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Katerfamily
Henrieke Ribbe belongs to the very few real masters in the empathic art of portraiture. Her documentation on the Berlin club Kater Holzig was created in 2013/14. Together with her fiancée Jake Basker (aka Jake The Rapper), then a resident DJ at Kater Holzig, she came up with the idea to paint the people behind […]
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Jan Vegter´s art of processing memory. A biographical sketch.
Jan Vegter was born March 29, 1927, in Voorburg (The Netherlands). He died there in 2009. Almost his entire life he lived in this small town near The Hague. Jan got his education as an artist at the Royal Academy at The Hague from 1945 till 1950. One of his teachers was Willem Rozendaal (1899 […]
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Meppel, an odd year (Meppel, een raar jaar), ca. 1992 – 1995
After his retirement as a drawing teacher in 1992 Jan Vegter (1927-2009) started to work intensely on the visualization of his memories of crucial periods of his life. To focuse his memory performance he decided to build detailed scale models of certain technical and topographic conditions. This amazing series was the first example of his […]
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Travelling through Hotel Turgot by cuts. The Art of Wendelien Schönfeld
One rainy afternoon at a friend’s house in Amsterdam I saw a book with a series of colour woodcuts. In the woodcuts the rooms, garden and façades of a former private hôtel in Paris were depicted. In the first print I saw the front door, in the second I entered the building. I saw a […]
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Escapes. William Hogarth and the consequences
Not translated: Fünfundsiebzig Jahre nach seinem Tod tauchte William Hogarth als Akteur in dem Dokumentarroman Jack Sheppard von William Harrison Ainsworth auf, der ab Januar 1839 als Fortsetzungsgeschichte in dem vom jungen Charles Dickens herausgegebenen Literaturmagazin Bentley´s Miscellany abgedruckt wurde. Auch in The Portrait , einer der Illustrationen des Romans, die von George Cruikshank besorgt […]
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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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Georg Winter´s UCS moving pictures:: Losing Horses. – Scene 3: The Haus zur Trapp in Pulheim
Shooting finds its climax andcompletion on the Stommeln village green. In the remake of the novel, Haus zur Trapp, built in 1785 and in reality now a café and hotel, serves as the inn Don Quixote believes is a castle. The fair maidens standing at the door are actually “two young women, girls of the […]
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Georg Winter´s UCS moving pictures:: Losing Horses. – Scene 2: The former drive-in theater in Pulheim
A German/Hungarian Film, UCS Self Organizing CinemaDirection: Vera Poros, Kerstin KachelmannScreenplay: Georg WinterBased on the novel Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraShot in Ukiyo Real Time for the first time with “UCS Passive Acting” by Johnny Depp andChristopher Lee (both of whom were requested), reversed stunts at three locations: theStommeln windmill, the former drive-in theater […]
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Georg Winter´s UCS moving pictures:: Losing Horses. – Scene 1: The Stommeln windmill
In September 2005, the German-Hungarian film production “Losing Horses / Veszítö Lovak” by Ukiyo Camera Systems moving pictures was shot at locations in Pulheim and Stommeln, not far from Cologne. Georg Winter´s Real-Time Recording Method attempted to create filmic situations (Self Organizing Cinema) based on the construction of the reality of “Don Quixote” by Miguel […]
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The New Flesh (MePri-Exhibition)
The exhibition “The New Flesh” was compiled by Clemens Krümmel and took place from September 13 till October 18 in the exhibition space “after the butcher” (Spittastraße. 25, 10317 Berlin). It was planned long beforehand – based not only on an affinity to the work of one of the space’s organizers, Thomas Kilpper, an artist […]