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B4XVI

It’s the one Tumblr to end all Tumblrs: B4XVI, a blog established to document “an invisible conversation between hip hop and art before the 16th century” – happy Easter!

WORDS ON FIRE

Opening tonight on the beautiful premises of AJLArt is a group show of power trio Lawrence Weiner, Ian Hamilton Finlay and one Robert Montgomery – all concerned with words and art.
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Montgomery & Lawrence Weiner
22 March – 26 April 2014

AJLArt
Potsdamerstr. 98a, 2. HH
10785 Berlin

CELLULOID PANIC

The films of Peter Tscherkassky (1958-) hearken back to golden period of experimental cinema.  Despite the capabilities of today’s film editing software, they engender not the uneasy multiple exposures, the interruptions of sprocket holes, and eruptions of grinding sounds populating Tscherkassky’s films.  Since his introduction to the everyman’s Super 8 in 1979, his works, frenetic [...]

SILENCE/SOUND

Evolution of Silence, Matthias Lohscheidt. 2013.
Degeneration of sound to the finer development of listening pleasures.
Might be interesting to read with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise.

IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM

At Kulturhuset in Stockholm an extensive exhibition of Imogen Cunningham’s work is displayed all summer until September 8th. Cunningham (1883-1976) explored many techniques, among them beautifully ghostly platinum prints also featured in the exhibition. Cunningham’s modern photography is timeless and has inspired many in her time and after, especially in her way of creating new [...]

FRESH FROM THE OVEN

‘Let them eat pepper gas’
Recep Tayyip Antoinette
‘Welcome the the gas festival’, ‘There is a beach under the stones’, ‘There is a revolution going on here, Signorita’,‘I could not find a slogan’ were some of the slogans written on the walls of beauteous cities of Turkey, the land of pepper. All you have been seeing in the news was a [...]

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

By following Tilda Swinton and Madonna, please keep spreading the word about a secular, civil revolution against Islamist fascist* prime ministers and neoliberal capitalists in the world…
For a short and effective summary of what has been done.
Protestors working altogether again to extinguish the fire that provocateurs lighted.
*The photo being shown here is depicting the poetic side [...]

THE CITY IS WILDER THAN YOU THINK

As works are beginning on realizing Kater Holzig’s ambitious new utopia on the former premises of its legendary previous incarnation as Bar 25 right by the river Spree, they will be guarded for the entire summer by Robert Montgomery’s wonderful light piece The City Is Wilder Than You Think, thanks to AJL Art. And we [...]

BERLIN GALLERY WEEKEND 02: MIKIO HASUI

Sweetness and light: Japanese photographer Miko Hasui at Comme des Garçons Black, opening tomorrow.
Miko Hasui: The Abstractions of an Imagined Scenery in the Light
Comme des Garçons Black
Linienstrasse 115
10115 Berlin

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