Feeding the artist

photographies by petra kodym

This is just a small part of the culinary delights you get when you are an artist in P.P.Queens Land. The people from your studio neighbourhood like to serve you cake, coffee and fresh fruit when they see that you are working in your studio. "I don´t look extremely thin" says the artist that sent the photos to P.P.Queen "nevertheless my neighbours always want to feed me." So artists from all over the world come to P.P.Land and gain some weight!

Christian Schwarzwald

Christian Schwarzwald, Spiel, 2008, at Galerie Krinzinger Vienna

drawing:installation, mixed media on paper and aluminium, wall-drawing

The artist (born 1971 in Salzburg) is living in Berlin, art degree at Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna and Athens.

His works are drawn installations. Mixed media on paper and aluminium and murals transform the room into a hole new world, making the viewer feel like an explorer.

I saw this one ("Spiel") a few months ago, it really was an impressive experience.

http://www.christianschwarzwald.net/

Artgarbage

photography by petra kodym 2008

P.P.Queen´s hint for every artist: If you produce trash please throw it into your garbage can from time to time. Don´t think everything you do is good just because YOU do it. You will see, it makes you feel free and easy if you get rid of this burden.

Artificial vs Natural

photography by petra kodym 2008

Chemistry, physics, technology and science make it possible to transfer raw material, natural things into so called artificial things. All this disciplines have their origin in nature, so everything that is produced by them are natural as well. That is the way P.P.Queen is thinking about it, at the same time she is quiet aware and also happy that there are many more ways to look at this problem.

Natural vs Artificial

photography by petra kodym 2005

"Are artificial or man made things and goods natural?" is P.P.Queen asking herself again and again. If you see it on a large scale point of view everything that exists on planet earth,or if you want to go further in the universe, has to be natural. How can it exist if it wasn´t natural? Through magical power from outer space, supernatural phenomenon? Man is nature, the raw materials are nature, so everything that is made by man using raw material has to be the same.
The people in P.P.Queens World always talk about themselves and nature, about this being artificial and that being natural.
"Strange world that I´m living in!" the Queen often thinks.

art cinema

From monday to friday this week the first art cinema week is taking place in the Gallery for Young Art in Gmunden, Upper Austria. You can enjoy different kinds of art films drinking Frucade and eating "Salzstangen". Detailed program and film description (german) at http://www.gaya.at/

Von Montag, 15.9. bis Freitag, 19.9.08 / jeweils 19 Uhr findet in der GAYA in Gmunden die erste ART-fiLm-Woche statt. Im gemütlichen Rahmen bei Frucade, Salzstangen oderKaffee werden KünstlerInnen-Portraits mit Video-Beamer gezeigt. Eine filmische Reise der zeitgenössischen Kunst, die einen Bogen von NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE über MAX ERNST zur KINETIK oder Musik-Clips mit EINSTÜRZENDEN NEUBAUTEN UND MARK STEWART AND THE MAFFIA spannt.Detaillierte Filmbeschreibungen auf der Homepage http://www.gaya.at/

Ute Zaunbauer

Ute Zaunbauer, Torso, 2007, Efaplast, Wood, 12x12x10 cm

Ute Zaunbauer, born in 1972, in Vienna, Austria, is an Austrian artist, living and working in Vienna and San Francisco. She made her bachelor of fine arts at the Wiener Kunstschule and her current representation is Hang, San Francisco, USA.

For detailed information about the works, text and to see more works, please visit

http://www.utezaunbauer.com/index2.html