GUDBERG #05 “nylon”

GUDBERG Independent magazine for art, graphic, design & photography Winter 2008 Issue 05

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Claudio Parentela from catanzaro / italia www.claudioparentela.net

Claudio Parentela is more than an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist freelance... Active since many many years in the international underground art-scene.

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haase & mauss

from hamburg / germany www.estherhaase.de mau2s@yahoo.de

Esther Haase has completed an education as a classical dancer before finishing her masters-studies on photo-design at the University of Arts in Bremen. Meanwhile she is a national and international acclaimed and awarded photographer who also works as a visiting professor and has published several books. Jan-Holger Mauss has studied dental medicine before finishing his studies on visual communications at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. His works have been shown in a considerable number of solo and group exhibitions and has been published in catalogues.

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Pandarosa

from melbourne / australia www.pandarosa.net

Pandarosa are Ariel Aguilera and Andrea Benyi. Originally hailing from Chile and Hungary, they joined forces in Melbourne, and occasionally suffer cravings for the chocolate sweetness of their countries desserts. They both enjoy riding their bikes while looking up, which isn‘t always safe, & hope to improve on their drum playing & pattern making skills respectively.

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Fernanda Cohen from new york / usa www.fernandacohen.com

Illustrator Fernanda Cohen also has her own line of kitchenware, handbags, post-it notes, notebooks and tea towels... The pieces done for GUDBERG depict a synthetic fiber, nylon, in three different environments where we find natural fibers: cotton, wool and silk.

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thomas winkler

from berlin / germany www.schechinger-fine-art.com

Thomas Winkler is painter, musician, performance-artist, poet, ad writer, and Director of the Publishing House »Heckler und Koch« based in Berlin. For GUDEBERG he continues his rigorous colour field paintings, which demonstrate the grid pattern of eternity, with nylon.

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christo & jeanne-claude from new york / usa www.christojeanneclaude.net

Jeanne-Claude: Baccalaureat in Latin and Philosophy, University of Tunis (1952). Christo: Studies at Fine Arts Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria (1953-56). He studies one semester at the Viennna Fine Arts Academy (1957).

Christo arrives in Paris where he meets Jeanne-Claude (1958). Establishment of permanent residence in New York City (1964). The fabric of Valley Curtain, Running Fence and The Umbrellas has been Nylon.

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vincent fraser from london / uk www.vincefraser.com

Vince embraces the brave new digital world to provide clear-communication, roughs and quality finished artwork, wherever the client might be. His Nylon work for GUDBERG is: »Erotic futurism in a sexy, provocative and abstract way.«

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ini Neumann

from hamburg / germany www.karina-christin.com

for ini it´s a simple cycle: »nylon - umbrella - rain - splashy«. all her photoshop-illustrations are affected by music & fashion.

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nils kasiske

from hamburg / germany www.nilskasiske.de

Both displayed works are part of the Songbird Suicide Cycle, thas has been the key in the latest solo exhibition of Kasiskes at the Vicious Gallery in Hamburg.

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golden retouch from hamburg / germany www.golden-retouch.com

Founded in 2008 Golden Retouch represents a handpicked group of illustrators from Hamburg. The fine illustration on the back is done by Anja Niepagen.

imprint: Publisher: VERLAG GUDBERG [grafik@gudberg.de] // Artdirection: Jan Mueller-Wiefel // Creative Advisor: Andreas Wrede // Address: Mittelweg 10, 20148 Hamburg-Germany // www.magazingudberg.de GUDBERG is published 4 times a year (spring, summer, autumn and winter). One major topic, which is keeping together the artworks. The content is created by different creative heads who live, work and party around us and we admire for their works. It’s a ramble through the international art scene. The GUDBERG magazine is for free. Ever changing, ever unique and at special places on our planet you are able to find it – if you do not subscripe it. Just to be found in galleries, book-stores, design-offices, agencies, cafés or hotels worldwide. As a limited edition of 2000 copies. Once they are gone, they are gone. You can order available issues, posters and originals from the artists online. Verlag GUDBERG is the publishing-part of GUDBERG Unprinted Media GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg-Germany [www.gudberg.de].

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haase & mauss Since 1996 Jan-Holger Mauss is working on his project »B2B«. As model, muse and co-producer, Mauss asks other international

artists to depict him posing in his bikini. The pictures on the following six pages, including the cover, originated in the context

of the cooperation with regard to the »B2B«-project. For the exhibtion »Conjuncture« at the Aplanat- gallery in Hamburg in 2004 Esther Haase has photographed Jan-Holger Mauss as »bikini- man«. Julius Deutschbauer and Gerhard Spring participated in this shooting. One picture out of this series happend to be the poster for the exhibition and it became a contribution to the oeuvre of this artiscal couple from Austria.

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Cotton Nylon

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Wool Nylon

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Silk Nylon

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»Ohne Titel« (1. Nylonbild), 96 x 59 cm, 2008, courtesy Niklas Schechinger Fine Art 22

»Ohne Titel« (2. Nylonbild), 96 x 59 cm, 2008, courtesy Niklas Schechinger Fine Art 23

GUDBERG’s NYLON ISSUE is actively supported by COEUR DE LION

»Ohne Titel« (3. Nylonbild), 96 x 59 cm, 2008, courtesy Niklas Schechinger Fine Art 26

»Ohne Titel« (4. Nylonbild), 96 x 59 cm, 2008, courtesy Niklas Schechinger Fine Art. All Photos by Peter Langer.

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Christo: Running Fence, Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties, California. Collage 1975, 56x71 cm.

Pencil, fabric, wax-crayon, pastel, charcoal, technical data and tape. Š 1975 Christo.

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Running Fence crossed fourteen roads and the town Valley Ford, leaving passage for cars, cattle and wildlife, and was designed to be viewed 65 kilometers (40 miles) of public roads in Sonoma and Marin Counties. Š 1975 Christo. Photo: Wolfgang Volz

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Valley Curtain, Rifle, Colorado 1970-1972. Š Christo 1972. Photo: Wolfgang Volz

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Umbrellas, Japan - USA 1984-1991. Š Christo 1991. Photos: Wolfgang Volz

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»nylon - umbrella - rain - splashy«

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A young man killed himself in a sensational way on the 22nd of December 1997 at the Hamburger Heiligengeistfeld.

He tigthtend a sling on his neck, fastend the other part of it at a light tower, got on his motorcycle and accelerated fully.

He was dead immediately.

In his backpack was a news clipping which read: ÂťThe insurance company pays in case of suicide.ÂŤ Rest in peace.

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