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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Presoviet Color Backup

In most photographs the early 20th century appears grey. Grey as the Russia layed out in my 80s school atlas. However, in 1901/02 photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) used a special technique to ‘capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined [...]

Hail to Daniel, the pilot

It was yesterday at 9:45pm at Brussels airport that we had passed miscellaneous counters and security lines, an hour of delay time and finally reached the last desk separating us from our plane. There it turned out that we (and all check points before) were ignorant of being 24 hours late for the flight I [...]

Graphic St. Petersburg

On the night of 13 June 2010, Viagra,.. ‘Voina Group‘ turned St. Petersburg’s Liteyney Bridge into a graphic message to the Federal Security Service offices at 4 Liteyney Prospekt – half a minute before it was raised. Sure, childish in its way, but scaled to a remarkable level.

POSTSCRIPT: BERLIN PUBLISHING WEEKEND

Here you can find some photographs of last weekend’s Unter dem Motto – thank you guys, we’re looking forward to next year.

WATERMELONS UNDER THE BED

Brazilian artist Renata Lucas usually works with already existing situations. Based on fictions, she intervenes into found landscapes and architectures making the background become the main character. Her displacements cause spaces to become the main focus of attention revealing their deeper structures and proposing meaningful transformations. In her new work she creates a geometric alteration [...]

MONO.KLUB #29: TILDA SWINTON

Dear Friends,
we’re on a roll now, as you might have noticed, so just after the dust has settled after Tuesday, we’re already on to our third mono.klub in the space of ten days – and this is a special one, what feels like a birthday present to ourselves:
And thus, we’re extremely pleased to invite you [...]

LE GUN RAMPAGE IN LA MUNICH

In case you’re spotting some weird behaviour by scruffy English lads in and around Munich these days, chances are they’re members of the wild bunch that is Le Gun. Despite the French insinuation in their name, the art collective is firmly rooted in British soil, including all the eccentricities that come with island life. We [...]

WORLD FOOD BOOKS

WORLD FOOD BOOKS
C/O: Y3K Gallery
205 Young Street
Fitzroy 3065, Melbourne
Victoria, Australia

POSTSCRIPT: MONO.KLUB #28 WITH CYPRIEN GAILLARD

Well, what a wonderful launch it was – sometimes things just fall into place when the location, the program, the sound and the audience just click; last night was such a night when everything just felt right, and it was a joy to see Cyprien’s work in such a great location as Splace. More than [...]

SCHADENFREUDE IM SCHATTENREICH

Speaking of contributors/collaborators: It’s always great to see Aaron Rose (and his band The Sads) come to town – not only for special events, but also just for laughs and some insane German lessons (hence the title of this post). This month he’s back in Berlin to present some new works at Circleculture Gallery, so [...]