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Next exhibition: Ruttkowski68 / One Year
by Ruttkowski68 on November 9, 2011
Ruttkowski68 is pleased to announce a group exhibition celebrating the gallery and all of its artists. Some of the best works by all artists who previously exhibited at the gallery since the first exhibition in August 2010 will be featured. The complete line-up: ECB / Hendrik Beikirch, Christian Bolte, Luciano Calderon, Pieter Ceizer, Jachya Freeth, Maria Giménez, Götz Gramlich & Julia Kress, Jeroo, Collin van der Sluijs, Superblast, Zedz, Gunnar Zimmer, Stephan Zirwes.
The exhibition opens on the 2nd of December, 20h, and is running until 29th of January.
Next exhibition: Collin van der Sluijs
by Ruttkowski68 on October 27, 2011
From the 4th until the 27th of November, the painter Collin van der Sluijs (NL) is showing new canvases and large scale drawings. The opening takes place on the 4th of November at 8pm. You can also sign up for the Facebook event.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Dirty Diaries is a series of work based upon personal experiences of van der Sluijs with life and death in 2010 and 2011, the dirty way death can grab someone you love, and the great joy of receiving new life. These emotions reflect the body of paintings and drawings that are presented at Ruttkowski68.
ABOUT COLLIN VAN DER SLUIJS
At the age of 12 van der Sluijs attended the school for traditional painting in Goes (NL) where he studied old techniques and theory about painting. In 1996 he graduated and was accepted for a 4 years painting and graphic education at St.Lucas in Boxtel, the Netherlands. After the graduation in 2000, van der Sluijs attended the art-academy St. Joost in Breda, the Netherlands.
After the graduation van der Sluijs moved to the south of the Netherlands where he lives and works.
His work is a translation of personal pleasures and struggles in daily life, translated in his own visual language and has been widely published in magazines and books and exhibited in art spaces in the Netherlands, Germany, France, England, Belgium, The U.S.A, Luxembourg, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain.
Next exhibition: Luciano Calderon
by Ruttkowski68 on September 27, 2011
From the 7th until the 30th of October, the painter Luciano Calderon from Buenos Aires is showing new works on canvases. The opening takes place on the 7th of October at 8pm. You can also sign up for the Facebook event.
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Coming from the ghetto of Villa 31 in Buenos Aires, we are proud to present Luciano Calderon (b. 1985) in collaboration with the art platform Public Delivery (South Korea) in our gallery.
Calderon utilizes primitive figures and outspoken graphics in his art works. Having both a foreigner’s and a native’s perspective, he is heavily influenced by the extreme contrasts of growing up in both the clean and calm Swiss capital, Bern, and the grimy but lively ghetto of El Alto, Bolivia. Calderon optained a degree in graphic design in 2007 and continued to travel between Europe and South America; living, working in and drawing inspiration from both worlds.
His recent works show that Calderon exceeds simple comments on his and his friends’ lives and reveal his perspective as an empathetic observer. He comments on sociological and political issues, sometimes obvious and nasty but sometimes also subtly like in “Hormigón armado, 2010″ (“armed ant”), which is an abstract portrait of a homeless person, named after the newspaper of street children of La Paz, Bolivia. Another element of the work of Calderon is his usage of typical South American typography, inspired by the pixação from Brazil or the tattoo style of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha, as well as patterns, inspired by traditional Bolivian art and everyday objects.
Calderon lives and works in Villa 31, the most well-known informal estate located in Downtown, Buenos Aires. After several fruitless attempts to transplant the inhabitants to the outskirts of the city, it’s now in the process of being transformed from a slum to a “regular” district.
ABOUT LUCIANO CALDERON
Born 1985 in Bern, Switzerland
Graduation as graphic designer
Lives and works in Buenos Aires
Next exhibition: Zedz
by Ruttkowski68 on August 25, 2011
We are back from our summer break! We hope that you are ready for the next exhibitions. Zedz from Amsterdam is coming up, don’t miss the opening on the 2nd of September. You can also sign up for the Facebook event.
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Zedz from Amsterdam will show works at the gallery from the 2nd of September until 2nd of October. As usual, there are two floors filled exciting art so make sure to drop by the gallery.
Ruttkowski68 presents Zedz – Plan Matic, in cooperation with Auswahl Asphaltkultur and curated by Robert Kaltenhäuser and Nils Müller.
ABOUT ZEDZ
Zedz: Born in Leiden -1971- started doing graffiti at the age of fourteen. After a couple of years he mastered the basics and started to develop a more marked graffiti style and a way of thinking that became the firm basis for the artwork he have been creating and is creating today.
In 1992 Zedz moved to Amsterdam for studying at the well known Gerrit Rietveld Art academy. After graduating (1998) he started working as a visual artist and freelance graphic designer. Working for clients and on his own projects he kept developing his personal graffiti style and visual language throughout these years.
The works are almost always typography based and could be seen as a constant quest to develop new ways of presenting his name, by doing so he is creating typography that is expressive and playful and deals more with rhythm, shape and dimensionality then the importance of the read-ability though letters are always the firm base of the work. Zedz works in multiple disciplines; painting, graffiti, computer from graphic to 3D object. The work can differ in size and appearance; from drawings to miniatures and scale models to monumental paintings and objects as well controlling and doing art direction of/on larger scale projects.
Good examples of this are found in the collaboration projects with architect Marc Maurer (MUA: Maurer United Architects ) exploring the border line between graffitiand architecture (1999-2003). A research that led to a cross over between architecture and graffiti, in which the graffiti drawing is transformed into a proposal for huge scale 3D architectural objects.
The works for events such as world flatground (BMX) championship (2005) and the diverse animations for diverse clients prove the ease of usage of different mediums and an oversight of coordinating of larger scale and more complex projects as well as the possibility of working with or leading a team.
Zedz wants to create graffiti that is multi purposed, graffiti pieces that are objects on which it is possible to sit and relax or to play a bike or skateboard trick on, extruded graffiti (-lettering) turned into a objects that relate to the human size and interact with the public. With this work zedz is aiming at materialising the graffiti from a 2 dimensional drawing into a 3 dimensional entity.
The purpose of Zedz’s graffiti is to make people wonder and elevate the thoughts of everyday live for a moment and give meaning to the graffiti inspired art he is making as well as making it relevant in a broader context.
SHORT BIO
1998 graduated Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy Amsterdam
1998 started working as an independent artist.
Graphic designer, free artist and graffiti pioneer and expert.
Next exhibition: Stephan Zirwes
by Ruttkowski68 on June 15, 2011
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> Stephan Zirwes
> Opening 1 July – 8pm
> Running from 1 July – 6 August
> Event on Facebook
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> Flyer (high resolution)
> Press-kit (german + english text, cv, high resolution images)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Stephan Zirwes, a German photographer, has no fear of heights. Unlike other photographers he doesn’t take his photos in the studio. Usually he takes them out of the door of a flying helicopter, in spiraling heights several hundred meters above the ground. While a safety device ensures a more or less secure working environment, one might still wonder about the motivation to work under such conditions. The photos of Zirwes reveal a stunning answer: From above ground European industrial wasteland, African townships or Arabian deserts look completely different.
Enormous metal constructions, buildings, highways, mountains and other elements form structures that are only visible from above. Patterns and contrasts appear and give another perspective on reality, as Zirwes says. It’s a playful view, one that specifically questions reality and its perception. The photos show that we as humans are often limited to the reality of our eye level or, more general, to the reality given by our observation methods and techniques.
Zirwes’ works often look artificial and fictitious, even more like paintings than photos, but they are barely edited. In fact, he has to rely on the nature for lighting instead on studio equipment. Therefore, his photos are even more authentic than other professional ones.
The photos of Zirwes often exceed a purely aesthetical interest and usually explore other dimensions of reality. For instance, when a cloud produced by the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull caused a shutdown of most airplane traffic in Europe, Zirwes caught the calmness of an airport. From above, it looked like a quite place. For a number of passengers however, it was an emotional time as their plans were forcefully changed. Another series consists of photos of Swiss glaciers. Their melting process started in the 1940s and hasn’t stopped since. To prevent or at least delay it, desperate attempts have been made. One of them was to cover glaciers parly with large plastic canvases. The gigantic glaciers though still move, sometimes up to ten centimeters a day, swallowing and playing with the human made solution. Zirwes devoted himself to portrait the glaciers in their existing form.
Over the years Zirwes has moved into a new direction, using the same techniques and motives but discreetly and effectively changing reality by using actors, a conceptual resemblance to the work of Canadian photographer Jeff Wall. In contrast, the actors are usually just a small component of the composition.
Images, very familiar from being constantly screened in the mass media, that leave one numb by constant repetition, are newly staged by Zirwes. In his recent impressive photos of the navy blue Mediterranean, humans also play a crucial role. After closely examining the photos, one can see a nutshell full of a few dozen “Africans” trying to find shelter in Europe. Likewise, on another set of photos, he awakens collective memories of torture at Guantanamo Bay, by having helpers pose as inmates in their well-known orange suits.
Lately, Zirwes started talking more about socio-political issues like exclusion, globalization, environmental pollution and other topics, relevant to most, if not all viewers. He intelligently comments, sometimes beautifully and disturbing at the same time, and rather turns the viewer towards the issue than away from it.
To improve the viewing experience, Zirwes has used various new presentation techniques, from using a highglossy liquid gloss surface on his photos to projections. To maintain a high level of detail, most photos of Zirwes exhibited at Ruttkowski68 are 120x160cm or larger.
Zirwes has exhibited internationally in galleries and museums such as the SF Moma and won awards like the prestigious Hasselblad Masters Award. He started out with video-installations and art-videos in 1994 and moved to mainly shooting from helicopters in 2000.
Text by Martin Schulze
Next exhibition: Pieter Ceizer & Jachya Freeth
by Ruttkowski68 on May 29, 2011
This Friday, two Dutch artists, Pieter Ceizer and Jachya Freeth, will show oil paintings and silkscreen prints in our gallery!
Pieter Ceizer (b. 82) and Jachya Freeth (b. 74) are two Dutch artists from different generations. Both have started their artist careers in the graffiti world of Amsterdam. Hungry for more, both enrolled at art schools: Freeth at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and Ceizer at the Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag.
At Ruttkowski68 both will show conceptual works, Freeth often ironic and thoughtful, Ceizer provocative in his choice of words and images.
Currently Ceizer is based in Amsterdam and Freeth in Berlin.
Opening: 3rd of June, 20h
