FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN
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b. 1973 in Stuttgart, Germany
Lives and works in Los Angeles (CA) and Cologne (Germany)
TRAFFIC ISSUE
122309Removed the audioplayer due to traffic issues. It generats about 1 gb traffic per day which is just to much for my contingent. Will re-add it soon.
Updated SQUARE AND CIRCLE.
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PHILIPPE VOGELENZANG
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b. 1982
Studied art history, applied for the photography department of The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, quit and since then works as an selftought fashion and art photographer.
KRIS KNIGHT
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A qute from his portfolio says:
“Kris Knight is Canadian painter whose work examines performance in relation to the construction, portrayal and boundaries of sexual and asexual identities. Since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2003, Knight’s practice has concentrated on thematic figurative works that are often as attractive as they are disturbing.
The creative focus of Knight’s work involves the construction of imaginary and biographical character-based portraits, that attempt to find a balance between the dichotomies of pretty and menace, myth and reality, sanctuary and susceptibility. His classical meets illustrative paintings allude to various expressions of duality, often dealing with opposing notions of hiding and fronting, defense and vulnerability, innocence and the erotic.
Symbolist and Romantic painting, especially 18th century French portraiture and costume have influenced Knight’s work, as well as historical references of alchemy, mysticism and the macabre. Contemporary notions of androgyny, fashion, grunge, zombies, psychoactive drugs and small town Canadiana have also been depicted within various series. These sometimes-stark portraits of strength, exhaustion, and isolation, are often sugared with magic, mischief and humour.
Throughout Knight’s exhibition career, he has threaded each painting series with the unifying theme of defense and vulnerability, whether it was depicted in his character’s dress (hoodies, trapper parkas, Nordic sweaters, blankets, furs, powdered cake makeup) or seasonal settings (foreboding forests for secretive queer rural teen love, or fields of scarecrow-like characters portraying small town migration at harvest) each painting is linked by this theme and bound by Knight’s own personal stories.”
JEREMY GEDDES
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Oil paintings of cosmonauts levitating in calm city environments, a fainted lady falling down stairs and other things by Jeremy Geddes.
RUBEN BRULAT
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Photographs by amazingly talented 21 year old photgrapher Ruben Brulat (located in Paris, France) who just started taking photos two year ago.
By dealing with the relationship between humanbeings and their environment, wether natural (Primates) or created by humans themselfe (Immaculate) he raises the question if there even exists an environment which we are belonging to anymore. By using his naked body as a small part of and in the environment he reveals our position in the hierarchy of nature and clearly states that we are “no more considerate as individualities part of the stronger specie, but considerate as a basic animal, keeping his entire beauty, drama, symbiosis, or dissociation.” It seems like if he tries to genereate some kind of sense of responsibility in relation to the nature in the viewer and throws up the questions about our modern city life.
He also partizipates in Wallpaper’s graduate 2010 project which introduces some fresh enw faces in 2010.
MICHAEL M KOEHLER
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“I photograph gently to allow the story to unfold in front of, within and beyond me. Capturing the light in these transitory spaces of time reveals the poetry of humanity, integrating elements to provide a heightened human relationship within a solitary moment. Through this alignment, a temporal moment becomes eternal.”
Love the metaphorical elements in his work.