Vitus Weh (Hg.)
BETONBLUMEN 012
NEOZOON
Dt./Engl., 16 S., zahlreiche Abb. in Farbe., 13 x 18 cm, klammergeheftet, 2012
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-902833-17-4
€ 5,00 [A]
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Der Terminus Neozoon bezeichnet eine vom Menschen eingeschleppte, ursprünglich nicht heimische Tierart, die sich in ihrem neuen Habitat freudig vermehrt. Das deutsch-französische KünstlerInnen Kollektiv gleichen Namens schneidet Tiersilhouetten aus alten Pelzmänteln und platziert sie im öffentlichen Raum. Hinter jedem Fell steht eine kompromisslose Erforschung des Umgangs einer modernen Zivilisationsgesellschaft mit dem Tier. In Wien sind es sich ihrem Dresseur entledigende Pferde, die im Stadtraum-Jungle auftauchen. In der Street Art Passage im MuseumsQuartier setzt die Gruppe die sogenannte Strategie des „culture jamming" ein, eine Störungs-Taktik die benutzt wird das "corporate advertising" zu untergraben. Der Katalog dokumentiert die Projekte und enthält ein kurzes Interview mit dem KünstlerInnenkollektiv.
Vitus Weh und Jogi Neufeld (Hg.)
BETONBLUMEN 010
Brad Downey
Dt./Engl., 19 S., zahlreiche Abb. in Farbe., 13 x 18 cm, klammergeheftet, 2010
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-175-6
€ 5,00 [A]
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Brad Downey, 1980 in Kentucky/USA geboren, studierte Malerei an der Slade School of Fine Art in London sowie Film am Pratt Institute in New York. In seiner Kunst vereint er die Medien Film, Malerei, Installation, Skulptur und teilweise auch Performance. Durch humorvolle Manipulationen, Verfremdungen und Zweckentfremdungen zeigt er immer wieder verborgene Mechanismen der sozialen Ordnung auf, deutet auf wiederkehrendes institutionelles und öffentliches Verhalten hin und versucht, das Bewusstsein für soziale Kontrolle zu schärfen und dieser selbstbewusst entgegenzutreten.
Vitus Weh and Jogi Neufeld (ed.)
BETONBLUMEN 009
Permanent-Unit
Germ./Engl., 19 p., numerous color images., 13 x 18 cm, staple binding, 2010
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-174-9
€ 5,00 [A]
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The collective Permanent-Unit
based in Graz was founded byGeorg Dinstl, Oliver Toman, Simon Lemmerer
und Josef Wurm in June 2007. Each member brings in different techniques
and attitudes wich leads to a collagelike style. Permanent-Unit acts as
a company with the divisions graphic design agency and workshop. They
also take part in urban art competitions and organize the annual street
arts festival "Ink On Your Floor" in the local arts centre Forum
Stadtpark.
Vitus Weh and Jogi Neufeld (ed.)
BETONBLUMEN 008
Busk
Germ./Engl., 19 p., numerous color images., 13 x 18 cm, staple binding, 2010
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-165-7
€ 5,00 [A]
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Hardly any other street artist has helped shape the cityscape of Vienna as much as BUSK. The monkey head as well as the writings BUSK and CMOD can be found in many of the urban areas, on exposed walls or in hidden corners of the city.
Vitus Weh and Jogi Neufeld (ed.)
BETONBLUMEN 007
Ripo
Germ./Engl., 19 p., numerous color images., 13 x 18 cm, staple binding, 2009
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-164-0
€ 5,00 [A]
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The name 'Ripo' comes from the abbreviation repo, short for the english verb 'repossess', and is related to the reconquest of the public space, which is dominated by commercial messages and images or official signs concerning governmental orders.
Vitus Weh and Jogi Neufeld (ed.)
BETONBLUMEN 006
Mandarina
Germ./Engl., 19 p., numerous color images., 13 x 18 cm, staple binding, 2009
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-163-6
€ 5,00 [A]
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Mandarina Brausewetter
was one of the first spraying artists in Vienna who distributed stencil
graffiti in the city's public space. For the characters she uses her own
drawings, photography, partly with herself posing for them, as well as
image material from the mass media.
Vitus Weh and Jogi Neufeld (ed.)
BETONBLUMEN 005
Fefe Talavera
Germ./Engl., 19 p., numerous color images., 13 x 18 cm, staple binding, 2009
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-150-3
€ 5,00 [A]
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Fefe Talavera's monster paintings are metaphors for stron and subconcious human emotions like anger, fear, dreams or desire. The colourful beasts which she connects with the dark side of her inner self stand for the artist's cultural roots as well as the primary energy of her work in the streets all over the world.
Vitus Weh and Jogi Neufeld (ed.)
BETONBLUMEN 004
Kryot
Germ./Engl., 19 p., numerous color images., 13 x 18 cm, staple binding, 2009
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-149-7
€ 5,00 [A]
€ 4,90 [D]
With a text by Elisabeth Fritz
Kryot is working spontaneously and in direct reaction to each concrete site - he doesn't use sketches or preconceives concepts of images to transfer them outdoors what seems unnecessary or rather unnatural to him, as a concrete location always feeds him with enough ideas and inspiration to develop a motive during painting. His rather simple and sometimes small interventions at uncanny, abandoned or obscure places, at entrances, crossovers or intersections besides the typical 'Halls of Fame' are thus signified by their site-specific and individual character.
Vitus Weh and Jogi Neufeld (ed.)
BETONBLUMEN 003
Dome
Germ./Engl., 19 p., numerous color images., 13 x 18 cm, staple binding, 2009
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-148-0
€ 5,00 [A]
€ 4,90 [D]
With a text by Elisabeth Fritz
In his paintings Christian
Krämer (*1975, Karlsruhe) alias DOME sees behind the curtain made of clothes,
status symbols and masks which people create to protect themselves, as
matter of vanity or assimilation. Underneath the folkloristic and colourful
patterned bunches of clothes and headdresses the artist is showing fragile
and fleshly beings who seem to be exhausted and marked by life. The slender
limbs of the delicate, pink characters remind of the frail legs of an
insect or marionettes with filament. They interact in distance to each
other, rest in melancholic meditation or play music lonely in the penurious
landscapes of drought trees and single flying birds where they are situated.
Vitus Weh and Jogi Neufeld (ed.)
BETONBLUMEN 002
Keramik
Germ./Engl., 19 p., numerous color images., 13 x 18 cm, staple binding, 2008
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-147-3
€ 5,00 [A]
€ 4,90 [D]
With a text by Elisabeth Fritz
His need for self-representation
in public space, the designation of spots with a personal statement and
the enrichment of the surroundings with his owns ideas and associations
are expressed in the art of Thomas Mock in a diversity of graffiti and
paintings on wlls, wood or canvas. The artist known as Keramik in Vienna
since the early 1990s has chosen his name because of his desire as a mortal
and short-lived individual to leave lasting charateristic forms. After
all, sometimes a couple of ceramic shards are among the few things that
have remainded from a past culture.
Vitus Weh and Jogi Neufeld (ed.)
BETONBLUMEN 002
Keramik
Germ./Engl., 19 p., numerous color images., 13 x 18 cm, staple binding, 2008
ISSN 2070-3619, ISBN 978-3-85160-146-6
€ 5,00 [A]
€ 4,90 [D]
With a text by Elisabeth Fritz
In September 2008 the "Street Art Passage Vienna" was opened on the initiative of quartier21 as a continuation of an already existing series of thematic passageways in the MuseumsQuartier Wien. Beside the permanent design of the passageway by french artist "Invader" this public venue benefits from its alternating program of exhibitions of both international and local street art and graffiti artists plus an accompanying series of publications. The street art magazine betonblumen, whose issues are designed by the currently exhibiting artists, is available at a vending machine directly on the spot. Signed copies of limited artists' editions of the magazine available.