csx3-0 drawing by Hans

csx3-0, originally uploaded by grijsz.

True Eye

The guys and girls from True Eye have the new issue True Eye 06 out. I especially liked the works by Juan Ruiz-Velasco Peral (Hey and what a great name !) Gabriel Dishaw has some nice sneaker for geeks on display and some Cyborgs.
You can submit works and True Eye will consider to put them in their next issue True Eye 07.

If you are in Berlin, like Manzur, Gert, Maurice, Rapho, Patricia, Christian and maybe the Romantic Surrealist Herr John you could go to the new paintings by Yoshitaka Amano in his show Deva-Loka at Galerie Michael Janssen till February 29th, at Galerie Michael Janssen, Kochstrasse 60, D-10969 Berlin

I'd like to see that works... ;-0 Here are some good images from Amano by Regine, thanks



Best regards, Hans

Impression from Buzkashi

impression-buzkashi, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Hans Heiner Buhr, 2004, Karshi Uzbekistan

Lado Pochkhua "The Anatomy of Melancholy"

The Operational Area Art Foundation, Budapest

presents the Georgian artist

Lado Pochkhua "The Anatomy of Melancholy"

January 25th till February 8, 2008

http://www.muveletiterulet.hu/



The Landscape with the Ruins


Opening Lado Pochkhua


Opening Lado Pochkhua


MGU in progress

Lado has more images and impressions from his show here:

http://looksharper.blogspot.com/2008/02/anatomy-of-melancholy-at-muveleti.html

ART: Posts under the Theme - Kavkaz Fine Art

I published some posts on my blog about the Art of the Caucasus Region, more here: http://georgien.blogspot.com

A greeting to our members

There is a nice little tool that lets you create mp3-files from any text: vozMe and a strange 40's computer voice reads your crazy texts, or manifestos ;-)

New Art Club Updates

First of all: To Murtazi and Angela was born their second son last night, no name yet for the boy, any suggestions ? ;-)

Warren Craghead joins The Art Club Caucasus International !


Drawings from the "Lisboa" - book by W.Craghead

I am very glad, that the Drawer Warren Craghead III wants to join our Club, he recently published a booklet with drawings called "Lisboa", which can be free downloaded here:

http://www.craghead.com/lisboa/Lisboa.html

Warren has a cool Drawing blog at http://www.wcraghead.com/weblog/blog.html
and other works like Collages with certain cool interfaces you find on his website here

http://www.craghead.com/index.html

Warren lives with his wife and his daughter in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA and I really hope he manages to join our Reunion in August in the Caucasus. Welcome Warren !

Nice little video

to understand, what is a NEWSREADER and how to keep updated with your favorite blogs (nice little video but more for the techno-skeptic painters fraction here...)

Watch the Video here (3,5 min)



and wow, auch eine DEUTSCHE Version dieses Videos gibts hier:

http://turi-2.blog.de/2007/04/25/p2161387#more2161387

Eric Gelber

Eric Gelber is our newest member in the Art Club. He describes himself as Librarian/Art Critic/Artist/Musician and lives in New York.

Get in touch with Eric at http://artcritical.com/ or at his blog http://ericgelber.livejournal.com/

Eric, thanks for joining in !

and a small mentioning by Franklin on his blog http://artblog.net brought us yesterday 26 art loving visitors to this Club. Thank you

Mini Rally of The Art Club

acci3, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Hans Heiner Buhr, Nugzar Natenadze and Avto Meskhi having some art discussions with some wine

acci8nugzar, originally uploaded by grijsz.

acci6avto, originally uploaded by grijsz.

avto-paint-hans-opt, originally uploaded by grijsz.

acci5stillife, originally uploaded by grijsz.

What you do on a nice Saturday in January: Have some wine and talk about the great artists we adore... Cranach, Courbet, Mondrian, Malewitsch, Balthus and others

By the way, Nugzari got these days a nice studion in the Art Academy organized by Gia Bugadze. We will visit him there next week...

Der Pferdedieb und sein Weib

ht-and-his-wife, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Hans Heiner Buhr,Horse Thief and wife,70x55 sm, Oil/Canvas
2008

ROMANTISCHER SURREALISMUS

Holger John, Dresden

www.holgerjohn.de
www.holger-john.com

So !

Was ich seit langem vorausgesehen, und natürlich auch nur erhofft und phantasiert habe:

Deutsche Galeristen gehen nach Russland, neue Märkte, verwegene Künstler, andere Weltanschaungen und Gefühle, Entdeckungen von alten und neuen kulturellen Potenzialen, die Anziehungskraft alternativer Lebensweisen- all das und noch mehr mag sie bei Ihren Entschlüssen bestätigen.

Auf welche Sammler rechnen sie ? Auf Neue Russen, Georgische Milliardäre, Kasachen, Chinesen, aber auch auf den boomenden jungen Mittelstand in den Metropolen vielleicht ?

Welche Kunst suchen sie ? Kunst die brutaler ist, direkter und kraftvoller als im dekadenten, halbdebilen und verlogenen Kunstwesten (findet Ihr das übertrieben ??). Kunst mit Entwürfen und Visionen. Kunst mit Mut und Biss.

Ein erstes Leuchtfeuer dieser von mir herbeigewünschten Tendenz zeigt ART in einem Interview mit Volker Diehl hier:

http://www.art-magazin.de/kunstmarkt/3441/volker_diehl_schwerpunkt_russland

...und wenn wir gut sind, werden wir natürlich auch bald gekauft ;-(), aber haben wir dann auch gutes und stabiles Zeug auf Lager ? Kunst und ohne Verfallsdatum ?

...und weil wir hier gerade mal auf Deutsch schreiben...

eine tolle Webseite ist NewArtTV, wo kurze 2-10- minütige Künstlervideos gezeigt werden, Vernissagen, oder Einblicke in die Welt schwerreicher amerikanischer Sammler

zum Beispiel:

Wolf Kahn Teil1
Wolf Kahn Teil2

das Sammlerehepaar

Susan and Michael Hort 1
Susan and Michael Hort 2

oder ein mir bisher unbekannter Künstler wie

David Baskin

über den NewArtTV Newsletter kann man sich über Neuerscheinungen informieren lassen

NewArtTV

packhorses salt, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Packpferde Salz, Hans Heiner Buhr, 2007, Digital Collage mehr von der Horse-Thief-Series hier

und bitte

Schickt mir mehr Zeug, Skizzen, Grafiken, Bilder, Abfall, Fotos, Ideen... gute Sachen, ich will Euch mehr zeigen, hier !!!

Our Member: Murtazi Shvelidze 8 drawings

From the series "Hotel Rossiya" (Hotel Russia, a famous hotel in Moscow)

Murtazi, a well-known Tbilisi based Artist with his lovely wife Angela are some of my closest friends here, some of you may know both from the Art Pension Murtazi, a small family-style hostel, where some of you will probably stay at our Reunion in August ;-)

Holger John

Evolution, Holger John, drawing, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Holger John is the newest member of the Art Club Caucasus International, a very well known German drawer.
Visit his blog http://holger-john.blogspot.com

Holger John TOTENTANZ, originally uploaded by grijsz.
A drawing by Holger John, Dresden, 1993

John-Holger, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Holger John, Romantischer Surrealist, Studio "tabu", Foto: Lösel 2007
www.holgerjohn.de

writing to Holger John, Dresden

writing to Holger John, Dresden, originally uploaded by grijsz.

writing to Holger John, Dresden

reiter-litho2darkblue2

reiter-litho2darkblue2, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Hans Heiner Buhr 2006, Digital Collage based on Lithography

The Arkhoty Boots of Graf Oto von Rubin

boots-oto1opt, originally uploaded by grijsz.

The first of Otaris shoe-paintings, from 2003

Malkhaz Datukishvili Collage

Malkhaz Datukishvili Collage, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Natur mort, 2007

Andrea Kobayashi's new Blog dukaduka

On her blog she writes: "I have been thinking about Bulgakov's novel The Master and Marguerita which I read about 15 years ago. The character of Behemoth the cat found his was into a linocut back in art school and now he appears again. I'm not sure why. I'm enjoying drawing with ink again at the moment. I want to do more. I'm going through and experimental and revision phase in my art right now and I'm giving the big oil paintings a rest."

Andrea did her first steps into the Art Blogging World by opening http://dukaduka.blogspot.com/ soon she maybe becomes a Co-Blogger here at the Art Club :-)

2ht-hans-paint

2ht-hans-paint, originally uploaded by grijsz.

2 Horse thieves,50x60cm, Oil on Canvas

I will have a show with my Horse Thief works End of March at Gallery Baia in Old Town Tbilisi. I update when we know the date. ;-) Best regards, Hans

Nugzar Natenadze: Kollontai and Lenin

natenadze2opt, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Alexandra Kollontai and Lenin, a painting by Nugzar Natenadze, Tbilisi, 140x100cm, Oil on Canvas, 2003

Christian Stübe, Berlin

Christian Stübe: Sprinter, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Christian Stübe: Broadway, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Christian Stübe, Photographer and Designer based in Berlin, is our newest member ! Cool works ! You may contact him at any time at christian@eyesblau.de

Watercolors by Guy Richards Smit

Guy Richards Smit, Watercolor on paper



Guy Richards Smit, Watercolor on paper



Guy Richards Smit, Watercolor on paper

17 years ago I met Guy painting like an wild animal on huge canvases and after a couple of years in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Brussels, Paris and the Provence he decided to go back to his home town New York, the place closest to all events and to the art world and to start a new life allover again.

He became as Jonathan Grossmalerman a celebrated art world show performer, made booklets, paintings, videos and has success with the Maxi Geil and Play Colt Rock group. Always interested in illustration and comic-like drawings Guy got at a certain period his inspirations by Polish Satire Magazines, which he bought in his Polish neighborhood in Brooklyn. His messy studio had been often a warm place for guests and friends from abroad, I will never forget the inspirations I got with him at my short stay in 1999.

Guy's watercolors mirroring real or surreal events on imagined front pages of leading newspapers combine his unique drawing qualities with his interest in todays actual political life and its medial interpretations.

Hey, Guy, nice to see you here, with one foot in the Caucasus already !

tolstolobik- White Amur

tolstolobik, originally uploaded by grijsz.

from the local Basar in Kabali, Georgia

Easter by Brock Neilson

Easter, originally uploaded by Brock Neilson.

I do not know the direct "meaning" of this work called "Easter" by Brock, but for me it works as a cool allegory on wicked "media-politics-world-games" and some input somewhere creates an unexpected outcome somewhere else...

Two Updates

As you see I added the logo to the left. If I receive other submissions of you, we can change from time to time our logo (why not, we are flexible ;-))

Many thanks to Levan, who became a contributor to this blog, that means he can now publish autonomous to this blog, make it richer and give you more art, ideas, perspective and fun.

You too can, if you want, just contact me to become a contributor and I send you an invitation.

Hans

Art Blogs and Discussions

I have quite a couple of Art Blogs in my Newsreader, but there are only a few art blogs around (as far as I know them) who pick up the really sharp issues. Maybe you heard about Edward Winkleman's blog http://edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com/?

Edward picks up (and creates sometimes) amazing difficult art issues and the commentators doing their point to discuss the mostly wicked questions. As a non English Native speaker it is very hard to take part in the merciless discussions, where every word is to weigh.

If you like to read hot late night art discussions, then this blog is definitely a place for you. In the recent two posts it goes about taboos, responsibility and courage and the results. There is not made a real connection between the cases of Sooreh Hera and a Czech Arts Collective called Ztohoven, except that they are posted after each other, but the parallels are to me too obvious.

A good addition is the original Guardian blog post on Ztohoven "How art declared war on the media", together with the comments section, here: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/01/how_art_declared_war_on_the_me.html

So are there still taboos for contemporary art or not ? Was it art at all ? Can/Should art be free of real world reactions and consequences ? But, first read the above posts and discussions.

New Member: Levan Mindiashvili

The Kiss. 02 2006 egg tempera on panel, 40 x 60 cm.
Germany, Private collection
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artistguy/249152752/in/set-72157594225402505/

It's very nice to see our Art Club growing. Our newest member is Levan Mindiashvili, who is an artist, photographer, curator and blogger: http://levan-m.blogspot.com/
living in Argentina and Georgia. Levanis Gaumardshoss ! See some very interesting sets with his art on Flickr here http://www.flickr.com/photos/artistguy/

disco-horse-thief

disco-horse-thief, originally uploaded by grijsz.

by Hans Heiner Buhr

Search Arts and Media

maybe you know it, I just discovered this Custom Search Engine (Google based) on Arts and Media called BLACKLE and tested it with very good results, check it out

http://www.blackle.com/

Hans

(Oh, I was wrong, it is not especially made for arts and media, as I thought, but a very good one
http://www.blackle.com/about/ )


But anyway, Everybody can create his own Custom Search Engines on certain topics or fields, it's very easy and fun, try it at http://google.com/coop

or here

Andrea Kobayashi: Mount Noorat mind's eyes view

andrea-kobayashi1, originally uploaded by grijsz.

An impressive huge drawing of 236 x 218 cm, conte and ink on paper, by our Japan-based member Andrea Kobayashi

Do we want a Logo ?

It should not be that difficult to get of 29 cool artists a couple of drafts or ideas for a nice logo, if we want it. But there is hell of space on the right side of this blog to put it. The crazier the better ? or the classic noble style ?

Any sketches, drafts or ideas please send to kaukasus@gmail.com
or put into the comments. Hans

Ok,

here is my suggestion

Elizabeth Eagen

Elizabeth Eagen, Baku


Elizabeth Eagen, Ocean City

Elizabeth, thanks a lot for joining our small and smart Art Club Caucasus, I hope you will make many more great images. See Elizabeth Eagen's photography here

http://www.zhibit.org/lizalado/color/baku

Elizabeth is American and married to our Georgian artist Lado Pochkhua. Both are living most of the time in Budapest, sometimes in the US and sometimes in Georgia.

Bazil Duliskovich

Bazil Duliskovich, The Russian Collection, Oil on Canvas, 2006

Bazil is our newest member, very fine to get the painters section a little bit stronger here ;-) Bazil is originally from the Ukraine and moved in 1991 to Budapest, Hungary, where he is living and working today. See Bazil's fine art works here:

http://www.bazilduliskovich.com/page.php?page=gallery

hans-heiner-rustawi

heiner-rustawi, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Thats me by Lela Meparishvili, in front of Rustavi ;-)

Photos by Rapho from Tbilisi

Ralph "Rapho" Hälbig is known as a very good Journalist and as the Blogger behind The Georgien Blog http://georgien.blogspot.com and there are also quite some photos to discover at http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgienblogspotcom/