club art diary: Andreas Fux, Cecile Coiffard, Thierry Noir - Berlin Exhibitions, Exactitudes go vogue

rench Berlin-Wall-artist ("Mauermaler" in German) Thierry Noir and sand painter Cecile Coiffard cooperated on a series of paintings that use the familiar "dickheads" of Thierry Noir, but overlay them with Coiffard's delicate sandpainting technique.

In 2003 Cecile Coiffard presented a cynical "V24U" series of missiles made out of desert sand for the Berlin Iraq war art show "Apotheke-Mitte".

Definitely my all time favourite Thierry Noirs!

September 23, Thursday
Photographer Andreas Fux at "Apartment"

Here's some impressions of the new works of Andreas Fux in a show together with Sven Marquardt at the new "Appartment" art space, situated at Munzstrasse near Berlin Alexanderplatz.

exhibition pic courtesy Thomas Säckl

Typical for Fux, what seemes to be a "normal" photo from afar, turnes out to be, at closer inspection, a pic of someone seemingly recovering from a good bashing.

Between them they have pictured all of Berlin's pierced, tattood, cut, burned or bruised club kids. And all of them came to the vernissage, everybody from the "Ostgut" club, and many creatures that hardly ever come out of the fluorescent corners of their darkroom of choice. It felt alot like an "Exactitudes" opening, slighltly sanitized, you know, minus the Dutch consumer kids. Not the only comparison between Andreas Fux and Ari Versluis.. Throw in Ali Kepenek and you got a bunch of queer photograpers that is definitey in each other's way sometimes.

exhibition pic courtesy Thomas Säckl

It was the most cruisy art opening I ever went to: although the room was very harshly lit, the audiency was making eyes at each other in a very polysexually confusing manner..

December 30, Thursday
Exactitudes Go Vogue

Multi-culty documentarists artists Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek (of Apotheke Mitte fame) have contributed new series of "Exactitudes" (photographic studies in fashion uniformity) to the winter issue of "Vogue Hommes".
A Vogue Hommes that has become quite political and deep by and by, what is happening to the world when you can't even count on your Vogue to be all superficial and sissy anymore? At any rate, a true collectors item with other great spreads by artists like David LaChapelle.

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