Ausstellung -TORPOR- in der ARTY FARTY Gallery Köln

Seit letztem Samstag läuft in der Kölner Arty Farty Gallery die Ausstellung TORPOR mit ausgewählten Arbeiten bulgarischen Künstlerin Marina Muun und des niederländischen Künstlers Raymond Lemstra.
Wir haben die Ausstellung von jemanden empfohlen bekommen der bei der Vernissage am Samstag war und beide Künstler vorher nicht kannte. Und da die Person ansonsten soviel mit Kunst zu tuen hat wie Alice Schwarzer mit Hugh Hefner, (sorry ist doch so) gehen wir davon aus das die Ausstellung wirklich lohnend ist. Die Portfolio Seiten der beiden sehen auf jeden Fall sehr interessant aus. Die Ausstellung läuft noch bis zum 2. März und wer in der Nähe ist sollte kurz vorbei schauen.

Für alle Kölner: Es handelt sich um die ARTY FARTY Gallery in der Licht Straße, NICHT den ARTY FARTY Artspace auf der Maastrichter !!!

ARTY FARTY Gallery l Lichtstr. 26-28 l 50825 Cologne l Germany Open: Tuesday - Friday 14:00 - 18:00

2nd February to 2nd March 2013 ArtyFarty Gallery Cologne will show selected works of Bulgarian artist Marina Muun and Dutch artist Raymond Lemstra. On a total space of 100 square metres (m²) visitors will be drawn into their both fantastic and grotesque imagery. All pictures have been drawn manually on paper.
Raymond Lemstra will show five of his graphite drawings and prints. Lemstra's nuanced shades of grey create a very special atmosphere - faces transform into masked characters. Lemstra focuses on abstract forms and portraits and works in extreme detail. His radical and illustrative method touches on infantile-naive painting and excels in its selective nuancing of forms. He draws on an arsenal/kaleidoscope of awkward visual bits and pieces and moulds geometric forms into expression and emotion on paper. Apart from his drawings he will be presenting his first sculpture "FYRST" - created in Paris in 2012.
What is more, there will also be a series of eight of Marina Muun's new mixed-media pictures (silk screen and drawing) on display at ArtyFarty Gallery. Her pictures both embody and merge forms of architecture, playdolls, ceramics, nature and mythology. Drawing on such diverse visual fields, Muun creates most colourful and bizarre drawing that invite spectators to indulge in daydreaming. Her pictures are populated by friendly creatures from another, magical world; their bodies are composed out of simple, geometric elements that Marina Muun succeeds in animating most soulfully.

MOSES & TAPS™ Exhebition ‘TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™’ in Köln

Diesen Freitag, am 1. Februar 2013 um 19:00 Uhr wird in der Kölner Galerie RUTTKOWSKI68 (Bismarckstrasse 68) die erste MOSES & TAPS™ Ausstellung mit dem Titel ‘TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™’ eröffnet.
Nachdem das 2011 veröffentlichte Buch INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER: MOSES & TAPS™ eine erste Übersicht über die umfangreichen Arbeiten der Künstlergruppe gewährte, präsentiert die kommende Einzelausstellung TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™ nun Neues von MOSES & TAPS™die ebenfalls als ERNI & BERT™ oder TOPSPRAYER™ bekannt sind. : Bilder, die Graffiti gekonnt und überlegt von ihrem herkömmlichen Medium wegbewegen, re-interpretieren und, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes, auf eine Reise schicken.  WERTICAL hat mit Ihnen ein Interview über Inkognito-Dasein, Pseudonyme, das Internet und ihre Ausstellung in der Galerie Ruttkowski;68, zu deren Vernissage sie aus Sicherheitsgründen nicht anwesend sein werden, auf Deutsch hier!

Dauer 1. Februar bis 17. März Vernissage Facebook Event
RUTTKOWSKI68
Bismarckstrasse 68
50672 Köln
Phone +49(0)221 1699 3647
info@ruttkowski68.com
HOURS (during exhibitions)
Mon-Fri 15-20h
Sat-Sun 17-20h
Tue closed and by appointment

(picture above via Wertical)

Whether graffiti is described as scribbling, art, vandalism, or urban propaganda, it has long hovered between unlawful and lawful expression. Today, the gap between the two has narrowed. While street graffiti remains a form of vandalism, it is increasingly considered an art form, too. Some of those notorious paint sprayers are now defined as graffiti artists, whose works are exhibited, traded, collected, and analyzed. Graffiti has become a key influence in the world of contemporary art.
One group, known variously as MOSES & TAPS™, ERNI & BERT™, and TOPSPRAYER™, has grabbed the attention of both law enforcement officials and art critics. The ever-changing name of this collective is not borne out of indecision or marketing. Rather, it helps conceal the identities of its members while still defying the unwritten laws of graffiti: anonymity. The pseudonym is the signature that gives the work recognition value – for fans and for the police as well.
In 2011, the collective, who rigorously decided against an online presence, published a volume of their works for the first time. Across 288 pages, INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER: MOSES & TAPS™ is a showcase of the group’s ambition to take graffiti to another level. Over the course of 1000 days, they spray-painted 1000 railway carriages. Some looked like typical graffiti, others were more conceptual. One work involved painting false doors and windows on a wagon, a trompe l’oeil effect that led to great confusion on the platform the next morning. On another carriage, the artists took a more ironically playful approach. They spray-painted a sign like those issued by German railway authorities, which warn that the train’s surface is protected by anti-graffiti coating.
TOPSPRAYER EXPRESS™ opens on February 1st, 2013 at Ruttkowski;68 gallery in Cologne, Germany. It is the first solo exhibition by the artists. As the title implicates, the artists give graffiti a ride that is bound to a new direction. The works on show, re-interpret and transfer graffiti from its convential medium to another surrounding.
The artist collective will remain incognito and won’t be present at any time.
Read the Wertical Interview with MOSES & TAPS™