Rylsee and Otto Baum’s joint creative workshop “Make Your Own Sign” returns to Urban Spree for the first session of 2017 on Saturday, March 18th.
Book the workshop directly on the MYOS website and learn the basic techniques of Lettering & Sign Painting from a full-day workshop. Limited Availability.
A musical and scenographic live composition directly inspired by the absurd world of the fabulous Erik Satie.
Three evenings:
Friday 22th of May 20h30
@KLUNKERKRANICH (Karl-Marx-Straße 66, Berlin)
Saturday 23th of May 20h30
NK (Elsenstraße 52, 2.Hinterhaus, Etage 2, Berlin)
Sunday 24th of May 18h30
@URBAN SPREE (Revaler Str. 99, Berlin)
The Berlin and the Swedish Soundpainting Orchestra devote themselves to the musical and literary œuvre of Erik Satie. By means of Soundpainting language they explore the radical and humorous aesthetics and deliver a complex conception of this eccentric composer. Inspired by the absurd theater, the production design is made up of a mixture of the fashion and art of the fin de siècle as well as contemporary influences.
Hada Benedito: Soundpainter, Musical director.
Jennifer Rahfeldt: Soundpainter, Scene director.
Swedish Soundpainting Orchestra
http://tsso.se/
Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra
www.berlinsoundpaintingorc
Soundpainting is a multidisciplinary live composing sign language created in 1974 by Walter Thompson. The language comprises today more than 1200 gestures that are signed by the Soundpainter to indicate the type of material desired of the performers.
Berlin Sound Painting Orchestra´s line up:
Makiho Yoshida – Violin
Penelope Gkika – Violin
Adam Goodwin – Double Bass
Antti Virtaranta – Double Bass
Did Aski – Alto sax
Federico Eterno – Alto sax / Clarinet
Jonathan Lindhorst – Tenor Sax / Clarinet
Kriton A. Beyer – Harmonium
Charlotte Barnett – Voice
Bianca Gépoint. – Voice
Rieko Okuda – Piano
Adrian David Krok- Drums
Bob Meanza – Electronics
Benedito Hada – Soundpainter
The Swedish Soundpainting Orchestra´s line up:
Bruno Faria – Flute player and soundpainter
Cecilia Skog – visual artist
Britta Jonasson – dancer
Rasmus Alkestrand – clarinet
Lennart Nilsson – trombone
Nina Hansen – actor
Jason Rahfeldt – guitar
Karina Lernestål – actor
Åsa Wirling – visual artist
Jennifer Rahfeldt – Soundpainter
Last November, Mike Meyer (USA) and Ash Bishop (UK) were in Berlin for the Premiere of the well attended “Sign Painters” movie at Urban Spree and delivered at the same occasion a very successful brush lettering/sign painting workshop for 2 entire days.
After the success of this initial workshop, Make! Skilled Hands are luckily organizing a second session with the same duo of craftsmen. The 2-day session will be held once again at Urban Spree and we advise you to book your seat fast as the attendance is limited and the demand high.
All info are on the Make! Skilled Hands’ blog here.
Julia Benz finished the hanging of the huge Triptychon and is now starting the mural on the wall next to it. The process is opened to the public and you are welcome to come by and watch.
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‘Make Your Own Sign‘ is a new monthly creative workshop with Otto Baum (KLUB7 Artist Collective) & Rylsee (Urban Spree Resident Artist), hosted by Urban Spree, Berlin.
The objective of the full-day workshop is to acquire the basic techniques of typography & sign making and return home with your own creation!
The first workshop of the season will be on Nov. 9th. Courses are held in english.
Bookings & Info: MakeYourOwnSign@gmail.com
From October 23rd to January 23rd 2021, Urban Spree Galerie is pleased to offer the painter Orsten Groom his first solo exhibition in Germany, “CHROME DINETTE”.
As a radically independent and self-managed artist, Orsten Groom has established himself in a few years as a key player in the young French painting scene, between alternative circles and museum institutions.
His first retrospective was presented this year at the ACMCM contemporary art centre in Perpignan (France) – at only 37 years old.
The Berlin exhibition brings together over thirty works, presented in two sections:
– the Large Ensemble of 17 paintings “CHROME DINETTE” (accompanied by its proverbial Divan), a crazed round about the links binding Sigmund Freud and Moses through Ancient Egypt & Sick Poodles – all under the aegis of Frank Zappa;
– A vast Recapitulative Selection of Orsten Groom’s emblematic large formats, a genuine «subconscious» journey with Parietal Sarcophagus allures.
Orsten Groom’s painting is presented as “Post-Historical Cave Art”.
The famous German artist Jonathan Meese said about him: “Orsten Groom comes from the caves and the Middle Ages and keeps history alive in today’s art. He comes from the future“.
Apocalyptic Frescoes, saturated with Creatures drawn from the Memory Styx by Demented Talmudic Investigations, Carnivalesque Recapitulation of History from the Flow of Origins and Art History – His Painting roars on Large Canvases populated with Figures entangled by Mythological and Grotesque Archetypes, Dances Macabres gleaned by a Language Detective, an Amnesiac Epileptic Archaeologist. Its Material is Dense, Volcanic, inhabited like the ancient Livers of a Divinatory Ritual.
«This turmoil is similar to the one I feel in the Grottos of Lascaux or Chauvet, in front of El Greco or Picasso paintings, or, in the 20th century, facing the essential work of Gérard Gasiorowski», wrote Olivier Kaeppelin, Curator of his recent Parisian Exhibition POMPEII MASTURBATOR – For which the Archaeological Park of Pompeii itself has send a complaint.
Orsten Groom experienced in 2002 an aneurysm that left him amnesic and epileptic. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2009 and Le Fresnoy in 2011. He is the recipient of several awards: Prix l’art est vivant (2019), Prix de Peinture de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts (2016) and Prix de Peinture Antoine Marin (2015). The reputed paint manufacturer Marin manufactures a colour to his name, the Pink Groom.
He is also a musician, author of collections of English cubist poems, filmmaker (Jury Prize for his film BOBOK at the 2011 Côté-Court festival) and since 2012 author of the video cycle Les Ballets Russes.
He has collaborated with curators and authors Olivier Kaeppelin and Paul Ardenne, the filmmaker Guy Maddin, the translator and poet André Markowicz, as well as the writer Boris Wolowiec.
Implanted in the heart of Berlin, the Urban Spree Galerie has been for more than 8 years an unavoidable reference in urban arts, understood as a manifestation of a post-parietal art, which inscribes graffiti at the heart of its practice, on a large scale.
The opening will be accompanied by a concert by the POODLE MHUND ARKESTRA, formed for the occasion by Orsten Groom, the Magnificent Jimmy Trash & Big Daddy Mugglestone.
Ich bin der Dreck unter deinen Walzen / Ich bin dein geheimer Schmutz Und verlorenes Metallgeld / Ich bin deine Ritze und Schlitze / Ich bin der Autor aller Felgen Und Damast Paspeln / Ich bin Eier aller Arten / Ich bin alle Tage und Nächte / Ich bin der Chrome Dinette / Und du bist mein Sofa. – Frank Zappa
CHROME DINETTE is Burning Divan, Hypnotic Sphinx and Sick Tongue of the Unpronounceable God.
ORSTEN GROOM: CHROME DINETTE
“Divan, Divan, Weisst du, Wer Ich Bin?”
23.10.2020 – 23/01.2021
Vernissage: Friday, 23.10.2020 from 18:30 in presence of the artist
Concert of the POODLE MHUND ARKESTRA (Orsten Groom, The Magnificent Jimmy Trash & Big Daddy Mugglestone)
Urban Spree Galerie
Revaler Str. 99
10245 Berlin
Contact, info & catalogue: Pascal Feucher (pascal@urbanspree.com)
Opening Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 14:00-19:00
Opens Sunday 24.10.2020 (14:00-19:00)
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