hi guys, here ist the first picture of a series with masks. it´s a co_work with guy levesque, québec, canada an you can see guy´s contribution here on my travel blog https://blog.guthier.com/?p=782
I appreciate getting comments and statements. © n.g.
Located in the historic district of Vieux-Port / Québec City real quality is catching ones eyes: Guy Levesque runs his small studio with an attached showroom in the Sault-au-Matelot. There he creates handmade leather masks. We loved especially his self-designed model with which he reproduces the masks. Guy is a talented artist and he has taught to artists working for Cirque du Soleil how to mold leather and make mask with this particular technique. © B.G.
Gail introduced us to her hometown and so we passed chuck´s house? dreamhouse? bark? dreambark? From the distance we saw a bark too close to the beach, or was it on the beach? And it turned out to be a house which was converted to a bark.
Chuck suddenly ended up in jail with his first career as a bank robber, there he learned how to open safes and maybe how to carve timber as well. Today he works with timber only and all his objects are made out of one piece of wood. Or is he a one man actor in his own museum? You have to experience his guided tour! It is as powerful and vivid as if he would be on stage. On the stage of his life. The presentation of the „cupboard of his life“ is as unique as the one of the globe with w.bush or that one performing elvis behind his coffin with a wooden carved chuck on top of it.
Humans could have enough from everything but except from money, he explained. Once a rich couple offered him 50000$ to support him but he rejected the money because he was afraid, it would change his life and woodchuck wouldn´t make woodchips any moore . What a career for an ex bankrobber! © n.g.
Charles E. Bernard c/o woodCHUCK 1554 Route 465 Bouctouche Baie NB E4S 4R2
What an awesome idea! A robot who hitchhikes through canada, by itself. 6125 km from halifax to victoria. An art project which will show if robots can trust humans and by the way: for humans it´s forbitten to hitchhike in canada! The idea was born by frauke zeller und david harris smith, they are the „parents“ of hitchBOT. It sits beside the road and wafes his swim-noodle-arms, the swim noodle legs stick in rubber boots, the head is a cheese dome with winking digital eyes. From time to time it talks, takes automatically pictures of its journey, is connected with faebook and twitter and sends its gps position. Its parents look forward to many adventures und that it will be charged regularily on cigarette lighters or it´s allowed to stay overnight with its host family if the weather gets too nasty to hitch.
I had heared about this project weeks ago in germany but the probability to meet this guy wasn´t very big. A girl friend of mine sent us a message to halifax that hichBot will be launched on the 27.th of july, the same day and the same place where we started our trip. David quickly replied my mail and so hitchBOT got a special ride in our truck. During load and unload it at the pier of halifax crowds of people gathered together and everbody had heard about hitchBOT in the press and they all were very excited. Great, this project was present wordwide in the media even before it was on it´s way.
We wish hitchBot a save hike and we will report its adventures. © n.g.
If you come by chance to pleasantwille close to lunenburg / nova scotia than you should visit norman and decide it it´s art or if it´s to put away (that´s a german phrase). Since 30 years norman melts old and used parts from cars to create his objects. This was the only information with wich reticent norman provides me. Do you want to have morman´s mail address? Nil report, norman hasn´t such things. Send a message to me and i will send his phone number. And norman is – according to his business card – in duty for 25 hours a day. © n.g.
here you find a video about my new co_worker nuno evaristo. i had visited him some months ago and now i have finished a video about his work. © n.g.
Remember this name. He is a rising star in the art world and there is no doubt that his work will gain even more media attention.
In 2012 Bettina and I sat spellbound in front of a huge painting at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, without yet knowing who the artist was. The label read “Jonas Burgert, Berlin / Germany”. Minutes later we had looked him up and sent him an email. In 2013 we were invited to his exhibition “Schutt und Futter” at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover.
Now we have visited his Berlin studio and were more than impressed. What a start to our journey through the world and through art, which will truly get under way when our truck is shipped to America. Anyone who cannot afford a “real” Burgert – perhaps because their walls are only three metres high – should at least treat themselves to the book “Schutt und Futter” (Kestner Gesellschaft, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König). © n. g.
Jonas Burgert calls one corner of his studio his “brain opener”. Two walls, a table and the floor are completely covered with scraps: 1950s fashion icons hang next to photographs of bloodstained attack sites and people painted grey climbing through an equally grey rock face. It is a wild mixture that he immerses himself in before working, to open his “pores”. Thank you, Jonas, for opening the door to your studio. It was an incredibly exciting morning for us. © b. g.
