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Hi, we just started promoting our stuff at the Australian website “RED BUBBLE“, made up for Artists, Photographers, Designers  and Art Lovers. Just check it out.

Nein, jetzt geht es nicht um Bilder etc.

Jetzt geht es um Kultur, das Wort.

Morgen, am 9. Mai 2009, während der „Nacht der Museen“ liest Herbert Asbeck im Goethe-Museum in Düsseldorf.

Ab ca. 22:30 Uhr wird gestartet, er liest aus Einpersonen-Komödie „TROTT“ einige Szenen.

Wenn Ihr mehr über den Inhalt des Stücks wissen möchtet, hier ist der Link:  TROTT

Viel Spass morgen.

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Ice Ice Baby

Oil on Canvas

This Mutant Creatures stands in opposite to my Voodo Dolls.

The colours are cold. White, ice-blue and of course, deepest black. They are chimeras of our trust in science without soul. Everything is possible. Dead before being born but forced to live. We opened Pandoras Box and nothing remains the same. Even hope has vanished.

Burn Baby Burn 

Oil on Canvas

The Voodoo Dolls are quite different. Painted in vivid red, golden yellow colors but they also cannot exist without the deepest black. Hot blooded and full of anger, they tolerate our hate and bear our pain, but they are waiting for Payback. Every thing comes back to you.

The hour of the voodoo dolls will come.  Sooner or later. 

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And again, some new VAN TRIBE designs, made by “be-him”.

Here`s the history behind the designs:

“Elias”

The t-shirt design “The prophet” shows the head of the prophet Elias, a detail from the linocut “Elias mit dem Raben ( Elias with the raven )”.
It´s the first picture in a row of four. They were first shown in Düsseldorf in november 2007, made for a very special concert, the oratorio “Elias” written by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, shown also at an exhibition about Elias.

Here`s the original:

Now we decided to make some shirt-designs of this original picture.
Maybe you wanna take a look.

 US-SHOP / EU-SHOP

 US-SHOP / EU-SHOP

Jay

DEADLY PERCHERON

The anglosaxon Frederick Walton invented linoleum in 1860.
A mixture of cork- or saw-dust, oxidiced linseed or soya-bean oil, colophony , lead or manganeseoxid pressed on thick fabric.

Linoleum is very interesting as a material to make art prints.
Its easy to cut and the surface without pores makes it possible to get a very high saturation of the colors.

You need only a few but really good quality knifes.
The better the knife, the better the cut !!!
The linoleumplates are available in artmaterialshops, but only in a limited variaty of size.
To cut the real big ones I arrange several plates together, or I take the linoleum usually put on the floor. This one isn´t that thick , because of that you have to be careful bringing up the printer`s ink and not to sparkle it all over the place. ( Little splashes of ink always gets on the wrong places )

I cover these “accidents” with paper to avoid having them on my print.
( but don´t forget to remove them IMMEDIATELY after printing they stick like glue )

There are two methods of printing.
You lay the plate on the table / floor and press the paper on it or vice versa.

Printing my big linocuts, I always lay the plate on the floor and roll the paper or the canvas over it. To increase the pressure I use a large metalroller and walk all over the print again and again. (
Yes sometimes I am dancing and jumping ).

But the best thing is to roll off the paper / canvas.
I really like this wet, sucking noise and I am allways a little nervous seeing now my idea has been printed the right direction and not mirrored like the cut.

I put this print on the floor for drying off.
At this point it´s wet, shinning black and I am a little sorry to watch this gloss slowly dissapear.
But when its dry, a wonderful deep, powderlike velvet black takes place.

I think Linocuts are a good possibillity to create a work of art in a limited edition, independend and free. Every step is performend and controlled by yourself.

You don`t need expencive material or machines. You only have to investigate time to get an idea and bring it to life with physical strength ( cut for several hours and you know what I mean )
But take care, a good knife has to be sharp. REAL SHARP

DREI ENGEL / THREE ANGELS
be-him / Designer of  VAN TRIBE CUSTOM SHIRTS