Jan Mongard

Cattle Drive Tusheti 2007, originally uploaded by grijsz.

I am proud to say, that our newest member of our Art Club Caucasus became Jan Mongard, who is working for Nanaimo, a beautiful Island in British Columbia, Canada

Jan has a small set of photos here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caucasus/sets/72157602640632608/

Welcome Jan !

Tusheti, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Martin Bromirski

sunflower24, originally uploaded by Bromirski.

There is no need for many words about Martin. I am absolutely proud to announce one of the finest artists around these days, Martin Bromirski, as our newest member: http://anaba.blogspot.com/

Somebody working with Sound here ??

I would really like to find some people in the group to make digital sound files with, who can record talking or sounds, I would like to e-mail back and fourth mp3 sound files that we could change and develope. I want to collaborate to make some sounds that I can use in some art works that I am planning, possibly an installation. Do you think there is anyone in the group who would like to do that?

Brock Neilson

http://thewroom.blogspot.com/

Romance running

romance-running, originally uploaded by grijsz.

... I am this never ending old romantic

A soldier goes to war

A soldier goes to war, and dies. Andy was a blogger and wrote a last goodbye, in case he wouldn't return. It is so sad ! Goodbye Andy

Andy Olmsted

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/01/andy-olmsted.html

Manzur Kargar - our new member

face 12, 200 x 200 cm, 2001


face 16, 250 x 250 cm, 2001


face 17, 250 x 250 cm, 2001

More works by Manzur here

http://www.manzurkargar.de/

At the gate of heaven by our new member Mira

at the gate of heaven, originally uploaded by miradel.

See more of Mira's great works here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/miradudel/

Some ideas and ideas for our 1st Reunion

As you dear members realized, I would like to create a loose network around the Caucasus, but of course we could meet from time to time to discover new art, new experiences, and yes, not to forget the new parties... I remember in 1996 I wanted to have a gigantic show of Rammstein at the top of one of the Khevsurian mountains, but Till or his management was not ready for that idea then. Time changes and taste too, so we will have other parties.

The idea is, that I would like to invite you to a remote Mountain region, where we will go by an uncommon way and relax there a couple of days, make art, or go fishing, or what you want. I do not tell you the destination, but just put one photo here

, originally uploaded by grijsz.

After like 7 or 8 days, we could go down to Tbilisi, have a little party there, and then go either

- to the wonderful Art Villa Garikula http://www.garikula.org/en/a/1A.html

- or to the Black Sea beach (the Black Sea beaches will be pretty crowded in the 2nd half of August)

black sea batumi adjara port beach Kvariati, originally uploaded by grijsz.

The date:

I intend on the 2nd half of August, as my teaching in Tbilisi starts on September 1st, but I am free, to discuss with you other or better dates. To date most of your are still pretty free in their planning for 2008, so it would be best to set a clear date as soon as possible and everybody of us can decide about the possibility to join or not. All together you could plan 2 weeks, but if one or the other has only 10 days time or even 8, that would be also fine.

The money:

The project and the Club is not in any way connected to Kaukasus-Reisen, so I try to organize for us the cheapest possible way. But still we need to pay for some transports, food, and some accommodations. I did not count yet the details, but I hope that it will be not much more than 400 EUR for each of us. Every costs will be transparent, and money we did not spent, you will get back of course. There is no need for transferring any money, as you decide to take part, you just put the suggested amount in your pocket.

How to come to the Caucasus:

There are a lot of possibilities by air, even for the Germans, a new departure from Berlin to Tbilisi. You need to prepare to pay for the tickets arounf 450-500 EUR, in some cases even 600.
Flights from to New York had been pretty cheap last year. And the cheapest flights from Europe destinations were offered by http://www.airbaltic.com/public/index.html (with a step-over at Riga)

There are also quite a lot possibilities to go by land, if you want to have the whole adventure, a specialist in that field seems to be Alex now, but I also can give you quite a lot of advises.

Last year I met some nice crazy Polish students, who did the way by Hitch hiking from Warsaw or Krakow in 6 days (so for free ;-))

Other ideas

- We could have a nice slogan for our Reunion, if we want. Suggestions could be send by Email or posted as comments.

- I'll send each of you a small list, with our members so far so you can contact also each other.

- You may post to this blog yourself, if you are familiar with blogging on blogspot-blogs. Please contact me and I give you then the status of an editor. Feel free to post your ideas, works, whatever

- If you are not familiar with blogging, but you want to contribute some of your ideas or art, just send me the material by Email and I post it myself

- Do you have any ideas for any aims/ projects/ manifestos we could have as Club ? Please comment, blog, or send.

Any Questions ?

I hope you are doing fine, best regards, Hans Heiner Buhr

Art by members: Gert Folmering

gert-folmering11, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Gert Folmering is our newest member in the Art Club Caucasus International

I scanned some photos of Gert Folmerings older works in a better quality. All works are from 1990 till 1996

Check out more of his works here
http://hansheinerbuhr.com/gert-folmering.html

I hope to update some new of his paintings soon

Photographer Lela Meparishvili taken by Photographer Bachi Sulamanidze

Happy New Year, originally uploaded by leluchi.

New Member: Eno Henze

Eno Henze Computer drawing, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Eno Henze Computer drawing, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Computer drawings by Eno Henze, see more of his brilliant works at http://www.enohenze.de
I am proud to announce Eno as our newest member of the Art Club Caucasus

Art by our Members: Writer'n

Two very nice collages by http://www.writern.no/
Thank you Eistein, we hope to see more new works !

2008 a new year with new Art Power

Best in full size view

To The Artclub: A wonderful 2008

sviad-on-acre, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Art by our members: Brock Neilson

A new background, originally uploaded by Brock Neilson.

Brock is a fantastic artists with various blogs and websites, but he closes them often quite unexpected. So do some searches on Brock and you will find an amazing artistic world

New Member: Archile Darchia

The Gallerist, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Old Gallery Tbilisi

Art by our members: Avto Meskhi: Pop Collage

Avto Meskhia, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Art by our members: Lela Meparishvili

See more works by Lela here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leluchi/

Artclub Caucasus International

Art Club Caucasus, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Where do we go we don't know

We want to create a loose network of artists, collectors, publishers, gallery owners connected with the Caucasus Region. All the possible members we want to invite, around 40 so far, are very good professionals in their fields. We think about to have a Manifesto too, but that should commonly discussed on our first Art Club Caucasus gathering somewhere End of August, Beginning of September 2008 in the Caucasus. We will journey together, party, create art and have fun ! The Caucasus is one of the best places on earth for adventure, life, friendship and art.

I am aware, that maybe not every member can join us on our annual meetings, but I will try hard to get a good bunch of artists together !

Best regards, Hans Heiner Buhr

The Art Club Caucasus International

The Art Club Caucasus goes online here

If you are interested in joining, see the link "Join" ;-)