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Berlin // Opening Reception @Direktorenhaus

Celia-D. Klaue — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:29:00 +0000

The Exhibition »Analog Digital Man – Design at the interface” at the Direktorenhaus am Krögel in Berlin has its opening reception on Friday, September 5th (INVITATION ONLY)

During the time of the 6th – 15th of September,Shutterstock Inc. provides together with ten of the leading German Design Studios the visions of human existence at the interface between analog and digital world. German designers present their vision of human existence within these vanishing borders.

How does tomorrow feel for us? What is already possible and what allows technology in the future for us? Posters, happenings, interviews and installations will accompany the exhibition.

Friday evening the guests are invited to celebrate the event with a concert and some cocktails.

„Urban Appetizer“ has 2 x 2 guest list capacities for you. All you have to do:

Visit our Facebook-Page and share the announcement post + send your complete name to: ck@celiaklaue.com

DEADLINE THURSDAY ,SEPT.4th, 3PM

Good luck!

Picture: Direktorenhaus Berlin,2014

EXHIBITION „Analog Mensch Digital“

Direktorenhaus, Am Krögel 2, 10179 Berlin

Opening Reception Sept. 5th, 2014// 7pm – 11 pm (invitation only)

Opening Hours Exhibition September 6. – 15. 12.00 pm – 6 pm

ABOUT DIREKTORENHAUS

Since June 2010 the Direktorenhaus in Berlin has been a central venue for art and design and has brought together artists, designers and researchers from all fields of specialization to share their visions and ideas.. Traditional arts and crafts can here rub shoulders with analogue technology and digital media. All insights of practical use are welcome, be they embodied in illustrations, glass ceramics or product designs, and are sponsored by generous patrons and organizations, private firms and government agencies.

Source: Direktorenhaus.Com

www.direktorenhaus.com

www.handmade-worldtour.com

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Helen Levitt – The Eye Of The Street

Celia-D. Klaue — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:26:00 +0000

The 1913 Brooklyn born photographer Helen Levitt (* 1913 – † 2009) would turn 101 years these days.

Helen Levitt, New York, 1940

Helen Levitt was an American photographer and filmmaker. She was one of the most important representatives of the New York Street Photography. Her favorite sujet were children playing in the street, and everyday life in the streets mostly of the urban poor residents of the City.

Her pictures inspired generations of photographers and curators. In 1931 she started working as a portrait photographer in Brooklyn due what she met Henry Cartier-Bresson and got inspired to buy her first Leica Camera to capture the street-life of her hometown. In 1943 she had her first own exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

She also gained reputation as a filmmaker. Her movie „The quiet one“ was nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar in 1948. Helen Levitt’s films are regarded as vanguards of the independent low-budget film genre.

Retrospectives of her work have been held at several museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, International Center for Photography and the Centre National la Photography in Paris.

Recently Helen Levitt lived in New York, where she died in 2009 at the age of 95 years at her home in Greenwich Village.

Helen Levitt, New York, 1988

Helen Levitt, New York 1972

Helen Levitt, New York, 1978

More

Watch the Movie “The Quiet One”

Portfolio

Exhibition

Helen Levitt “In the Street”

Jepson Center, April 25-September 21 2014

Website: Telfair Museum, Georgia

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Jeff Koons: A Retrospective

Celia-D. Klaue — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:34:00 +0000

New York these days is showing off more Jeff Koons to see than you can actually handle at these temperatures. Not only the Whitney Museum lets us witness the largest retrospective ever, even infront of the Rockefeller Center you can marvel at an eleven meter-high-rocking horse made of flowers plus thanks to the infamous photographer Annie Leibovitz, who portrayed the artist for the current issue of the American “Vanity Fair Magazine”, we all know now, how the artist looks like naked from the front and the back, today, by the age of 59. Namley pretty and in good shape.

Since June, the dark, characteristic Marcel Breuer Building on Madison Avenue shows the whole 35 years of the artists making. The curator Scott Rothkopf arranged a chronologically, frugal selected and surprisingly modest show, which leads into Koons self centered cosmos and shows that the artist at an early stage deals with sujets he picks up again in his later work.

Jeff Koons is known for using products of consumer culture as starting points and alienates or imitates them. He works mostly with objects from the fine art, industrial products and advertising. Especially the latter always takes back to sexual cues. His artworks mostly convert because of their ironic effect between kitsch and context. Koons counts according to an auction in 2013 of the piece “Balloon Dog” (Orange) for 58.4 million dollars at “Christie’s” in New York, as the most expensive living artist in the world.

The people who don´t like the artist´s perfectionist fetish objects, will not be convinced to the contrary by this exhibition. Koons fans, however, will largely enjoy the loud and shrill show at New York’s Whitney Museum.

Hennessy, The Civilized Way to Lay Down the Law//oil inks on canvas

JEFF KOONS: A RETROSPECTIVE
JUNE 27th – October 14th, 2014

Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY 10021

Text: C.Klaue

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