Invisible brut

A Work by Helmut Pum

A Work by Eli Kumpfhuber

Das Projekt:

Von 6. - 9.4.2010 erarbeiten 10 Teilnehmer eine Ausstellung zum Thema Wahrnehmung.

Gearbeitet wird mit Schwarzlichtfarbe, die nur durch spezieller Beleuchtung sichtbar wird.

In der angrenzenden Malschule und im kleinen Ausstellungsraum werden Bilder der Künstler

ausgestellt. Im großen Galerieraum wird die Schwarzlichtmalerei präsentiert.

Die Künstler:

Manfred Hiebl.Eli Kumpfhuber.Christian Rebhan.Helmut Pum

Sophie Beisskammer.Gertraud Gruber.Ferdinand Reisenbichler

Sigrid Reingruber.Margarethe Bamberger.Christoph Penninger

Öffnungszeiten:

So.11.4./ Fr.16.4./Sa.17.4./So.18.4. jew. von 10 - 12Uhr

An Art Brut Project about perception. The participating artists have been elaborating the exhibition works in 4 days in the gallery rooms. The pictures have been painted with a special color, so you can only see it in darkness. A magical experience.

Stefan Häfner

Details of Stefan Häfners Works

The art of Stefan Häfner makes P.P.Queen happy ever after. "Stefan Häfner specializes in visionary architecture which he designs and builds in model form. He designs cities for the future, whole organisms which are built compactly and dense using minimum space. He wanders through his own city - Frankfurt am Main, closely studying the buildings, the high rise modern glass facades of the ever developing Main Metropol, photographing the forms and taking note of the aesthetics, function and social aspects, he takes an interest in the truly modern design. Through precise research he develops his own ideas in his head, rarely making sketches , the concept is not just for the exterior but makes detailed interiors which includes alarm systems, fire extinguishers, heaters, tables, chairs, first aid kits, shops, discos, cinemas, workshops and parking places. Häfner has developed his own building techniques, using strong carton ,which is both light and structurally sound, building level for level, a multifunctional and futuristic utopia."
Häfner is working at
Atelier Goldstein
in Frankfurt, Germany

flat1

Flat1 is an exhibition space run by three artists Karin Maria Pfeifer, Sula Zimmerberger and Maria Hanl, it is located in Viennas 4th district . "flat1 ist ein Kunstraum in der Schikanedergasse 2 im vierten Bezirk, der seit Januar 2009 - zeitgleich mit den Schleifmühlgasse-Eröffnungen - wechselnde, thematische Gruppenausstellungen mit in der Regel 3-5 KünstlerInnen zeigt. Der Schwerpunkt von flat1 liegt in der Präsentation zeitgenössischer bildender Kunst. Interdisziplinäres in Richtung Musik, Film, Performances bildet das Rahmenprogramm, dessen Ausweitung sich in Arbeit befindet. Hauptanliegen von flat1 ist die Förderung des Austauschs zwischen inter/nationalen KünstlerInnen mit thematisch und/oder formal ähnlichen Ansätzen, deren Wege sich in ihrem separierten Schaffensalltag vermutlich nie gekreuzt hätten. Im unabhängig organisierten Umfeld von flat1 haben sie nun Gelegenheit zu kontinuierlicher Kommunikation und zur Erweiterung ihrer Netzwerke."
The current exhibition
"... und sie verliefen sich im wald" with works of Markus Bacher, Robert Gfader, Ulrike Königshofer, Stefan Malicky, Gerald Naderer, Lila Rock is on show until march 5, opening hours every thursday 6 to 9pm

flat1 on myspace

Julius von Bismarck

©2009 Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, all rights reserved.
Perpetual storytelling apparatus is a project by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus.The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus” is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings.

Copyright Julius von Bismarck
Fulguration of "the Magritte dove" on the Mao Zedong portrait at Tiananmen Square in Beijing

Julius von Bismarck is a Berlin based artist, activist and inventor, for example inventor of THE FULGURATOR a very special camera/projector.

zu Julius von Bismarcks Website

DER NU

Check out -Der Nu- a journal for art and literature. In each issue 3 authors and 3 visual artists are featured.

Still lack of blood

Digital Photography by Petra Kodym 2009

"Window Collage"

Part three of a public art project. Work in progress. Still secret place. Still secret date. Still lack of information. Still lack of blood

Still lack

Digital Photography by Petra Kodym 2009

"Window Collage"

Part two of a public art project. Work in progress. Still secret place. Still secret date. Still lack of information.

Still

Digital Photography by Petra Kodym 2009

"Window Collage"

Part one of a public art project. Work in progress. Secret place. Secret date.

Censorship

Rubin Hirschbeck, POLKA,186X180 cm, oil - cotton, 2008

Rubin Hirschbeck, NACH DER VERLORENEN ZEIT / after the lost time, 180X150cm, oil- cotton, 2008

Another case of Art Censorship and Prohibition has occured in Germany. The Artist Rubin Hirschbeck was not allowed to show some of his works in his current exhibition in Fürth, near Nürnberg. The two works above are among the banned artworks. What a shame in the 21st Century!

Read more about what happened:

• http://rhausstellungen.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post.html
• http://rubinhirschbeck.blogspot.com/
• http://andre-debus.blogspot.com/2009/01/kunstzensur-im-stadttheater-in-frth.htm
• http://fuerther-nachrichten.de/artikel.asp?art=958298&kat=50
• http://teriellblog.teriell.de/2009/01/30/im-dschungel-ware-das-nicht-passiert/
• http://www.adrianferrero.com/2008/08/11/art-to-see-rubin-hirschbeck/

Philip Kwame Apagya

Philip Kwame Apagya"White house" (1998)
Chromogenic photograph 94 1/2 X 106 1/4 inches
240 X 270 cm

In 2009 Apagya´s "White House" Photography from 1998 gets a new meaning.

(Unfortunately I haven´t found a larger image.)

The Artist was born in 1958, in Sekondi, Ghana.

After working in his father's photography studio, Apagya received a degree in Photojournalism and opened his own studio, P.K.'s Normal Photo Studio. His portraits of Africans are made in front of painted backgrounds displaying highly commercial and Western scenes.

http://www.jackshainman.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=22

http://www.noorderlicht.com/eng/fest00/africa/apagya/

http://www.caacart.com/pigozzi-artist.php?i=Apagya-Philip-Kwame&m=36

http://www.designboom.com/portrait/apagya.html

Sam3

street sculpture by sam3
10/2008 Berlin, Germany

P.P. just loves the nest, a street sculpture by Sam3, a Spanish Street Artist. Sam3 is also doing walls, installations, drawings, videos, editions and his own blog.

To see more gripping works, please visit his website and blog:

http://sam3.es/

http://sam3-security.blogspot.com/

Petra Kodym at gaya

Der Mann, der die Frauen haßte / "The Man who hated Woman", 2008, Petra Kodym, Acrylic, Collage on Canvas, 40 x 30 cm

Exhibition "Zu wenig Blut" by Petra Kodym

Exhibition Opening on Monday, 12th January 2009, 7 pm in Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria, at the Gallery for Young Art.

Latest works of the young Austrian Artist are shown until 16th February.

http://www.petrakodym.com/

http://www.gaya.at/

Sarah Maple

'I Heart Jihad' by Sarah Maple, Digital Print

'This Artist Blows' by Sarah Maple, Digital Print, 20 x 30 inches

Sarah Maple was born in 1985 and grew up in Sussex, where she lives today. She did her BA in Fine Art at Kingston University and in October 2007. Much of her inspiration originated from her being brought up as a Muslim, with parents of mixed religious and cultural backgrounds. Understandably, issues of identity are of huge interest to her. Maple's work often takes on fabricated scenes and situations and she admits she is affected by the art world, as well as from her general surroundings; including friends, family, television and popular culture. She is also greatly moved by music, comedy and literature. She believes these influences are truly woven into her art, and provide the platform upon which her work is realised. Maple states that the aim of her work is: "to give my audience food for thought. I believe comedy is a great tool to achieve this, which is why I choose to portray my conceptual ideas through a light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek approach".
http://www.sarahmaple.com/

Marion Brandstetter

Marion Brandstetter 2008

The new works of Marion Brandstetter, an Austrian artist (born 1971 in Vienna, Austria) who made her bachelor of arts in 1996 at the Wiener Kunstschule, refer to the natural in relation to the artificial, man made. The materials ( bark, vine, polythene sheet, nails, coil springs,..) she uses reflect this idea, sometimes you get the feeling the "dead" material is alive and you don´t always discover what is natural and what is artificial, which makes viewing the works exciting. Plastic suddenly looks like skin, coil springs like worms, the whole assemblage seems to be a strange creature.

http://www.marionbrandstetter.com/

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu "The Naughty Fruits of My Evil Labor", 2005, Ink, acrylic, collage, contact paper, packing tape on mylar,
80 1/2" x 42 1/2"

Wangechi Mutu, born 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya, lives and works in New York, USA. She works with cut outs of lifestyle and porno magazines, packing tape, glitter, ink, etc.. Material that she composes to collages. Wangechi Mutu unveils and magnifies the misconceptions used to define African people, particularly women, who were depicted as malformed, hyper-sexual or un-evolved. The creatures she creates sometimes look bizarre or fantastical, sometimes scary and mysterious.

Right now until December 7th 2008 you can see a great exhibition of the artists at Kunsthalle Wien, project space at Karlsplatz.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/wangechi_mutu.htm

http://www.kunsthallewien.at/en/events/index.shtml?id=3055

http://vielmetter.com/artists/Mutu/wangechi_mutu.htm

http://www.sikkemajenkinsco.com/wangechimutu_works.html

Austria conTemporary

From 14 November 2008 to 08 February 2009 you can visit the Austria conTemporary exhibition (emerging artists exhibition series) at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg.
The 16 artists selected from over 1000 applications are from 25 to 53 years old, so this is one of a few competitions for young art without age limits (!). The whole concept seems exciting and fair, the choice of emerging artists is interesting, curated by Christine Humpl.

Barbara Vögel, 2 Frauen in Luang Trabang erfreuen sich an einer Postsendung, 27.7.2008,

Collage

P.P.s favourite artists are Barbara Vögel- who is an autodidact and has been devoting herself exclusively to art for some years. For her works of art she uses objets trouvés, which she composes into collages without changing them- and Barbara Musil whose art work is based on a conceptual approach. In the video installation "Shift Expectations" she addressed a key issue in the artist’s every-day life, the "rejection letter", and transformed it into a work of art. Both artists works are thouhtful and humorous at the same time.

http://www.sammlung-essl.at/

http://www.barbara-voegel.com/

http://oe1.orf.at/highlights/29661.html

Busy Vienna

photo by p.p.queen, right side: big wellness skull, left side: small joep van lieshout

Until sunday the Vienna Art Week is taking place. You can choose from a load of events- artist talks, lectures, openings, discussions- which makes decision hard sometimes.
P.P.Queen heard an interesting lecture from Robert Morris at the MUMOK and was at the opening of Joep van Lieshouts Wellness Skull, which is located in the center of the city at the Karlsplatz.
"With his ironic monument to transitoriness, van Lieshout alludes to the fitness mania of present-day society that provides a surrogate for a spiritual experience beyond all bodily and material affairs. Metaphorically, the artist regards the skull as man’s mental shell. It is the interplay between supernatural, divine powers and the secular power that Joep van Lieshout thematizes in his “Wellness Skull.” The functionalization of such a symbol, which is characteristic of the artist’s work, lends an ironical tone to it: when the sauna is turned on, white smoke rises from the skull’s openings."(kör)
After the opening there was a fine discussion about Art in public space with Joep van Lieshout, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Brigitte Franzen, Thomas Edlinger and Gerald Matt (Moderation) at the Kunsthalle Wien, project space karlsplatz.

http://www.ateliervanlieshout.com/

http://www.koer.or.at/en/

http://www.kunsthallewien.at/en/

http://www.viennaartweek.at/2008/

Dog Axe

photo by p.p.queen

Have you ever seen a dog wearing a dog-shirt? Have you ever imagined a dog hanging on the wall wearing a dog-shirt? Have you ever thought of a dog hanging on the wall wearing a dog-shirt while a man is doing some wild movement with a pickaxe besides him?

No?

So this could be a proof of the idea that reality goes far beyond the powers of imagination.

Christine Hill

Volksboutique Home Office (2003)

Shown at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NYHome Office Trunk Show

1968 Born in Binghamton, New York1991 /
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD /
1991-1999 Residence in Berlin, Germany /
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Berlin, Germany

“Hill’s Volksboutique can be called a second hand store. Or it can be called a participatory
artwork that takes the form of a functioning salesroom and workshop space. Simultaneously a
shop, an evolving installation, a space for performance, a slice of life, and an amorphous messy
inclusive work open to all questions, it absorbs found objects as compositional elements and
viewers as participants. Above all, Volksboutique is a place of informal human exchange that
raises the conceptual stakes.”
-Kim Levin, in The Volksboutique Guide, 1997.

http://www.eigen-art.com/Kuenstlerseiten/KuenstlerseiteCH/index_CH_DE.html

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/07/interview-with-20.php

Hyungkoo Lee

Hyungkoo Lee,2006
Anas Animatus; Anas Animatus L; Anas Animatus H; Anas Animatus D
2006
Resin, aluminum sticks, stainless steel wires, springs and oil paint
45 x 79 x 53 cm; 49.5 x 31 x 33 cm; 52 x 28 x 34.5 cm; 52 x 30.5 x 33 cm

Hyungkoo Lee
HK LAB-WR
Performance

1969 Born in Pohang, Korea / Lives and works in Seoul /
2002 M.F.A. Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA /
1998 B.F.A. Hong-Ik University, College of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea

"Homo Animatus was an extension of a series of earlier pieces where the artist physically sought to alter – to reduce to cartoon simplicity – his own anatomy. Using plastic forms, enlarging and reducing lenses, Lee created a variety of body costumes that altered both one’s appearance and one’s vision of the real world at the same time. Homo Animatus is, for Lee, the ‘Origin of the Species;’ in a peculiar and devolutionary way, of course, and in keeping with how animated creatures serve as stand-ins for their human counterparts. Canis Latrans Animatus (Wile E. Coyote) and Geococcyx Animatus (Roadrunner) followed and are now joined by Lepus Animatus (Bugs Bunny), Felis Catus Animatus (Tom), Mus Animatus (Jerry), Anas Animatus (Donald Duck) and his three nephews, Animatus H, D and L (Huey, Dewey and Louie).

There’s a whole new bit of forensic activity at work and the viewer is drawn into an exploration of the process behind this reductio ad absurdum." (Howard Rutkowski)

P.P. saw Lee Hyungkoos art at the Biennale in Venice 2007, where he represented Korea. The Queen thinks that his work is impressive, clever, masterly and witty.

http://www.hyungkoolee.net/