RUFUS KETTING KEYNOTE
October 15th, 2010
THE FLYER IS DEAD
Rufus Ketting is mostly known as one half of multi disciplinary art duo ‘HuMobisten’ (2000), a contraction of ‘humor’ and ‘mind your own business-ism’. Apart from doing performances, making videos, doing graphic designs and making art which they allow to be as funny as life itself, also keep a much read blog on which they show their work plus speak their minds about the circumstances under which their work is formed.
After Gyz La Rivière (the other of the two HuMobisten) and he decided in 2006 to not share their workspace anymore, they focused more on their solo work (yet still remaining HuMobisten). Gyz attended to his professional art career, Rufus –from early childhood lured into the graphic metier because of the magic of logos, album covers and especially film posters– went back to being a graphic designer and became more and more so occupied with motion and title design, making title sequences for befriended film makers. Apart from the usual designing logos, visual identities, websites, books and what have you, Rufus (still) does tons of flyer and album cover designs. Last year, amongst many others, he made the cover design for Benjamin Herman’s ‘Blue Sky Blond’ which became the years best selling jazz album of 2009, and this year he did the design for The New Earth Group’s ‘Eurafricarabia’ in a collaboration with Suus Allewelt (with whom he had earlier made the design for their debut album). He also designed the visual identity for the Utrecht based Rosa Ensemble (an experimental modern chamber music outfit), including the artwork for their last album ‘No Ark Dead Eel’.
Apart from all this Rufus still performs quite a lot and also shows his autonomous (2D) work from time to time. This sort of work takes place under his monicker ‘Homey Universalis’ a self proclaimed black (or off-white) child in a white, mature world. He participates on exhibitions in and outside The Netherlands (recently he took part in one on ‘pop/musical influence’ in the The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space (London) called ‘Nederpop-Up Shop’ and he made a mural on quotes in the Sara Tim Trust at the Rotterdam annual Museumnight (‘50 Huge Feet’, 2010). Besides this, he sometimes DJ’s for the kids, organizes parties, writes columns and does cameos in films of friends.
CINERAMA
WESTBLAAK 18
THURSDAY 28 OCTOBER
11:10 > 12:00 HRS
