Reality Snow: ‘What Happened?’
April 7, 2010
(c) Reality Snow: ‘What Happened?’, 2010, courtesy of maou-maou gallery, Berlin
Virtual Creatures, 1752
April 1, 2010
Patricia Piccini: Surrogate
(for the Northern Hairynosed Wombat), 2005
(c) patriciapiccini.netIf you are looking for something slightly less creepy than Patricia Piccini’s objects to give your home a touch of mysterious glamour, try Meissen.com’s limited re-edition of Peter Reinecke’s rhinocerus and elephant from 1752. Take a look at the animals and you will instantly believe Meissens’s claim that the artist never saw such animals with his own eyes.
(c) meissen.com
Actually, Reinecke might have seen rhino Clara who during her grand tour between 1741 und 1758 also came to Hamburg, Hannover and Berlin.
(c) meissen.com
The bewilderment caused by these estranged animals is so delicate that
one immediately falls in love with them. The same is true of Piccini’s surrogates–in 250 years from now.
Cemetery of the Nameless, Vienna
January 25, 2010
(c) Christiane Frohmann
Definitely one of the most poetic places I have been to.
Cute Monsters Before Burton II
January 18, 2010
L’araignée qui souris / The Smiling Spider, 1881
Odilon Redon aka Bertrand-Jean Redon, (* April 22, 1840 in Bordeaux; † Juli 6, 1916) was a French Symbolist painter and inventor of a new artistic category: the Noirs (dark charcoal drawings).
Black Metal, Yellow Press
January 16, 2010It was not Norwegian Black Metal which started with burning Christian churches. A Johannessen painting from 1918 proves: It was already a local tradition before Metal came to life. ––– Music saves lives. It does not kill!
Aksel Waldemar Johannessen: Resurrection (1918)
Stuck’s Uncanny Prediction of Freddie Mercury
January 15, 2010
One of the weirdest details in the biography of Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury was him dating Austrian busty star Barbara Valentin during his extended stay in Munich. (Retrospectively Mercury credited her for „for big tits and misconduct“.) Now we have an uncanny explanation for this mysterious affair: metempsychosis. – It was not the 80s they met for the first time, it was the Fin de siècle-hanging out with “the last prince of art of Munich’s great days” Franz von Stuck. We know that Freddie did. Just look at the picture. And we assume that Barbara did as well.
Franz von Stuck – Study for a Male Portray (The Bad Conscience), 1896
Cute Monsters Before Burton I
January 14, 2010
Theodor Kittelsen – Nøkken 1887-92 – (The Water Sprite) Read the rest of this entry »
