tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339070362012-01-03T14:03:58.543+01:00Swiss Art Sharkforum is an art blog based in eastern Switzerland. It is inspired by, linked to, and a sub-development of <em>Sharkforum.org</em>. Our intention is to draw attention to the exciting Swiss artworld, while stimulating open, critical discussion of art and art issues, something Switzerland sorely lacks. Join in! <br> (Site in English, Deutsch und en français.)Mark Staff Brandlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790837634536259781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33907036.post-31098098051936570922012-01-03T14:03:00.000+01:002012-01-03T14:03:58.585+01:00

A Venice Biennale 2011 extravaganza. Mark Staff Brandl is in the City of St. Mark. Brandl, the Central European Bureau and VaporettoShark, traverses and discusses his way through this huge international festival with sporadic assistance from Peter Stobbe, Claudia Tolusso, Manuela Gritsch, Elisabeth Payer, Tamara Remus, Lucas Malsch, Adam Vogt, Sarah Rohner, Johanna Gschwend, Marc Bless,

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30 years ago I had an idea that I was finally able to realize this year: for my dining room table to be a work of art. Or rather four (or five) that is. I had a solid pearwood top made at a great local cabinetmakerr/carpenter shop with four legs to my and my wife Cornelia's specifications (10 cm square). Then the four legs were each made into artworks by four artist friends of mine. the first

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OK they did the Joker on Obama, so now the tables can be turned, Bachmann as the Red Skull.

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  Eine Ausstellung der Malerei von Julia Kubik in der Collapsible Kunsthalle, was zur Zeit sich in der Kunstschule Liechtenstein findet. An exhibition of paintings by Julia Kubik in the Collapsible Kunsthalle, which at this time has been in the Art Academy of Liechtenstein for a residence. Julia Kubik (1994) ist zur Zeit Studentin im Vorkurs der Kunstschule Liechtenstein. Sie malt und

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This week: Mark Staff Brandl reports from Art Basel 2011! Link here: http://badatsports.com/2011/episode-308-basel-2011/

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  (Click on images to see enlarged versions)

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Contemporary Art Center Press Release: “Meanwhile….”  11.Juli - 27. August 2011 Mark Staff Brandl arbeitet zusammen mit Gary Scoles und Thomas Emil Homerin Das Trio entwickelt und zeichnet vor Ort eine raumübergreifende Comic-Installation. Die Besucher sind eingeladen diesem Prozess beizuwohnen und haben die Möglichkeit, interaktiv mitzuwirken. Die laufende Arbeit von Brandl,

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"Meanwhile...." July 11-August 27 Gallery 3R Mark Staff Brandl with Gary Scoles and Thomas Emil Homerin The trio creates a comic book installation on site from scratch, eventually enveloping the entire room. Visitors are invited to watch the process and interact with the creators. Their activities are documented in video and photos, also becoming part of the completed exhibition.

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Mai 2011, zum Dr. phil. promoviert in Kunstgeschichte Innovative Metapherntheorie: Künstler und Kunsthistoriker Mark Staff Brandl legt eine beachtenswerte Studie vor Für seine Dissertation zur Theorie der Kernmetapher in der Kunst erntete Mark Staff Brandls höchste akademische Lorbeeren. Seine Arbeit überzeugt durch hohe Eigenständigkeit,

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  (click on image to enlarge) A horizontal-scrolling doc of images of a few of my more recent works. Made for the profile on me at teh Höhee Fachschule Bildende Kunst St Gallen Switzerland.

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Here is one photo of the Painting-Object (titled 45s Drawer) which I have in the MerzWelt exhibition in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The CB is an art center in the original space which was indeed a cabaret where Dada was created in Zurich in 1916. The show is an homage to Kurt Schwitters and his Merzbau(en). The show is from 14 April –21 August 2011. It includes many artists whose works

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This week: Mark Staff Brandl talks to Ieva Maurite, a young Latvian artist living in Riga. Brandl, (the Bad at Sports Continental European Office and EuroShark) interviewed her during her visiting artist gig in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Maurite is a painter, book artist and art academy instructor who has also had residencies in Paris, Iceland and many other parts of Europe.

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Allgemeine Einführung in die Malerei für Fortgeschrittene; Kurs für Erwachsene mit Mark Staff Brandl im Kunstschule Liechtenstein Auf dem Weg in ein selbstständiges künstlerisches Schaffen. Möchten Sie ihre eigene Malerei und Zeichnen weiterentwickeln? Dieser Kurs ist für Teilnehmer/innen gedacht, die schon fundierte Erfahrung mitbringen, sei es im Zeichnen, Malen oder im experimentellen

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This week: This is the second of two interviews with German artists conducted by Mark Staff Brandl on the island of Elba, Italy. Alexander Johannes Kraut is an artist who concentrates on drawing and printmaking, sometimes reaching installative proportions. He has also created an amazing thirteen chapter wordless graphic novel. Kraut comes from a farming village in the Allgäu, and is now

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This week on Bad at Sports I interview Martina AltSchaefer.This is the first of two interviews with German artists I conducted on the island of Elba, Italy. Martina AltSchaefer is an artist living in Rüssellsheim, Germany. She studied with the famed Konrad Kapheck and her creative work centers on very large, labor-intensive drawing in colored pencil on translucent paper. AltSchaefer has

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(Click on image to view enlarged.) The final central chapters to my PhD dissertation, Metaphor(m): Engaging a Theory of Central Trope in Art, in almost finished form, are now up on my website. That is, Chapters Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine. Please check them out including the accompanying Covers paintings at the beginning and sequential comic art sequences at the end of each. They are

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Over the past two months everyone at Bad at Sports has been in a frenzy preparing for the exhibition, "Don't Piss On Me And Tell Me It's Raining" at apexart in New York. The show was a bit of a last-minute golden opportunity, so details have been scarce, but we now have the full scoop on what's in store, and it's pretty awesome. (You can keep up with Meg, Duncan, Amanda, Tom and Richard

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This is Chapter Three of my PhD dissertation (thus the fourth on-line following the Prelude and Chapters One and Two which I already posted). This chapter is in comic form and in it I begin to apply my theory to my own work as well as that of others.The Chapters are permanently archived on my website here, but I am posting a notification on Sharkforum as I finish them and they are critiqued and

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This is Chapter Two of my PhD dissertation (thus the third on-line following the Prelude and Chapter One which I already posted). This is the key chapter, as it fully elucidates my theory.The Chapters are permanently archived on my website here, but I am a post of notification up on Sharkforum as I finish them and they are critiqued and approved. (I am writing under the direction of Prof. Philip

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Winkleman Gallery621 West 27th StreetChelsea Can we talk? That seems to be an urgent art world question, partly because of an economic shakedown that sensible people — i.e., the writers of art fair news releases — keep saying is over, or never happened. But New York artists, in need of jobs or apartments or ways to pay their art school loans, are pretty sure that it did happen, and that it isn’t

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The Society of Photographic Education Meets in PhiladelphiaThe Society for Photographic Education held its national conference this past week in Philadelphia. I had been active as an SPE member in the 1980s and early 1990s, but hadn't attended or participated in one of the conferences for probably fifteen years or more. This years conference theme and title "Facing Diversity," along with an

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As Rich Johnston writes, "Earlier this week, writer Clifford Meth revisited his rather-abandoned-of-late column at Comic Bulletin, Meth Addict.In which he told how a project he was associated with, Dave Cockrum's The Futurians almost made it to the screen a couple of times.And how he was also hired to write a screenplay treatment for his IDW series Snaked, before being moved aside for another

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Proximity continues its Arts Theory Column, edited by Mark Staff Brandl, with an essay by Noah Berlatsky: "The Last Shall Be First."Most traditional economic theory is built around the concept of scarcity -- the idea that there's not enough stuff to go around. In The Accursed Share (1946), famed theorist Georges Bataille inverts this; life, he says, is characterized, not by too little, but by too

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The Collapsible Kunsthalle: documentation of the latest exhibition, "Faces," paintings by Lamis El Farra. Trogen, Switzerland, Galerei am Landesgemeindeplatz.Link here.

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Barabra Trinh says, "While I’m sitting waiting for a session to begin, my curiosity was sparked when a man in front of me was enthusiastically speaking about comics and his art on the T-shirt he was currently wearing. Instead of handing someone an ordinary business card, he hands them a button with his contact info on the back. That is because Mark Staff Brandl (http://www.markstaffbrandl.com/)

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Comics by the Students in the 2-day Class in the Kunstschule Liechtenstein(Art Academy of Liechtenstein)in March 2010 with Mark Staff Brandl. (click on comics to view enlarged)

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A 55 minute speech, with images, by artist and art historian Mark Staff Brandl. Originally presented at the CAA (College Art Association, art historians organization) annual conference, as well as at the Kunstschule Lichtenstein, in 2010. It concerns description and criticism of the standard conceptions and models of fine art history and the history of comics, while offering a new one model for

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Why Art Became Uglyby Stephen HicksFor a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the "Isn't that disgusting" strategy. By that I mean the strategy of pointing out that given works of art are ugly, trivial, or in bad taste, that "a five-year-old could have made them," and so on. And they have mostly left it at that. The points have often been true, but they have also been

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Artists Write: Thinking While Making Things is the column of art theoretical writings by practicing artists, edited by Mark Staff Brandl, in Proximity magazine. This issue, Number 5, features "Ideas Don't Matter: How Literary Ideas Subvert and Vitiate Art" by John Link.IDEAS DON'T MATTER: How Literary Ideas Subvert and Vitiate Art by John LinkThe dirty little mandate of our "anything goes" art

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An Bild anklicken, um grosser zu sehen. Oben in Deutsch, below in EnglishClick on image to see larger..

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Heimspiel: endlich mit haupsächlich echte regionale Künstler! Danke Corinne Schatz und Katharina Ammann! --- Grosser Buh-Ruf für Koni Bitterli, der mein Bild halb versteckt und absichtlich belieidigend gehägt hat. Kleinkarierrt. Offentsichlich ist er mmer noch zornig mit mir wenig meine veröffentlichte Kritik von jetzigem Kuratoren-Arroganz?.

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Manchmal liefert einem der Alltag die schönsten Bilder: Bei der Heimfahrt von der Kunst09 in Zürich fährt vor mir ein dunkelblauer BMW, der zuerst die Ausfahrt aus dem Parkhaus und dann den Weg aus den architektonischen Grossstadtträumen von Örlikon nicht findet, grundsätzlich in die falsche Richtung blinkt und schön langsam den ganzen Verkehr aufhält.Genauso scheint es sich auch mit der Kunst09

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I have long been a fan of the Sharkforum and resident artist/critic Mark Staff Brandl's take on the present state of art criticism.This is by way of a practice run to 'scope' the afore mentioned 'art criticism now?' agenda :-)I love that word 'scope' you'd think we were shooting bears..maybe we are...certainly foxes...His latest project involves asking artists to write about their practice and

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There was a time when the phrase 'academic artist' was synomonous with a certain conservatism and use of traditional strophes that reflected the academic virtues of fine handling of paint, drawing of a certain standard and a certain 'resemblance' to the world of the viewer who would recognise the metaphors and the world that produced the works. A 'hang' may be as crowded as the Rowlandson of

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Practicing artists writing theory?!!! Edward Winkleman, on his wonderful art blog, one of the most important on art, has a post concerning my column for Proximity magazine (and Sharkforum reprints the articles), where theoretical articles are published by good, practicing artists. The column was inspired by a great thread on Ed's blog. Perhaps this post will be a big discussion too! Go check it

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"Curators crowned kings of the art world: Artists relegated to also-rans in power list."In the "I told you so" department, an article by Andy McSmith in The Independant, including the list of the top 100 most powerful people in the artworld."If you want clout in the art world in these recessionary times, you are better off putting pen to paper as a curator than paintbrush to canvas as a jobbing

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It is a particular thrill for me to announce that the Art Museum of Thurgau in Switzerland has just acquired 20 paintings of mine! They comprise a representative cross-section of several years of my series titled "Covers." I am very pleased that they will be in such a great institution and under the care of its eminent director Markus Landert and curator Dorothee Messmer!Es ist mir ein besondere

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Silent Pictures, running from September 1 through October 11 in the James Gallery in NYC focuses on aspects of comic book structure that do not depend on words to advance an image sequence. The exhibition is inspired by artist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman's personal collection of wordless comics and graphic novels -- mostly black and white rare artist books from the 1930s. The

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"Philosophy Bites" is a website which features "podcasts of top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics." Dave Edmunds and Nigel Warburton seek out expert philosophers and interview them on significant topics in very short, understandable, even entertaining, --- yet scholarly --- , podcasts. Well worth listening to is this one, Derek Matravers on the background to abd problems with the

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You are invited to the "und09" exhibition and openingIch freue mich, Sie zur diesjährigen "und09-Vernissage" einzuladen: Opening: Friday 4. September 2009, 7 pm Fabrikhallen Heer & Co., Wiesentalstrasse 39, 9240 Oberuzwil (Weg ist signalisiert; direkt bei Bahnviadukt Bahnhof Uzwil)Freitag 4. September 2009, 19 Uhr Fabrikhallen Heer & Co., Wiesentalstrasse 39, 9240 Oberuzwil(Weg ist signalisiert;

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Die Entwicklung der Kultur wird und wurde massgebend immer auch mitbestimmt von den Bedingungen, unter denen sie stattfindet.Dass die Freiheitsstatue der Kultur eine Attrappe ist, die unter ihrer lächelnden Maske, ihre Fratze der Manipulation versteckt, wird der breiten Masse solange wie möglich vorenthalten. Denn das Volk kann sich wie in vergangenen Zeiten auch schon, von Opium ernähren. Das

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Mark Staff Brandl, Continental European Correspondent for the renowned art "radio" podcast "Bad at Sports" roams the Basel Art Fair 2009 with guest co-host Peter Noser, gallerist, curator and artist. They comment primarily on the “main fair,” but also cursorily on Scope, Volta, the Solos Show, die Liste (and look forward to a Bridge addition next year). Additional walk-on voices include Maya

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Das Transitorische Museum zu Pfyn öffnet vom 2. bis zum 9. August 2009 das digitale Archiv und zeigt Interviews und Filme in einer Installation in der Trotte Pfyn.Vernissage: Sonntag 2. August 09, 11 UhrÖffnungszeiten: täglich 14 bis 20 Uhr

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Tom and Pauline of BALCONYTV.COM interview Little Steven (Van Zandt), the American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and his smash hit radio and podcast program The Underground Garage. They discuss his record label Wicked Cool Records, his program, the crisis of craft in music and the

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Elie Wiesel called him a "God." His investors called him a "genius." But, proving correct that old adage from the country and western song, you never really know what goes on behind closed doors.Bernie Madoff, for at least 20 years, ran a Ponzi scheme on thousands of clients, among them the people you and I would consider the best and brightest. Business leaders, celebrities, charities, even some

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Andrei Molotiu, art historian, gallery comics artist and editor of the forthcoming anthology Abstract Comics, the first book to trace the history and survey the contemporary landscape of abstract sequential art, has started a blog to showcase the book and other work by some of the book's contributors including himself and Mark Staff Brandl. The link: abstractcomics.blogspot.com.

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Andrea Corciulo in der Kunsthalle ArbonDie Welt beginnt bei jeder Geburt neu und da wir dies nur einmal erleben, ist vielleicht ein wenig Misstrauen gegenüber der Kontiunität des Lebens angebracht. Die ersten Bilder sind noch spröde, Schwarz/Weiss, verschwommen. Während unseres Lebens erneuert sich die Welt dauernd und merklich; ästhetische Vorlieben, Moden, Bildsprachen sind stark veränderliche

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As Richard and Duncan, the main hosts of the well known art podcast Bad at Sports write:First, Duncan and Richard present a horribly off-track intro which consists largely of talk of herpes and sleeping around. Eventually they get around to discussing what is really important, this week’s show!Steve Litsios, an artist from La Chaux-de-Fonds in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, is

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Click on image to enlarge.http://www.wesleykimlerstudio.com/http://www.markstaffbrandl.com/newest.htmlhttp://www.stevehamannart.com/The podcast being discussed is here.

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Weil die Fahne der Freiheit, wie wir alle wissen, im Wirtschaftsleben gehisst wurde, war sie dem kulturellen Leben, länger denn mehr abhanden gekommen. Im Gleichschritt wurden auch die grossen Kulturinstitute in die Regale der Supermärkte eingereiht.Vor diesem Hintergrund sind die produzierenden Betriebe und Dienstleistungsunternehmen der Industrien, Wissenschaften und Künste, sowohl was

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Born in 1959 near Boston, raised in Washington DC, Steve Litsios moved to Switzerland with his family in 1967. He studied art for a couple of years at Geneva's ecole d'arts appliqués before attending the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 70's, then moved back to Switzerland where he has been active internationally as an artist since 1983. He lives in the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds and can be

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Der amerikanische Versicherungskonzern AIG bezahlt seinen Managern Bonis von einer Million und mehr, während dem Konzern Milliarden an Staatshilfen eingeschossen wurden. Wie in verschiedenen Analysen (u.a. Die Zeit) zu lesen war, ist AIG einer der nächsten Strauchelkandidaten der Finanzkrise - ein Konzern, dessen Struktur aufgebaut ist auf ungewisse Geschäftsresultate, Gewinnspeuklationen, die an

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Wir verdanken es der gegenwärtigen Struktur des Kulturbetriebssystems, dass die „freien Künste“ in knapp 30 Jahren zu Dienstleistungen der freien Marktwirtschaft einerseits und zu verwaltbaren Kuratorien der Qualitätskontrolle anderseits, umsegmentiert wurden.Unter der Künstlerschaft trauten sich zuerst Einige, später nur noch Wenige hinter die Barrieren des offiziellen Kurses. Inoffizielle und

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In the New York Times."Anyone with memories of recessions in the early 1970s and late '80s knows that we've been here before, though not exactly here.""I'm not talking about creating '60s-style utopias; all those notions are dead and gone and weren't so great to begin with. I'm talking about carving out a place in the larger culture where a condition of abnormality can be sustained, where

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Wieviel sind eine Milliarde? Egal ob Dollar, Euro oder Schweizer Franken - wer kann sich diese Summe wirklich vorstellen? Seitdem die Börsen massiv auf Tauchgang gehen und die Finanzkrise jeden einzelnen Tag überschattet, erscheinen uns alle Summen die unter diesem - für mich unvorstellbaren Betrag - liegen, Peanuts.In den 90er Jahren, bei der grossen Pleite des Frankfurter Bauunternehmers

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NEXTEX eröffnet!donnerstag, 19. februar 2009, ab 19 uhr---ausserdemPRISKA OELER auf dem sockel---nach einem halben jahr pause und dem umzug vom oberen grabenan den blumenbergplatz eröffnet exex als NEXTEX die neuen räume.in zukunft sollen am blumenbergplatz veranstaltungen - gespräche,vorträge, workshops usw. - das programm bestimmen. mit denausstellungen geht NEXTEX ausser haus. wie im

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Nach einiger Ausstellungen im Ausland, komme ich nach Hause!VERNISSAGE FREITAG 20. FEBRUAR 18 UHR bis 22 UHR. BITTE KOMME!Pressemitteilung von der Galerie."Prelude" Die Galerie am Landsgemeindeplatz in Trogen zeigt vom 20. Februar bis zum 28. März Werke vom renommierten Trogener Künstler Mark Staff Brandl. Die zum Teil grossformatigen Werke und Installationen sind Bestandteil seiner Doktorarbeit

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Click on image to see full, enlarged version.A comic --- oops, a piece of sequential art --- in which the artist Steve Hamann braves the Sharkpit to finally meet Mark Staff Brandl, discuss with Wesley Kimler, see art by both, and comment on it all!

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This is the first podcast by Sharkforum! Wesley Kimler, "The Shark," and Mark Staff Brandl, "The EuroShark," introduce their intentions in a short 33 minute discussion. Skype discussions, rants, Shark attacks, reviews and more will follow.Listen here:Or download here..

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I was invited by ReneeMcGrath-Abazovic to make a contribution to a project by the Visual Communication Department at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern. At the moment, they are working on a project for the "science et cité" festival that takes place in 5 towns in Switzerland in order to bring science and society closer to each other.They asked for my answer to the question, "what would you invent

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At my part-time job, fur clad cosmetically-enhanced people often approach me and make unique, and always urgent, requests."Can you tell me where I might find a sterling silver flask? I'm looking for a Canadian Goose Down coat for my daughter. Where might I find that automatic espresso machine that makes the coffee without you having to do anything? Does the spa downstairs do brows and waxing? How

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San Francisco, CA: The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to announce that Gene Colan is the recipient of the 2008 Sparky Award, which was presented to him by CAM founder Malcolm Whyte during the museum's "Salute to Gene Colan" on Thursday, December 4, 2008.The Sparky Award is named in honor of Charles "Sparky" Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. Schulz was nicknamed "Sparky" after the horse Sparkplug

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Proximity magazine number 3 has just been released. One of the features, as mentioned before here, is edited by your friendly EuroShark. I am organizing short theoretical essays from other active artists. The Proximity editors are also gracious enough to allow us to publish the essays on Sharkforum as well as in their magazine. They would love subscribers, though!This issue and the next issue

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As Lisa Hunter, the Intrepid Art Collector reports, "here's a treat for serious collectors: Juliana Beasley, heir apparent to Toulouse-Lautrec, is having a holiday print sale. She's selling four images from her series "Last Stop: Rockaway Park" in a nice size (18x18) for $250 to $300.These images were shown at Freize and are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. But you don't need

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A super short (2 min. 35 sec.) TV video clip of the exhibition "Out of Sequence: Under Represented Voices in American Comics," which is on exhibition at the University of Illinois' Krannert Art Museum. This video tours the exhibition with its co-curators, Professor John Jennings and PhD candidate Damian Duffy. Mark Staff Brandl's corner Panels painting-installation and Covers paintings in the

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The EuroShark ("EuropaHaifisch") wird auf der preisgekrönten Website Bad at Sports interviewt. Wie die auf dem Blog schreiben: "Episode 170: Mark Staff Brandl. Duncan MacKenzie interviewiert Mark "the EuroShark" Staff Brandl, Theoretiker, Kunsthistoriker, Professor, Künstler und Kritiker für Art in America, Sharkforum und Bad at Sports.The EuroShark is interviewed on the award-winning podcast

Mark Staff Brandlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09790837634536259781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33907036.post-43409801312699698562008-11-26T09:59:00.003+01:002008-11-26T10:07:11.740+01:00

This is to announce the beginning post of the on-line, in process, version of my PhD dissertion, which I am writing under the direction of Prof. Philip Urspung at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. My second reader is Prof Andreas Langlotz at the University of Basel, Switzerland.It will be permanently archived on my website here as well, but I will put each chapter up on the main Sharkforum,

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Excerpt of a radio show interview with John Jennings and Damian Duffy touring the Out of Sequence exhibition at Krannert Art Museum in Illinois. For 13 minutes of streaming radio click on the arrow. To download as mp3 click here.

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From The Colbert Report, Wednesday, September 24, 2008:Stephen Colbert: Now why $700,000,000,000 exactly, when these days you can purchase a bank for 3 pounds of ground chuck and an old bicycle wheel? Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke explained...Ben Bernanke: Just as when you sell a painting at Sotheby's you don't know... nobody knows what it is worth until the auction's over. Then people know what it's

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Mark Staff Brandl:MY PRESIDENT!I can finally say that and mean it!I haven't been so happy about a political event since my childhood. Since the Kennedys, in fact. I stayed up all night here in Switzerland listening to Air America (commentator Ron Reagan!) and checking many sites. Like Jesse Jackson I'm crying with joy and can hardly write, so I've posted Arianna's great piece.It is indeed time

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zeitgarten.ch und das Amt für Archäologie des Kantons Thurgauladen zur Museumseröffnung und zur Buchvernissage"Ad Fines - das spätrömische Kastell Pfyn" ein.Am 8. November 2008, 19 Uhr in der Trotte PfynAnsprachen:Jacqueline Müller, GemeindeammannDr. Hansjörg Brem, KantonsarchäologeMark Staff Brandl, Künstler und KunsthistorikerMusik: Arndt RauschAnschliessend Apéro richeBereits vor anderthalb

max (alex Meszmer)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02238250878737354659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33907036.post-29049111465553150512008-10-14T08:11:00.002+02:002008-10-14T08:26:29.431+02:00

Endlich wieder einmal ein paar Worte aus der Ecke der Slam-Poeten: Es geht ab hier. Denn hier fragt sich niemand was Kunst ist. Hier wird einfach nur produziert. Weil man auch mal scheitern darf.Poetry Slams und Slam-Shows finden inzwischen überall und oft auch auf Teufel komm raus statt. Wochenenden, an denen in der Schweiz zwei oder gar drei Slams parallel stattfinden, sind keine Seltenheit

Richi K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16769480460622399023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33907036.post-64587654931144641502008-10-09T23:14:00.000+02:002008-10-09T23:16:08.111+02:00

Um die Frage einer Definition von Kunst drücken sich, seit die Moderne in die Postmoderne überging und die allgemeine Beliebigkeit ausgerufen wurde, so ziemlich alle im Kunstbetrieb, allen voran die Künstler. Die Autonomie der Kunst als grosses Postulat brachte uns die Möglichkeit in alle und jede Richtung zu experimentieren und in einem erweiterten Duchamp’schen Sinne alles an Kunst anzunehmen,

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matthias kuhn/alex meszmerdas perfekte leben - fragmente einer anatomie menschlicher strategienperformativer vortragmittwoch, 1. oktober 2008, 19 uhrkunstmuseum solothurnwerkhofstrasse 30, ch-4500 solothurnmatthias kuhn und alex meszmer präsentieren mit «das perfekte leben - fragmente einer anatomie menschlicher strategien» - nach «travelogue, suchen statt finden oder, wo sind wir wenn wir reisen

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Two invitations: SHARKPIT and KRANNERT ART MUSEUM.I, Mark Staff Brandl, will be in the US in October and would love to see you -- and show you work. The dates and contact info ---OPENING (vernissage, apero)SHARKPIT (Wesley Kimler's Studio)THURSDAY OCTOBER 16 from 7:30 - 11:00 pm (or so)a small SHOW of littler worksAfter that a very large painting-installation inKRANNERT ART MUSEUMChampaign,

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(Image: Kriemler's Sculpture at the Olympics in China)After 7 months of planning and preparation to participate in the international sculpture exhibition: Sculpture for New Orleans www.sculptureforneworleans.org , my monumental steel sculpture "Current" is since today on its way to the crescent city New Orleans. Together with second participating Swiss sculptor Carlo Bürgi, www.cabulart.ch we

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A video report on Jonathan Lasker's recent paintings at Cheim & Read Gallery, Chelsea.

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Click here to see full image.Hier clicken um alles zu sehen.

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The United States Tax Authority IRS (Steuerbehörde) has asked the Swiss government to aid in the investigation of International Banking & Investment group UBS and their overseas tax havens programs which some have reported amount to intentional tax evasion and fraud.Art Basel is mentioned as the go to location for foreign employees of UBS to illegally recruit wealthy individuals to help them

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Brian Sherwin, artist and art blogger has interviewed me, the EuroShark for his website, myartspace>blog. Sherwin, originally from Illinois and now living in California, has conducted and published a series of interviews with visual artists including William T. Wiley and others. You can read his piece with me here. The newest interviews appear here.AUCH NEU gibt es

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A Bad at Sports Basel Art Fair Overdose! The intro and outro are extra creepy this week. Highlights(?) include Duncan talking about some fantasy involving wearing tight short shorts and Teena McClelland!!! Tom Burtonwood interrupts the recording by shooting rubber bands. Chaos! After Richard and Duncan are done making a mess of things, the real pros come in and present a fantastic report from

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http://belcheresque.wordpress.comFreedom's just another word for nothing left to looseNothing, I mean nothing honey if it ain't free, no noYeah feeling good was easy Lord when he sang the bluesYou know feeling good was good enough for meGood enough for me and my Bobby McGee. Kris Kristofferson 'Me and Bobby McGhee' LyricsA money culture wants the figures, the bottom line, the sales, the response,

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‘Conrad Atkinson Remix 1978-2008′ by Moogee the Art Dog has been selected for ‘Penned’ at the Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore An exhibition of pen and/or marker drawings including photographs of the pens used to make them. The more than 100 drawings in this exhibition cover a broad range of pens from the generic ball point to the traditional

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Well respected music blog features Trailer Star album...Songs Illinoishttp://www.songsillinois.net/?p=3313New song/record from Ron Sexsmith - “Exit Strategy For The Soul” (Yep Roc, July 8) (plus Trailer Star from England)May 21st, 2008I’m always talking the talk about over-produced records and how something lofi is usually ultimately more satisfying. Well today we walk the walk with

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This weeksBAD AT SPORTS art-radio podcast show from the US is as long as your arm and brimming with what you need to know about the art world around you… It’s a three shows for the price of one deal!!! First Duncan takes on the Chicago Artist Coalition to find out, what they do andwhat business they have publishing a magazine. Next,Terri and Serena talk to David Adjaye and Cydney Payton at The

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Finally, an important critic takes a clear stance on "Event Art." Will the Consensus Curatorial World that feeds on such events be analyzed soon too?Christopher Knight of the LA Times dissected Matthew Barney's 'REN' in a recent article."Cliches Abound""The first mistake Matthew Barney made in his corny two-hour performance, "REN," at a Santa Fe Springs car lot Sunday night, was in the choice of

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Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times reports that "Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82.The cause was heart failure, said Arne Glimcher, chairman of PaceWildenstein, the Manhattan gallery that represents Mr. Rauschenberg.Mr. Rauschenberg's work gave

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Joe Fyfe paintingFelix Lehner and Hans JosephsohnI've been meaning to write about this for some time, but kept getting sidetracked by other events. Last summer, I met the very interesting painter and "writer on art" Joe Fyfe.Unfortunately I was in the throes of completing my three years of learning Latin and preparing for and taking the day-long final examinations, as well as painting for a

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A series of four abstract cartoons by artist Mark Staff Brandl, originally made in 2001, in collaboration with Mustafa Kocabeyoglu. Now available on youtube.

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Duchamp, Beuys und Warhol – das sind meiner Meinung nach die drei Künstler, die im 20. Jh. in der Kunst den Weg bestimmt haben – oder das meiste angerichtet. Duchamp hat mit seinen ready mades die Möglichkeit zur konzeptuellen Arbeit eingeleitet, Beuys hat mit gesellschaftlichen Utopien experimentiert, die er in einfachen Analogien ausgedrückt hat und Warhol hat den Konsum und das Jetzt zur Kunst

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Vor allem in der Romandie hat ein Referat von Pius Knüsel die Wellen hoch schlagen lassen. Beim Forum für Kultur und Ökonomie stellte er öffentlich laut die Frage, ob die Kulturföderung, wie wir sie heute haben, zu einer satturierten Konsenskultur geführt hat, die kaum mehr Besonderes, dafür aber immer mehr langweiliges Mittelmass hervorbringt.Bedenklich ist, dass diese Behauptungen vom Direktor

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I’d like to introduce a new term for a recent trend in Consensus Correct painting: Feeble Painting.Actually, I already have been using it for a short while in my Art History classes when describing one current tendency. While discussing this with the Shark, he volunteered to help me delineate it and present it to a wider audience. We debated the idea in depth and here is the elucidation.Many of

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(click image to view enlarged)Hot Links:http://www.comicbooktalkradio.com/ArchiveLink to play immediately, streaming: here.Names dropped include:Th. Emil HomerinGary ScolesC HillGene ColanRoy LichtensteinAndy WarholFrank KingGasoline AlleyWill EisnerThe SpiritDaredevilDraculaTom FieldSecrets in the ShadowsJack KirbySteve DitkoEarl BrandlRuth BrandlDavid CarrierArt in AmericaUniversität ZürichThe

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(click on image to view enlarged)A Sharkforum Feeding Frenzy Funnies special by Steve Hamann and Mark Staff Brandl.Face the truth about your artworld at this moment in time.

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Die Kunst boomt und die Auktionshäuser reiben sich die Hände. Nach der langen Brache darf wieder gehypt werden und die Umstellung der Akademien auf das Bachelor und Master System werden ihren Teil dazu beitragen, einen neuen Akademismus zu manifestieren.Die Entwicklung der Kunst liegt nicht mehr (?) in den Händen der Künstler, die sich viel lieber in das System einfügen und weniger nach

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