It may be an Addiction

Spark

If you have talented Friends you might as well tap their Potential ;-)
So why not curate a PingPong Match between their different creative Approaches?

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‘The World is increasingly becoming the Book I should have written’ is a freshly launched Collaboration with this declared Ambition: Blending Mind Snippets with Image Sparks, either found or self-created. Best Case, they clash, they implode or they oscillate - like the Piece below.

‘It may be an Addiction, but I have earned it.’ a Co-Creation between Judd Labarthe, Frank Bauer and Jan Pautsch.

Judd Labarthe
Frank Bauer

It may be an Addiction

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It’s the Space In Between

{Where the wild Things are}
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The first Spark never matches the final Execution. It just triggers a Chain of Transformations. But if the Story fits the Players and the Set, then there is a good Chance it will turn into Success on its Way to the final Cut.

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Close before or close after is where the Sparks hide. And in the Absence of Expectation, the Unexpected gets a Chance to mutate into the Beast. That’s when Trashbag and Glasseye become my Friends. Just mirrored. No additional Composing required.

‘It’s the Space In Between’ is a Co-Creation between Loïc Sattler and Jan Pautsch.

Loïc Sattler Lysergid

Recognition Trendland

Its the Space In Between
Its the Space In Between

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Monstres d’Acrylique

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The initial Idea was to create Body Enhancements - amorphous Body Outfits that turn Beauties into Beasts. But although we really loved the Thought behind it, the Approach soon turned out to be too generic for our Project.
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We all got very excited once we backed off of that first Concept and instead began the Process of layering flat Photographs and actual Splashes of real Paint onto one another. ‘Monstres d’Acrylique’ is a Co-Creation between Damien Elr°y Vignaux, Loïc Sattler and Jan Pautsch.

Damien Elroy Vignaux Elr°y
Loïc Sattler Lysergid

Recognition Trend Hunter Magazine

Monstres dAcrylique
Monstres dAcrylique
Monstres dAcrylique

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Sleights

Pattern of No

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On Set during a Product Shoot for La Prairie, the Photographer Attila Hartwig and I developed the Idea to incorporate Mind Maps into liquid Surfaces and, at the same Time, photographically document the Processes of Overlapping and Transformation of these Mind Snippets.
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The Idea didn’t survive long, it simply failed the Reality Check. But in Return this Series of Images originated from our initial Concept - a Gift of manipulated Chance.

‘Black and White may be the greatest Act of Resistance now available to us.’
Felix Gonzales-Torres quoted from: Hans-Ulbricht Obrist: Wolfgang Tillmans. Conversation Series.

Recognition Behance Feature / Computerlove™ / zeroin / QBN

Pattern of No
Pattern of No
Pattern of No
Pattern of No
Pattern of No
Pattern of No
Pattern of No
Pattern of No

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Gospel

Semi-Permanent
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Design is Kinky is publishing the new Edition of their Annual Semi-Permanent Books which will be used during their upcoming Semi-Permanent Events in Melbourne and Perth.

‘But what is Semi-Permanent? First of all, Semi-Permanent is a Design Event. In Addition to a Major Conference, there are a Number of Side Events taking Place including Exhibitions, Competitions, Workshops and Parties. In other Words, it’s a Week long Celebration of all Things ‘Design’. From Graphic Design, Film, Art and Illustration, to Web Design, Photography and Visual Effects, to Animation, Graffiti, Motion Graphics and Stop Motion; all these Things and More.’

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‘Gospel’ is a 2-Part Design I developed exclusively for this Book. But as is so often the Case, there’s no Guarantee that the Piece will make it into the final Selection.

Semi-Permanent

Recognition Netdiver Magazine {ISSN 1911-866X} / Designers’Couch

Gospel
Gospel
Gospel
Gospel

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Terby

Drawing Defense
Object Marker, Motor, Glue

Exploring the Disappearance of artistic Authorship behind the Piece: Terby is a dumb Object. Just like the same-named Protagonist in Bret Easton Ellis’s ‘Lunar Park’, it aggressively rotates around itself leaving behind no more than black Traces.

Terby
Terby
Terby
Terby

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The Black Hit of Space

Spatial Work, Environment Print {200×300 cm}, Acrylic on Wall, Balls / Dimension variable

Developed in Co-Creation with Veysel Oender {Amok} and Roman März.

“‘The Black Hit of Space’ is an Experiment, an experimental Design Set Up in order to find out what emerges from the close Collaboration between a Photographer, an Ex-Writer and an Artist. What happens, if three individual forms of artistic Expression co-occupy a Space? And, what if the title ‘The Black Hit of Space’ serves as the Inspiration to the Project? The Outcome is a room-encompassing Installation - both attacking and absorbing. An interplay of Forces, that distinctively continues in our further Projects.”
BLAKHTFSP3 {TheBlackHitOfSpace™}

“When the Exhibition, ‘BACKJUMPS – The Live Issue’ opened, it hit like a Bomb. Within six Weeks up to 12,000 visitors wanted to see the Rooms decorated by Street Artists of the Kunstraum Bethanien in Berlin.” Die Zeit.de

BACKJUMPS - The Live Issue #3, Urban Communication und Aesthetics, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin

Participating Artists and Projects: Anti privé, AKIM ONE NGUYEN, ASH, Blu, CEMNOZ, CUBABRASIL - Berlin, Dave the Chimp, Brad Downey, Graffitimuseum, HuskMitNavn, Jay One Ramier, Carlos Mare139 Rodriguez, Mode 2, NOMAD, Migratory Birds of the Solovei Republic, Reclaim your City, Oliver Rodriguez-Kroll, SKKI, StudioAnti™, Study of Style, Surrend, Daniel Tagnoe, Veysel Önder/ Jan Pautsch BLAKHTFSP3 {TheBlackHitOfSpace™}, ZEVS

BACKJUMPS - The Live Issue #3

Press Feedback: art-in-berlin.de / spex.de / de-bug.de

Publication: BACKJUMPS: The Live Issue #3

The Black Hit of Space
The Black Hit of Space
The Black Hit of Space
The Black Hit of Space
The Black Hit of Space

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Twin Set™

Object Coaldust, Paraffin, Curd Soap, Mirror Display

‘Black and White’, ‘Good and Bad’, ‘Clean and Filthy’ - Taking into Account such last-century Terms, Twin Set™ liberates Products from their primary Coding in Order to provide Scope for continuous Development, and thus, give Way to entire new Dimensions of the Here and Now.

sin-berlin, a unique Exhibition-Cum-Shop in Berlin, offered Products from various Manufacturers in limited Editions - exclusively designed for a one-month-only Exhibition in a very special Showroom.

‘Opening for a Month in Berlin’s trendy Mitte District, the Project also known as “sin-berlin” is a curious Mixture of Exhibition and Shop, where more than 70 international Designers, Architects and Artists will create unusual Products exclusively for the aforementioned Department Store.’

Press Feedback Berliner Morgenpost / Deutsche Welle / Die Welt

Twin Set™

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Why I Go to the Movies Alone

Object Moving Message Boards, Photograph,
Excerpt from Richard Prince: The Perfect Tense, Why I Go to the Movies Alone
Co-Creation with Berlin based Photographer Roman März.

‘She had to be condensed and inscribed in a Way that his Expectations of what he wanted her to be, {and what he wanted to be too} could at least be possibly, even remotely, realized. Overdetermination was Part of his Plan and in a strange Way, the same kind of psychological After-Life was what he loved, sometimes double loved about her Picture.’ Richard Prince: The Perfect Tense, Why I Go to the Movies Alone, Tanam Press, N.Y. 1983

Why I Go to the Movies Alone
Why I Go to the Movies Alone

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