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RUFUS KETTING KEYNOTE
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
SANDER VAN BUSSEL KEYNOTE
THE RELIC SIDESHOW
If you believe in Rock and Roll…
Worshipping the former belongings of popstars and moviestars sometimes becomes a religious veneration. Worldwide Fame is the new belief, ultimate unreachable. The pop-hero or moviestar is seen as a new, better, super-human. By watching the Relics the viewer gets, for a brief moment, a chance to be close to the unreachable.
The Relic Sideshow is a travelling exhibition of pop-relics by artist Sander van Bussel. Van Bussel (1970) works as an artist/ designer. Recent Projects are ‘Ambassade van het Hoofdhanglied’, a way to collect and remove songs that stick in your head, ‘Het Sterkste Verhaal van Nederland’ a competition in telling strong stories and ‘Book To Be’ publishing books that still have to be written. Last two are project of Tilburg CowBoys, a collective of three of which Van Bussel is co-founder and member that initiates and realizes different artprojects since 2001.
The Relic Sideshow can be found at the Cinerama location where Sander will also hold a keynote at 28 October.
CINERAMA
WESTBLAAK 18
THURSDAY 28 OCTOBER
10:50 > 11:10 HRS
DANIEL COHEN KEYNOTE
Daniel Cohen studied photography at the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) in The Hague. Early 2007 he decided that internships and periods of training with professional photographers (like Morad Bouchakour) would suit his personal development and career much better than continued study at the Academie. Now, Daniel works on his own projects and as a freelance photographer for print media and advertising agencies.
His work mainly consists of portraits and series.One of his own projects is the series ‘We Want More’. For musicians the world over, the encore is a ritual. It is a chance to give the crowd what they want, and to bask in the limelight some more. But happens in the short space of time after the stars have left the stage and before they return?
Daniel Cohen has created a unique collection of images taken between last song and encore at Amsterdam’s legendary concert venues, the Paradiso and the Melkweg.Cohen captures these private moments, a moment of rest in the eye of the storm, while the crowd on the other side screams for more. His photographs throb with energy and vulnerability, perfectly documenting the atmosphere of the backstage area.
Gogol Bordello, The Roots, Chaka Khan, Animal Collective, Blondie, Erykah Baddu, The Ting Tings, Method Man amongst others. Cohen’s collection is an eclectic mix of artists all caught in the raw: some exhausted, some exhilarated, but all captured masterfully. Cohen was offered all areas access to some of the biggest stars. They didn’t have time to pose or project their public image, they were photographed exactly as he found them. When shooting pictures of Chaka Khan, he was warned by her management “your flash goes off twice and you’ve got a big problem”. His flash went off only once and the result is to be seen at the Image Festival.
CINERAMA
WESTBLAAK 18
THURSDAY 28 OCTOBER
10:10 > 10:30 HRS
MICHEL LINSSEN TURNS 50!
Michel Linssen (Den Haag, 1960) began, after his tenure of press photographer, during the mid eighties as pop photographer for magazines as the Muziekkrant, Oor, Popfoto/Muziekexpress and the Hitkrant. He worked more then fifteen years for the Telegraaf, photgraphing hundreds of concerts en for the Dutch Playboy he was responsible for the section “De wereld volgens…”. His photo’s appeared on the sleeve of Jan Douwe Kroeske’s “2 Meter sessiesies” and for the cultgroup Hallo Venray from Den Hague he shot all their sleeves, one of them the famous sleeve with the four belly buttons.
During a 2 Meter radiosession in 1992, Linssen photgraphed Curt Cobain. It were these photo’s that gained world wide acknowledgment and where published in international magazines for many years.
Michel Linssen lives and works in Rotterdam and will celebrate this year qat October 14 his 50th birthday. His birthday will be celebrated in galery V!P’s at friday October 15 together with the opening of his exhition FIFTY the same night.
In this exhibition fifty black and white photo’s will be showed which are shot between 1990 and 2000. Linssen shot during this period Madonna, the Red Hot Chilipeppers, Johnny Cash, Herman Brood, Bruce Springsteen, Kurt Cobain, Anouk and Johnny Rotten.
The FIFTY! Exhibition is programmed by our partner V!Ps International Art Galleries.
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twitter: #.IMG #michellinssen – more information? Call V!P’s gallery: 010-2251120