Artition: Interview with Niclas Winters
April 8th, 2010
The young and extraordinary talent Niclas Winters creates work that is powerful both in texture as well as composition. While you feel rawness in his pieces the progress in his development of different skills and techniques is tremendous and continually increasing. His brand-mark might be the chimpanzee mainly throughout his drawings, which would metaphor his recent artistic status quite well: playful but very clever!
Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?
NW:
My art is an illustration and comment on my surrounding and state of mind. I am bringing my urban environment mixed with my personal comment on the canvas. In various ways I am reflecting my personality and using different characters to represent these factors.
Artition:
What or who inspires you?
NW:
Everyday life inspires me, the street art scene and various artists such as Shepard Fairey (Obey), Takashi Murakami, Sam Flores etc. Everything is an inspiration if you make something out of it.
Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?
NW:
The messages I am trying to make are conflicts in my surrounding and possibly of various other people. Stating the ovious in different forms and styles.
Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?
NW:
Artition is a great medium of displaying your art and bringing it out to the people. It is also great to have the possibility to communicate with other artists and view their art works, their styles, their stories.
Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?
NW:
Most inspirational artists which influenced my art a lot are Takashi Murakami, Banksy and Shepard Fairey although various other artists impress me with their work and help me find my own way in my art.
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Art Of Tones / The World As I Live It
April 8th, 2010Something that brings you in the right mood now 
Artition: Member interview with Moses Foster
April 7th, 2010
Moses Foster is an artist with complex abilities. His use of colour is very elaborate and he has a certain ‘swing’ in his pieces, creating great patterns, as well as figures and shapes. I guess some of his works with white background look great in real. Read more in my interview with him:
Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?
MF:
I´ve been asked this question quite often… at bars, gallery openings, occassional interests from people who meet me on the street…. I´ve come to a conclusion… I don´t worry about the style… I just create and continue creating from the source which is my daily life.
Artition:
What or who inspires you?
MF:
Touch and go…. that´s the type of question this is….
Inspiration for me is also very personal. I´ve been painting since I was 5 years old… long before I beheld the massive paintings of Caravaggio and Reubens in various international museums. Light and shadow inspires me…. How do I portray light and shadow without giving away too much. The subject matter varies….color in my opinion are like piano keys…and I´m still the 5 year old… Playing with the fire of construction in the face of all the hot heads of the university whom I sum up as Nay sayers….
Rebellion inspires me… The fight to get it down on canvas in which ever medium suits the subject.
Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?
MF:
Lately my work is moving at such a rate until I´m not so sure how to answer this question. I try to title the single pieces but sometimes I´m stuck with the mental connection I have with the works… I don´t want to trap my ideas with names or zealous titles anymore… I´ve had enough of trying to communicate on terms of public awareness. I´m making the work…. I´ll let it do the job of communicating with whom it desires. I say this because most times… I get the feeling that when people check out a painting…. they either want more than what´s physically there…or they´re projecting their own fantasies… All fine by me… but I think the only people who really understand the language of babies are mothers. It´s not until the child is at a certain age that it´s able to reach out and take account of its own existence. Translate that to painting and other creative functions !!
Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?
MF:
I woke up this morning and found this interview in my inbox….
I like that. I´ve been so busy and wanted to put it to the side…but I decided.. it´s for my future that I sit here and answer these questions as best I can…
Artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?
MF:
I would never consider this.
Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?
MF:
Nature
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Acne’s Summer Details
March 31st, 2010Acne from Sweden is proving hard this time that they are able to produce some great fashion not only by their collaboration with Lanvin earlier last year.
Setting the first tone for coming season Acne shows an indigo called ‘Kex Armour’ with knee protectors in a great robot – style. Definitely a big step forward! The whole collection is worth looking here.
Military Fall Down – Léo Caillard
March 31st, 2010Let me introduce a great photographer from Paris: Monsieur Léo Caillard
His most recent project is showing US military vehicles such as tanks, fighters or submarines that are invading Paris.
Leo Caillard / New Artwork : ” War Games “
Photography and 3D / Diasec 48×72 inches / Limited edition of 6.
Gute Luft
March 29th, 2010
THOMAS FEHLMANN remains as one of the most endearing and respected artists on KOMPAKT. He has inspired generations of fans and musicians over the course of his 30+ year career. From his early days as part of the legendary band PALAIS SCHAUMBURG, and the pioneering Detroit/Berlin act 3MB (with JUAN ATKINS and MORITZ VON OSWALD), to his longstanding membership with THE ORB, combined with his contributions as a solo artist to esteemed imprints R&S, PLUG RESEARCH and of course KOMPAKT, where we have proudly released two full length solo albums: VISIONS OF BLAH (KOM CD 20/KOM 67) and HONIGPUMPE (KOM CD 59 / KOM 157), his musical works have been prolific, not to mention four singles and a full serving of tracks found on our POP AMBIENT and TOTAL collections. Now, after 3 years, FEHLMANN returns with GUTE LUFT… GUTE LUFT is the result of months of work scoring the hit German TV film 24H BERLIN – the longest documentary film in history which featured 80 camera teams following the lives of Berliners over a 24 hour period. Obviously a huge challenge for FEHLMANN, beyond the scope of the project and hours of music involved in a 24 hour film, there was dealing with the decision making process that went with working with such a large production team. As he shared scoring duties with another musician (separately), inevitably a lot of his music ended up not making the final cut. GUTE LUFT is about re-tweaking and editing material from the countless hours of recording he had created. In a sense, GUTE LUFT is FEHLMANN’s ideal soundtrack to the 24H BERLIN documentary. ”While scoring the film and subsequently shaping it into a album, I found myself questioning what holds it all together in Berlin. I figured that ‘air’, the good old ‘Berliner Luft’, is something that is guaranteed to touch everyone and everything in the city. Also with that Berlin is very green, the combination with the unavoidable city dirt makes for a distinctive blend which seems to infuse its vibrant scene unknowingly with a constructive drive. Besides that, ‘Gute Luft’ was also the title of a song from my old band Palais Schaumburg, of which I have very fond memories. Also (as he says with a wink) “Gut” is one word I have a profound relation to…” Fans shall rejoice as THOMAS FEHLMANN doesn’t veer far from his signature path of trailblazing the finer links of classic Detroit house and techno with the submerged beauty of Berlin dub. One will immediately recognize the classic scoring techniques FEHLMANN brings to GUTE LUFT – various themes and sounds resonate in various forms and versions throughout the tracks. As Thomas states, “There are also more subtle connections that should give an overall feel to the score. I also brought in elements from tunes from my previous albums in recognition of the fact that I often feel that there would be so many more ways to explore and experiment with certain ideas than just on a single track”. FEHLMANN clearly succeeds in synergizing the best of the past 20 years of Berlin’s expansive history of electronic and dance music with GUTE LUFT. A recreational album in every way in which he hopes will make you “feel at peace with you and your environment, inspire you to lush, imaginative dinners, make babies, or just walk your own way with open eyes”. Well put Thomas!
Exhibition recommendation: Otto Dix in New York
March 29th, 2010March 11-August 30, 2010
This spring, Neue Galerie New York presents “Otto Dix,” the first solo museum exhibition of works by this major German artist ever held in North America. Organized by Olaf Peters, Professor of Modern Art History and Art Theory at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, the show will open at the Neue Galerie, then travel to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
More than almost any other German painter, Otto Dix (1891-1969) and his works have profoundly influenced the popular notion of the Weimar Republic. His paintings were among the most graphic visual representatives of that period, exposing with unsparing and wicked wit the instability and contradictions of the time.
The exhibition includes more than 100 masterpieces by Otto Dix, and addresses four themes. The first is Dix’s traumatic experiences as a soldier in World War I. The second is portraiture, a genre at which the artist excelled. The third is sexuality, a key theme in the Dix oeuvre. The fourth is religious and allegorical painting. The show includes the work that Dix is best know for—paintings from the so-called “golden Weimar years”—but to contextualize them, it also includes Dix’s work from the early 1920s, as well as his later work, produced as veiled protest against the Third Reich.
Kentridge in New York
March 25th, 2010If you are in New York between now and 7 May you should take a day and visit the MoMA to see William Kentridge’s great exhibition called: Five Themes.
The South-African born artist is famous for his compositions of poetical elements with policital themes. With a range of animated short movies, the museum also shows other drawings, sketches, collages, prints as well as performances that gives a great retrospective on Kentridge’s Œuvre of the last 30 years.
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