous Reactable20Hz by Semiconductor, a work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.

reactable (Picture by author)

More information:Flickr Images from the Lovebytes
Flickr Images from Intuition and Ingenuity

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April 4, 2012 0

The Book of the Future

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Great comic by Grant Snider.

April 2, 2012 0

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March 12, 2012 2

Stephan Fritsch

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Der Maler Stephan Fritsch lebt und arbeitet in Bremen. Seine Bilder zeigen oft apokalyptische Szenen. Obschon noch im Studium, beeindruckt er auf seinen monumentalen Gemälden durch die gelungene Komposition und die eindringliche, intensive Darstellung der Personen. Themen und Farben der Malerei von Stephan Fritsch erinnern an Daniel Richter und Neo Rauch. Die sehr großen Formate, die er bevorzugt malt – viele Bilder sind 250 mal 350 cm groß – sind gut komponierte und durchdachte Szenen. Auf den Gemälden von Stephan Fritsch sind zumeist junge Menschen in seltsam unreal wirkenden, aus der Zeit gefallen scheinenden Situationen zu sehen. Durch die Wahl seiner Farben und die meist ernsten Ausdrücke auf den Gesichtern der dargestellten Menschen nimmt die Atmosphäre der Bilder sofort gefangen. Der Ausgangspunkt für die gezeigten unwirklichen Situationen bleibt gleichwohl verborgen und ist vom Betrachter aufzulösen.
(Galerie Gavriel)

Ever since I walked down the halls of the HfK Bremen and saw these huge drawings of Stephan Fritsch, I am fascinated by their colors and drawn into their world. I can spend quite a while looking at them wandering off with my thoughts. Unfortunately, it is hard to find information on him on the Internet and as I am not in Bremen anymore, I can not look up his latest works live. However, once in a while I try to see if there are some new works on his MySpace or Facebook Profile. Last year he apparently had a piece in an exhibition at the Galerie Gavriel, where they had a short summary (in German) about him, see above. All pictures have been taken by me either during the Hochschultage or simply with my phone while being at the HfK for lectures.

Im Zentrum die Farbe
Es ist offensichtlich, dass es in meinem Bildern primär um Farbe geht. Um Spiel von Farbe. Natürlich ist es nie nur eine Farbe – es sind mindestens zwei. Sehr starke, extreme Farbtöne, die miteinander zu tun haben. Sie haben so miteinander zu tun, dass immer erkennbar sein muss: Es gibt da eine Beziehung.

Sinn
Ich male mit dem Gefühl: Es macht Sinn. Dass Gefühl, mit seiner Arbeit manchmal nicht leben zu können, ist ein nach-geordnetes Problem, das allerdings oft auch zum übergeordneten wird. Alles, was leicht daherkommt, was so dahinplätschert, verliert mit der Zeit den erkennbaren Wert. Man sieht bei vielen Künstlern, wie der Erfolg sie korrumpiert und leer macht. Wie die Arbeit verdünnt und verwässert. Da entsteht nix mehr. Da fehlt es an Reibung und dem kritischen Hinterfragen. Bei der Musik ist es ja so: Das meiste, was heute Geld bringt, ist ja total blöde Kaufhausmusik.

(Galerie Ebbers, Im Zentrum die Farbe - Stephan Fritsch erzählt. Ein Interview mit Heiner Frost.)

More information:
Myspace Profile
Facebook Profile
3iarts Profile
Vita at the Gallery Ebbers

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March 11, 2012 0

Panic Room by Tilt

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Panic Room by Big Addict

Panic Room, January 2012, Picture by Big Addict

Every year the hotel “Au vieux panier” in Marseille is having rooms re-decorated by artists. This year, graffiti artist Tilt feat Tober, Grizz and Don Cho created the Panic room, a half white, half colorful room with his own graffitis of course.

The hotel Au vieux panier asked me to design a room, I first told them that I wasn’t interested doing just decoration in the room but I wanted to create something that will look more like an installation. I thought about it also as a huge canvas where I needed to think about the composition and play with the empty white part of the room to accentuate more the idea of Chaos on the other part. Then I asked my friend Tober who gat a great old school style for tags, Grizz who is also the man behind the camera and Don Cho who is a Hip Hop singer from Marseille but who used to be a tagger from my home town Toulouse. It took one week to do the whole thing cause the idea was to exaggerate what you can usually see in some abandoned places. Too much tags, too much drips, too much sentences, too much throw ups … What I also wanted to show is that people can appreciate any type of graffiti, even the more basic, it’s just a matter of point of view …

Panic Room, January 2012, Picture by BigAddict

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Other artists participating this year

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