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30 June 2005
23 June 2005
Value of Art Bloggers
for Steven Streight from Blog Core Values
2005
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22 June 2005
Reflections on Exhibiting at a Bank
As Alexandra told today about exhibiting in Libraries I remembered our weirdest experience of showing our work in a Bank in Berlin. It was a Bank called Norisbank, where showed Gert Folmering, Tom Schnick and me in 2002 under the title "Kalte Krieger"- "Cold Warriors". We didnt knew the space well, I had been in Georgia, and collected 25 most recent works three days before the opening and took the plane to Berlin. My mood was dark since my mother died two month before also in Berlin. I did not have big expectations on selling, but anyway it was a chance, in the center of Berlin, in a Bank and we wanted to see our work together, since our last "groupshow" was back in 1997. I think it became a real failure. Just see this photo, the paintings had to be hanged on ropes, as they didn't want to have holes in their walls:
Paintings: Hans Heiner Buhr Birdpainting: Gert Folmering
It shows the office of the chairman of this local branch. He agreed to give his wall to a number of my smaller paintings, without knowing them. So when I hanged them up, his face was still friendly, but I could see, that he had something softer expected. But these are the small paintings. We filled his whole medium sized bank, wich was perfectly clean before, with our huge ruff canvases of dying soldiers, cossacks, drunken communists, suiciding Mayakovsky's and a Postmodern Jesus with its glory and a laptop on his knees right in the entrance hall. To the opening came very few bank stuff, but all our friends, wich were enyojing to change this place of banksecrets and transactions into a sort of Post-Punk -Pub.
When I walked around, I thought business would go very bad for the next 2 weeks maybe, because the art was to heavy and even frightening potential customers. It was a real contradiction, our art beating the moneybusiness and this conservative banker types and their jaunty secretaries not to know how to handle that stuff seeing every day on work.
Tom sold two small paintings, Gert and me not any. We had a opening with our bunch of friends, but almost nobody from the Banking world. From the show itself we had no further feedback, exept the relieved faces of the team there. This was our first and last show in a Bank. Here are some other paintings we showed there:
Tom Schnick, Der Schrei, 180x130 cm
Gert Folmering, Lula, 60x45cm
Hans Heiner Buhr, Herbstbild Familie, 160x128 cm
Labels: Neue Kunst
¶ 11:50 PM 3 comments
21 June 2005
How to sell Digital Art ? A proposal
For two years I am working in the field of digital produced images. But the first tiny animation I did in 1999, it is this one: "Best friends"
Quite a lot artists from all over the world working today completely or for parts digital. Like Steven Streight from Blog Core Values, to name one I like very much. An important question for me is the following: Ok, I painted that landscape in my studio in oil or acrylic, it is one original, and when it sells, the buyer gets it physicly to his house and hangs it on the wall next to his TV, if he likes the piece. There is no replica, the case is clear, he owns it now, until he will sell it to somebody else in the future.
But how relates a photo of my painting to the originality of art ? You could say, a photo is another medium, thus no painting. But, when I am showing a painting in my blog, it can't be a real painting, it must be a digital photo of a painting, but preferable as close as possible to the painting and without the specific character of a photo. The photo represents the painting in my blog and it is in practice more a painting than a photo. Seems a contradiction ?
With digital artwork the case is more clear. The piece is done digital and goes as it is to my blog. Everybody who likes it, can download it via right click and also print it out and frame it. Then this work could hang next to somebodies TV set elsewhere in Brazilia for example. But it would not be an authorized original by the author. And that is, what is the art market is based on - on certified individual items, wich have values because they are unique and a value, wich can be traded.
What to do, if a potential client understands the value of a Digital art piece and want to get a certified single copy of a recent specific work of mine? Why should be a difference in real value between a painting and a digital image ?
I am not a fan of the idea in our digital age, to send a print or CD with the art work via Mail to somebody. Why should the client wait, if he can download it immediatly ? So here is a first proposal, wich I figured out today. Of course this idea is maybe not perfect, just I am interested what you may think about it. I know about various solutions of embedding a Digital watermark, but for me it is a kind of a boring technologie, because it is mostly not visible, if not added with a sort of visible digital stamp. Of course I am a big fan of the prospects of digital signatures, but I wanted to think on a pure artistic solution availble for everybody like this:
The digital image is either a single item or part of a edition of a certain amount. Let's say this image I want to sell is in two copies, wich are unique, and will never joined by additional authorised copies, that for I guarantee as an author.
See my example:
Quite a lot artists from all over the world working today completely or for parts digital. Like Steven Streight from Blog Core Values, to name one I like very much. An important question for me is the following: Ok, I painted that landscape in my studio in oil or acrylic, it is one original, and when it sells, the buyer gets it physicly to his house and hangs it on the wall next to his TV, if he likes the piece. There is no replica, the case is clear, he owns it now, until he will sell it to somebody else in the future.
But how relates a photo of my painting to the originality of art ? You could say, a photo is another medium, thus no painting. But, when I am showing a painting in my blog, it can't be a real painting, it must be a digital photo of a painting, but preferable as close as possible to the painting and without the specific character of a photo. The photo represents the painting in my blog and it is in practice more a painting than a photo. Seems a contradiction ?
With digital artwork the case is more clear. The piece is done digital and goes as it is to my blog. Everybody who likes it, can download it via right click and also print it out and frame it. Then this work could hang next to somebodies TV set elsewhere in Brazilia for example. But it would not be an authorized original by the author. And that is, what is the art market is based on - on certified individual items, wich have values because they are unique and a value, wich can be traded.
What to do, if a potential client understands the value of a Digital art piece and want to get a certified single copy of a recent specific work of mine? Why should be a difference in real value between a painting and a digital image ?
I am not a fan of the idea in our digital age, to send a print or CD with the art work via Mail to somebody. Why should the client wait, if he can download it immediatly ? So here is a first proposal, wich I figured out today. Of course this idea is maybe not perfect, just I am interested what you may think about it. I know about various solutions of embedding a Digital watermark, but for me it is a kind of a boring technologie, because it is mostly not visible, if not added with a sort of visible digital stamp. Of course I am a big fan of the prospects of digital signatures, but I wanted to think on a pure artistic solution availble for everybody like this:
The digital image is either a single item or part of a edition of a certain amount. Let's say this image I want to sell is in two copies, wich are unique, and will never joined by additional authorised copies, that for I guarantee as an author.
See my example:
It is a .gif- Animation consisting out of two frames. One frame is the artwork itself, the other frame is my certificate. It names title, author, year and says that it is a certificate. This could everybody else reproduce, but not the particular background image, wich is only me as author available. The frame rate is in my example set on 12 seconds the artwork and 5 seconds the certificate. The frame rate can be changed of course like to 30 seconds and 2 seconds or whatever you wish. The download site of this "original" is only available for my collector. The collector pays the money and downloads the piece and owns it. At the download site this piece will be as a two .png's for a better printing quality. One .png the artwork- the other the certificate.
That's it.
Grijsz
Labels: Neue Kunst
¶ 10:12 PM 4 comments
To War -
or do the right descisions
for Otto Dix (his message got somehow forgotten, but his art remains forever)
for Otto Dix (his message got somehow forgotten, but his art remains forever)
2005
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20 June 2005
Ruin
near Qumliscixe
See a bigger version here (640K)
2005
Some rest before the other animation- are the Foothills of Mt.Kazbek, where I've been today and 4 times in the last 15 days. The tiny place Qumliscixe is around 110 km from Tbilisi at the Georgian Military Highway- to Kazbegi remaining 25 km. The backgrounds are true, the action is just imagination but sometimes close to reality.
See a bigger version here (640K)
2005
Some rest before the other animation- are the Foothills of Mt.Kazbek, where I've been today and 4 times in the last 15 days. The tiny place Qumliscixe is around 110 km from Tbilisi at the Georgian Military Highway- to Kazbegi remaining 25 km. The backgrounds are true, the action is just imagination but sometimes close to reality.
Labels: Neue Kunst
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19 June 2005
18 June 2005
Impression from Buzkashi
Buzkashi- Kupkari: Who ever saw this fierce Horse Game in Central Asia, will never forget those deep Impressions. I can not await the next season, wich is from November to March.
More photos can be found at Kaukasus-Kaleidoscope (scroll down there). I wrote a small essay in German here. Photo: Hans Heiner Buhr, Qarshi, Uzbekistan, Winter 2004
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New Mirror Image from the Hairdresser
this time my daughter Niza
2005
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Cool Paintings by Craig Atkinson
the first one I found at http://www.artinliverpool.com/blog/
and the others at Craigs Website http://www.craigatkinson.co.uk/somodern.htm
I like that stuff- thats the way painting has to be done.
Oh, I forgot those http://www.craigatkinson.co.uk/signs.htm
and those guys I can imagine are running now over the Venice Bienale ;-)
So here Craig is my answer:
8th of May 1945 (Tag der Befreiung in Deutschland) an Amputee Soviet Soldier crying "Victory"- "Pobeda"
and the others at Craigs Website http://www.craigatkinson.co.uk/somodern.htm
I like that stuff- thats the way painting has to be done.
Oh, I forgot those http://www.craigatkinson.co.uk/signs.htm
and those guys I can imagine are running now over the Venice Bienale ;-)
So here Craig is my answer:
8th of May 1945 (Tag der Befreiung in Deutschland) an Amputee Soviet Soldier crying "Victory"- "Pobeda"
1994, 80x40cm
Labels: Neue Kunst
¶ 12:13 AM 0 comments
17 June 2005
Hirst bashing reaches German media
As always a little bit too late, the German media starts some bashing on Hirst. I like Telepolis, but with art they are not very experienced. I do not agree with the bashing and most comments. I commented in German language on this issue here. Some of those conclusions follow in English (;_():
1.Hirst did some outstandig art, not always of course, like every artist produces sometimes for the litter.
2. From the end of the 20th century he is one of the most inspiring, important, political and aestehtical, artists- at least to me.
3. His piece with the shark, was not overpaid (as I heard 10.000.000 Pounds ?), allthough I think that some of the cows are stronger. If I could effort, I would buy a cow, put it in a public place here in Tbilisi, where most public art monuments are really terrible bad.
4. A recent falldown of value of his art may be good for him and his future art.
5. When prices fall further, one could buy a piece, hoping that a new Hirst comes back in 10 years.
6. Biggest artists of the 20th century: Beuys and Duchamp (a nice Duo)
By the way in 1998 I bought a big book/catalogue on Hirsts Art in New York, for a for me then big amount of 125 USD, what I lend some time ago to a professor of the Tbilisi State Academie of Arts, where some Georgian students are now learning from innovative book design. Compliment to the bookmakers and designers, I cant recall title and publisher, because its lend. Those students now of course also get confronted with his art, like imagine the selfportrait with the dead guy, this has some impact here in Georgia !
1.Hirst did some outstandig art, not always of course, like every artist produces sometimes for the litter.
2. From the end of the 20th century he is one of the most inspiring, important, political and aestehtical, artists- at least to me.
3. His piece with the shark, was not overpaid (as I heard 10.000.000 Pounds ?), allthough I think that some of the cows are stronger. If I could effort, I would buy a cow, put it in a public place here in Tbilisi, where most public art monuments are really terrible bad.
4. A recent falldown of value of his art may be good for him and his future art.
5. When prices fall further, one could buy a piece, hoping that a new Hirst comes back in 10 years.
6. Biggest artists of the 20th century: Beuys and Duchamp (a nice Duo)
By the way in 1998 I bought a big book/catalogue on Hirsts Art in New York, for a for me then big amount of 125 USD, what I lend some time ago to a professor of the Tbilisi State Academie of Arts, where some Georgian students are now learning from innovative book design. Compliment to the bookmakers and designers, I cant recall title and publisher, because its lend. Those students now of course also get confronted with his art, like imagine the selfportrait with the dead guy, this has some impact here in Georgia !
Labels: Neue Kunst
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15 June 2005
The best painting and image I ever saw
is this one:
Krakow, Poland
attributive, or a real Leonardo, what does it matter:
Krakow, Poland
attributive, or a real Leonardo, what does it matter:
What is your best painting ever seen ?
Labels: Neue Kunst
¶ 3:31 AM 1 comments
14 June 2005
For Karen d'Amico dedicated "Niza"
Today I had some very interesting conversations with London based artist Karen d'Amico about art, and as she is (also) making brilliant photographies, I decided that to be a photo, wich is of course the opposite of brilliant, made with my old 1 Megapixel Camera. But of course I love my daughter Niza crazy, and this was the other reason to choose this photo, of another "Caucasian Beauty". Karen started a new art-zine "Tangent" to wich I wish a great success. You may order it at her Website. Karen is great ! The photo is from last Sunday.
Labels: Neue Kunst
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13 June 2005
12 June 2005
Françoise Duvivier
Via the Lazarus Cooperation I found today the works of digital artist Françoise Duvivier from France. I was impressed, and try to imagine in Françoise a contemporary Käthe Kollwitz.
Labels: Neue Kunst
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11 June 2005
10 June 2005
Kavkasskaia Krassaviza Caucasian Beauty
120x75cm, Oil on Plastic, 2003
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08 June 2005
Mickey Rourke
is one of my favourite actors, only I haven't seen him for a while on screen, since I have no time for TV anymore. I think and hope he awaits a new boom as an actor soon. Maybe he should make more movies in Europe, even in Russia or China ?
This painting is from 1993 ca. 120x85cm
This painting is from 1993 ca. 120x85cm
It's still in Berlin, I should bring it here.
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¶ 5:38 PM 1 comments
Juno Doran
England has some very strong artists, we know. Via Thinking about Art I found Juno Doran- and will be exited for the rest of the day. Her images are great. And her self-portrait, wow. I got interested in the images via her interview: "At night in bed, before we go to sleep, I look at him for a while, don't know why but I suppose it's because I miss him." Maybe their life is hard these days, but for her art- great conditions. Thank you, Juno Doran.
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¶ 11:07 AM 0 comments
Art from Georgia ? Rembrandt
As some of you from the eye of the storm of the International Artworld look sometimes a bit astonished that there is art, or something like that, in the Caucasus I show you to proove a photo of two Georgian artists. It shows Karaman Kutatelatse and Niko Tskhetslatse, just two from a couple of thousand only in Tbilisi. But as I like this image- it seems to show in a way just two important sides of our very own complicated ego as artists or art critics: The uprising, impressive, towering, demanding attention and self-confident one and the silly, addlebrained, dwarfish, doubting, marginal one. So that leads me to the Posts on the late religious Rembrandt portraits today, about I am convinced, that this is the true strength (beside his marvellous painting) of his art: To put the finger in this wound of ourselfs and the portraited, that we are both: Giants and doubting milquetoasts. Doesnt Rembrandts Selfportrait as the Apostle Paul from 1661 look a bit like poor drunken Niko (right) ?
Foto 2004 at Art Villa Garikula Kaspi Georgia, see here more photos from that workshop
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¶ 2:37 AM 1 comments
07 June 2005
06 June 2005
Two hunters in the forest 2001
This painting of 200x155 cm shows my Dutch friend Gert (right) and me hunting in the Gomareti Mountains on rabbits, although we didn't shot any that day.
and this shows my Georgian "Teacher" in hunting Bachwa Tabatatze from Lagodekhi. The painting is 160x125 cm, from 2002. He is really a great friend.
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¶ 6:33 PM 0 comments
No Visa to Georgia required
As I am living in Georgia,the Caucasus, it may be interesting to know for one or the other visitor of my blog: You do not need a Visa anymore to visit Georgia. Read the news on my http://kaukasus.blogspot.com
A gate through the mountains, 1999
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05 June 2005
Abstract Domain Names
I was thinking about the beauty of "semantic content neutral" abstract domain names and created some. They are still all available. So hurry to get one of those ;-), I think they are perfect for showing works of art. My favourite is: http://www.rrttvsvs.com
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¶ 10:26 PM 0 comments
A digital Khevsur from Georgia
it was a real scene I saw then: A skilled rider, even quite drunken, jumping over holes, ditches, stones and water in Shatili, maybe in 1998
2004 on a drawing from 2001
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04 June 2005
Herder at Georgian Military Road
This nice guy I met today, he and his coworkers were driving 4000 sheep along the road to Gergeti.
A sheep is now 50 USD worth in Georgia, so here are walking 200.000 Dollars ?
And here is one of their dogs, a young female, no 15 months.
Despite the rain, this man was eating cucumber and in a very good mood, the klinging plate sheet ring bell around his arm, makes the sheep following him.
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¶ 9:58 PM 0 comments
Two copies and a drawing
Soldiers and a "Georgian" Angel, sorry for low photo
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Two "sculptures" from Georgia
The first I photographed last saturday at the Expo-Park of Tbilisi, it is from the time when Communism was still enthusiastic about its future, I estimate 1978. One holds an airplane, one a gearwheel, one an atomic nucleus. Man and woman hold together a wine bowl; interesting, in Georgia mostly men drink the wine ;-) I do not know the author, but will find out.
The second author is also but really unknown. It is a relief at a small church from 12/13th century above Borjomi, in the village Cagveri. It shows Holy George (Georgian: Zminda Giorgi) in a very rare figure, killing the dragon, wich is a snake. The second image of course is a much stronger one, that's why it survived 800 years or more. Maybe it is a part from a much older church ? The first sculpture at the Expo Georgia won't last that long I think, alltough I like it too.
The second author is also but really unknown. It is a relief at a small church from 12/13th century above Borjomi, in the village Cagveri. It shows Holy George (Georgian: Zminda Giorgi) in a very rare figure, killing the dragon, wich is a snake. The second image of course is a much stronger one, that's why it survived 800 years or more. Maybe it is a part from a much older church ? The first sculpture at the Expo Georgia won't last that long I think, alltough I like it too.
Labels: Neue Kunst
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03 June 2005
An image for Marja-Leena
check out Marja-Leenas surprizing images
Greetings from Hans with this image from February 2005
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