2014-02-18 beatrice richter: close encounters of neon colours | entry by sven

after a longer break time was up to drop some lines for the journal. we are very busy recently, in producing works for upcoming shows and documenting the currently running ones. anyway, even if wanted to stop portraying fellow artists (caused by regretting it in the past sometimes), i cannot quit. actually, it is to exciting to be part of a vivid scene and to get close to people producing and showing.

last year´s KPR group show 'big city lights' brought some new discoveries concerning people and positions within art. beatrice richter turned out to be a unique discovery, wandering between the worlds. studying art at the kunstakademie düsseldorf on the one hand while participating in exhibition projects at decayed venues in gelsenkirchen on the other appears remarkable and worth a second look. bea turned out to have a wide knowledge and understanding of contemporary art, knowing names and disiplines without misusing it for posture. being still a student working out the core of the own style she remains sceptical concerning art and academy inherent systems while keeping openminded to work far away from big names or long biographies.

her own work isn´t completely defined yet (thank god), but it is worth a second look. at first you would realize the bright (neon) colours appearing quite abstract. mixing up different techniques the motive sometimes appears a little later. even then a tension between abstract neon and realistic shape remains.

like an old cat, bea has realized the great artists do not have competitors, so she supports fellow artists and visits a lot more shows than i do. so the snapshot above was taken during the opening of 'any minute now' at kugelpudel, bochum.

looking back to different artists i have introduced here (forgetting those i should have left out) i can say that i generally had a good idea of who you should have an eye on. (think about wolfgang van triel, matthias danberg, oscar ledesma and matthias tränkle to name a few...) so don´t forget to check richter´s portfolio from time to time, over at beatrice-richter.de


recently my favourite from the portfolio. 'ghost ship' doesn´t really look scary, or is it a post-nuke leftover scene?


as seen at the 'rundgang' 2014 at kunstakademie düsseldorf. 'high vent' (diptych) in the shadow of a giant portion ambrosia, a painter among sulpturers. she won´t like to be compared to peter doig, but some atoms are it, actually shining a lot more bright.


plus: sven piayda studio has produced a six minute documentary video on the 'any minute now' show focussing on the video installations by sven piayda. it will be on soon, for the meantime watch this video documentary of 'replica/lightyears' as shown at museum mülheim. please check the exhibitions site for views on the current shows and read the
press review.


update 2014-02-25: the wdr3 radio channel has started to use social media for interacting with and getting listeners. so i was invented among about 100 bloggers and twitterers to join the live on air discussion (wdr3forum) on the chances and experiences of cultural institutions to generate audience and to get in touch.
the discussion was escorted by a video wall displaying the tweets escortong the radio show, mostly sent by the people of the audience in the studio. as i do not have a smartphone by now, i had the chance to follow the discussion, read the tweets and take a look around.
well, the idea of this experiment is quite simple, realizing that we live a version 2.0 world with everyone participating and interacting in the digital layer of contemporary reality and knowing that blogging and tweeting is cool and state of the art, broadcasting media must be a part of it and wanted to test the possibilities here.
the result appeard shocking to me. the discussion among uwe schulz (anchor), wolfram kähler, roland nachtigäller, christoph müller-girod and dirk von gehlen had a high level, reporting ideas and experiences of using more social media interaction in connection with so called high art. the invited bloggers and tweeters around appeard like zombies, starring into tiny displays typing in flat jokes or echoing context-free phrases from the discussion appearing as big letters on the screen. i was scared, all this technology, the devellopment of pocket computers, communication satellites and software programming for a community that presents themselves as the future (often in a very arrogant way) is used to proof that they have nothing to say actually and are not able to interact. all this technology helps to send your own simple thoughts out into the world, preventing you from reading and thinking about other people´s thoughts which would lead to a real interaction.
the blogging smartphone community loves to drop jokes on smartphoneless (older) people, ignoring their abilities or needs, like there is a group of digital-free fossils waiting to be extinct.
i was wondering if i am already to old for progress, if i am afraid of modern technologies and if i am not able to interact or to participate in discussions... well, i cannot test myself, but i do not think so anyway. and it leads to my phrase with which i want to be quoted in 500 years from now: "technology devellops faster than the needs in life", this might be the issue for the 21st century. are all these devices really helping us to devellop, create, interact and get together? yes, if these things really(!) happen, they do.
and please remember, listening to music, watching a 19th century painting or reading a letter is interaction already. if you cannot understand that, i am not interested in your thoughts - wherever you´ll post them.
by the way, the text you have just read is the longest one i have found escorting and reporting this special radio show.


update 2014-02-26: i´m sorry, michi has shown me some more blog reports and there is nothing wrong with the quality and depth of the discussion. i just wantetd to point out that smartphones and twittering is the key to the future of culture and (its) interaction.


so much discourse makes me need some fish and some relaxed time near the sea. i hope to come up with some photographs taken in the netherlands again. don´t forget to visit the kugelpudel group show, by the way!


sven piayda | any minute now / trails
ANY MINUTE NOW
kugelpudel, bochum
2014-02-08 — 2014-03-168
opening 2014-02-08, 7 pm
special events to be announced
press review


kugelpudel.com






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