the best way to experience how long 10 hours could bei s a long distance flight. What a nice welcome by andrew who picked us up at the airport and took us to our home: the atego. He had taken care about it during the 3 ½. months while we were back home in germany, Thank you Andrew !!!
Now i have to organize the upcoming exhibition at the tieken gallery and we enjoyed the open air office at lake pleasant.
We just returned to phoenix and now we plan our 3rd. the 3rd stage of our trip tfrom nova scotia / canada to patagonia / argentina.
In september last year, I had announced that the restauration of andrew atwood´s “tailfin” is completed and that I had photographed this oldtimer for the “mercedes benz star aagazine of america”. The publication has now taken place and here you can see the images:
Soon we fly back to phoenix and I have to prepare the first co_works exhibition in america. Today emilio martinez sent his contribution via mail which digitally conbined it with my photo. Exciting. Soon, the original artwork will be shown at the Tieken Gallery in phoenix, arizona. I can´t wait and keep you posted.
The youthful fred tienken is just 80 years and he is the youngest access to my co_workers. He paints since a few years and already had many major solo exhibitions. his modern mansion in phoenix recently got an upgrade and now there is a great gallery also. I have the great pleasure to present my first german-american co_works exhibition at the Tieken Gallery in the beginning of february 2016. attached you can see “our” co_work and here you can watch fred´s video, which i had taken ealier this year.
Yesterday we had a visit by enthusiastic sahara explorers and so my car calendar from 1986 came in my mind. And I got the idea to post these shots which were caputerd before the photoshop area. At that time we traveled with 3 vehicles into the algerian sahara to realize these photos over there.
30 years ago!! How the time flies…
It looks like this when big boys can realize their childhood dreams. Klaus flettner is not just collecting oldtimers, they often get rebuild from totally rusted carbodies.
There is a workshop (klassik garage kronberg) to restore those babies and even the vehicles of other oldtimer enthusiasts get well maintained there.
Why do I post this? Now, i do know klaus for many years and his passion for classic cars remembers me to andrew atwood in phoenix, who had restored his „tailfin“ with passion for about 7 years and had given it a new life. Some weeks ago i had taken photos of his „tailfin“ in the desert of arizona which will be published in the mercedes benz star magazine of america very soon. And of course here on my blog. Stay tuned….
in the end of january 2016 the first co_works exhibition will take place in the united states. (co_wokrs are my collaborations with other artists) currently I’m busy organizing the show and here i want to introduce one of the participants: heather wilcoxon.
a few months ago we had visited heather in sausalito close to san francisco and here you can see again her blog post.
