After my first visit to his studio (see the blog post from 13 July 2013), I promised to return to Chemnitz and film him at work. Voilà, here is the result:
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Jean Schmiedel II
ALP Galleries
The first co_works exhibition opened at ALP Galleries in Frankfurt am Main on 5 September 2013.
co_works is my collaboration with other artists. It is also the reason for our planned journey around the world, during which I want to visit other artists and perhaps persuade them to work with me.
Thank you to Anna-Maria Alp and Paul Grosse for the wonderful opening, and of course to the co_workers Christian M. Knecht, Matthias Bolz, Günter Ludwig and Alcis Szabo-Reiss for the great collaboration. Our special guest that evening was saxophonist Christof Lauer, and it was a great pleasure to hear him play.
Willy’s meeting
Willy has died, but the gathering he founded has grown into Europe’s largest meeting for overland travellers. From 30 August to 1 September, between six and seven hundred travel vehicles assembled near Bad Kreuznach. The huge grounds resembled an open-air museum devoted to expedition vehicles.
Seventy-year-old converted veterans stood next to brand-new 18-tonne trucks, but the real subject was travelling the world and sharing experience – even if some vehicles give their owners more oil-stained hours with a spanner than carefree adventures on the road.
