WIRRWARR @ 3ª Entremostras na Fundação Cultural Badesc!!!

I am one of the selected artists who will participate at the 3ª Entremostras na Fundação Cultural Badesc em Florianópolis - SC, Brasil. The event will be at August 23rd.

Here and here the press release:

Confira os selecionados da 3ª Entremostras
Reunida nesta tarde, a comissão julgadora da 3ª Feira de Artes Entremostras selecionou 26 dos 66 trabalhos inscritos. A proposta da feira é ser um espaço para o artista apresentar sua produção e comercializar suas obras. Entre os selecionados desta edição, estão trabalhos de artes visuais, música e literatura. A Entremostras acontece no dia 23 de agosto, sábado, das 11h às 17h, no Espaço Fernando Beck. O Café da Fundação estará aberto.

ARTES VISUAIS
Bruno Della Pasqua
Coletivo Alumiar (Ana Flor, Fábio Abbud, José Chamusca)
David Ronce
Doraci Girrulat
Fabricio Schmidt
Gian Nicola Bianco
Glaucia Cechinel
José Rocha
Klewerton Jota Bortoli
Luiza Christ
Luize Zanette
Mateus Capelo
Meg Roussenq
Milton Cazelatto
Neuza Takahashi Hoshino
Pedro da Cunha
Rafael Schultz Myczkowski
Roberta Tassinari
Rossato Lima
Sebastião Gaudêncio Branco de Oliveira

LITERATURA
Muriel Machado
Patrícia Galelli
Paulino Júnior
Silvia Teske

MÚSICA
Myrtille Dusoleil
Tatiana Cobbett e Marcoliva


I'll show the following art works:

Título: "odyssey of the monoliths"
Técnica: Fotocolagem
Dimensão: 25,5x32cm
Ano: 2008
Valor: 150,- Reais
Comentário:
A obra é inspirado no filme "2001: A Space Odyssey" de Stanley Kubrick e é composto por várias C-prints de 9x13cm que são fixadas juntos com grampos. Nas fotos são monolitos, que nadam em gordura.

Título: "belfast"
Técnica: Fotocolagem
Dimensão: 20x28cm
Ano: 2008
Valor: 100,- Reais
Comentário:
A fotocolagem é composto por vários C-Prints de 9x13cm. Eu usei grampos, linhas de costura e um clipe de papel para o suporte-los juntos.

Título: "momentos duráveis"
Técnica: Fotocolagem
Dimensão: 50x60cm
Ano: 2011
Valor: 200,- Reais
Comentário:
A fotocolagem é composto por 20 C-Prints de 10x15cm. Esta obra é um sanduíche (sandwich technique) com 20 imagens é mais uma camada com um auto-retrato.
Mostrado na "Mostra SESC de Arte Contemporânea - Aldeias: Mémorias e Identidades" no SESC Blumenau, Blumenau (SC), Brasil em 2011/2012.


"Fabricio é um artesão da fotografia. Artesão no sentido de dominar, selecionar e cuidar de todo o processo. Realiza um trabalho com diversas fotografias que no percurso de sua história são significativas. Nascido na Alemanha, esse artista que mora em Dr. Pedrinho dialoga entre dois mundos, que para ele se tornam um, materializados na sua vida, na sua existência. Não deixa suas memórias lá, as trás para dialogarem com o que aqui vive e se coloca numa marca que deixa claro, são parte de sua identidade. Seu auto-retrato está presente, num grande quebra cabeça de fotos individuais que constituem um todo. O processo é tecnológico, mas não deixa por isso de ser artesanal, pois o artista cuida de cada detalhe que se encaixa."

por Carla Carvalho (Curadora)

Título: "photomania"
Técnica: Foto-Instalação
Dimensão: 21x29x14cm
Ano: 2010
Valor: 300,- Reais
Comentário:
"Photomania" é uma instalação com + / - 1000 C-Prints no tamanho (cada) 10x15cm, que são conectados com o parafuso + porca + calços. A aparência física é uma hélice.

Título: "the walking past - tríptico"
Técnica: Palimpsesto
Dimensão: aprox. 25x20cm (cada)
Ano: 2013
Valor: 150,- Reais (juntos)
Comentário:
O tríptico é composto por 3 mini-palimpsestos (tamanho de cada aprox. 9,5x6cm), que são fixados em chapas de papel artesanal, que o artista também fez próprio, de aprox. 25x20cm.

Título: "the good, the bad + the ugly - tríptico (2.edição)"
Técnica: Palimpsesto
Dimensão: 21x10,2cm (cada)
Ano: 2012
Valor: 100,- Reais (juntos)
Comentário:
O tríptico é composto de 3 palimpsestos. Aqui o artista imprimi 3 auto-retratos em declarações antigas de contas, resp. biletes de informação, que vieram às vezes com o extracto de conta.

Verschachtelung + Verortung

After the triptych Aufbauende Altbauten I made some new photo montages.
First the work "verschachtelung" (German for nesting) consists of seven C-Prints in the size 9x13cm and has got the size of 23,3x36,1cm. Once more the photos show the Ihme-Zentrum in Hannover Linden, which I photographed in 2005.

 

Then I made the triptych "verortung" (German for localization).
The first and the second photo montages consist of photos, which I shot with my Exa 1c, which make double and multiple exposures and overlappings. The third montage consists also of one of these Exa 1c pictures, two detail pictures and a double exposure picture, which I made with Kate. I shot the pictures in the Georgengarten, Leineaue, Gärten der Weltausstellung EXPO 2000 by Kamel Louafi and the Neues Rathaus and the Nord/LB building in Hannover, Germany in 2005 and 2006.

"verortung 1" consists of four C-Prints in the size 9x13cm and has got the size of 8,9x52,4cm.
"verortung 2" consists of six C-Prints in the size 9x13cm and has got the size of 8,9x77,8cm.
"verortung 3" consists of four C-Prints in the size 9x13cm and has got the size of 8,9x52cm. 

 

FUNNY PRESS CAMERAS!

After I shot with my funny Agfa Press Camera, I had the idea to make some more outfits like the Agfa Press.
But now some funny Paparazzi outfits!

The first outfit is the Meikai AR-4367 with a Metz mecablitz 20BC6 and a "Canon EOS digital"-strap:

The second outfit is a pure Locostgraphy style outfit, which is composed of a Smena Symbol and a Tron S400 TCZ:

The third outfit is a heavy bomber! The Voigtländer Vitomatic II and the Mirage PRO 550 monster flash:

The last outfit is a serial killer in an everlasting bloodlust! It's the EXA 1b with the pentaprism and the rivet bomb back of the EXA 1c, the Porst 3.5/135mm with rubber lens hood, the Mirage PRO 550 and a Nikon strap:
I'm curious to shoot with these outfits! Here a wonderful video, which inspired me!

Here a very cool Weegee-like setup!!!

Locostgraphy.

What means Locostgraphy?

I didn't create this term, but I've read it at the yahoo group Praktica Users Group Worldwide as they had a conversation about this post of my blog.
I was very happy that these guys have found my blog and I decided to join this group.

Now I don't want to repeat their explanation about the term Locostgraphy, but my point of view.

In 2005 as I started to photograph, I've got only a little compact digital camera with 5 Megapixel, which was a wonderful camera and I made wonderful pictures with it. But I wanted more, I wanted a more sophisticated camera, but my pocket book was very low.

So I went to flea markets and the first camera I've bought was a Zenit ET by Belomo with the Helios 44M-7 2/58mm lens for 15 Euro and a Revuenon Special 2.8/135mm lens for 10 Euro.
The Zenit was, as for many other people, my first SLR and I thought: Wow the camera rocks!

But I wanted more and bought many old cameras at flea markets.
A time ago I made a statistic about my equipment, for example "How many times I've used each camera?" and so on. And of course I've calculated how much I've invested in my cameras. I've bought up to that point 40 analog cameras and paid for them in total 479.49 Euro.


It's nearly 12 Euro for each camera, for the little compact digital camera with 5 Megapixel I paid 199 Euro, more than ten times than for a used analog camera.

Yes this is an explanation for the term Locostgraphy, because the expenses for the cameras were low.

But of course Locostgraphy is more than this. Namely, in relation to today, the technology of these old cameras can be low, but not necessarily. For their time they were up to date, but with the revolution of the digital cameras, these old analog cameras became old stuff, what explains the relatively low prices today.

Today you can buy a Pro-SLR from the 90s, what is almost the same as a modern Pro-DSLR, but of course with film, for little money. But is an old Pro-SLR a part of Locostgraphy?

In 2009 I've bought a Leica R4 with a Elmarit 2.8/35mm for 1300 Reais, approximate 540 Euro. For a Leica a low price and in comparison to a new Pro-DSLR it's a ridiculous amount, but remember I paid for 40 cameras 479.49 Euro.

Yes, at least now there is the question: Can (old/used) analog cameras compete with (new) digital cameras? The old battle Analog vs. Digital! Read my view to this battle here!

Today you can buy used analog cameras, but also new analog cameras, for example the Lomography stuff, these cameras are just lo-tech, but no lo-cost. Therefore you can make with these cameras Lotechgraphy with lo-tech effects, but for a high price.

Another part of Locostgraphy is the DIY-section. Of course DIY is always a lo-tech solution, but in comparison to the Lomography style, really lo-cost.

If you build DIY-lenses, for example DIY-macro lenses, you can easily create very cool effects, which are just as great as the Lomography effects, or better.


Another question is: Are digital cameras a part of Locostgraphy?

Yes of course! The first digital cameras, for example the Sony Mavica series, are now a part of Locostgraphy. The picture quality is almost the same, or even poorer, as by cheap and simple analog cameras, like the pocket- or instamatic-cameras. And the most important, the cameras are thrown at one on ebay and flea markets. I paid 5 Euro at a flea market for a 2Megapixel Canon PowerShot A200. I love this camera and use it very often.

The conclusion is, that Locostgraphy not necessarily means lo-tech, but that you get for little money a lot of camera! See here 5 combinations of the Locostgraphy style!

Finally, a wonderful quote by Man Ray:

"Two or three lights [for greater speed in working], any lens on a light-tight box [no progress has been made in cameras since their invention], and a bottle of developer, are sufficient for the realization of the most convincing image."

DIY: A Rivet Bomb Exa

Do you want a camera in the style of B.A. Baracus from the A-Team?
Yes, you want the bad attitude look!

Okay, you just need an old rivet belt.
I used an old belt from H&M, which was wasted. First I removed the rivets from the belt. I thought that I might put the rivets on the old leather from my EXA 1c, but this is very difficult.
So I had an other idea.
First I painted the body with red color, next I glued pieces of the belt on the body.
Admittedly it looks strange...




















"I love it when a plan comes together!"

DIY: A Funny Lens!

The old ICA lens, a Novar-Anastigmat 1:6.8/135 mm, became a waste product at the ICA conversion to a panoramic camera.
But nothing goes disappearing.
First I removed the diaphragm and the shutter blades, which are broken.

After that I fetched my hollowed lens, a Yashica Auto Yashinon DS-M 1.7/50mm, which I've used to take a photo through another camera, for a concept of an installation and for macro-photography.

I thought that the both lenses become a macro-lens, but for that I need a bellows-system for M42/Praktica-Screw/Pentax-Screw. (SEE PART 2)
But okay, I stuck with Loctite the both "lenses" together and now I've got a very funny lens, which you can't focus.