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140 HITS & VELVET
At the Velvet, Oude Binnenweg 121, one of the best record stores in Rotterdam, we will show a selection of tribute record sleeves made by numerous artists as homage to their favorite song or album. Later this year the prestigious book project ‘140 Hits in Art’ of Klaas Wijnberg will be published. As a prequel to this book of 140 artists who pictured their favored music piece we selected our darlings and will be displaying them at the Velvet.
As you might know the record sleeve is on its way back, who wants a cd sleeve if you can have the full size version? Artists like Zeptonn, Wouter Tulp, Hedof, Shamrock, Ottograph, Sauerkids and Johan Weggis have contributed to this coffee table book of 31×31 cm, the real size of the original record sleeve. So check out our website these coming months for the release date. But in the meantime go and see the window display at the Velvet music store.
(image by sauerkids)
VELVET
OUDE BINNENWEG 121
25 > 31 OCT
10:00 _ 18:00 HRS
MOPED MONSTER AT BLAAK10
The Rotterdam based artist Hans Kievit, well known for his miniatures in advertisements and illustrations, has been commissioned by the Image Festival to sculpt two large scale characters. You will be able to see his ‘Moped Monster’ at the BLAAK10 galery from 22-31 October.
BLAAK 10
WITTE DE WITHSTRAAT
22 > 31 OCT
10:00 _ 17:00 HRS
THE FANTASTIC FOUR
In café Rotown we will show, thanks to the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, aka Fonds BKVB, The Fantastic Four of the Dutch comic scene: Peter Pontiac, Typex, Erik kriek & Pieter M. Dorrenboom. Each one of them has a mile long track record doing music related art, a small selection of their gigantic oeuvre can be found during the festival at Rotown, our most popular bar and music club on the Nieuwe Binnenweg.
ROTOWN
NWE BINNENWEG 19
28 & 29 OCT
9:00 _ 24:00 HRS
THISPLACEMENT
Baschz and Selfcontrolfreak will be working in and from CBK Rotterdam on a new crowdsourcing project, a short time running follow-up to their famous Masterpiece 2.0. And you can take part in it again too!
On Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th, from 14h ’til 16h, everybody is invited to CBK Rotterdam, Nieuwe Binnenweg 75 to come by and donate a personal object which will be used by the artists and becomes a permanent part of their new work.
You can follow them at work in their improvised studio from Thursday the 28th ’til Saturday the 30th from 12h to 17h. The final result will be presented on Sunday October 31st, at 13h in CBK Rotterdam.
Baschz and Selfcontrolfreak (Olivier Otten) have both been active the art and digital scene for quite some time. They’ve worked together before as part of the Rotterdam based artists and deejay collective Tictoc and several other projects.
Selfcontrolfreak (Olivier Otten)
Olivier Otten is an independent multimedia designer who’s also active within the Holland-Interactive collective. He was co-founder of multimedia studio Toxit, which he worked with for ten years. He is VJ for Major League teaches at Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam.
A selection of projects he was involved in: VPRO’s 3voor12’s Viewmaster, Villa Achterwerk’s (On)geloofstest and Visual-power.com.
selfcontrolfreak.com
oli4.com
Baschz Leeft
Apart from his personal art Baschz is known as one of the founders and curators of cultural breeding ground and exhibition space SingerSweatShop in Rotterdam, and MAÑANA ArtsBeatsGoodlife, an art-meets-party collaboration with Julstar. He founded the interdisciplinary intervention force Betamaxxx with Crackrock, and amongst others he exhibited and curated for Mu, UrbanArtInfo (Berlin), Artcore (Paris), Tent, Mama, Arti et Amitie, Westergasfabriek, ABC Architectuurcentrum, Villa Nuts, Art Kitchen and Mañana Arts Gallery.
baschz.com
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