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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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On Cotman´s Trail in Normandy
John Sell Cotman is mainly known for his groundbreaking retinal and neoclassical approach to landscape painting which showed him as an early precursor of Cezanne. In contrast, his huge body of etchings enjoys a rather bad reputation. It is said that his printed works, which he mainly executed in commission of his patron Dawson Turner, […]
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Robert Weaver VI: Book Illustrations
“Weaver established the idea of the draughtsman being an equal to the writer of the text. He should have had a great influence on the world of text and image publishing, but for the most part, art directors and editors did not demand the kind of picture-writing that Weaver had in mind. In fact, few […]
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Münir Camli, Hamburg 23.10.2010 , Centrum Moschee / Neugraben Moschee (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
By now, the “Enzyklopädie Personae”, a work in progress by Korean artist Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi, consists of 48 notebooks ( size A5), where she records her encounters with people from various contexts. On October 10, 2010 she met the imam of the Centrum Moschee in Hamburg, where she lives since 1994.
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Me too in Verdun # 1. On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
I) The Campaign Against the New Insanity Was Goethe a war artist? The first section of the three-part historical essay, which sheds light on the drawing activities of the poet in connection with his political endeavours, focuses on his participation in the campaign of the monarchist First Coalition against revolutionary France in 1792. Only thirty […]
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Illustrated Russia
These drawings were made on-site on a stay in Moscow and the provincial towns around from July 08 to August 09 of 2009. The series focuses on Russia as a country of dramatic transitions, on the contrast between the remnants of its czarist and Soviet past and the current signs of a new global capitalist […]
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Recommended by Susan Turcot: Lili Rethi, organismic topographer (1894 -1971)
Much more than her precursor Joseph Pennell, young Viennese artist Lili Rethi was able to transform static architectural sites into energetic, vibrant organisms. The illustrations of the German version of Upton Sinclair´s Letters to Judd, an American Workingman (Briefe an einen Arbeiter, Leipzig- Wien 1932) already revealed her specific talent to praise the processes and […]
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Robert Weaver V: Industrial Scenes II
The image of “Fortune” was deeply connected with a specific artistic American tradition of Social Realism. The Magazine was founded in 1939, in the era of the Great Depression and an art director like Leo Lionni, who was resonsible for the appearence of the magazine from 1940 on,updated this specific ethos by engaging illustrators like […]