MONDAY MAY 11th
DUCKTAILS (usa)
http://www.myspace.com/ducktailss
TOMUTONTTU (fin)
http://www.kemiallisetystavat.com/tomutonttu
I DM THEFT ABLE (usa)
http://www.kraag.org/id/
THOMAS ANKERSMIT (nl)
+ DJs MASTERFADER & THE SNAIL
its at the OCCII • Amstelveenseweg 134 • Amsterdam
Doors open 21:00 • 5 euro
Deadline 29th MAY 2009
For those of you who are still in school, just graduated, or have been working for several years, we offer the opportunity to broaden your knowledge, expand your network and share your experiences.
For the first time two schools, Werkplaats Typografie (ArtEZ), Arnhem, The Netherlands and ISIA Urbino, Italy, set up together, a two-week Summerschool in Urbino, Italy, from the 27th of July
to the 7th of August 2009.
Instead of going to the beach, visit churches or go hiking, you can do the opposite and go back to school. It’s a crazy proposal, we know, but it won’t be too much of a school you know. Most important, you can’t get a degree, so you can never fail. What connects it to a school, is mainly the building in which it takes place. ISIA is the one and only bachelor school solely devoted to graphic design. It is in a renaissance building in a astonishing renaissance village on the hills. Where else then there should you gather and do some work.
It should be a great experience, it should be fun, it should be a moment to do things you normally wouldn’t do, to ask questions you wouldn’t normally ask. Are you highly creative, highly motivated, willing to work and collaborate, willing to get confused and open minded.
During the summerschool fundamental issues in the design process will be addressed. Why, what and how would you like to communicate and with whom. What is the role of design, can you tell stories differently, turn what exists upside down.
Each day during the two weeks you will be guided by graphic designers Karel Martens, Armand Mevis (Werkplaats Typografie) and Leonardo Sonnoli (ISIA Urbino), who will share their experiences with you. Together they set up a project that relates to the typical setting of the school. Maureen Mooren will visit as an external critic.
When you believe that this is the perfect Summerschool, the school you’ve been looking for for ages, then it’s time to apply.
Send your application, with your cv and portfolio (in pdf format), before the 29th of May
to this e-mail address at ISIA Urbino and we will let you know within one week if you will be accepted.
Thursday March 26th: GOD WILLING, UNICORN HARD-ON, JENNY GRAF, ZAÏMPH, YELLOW GALACTIC HUMAN & DJ ERNIE Mc CRACKEN
Friday April 3rd: VOODOO TRANCE SOUND SYSTEM (Chris Corsano, Eric Thielemans, Jeroen Stevens) + BUFFLE + SERFS + DJ COOL BROCOLI
both at OCCII • Amstelveenseweg 134 (next to south entrance of the Vondelpark) • doors open 21:00 • 5 euro
Masterpieces in A1
Meneer de Wit Studios, Witte de Witstraat 10, 1058 XV Amsterdam
The Masterpiece Series is a changing exhibition in the showcase of Meneer de Wit.
11 artists & designers were asked to make a Masterpiece in A1 format. There were no restrictions concerning content and technique.
Between January and June 2009 these works will be presented in a 2-weeks-cycle in the showcase of Meneer de Wit and will be accompanied by a grand opening.
We invite you to another opening of the 5th Masterpiece in this series, made by Cecile Tafanelli
You are very welcome to join us for the opening on Friday the 20th of March at 17:00h at Witte de Withstraat 10.
Hope to see you there,
S7
Cécile Tafanelli
(20 March—2 April)
It is impossible to consciously produce a masterpiece, since it is a cultural term which posteriorly defines an existing work of art as such. A masterpiece is like a step-stone in art history books, it defines an era, an art movement, and often it transcends it. But again it is a cultural term invented to vulgarise art-history for popular culture, therefore so-called masterpieces often become cliché (to speak of painters; almost all Van Gogh, Impressionist painters, Klimt, Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance iconic paintings, Dali, Matisse, Rothko, Miro, Hopper and many others that we can find reproduced in many waiting-rooms around the world, for obvious aesthetic reasons).
I chose to work with a painting from Leonardo da Vinci, but possibly finished by one of his students: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. The painting is called Madonna Litta (1490).
The Renaissance period of art-history began in Italy at the end of the XIV century and spread throughout Europe. It creates a sort of loop in art-history, jumping over the Middle Ages but also propping itself upon it, to rediscover antique arts and themes—especially Greek and Roman mythology. Renaissance painting also widely uses biblical imagery and classical themes (pieta, nativity, annunciation), but frees itself from the religious aspirations of Gothic painting by introducing a humanist purpose to the painting which spreads a sense of happiness, ideals, peace and progress. This ideological progress will be linked to technical progress as well, with the use of perspective, chiaroscuro, sfumato and so on. Renaissance is also the start of what is called the early Modern Age, as well as the birth of the status of the artist as we still know it today.
Renaissance is thought of as being a ‘digested’ period, because we are now in what is called the Postmodern world.
What struck me in many Renaissance paintings, was the inside/outside depiction, the subject shown inside a house with a view over hills or mountains, sometime
SATURDAY MARCH 14th
with
FIRE & IGNORANCE (berlin/a´dam) Collaboration of the norwegian musicians Anders Hana and Morten Olsen (of MoHa!), Idan Hayosh & Anu Vahtra, using drums, guitar, synth, electronics & LIGHTS!!! www.myspace.com/themoha
ACTIVITY CENTER (berlin) The duo of Burkhard Beins & Michael Renkel play together since 20 years. They create textured electroacoustic improvisations with string instruments, percussion and objects. http://www.renkel.org/Quicktime/activitycenter1a.mov
DJ OTTO
from 00:00 afterparty with SHITMAT, CARDOPUSHER, DJ MARCELLE + MORE
at the OCCII • Amstelveenseweg 134 (next to Vondelpark) • doors 21:00 • 6€
THE MASTERPIECE SERIES
We are very proud to present a masterpiece in A1 by Raoul Teulings!
Please join us for the opening on Friday, March 6th, 17:00h, Meneer de Wit Studios, Witte de Withstraat 10.
Looking forward to see you there,
S7
11 artists and designers were asked to hand in their masterpiece in A1. There were no restrictions concerning content and technique.
Between January and June 2009 these works will be presented in a 2-weeks-cycle in the showcase of Meneer de Wit, Amsterdam.
THE MASTERPIECE SERIES is a project by S7 – Claudia Doms, Joel Galvez, Eline Mul, Cécile Tafanelli, Per Törnberg and Merel van den Berg.
