Friday, May 23, 2008

Takashi Murakami


Takashi Murakami (b. 1963), one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking Japanese artists of the 1990s. His work ranges from cartoony paintings to quasi-minimalist sculptures to giant inflatable balloons to performance events to factory-produced watches, T-shirts, and other products, many emblazoned with his signature character, Mr. DOB.

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This British street artist with an international reputation shows and explains some of his best works.

STORM THORGERSON


http://www.stormthorgerson.com/
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GOSPODARI FOTOGRAFIJE na Profotos.com-u

Profotos.com is a premier professional photography website, specializing in the online promotion of photography and photographers.

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ROBERT DOISNEAU

Robert Doisneau is one the most famous French photographers, lived from 1912 to 1994. Doisneau's photographs were ones of common people, in common situations. He liked to wander in the streets of Paris suburbs, and to take his photographs as he went. His most famous photograph, Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, is a good representation of his style. Doisneau liked to practice photography with intuition, rather than with science.
http://www.robertdoisneau.com/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Doisneau
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Robert Doisneau, Le Basier de L'Hotel de Vilne, 1950.

RON MUECK- sculptor hiper-realist

Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi’s living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say, Mueck’s one of the leading contemporary artists of today.
http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck

AXELFOTO

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MISIPILE logo studio

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Miš i Pile focuses on simple, high impact brand identity development and visualization and development of simple, attractive and easy-to-use interfaces.










Tuesday, May 6, 2008

TACHELES Kunst Haus Berlin



The History of TACHELES

“Tacheles” is an old Jewish word meaning to disclose, to reveal or to speak clearly. The slang meaning of the word was bringing to an end.

The Art-Centre Tacheles is situated in a ruin in Berlin Mitte. Located in former East Berlin, the area was a Jewish quarter in the past and has now become a meeting point for people interested in arts and culture and for those who think they are.

The building itself was the entrance of the Friedrichstadt-Passage, a huge shopping mall built in 1907.

Within a relatively short time, the department store went bankrupt, and in 1928 the house was taken over by AEG, that founded the Haus der Technik, a display and marketing space for their products.

In Word War II parts of the building were used by the Nazi Party for administration and organization departments, and in the 5th floor French prisoners of war were detained.

Between 1943 and 1945 during the allied air raids the building was hit by bombs several times and got partly damaged, but not completely destroyed.

After 1948, one side of the building was still used for many different purposes, but the other side was slowly torn down, step-by-step, as the East Berlin government had no funds to restore it properly and for the distant future they had other plans for this area. So meanwhile, the house became just a storage for building material. The very last structure still standing was planned to be demolished in April 1990.

In Febuary 1990 the building was discovered and taken over by a group of young artists from all over the world and in the meantime it has been declared a historical architectural monument, regarding its special steel construction.

After the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, a subculture which had its main focus on autonomy, spontaneity and improvisation arose in the former East Berlin areas Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg and Friedrichshain. Artists and individualists from all over the world used the plurality of available free spaces to put alternative lifestyles to the test.

Due to the individualistic character of the building and the mass of creative activities taking place, the Tacheles soon became famous. Right from the start, Tacheles was a centre of development and realization of individual ways of thinking, of the creative contamination of art and living as well as the testing of artistically and urban ideas. Many international artists staged performances or concerts here, exhibited paintings, sculptures and installations. This essential thought still exists today and the program was even extended further by staging and organizing performances, theatre, various workshops, poetry and special events.



During its existence, Tacheles in its function as an international arts centre has greatly influenced and formed the surrounding area in a positive as well as in a negative sense. By now the once creative surrounding area has mutated to a napless trend quarter.

Tacheles also attained recognition from the Berlin government and receives a varying amount of subsidy every year in order to help finance a part of its many projects. Other money is raised through commercial enterprises such as the cinema and the bar.

Because of its special architecture and the “ruin appearance” of the rearside and due to its 13 years of activities in the international arts field, “Kunsthaus Tacheles” became quite a celebrity on a national and international scale and is also listed in many travel guides of Berlin.

In the course of changes since the wall came down, Tacheles has been confronted with the difficult challenge of remaining true to its roots and ideals without becoming too sentimental about the old squatter times.

http://super.tacheles.de/cms/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunst_Haus_Tacheles

http://www.essential-architecture.com/G-BER/BER-038.htm




cafe zapata berlin


``Located on the ground floor of Tacheles, the legendary squat-turned-cultural center, Zapata is a weird, wonderful and way-out establishment typical of Berlin's alternative scene. Decorated with metal and barbed wire, tins and trash art, it is all fairly surreal. ``

``Located in the legendary Tacheles, the alternative art center on Oranienburger Straße, is a cafe that is just as unusual: the Cafe Zapata. The Cafe Zapata´s interior was designed by artists from the neighbouring galleries and studios and is a popular hangout for the alternative scene. Metal objects, bare walls and a rough industrial charm are what's most striking about this location, that and such gimmicks as a dragon with integrated flamethrower over the bar that is randomly spitting fire. The Cafe Zapata is not a stylish design bar, but a Berlin landmark that's ideal for a few beers before hitting the clubs around there.``

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