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Buffet is back (Biography and Retrospective)
Only a few month after the publication of Nicolas Foulkes´comprehensive and well researched study Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist a retrospective exhibition of this most hated and best forgotten popular artist of the 20th century opens in the French capital, this former lion´s den of canonisation and condemnation. Alongside his favourite subjects […]
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Between Painting and Illustration or: Comparing Cathedrals with Beer Mats?
Preliminary Note: This is a kind of virtual essay on „Painting and Illustration” from the perspective of my studio and my teaching. Thus I hope you will understand that next to assured facts, this essay will be influenced by personal bias and opinion. Antoine Watteau, Billboard of the Art Dealer Gersaint, 1720 / 21 (Source) […]
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Graphic Journalism and the Avant-garde – The ROSTA Windows of the Bolshevik Art Army.
In a situation in which museums, put under pressure by the market, are increasingly withdrawing from their core business of basic historical research on the state of present-day art, it can happen that precisely in this regard they are overtaken by extraordinary initiatives of the market itself, by galleries, for instance, which are now taking […]
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TALKING PICTURE BLUES (including an interview with Andreas Siekmann)
An exhibition from the Melton Prior Institute for Reportage Drawing and Printing Culture in Düsseldorf, organized by Clemens Krümmel for Kunstsaele Berlin, Bülowstraße 90, D-10783 Berlin, November 1, 2013 – January 11, 2014 Included is an interview with Andreas Siekmann on his picture cycle “Die Exklusive. Zur Politik des ausgeschlossenen Vierten” (A film by Clemens […]
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Comics & Journalism – Witnessing the world with pen & paper
Reportage Drawing, Graphic Journalism, Observational Cartooning and Documentary Illustration: all these terms are used to describe journalistic projects where the comic or graphic artist acts as reporter. Each of these names refers to specific angles and techniques, but what they have in common is their simplicity: the world reduced to lines on paper. Before the […]
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Approaches between Palestine and Rio de Janeiro. Some reflections on comic journalism.
Since I read Joe Sacco’s Palestine Special Edition, and its preface entitled ‘Some reflections on Palestine’, in which the author explains the process of producing the masterpiece of his youth, I started to wonder about the relation between Sacco’s comics and my own work. But there is another circumstance. When Sacco came to Brazil in […]
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Comics as reports, a selection # 1 (MePri-News 4/9/09 – 25/1/12)
4.9.2009 Josh Neufeld´s Hurricane Katrina Report Josh Neufeld is known as a long-time contributor to Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical “real life” series American Splendor. In his graphic novel A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge he tells the story of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath „from the perspective of real people still dealing with the storm each and […]
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Cham, the “popular” Caricaturist [
Daumier Again. The following survey by David Kunzle contrasts Daumier’s career with that of the then much more popular Amédée de Noé, who was known under his penname Cham. He was ten years younger and a disciple of Daumier’s role model, the tragically underrated Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, who was banned by Baudelaire from the pantheon of […]