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
Urban Spree Galerie proudly presents « LETTERS », an international group show featuring 10 artists engaged in the practice of urban calligraphy.
The Exhibition will finally take place starting on Friday, April 23rd, 2021 at Urban Spree Galerie and online
LETTERS focuses on European and Mediterranean artists whose practice is strongly influenced by their graffiti years, past or current, their passion for painting, lettering, abstraction, and the use of brushes.
This first chapter covers artists nourished by the classical European calligraphy tradition (roman, runic or cyrilic scripts) as well as arabic calligraphy, but first and foremost by their contemporary practice of muralism and abstraction: muralism or « street art » is an integral part of the practice of « calligraffiti » – the holy alliance of calligraphy and the urban landscape, shaped by graffiti, whereby speed, precision and abstraction converge to give birth to this particular urban flow.
Whereas letters and alphabets are consubstantial to graffiti, urban calligraphy diverges with the use of a particular reference to traditional calligraphy and use of specific contact tools like brushes instead of aerosols.
Artists are using calligraphy as a materia prima. However, the final result is a substantial evolution from the traditional corpus of calligraphy with serious inroads into abstraction, where letters are turned into abstracted shapes and signs, dissolved, essentialized, obfuscated and cyphered.
LETTERS is a show about post-calligraphy and post-graffiti. About signs, mutations, strokes and freedom.
LETTERS feature new works by:
Niels « Shoe » Meulman
eL Seed
Sowat
Sicoer
Paradox
Stohead
Michal Škapa
Zepha
Lukas K Stiller
Theosone
LETTERS
23.04.2021 / 29.05.2021
Opening: Friday, April 23rd 2021
Exact rules for attending the event will be communicated in due time ahead of the show
Wednesday – Saturday 12:00-18:30 and by appointment
Catalogue and Info: pascal@urbanspree.com