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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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abstract art by jurgen trautwein
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Hirnlos- the missing minds of the teabaggers
hirnlos 12s (skull shell clapping), pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Poet and writer Victor Martinez 02.21.1954-02.18.2011
Victor at Ocean Beach
Victor and Peter Orner at Marx Zavattero Gallery
Victor at Live Worms Gallery
Victor Martinez, Enrique Chagoya, Sal Garcia at the Berkeley Art Museum
Victor at the Ball Park
Tina and Victor on the roof of my house
Victor at the cold creek in Sierraville
Victor and Silvia at Northstar, Lake Tahoe
Victor Martinez reading poetry at the Northbeach public library
Victor and Tina at Ocean Beach
This is a selection of photographs of Victor I've been taken within the past few years. Looking at them puts tears in my eyes. Victor Martinez was my friend for 20 years, a great inspiration, a true artist and an amazing poet and writer. I will really miss you Victor. Here for more on Victor, also check out this beautiful homage at writersland by Meghan, his brothers and friends.
Victor on the Grotto website.
More photos of Victor by his brother Abel.
Mission Local remembering award winning author Victor Martinez.
Homage for Victor by Francisco X. Alarcon
Sf Chronicle has more
writer and poet Victor Martinez died in his Mission home on feb 18th 2011 he won the national book award for parrot in the oven in 1996. he was a great man.
More photos of Victor by his brother Abel.
Mission Local remembering award winning author Victor Martinez.
Homage for Victor by Francisco X. Alarcon
Sf Chronicle has more
Rose, oh
reiner Widerspruch
niemandes Schlaf zu sein
unter so vielen Lidern.
Rose, oh pure contradiction, wanting
to be nobody's sleep under so many eyelids.
Rilkes epitaph
writer and poet Victor Martinez died in his Mission home on feb 18th 2011 he won the national book award for parrot in the oven in 1996. he was a great man.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Hirnlos- the missing minds of the teabaggers
hirnlos11s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
by juergen trautwein
jurgen trautwein
jtwine
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Hirnlos- the missing minds of the teabaggers
hirnlos 9s, pen ink, pencil, chinamarker, on letter-size paper, 2010
by juergen trautwein
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Homeless in San Francisco
Photography of homelessness in San Francisco by Jurgen Trautwein
published by nictoglobe an online magazine of transmedial arts and acts
published by nictoglobe an online magazine of transmedial arts and acts
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Hirnlos- the missing minds of the teabaggers
hirnlos 10s, pen and ink, chinamarker on letter-size paper, 2010
by jurgen trautwein
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Hirnlos- the missing minds of the teabaggers
hirnlos 8s (die Schaefchenwolkenmachine), pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
by Jurgen Trautwein
by Jurgen Trautwein
Monday, February 7, 2011
ONSPEED - one year on twitter-a data visualization project by Jurgen Trautwein
ONSPEED is an info-deformation project revealing the perpetual reoccurrence of the same. ONSPEED is an animated version of one year’s repetitious activity within the evolving minimal tweet-drawing project jtwinedotcom on twitter, using twitter’s 140 character limitations, showing information as an endless flow of impermanence. ONSPEED reflects on the seemingly endless “news” output on twitter, by reducing information into black squares and blank spaces, a sort of binary news data visualization, resulting in addition and subtraction patterns of these two elements. ONSPEED is visually examining the ephemeral nature of information and reduces the twitter-timeline to an esthetic flow of patterns. ONSPEED refers to Hans Haacke’s NEWS 1969/2008, which is a continuous printing-out of news through RRS feeds from around the world, accumulating in a mountain of news. ONSPEED refers to the hyped -up state of methamphetaminic experiences; euphoric wakefulness, resulting in freakish depletions of mental states, drifting in ecstatic deliriousness and unconsciously searching for the long lost melody of the inner realm. ONSPEED depends ON SPEED.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Hirnlos- the missing minds of the teabaggers
hirnlos3s (P. and the red skull shell cup), chinamarker, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Hirnlos- the missing minds of the teabaggers
hirnlos 02s, chinamarker, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
by jurgen trautwein
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Hirnlos- the missing minds of the teabaggers
hirnlos 01s, chinamarker, pen and ink on lettersize paper, 2010
Friday, January 28, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fucktop 16s, pen and ink on letter-size paper
by jurgen trautwein
Sunday, January 23, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fucktop 5s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Device to root out evil by Dennis Oppenheim 1938-2011
"‘device to root out evil’ by the american artist dennis oppenheim has recently come under a lot of controversy.
the large scale sculpture was first exhibited at the 1997 venice biennale. in the form of an upside down church,
with its steeple buried in the ground the work is a clear remark on religion. the sculpture was later moved to a
public park in vancouver, canada as part of the vancouver sculpture biennale in 2005. unsurprisingly, the public
had a mixed reaction to the work. recently, the vancouver public parks committee voted to remove the
sculpture. the glenbow museum in calgary, canada jumped at the opportunity to display the sculpture, which will
arrive in a week or so. the piece was previously rejected by stanford university in 2004, oppenheim's alma mater."
via designboom
vitro nasu has more on oppenheim
Thursday, January 20, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fucktop12s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Jurgen Trautweins sounddex at Regeneration 0.11. Istanbul
Artists: Magda Bielesz, Alan Bigelow, Immo Blaese, Andrew Chee, Martin John Callanan, Andy Deck, Dimitrios Fotiou, Matthias Fritsch, Genco Gulan, Elli Harrison, Sachiko Hayashi, Anni Holm, Aoghus Kneeshaw, Cardarelli Luigia, Marcello Mercado, Alexander Mouton, Christian Rupp, Evelyn Stermitz, Jurgen Trautwein, Merve Unsal, Nanette Wylde, Jody Zellen, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga. Curator: Marcus Graf @ Regeneration.011. at Plato Art Space, Istanbul
Monday, January 17, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fucktop 2s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
by Jurgen Trautwein/jtwine
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fuckeduptop 6s, pen and ink on lettersize paper, 2010
Saturday, January 15, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fuckeduptop 4s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
by Jurgen Trautwein
by Jurgen Trautwein
Sunday, January 9, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fuckeduptop 03s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
jurgen trautwein
Saturday, January 8, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fuckeduptop 02s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
jurgen trautwein
Friday, January 7, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fuckdamachine 04s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
jurgen trautwein
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Jurgen Trautwein interviewed by Togay Tanyolac
Togay Tanyolac interviews Jurgen Trautwein as part of the Contemporary Art @ Boğaziçi - Interview Project, 2010/11, Instanbul Contemporary Art Museum (IsCAM)
In what ways do you feel pessimism for the society with a catchy title like "Niesatt"?
NIESATT is a neologism consisting of the two German words NIE and SATT, which means never full, never enough, never satisfied.
If one substitutes the double T of the word NIESATT, it becomes a palindrome to the word DASEIN a German word used by Martin Heidegger in his work Being and Time, which generally translates to “being there”, "existence" or "presence".
NIESATT has nothing to do with pessimism, it’s a project that questions if we are as evolving, globalized societies doomed to be mere insatiable, exploitative and oppressive beasts, which cant get enough and will never be satisfied.
You play with words of many different languages. How is your relation with (native & foreign) languages and in "rien et rouge" do the mood of the assigned sounds to languages have a language-specific meaning?
I’m too foreign to be native but sometimes I’m native but foreign. I am a lover of foreign tongues not that I necessarily speak a lot of languages, but I am living in San Francisco, a melting pot of languages, where I’m constantly confronted with a multitude of languages. Rien et rouge are minimal love poems attributed to the process of moving through a city, sensing overlapping, fragmented sounds and phonetic pleasures of various languages.
In "9/11" you end with a call to humanity. What is the key aspects of humanity in your ideals that you are referring to with that piece and how should art contribute to its establishment?
To answer your question, I like to use a fragment of Albert Camus’ Nobel Prize banquet speech from 1957, which is to me as relevant today as it was then.
“…Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. Heir to a corrupt history, in which are mingled fallen revolutions, technology gone mad, dead gods, and worn-out ideologies, where mediocre powers can destroy all yet no longer know how to convince, where intelligence has debased itself to become the servant of hatred and oppression, this generation starting from its own negations has had to re-establish, both within and without, a little of that which constitutes the dignity of life and death… The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. And if they have to take sides in this world, they can perhaps side only with that society in which, according to Nietzsche's great words, not the judge but the creator will rule, whether he be a worker or an intellectual.
Sometimes in your pieces the scenes move so fast, the perception is almost subliminal. What's your intention in "bombing" in this overwhelming speed?
With those sound/ image terrorism pieces I intend to create spaces of discomfort within an environment of annoying repetition that unconsciously might infiltrate once mind. These pieces refer to image/ sound pollution to a torturous sensory overload, the hallmark of information age.
Who would you say are the artists that have a particular influence on you?
Bosch, Beuys, Bacon and Beckett
In your artwork, do you value a piece that took weeks for you to combine the different elements in your imagination and took only 10 minutes to create or a piece that was just a simple idea that required weeks of realization; in short, do you value brain work or hand work more?
There is brainwork and handwork to any artwork, even if it’s conceived in a “wu wai” no thought method. It ‘s all a process, some pieces come fast others involve lot’s of time and work, both mental and physical depending on the project.
There are many artists who imitate others in content and in style. Does that bother you and do you come across other artists that want to imitate you?
It takes a long time for some artists to develop their voice. They might need to imitate to develop; others have their own vision, which they rigorously follow. I personally prefer artists who don’t copy. Real Art speaks of uniqueness not copyists, who re-chew pre-thought concepts. Usually, it’s an honor if ones work gets imitated.
In one of your works in jtwine.com there is a piece created possibly with a screen capture where the mouse cursor was deliberately left on the video. Do you consider that transparency or absurdness, in any case do you feel it contributes to the artistic value?
It’s ridiculously absurd and reveals transparency at the same time, but basically it’s just an aesthetic element that provokes a dialog between a static or frozen cursor and the cursor set in motion by the viewer. Whether it contributes to the artistic value of the piece, I don’t know. The artistic value of a piece lies always in the eyes of the beholder.
You have made a tribute to German artist Joseph Beuys. Was that due to his "a German in U.S." concept or his extension of the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, which legitimizes many "controversial" art forms? Where do you stand on that "controversy"?
Both, I’m intrigued by his concept of a “German in US”, like me, and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Beuys is an amazing artist, to me; he is the Dalai Lama of postwar art, the last visionary modernist, who is intellectually spiritually and visually challenging until today. He was an artist with a ueber-aura, an artist who opened up the possibility of free from experimentation. He was teaching the path of crossing boundaries and regarded art as a cure for alienated humanity.
To me, controversial art equals real art, only controversial art challenges our understanding of the world; all other art is system glorification and beautified mainstream, commodities for the monetary market.
What do you think about Pixel Art, do you consider it a new art form?
No, I don’t think it’s new. 5000 years ago one could speak of the earliest forms of pixel art, the cone mosaics of Uruk in Mesopotamia. In modern times there where the Pointillists, like Signac and Seurat, and there was Klee long before the term pixel art was published in 1982.
You are creating a sound space in your work like a perception game where upon repetition, one starts to hear things? Was that you purpose, and if so why?
Some of those pieces are controlled accidents playing with minute differences with the same looped sound files repeating themselves over and over again. Overlapping sounds, locked up loading times and perpetual repetitions result in no purpose no intension sound-scapes, that seem to have their own life. These pieces refer to Walter Benjamin’s’ concept of the eternal reoccurrence of the same.
There is a certain attitude of yours against consumerism and TV culture in general. Do you consider yourself a politically involved artist?
I see myself as an artist being visually active and reflective on contemporary issues. I’m not necessary activistic, which is not reflective like art. Political is associated with propaganda and propaganda is not art, it just makes me puke.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fuckdamachine 02s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
jurgen trautwein
Monday, January 3, 2011
From the fuckdamachine, fuckmachine and fuckedupmachines series
fuckedupmachines 01s, pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2010
jurgen trautwein
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