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Mysteries of the Central Station (exhibition review)
Not translated: Dass die Mysterien der Gegenwart am Hauptbahnhof stattfinden ist nicht erst seit Beuys und Stuttgart 21 klar. Zu Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts wurde er als Emanation des technischen Fortschritts und Brennpunkt großstädtischer Betriebsamkeit wahrgenommen, als Zentrum eines halluzinogenen “Reichs der Kraft.” So lautete der Titel einer populären Publikation von Artur Fürst von 1926, […]
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Examples of handdrawn photo-views and photo-graphic hybrids [Handdrawn Photo-Views by Louis Glaser] (Recommended by Ben Katchor)
Souvenir postcards are a major source of visual documentation, in some cases the only surviving images of places and things.There are several souvenir albums online published by Louis Glaser from Leipzig in the last decades of the 19th century. The Catskill archive explains that these views were made to simulate photographs in texture and tone, […]
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“… The World Was Becoming Numerical.” Informational Graphics and Art in Dierk Schmidt´s “Die Teilung der Erde”
Informational Graphics and Art in Dierk Schmidt’s “Die Teilung der Erde” The essay is part of the comprehensive project documentation “Dierk Schmidt: The Division of the Earth – Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference.” Edited by Lotte Arndt, Clemens Krümmel, Dierk Schmidt, Hemma Schmutz, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig, Cologne 2010. Dierk […]
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Ihlayel A.M. Megdad, Humsum 03.02.2009 , Krankenhaus Husum, Notaufnahme (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
In this episode of her “Enzyklopädie Personae”- project Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi observes the daily routine of a physician in the emergency department of the city hospital Husum.
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Kiowa drawings, a goldrush diary and an illustrated travelogue (Recommended by: Ben Katchor)
16.6.2011 The Collections of the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives include the Smithsonian’s earliest attempts to document North American Indian cultures, begun in 1846. Among the earliest ethnographic collections are the diaries of John Wesley Powell, which recount his exploration of the Colorado and study of the region’s Indians, and the pictographic histories […]
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Documenting an excavation , Tell Munbaqa, Syria, Sept. 2010
In this series of drawings and paintings of the archaeological work at the ancient hill of Munbaqa in Syria Dutch artist and archaeologist Theo de Feyter caught the situations and atmosphere which are characteristic for this kind of activity. The images depict the working procedures of the Syrian labourers and the members of the excavation […]
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“I took with me a painter” – Archaeologists, artists, draughtsmen and photographers in excavation.
After a conversation on archaeology and drawing, which took place in the MePri in 2006, this rather historical contribution is a second inquiry in the relationship between art, visual documentation and archaeology. I. Drawing an excavation In a series of drawings of the archaeological work at the ancient hill of Munbaqa in Syria I tried […]
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Graphic echolocations of societal relevant spaces – In conversation with Jan Rothuizen on his soft maps and reports.
Dutch artist Jan Rothuizen has developed a very special and entertaining kind of topographical journalism, which allows him to leave the usual platforms of the art circuit behind. MePri: You have been making this kind of supra-factual or “soft”- cartographies since 2005 in various international megacities: Guangzhou, Cairo, Beirut and in your native town Amsterdam. […]
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Me too in Verdun # 2 – On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
II) The Old Empire Strikes Back Just a few months after the disastrous end of the campaign against France, Goethe once again functioned as a monarchist campaign propagandist – this time in putting down the Mainzer Republik, the first democratic state on German soil, which had been established with the support of the French revolutionary […]
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TAUCHFAHRTEN Exhibition Catalogue
Exhibition Catalogue TAUCHFAHRTEN (DIVING TRIPS) Drawing as Reportage Edited by Stephan Berg, Kunstverein Hannover; Ulrike Groos, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. With texts by Michael Glasmeier, Karin Gludovatz, Clemens Krümmel, Joachim Rees, Alexander Roob (ger./engl.). Softcover, 232 p., with 420 mostly colored illustrations. Richter Verlag, ISBN 3-937572-15-5 Bookstore, ISBN 3-937572-17-1 THE CATALOGUE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE BUT CAN […]