Author Archives: Kanta

Die Krise der Portraitfotografie

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This week we visited a very unusual exhibition at the Aufbauhaus at Moritzplatz in Berlin

After having worked on the photographies for a long time, the fashion designer Wolfgang Joop did not give his ok to present them on an exhibition, just a day before. So, Jens Neumann and Edgar Rodtmann, both famous photographers in Berlin and well known by their serie “Beauties”, could only show the backgrounds of the photos they have made from the designer.

The exhibition has been a great success either way due to the humor of the photographers.

Néstor unterstützt “Realidades”

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The Berlin based architect Néstor Pérez B. supports our videowork “Realidades 2012-1013” due to his participation

Néstor with art aspects member Hans Jürgen Meier

Néstor works as a free lance architect in Berlin and on the island Lanzarote since he left the studio of artist Olafur Eliasson where he worked during the last six years. Now, working alone and together with other artists in Berlin, he is going to realize his own projects. One of those will be a project for sustainability on Lanzarote, where he will work together with his sister, near Arrecife.

We are really lucky beeing supported by this fantastic person for the  Realidades project

UTOPIA_Symposium_2013 out now

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Today we will start with our application for the upcoming UTOPIA SYMPOSIUM on LANZAROTE in March/ April 2013.  All informations are online now and we hope to get many interested people to work with us together on a exciting topic on a very special and even more exotic place. You will dind all info on the web: www.art-aspects.de

The symposium is directed at all art enthusiast, at international artists as well as at students, professors and people working in futher education programs.

Der Zeitpunkt für das Symposium ist so gelegt, dass interessierte Studenten nichts von ihrem Studium verpassen werden und alle anderen Interessierten den Osterurlaub  dafür eine teilnahme nutzen können.

Treffen mit C. Garcia

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We met C. Garcia in the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.The famous spanish artist has been interested to be a part oof our ongoing documentation about artists, that have been born or that are currently or temporarily working on the Canarian Island Lanzarote. So we  will arrage a meeting when we come back to document her work in her studio.

Abunde, Abunde

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We converted Abunde, collector of works of Sipo Pranyko for our project “Realidades”. Stipo Pranyko has been a good friend to Abunde for more than 40 years and she and her husband collected more than 150 works of the artist.

It was a really fantastic meeting in her house on Tenerife where she is living for more than 15 years. She has been supporting the exhibition as well that is running at “TEA” on Tenerife for some months now with a retrospective of Stipo Pranyko. Wit her engagement we could improve our project Realidades as well as the documentation HOMO LUDENS about the artist.

Many thanks to Abunde.

Protagonisten für UTOPIA:the beginning

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For our project UTOPIA: the beginningwe visited different people in different areas of the island El Hierro, pleople that live and work on the island and interested in a collaboration with us as artists. We met very friendly people, unbiased, warm hearted and with great respect and support for our work.

Janay


Susana

Vanessa

Nancy

Bienenkönigin

Dona Flor

 

2. meeting für Utopia_the beginning

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With the invitation to the festival “La mirada de las mujeres”, that will show different artists in different places all over Spain, including the Canarian Islands, we decided to continue our ideas for a participantion.

Michael von Erlenbach from Berlin and Patrick Germanier, born in Switzerland together with his Swiss artists Simone Rüssli, living on the Canarian Island Lanzarote, have started to work on a concept that will be realised as a documentation on the most western island El Hierro.

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Abschlussperformance des MAMA Projektes auf DVD ist fertig

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A double DVD of the project and its results has been produced by art aspects. These films relate the whole working process over 2 years (2010-2012), the several workshops and meetings between the diferent countries, the work on the final performance and the presentation of the performance in the theater “Centro das Artes” in Madeira, with the Dancing with differences group and all the partners and target groups of the project.

This DVD is a experimental, artistic documentary work about the project. It shows a huge panel of artistic tool and creative way of working with mix-ability groups. It can be used as pedagogic tool in several fields of work (education, artistic, social and therapeutic field…). This work and its development aims to give a new perspective of human relation and learning experiences.

Please see a little track out of the project here

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This double DVD contains:

DVD 1
Endless performance, Madeira (75 min.)
Final Interviews with the partners (60 min.)
Interview with the public, theater “Centro das Artes” (4 min.)
 
DVD 2
Lithuania, music and songs (18 min.)
Germany, action painting (23 min.)
Poland, dance (42 min.)
Estonia, tissue and silk (25 min.)
Portugal, rehearsals of the final performance (50 min.)
 

To get the double DVD of the ma-ma project, please contact us

Wasted land in Berlin

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This weekend we will visit the wasteland twinning forum at a waste area, round the Westhafen, in Berlin. Last year some artists have founded the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, working together with other organisations round the world whose main interest is the discussion about art and sustainibility.

There are different workshops going on. Find out more here: http://wasteland-twinning.net/forum/about/

“Keine Macht für Niemand”

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40 years ago the first album „Keine Macht für Niemand“  of the group Ton Steine Scherben appeared. This band became famous for their activities, not only in respect of their music but also because of their political attitude, living in the seperated Berlin. In celebration of this birthday their will be a collaboration of the band with the Community Impulse Initiative e.v. , making an exhibition and different concerts with guest musicians.

art aspects has been visiting the opening, reflecting the necessity of a strong group of people, working in differents aspects of live together to create a better life and to resist against inequity.

Sanatorium- Dokumenta

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How to see a brilliant idea collapsing to a free fall, you can actually see on the dOCUMENTA13. The artists Pedro Reyes did not think on the carefully on the students behaviuor, that were going to realize his work by the different treatments they gave to the visitors, or, he just didn`t think about paying them correctly, as one of the szudents told us. What a mess!!

Wie eine schöne Idee ins Absurde geführt wird, lässt sich derzeit am Sanatorium auf der dOKUMENTA 13 erkennen. Der Künstler Pedro Reyes hat mit seiner wunderbaren Idee der therapeutischen Behandlung durch angeleitete Kunststudenten nicht bedacht, dass die jungen Leute wohl etwas überfordert sind in Fragen der inhaltlichen Umsetzung. Det war denn doch zu Luschi!

20120808-131840.jpgVielleicht lag es aber auch nur daran, dass die jungen Studenten für ihren Job nicht bezahlt werden, wie uns eine “Therapheutin” mitteilte. Das fanden wir denn doch eine nicht nachvollziehbare Sache.

Rembrandt comes for a visit

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The Netherland artist René and his german partner Dagmar came for a visit to the VON ERLENBACH KUNSTSCHULE and art aspects to show their fantastic work. Reneé is working in the tradition of 17th Netherlands painting style and he studied the works of Rembrandt, making copies and developing his work in a contemporary way.  We have had a good time together, because they also like good wine.

Searching for a dancer

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We would like to invite all dancers with desire and time for an experimental dance performance  to support our following friend.

Roland Walter, a wonderful and fun-loving, handicapped man, spastic, but really fit in the head and in the life, searches a dancer who steps in for a colleague who overtook an engagement. A performance is planned in August. There will be enough people from press around, for Roland is very special.

Wir möchten alle Tänzerinnen, die Lust und Zeit für eine experimentelle Tanzperformance haben einladen, unseren nachfolgenden Freund zu unterstützen.

Roland Walter, ein großartiger und lebenslustiger, behinderter Mann, Spastiker, aber super fit im Kopf und im Leben, sucht eine Tänzerin, welche für eine Kollegin einspringt, die ein Engagement ereilte. Es ist eine Aufführung im August geplant, bei der auch genug Presseleute anwesend sein werden.

Wir freuen uns wenn ihr Kontakt mit Roland aufnehmt, am besten per email unter : roland@roland-walter.de

UTOPIA_the beginning

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From July2012 until March 2013 we are going to work on a realisation for the spanish festival “Mirada de las mujeres” in 2013. It builds upon the first documentation we have realised with interviews of artists that have been born,  living and/ or working on the Canarian Island Lanzarote, showing their work, taking time to talk about their ideas and visions.

UTOPIIA is a far more open work of the artist Patrick Germanier and Michael von Erlenbach, realised on the Canarian island El Hierro, the most eastern island and most western point in europe.

The idea is to show nature as the most impresssive performer in creativity and within the work they will examine how creative people work with the possibilities they have on the island.

Even that the festival has been cancelled because of the crisis during the realisation of the work, they will show the results in 2013 within the artaspects society and in different place on the Canarian Islands.

Realities

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Realities is a videodocumentation about artists who live on the Canary island Lanzarote or come from there.

The question which accompanied me during the preparation was which possibilities have artist on the island today, to help giving shape actively towards the diverse changes for a living society. Which possibilities arise for the social and political forces to incorporate artist in the future creation. Because the island Lanzarote can look back in the 70s and 80s at a positive cooperation between the government and the artist Cesar Manrique, a focus also lay on the question to what extent contemporary artists are allowed today to cooperate initially at an equal  position.

 

here we are talking to the most famous artist in Teguise, known as a weired man, absolutely great!