COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE

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COLLECTION 2
AVANT-GARDE
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VON BARDONITZ
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Kollektion ONE photo by Christoph Wehrer
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THE ONE
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NICOLAS SIMONEAU
Art director
email:
nsimoneau@kaltblut-magazine.com
EMMA E K JONES
Art editor
email:
ejones@kaltblut-magazine.com
AIDEN CONNOR
UK Fashion editor
email:
aidenconnor@kaltblut-magazine.com
Coco Meurer
Styling / Text
email:
cmeurer@kaltblut-magazine.com
AMANDA M JANSSON
Deputy editor in chief
Art editor
email:
ajansson@kaltblut-magazine.com
CLAUDIO ALVARGOMZALEZ
Movie editor
email:
calvargonzalezterar@kaltblut-magazine.com
MAURICIO MARIANO
& ALESSANDRO LÁZARO
Brazil editors
email:
brazil@kaltblut-magazine.com
BASTI HEART
Video
email:
harting@kaltblut-magazine.com
SHEL FULLER, SUZANA HOLTGRAVE, COLLEEN WILLIAMS, LENI SCHAEL, MICA BERNHARD, MAGNUS VON KEIL,
ALEXANDER DANNER, PASCALE JEAN LOUIS
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THE AVANT-GARDE COLLECTION
Hello friends, readers and haters. Welcome to our second
issue. Once again we have 400 pages full of art, fashion and
media for you. The theme for this collection is Avant-garde. Yeah
I know what you are thinking. Avant-garde? Arghhh. Yes I feel the
same when I hear this word. Every artist, gallery and magazine has
played at least once with this word. But let´s be honest: most of it
is just insanely stupid stuff. I don´t understand why Avant-garde
has to be always black and white, or very dark. So here at KALT-
BLUT, we had the idea to bring some color into the Avant-garde
world. And let our readers decide what Avant-garde is to them.
If you google Avant-garde you will find as an explanation: Trendsetting.
But what is trendsetting? Who decides what is a trend?
We all know it is always some people with a weird attitude. Those
people are sitting all day long in a petty office and they wanna tell
you what to do, what to wear and who you are. We will never do
this. KALTBLUT is a magazine from our readers for our readers.
We’ll never even try to find any trends. Cause trends are already
old 5 seconds later. You know life in general is Avant-garde. What
ever you do. Every little step, every breath you take is changing
the world. It is all in your mind. We are all Avantgardist.
Enjoy our second collection.
MARCEL SCHLUTT
EDITOR IN CHIEF /
FASHION EDITOR /
MUSIC /
mschlutt@kaltblut-magazine.com
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NOCTURNE
Fashion
Photography By Fernando Mazza
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PARA NOIR
Photography By Amanda Stiverius
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QUEEN KALI
Interview By Marcel Schlutt
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THE FUTURE
Berlin Faces U Should Know
By Fleur Helluin
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SELLAH
Music
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MARC JOHNS
Illustration + Interview
110.
2FOR1
You Should Wear
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TATA CHRISTIANE
Fashion + Interview
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JULIA
Photography By Josephine Roloff
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ANDREW HUANG
Movie director + Interview
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THE X-INSIDER
Berglind Agustsdottir
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CAPETOWN
Fashion Editorial

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FRAMED
Editorial By Kelly De Block
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THE GOLDEN AGE
Text by Amanda + Emma
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EMILIE SIMON
Music
Interview By Nicolas Simoneau
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100 YEARS OF
STUDIO BABELSBERG
Text By Claudio Alvargonzalez
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MISS WORLD
Fashion Editorial
Photography by Gabriele Di Mola
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ROBERT BALL
Comic Cubism
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GODS&MONSTERS
Photography By Slava Mogutin
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BRAZILIAN DESIGN
Modern + Contemporary Furniture
366.
ADAM GREEN
Interview By Amanda + Emma
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YAYOI KUSAMA
Exhibition New York
July till September 2012
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CAPE – ALPHORRIA
SMOKING – HRC

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PHOTOGRAPHER – FERNANDO MAZZA - www.fmazza.com.br
FASHION EDITION – MAURICIO MARIANO & ALESSANDRO LÁZARO @ ABA MGT
www.facebook.com/mauriciomarianoealessandrolazaro
BEAUTY – LIEGE WISNIEWSKI
MODEL – JUNIOR TONINI @ OCA MODELS – www.ocamodels.com.br
FASHION PRODUCTION – LUANDA JABOUR AND FERNANDA FUINI
BEAUTY ASSISTANT – PAULA VIDA
PHOTO ASSISTANT – LEO MATTOS
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HAT – MARIA BONITA EXTRA
BLAZER , VEST AND PANTS – RICARDO ALMEIDA
SKIRT – CECILIA PRADO
SHOES – JORGITO DONADELLI

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VEST – AGATHA
SHIRT – COLCCI
T-SHIRT – ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH FOR MCD
SHORTS – JOÃO PIMENTA
PANTYHOSE – CAVENDISH
BOOTS – ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH

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PANTS – COCA-COLA CLOTHING
RINGS – RENATA COLSATO

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MACKINAW - TNG
BLOUSE – 3:AM
BRACELET – DUZA
PANTS – WALÉRIO ARAUJO

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PIECE IN THE HEAD – JOÃO PIMENTA

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CAP – NEW ORDER
SUNGLASSES – ABSURDA
CARDIGAN – LES AMIS
VEST – CAMALEOA
PANTS – JOÃO PIMENTA

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CROWN – WALERIO ARAUJO
CAPE SCHOULDER – MULHER ELASTICA
SHIRT – ZINCO
T-SHIRT – TIGRESSE
PANTS – JEREMY SCOTT FOR ADIDAS
RINGS – RENATA COLSATO
SKIRT – ALPHORRIA CULT

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BE
DIFFERENT
Illustration JUNE by Ruben Irland www.rubenireland.co.uk/

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BEING DIFFERENT
TEXT BY COCO MEURER
am against it. No matter what. First of all it is important to oppose
yourself. Someone will always be against it. Be it out of belief
and conviction, or just because it has to be that way. There are
always opponents and they’ve always been there from day one.
Avant-Garde is the wonderful word, that gave and still gives a
name to all these people who had the urge to oppose themselves
or to dare and be different. The drive of artists, musicians,
poets, and fashion designers to be different has changed the
world. Following the given norms can never bring anything new.
And how so. That old thing will always be the same old thing.
People who had the courage to do what the rest of the population
found only strange at first, are those we have to thank for all
the magnificent peculiarity this issue is filled with. We don’t even
want to think about how the world could have been if there was
no Cubism, Cubofuturism, Vortizism, Constructivism, Supermatism,
Dadaism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Tachism, Action Painting,
Minimal Art, Op-Art, Pop Art, Lettrism, Situationism, Fluxus,
Happening. 17 directions in art that do not necessarily speak to
everyone of us. But had just one been missing, our whole sense
of aesthetics would have been changed beyond recognition.
Who knows?
That which makes every single one of us Unique, special, is
what we represent in life, which values we embody and what
we stand up for. Today still, every opportunity and version of
the future is wide open. There are certainly less guidelines, different
social pressures and more understanding than 100 years
ago, but there is still room for new ideas that are worth getting
up and realizing. This is just what we all did and everyone who
worked with us on this Avant-Garde collection and we want to
thank everyone for being different.
BE DIFFERENT.
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Model: Emma Lundahl
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There are so many movies in the world
we would call Avant-garde cinema.
We show you 5 movies which we like a lot and you
should add them to your dvd collection.

4° FriTz lAng’s : MeTropolis
5° Andy WArhol’s : TrAsh
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It’s a
milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal
sense, and the “theme” belongs in a fortune cookie; to experience
the film’s pagan power, you have to see the movie. But for decades we
couldn’t, not really--not with so many versions, all incomplete, often in
public-domain prints like smudged photocopies. This Murnau Foundation
restoration changes all that. Some shots, scenes, and subplots may be
lost forever, but intertitles indicate how they fit into the original continuity
and the characters’ individual trajectories. Metropolis takes place in
2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in
the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor.
www.amazon.com
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Germany 1927
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Trash is a 1970 American film directed and written by Paul Morrissey.
The movie stars Joe Dallesandro, transsexual Holly Woodlawn and Jane
Forth. The movie follows Joe (Dallesandro), a heroin addict, throughout
his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day
and centers around Joe’s problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually
frustrated girlfriend (Woodlawn). During the course of the day, Joe
overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into
approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy,
and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
www.amazon.com/Trash-Joe-Dallesandro/dp/6305186650
Director: Paul Morrissey
Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn Jane Forth
USA 1970
3° shinyA TsukAMoTo’s : The iron MAn
The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director
Shinya Tsukamoto. The film opens with a man, cutting open a massive
gash in his leg and then shoving a large threaded steel rod into the
wound. Later, upon seeing maggots festering in the wound, he screams,
runs out into the street, and is hit by a car. The driver of the car, a Japanese
businessman, and his girlfriend try to cover up the mess by dumping
the body into a ravine, but the dumped man gets revenge by forcing
the businessman’s body to gradually metamorphose into a walking pile
of scrap metal. This process starts when the driver finds a piece of metal
stuck in his cheek while shaving. He tries to remove it, but realizes it is
growing from the inside.
www.amazon.com
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast: Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto
Japan 1989
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www.fancy-nancy.de
2°Guy Maddin’s : The sAddesT Music in The World
The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin.
The movie plays during the Great depression in 1933 in Winnipeg, Canada, an old
fortune teller is predicting the future for Chester Kent, a failing Broadway producer,
and his nymphomaniac amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa. The fortune teller predicts
doom, but Chester laughs it off, and rides a train into Winnipeg. The baroness
Helen, Lady Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) announces a competition to find the
saddest music in the world; she hopes that the competition will raise the sales of
her beer, especially since Prohibition is about to end. Chester decides to enter the
contest representing America. It emerges that Lady Port-Huntley, who has no legs.
www.amazon.com
Director: Guy Maddin
Cast: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros
Canada 2003
1°Lars von Trier’s : dogville
Dogville is a 2003 drama written and directed by Lars von Trier. Dogville is a very
small American town by an abandoned silver mine in the Rocky Mountains with a
road leading up to it and nowhere else to go but the mountains. The film begins
with a prologue in which we meet a dozen or so of the fifteen citizens. They are
portrayed as lovable, good people with small flaws which are easy to forgive.
The town is seen from the point of view of Tom Edison Jr. (Paul Bettany), an aspiring
writer who procrastinates by trying to get his fellow citizens together for regular
meetings on the subject of “moral rearmament.” It is clear that Tom wants to succeed
his aging father (Philip Baker Hall), a physician, as the moral and spiritual
leader of the town.
www.amazon.com
Director: Lars von Trier.
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Chloë Sevigny
Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, France
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Photos by Einar Mega Egilsson
Hair & make up & styling by Kali
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
www.killakali.tumblr.com
All Copyrights @Steed Lord
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“I have never had a
stylist
in my life”

KALTBLUT: Hello Kali. Thank you very
much for the great shoot you have done for
our new Collection. You look amazing. How
important is fashion to you?
KALI: I have always loved clothing since I was
just a little girl trying on my moms dresses. I
don´t really follow mainstream fashion or obsess
on trends. I just dress the way I´m feeling.
For me fashion and dressing up or down
is all about expressing the way you feel and
the way you want people to understand who
you really are. Fashion is also something that
is supposed to be fun and not something I take
too seriously.
KALTBLUT: When I am looking at your videos
and the pictures, I can see you have
your own style. How would you describe
your taste for fashion and design?
KALI: I have been collecting designer vintage
clothing for 12 years now so I have a massive
collection. I don´t really shop new clothes at all
but I like new and young designers and I like
supporting them.
I love the 20´s and 30´s and 70´s and 80´s and
I collect clothing from those eras. I also love
old costumes and hats and shoes. I am very
nostalgic at heart and I love everything that
sparkles and glitters.
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Since Roisin Murphy left the international music and
fashion scene, Kali, lead singer and vocal diva at Steed
Lord, is the new Queen of the international dancefloors
and fashion. Her voice is so unique and her taste for
fashion also. Together with Demo and Mega, she is Steed
Lord. An electronic music sensation from Iceland.
The new album is on the way but that is not enough for
Queen Kali, a couple of weeks ago she launched her own
fashion blog: www.killakali.tumblr.com
It was an easy decision to ask her for an interview and if
she would like to produce a fashion editorial for our
magazine. Here it is - Meet the one and only Kali !
Dramatic dresses with rhinestones is something
I´m always drawn to. Over the top matching
outfits and feather capes and art deco
headpieces melt my little heart.
KALTBLUT: How do you put your wardrobe
together ? Where do you go shopping?
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KALI: I shop online a lot, ebay is great, etsy and
other sites. I love fleamarkets, estate sales and
vintage shops. Salvation army and antique
stores. I love the hunt for treasures. I love finding
something amazing in a pile of junk, the thrill of
it is like nothing else. I don´t really think about
what I´m wearing and why. I just put on what I
like and what makes me feel good. I don´t care
about trends or what is in or out in fashion. It´s
all about expressing the way I feel.
KALTBLUT: Which fashion designer is your
favorite one? And why?
KALI: There are a couple of young designers
that I truly love and that I like to support. Daniel
Palillo is one of them. His designs are full of humour
and they are very unique.
I also love KTZ a lot, Bernard Willhelm and
Moonspoon Saloon and Romance Was Born.
There are a couple of amazing icelandic designers
as well that I adore, Aftur, REY and Ziska.
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KALTBLUT: The theme of the new Collection
is Avant-Garde. What does the word
Avant-Garde mean to you? And what is
fashion forward in your eyes?
KALI: The word Avant-Garde is a little over
used I think these days. It´s been thrown around
so much and is used for so much today. To me
Avant-Garde is something so beyond fashion
and design. And it all depends on the way you
look at it. And being Avant-Garde is being like
no one else and doing something that has not
been done yet. That´s very hard today cause
everything has been done in fashion and design.
We are kinda at the point of recycling
design which I think is not such a bad thing
cause it makes us appreciate the past more.
You can be fashion forward by just doing your
own thing and not following the trend. Make
your own trend.
“The word Avant-Garde is a little
over used i think these days”
KALTBLUT: Do you work with a stylist for
your videos and concerts? Or do you do it
all by yourself?
KALI: I have never had a stylist in my life and
I´ve been in the music industry since I was just
a kid. I´ve always had a strong sense of style
and I just wanna wear whatever I want. I make
a lot of my own costumes and I style Steed
Lord and myself. I love it. It´s so much fun and
I have the freedom to do what ever I want.
I have done a lot of photoshoots throughout
the years where I´ve just been a model and
I´ve had to work with stylists and that´s fun too.
It´s interesting to me seeing what other people
want me to wear. But I can only do that kind of
thing once in a while cause I like to be in control
and wear what I want.
KALTBLUT: How important is the style of
Steed Lord for the group and the image
you wanna transmit to your fans?
KALI: It´s not the most important thing. Music
is the most important thing for Steed Lord.
Getting dressed is something that´s fun and
thankfully it goes well with our music. The guys
dress the way they want to and I have my own
style. Somehow it just all comes together very
well and it looks like we have planned the way
we look but that´s not the case.
We just do whatever we want stylewise. When
we do our videos we have a theme in the video
and that´s more planned but it´s always an
open discussion and we play around with outfits
and looks to make the story interesting and
beautiful in our music videos.
KALTBLUT: Will there be one day - Kali the
fashion designer? Is this something you
would like to do?
KALI: Yes I would love to have my own clothing
line at some point. I have so many ideas for
a clothing line and I think that´s gonna happen
in the near future. It would be attached with
Steed Lord cause the guys really wanna design
as well.
KALTBLUT: Let´s talk about Steed Lord. A
new album is coming soon. Can you tell
us something about it? In which direction
are you moving?
KALI: We are working hard on the new music
and we are putting our heart and soul into it
like we always do. We wanted to approach this
album like it´s our first and last album. There´s
a lot of stuff we want to get off our chest and
that we want our fans to understand and people
that are hearing us for the very first time.
The direction is a little more vocal driven songs
and the music is more mid tempo. I guess the
sound of the album is more humble and not as
over the top and aggressive as before.

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KALI: The album is coming out in two parts, first
part is coming out this summer and second part
is coming out in the fall.
KALTBLUT: You know I am a big fan of your
music and Steed Lord in general. So, tell
me where can I see you guys live on stage
in summer 2012? Will you be playing some
gigs in Europe?
KALI: We are gonna do some shows in Europe
this summer. You can read all about it on our
Facebook.
KALTBLUT: Thank you very very much for
your time and the great photos.
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“We want to write classic songs that can stand
the test of time and songs that get better each
time you listen to them. That´s our goal”

STEED LORD
www.twitter.com/steedlord
www.steedlord.com
www. steedlord.bigcartel.com
www.facebook.com/steedlord/info
www. tinyurl.com/2b6mg4m
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Kristian
Jalonen
Trapped Feelings
www.facebook.com/KristianJalonenArtandPhotography
www.analogueonly.com

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THE
FUTURE
Berlin Faces You Should Know
By Fleur Helluin
“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of
people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen,
and those who wonder what happened.” John M.
Richardson. KALTBLUT wants to introduce you to some
of the kind who make it happen. They are extraordinary,
creative, outstanding, special, notable and unique and
they will change the world soon. That’s why we have to
keep an eye on these three people and you should better
do the same.

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Photo by www.albertocassani.com
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Tobias Jundt
He’s been called the ‘King of Party’, the
‘Emperor of Coolness’ or ‘His Trashal
Highness’.
But: Bonaparte is the one name really
sticking to Tobias Jundt. Leading the
Circus since 2006 pretty much everywhere
fun can sparkle, he’s one of those dudes
without which Berlin would be Neuruppin.
The Bonaparte crew is now working on the
3rd album of the band in their studio in
Berlin, and it promises to be a total
awesomeness bag. They just came back from
a crazy U.S. tour and are sharpening their
knives for the summer festivals.
Now let me remind you that the end of the
world is coming soon, and seeing them live
is really a must-do before leaving for a
better place.
What was your first esthetic schock?
It must have been guys with the weird hairdos of
the time and dressed in tight washed-out jeans and
jeans-jackets and chains in my brothers room in the
80ies....
What is your first music memory?
Photo by Melissa Hostetler
I think waking up in the morning hearing my mum play
the harpsichord... That is something quite magical...
because it never comes back. It’s like a dream sequence
of a black and white old movie - except that
you were in it.
Did you have an important teacher?
I had so many... Basically all of my youth I would travel
around Europe meeting with musicians that I thought
were cool... like old jazz guys from the 40ies, 50ies
and 60ies, who could hardly be able to walk but would
tell me stories and I’d play for them and they’d tell
me more stoires.

And I’d play for them and they’d tell me more stories.
Or they’d say that it was great or that I sucked and
so I knew where I was at, haha...
I also tried “normal” teachers, that I would go see
once a week. My first piano teacher was an old lady
in our village who was into classical music, it was terrible
and my last piano teacher I had as a teenager
in town eventually shot himself, so I never had another
one. With guitar there were different guys. One
I would always see in the hotel when he was traveling
through town and the classes usually moved to the
hotel bar quite fast. My favorite one lived in a farmhouse
outside of town.
I later found out that he actually was a doctor, but
when you are young, you only see the adventurous
cool part you like about someone and you blow that
up to 200% and that inspires you to become like
them. I think I was very lucky that older people always
took the time to pass on their knowledge when I was
just a little fart interested in music.
I really was fortunate to have met many legends of
music history, people who I could hang around with
and copy what they were doing in the studio, and
then eventually create my own ways of how I produce
or write music. But eventually you go into a bubble
and just experiment yourself. In the end it’s all about
learning from others and the history of art but then
translating it into a language that works for you. Your
own accent within the language.
You are going to release the third Bonaparte
album, but you’ve been doing many other musical
projects.
Do you feel that there was an evolution in
your creativity or inspiration?
I am a bit of a chameleon - or a bitch. Depending on
how you look at it. Since I love, love, love so many
different types of music.
I basically just move to a place and then I react to
what is happening there. So my music is always an
answer or a mirror to the surroundings of the moment.
It gives me an angle to write and create and
have some sort of a communication with the listener.
It is somewhat reactional in that sense. And I live for
the moment to perform live. That is my number one
drug. Playing music live.
Of course there is constant evolution. Also because
it is different when you are an artist creating while
trying to find a place in the universe and defining who
you are as a person or whether you create trying to
get a full club of neo-hippies on LSD to go crazy or
wheater you have to feed a family with whatever you
are doing.
It goes through stages of what you are interested in,
in the process of creating art on one hand, and what
the purpose of your job actually is on the other.
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Is there another art than music that particularly
feeds your creativity?
I like the paintings of you and Marianne, yes! I have an
original Marianne hanging in my toilet at home - best
place for art! Of course i like visual arts, paintings,
photography. Not only but also rather classic stuff.
Picasso and Klee are called masters for a reason.
Touring sometimes lets you discover artists. Either
you meet them backstage or you have time to go to
the museum. We went to an exhibition at the LACMA
in Los Angeles while on tour in the US for an exhibition
of surrealist painters from Mexico and the US,
and we discovered a woman called Remedios Varo
who is pretty amazing. I also like the art of putting
word after word after word to create stories. Writing.
Reading.
What’s on your desk at the moment?
I thought you’d never ask. I love desks... It is a bit of
an old school thing, but a nice desk facing the room...
it’s great.
At home there is a pile of CDs I want to listen through.
I get lots of music sent and I usually say: I will listen
to every work at least once - even if I don’t like it.
Yes, that’s is a bit optimistic, because the pile does
not get smaller. There is a photo of my beloved ones
of course. Then there is a piece of wood with a squirrel
on it, a big ceramic bust of napoleon bonaparte
facing the door (if you name your band bonaparte,
that’s what people bring you as a present), a few
books, a secret old brass-box, an omnichord (one of
my favorite instruments) and an old 1920ies readinglamp.
Unfortunately there is also a pile of papers that
remind me of the real world, too.
You can follow his work here:
www.bonaparte.cc
http://youtu.be/FW4N8vhqexM
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Jan Joswig
Jan Joswig is not only a true
Berlin hero, he’s also a genuine
gentleman and has a virtue most of
us tend to forget, that is class.
He has collaborated with most of
the important magazines from Berlin,
De:Bug, Muzikexpress, Zitty,
Fraulein. He writes weekly online
columns for musikexpress.de and
Nokia owned website Jan, casually
ruling the city.
What was your first esthetic schock?
When 7 years old I was rolling down a green hill and
ditched into dog shit with the back of my head.
I immediately was sure dog shit will never make it as a
hat fashion.
Did you have an important teacher?
I would have loved to have a mentor from the older
generation but I was always too blind to realize,
shame on me.
Do you feel that there was an evolution in
your creativity or inspiration?
Everytime I look back and become aware, hey, what
you’re doing now is exactly what you would have
hated to do 10 years ago, then I know there is some
evolution.
What’s on your desk at the moment?
Some scribbles about how to drive a motorbike and
not look like a guy in his midlife crisis.
Where is your favorite place to listen to
music?
At home. I put some wheels under my arm chair so
I can stroll through my room while listening to some
good old 90s R&B. Better than driving in a lowrider
through LA.
You can follow his work here:
www.musikexpress.de/suche/Jan%20Joswig
www.sounds-like-me.com/news/author/nackt-im-wind/
www.fashiondaily.tv/interviews/jan-joswig-trifft/

What is your first music memory?
Seeing Leontyne Price sing on television.
Do you feel that there was an evolution in
your creativity or inspiration?
When I moved away from doing rock music and into
focusing on the voice again that would be the major
evolution. Also not working with other musicians and
working alone playing piano alone with voice.
Is there another art than music that particularly
feeds your creativity?
Because I come from visual arts, that would have to
be one but also film. The work of Pasolini and Bunuel
have been very central for me. Also writers like Bell
Hooks, Cornel West, Franz Fanon, Angela Davis
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M.Lamar is an intense performer
crossing borders of song writing and
classical vocal training. Engaged in a
performance practice, he is a spiritual
child of Klaus Nomi. His countertenor
voice serves his stories about gender
and race in a über-powerful show.
He answered some questions for Kaltblut.
What’s on your desk at the moment?
I don’t have a desk...
Where is your favorite place to listen to
music?
When I am singing in Cathedrals.
M.Lamar
When you get old, do you like to lose first
your hair or your teeth?
Well neither but if I had to choose my teeth.
You can follow his work here:
www.mlamar.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPrazIUjDW4
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Top: CHARALAMPOS NIKOLAOU
Wooden bra: MIMIKA
Trousers: LEFTERIS YANNIKOS
Wooden clutch bag: MIMIKA
Headpiece: D’ARCY FOXX

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Photography By CHARLIE MAKKOS www.charliemakkos.com
Styling By D’ARCY FOXX www.darcyfoxxx.com
Hair / Make Up By DIMITRIS SARANTOU
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Skirt: DIGITARIA
Shoes: WALTER STEIGER
Necklace: SANKTOLEONO
Bracelet ring: SANKTOLEONO
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Not Enough!
USA - March 2012
A new pop music sensation is
born. Sellah are Michael and
Lewis, two good looking and
very talented young guys.
Based in New York they are
ready to rule the world.
KALTBLUT is introducing you
to SELLAH!
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
Photography by Tony Veloz Photography
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LEWIS: The world needs
Sellah because we want them
to need us. Once there is a mutual
hunger within the artist/fan
relationship, that’s when there
is something really special happening.
I think Sellah’s sound
captures a lot of what is going
on around us in our culture,
which is one of the keys to creating
universal “pop” music.

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KALTBLUT: Hello Sellah and welcome to KALTBLUT!
Congratulations for the brave to create a new music
act! You guys know I am already a fan of your
music. How did you meet? And when did you come
up with the idea to jump into the music world?
SELLAH: We both work heavily in fashion and entertainment
industry and actually met at a photo shoot
a few years back. We simply just kept in contact! We
came up with this idea to create Sellah exactly, March
6th 2012. So we are still very new!!
KALTBLUT: You both are from the fashion circus. Doing
pop music now. Is this a step you did cause you
were bored of the fashion world? Or have you both
always wanted to do music since your childhood?
And modeling was just a step between?
MICHAEL: Me personally, I just had a huge passion to
entertain people! I was always the guy who made
people laugh and feel good, so I embraced that!
I spent my life traveling and had the pleasure to experience
playing professional basketball for my university
at BYHU in Hawaii, but I always wanted more,
I needed more!
So I left university and decided to work in fashion
and entertainment, where I could be free and express
myself through my talents. I always loved music, but
never was my focus until I met my business partner
and now best friend Philip David. As our friendship
grew, he made me realize music was something I was
really passionate about. I owe him my life…
LEWIS: I have definitely always put music ahead in my
mind over fashion, but I think Sellah is a way for both of
us to continue to grow in a fashionable way. Since we
are taking a step into pop music, we can continue to
“model” to build the high-fashion brand that is Sellah.
KALTBLUT: How would you describe your own sound?
For me it is a big mix of pop dance 90s to the future
sound. I can´t explain it!
I just know the sound and beat makes me think: I
wanna dance. And the lyrics are going into my heart.
MICHAEL: What is really amazing, is that fact our music
is what allows our understanding of each other to
grow. How he produces and adds certain affects that
really emphasizes the true emotion my mind is set
out to bring as I write the lyrics to our songs.
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MICHAEL: Our music may have a 90s pop feel, but we
still push to keep everything timeless and not placed
in one set genre. You see, I write my life. Everything
in our songs are things I experienced, or feelings inside,
that I know will happen. So for me, when I record
them, Lewis pushes me to bring that true raw emotion
out. We make music with our souls and mind.
We want everyone to dance to our music. For music
is the root of life…music lasts forever.
LEWIS: Our music is kind of the quintessential modern
pop music in my mind. It’s super catchy and has a
really uplifting vibe. It’s got a lot of electro/house
roots within the structuring of the songs, but definitely
has a new feel to it. I think the reason our
sound is so unique is because of my varied musical
background and excitement for creating something
new and something that I can call my own.
KALTBLUT: What does the name “Sellah” means? And
how did you came up with the name?
SELLAHL: The word of itself, which is originally spelt
‘Selah,’ basically means to be free’d from.“One night
around 3AM, Michael woke up and although it was
like a dream, he felt everything. “The word ‘Selah’
came to his head and right away he went to my Macbook
and searched the meaning of Selah. We added
the extra ‘L,’ in order to make it our own and not
religiously based for safe keeps. After agreeing on
the name we decided what sound and message we
wanted to bring.” The Movement basically means
that they speak everything through their sound…
KALTBLUT: I know how much work it is to create and
start a new project. And that people like it. Why does
the world need “Sellah”?
MICHAEL: Everything I do now is through Sellah. When
you think of “Sellah,” you do not just think of music.
We are a brand within itself. One day, we will
have our own clothing company, or something along
those lines and much more! Sellah is not just about
music. Our work and lifestyle will eventually create
its own separate trend. The world needs “Sellah” because
this industry needs something more real, more
unique. Just something fresh and fun! When people
hear or think of the word “Sellah,” they will know
change is soon to come because that is what we are
doing. We are proving nothing is impossible when you
attach destiny to an untamed passion. In Sellah there
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KALTBLUT: I am 100 % sure the people will like your
sound, specially here in Europe. “Not Enough” is a super
catchy song. I love the sound and the vocals. Michael
you are the voice of Sellah and Lewis you are the
producer. How does a production day looks like? Do
you hang out for days or.. how does it works? Tell us.
MICHAEL: We are both very excited because the past
few months we both were in and out of NYC. Now in
June we will both be in NYC full time. So this gives
us room to create even more! I am very excited to
be with Lewis more and it rocks to see our friendship
and trust grow as our music does.
I stand firmly in believing Sellah will be the answer to
many people’s fears and doubts. That is if you really
dissect the deeper meaning behind that statement.
LEWIS: It’s definitely been a struggle to get finished
products out there because of the distance, but
we’ve just been fitting in sessions and mixdowns
whenever possible. I’m definitely excited to be able
to work with Michael one-on-one more in the coming
months.
KALTBLUT: I also like a lot how you do present yourself.
Love the black and white theme in the video and
the pictures. Your style reminds me a lot to the 80s-
90s British pop bands like Pet Shop Boys. Who are
your Icons? Who is inspiring you?
MICHAEL: For me, I have no icons or idols. I feel at the
end of the day we are all human so no one can ever
be rightfully higher up then I and vice versa. I do have
people I highly respect in this industry though! To be
honest not many males, I have a few I love to listen
to, like Childish Gambino, Frank Ocean etc etc. I am
really into the female artist Robyn!
LEWIS: I wouldn’t say that I have any icons either,
but I am definitely inspired by everything around me.
Some key musicians that inspire me are EDM artists
like Skrillex, Gemini, and Porter Robinson. I am the
youngest of 6 children and each one of my older siblings
inspires me and mentors me to do the best I
can.
KALTBLUT: You have just signed a contract with a label
VMG( Vanity Music Group) . Congratulations. How
does it feel to have a label in your back now? And
when will be the first music video out? I mean I even
can´t wait for an album.
MICHAEL: It feels amazing! As I said, Philip David is the
boss and I am his Co partner. And our goal is to bring
fashion into music. I cannot go too much into details,
but just wait and watch ;). VMG will be the next big
thing and we are working to have some type of video
out this summer…we will see! Also big shout out to
our newest confirmed members of VMG, Caleb aka
L.K from Ireland and our second in house producer
UGLY from France!
LEWIS: It was super exciting to have all our work get
some recognition by getting signed to this label. It’s
great to have a label backing us, but I am mostly excited
for all the great music that we are going to be
able to make with their help!
KALTBLUT: Did you ever been to Berlin? You already
have some fans here. And a PR friend introduced
Sellah to me. Any plans to come to Europe in 2012?
SELLAH: YES! We gathered a global PR team to help
promote us in our beginning stages! We are creating
universal music, so literally we can be played and
seen worldwide . We cannot wait to travel in and out
of the US for tours and especially Germany… you
guys rock!!
KALTBLUT: As I said already I am sure your sound will
go around the world. Where do you see Sellah in 5
years?
MICHAEL: I see us having our own TV show, maybe
even channel! Doing music full time of course, living
the perfect life that Lewis and I were born for and
giving back to our parents, and siblings generously
and freely.
LEWIS: I see us continuing to create music together
and growing as a brand. We definitely will be doing a
lot of touring throughout the coming years and producing
a whole lot more art!
KALTBLUT: Thank you very much for your time. I wish
Sellah all the success you want and deserve. Marcel
www.soundcloud.com/wearesellah
www.facebook.com/officialpageofsellah
www.youtube.com/iamsella
www.twitter.com/Iamsellah

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MICHAEL: We are much
like you Marcel. I just have a huge
passion for life and want to use up
all my gifts and talents. Therefore,
I do as much as I can, when I can!
And I feel I am doing a pretty darn
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Remedios
Varo

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Remedios Varo Uranga was born
in a small town in Spain, in 1908.
From an early age she began copying
blueprints, which helped her
develop her talent as a painter. At
8 she moved to Madrid with her
family, a city that provided lots of
stimuli and education for Remedios.
During her early years she
developed a keen interest for the
works of Edgar Allan Poe as well
as other occult, philosophical and
mystic readings that had a major
impact on her work. Her formal education,
catholic and strict, stirred
the rebellious and bohemian spirit
in her, as well as her later questioning
of religion, and proved actually
vital to her development as a
personality as well as an
artist.
In 1930 she graduated from the San Fernando Fine
Arts Academy in Madrid, the alma mater of Salvador
Dali (*1) and other renowned surrealists.
It was however in Paris that Remedios Varo came to
shine. Amongst other important surrealists, she came
to fully comprehend the movement of the Avant-Garde
and to perfect her skills in painting. Numerous exhibitions
followed and she became a member of the most
exquisite vangardist artists’ circles. Always interested
in games, the abolishment of logic and the metaphysics,
after cadavres exquis she was now taking part in
Jeu de dessin communiqué.
Her happiness in Paris didn’t last long; she had to flee
due to the Nazi Germany invasion of Paris. Back in Spain,
she had to flee once more, this time to Mexico, which
was to remain her home for the rest of her life, even if
it only seemed temporary to her. In Mexico and together
with some of her fellow exiles and closest friends her
imagination found the outlet she had always hoped for.
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She developed her unique style
that has made her one of the
most famous painters of the 20th
century. They kept exploring and
studying alchemy, mythology,
magic, geometry and the Kabbalah,
which she all brought into her
work.
During her life time, it was very difficult for
a female artist to be accepted and acknowledged
among her male counterparts. Remedios
clearly accomplished that. However, in
her paintings, she did not try to imitate the
style and theme of male painters. On the
contrary, her portrayal of women is quite
frequently characterized by their distinct
confinement. Often drawing in a self portrait
mode, she emphasizes on the loneliness and
isolation trying to scream out while kept
captive by unknown forces. Her imprisoned
melancholic characters are strikingly in contrast
with the use of “muses” by male surrealists,
a role for women that she completely
detested. As she kept growing, she developed
into one of the most important feminist
painters, beautifully combining her own
androgynous features and their transformations
with mythical creatures and strange
dimensions, always bringing across powerful
messages, always moving within surrealism
and the Avant-Garde.
She died of an unexpected heart attack in
1963, in Mexico City, at the peak of her career,
leaving one unfinished painting behind
in her studio: Still Life Reviving.

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LAYOUT AND DESIGN
Steffen Budke
PHOTOGRAPHY
Michael Kohls and Cathleen Falckenhayn
www.michaelkohls.com
www.artists-unlimited.de
Sebastian Schulz
DESIGN BY
Svenja Knoppik
SPECIAL GUEST
Leon
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Tattoos, books, exhibitions, but also post-it notes. He creates
real tiny pieces of art with as little as possible, and has driven
people into a Marc Johns frenzy, which is totally justified. He
believes that humour can often lead to the truth, and his limit
pushing illustrations are totally in the right direction.
We talked a bit about Avant-garde and antlers.
Interview by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E K Jones
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KALTBLUT:This issue is about Avantgarde.
What does the word Avant-garde
mean to you?
MARC:Avant-garde is about looking forward.
It’s about going way beyond the status quo, and
looking for new approaches, new ways of thinking.
It’s about questioning everything: language,
aesthetics, beliefs, politics, and meanings.
KALTBLUT:So if someone says to you that
you art is avant-garde.
What does it make you feel like?
MARC:I would be immensely flattered, but
I would be undeserving of the assessment.
I do try to look at things in new ways, but
I wouldn’t consider my work as Avantgarde.
KALTBLUT:How are you in real life?
Do you feel you are what people
expect you to be judging by your
drawings?
MARC:I am way less cool, less odd than people
think. The people who enjoy my art and
buy it and get it tattooed are much hipper (and
probably younger) than me. I am married, a father
of two, and live a pretty conventional life.
I like routines. It’s my head that wanders all over
the place, observing things and taking notes
and reflecting on the bizarre world we have collectively
created for ourselves.
KALTBLUT:Everyone I know is obsessed
with your antlers and the moustaches. Are
you obsessed with antlers and moustaches?
If so then how come? If not, what’s your
current “obsession”?
MARC:I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed. They’re just
such a wonderful visual device. When I juxtapose
them onto objects, there’s something amusing
that happens. There’s just the right amount of
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KALTBLUT:Your images are always “simple”
and basic and you always accompany everything
with some text. How important is the
text for the image to work?
What’s the relationship between those two?
MARC:Sometimes a drawing starts with a word,
sometimes it’s an image. And sometimes the
image is quite simple, nothing unusual, but it
was something that I was in the mood to
draw. Then I make up a little story that
changes the context of it, or I make
the object speak. I love the way a few
words can change everything.You can
do so much with just a bit of text and
a simple drawing. I don’t think I’ll ever
get tired of exploring the possibilities.
KALTBLUT:You believe that finding
the humour in something can lead
to finding the truth in it. It’s so
true most of the times!
Can you go a bit into that?
MARC:If something is funny, there’s
usually some truth to it. I look to find
humour in things, but I try to keep it a
bit subtle, rather than deliver a punchline.
I prefer dry humour, or humour delivered
in a reserved fashion. I’d rather not have
to spell it out.
KALTBLUT:I get the feeling you are very
much into DIY. Am I right? What advantages
do you see in it?
MARC:I’m a bit uncomfortable with the term
DIY, because it’s been so overused. But for
me DIY is about making it up as you go along.
Art is, by its very nature, DIY. I feel like the socalled
‘real world’ is not terribly enticing, and
often doesn’t really make sense, so I’m making
my own version, with my own rules. Rules like:
art can be funny; nothing makes sense; art
can take 10 hours to make or 10 minutes to
make, but either one can be good; just because
everyone else is doing something a certain way
doesn’t mean you should; scribbles are beautiful;
being true is better than a million dollars of
marketing; don’t make assumptions about what
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SUPERNOVA
Photography by Reka Koti www. rekakoti.com
Model Csilla @Icon Model Management
Dress Dora Abodi dress in cooperation with Swarovski Elements
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Clothes make the man.
2012 is a great year for
fashion victims. Here are 4 outstanding
designs we would like to
see you in in the next 8 month.
Selected by Marcel Schlutt
LOUISE GRAY S/S 12

CHRISTOPHER SHANN S/S12
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD F/W 12

ALEXANDER WANG F/W 12
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Jan - Shoes: Vagabond, Shorts: Reality Studio, Coat: Tata Christiane, Bracelet: Univer by Mashyno
Blandina - Shoes: Nelly, Dress: Tata Christiane, Accessoires: Stylist own

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Ordinary Sunday
www.tatachristiane.com
Photography + Hair/Make up by Pascale Jean-Louis
Styling by Coco Meurer
Concept + Idea by Marcel Schlutt + Nicolas Simoneau
Models: Jan Burchard M4 Models Berlin, Blandina Cento Scouting
Making Of Video by Basti Heart https://vimeo.com/43406970
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TATA CHRISTIANE
The Berlin based
fashion label
Tata Christiane is one of the
most important labels here
in Germany. The designs are
very colorful and fashion forward.
Founded in 2007,
Tata Christiane is already
an award winning fashion
house. We had the pleasure
to shoot an exclusive editorial
with the new collection
on a sunny sunday in Berlin.
Photographer Pascale Jean
Louise did a wonderful job.
Starring two of our favorite
models: Jan and Blandina.
And we had a little chat
with the creative mind behind
Tata Christiane - Julie!
KALTBLUT: Congratulations to you, you just
won the “Best of ... fashion design” award at
MODEPALAST 2012! What does it feel like to
be an award winning designer? Is this your
first award?
TATA CHRISTIANE: Thank you! Actually the same
day I got a message that I was one of the winners
of the contest ìLe Blogî and that I got a place for
the next Salon Who’s next in Paris in July. It was
a pretty strange day then, a nice one.
KALTBLUT: Your label was founded in 2007
and since then you have an incredible career.
How did you come up with the idea to
do fashion? Did you study fashion design?
TATA CHRISTIANE: I studied classic literature
and philosophy for 5 years in Paris and one year
in Germany. At the same time, I trained myself
in sewing, especially at the beginning as a
wardrobe master for young theater companies
and by various training courses with stylists
and wardrobe masters in Paris. In 2007 I founded
the label Tata Christiane with Hanri Gabriel.
KALTBLUT: Your designs are very special.
Very colorful, sometimes it is a mix of fashion,
art and costume design. How would
you explain your work?
TATA CHRISTIANE: I have an ambiguous relation
to fashion. It states for me the relation I have
to the world and the way of expressing a certain
poetry of how to be in it. It is also immoderation
and spectacle, a vision of a world fed by
imagination and creative games, in relation to
present, past and forthcoming time. As many
things, it is about a piece of fiction that opens
a breach in the reality, questioning it or making
it smile. Fashion is for me also a crossing of the
various arts and ways of expression, in a playful
dynamic of life.
I consider fashion an element of fiction. I m really
influenced by the Story on the work of Phyllis
Galembo “In the realm of the spirit world,
the mask is more than mere facade. It is utterly
transformative. The man in the maskóand
is nearly always a manómay speaking in a different
voice, moving differently, behaving differently,
because he is a different being. The
mask is put on. The line between reality and
illusion, god and man, life and death blurs.
The masked man is not playing a role. He becomes
the role.” excerpt from the April issue
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KALTBLUT: Looking at your designs I see
lots of color. Which color is your favorite
and why?
TATA CHRISTIANE: It s difficult to say. The
colors are a relation for me. Then it always
depends on the quality of the relation.
KALTBLUT: Most of your dresses are for
girls and boys. Unisex. Who is the typical
Tata Christiane customer? Who is wearing
your clothing?
TATA CHRISTIANE: It is a quite large crowd,
very different. Androgynous. Can be classic
and casual or extreme and very colorful. I
did not find any rules in it yet. Maybe people
who are thinking that they can wear it now
instead of in another life.
KALTBLUT: Can you remember when you
saw someone with your design walking
on the street for the first time? How did
you feel then?
TATA CHRISTIANE: It was in Paris, a woman
in the street with a pink pullover, quite extreme,
a pullover which integrates a black
and white painting on textile, done by the
artist Ian Padgham, who I was sharing the
atelier with at the time. It was really surrealistic
because of the piece itself and the
casual context. It touched me a lot.
KALTBLUT: How does a normal work day
look like at Tata Christiane? You have a
studio in Berlin right?
TATA CHRISTIANE: Yes, a nice location near
a park. It s really quiet. Well, it depends on
the period and the schedule, but usually I
wake up quite early, I start to work at home,
and then I go to the studio all day, and many
times I work in the evening as well.
KALTBLUT: Your are not from Berlin. But
you live and work here. Why Berlin? And
what makes Berlin the place it is for you?
TATA CHRISTIANE: I came 5 years ago to
Berlin with Hanri Gabriel to do a residence
for our band Aniaetleprogrammeur. We
loved the feeling that we got here, then we
stayed.
“
The last collection
is inspired by the
book One Hundred
Years of Solitude by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and by extension
inspired by the
expression of Magical
realism, created
by German art critic
Franz Roh in 1925,
expressing a genre
”
of fiction.
watch the making of video
here: https://vimeo.com/43406970

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Jacket: Tata Christiane
Bracelet: Univer by Mashyno
Dress: Isabell de Hillerin

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Jan - Jacket: Tata Christiane, Shorts & Shirt: Julian Zigerli
Blandina - Jacket: Tata Christiane, Shorts Isabell de Hillerin
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KALTBLUT: The Berlin fashion scene is
growing a lot. And you are one of the
new stars. Are there any designers in
Berlin you like? Which one?
TATA CHRISTIANE: Sadak, Starstyling, Mads
Dinesen, Vladimir Karaleev
KALTBLUT: Let´s talk about your latest
collection. What where your inspirations
for the collection?
TATA CHRISTIANE: The last collection is inspired
by the book One Hundred Years of
Solitude (original Title: Cien anos de Soledad,
1967)by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and
by extension inspired by the expression
of Magical realism, created by German art
critic Franz Roh in 1925, expressing a genre
of fiction, in which magical elements blend
into the reality, to create another reality.
As soon as I considered fashion as a visual
art genre and as an element of the World
as Fiction what is real and what is fiction is
indistinguishable.
Theo L. Díhaen in his book Magical realism
and postmodernism describes it with this
words: “self-reflexive-ness, metafiction, eclecticism,
redundancy, multiplicity, discontinuity,
intertextuality, parody, the dissolution
of character and narrative instance, the
erasure of boundaries, and the destabilization
of the reader.”
This new collection explores this country,
the city of mirrors and the subjectivity of
reality, to propose a world, according to
a particular perception, in the complexity
of times. This collection will turn around
mocked mood, mixture of fabrics and motives,
feathers and froufrou. Fantastic and
marvelous. And humourful.
KALTBLUT: What’s your most memorable
piece of clothing? And does it happen
sometimes that you don’t like one
piece?
TATA CHRISTIANE: I get bored and excited
really fast, so I have a lot of memorable
pieces and pieces that I didn’t like anymore.
Maybe the one I prefer is the one I m doing
right now, and then the next one
I feel more in
dialogue with all my
surroundings, my
readings, my travels,
my friends,
”
people
I meet.
own design? Or which designers?
TATA CHRISTIANE: I am wearing some street
wear, vintage and some of mine design.
KALTBLUT: I know you are at all the fashion
weeks around the world with your
collection. Do you like the fashion circus?
And which station is the next one
in your schedule?
“KALTBLUT: What are you wearing. Your
TATA CHRISTIANE: The next will be Paris at
Who’s next in end of June, Berlin at Superficial
for the fashion week, then Tokyo at Wut
Berlin in July.
KALTBLUT: The theme of this issue is
Avant-garde. And I see you as one of the
new Avant-garde designers. Your work is
so fashion forward. What is Avant-garde
for you?
TATA CHRISTIANE: I think that it is too complex
to be explained in just few words. I
don’t know if it s even really clear for me
what Avant-garde is Now. And to be honest,
I’m not thinking in this way when I’m
working. I feel more in dialogue with all my
surroundings, my readings, my travels, my
friends, people I meet. I just try to feel here
and now what I can be.
KALTBLUT: Thank you very much for your
time. We wish you all the best with the
new collection. Love KALTBLUT.
www.tatachristiane.com

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Dress: Tata Christiane

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Trousers: Dockers
Jacket: tata Christiane

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Trousers: Tata Christiane
Shoes: Nelly
Bracelet: Univer by Mashyno

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Jacket: Tata Christiane
Shoes: Nelly
Trousers: Reality Studio
Hat: Etsy

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Trousers: Dockers
Jacket: Tata Christiane

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MUSIC
Laden.
Abum preview by Marcel Schlutt
aaaaaMasterpiece, aaaa Super Cool, aaaYeah Ok!, aaWTF ??!

LADYHAWKE „Anxiety“
New Zealands voice
Ladyhawke is back with her 2nd album “Anxiety”
. The New Zealand musician prooved once
again why she is one of the most important artists
of our time. Well known after her hit single
“Paris Is Burning” in 2008; the new album is
following the sound of album number one.
A lot of good handmade songs. I have a problem
deciding which song I like the most. Which
is good, cause that is an album you should
buy. Ladyhawke´s voice is going straight to my
heart. Take a look at your festival planer 2012 I
am sure Ladyhawke will be in your town. Best
Indie album in 2012 so far.
.
Best Indie album in 2012 so far.
Favorite track: Black, White and Blue
Video www.vimeo.com/36420733
aaaa
Interpret: Ladyhawke
Album: Anviety
Genre: Indie
Label: Island
Origin: New Zealand
Webpage:
www.ladyhawkemusic.com
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Michael Kiwanuka „Home Again“
aaaaa
Michael Kiwanuka’s album “Home Again” is a
master piece of Funk-Beat-Soul music. The
young London based singer is one of the big
big talents in the international R&B scene. The
album is smooth, easygoing and I am so in love
with his deep voice.
Michael was on tour with superstar Adele, let´s
pray they both will record a duet one day. “Home
Again” is the perfect soundtrack for a summer
sunday on the country side with your girl or
boyfriend.
Mister Kiwanuka: WELL DONE!!
A new soul star is born.
Favorite track: Bones, I Won´t Lie
Home Again
https://vimeo.com/33169439
Interpret: Michael Kiwanuka
Album: Home Again
Genre: Soul
Label: Universal Music
Origin: UK
Webpage:
www.michaelkiwanuka.com

The Dentals “Tennessee”
“Tennessee” is filled with sunny melodies and
strange humour and it provides the perfect
soundtrack for a ride on your bike and the iPod.
Folk-pop-music from Switzerland. Leadsinger
Fabio´s voice makes my heart smile. If you like
good old indie pop The Dentals should be one
of your favorites.
Most of their tunes are cheerful and extremely
catchy and they sound a bit like a slightly less
talented but more diverse version of the Lucksmiths.
Growing up with 90ies indie bands like
Weezer, Pavement or Teenage Fanclub has
left its mark on the song writing. The Dentals
however are more reminiscent of bands like
Fountains of Wayne, Death Cab for Cutie …
Switzerland be proud of your Dentals!
Favorite track: A Song Not About Beer
Career For Beer
http://youtu.be/4VTHvIFrVaM
aaaa
Interpret: The Dentals
Album: Tennessee
Genre: Alco-pop
Label: Whiterock Records
Origin: Switzerland
Webpage:
www.thedentals.com
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Gossip „A Joyful Noise” aaaaa
“A Joyful Noise” is the best Gossip album so
far. I am in love with every single song.
Don´t get me wrong but I didn´t like the last album.
1-2 songs yeah. But not more. The new
album is stunning. Each song is a hit. It is still
indie but now with a big big touch of pop music.
Beth Dito´s voice is growing with each album.
„Get A Job“ is a masterpiece! The sound, the
lyrics. Our favorite track on the album. I can´t
wait to see them live on stage in 2012.
“A Joyful Noise” is an album you can´t get bored
of. Producer Rick Rubin (Metallica, Beastie
Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers) did a great job.
Gossip We Love U!
Favorite track: Get A Job, Get Lost
Move in the Right Direction - Live
http://youtu.be/CbMnuv1W4Co
Interpret:Gossip
Album: A Joyful Noise
Genre: Indie - Pop
Label: Columbia Records
Origin: USA
Webpage: www.gossipyouth.com

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Marc Miroir “Hitting Home” aaaa
Interpret: Marc Miroir
Album: Hitting Home
Genre: Electro
Label: Paso Music
Origin: Germany
Webpage: www.marcmiroir.de
Best electro album in 2012 so far.
Marc Miroir´s debut album “Hitting Home” is
THE electro album for the summer 2012. Each
song is a dancefloor killer. Joining Marc on
these eleven new tracks are a colorful host of
collaborations from Chicks On Speed founder
Kiki Moorse, the XXL Italian disco diva Hard
Ton, and Berlin up-and-comer Integer.
Long-time co-producers Asem Shama, Ronald
Christoph and Andreas Henneberg all lend
their skills to the album as well. Hitting Home is
Marc‘s piéce de résistance – unfolding as one
majestic body of work, connected cleverly by
intermezzi from start to finish.
The morning after!!
Favorite track: Fire feat. Hard Ton
Faces
http://youtu.be/3iuAEVqf5Fc
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Blouse > Topshop
Earrings > River Island
Bracelets > Vintage seen at Garments Berlin
> A-Zone > American Apparel
JULIA
Photography Josephine Roloff www. josephineroloff.blogspot.com
Make-up & Hair by Ines Schult Styling by Michael Hastreiter
Model : Julia Birkenstock @Izaio Models Berlin

Make-up & Hair by Ines Schult Styling by Michael Hastreiter
josephineroloff.blogspot.com
www. Roloff Josephine Photography JULIA
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Model : Julia Birkenstock @Izaio Models Berlin

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Top > COS
Earrings > Vintage seen at Glanzstücke Berlin > H&M
Bracelets > River Island > Stylist own

Blouse > H&M
Earrings > Vintage seen at Mauerpark Flohmarkt
Bracelets > > Vintage seen at Dena Berlin > Next
> H&M > River Island
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Top > Karlotta Wilde
Earrings > Monsoon
Bracelets > H&M > Stylist own > New Look > Vintage seen at Dena Berlin > ZARA

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Dress > Irene Luft
Bracelets > Accessorize > ZARA
> H&M > Topshop

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DEAR BAD BED BUG
Amanda M. Jansson & Emma E.K..Jones

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www.drewwhittamphotography.blogspot.com
– AIDEN CONNOR
MUA – EMMA BROOM
MODEL - GANA BAYARSAIKHAN @ PROFILE
ASSISTANT TO STYLIST – RAHEMUR RAHMAN
CASTING – JODY AND BAYO @ THE EYE CASTING
ELLIPSISSTYLIST
PHOTOGRAPHER - DREW WITTAM

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HOOD – ZIAD GHANEM
DRESS – INBAR SPECTOR

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DRESS – ANDREW MAJTENUI
JACKET – NOVA CHIU
BELT – RELIK

JACKET – THIERRY MUGLER @ HOUSE OF LIZA
PRINTED LEOTARD– ZIAD GHANEM
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SHIRT – ROKIT
JEANS– ZIAD GHANEM

DRESS ( TUCKED INTO JEANS9 – INBAR SPECTOR
JEANS– ZIAD GHANEM
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GLASSES – EMMANUEL KATSAROS
DRESS – BERNARD CHANDRAN
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BODYSUIT – INBAR SPECTOR

DRESS – INBAR SPECTOR
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DENIM JACKET – AIDEN CONNOR
SHORTS – ZIAD GHANEM
SHOES – MODELS OWN

PUCCI DRESS – RELIK
T-SHIRT – JEAN PAUL GAULTIER @HOUSE OF LIZA
SHOES – NOVA CHIU
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BRA – ZIAD GHANEM
JEANS – VERSACE @ HOUSE OF LIZA
SHOES – NOVA CHIU

RUBBER GLOVES – MARNIE SCARLETT @LIBEDEX
CROPPED T- SHIRT – ZIAD GHANEM
LEOTARD – ASHLEY ISHAM
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You certainlY can live witHout tHese iteMs,
but liFe is so MucH More beautiFul witH tHeM.
selecteD bY Marcel scHlutt
Topshop Vs. Topman
Topshop and Topman are always a good
choice if you have to save some money for
the summer. We love HOUSE OF THE GODS
- Depeche Mode Tank Top.
www.topshop.com
www.topman.com
Supreme’s The Camp Cap
For S/S 12 the label went to work on nearly 20 new styles, using different
materials, designs and details. I like those caps a lot. But there’s a
whole lot more to choose from. www.supremenewyork.com
CK One Summer 2012 Unisex
A delicate, fun and refreshing citrus - fruity cocktail,
beaming as the summer sun and a day spent
at the beach. Clean, fresh and suitable for both
sexes, it opens with notes of blue mint, cucumber,
lime and bergamot.
www.calvinkleininc.com
Burak Uyan Shoes Fall 2012
The Fall Collection 2012 is a colorfull masterpiece of shoe design.
Save some money and say hello to your new friends. Each piece from
his deluxe shoe collection is handcrafted by Italian artisans - expect
signature multi-strap and mesh-paneled sandals alongside color-pop
ankle boots.

Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Elegant, sophisticated and jam packed with the latest
digital cinema technology, Blackmagic Cinema Camera
gives your work that timeless feature film look!
www.blackmagic-design.com
SUPER Ndebele Special Sunglasses
Characterized by a double-sided printing on metallized acetate,
with custom engravings and aubergine Zeiss lenses.
Taking its name from the combination of one of SUPER’s silhouettes
and a truly inspirational tribe from southern Africa.
Large and colorful geometric patterns. We love it.
www.store.retrosuperfuture.com
Prince - Graffiti Bridge - 1990
Graffiti Bridge is the twelfth studio album by Prince and the
soundtrack to the 1990 film Graffiti Bridge. A masterpiece of
music. It should be in your playlist for a funky summer 2012!
www.amazon.de/Graffiti-Bridge-Prince
Missoni - Converse - 2012 Spring/Summer
This new release finds the timeless Chuck wrapped
in Missoni’s celebrated raschel knit and multi-stitch
space-dyed cotton. Leather uppers and subtly branded,
embossed toe-wraps round out the ultra-premium,
First String package. www.converse.com
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We Are Handsome Swimwear
I just love the swimwear from Australia. It fits every
girl. The digital animal prints are a big big must
have this year. www.wearehandsome.com

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**Note to the reader:
When the editor told me this the topic for this issue was
“avant-garde”, I could have screamed with delight. It took
a while to figure out in which direction I want to go but
finally decided upon a literary style that is rarely used and very difficult
to write. Nonsense. Nonsense is a communication, via speech,
writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning.
Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their
works, often creating entire works amusement or satire, or to illustrate
a point about language or reasoning. I was interested in the latter.
Daily, we are forced to think within certain forms and boxes. Without
realizing, we lose our ability to play with words, thoughts and
meanings. That was the biggest challenge. This article was the most
difficult but also the most rewarding and I appreciate that I have
had the opportunity to actually write it... and here is the result.**
Excuse me,
this is my stop.
Where are you from? Was it marked
with your name? There was a big explosion.
Could you explain that please? Do
I have to change? A dog is man’s bestfriend.
My son is a cold-hearted gangster,
and I need a hug. Spicy Spam and
Pumpkin Roll served with Chilled Spinach
Brownies and a nihilistic mesquite aftertaste
and hard-to-miss curly-fry flavors
are entangled in the 1942 Semillon
from Don Francisco Winery. I want to
antagonize your trombone until it’s gay
and dubious.
A king never dies, just sleeps. In
counterparty markets, plan to insure
standardized forward rate agreements.
When I’m elected, I’ll make sure
Washington elitists and socialists can-
Text by
SHEL
FULLER
not make a mockery of our postage
stamps. How will an entitled blank beam
over Marcel? Can the strict hog bay
under this fountain? An activated official
scores in the chemist. Marcel errs
throughout Berlin. The romanticism of
animosity is very nearly dualistic in its
agnosticism. Cristov skips opposite the
signal. The ward results on top of the
mystic! The fair bedroom towers over
Cristov. Miami abides the death against

the restrained poetry. Will Cristov bob behind
the God?
The deviousness of politics is rather socialistic
in its integrity. You take Lanovich -
330 pounds and all balance no momentum
- he’s gotta fake out to the midfield zone
and use the receiving opportunity. Bowhauser
needs to hand off to his right guard
and eradicate the blitz play, John, or this
team is not gonna see a trophy tonight.
New York City dreads the breathed container
inside the tea. The catching sweat
“The romanticism
of animosity is very
nearly dualistic in its
agnosticism.”
stems New York City. How can the player
mail her? The tenacity of romanticism is
dogmatic in its dual-sidedness. My opponent
is palling around with communists,
pharmaceutical companies and militaryindustrial
warmongers. Tall and wide looked
at his back of the air when I felt almost
always have since born on the case of the
door at the beer was very like a wilderness
beyond the bread and my tightest and
tear him who held it, like the stranger. Joe
stared at me by the company came. Mr.
Pumblechook balance his head. I called him
have minded that, if she could speak, that
the mist was so low leaden line beyond,
was in the other convict whom I did, at my
life. Joe’s housekeeping to have been extracted;
I have some alarmingly meditative.
Office, usually affair, slate green pieces of
the heart of it were going to occupy you not, -
said Marvin regarded it shall design coastlines.
I put upon, and falling. The information for
God’s greatest and everything, and squelched
at him a second man of his megafreighter. Said
you don’t know, been dead. In these innocent
sperm whale. In orbit of things like mountains
of this stimuli, partly if you’d better control
against the time - Didn’t you mean? - I mean
that’s your engine leap simultaneously one
solid. After a Galacticredit card which is terrific,
- What happened was quite touched. - asked
for species. - Do we tried through the guard,
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and ran to notice? - said Ford. the public imagination
could not making a wild continued.
He continued: - he is normal tore Zaphod stuck
up rather a railed ramp, rolled on. Wild cheers
broke down, you talked to tell you?
The impressionism of objectivity is in reality
quite philosophical in its relativity. My opponent
is receiving money from overseas manufacturers,
fat cats and smelly hippies. He binds
piquant pheromone essences and a better-thanslow-death
almond aroma. I refuse to support
an America where flight attendants and treehuggers
can destroy our right to borrow money
from Asia. Sucked to filter out of energy and
the hurt all my life. A nightmare in weird shit,
with a weed root and forth. It was in ether with
a broken down to the insane sort of a phosphorescent
orange fractal scorpions. The fact is,
swelling to the most productive ones, there in
unmolested butterscotch. A fledgling univers-
rays of razorblade and I swear to have it. The
following graph. This will make you fuck man.
The weeklong bending Rodriguez, teflon made
of you just expect a purple pick up sleepy.
It is why it in hand in your partner, while her very
bad idea. Suddenly, she just some one sitting
a sky. And this book is that? what is illustrated
in a little encoded representations of their
“Love is going autocannibalistic,
twirling
her babyworks out
past the same thing,
really. ”
fabric of his own turds in all poking out for him
since gone species. Those are still serious shit.
This day, nothing but honestly this out there.
Love is going autocannibalistic, twirling
her babyworks out past the same thing, really.
Organized resistance against a crustacean,
and then it growing up the raw primordia
gives birth to the raw primordia gives birth to a
golden drop. It is realized, it whispers I am trying
to fund their bottom. Spend a noose from
Street Fighter II and let loose the most productive
ones, it growing up with the declaration
of your strength in the rows of great wishes.
The end.

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JEROEN MYLLE
“My life changes the experiments and the Avant-garde”
Interview by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E K Jones
A visual artist with a Masters Degree in Visual Arts,
Jeroen Mylle from Belgium, never stops amazing
us. Manipulating analog means like no other
he proves how avant garde of the old days is very
much alive and does not have to rely on extreme
costumes or technical effects. This artist’s bizarre
and limit pushing vision is more than enough.
www.flickr.com/people/myllejeroen

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KALTBLUT: How did you begin
experimenting with your art?
JEROEN: Hmm. I don’t know anymore. It’s
not something I had in mind or planned
before I started to sketch or take pictures.
Art is a process. It starts with a seed, you
just don’t notice when things start to grow.
Not at the moment itself at least. At that
moment it’s just something you really
need to do, not always wanting. Afterwards,
it’s much easier to see what was
going on at that moment. I want risks, I
want to learn things about myself. Art is
the only magic left.
KALTBLUT: Which other form of art do
you think is closest to your
photography?
JEROEN: Painting I guess. Not film like
many would say. I think the gap between
moving and still images is waaaay bigger
than the difference between a brush and
a camera. The frozen image, that is the
point for me. Doesn’t mean it’s the best
one. Everything you need to show, what
you need to say is the best.
KALTBLUT: How has Avant - garde and
experimenting changed your life?
JEROEN: It is still changing. But I think
that is not the right question. It happens
otherwise. My life changes the experiments
and the avant-garde. My life forces
me to keep up and work progressively.
Sounds really difficult doesn’t it. All my
work happens because I live, not in the
other direction. And mostly it has nothing
to do with one thing that happened in
my life. It works in phases. (A time phase,
lots of happenings) Every phase is a different
way of blending everything I learn,
see and feel in my life to an image. So if
I have many struggles (sadness or love
as well) it will have great work as an outcome.
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Reflection, imagination,
melancholy, magic,… they
are all from the same area,
they’re all neighbours
““

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KALTBLUT: You are interested in melancholy,
what does it mean to you?
JEROEN: The point you really have drawn in
the past and future. The moment you really realize
you are in between. It is really difficult to
explain. It is not something meant for words.
It’s a weird feeling. Something ‘unheimlich’.
Future and past make me happy, sometimes
so happy it makes me sad.
We have so much control. Mostly stupid
things or the ones that don’t matter to me. The
important ones (love and sadness) just flow,
they’re gone as quick as they appeared. You
don’t notice, like a shade in the night. The nice
part of the story is you only really remember
them when you are at the next station.
I can smell flowers much more intense afterwards
than the moment I see them. Not more
intense maybe, but longer..
KALTBLUT: Do you prefer to shoot people or
landscapes, why?
JEROEN: People in landscapes! Or landscapes
double-exposed on people. I don’t prefer one
way of taking pictures. I just do what I want
to do at the moment. If I don’t want to take
pictures at all I just enjoy the view, and let the
scenes grow bigger in my head and imagination.
I do prefer places where everything is possible.
Where there aren’t a lot of people. Places
you feel free. Theoretically where you can
have sex or do drugs for example. Free places,
darwin-places… but a good artist can work
everywhere, it’s just a way of putting on the
right goggles and play God?
Show or isolate what you want. And hopefully
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KALTBLUT: What do mirrors and reflections mean to
you? Why do you use them a lot?
JEROEN: I don’t know really. The fact is I use them
much and still use them a lot, which means that I
haven’t figured that out yet. Once something is ‘solved’
for me, I don’t care anymore. Life is too short to care
about things you don’t want. A reflection is a world that
doesn’t really exist, maybe that’s why. But it is not a lie
also, it is a reflection. Hahaha yes, the last two sentences
are the clue a guess.
Reflection, imagination, melancholy, magic,… they are
all from the same area, they’re all neighbours!

www.ponponberlin.de
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DANCE WITH
THE DEATH
Photography and concept by Suzana Holtgrave
Hair and Make up by Ilka Jänicke - Blossom Berlin
Styling by Sky
Models: Lenny Müller - Izaio Models Berlin
Leslie - PMA Hamburg
Special thanks to Nadja Nana,Kiko and Mike for the support

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Leslie is wearing : Dress by Chiara

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Leslie is wearing : Dress by Isabel Vollrath

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Leny is wearing : Nico Sutor

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Leslie is wearing : Dress by Alexander McQueen

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Leslie is wearing : Dress by Isabel Vollrath

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Leslie is wearing : Dress by Chiara Manz
Leny is wearing : Scarf by LALA -Berlin
Ring by Viviene Westwood
Jeans Models own

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Leny is wearing : Degenerotika
Ring by Viviene Westwood

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ANDREW HUANG
commercial and music video director
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
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Andrew Huang is a commercial and music video director living in Los Angeles.
His career started when his dark sci-fi short film “Doll Face” went
viral on YouTube, earning him attention from J.J. Abrams, William Morris
Endeavor and numerous international festivals and galleries. His work
has been featured at Cannes Emerging Filmmaker Showcase, SIGGRAPH’s
Electronic Theater, the Annecy International Film Festival ...
“SOLIPSIST” is a psychedelic fantasy film about otherworldly beings
whose minds and bodies converge into one entity. Filled with elaborate
costumes, visual effects, and underwater puppets, the film is a nonnarrative
experience designed to transport viewers through a hypnotic,
dream-like journey. KALTBLUT had a little chat with Andrew Huang.
KALTBLUT: I hope you have a good summer
in L.A. Congratulations for winning:
The Special Jury Prize for Experimental
Short at Slamdance Film Festival 2012 for
your masterpiece “Solopist”.
Can you tell us something about the idea
and the concept of your movie?
ANDREW: Thank you!! The film began as a
personal project outside of my regular work
directing commercials and music videos.
My background is in fine art, and I wanted
to do a film that wasn’t constrained by
narrative that could exist in three separate
parts.
I have always been interested in the boundaries
between people and the fact that our
lives are limited a singular bodily experience.
The film is really just about bodies,
and the synaptic gaps that separate us and
connect us simultaneously.
KALTBLUT: For how long did you work on
the “Solopist” and how does it feel to you
that the internet world is loving this short
movie a lot?
ANDREW: It took a year to complete the
film in between my other projects. I’m
absolutely thrilled and honored by the response
it’s gotten online.
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KALTBLUT: I like your short “ Doll Face”
from 2007. It is a very dark sci-fi movie
with more than 4,9 million views on youtube
Was this one of your first works as a
director?
What does this movie mean to you after 5
years?
ANDREW: ”Doll Face” was certainly one of
the first short films I ever made. As such,
it’s a little hard for me to look back at it,
the same way that it’s hard to look back
on your high school yearbook photos. The
film is an indelible part of my career. It
launched me into doing what I’m doing
now. But I’ve come such a long way since
then, and my work is so different. That
film was a different me, I feel much more
mature as a director now.
KALTBLUT: You also do a lot of music videos
like Delphic´s “Doubt”. Which i like a
lot. And commercials for Toshiba. What do
you like more? The arty short movies or
the commercial work?
ANDREW: Definitely the projects that allow
more creative freedom are the ones I
gravitate to. Music videos are a great artistic
outlet.
It’s the edgier projects that keep me alive
and excited to do what I do.
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KALTBLUT: When will we see your first feature
movie? Is this something you would
like to do? And if so, which genre would be
yours?
ANDREW: I hope soon! I’d love to do an
indie feature, something that’s dark, mindbending
and surreal. I love magic realism
and films that can be as dark as they are
fun and willing to go dreamy and atmospheric.
KALTBLUT: The theme of our new Collection
is Avant-garde. Do you see your self
as an Avant-garde artist? Cause we see
you as one of the young new avant-gardist.
What means Avant-garde for you?
ANDREW: Gosh, that’s a tricky question.
I’m not sure if I’d be so bold to call myself
an avant-garde artist but I’m honored
KALTBULT would put me in that category!
For me I feel an avant-garde artist is someone
who is able to really observe society in
its truth and absurdity before anyone else.
And they take that observation and create
something truly shockingly new with it. I
believe some really avant-garde work exists
in Internet art and interactive art.
I don’t know how to program, but am interested
in working in more of an interactive
capacity.
KALTBLUT: Which director, artist or film
maker is inspiring you and why?
ANDREW: I love Terry Gilliam. He dreams
as big as Hollywood but is the opposite
from Hollywood. He operates by his own
rules and creates his own worlds that are
grand and rich as a Hollywood production,
but his themes and concepts are as far
from Hollywood as it gets.
His work is haunting, brave and absurd. He
is Don Quixote of La Mancha – he will never
let reality win.
KALTBLUT: Did you already know as a
child that you would like to do movies?
How did it start?
ANDREW: I think deep down I knew it, but
was too afraid of my mental conception of
what it meant to be a director. I always
enjoyed making things and creating worlds
but never quite pieced it together entirely.
First I thought I wanted to be a puppeteer.
Then an illustrator, then an animator,
then a musician. I dabbled quite a lot and
it dawned on me that being a filmmaker allows
me to combine all those interests into
one career.
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next? Can you tell us something
about new projects?
ANDREW: I hope to do some
more music videos this year, as
well as get into making fashion
films. I’m also finishing up a new
personal project that involves
multi-screen installations. You
can stay updated with me on my
website:
www.andrewthomashuang.com
KALTBLUT: Thank you very
much for the interview. We wish
you a lot of success with your
work.
ANDREW: Thank you KALT-
BLUT!!! I am truly honored.
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The X insider
Berglind Agustsdottir
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The woman I fell in love with. Berglind
Agustsdottir is not from this planet. She
is one of the most creative and colourfull
artists I have ever met. It could be
because she is from Iceland, I don´t
know. Berglind is doing music, drawings,
parties , performances and so much
more. Her voice is stunning. Her sound
as unique as she is. Sometimes I am sitting by my window
and I see her on her bike on my street. This little moment
makes my heart smile. Yes Berglind has the power to heal
the world. Ladys & gentlemens, Berglind Agustsdottir!
KALTBLUT: Hello Berglind welcome to our little
magazine. You know you are one of the reasons why
we do an Avant-garde issue. Cause I think you are
one of the new Avant-gardists here in Berlin. What
means Avant-garde to you?
BERGLIND: To be honest I never really thought
that word until you started talking about it and I had
no idea I was one of the reasons you´re doing the
issue which is very flattering and makes me feel all
super excited and blush. Of course I can look it up
and give you the dictionary explanation, actually I
have a small fetish with dictionaries, I´m all the time
with my head in them, looking at words like love.
Because I love the way they explain it. So I may just
do that : Avant-garde noun (usu. the avant-garde).
New and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the
arts, or the people introducing them. That sounds
nice. I always been experimental but my art comes
from a deep place of of love and anxiety and some
kind of mix between fairy tales, the truth and fantasy.
KALTBLUT: I met you for the first time 1,5 year
ago at a party. You performed there and I fell in love
with your voice. But you are multi-talented. Music,
visual arts, performance, paintings and party maker.
But who is Berglind?
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BERGLIND: Hahaha who is Berglind? It´s me. Who
am I. I am a bit extrovert, full of color but also super
shy which is a strange mix, I´ve done art and music
since I was a small kid living in a small village were I
dreamed everyday of Whitney Houston coming to
save me which she kind of did in her own way. I live
after my heart and follow energy flow and were it
pulls me and directs me, I talk to the spirits, god and
angels all the time . I´m also a mother to an amazing
12 year old boy.
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BERGLIND: I´m very much a street diva, I love
biking the streets at night, drawing on the walls and
nature and being bit like a kid, but then I also love
super fine things, good food and beautiful clothes
and beautiful things that come from love. Like the
small GDR, porcelain plate I found in the trash in
Leipzig with a drawing of a small boy driving a tractor.
Gems like that. I´m very spontaneous and my
art explodes from me and I have no control over it.
If I would not make it I would die.
KALTBLUT: Let´s talk first about your music. Your
voice is soo unique and makes every track very
special. Since when you are doing music? And how
would you describe your sound?
BERGLIND: Thank you so much for your kind words.
I was always singing and really dreamed about being
some singing diva since I was a very small girl. As a
teenager I would stand on this bridge singing with
my headphones all night and the small village police
(which were very nice people ) would always check
on me, thinking I was suicidal or something but I
would never jump, I would just sing and sing and
cry and be a dramatic teenager in the wind. When I
moved to the Reykjavik city I went crazy, finally I felt
at home and I made all these amazing friends that
were musicians and artists and I started to do a lot
of poetry reading. I would read poems before concerts
of bands and so on, the readings were often
like performances in crazy outfits. The bad taste ltd.
known as Ssmekkleysa in Iceland was doing a series
of 8 cd´s with young artists and bands, we were
teenagers then, and they asked me to take part
seeing I was part of the this vibrant music scene.
So I did my first cd, it was a mix of poems with music
and me singing. I was so shy that the studio guy had
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BERGLIND: My voice was so fragile but the ideas
were very experimental and forward and when
I listen to it today I´m very happy, it still sounds
very fresh. Then I did a debut concert and it was
so crazy, totally packed house, full of people and I
was the girl that was too shy to sing in front of the
studio guy. I remember I really thought I would die.
I was hyperventilating back stage hahaha then I went
on stage and it was like I never had done anything
else. I felt so real there and I shared all my stress and
fear with the people and then I would just sing and
dance like it was my home. It was 1997 and my first
album. It was called “Fiskur nr.1” ( fish nr.1 ) because
I was always in love with boys in the fish sign.
KALTBLUT: The people love it when you sing in a
club. The energy is then so positive. Which is your
most memorable gig you can remember?
BERGLIND: Uff this is a tough one I think my USA
tour in whole is super memorable, we did 12 gigs in
12 nights in 12 cities. It was crazy driving all day
and playing every night, Ii would often give up and
then I always found the power and joy to do it. The
woman crying on here knees holding my hand, singing
“I´m on fire” with me, was a very beautiful moment,
the amazing kids in Colombus that blew my
mind with their love and enthusiasm. also the show I
did in New York few years ago for 3 people. And
the show where I made the song “Gangsterrapper”,
which we improvised outside an artist squat in Berlin
few years ago and we were so lucky somebody
filmed it so we have the song today... on and on
endless stories..
If I think about it more my show on my birthday
2010 was very memorable when I released my cd
“Friends save the day”.
KALTBLUT: Is there any artist in the music world
you would die for to work with?
BERGLIND: Actually I always work on a very personal
level with people that are my friends and I love
and there is a lot of trust. And I work with everyone
I wanna work with. There is one noise guy, Ernst
Markus Stein, I would love to work with because I think
he´s a genius and I love him a lot and he has been a
huge influence on me. We did some shows together
and I think we have good energy when it comes to
art. We will see how the future arranges that. I also
would love to work more with my main man Kristjan
Zaklynsky, we done a lot of dance music together.
I´m also planning on working on a song with the girls
from Scream Club, Berlin based band, so yes I think
in the end all my dreams of collaboration come true
because they come from friendship, love and party...
I would love to mix all these kids together and make
some experimental mix of disco noise.
KALTBLUT: You told me some days ago a new video
is on the way? Right? Can you tell us something
about the video?
BERGLIND: I´m so excited about this video. I´m
making it with a very good friend, Melkorka Huldudottir,
we have worked on a lot of art together and
videos before. In the team with us is Fiona Cribben
, fashion designer, they are both Iceland based. We
loved working together and we´ll do more videos for
sure. They are super passionate and are putting a lot
of nice work into it and I feel so blessed to have so
amazing people working with me. It is to the song
“Moogoo” which is the story of the shepherd called
out wolf wolf because he was lonely and all the villagers
come running to save him, but he´s lying.
Remember this story from childhood?
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WE ARE ALL HUMAN
being honest is the only way to change anything in the world

KALTBLUT: Back to your visual art. I love your little
figures and the way you paint it. They are always
a little naive and nasty. A good mix. Is one of the
figures you? And What do you wanna tell the world
with your paintings?
BERGLIND: My drawing are about me, I started
drawings them as some kind of therapy, they would
burst out of me. I´m so full of emotion and I needed
it to get out and I would draw in the bar, in parties,
all the time. My feeling about love, passion, sex, obsessions
and so on, I would also tell funny stories
about myself and the truth. For me truth is very important,
if I would do silly mistakes or drama I would
talk about it. We all are human and I think being honest
is the only way to change anything in the world.
So I would be brutally honest about my mistakes
and my fantasy and so on. Like no shame.
People started loving them so much and I started
showing them more and selling them, to my surprise
in the beginning. They of course developed and now
I draw a lot what I see but also my dreams and stories
that have not happend yet. What i want to happen.
I am the main character, the girl with the spiky
hair and big teeth.
KALTBLUT: You are from Iceland. One of the most
beautiful countries of the world. How did you grow
up in a land full with myth and legends?
BERGLIND: I grew up in a small village and I was
the weird kid, I was really in love with art, music,
movies and fashion and nobody understood me.
I would dress funny and act different from the other
kids. And I was bullied a lot, had stones thrown in
my face and was tortured. It had a lot of influence
on my character both good and bad, I found early a
way to hide into fantasy and fairy tales and would
get lost in a world of imagination and nature, I would
walk into the cold sea or lie in the grass and talk
to weird creatures , sometimes reality and fantasy
would merge into one and still it does. I really really
believe in fairy tales and my life is one.
KALTBLUT: Your folks also have the most beautiful
names. Not easy to spell them. But I love it. Do
you have an explanation why artist from Iceland are
so creative ? I mean it looks like the hole country is
into art.
BERGLIND: I think it´s the weather and the energy
of the nature and the sea all around us, I know
cliches, but I think it is true. The weather is insane,
it can be sun in one street and storm in the next,
I´m not lying and all of this messes with your mood
so you need to get this out somehow. In the summer
it´s bright 24 hours, never dark, so we party a
lot and in the winter it´s super dark and heavy and
everyone writes poems and so on.
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KALTBLUT: You are based now in Berlin. Is Berlin a
good place for Independent Artists ?
BERGLIND: Berlin is a good place because its cheap,
but at the moment I´m bit tired of Berlin, so i´m
checking out the other german cities, like I totally
fell in love with Leipzig. It is like I imagine Berlin 15
years ago, empty, slow and weird and full of possibilities.
Berlin is overcrowded with artists but I love it.
KALTBLUT: You also do parties. “The party I fell in
love” will you continue it in 2012? What are your
plans for the summer 2012?
BERGLIND: At the moment my plans are to make
a new album, new music and lots of new videos. I
miss making videos and I did a lot of drawings in
2011 and now I wanna do video, video, video. And a
new album. Record with my USA friends, my Iceland
friends and some Berlin based artist. Maybe find a
nice record label.
I wanna tour more and I´m working on going to USA
and I also wanna tour the UK but I think this will happen
in 2013. This summer I wanna spend with my
son at the countryside and in the fall I have plans on
making a live radio show from HambUrg with many
artist and guests. I love radio and I love bringing
creative people together, I wanna be like an electricity
extension power strip cord. In Iceland we call it
millistykki.
KALTBLUT: Thank you very much for your time.
And see you soon in Berlin!
BERGLIND: Yes thank you ..
MOOGOO
watch the new music video here:
https://vimeo.com/42930109
LINKS
www. flavors.me/berglind
www. soundcloud.com/berglind-agustsdottir
www. vimeo.com/user4912304
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where art thou?

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Style
spins like a horse on a carousel. Multicolored
trends sparkle past us and the newest hype
lasts only as long as the next round. We’ve
barely mopped the hurled peaches before
the ride starts again. the long journey to the
innovative transforms into a getaway, no stability,
the possibility of endurance fades. Is this
the end of Avantgarde?
Where she once attracted attention through provocative, self-reflexive,
and anti-bourgeois artistic production, she wanders now in a
relatively tolerant, pluralistic society where innovation is the expectation.
It is, in fact, traditional.
“Avantgarde” was originally a French military term used to describe
the foremost part of an advancing army, the formation that first
encounters the enemy. But where is the avantgarde to break
through if there is no enemy line? What is she to conquer if the
resistance agrees with her quest? Is she still able to shock or baffle in
a time of superlatives and steady irony? Did not long ago the agile
trend hunt down the steadfast Avantgarde? No, not at all.
In an era jaded by provocation, contemporary Avantgarde shows
itself in subdued fits. She slithers her way in smaller but no less
ardent ranks, who, past all enemy trends, press on the boundaries of
creativity. The rowdy troop of the early Avantgarde has become quiet
and tactful, paving her way between the bumbling undiscplined
ranks of todays trend-setters. Though she cannot always know at
the outset where her undertaking will lead, “Avantgardists” will nonetheless,
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kimono, Jean-Paul lespagnard at rA
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THE GOLDEN AGE
Everything around Avant-garde is pretty vague
and yet precise. Even an exact definition of the
term is not possible, despite the several attempts
in artists’ manifestos. But one thing is for sure,
the Golden Decades of Avant-garde must be the
20s and the 60s (and 70s). Examining their striking
similarities and the reasons for Avant-garde
art to flourish, however, certainly aDds to understanding
this most magnificent constantly
changing movement. text by amanda m jansson & Emma e k jones
One major fact not possible to overlook
is how both decades were preceded by a
World War each. And some may find this an
odd thing to say, because the 50s are the
actual post-war decade, but the impact of
World War 2 was so much bigger, the destruction
so much vaster, and one mustn’t
forget the Cold War as well. In the 20s as
well as in the 60s and 70s, the world is recovering,
consumerism is flourishing, everything
starts prospering, and conservative
values hold firm as society needs some stable
ground. When everything just seems
so boring it is only normal that something
needs to stir up waters and pull the art
world and society out of this slumber. Both
times, Avant-garde finds fertile ground
as the most revolutionary and limit pushing
movement. One of the most important
characteristics of Avant-garde art, apart
from social critique is the use it makes of
ridicule, and its favourite subjects are of
course wealth, fame, commercialization,
and everything conservative using juxtapositions,
irrational situations and nonsense.
Which brings us to the next and most important
reasons for Avant-garde taking
over the art world and society as well.
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In the 20s and the 60s-70s, what we have
is social conflict. And Avant-garde, being a
very political art movement, is in the middle
of it. No other decades in human history
have known such big protests or strikes.
The Civil Rights movements are massive.
Women rights, feminism, African American
rights, workers’ rights, Gay Liberation,
everybody suppressed is out there and demands
their rights that have been taken
from them by the “good and the normal”.
Everything is being questioned, including
religion, gender roles, family values. Avantgarde
partly supports and partly goes as
far as to initiate such actions. As a form of
art itself it is first to question everything
we know, our ideas of beauty, our gods, our
morals, nothing is sacred to a vangardist.
To understand these artists now you need
to open up your mind, society is forced to
broaden its perspective.
As this new form of art that often allies
with anarchism or communism brings
dreams into the picture instead of the
radical, dreams become omnipotent and
dreams can be made come true, so they
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And so, successfully society in the 20s and
the 60s-70s falls apart; no other eras are
so soaked in alcohol and so freely high on
drugs. Many groups of people temporarily
destroy what destroyed them, they don’t
want families anymore, they don’t want anything
others want from them, they wanna
see and do things for themselves and just
have fun, far away from those who want to
stay with the conservative part.
Avant-garde is part of these people, a form
of art that demands to be set apart as an
alternative to the mainstream forms of
art, art that experiments, challenges and
can have fun. All good and holy is demolished,
and now it’s all about the vulgar,
the absurd, the cruel and the irrational.
The Freudian dreams take over the people,
artists, art lovers, underground groups
in society. In great horror and despair the
preachers of tradition and stativity witness
how madness and chaos and loss of inhibitions
are no longer detestable but constitute
fine art.
Then finally what the 20s and the 60s-70s
share is the explosion in music, and all kinds
of art. The kind of music is very important
here. In the roaring 20s it’s jazz and in the
swinging 60s it’s rock. Both forms of music
representing the ritualistic, the mad, raw
and dreamlike essence that defines Avantgarde
art.
Much like Avant-garde, these kinds of music
are very political as well. Many experimental
artists collaborate with musicians
or influence each other. Arts are literally
taking over and intertwining. From Avantarde
springs abstract expression, concept
art, Dadaism, surrealism and so much more
that will keep shaping the world of art and
the minds of people forever.
Beside the striking similarities between the
specific decades and the realization that
Avant-Garde, limit pushing and experimental
as it might be, shapes a society and becomes
involved in it like no other art movement
can, one thing is clear:
AVANT-GARDE IS REVOLUTION!
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Photographer’s Assistant: Beatrice Gehrmann
Stylist: Marina German
Hair: Adlena Dignam
Make-Up: Michelle Dacillo
Model: Alex Rose (Select)

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Socks: Falke
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Candy
I can’t let you go
you’re haunting me
I loved you so”
*Iggy Pop
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The sweet Emilie Simon is back with “Franky Night”, her brand new album
which also happens to be the soundtrack from the movie La Délicatesse.
After winning three Victoires de la musique ( the French equivalent of the
Grammys) for her first three albums, she was awarded last November in
Paris the Grand Prix Sacem for her fifth studio album “Franky Night”, in
recognition of her status of rising star of the French electronic music scene.
Emilie Simon is not just a singer, she writes her own music. Known for her
electronic sound, the new record she came up with is deep, personal and
very soft. We had the privilege of talking to her, and we can now say for a
fact that we are in complete love with Miss Emilie.
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KALTBLUT: “The Big Machine” was a rather dramatic record and
contrasted sharply with “Franky Knight” which was sleeker, more
intimate. Is this due to the fact that it was a film score?
Emilie Simon: It’s the context that’s different. “The Big Machine” is
extroverted, influenced by my arrival in New York and its wonderful energy.
“Franky Knight” is an album with more personal, introverted, deep songs,
touching on more human things with a deeper sensitivity. It’s the perfect
backdrop to the film La delicatesse.
KALTBLUT: This is your second film score, right? How do you
approach this type of
composition?
ES: This is my third, in fact. (La marche de l’Empereur by Luc Jacquet and
Survivre avec les loups by Vera Belmont). I love working for the film industry,
and I’m very inspired by images and the relation with film directors. When I fall
in love with a project, I’m happy to put all my skills to work for the film and the
directors.
KALTBLUT: It’s easy to establish a link between the film and your
personal history. Was writing these pieces a necessary step for you?
ES: I needed to write these songs. This album is a gift, an homage.
KALTBLUT: Had these songs already been written or were they specially
composed after David and Stéphane Foenkino’s
proposition?
ES: Some themes were already written before viewing the film and some entirely
created only after viewing.
KALTBLUT: The electronica in your previous albums is almost absent in
this one. Why have you chosen a more instrumental, organic
production?
ES: “Franky Knight” is a human album, quite humble and simple in its
language, and I wanted to emphasize the textures of the natural instruments
being used. The few touches of
electro are subtle.
KALTBLUT: Your music follows a pop format but remains distinct from
today’s production styles. What types of music, bands and styles
influence you today?
ES: My influences aren’t only music, but also movies, painting… the visual arts
in general. It’s very difficult to name one particular band. It’s a number of things
together that influence me every day, and every day is different!
KALTBLUT: You live in New York now. Did that have an effect on the way
you write music or on your artistic practice?
ES: New York has been a great influence on how I write. Writing “The Big
Machine” was very different from the other albums. New York has opened my
mind, and I discovered new things. The city is very welcoming to artists. I live
between New York and Paris.
KALTBLUT: So… bagel or
croissant?
ES: (Laughs) I want croissants in New York and bagels in Paris!
KALTBLUT: As an independent artist, composer and performer, what
are the different steps in creating an album? Is there a set way of doing
things are is it different every time?
ES: Each project has its own concept and its own axes, priorities, sources of
inspiration and fate. For each of my albums, the common principle to each is
the writing, the production, the recording and mixing. But depending on the
album’s concept, I will spend more time in production if there are more
electronic elements, or in the recording studio if the album is more organic and
needs more instrumentals. However, I spend a great amount of time on the
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working on a new album?
ES: I always have ideas in mind. Today, I’m reaching the end of “Franky Knight”
and little by little, I have begun the writing process again. Everything is in flux,
nothing is ever set or precise.
KALTBLUT: How does fashion influence your visual universe? Who do
you work with and who would you like to work with?
ES: I love fashion. I integrate it completely into the way it communicates about
my music. It’s like an extension of my music.Fashion is about image and each
album has its own image. So each one has its own clothing style which is
unique and responds to the energy and sensibility carried by the album.
Photos, the video, hairstyles, clothes are like arcs linking to my music.
I wore Jean-Paul Gauthier in the video for “Fleur de saison” (album Vegetal),
Jan Taminiau for my series of concerts at the Salle Pleyel in 2007. Every once
in a while, I shop for vintage clothes (for the Dreamland and Rainbow videos
on “The Big Machine”). Right now, for Franky Knight, I’m wearing Paule Ka,
Repetto, Stella Cadente, Sonia Rykiel, Moschino, Gaspard Yurkievitch,
Annabel Winship...
For my daytime wardrobe, I like the New York designers Mandy Coon and Miss
Hoe. I like pieces from established designers as well as younger ones.
KALTBLUT: Will we have the opportunity of seeing you again on stage in
Berlin?
ES: I would be thrilled to play here again! Berlin is a city full of energy and
creative force that I love very much. I won’t be able to come for this album…
but one day soon, with great pleasure.
LINKS:
www.emiliesimonmusic.com/
www.vimeo.com/31586180
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Of Avant-Garde In Film Making: STUDIO BABELSBERG
Every time we go
to the movies we
do it because we
like the actor, the
director or because
we think we might find
a good story that is going to
make us forget our own reality
for at least one hour and
a half. But when the movie
is over and we leave the cinema
before all those names
coming next after the main
cast are shown in the screen
we tend to forget that Cinema
is more than an illusion.
Cinema is also an industry.
And all those names also
mean hundreds of jobs.
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From second unit directors, makeup artists,
electricians or assistants to drivers and
stunts. All those people make the movie we
have seen possible. You will not know their
faces but they are meant to be there. When
our favorite star is shooting in a palace and
wearing a wig it is because someone drove
her there and put that wig on her head.
California is one of the largest economies
in the world because of Hollywood and so
it’s Bollywood for India. Avant-garde means
much more than experimental or innovative.
It also means to advance into battle and to
go ahead the same way those industries do.
Near Postdam, a city not far from Berlin we
find a true survivor: Studio Babelsberg.
This year we will celebrate its 100th anniversary.
100 years surviving two World Wars,
Nazism or just severe economic crisis. The
year 1912 has always been considered the
year of birth of Babelsberg as Germany’s
center for feature film production. It is indeed
the oldest large-scale studio complex
in the world.
The studios were named in many ways
through the years: Deutsche Bioscop, UFA,
DEFA, Studio Babelsberg. But the tradition
in film making has remained the same and
there is no doubt we can talk about this
complex as one of the most historical places
from a cinematographic point of view. Studio
Babelsberg survived four political systems:
Monarchy, Weimar Republic, National
Socialism and German Democratic Republic.
To work there means something very special
for a film maker. Around 3500 films
have been made in the studio and some of
them very important ones which create a
sort of fascination for the directors. Marlene
Dietrich, Steinberg or Fritz Lang (who shot
“Metropolis” there for around two years)
have worked behind those walls. Every
street at Babelsberg has a name, from Billy
Wilder to Quentin Tarantino so the whole
complex becomes a fascinating city for everyone
who works there. I don’t know any
other place in the world where you can meet
at Billy Wilder Platz.

As I said the story officially begins in 1912
with “The Dance of the Dead” starring Asta
Nielsen, the first movie star of the silent era.
There were other studios in Europe during
those years specially the one at District
18th in Paris but Babelsberg became much
more important because it was really close
to Berlin and that city became a popular
spot for show business, modern music and
art in general during the 20’s, making possible
a fluent dialogue between the studios
and the German capital city. Babelsberg
became bigger than some Hollywood studios.
In fact Germany was leading film production
during those years mainly because
some studios like Paramount Pictures shot
a large number of movies in Berlin. It was
much more than an economic agreement
between both industries. Some of the best
creators started their careers in Babelsberg
(UFA during those days) before travelling to
America; Ernst Lubitsch or Marlene Dietrich
to name a few. “The Blue Angel” (Josef Von
Sternberg, 1930) starring the German diva
was shot behind UFA walls.
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In fact she will always be related to the studios
where her legend started. She shot
some other films there and it was common
to see her around even for a visit as a sign
of gratitude. But of course in every good
story it all can’t be happy. Every story has
its shadows and in Babelsberg there is a big
one called National Socialism.
1933 means the beginning of the darkest
period of time for the studios as they became
the main center of Nazi propaganda.
The Nazis took over, all international people
left and the studios became a tool of
the Government directed by Goebbels’ iron
hand. It lasted until 1945 even during Berlin
bombings. The Government machine
worked until the very last moment; “Unter
den Brücken” (Helmut Käutner, 1945) were
shot during April and May when Berlin was
literally falling into pieces.
But of course there is a name associated
to the studios during those years: Leni Riefenstahl.
The German film maker could not
totally clean her image no matter how hard
she tried before her death in 2003. If she
fully believed what she shot or if she was
forced by the Regime is something we will
never know. Unfortunately her name and
work will always be related to those tragic
years. She shot 6 films at Babelsberg, mostly
documentary features, “Triumph of the
Will” (1935) being the most important of
all, a huge weapon of Nazi propaganda.
During the Cold War, Babelsberg was part
of East Berlin so a different period began
under the Soviet influence and it became
the most important studio of East Germany,
changing its name to DEFA, until the Wall
fell down in 1989.
It’s incredible to think that after surviving
the two most opposite regimes in the world,
the studios were about to close at the beginning
of the 21st century. If I tell you
that money is more dangerous than politics
you all say I’m missing the subject here but
it’s very clear that money or, in this case,
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But in this case like in a good movie the story
has a happy ending and Babelsberg is still
producing some of the best film productions
these days. “The Pianist” (Roman Polanski,
2002), “The Ghost Writer” (Roman Polanski,
2010), “The Reader” (Stephen Daldry,
2008), “The International” (Tom Tykwer,
2009) or “Inglorious Basterds” (Quentin
Tarantino, 2009) are part of this factory of
dreams.
If you think of a place full of history, that
is Babelsberg. In Babelsberg they made us
believe we were in Berlin during World War
Two (“Valkyrie”, Bryan Singer, 2008), under
the bombs during Stalingrad war (“Enemy at
the Gates”, Jean-Jacques Annaud, 2001) or
even the exotic India (“Münchhausen”, Josef
von Báky, 1943). In this world of bad news
where companies are shutting down and
Governments are reducing cultural budgets
to its minimum expression, Babelsberg rises
as a magic box where everything is possible,
a white rabbit, a dove or even a Nazi soldier.
In Babelsberg, “Avant-garde” is not a word.
It’s simply a reality.
100 years are just the beginning.
Happy Birthday Babelsberg!!
100 Years Studio Babelsberg
260 pages German/Englsih
ISBN-10: 3832796096
ISBN-13: 978-3832796099
Teneues Verlag
Euro 59,00
www.amazon.de/100-Years-Studio-Babelsberg-teNeues/dp/3832796096

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Photos by Felix Krüger / Model: Jan (thespecial)
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I ‘ m miss world watch me break and watch me burn...
Photography by Gabriele DiMola
Styling by Silvia Del Vesco
Make up and hair stylist Giulia Varvello
Model Luma Grothe @ Elite Milano
Post production by Gabriele DiMola
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Dress by Atelier Del Cima
Shoes by Colcci
Bracelet by WILDFOX
Hair accessories by H&M
Vintage handmade collar

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Sunglasses Patty Paillette
Dress by Atelier Del Cima
Bracelet by Giovanna Canova Solo Pezzi Unici
Bag by Fedorami
Tights by Calzedonia
Shoes by MOE ALIONA KONONOVA
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Collant by Calzedonia, Vintage handmade collar, Shoes by Colcci

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Shoes by MOE ALIONA KONONOVA
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Dress Sacaporter Francesca Marchisio
Bag by Fedorami
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handmade collar
Leggings (worn as sleeves) by MOE ALIONA KONONOVA
Vintage swimsuit by Sabbia
Tights by Calzedonia (customised)
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Coat by Atelier Del Cima
Bra by Intimissimi
Tights by Calzedonia
Shoes by Colcci
Necklace WildFox
Necklace (worn as bracelet) WildFox
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Vintage dress
Tights by Calzedonia

Contact
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Silvia Del Vesco silviadelvesco@gmail.com
Giulia Varvello www.giuliavarvello.com
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CUBISM
BYROBERT BALL
www.drawtheline.posterous.com

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Robert Ball was born in 1973 in Runcorn,
an industrial town not far from Liverpool
but he is based in London. He is a true
artist and he has become one of the most
popular illustrators nowadays. Liverpool
and London are famous for discovering
talented artists. His art is a mix of cubism,
colors and imagination. You will hear a lot
of him in the future.
We are happy he gave us this exclusive interview.
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KALTBLUT: I’ve read you are a vector art illustrator. Do
you agree with this statement? How do you define your
work?
ROBERT: I guess I am a vector illustrator, but that doesn’t
really describe what I do. I have had my work described as
‘Comic Cubism’ and ‘Wonky’, both of which I’ll happily take.
KALTBLUT: How important is the use of new technologies
and graphic design in your illustrations?
ROBERT: I would love to do more painting, but the computer
just saves me so much space! I’ve been a graphic designer for a
long time, so maybe that influence is in my work. I tend to think
of my illustration as a reaction against graphic design actually.
KALTBLUT: Because of the use of those new technologies
such as internet you’ve become quite popular and
people share and admire your work through blogs or
your Flickr. How do you feel about it?
ROBERT: The internet has been vital for me. Before the
internet it was much more difficult to get your work seen.
People complain about the amount of stuff that’s online, but
I find it liberating. Suddenly I can talk to people across the
world through mutual admiration and find all kinds of inspiration
from the most obscure of sources. I’m putting on an
exhibition this week with a group of six other artists, none of
whom I know, all from different parts of the country. I find that
amazing, and almost revolutionary. I also love people sharing
my work, and I’ve had no problem with people being negative
or not attributing work. In fact, there seems to be a general
online ettiquette that generally people seem to observe.
KALTBLUT: Although you draw all kind of
images and characters, you are becoming
quite a name in comic blogs. Did you always
want to go that way. Do you consider
yourself a comic geek?
ROBERT: One of the things you discover
on the internet is that there is a whole other
level of geekiness beyond what I thought a
geek was. I grew up reading comics, and my
bedroom wall was plastered with pictures of
superheroes drawn by myself, with whatever I
could get my hands on. I love comics, because
it seems to me to be such an accessible medium
- you don’t need a massive budget to
create the story that you’ve always wanted to
direct, you just need paper and a pencil. And
with online comics, you don’t even need to
print them. There’s a market out there, and
it’s a meritocracy. If your ideas are good you’ll
get noticed.
“ I’m a fan
of comic
book art
”
KALTBLUT: What’s your favorite comic
character? Why?
ROBERT: That’s quite a tough question. When
I was a kid, I loved Thor, because I loved any kind
of mythology, and Thor was a bridge between
comics and that world. A bit later, like a lot of
people my age, I discovered 2000AD and Judge
Dredd, and really responded to that mix of satire
whilst delivering classic comic - book thrills.
I suppose I like the stories more than the characters,
especially in mainstream comic books
where all the characters are basically the same
– wish fulfillment fantasies dressed up in different
costumes, all with some personal tragedy
or sense of alienation that drives them. I
wouldn’t describe myself as a Superman fan,
for instance, but I loved All Star Superman - so
I guess I’m a fan primarily of comic book art,
and writing.

KALTBLUT: Now let’s speak about movies.
I’m very impressed with your Baddies
and Goddies series. It seems you have a
very deep film culture. What made you start
drawing those series?
ROBERT: It was pretty much random to be
honest. A local gallery was having a movie
themed exhibition and invited me to contribute
a piece. I wanted to do a poster that you
could live with - when I was a kid I like pictures
with lots of details and people you could
name. I underestimated how long it would take
though.
Each one takes about three hours, so there’s
at least 150 hours work on each print - probably
much more than that! Because I have a full
time job, it means each print ends up taking
around 3 months to complete. When I finished
doing the Baddies, it only seemed natural to do
the Goodies to complete the set. I have plans
for more when I get the time... I have an idea
for a ‘monster family tree’ up my sleeve...
KALTBLUT: Name some of you favorite
films of all time.
ROBERT: How long have you got? Excalibur.
Akira. Star Wars. Harold and Maude. Chinatown.
Dune. Toy Story. Duel. Flash Gordon.
Danger Diabolik. Let the Right One In. The Evil
Dead II.
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. Kes. Invasion
of the Body Snatchers. Midnight Cowboy.
Five Easy Pieces. Sunset Boulevard. Get Carter.
2001. The Wicker Man.
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KALTBLUT: Where are your influences coming from?
ROBERT: I get influences from different places. For general
approach I’m heavily influenced by British comic artist Mick
Mcmahon - there’s a humour in everything he does, without
it ever being ‘funny’. For figures I look at much older stuff
like Gustav Klimt and Aubrey Beardsley. For colour schemes
there’s Disney and Pixar, and the illustrator Bob Peak - he
did very famous film posters for the likes of Star Trek and
Excalibur but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. His colours
are sensational.
For composition and simplicity you can’t beat Miroslav Sasek
and Charley Harper. There’s a hundred other artists out
there. The trick is to absorb without copying.
KALTBLUT: What music do you listen to when you
work?
ROBERT: When I’m really enjoying work, everything gets
blanked out and I find I’ve not really heard the record I might
have put on. At the moment I’m listening to the Soft Machine
a lot and I put the Fiery Furnaces on more often than not. It’s
quite angular, complicated music. If the music’s too relaxing
I don’t hear it!
KALTBLUT: Some other artists you admire?
ROBERT: It’s hard to name some and not others but I
love Warwick Johnson Cadwell and Jonathan Edwards’ work
- and luckily I’ve got to know them both. There’s another
guy called Elliot Elam who does amazing drawings of people
he sees on the tube. There’s a couple of Spanish illustrators
I’m really jealous of - Luis Agreda and Javier Olivares. There’s
a hundred artists out there whose work I admire but you
should check those guys out. I think they all have that sense
of humour in common, even though what they draw isn’t
necessarily funny. It’s like there’s humour in every stroke of
their pens.
KALTBLUT: We live in the digital era but what part
of your work is on paper and when does it becomes
digital?
ROBERT: I feel somehow bad about this but 95% of the
time my work is digital straight away. I hardly work on paper
at all. When I was a teenager I used to draw graphics for
computer games, so I’ve been using a mouse as long as I’ve
used a pencil! The frustrating thing is that you can plan all
you want but often the best drawings just happen straight
off.
KALTBLUT: If we had this interview again in a few years,
how would you imagine your life to be?. Like one of your
alter egos or inside the studio drawing the “comic” side
of life. What are your goals?
ROBERT: My goals are fairly vague. I’ve been lucky enough
to do lots of different things, from computer games and animation
to design and branding and advertising, to illustration.
The joy of it is not knowing where it will take you. I only
hope I’m still drawing, and can look back on what I’m doing
now and think how crude it is!

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BY SLAVA MOGUTIN

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New York based photographer and icon Slava
Mogutin presents THE Avant-garde designer of the
New York fashion world. Asher Levine.Originally from
Port Charlotte, FL, Levine started his eponymous label in the
basement of his Greenwich Village apartment. It wasn’t long
before his luridly edgy menswear designs became a favorite
in the downtown New York community. The new
Collection is a must have for each young men.
Models are: Alex Michels, Ricardo
Figueireido, Ty Little
@ Re:Quest Model Management
Photography by Slava Mogutin
www.slavamogutin.com
Special thanks to Asher Levine
www.asherlevine.com
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Rafel Delalande
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Ink under the skin is part of the human
culture from the very beginning. But is
tattoo art also Avant-garde? Yes, right,
not always. Each day we have to come
face to face with really bad tattoos.
Thanks to Jon John and Valentine from
the Berlin based tattoo studio AKA
those times are over. The two French
guys have the best studio in town. A
group of talented artists are working
there with the special mission to turn
your body to a piece of art. Each tattoo
deserves the label Avant-garde.
Take a look by yourself. AKA is based
in Neu Köln/Berlin. Go and get an
appointment, you will not regret it.
Pflügerstrasse 6, Berlin, Germany 12047
+49 30/56735422 www.akaberlin.com
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Madame Chän
www.hublechat.org

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PHOTOGRAPHER: Federico Garibaldi
www.federicogaribaldi.com
FASHION STYLIST: Federica Migliazza
www.federicamigliazzastylist.com
MODEL: CARMEN JULIA@WHY NOT
MAKE UP: Sara Mencattelli MKS USING MAC
HAIR: Marco Minunno@MKS
LOCATION: CASCINA ZAMBELLA
t-shirt: SIXPACK FRANCE
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t-shirt: WESC
pants: ANDREA SAGRINI

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shoes: ROBERT CLERGERIE

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1 2 furniture
From a historical perspective, there are two significant moments from where we can begin
to talk about Brazilian design. The first began during a period of courage and talent in
the 50’s, when a new architecture began to be born in Brazil made of concrete and glass,
distinctly modern. Architects and artists found inspiration in this aesthetic expression for
furniture design that would compliment these new spatial structures. Designers searched
and adventured into unknown paths; the results became classics of our generation.
The second moves away from its modernist source due to a great creative vacuum, the
long and desolated silence of 20 years of Brazilian military dictatorship, when almost all expression
fell silent.This unfortunate period prevented the progress of these concepts that
were being shaped from wood and steel: Joaquim Tenreiro, the master of rosewood; Sergio
Rodrigues, who is still refining his process after 60 years in the profession; José Zanine Caldas,
the first to take advantage of laminated wood; Paulo Mendes da Rocha, whose chair
became a best seller 60 years after its creation and Lina Bo Bardi, the great master, an
Italian who discovered the richness of Brazilian culture. www.brazilianfurnituredesign.com

RODRIGO ALMEIDA
* 2006-2010
‘Africa’ chair
‘ Bahia’ chair
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Rodrigo Almeida represents several of the
aspects of Brazilian culture, a young culture
with less tradition in object design and
realization, but with distinctive historical
and aesthetical references stemming from
the mixture of races that form the Brazilian
people. It is design that is originated,
above all, from the adaptation of raw materials,
which is ‘found’ and not ‘sourced’,
versatile and always eclectic.
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SÉRGIO MATOS
* 2010-2011
‘Balão’ chair
Born in Paranatinga, Northeast Brazil, the designer Sérgio J. Matos has been living in Campina
Grande for the past ten years, city that he has adopted since the beginning of his training
as an industrial designer. Sérgio’s initial encounter with design has occurred in 2004, when,
interning at a company specialising in mass furniture production.
‘Moeda’ c hair
* 2010
‘Xique-Xique’ coffee table
ZANINI DE ZANINE
Born in 1978 in Rio, “only because there was no hospital
at the small town of Nova Viçosa” Zanini was brought
up in the shadow of his father José Zanine Caldas, an architect
and self-taught designer, who was 60 years old
when he was born. he is one of the stars of the Brazilian
Design world.

OSCAR NIEMEYER
‘Rio’ chaise * 19 78-1979
Cupboard
MÓVEIS
CIMO
* 1950
ZANINI DE ZANINE
‘Pássaros’ shelves
* 2008
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Móveis Cimo was established in the 1920’s
by brothers Jorge and Martin Zipperer in
the Brazilian state of Paraná. The company
started as a wooden boxes factory together
with a sawmill. Between the 1930’s
and 1970’s it became one of the largest
furniture factories in Latin America.
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The architect that designed the government buildings of Brasilia, Oscar
Niemeyer, is still active at the age of 104 and is undoubtedly the most
renowned Brazilian architect and the most influential worldwide. He
graduated as an architect from the School of Fine Arts in 1934. Oscar
Niemeyer is known for his skilful use of reinforced concrete. In 1936 he
was part of the group of architects that designed the Ministry of Health
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Mansion of the
pink cross
www.amandamorganjansson.co.uk www.emmaelinakeirajones.co.uk

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ADAM
GREEN
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Cartoon Complaints
You certainly know Adam Green, the musician, but it’s high time you get to
know Adam Green, the artist and one of our very favourites. The New York
based symbolist shows us some of his most recent paintings –rich in colour
and expression, in which he skillfully manipulates popular symbols to reveal
their violent substance and transcendental qualities, and talks to us about his
upcoming artshow “Cartoon and Complaints”.
INTERVIEW BY EMMA E K JONES & AMANDA M JANSSON
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“Epic Linen with Blue Cow”
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“Self portrait with lamp”

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KALTBLUT: What does Avant-garde mean to you? Why
did you choose to move in a surrealistic direction with
your art?
Adam: That’s a term I don’t often use and it’s certainly
not the type of thing one would say about themselves.
As far as surrealism, I spend a lot of energy excavating
my inner world and my life is like a dream come true.
Maybe I pursued surrealism because I had to seek out
the truth.
KALTBLUT: Avant-garde is all about experimenting, what
was your relation to art as a child? How did you start painting?
Adam: Oh I see.. When I was a kid I used to draw pictures
of the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade
centers, probably because I lived in New York. I wanted
to become a cartoonist at some point and I started
drawing comics with my Babysitter.
Then I learned about computer animation and I tried to
become a videogame designer. But it’s hard to get a
job at Nintendo.
KALTBLUT: If you ever created a self portrait what would
it look like? Which colours would it include most etc?
Adam: I have a self-portrait in “Cartoon and Complaint.”
I’ve depicted myself as Aladdin holding a lamp. The
background is dark blue and it has rich black lines. I see
myself changing into Aladdin these days.
I feel like Aladdin is leaving Garfield behind.
KALTBLUT: Would you say there is some sort of connection
between your paintings and sculptures and your lyrics?
What’s similar and what’s different?
Adam: Certainly. I’m pretty connected to my symbolic
vocabulary and I write about similar subjects as I paint.
Though last time I tried to write a song about chairs
it basically broke up the band. The sculptures are all
self-portraits. Those cat-faces remind me of the way
that I felt one time.
KALTBLUT: There are lots of pop culture references but
also some classical elements in your work.
Which figures do you feel you have been influenced
by and how so? Which artists or movements do you
appreciate?
Adam: I really enjoy George Rouault, he’s probably
my favorite painter. Also I like Jean Dubuffet, Philip
Guston, Albert Pinkham Ryder, George Condo, James
Ensor. It’s all pretty cool but I feel like there is a showbusiness
element to all these guys. And then there are
the guys that I hate and I follow their careers too!
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KALTBLUT: What kind of materials do you use more in
your paintings and what in your sculptures?
Why do each work so well for you?
Adam: I use a lot of paste because I feel that paste is
feminine and it helps to balance out my masculinity. For
sculptures I mostly use Styrofoam and paper-mache,
sometimes plaster. I like to paint in acrylics. But my
guilty pleasure is drawing in crayon. It’s amongst my
favorite activities to draw in crayon. Sometimes I think
if I get a lot of money I’ll just get some crayons and tell
everybody to leave me alone.
KALTBLUT: Every artist from New York gets asked about how
inspiring this city is to him. We want to know if you as a person
are more inspired by the urban or natural landscape?
What inspires you?
Adam: I’m inspired a lot by the urban landscape of New
York. One of the artists who most inspired me growing
up was Red Grooms who straddled the world of folk art
and fine/high art. I was also inspired by the artwork
on psychedelic album covers, certainly the artwork on
Tower Recordings and No Neck Blues band album covers
was meaningful as well as the baroque images that
Pearls Before Swine used to use.
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“Centaur collage”
KALTBLUT: What do you want to convey through your
work? What do you want people who come to your
shows to see/think?
Adam: I try to convey a symbolic cartoon-mythology. I
try to do it as romantically as possible. I want to convey
concepts like infinity, violence, passion, and humor
in a way that’s palatable for humans. I think people
usually go to an artshow and it’s fairly boring, so I hope
to make mine not boring.
KALTBLUT: We know you have an art show coming up
in New York. Could you give us some more detail about
it? When? Where? What will be on display?
Adam: The show is called “Cartoon and Complaint” it
opens June 9th in The Intercourse, Red Hook, Brooklyn.
There is an opening reception on the 9th and then
a public viewing and meet the artist on the 10th of
June. It’s my solo exhibition and will feature a collection
of paintings and mixed media works. “Cartoon
and Complaint” began as a deeper exploration of the
cartoon-mythology that I outlined in my previous show
“Teen Tech.” The first paintings in the cycle were inspired
by drug-visions.
Next a box of crayons and a deck of tarot cards led
to a series of collaborative drawings with [musician/
artist] Fabrizio Moretti. Finally, I have been greatly inspired
by “Aladdin,” something which shows itself in
some of the paintings in this show, and I hope to revisit
again.
KALTBLUT: Do you already have a favourite piece for
the art show?
Adam: I really like the darker paintings which focus on
the Complaints. I guess I like the complaints in some
ways even more than the cartoons. I like thick dark
colors but I often forget that. I wish I could forget how
much I love to draw with crayons.
ADAM GREEN ‘CARTOON AND COMPLAINT’
June 9th - June 17th
THE INTERCOURSE
Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York
www.adamgreen.net
www. theintercourse.org
Opening Reception June 9th 2.00 – 5.00pm
Invitation Only
Public Viewing/Meet The Artist:
June 10th 12.00 - 4.00pm

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COLUMN: HERR VON KEIL SAYS
From Canada, well. It won’t hurt, I thought. And
here I am sitting, trapped in a sticky room of
some university building and have to listen to
the acoustic masturbation of this assclown.
As is often the case, one’s own romantic
wishful thinking and self image does not correspond
with disillusioning reality –and the world famous
avant-garde artist from Canada reveals himself
to be a strange man with wild, thinning hair on the
piano.
And his music, just as uncomfortable as his looks.
Insane, unmelodic beating without any slight pretence
of sense and understanding; and to this he is
throwing his grey hair mat this way and that way, in
Illustration: Tim Brackmann
“I LOVE IT MORE THAN YOU DO!”
That’s what I get from it. But it is all my own fault after all. And to know that a simple
tiny white lie wouldn’t have hurt anyone and everyone would have been happy. And
nobody can certainly blame me for a lack of good will! Yet several times I’ve been attacked:
“You HAVE to come! He is a really famous avant-garde artist. From Canada!”
Text by Magnus Von Keil www.vonkeil.com Translation by Amanda M Jansson
ecstasy, like a stray bobtail after a bath. This might
sound interesting for a moment, but after 7.5 hours
filled with this dissonant fireforce I am at my wit’s
end. It is not only a pity for the waste of my precious
time – you start feeling you’ve been cheated. How
can you demand a 5 euro ticket for this crap? Driven
by the feeling of betrayal and yawning boredom I let
my eyes scan the room for a sign of allies among the
audience. Yet there aren’t many of them here. More
like none. To compensate, there are flocks of middle
aged women, posh and all in black, in strict buns,
and fire red tight lips. They sit in rows, shut their
eyes and breathe deeply and melancholic, as soon as
the world famous avant –garde artist from Canada
swings back for the next atonal tone attack.

At this point complete irritation enters. I’ve
always believed that first of all art has to be
entertaining, enjoyable and fun! But fun isn’t
what I get to see here, on the contrary. But
perhaps it is just a question of age…
Two rows in front of me are sitting two girls,
in their 20s. Them too, they are carrying the
same meatball hairdo and the strict red lipstick
–and although, I guess that last week
they considered avant-garde to be a shampoo
series, they still swing in the same tempo as
their older art-appreciators and companions.
And they don’t even look like they’re enjoying
themselves in the least. Then again, it doesn’t
look like it’s about enjoying here. To be more
accurate I am not sitting in a concert but in a
battlefield. Under the cover of aestheticism,
a grand war of the intellectual individualism is
taking place –every one is here to mercilessly
show the rest how they are way more universally
understanding art than all the others.
And this war is as rough as the contrast between
the pallid skin and the blood red lipstick
in the haggard faces of these art-lovers. But
don’t expect anyone to talk about it. It is a
wordless battle, and a strange man in wild
thinning hair on the piano is responsible for
sounding the war drums.
I on the other hand have already lost this battle
–I ran out of understanding for this whole
circus a long time ago. For me it is not avantgarde
at all. More like shit. Boring unmusical
bullshit.
Or is it just me?
Perhaps there is something wrong with me? Or
am I too dumb, to understand all this?
Have I, an independent artist, just outed myself
as lacking any understanding of art, and
am I about to loose all my commissions and
end up sawing pork in some slaughterhouse to
earn a living? Fortunately, my train of thought
is interrupted that very moment. This saddening
clown on the piano has just ended his requiem
of horror, bows in front of his completely
taken and applauding audience and flings his
little hair neurotically through the air.
“Thank goodness”, I’m thinking, and eagerly
join in the applauding, to prevent my exposure
as an art philistine. Truly however, I am just really
happy this crap is over, much like most of
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Avant-garde or not – next time it’s
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INSIDEOUT
Shoe Box Dioramas
Photography by CathHermans MUA by Saskia Wagenvoort Hairstyling by Marino Lambrix
Models are Arjen Roos @Linda Models, Melisse Lis, Martine@Lindamodels

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Colbert : SANNE JANSEN
Blouse : SANNE JANSEN
Trousers:DOCKERS

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Blouse : BRUUNS BAZAAR
Trousers:STUDIO RUIG

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Blouse : SANNE JANSEN
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AZATURE
THE BLACK DIAMOND KING
Approaching Azature for an interview was extremely easy - we’d
met as design students at Parsons School of Design in 2004 and
had immediately bonded over our love of champagne, McQueen
and of course, black. Azature was one of those students that stood
out immediately as one set for fame - he dressed like a mashup of
‘70s Steven Tyler and the 2000s Hedi Slimane - a rockstar that
had recently discovered couture, always in black. Long crucifixion
necklaces, Goth, skull rings, impeccably tailored, tight (black)
shirts, tight rock n’ roll (black) pants and of course: kickass, heavy
(black) motorcycle boots. He was walking fashion perfection, especially
at a school that wheels out far more Gap designers than
Thierry Mugler designers. He was our class couture king.
Now, Azature is in a world of his own creation - since graduating
from Parsons, he moved back to Los Angeles and was crowned the
“black diamond king,” a name that suddenly we’re all calling him.
His jewelry is edgy and inventive, but it evokes incredible emotion.
They are strong, gritty concoctions that simultaneously feel precious
and irreplaceable. Beyonce, Rihanna, Megan Fox and Liv
Tyler have dripped in his work, editorials from Genlux to Glamour.
His daily schedule is a grueling, fast-paced travel log of incredulosity
- every day, his Facebook reminds me he’s 2000 miles one
way or 2000 miles the other. London, Paris, Dubai, New York,
LA; from Chile to Argentina to Russia to Spain. I sent questions
via email and he gracefully obliged, probably in between another
interview and a run to the airport:
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KALTBLUT: Tell me a little bit about your
background and how you got to be the
“black diamond king.”? Family, residences,
schools – how they affected you or influenced
you?
AZATURE : I was born and raised in Los
Angeles, California, and studied business
economics at UCLA and turned to graduate
studies in fashion design at Parsons Design
School. During school I worked with
celebrity stylist Andrea Lieberman, styling
for Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani. My
experience lead to a few smaller projects
with Christian Dior as well as Alexander
McQueen.
After moving back to Los Angeles and leaving
a creative director position I decided to
pursue other interests and celebrated my
new beginning by going to Vegas for New
Years Eve. Coincidentally I missed my flight
back to Los Angeles the next day. After a
few phone calls and realizing my uncle was
in Vegas, we head off to an impromptu road
trip, where he suggested I start my own
jewelry company.
AZATURE : After some research, and discovering
the black diamond, it was the perfect
match. Black, as in the color, or better
a shade has always been a part of my
life. I think my mother influenced me a lot
because she was always so elegant and a
lot of times in black. For the past 12 years
or more I have not gone a single day without
wear all black. And I mean completely
black.
While I attended Parsons Design School, I
would always experiment with fabrics because
we were always taught to be openminded.
The problem was that every piece
I made in a fabric other than black, I would
throw away and remake it in black.
These events were all a build up, to my
obsession with a diamond that was black.
As one of the first black diamond designers,
I began to gain popularity in Russia,
the Middle East, and Asia, hence the press/
clients started referring to be as the black
diamond king.
KALTBLUT: What inspires you and how
does this inspiration evolve into a piece of
jewelry?
AZATURE : AZATURE is not just about design.
It is about a sociological approach
and a look at our surroundings of what is
happening and an outlook on what is going
to happen. Majority of designers and
designers in training look at different time
periods in history as a source of inspiration.
My greatest inspiration is the future. In
a fast moving world, where marriage, war,
race, gender, are ever changing and evolving,
AZATURE designs change as emotion
and imagination get aligned from the daily
struggles of humanity.
KALTBLUT: Your line has recently expanded
into chocolate diamonds and it has been
getting a lot of wedding press. How do you
think Azature fits into the wedding genre?
What would be an ideal Avant-garde
wedding?
AZATURE : Jewelry, chocolates, and weddings
do have a lot in common. They all
kind of come together nicely. I have been
custom making wedding bangs and engagement
rings since I launched the
company through my AZATURE ATELIER
services, so had a taste of the wedding
world. Now with the chocolates I am more
embedded in weddings, but not strictly
weddings, also birthdays, baby showers,
graduations, anniversaries, mother’s day
etc.
My ideal Avant-garde wedding would be
an all black wedding. I won’t get into the
details as I get very passionate about this
subject and might go one for days. I’ve had
a special infactuation with weddings since
I was a child. To the point my final project
at Parsons Design School was a black wedding
dress.
KALTBLUT: How do you feel about
technology and your work? Does it play a
big role ininspiring you?
How important do you find technology &
social networking to convey your brand’s
message?

AZATURE : I think many luxury houses have
a difficulty with technology, because there
is so much tradition involved in luxury, especially
in jewelry and jewelry making. It is
such an intricate and difficult craft, where
so much attention is placed on detail.
I always had the interest of bridging that
gap, so I like to be at the forfront of technology,
you can see that with our web-sites,
our packaging, as well as social media such
as facebook and twitter. Very different than
many luxury brands I like to be there with
my client at all times once they have made
a purchase. My clients mean the world
to me, they have been so supportive and
loving. I adore them all. I want to listen to
them, understanding them, and make sure
they have a smile on their face at all times.
Technology helps me be with many people,
in many different places, at one time.
KALTBLUT: Your collections are often worn
by rock stars and musicians. Tell me about
how important music is to Azature, how
it gets the blood going, which artists you
would love to drip in diamonds?
AZATURE : I listen to music from the minute
I wake up till I go to bed. You know I start
my day every morning with a dance? I have
music in my office, in my car, in my room,
kitchen, and living room... Where ever I go
there is always music. All sorts of music—
from classical to top 40. I also listen to a lot
of world music. Music in general inspires
me. You know I love music that I don’t even
know what they are saying.
My very first celebrity client was Rihanna. I
was very humbled when I got news that
Rihanna wore AZATURE for her “Disturbia
” and “ Rehab ” music videos. She then
placed a custom order for her World Tour
and continued to wear AZATURE in multiple
international interviews and performances
all around the world.
CELEBRITIES WHO ROCKED AZATURE:
Megan Fox, Scarlet Johanson, Beyonce,
Heidi Klum, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana,
Rihanna, Cindy Crawford, Kim Kardashian
and Fergie, Marisa Tomei, Ozzy Osbourne
Brandon Boyd, Lindsay Lohan and and ...
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KALTBLUT: You also have a diffusion line
(A..Z. by AZATURE) – how important are diffusion
lines to niche jewelers like yourself?
How do you feel about them in the grander
scheme of fashion (everything from Marc
by MJ / Marc Jacobs to the Target collaborations).
If you could collaborate with a retailer
(of any scale), which would it be?
AZATURE : My AZ by AZAURE collection,
this new series of statement-making pieces
combines the over-the-top opulence of the
1980s with my signature, youthful edge. It
is a world of the dolce vita meets rockandroll,
an dlots of fun. I think everyone needs a
little bit of light in these tough times. When
times get tough, and economic pressures
kick in, there is nothing better than wearing
your most opulent piece and taking yourself
into a fantasy. What better reference
than the epic Aaron Spelling series,
DYNASTY, where I will never forget the
tongue lashes between Alexis and Krystle
over their diamonds. Now everyone can indulge
in their guilty pleasures with AZ and
AZATURE.
KALTBLUT: You travel the globe on the daily.
Favorite places, spaces, foods, drinks,
sights? What is a typical day in the life
when you’re abroad?
AZATURE : When I travel I never am not interested
in going to see monuments and
places where a tourist would think to go.
I like to embed myself with the people and
almost become the person in that specific
region. I sometimes wish I knew every language
of the world, as people are so
fascinating to me.
I like discovering hidden gems like restaurants
that have no names and are impossible
to find. I like to spend time with locals
and enjoy a simple laugh, or a conversation.
I recently went to a place called TRAMP in
London and absolutely loved it as it was
so hidden, yet had so much history. When
I was in Chile I went to this hidden/mysterious
restaurant called J.Cruz that is run by
a local family for over 50 years, that I got to
meet and speak too.
AZATURE : When I was in Venice, Italy I got
lost and found the best pizza restaurant run
by a mother and son. In Croatia I discovered
this seafood restaurant run by a local
family for 40+ years. In the middle east,
I found some of my closest friends that I
love. People are what make every place in
the world so special. I like to spend the time
to get to know as many of them every time
I travel. The craftsmanship of the food, the
facets of the people, and the fire of the cultures
are just like my first love – diamonds.
KALTBLUT: What are your plans for the future
with Azature? What would you like to
change in the industry?
AZATURE : My main goal with this line is to
really touch people and be very personable
and offer them something new, because at
the end of the day, I think a lot of markets
are playing it really safe. So I’d like this
line to be a little bit for those individuals
who really do what they love and are the
rebels of this country—they’re the movers
and shakers, and they want something
new, something different. I would just love
to see the line grow to its own stand-alone
stores, which would be the epitome of my
goal, to really give people a different kind
of shopping experience, along with new
mediums. I think a lot of luxury companies
still like to keep a lot of traditionalism. I
want to combine the luxury aspect of my
company with modern-day technology.
LINKS:
www.azbyazature.com
www.facebook.com/azbyazature
www.twitter.com/#!/azbyazature
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WE LOVE
By the looks of it Blogging is shaping the future. In the blogging world it is you
who decides what the world should look like. Each issue will bring you one blogger
that we particularly love and you have definitely to watch. Meet Maddie the
Coonhound. This dog is the star of the blog and we like it a lot. Great idea, lots
of nice pictures. And you can buy the photos if you want. Take a look by yourself!
www.maddieonthings.com

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MADDIE THE COONHOUND
a super serious project about dogs and physics

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Vicious
Photography and Concept Suzana Holtgrave
Model Leslie at PMA Hamburg
Hair & make up Ilka Jänicke Blossom Management Berlin
Styling Suzana Holtgrave & Sky
Special thx with love to Kiko

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Fringe -Top: Zara

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Cape: Glaw

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WHITNEY MUSEUM
YAYOI
KUSAMA
July 12 – september 30, 2012

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Well known for her dense patterns of
polka dots and nets, as well as her hallucinatory
large-scale environments,
Yayoi Kusama’s art encompasses an
astonishing variety of media, including
painting, drawing, sculpture, film,
performance, and immersive installation.
Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in
1929, Kusama came to the U.S. and
found herself at the epicenter of the
New York art world in the 1960s, where
she came into contact with such artists
as Donald Judd, Andy Warhol,
Joseph Cornell, and Claes Oldenburg.
After achieving fame and notoriety
with groundbreaking art happenings
and events, she returned to her native
country in 1973 and is now Japan’s
most prominent contemporary artist.
Organized by Tate Modern in collaboration
with the Museo Nacional Centro
de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Centre
Pompidou, Paris; and the Whitney,
where the show’s installation is being
overseen by curator David Kiehl.
Accompanied by a major catalogue
and the first English translation of
Kusama’s autobiography, Infinity Net.

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YAYOI KUSAMA
Born 1929 in Matsumoto / Japan
Avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist.
Went to the United States in 1957. Showed large paintings,
soft sculptures, and environmental sculptures using mirrors
and electric lights. In the latter 1960s, staged many happenings
such as body painting festivals, fashion shows and antiwar
demonstrations. Launched media-related activities such
as film production and newspaper publication. In 1968, the
film “Kusama’s Self-Obliteration”which Kusama produced and
starred in won a prize at the Fourth International Experimental
Film Competition in Belgium and the Second Maryland Film
Festival and the second prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Held exhibitions and staged happenings also in various countries
in Europe.
Returned to Japan in 1973. While continuing to produce and
show art works, Kusama issued a number of novels and anthologies.
In 1983, the novel “The Hustlers Grotto of Christopher
Street” won the Tenth Literary Award for New Writers.
In 1986, held solo exhibitions at the Musee Municipal, Dole and
the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, France, in 1989, solo exhibitions
at the Center for International Contemporary Arts, New
York and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England. In 1993,
participated in the 45th Venice Biennale. Began to create openair
sculptures in 1994. Produced open-air pieces for the Fukuoka
Kenko Center, the Fukuoka Municipal Museum of Art, the
Bunka-mura on Benesse Island of Naoshima, Kirishima Open-
Air Museum and Matsumoto City Museum of Art, , in front of
Matsudai Station, Niigata,TGV’s Lille-Europe Station in France,
Beverly Gardens Park, Beverly hills, Pyeonghwa Park, Anyang
and a mural for the hallway at subway station in Lisbon.
1998 to 1999, a major retrospective of Kusama’s works which
opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art traveled to
the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Walker Art Center
and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. In 2004 another
solo exhibition started at The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo In 2005, it traveled to The National Museum of Modern
Art, Kyoto, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary
Art Museum, Kumamoto, Matsumoto City Museum
of Art.
Received the 2006 National Lifetime Achievement Awards, the
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Losette and The Praemium
Imperiale -Painting- in 2006.

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WHITNEY MUSEUM NEW YORK
Exhibition YAYOI KUSAMA July 12 – September 30, 2012
ABOUT THE WHITNEY
As the preeminent institution devoted to the
art of the United States, the Whitney Museum
of American Art presents the full range of
twentieth-century and contemporary American
art, with a special focus on works by living artists.
The Whitney is dedicated to collecting,
preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American
art, and its collection—arguably the finest
holding of twentieth-century American art in
the world—is the Museum’s key resource. The
Museum’s signature exhibition, the Biennial, is
the country’s leading survey of the most recent
developments in American art.
Innovation has been a hallmark of the Whitney
since its beginnings. It was the first museum
dedicated to the work of living American artists
and the first New York museum to present
a major exhibition of a video artist (Nam June
Paik in 1982). Such figures as Jasper Johns,
Cy Twombly, and Cindy Sherman were given
their first museum retrospectives by the Whitney.
The Museum has consistently purchased
works within the year they were created, often
well before the artists became broadly recognized.
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
General Information: (212) 570-3600
info@whitney.org
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OPENING HOURS
wednesday-sunday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
monday-tuesday closed
ENTRANCE FEE
General admission: $18
Ages 19–25: $12
Ages 62 and over: $12
Full-time students: $12
Ages 18 and under: FREE
Members: FREE
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The Whitney was the first museum to take its
exhibitions and programming beyond its walls
by establishing corporate-funded branch facilities,
and the first museum to undertake a program
of collection-sharing (with the San Jose
Museum of Art) in order to increase access to
its renowned collection.

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LONDON, UK
BP Portrait Award 2012
The BP Portrait Award showcases the very best in con-
temporary portrait painting from around the world.
For thirty-three years the exhibition has presented
outstanding and innovative new work in a variety of
styles and approaches, and it continues to be a high-
light of the annual art calendar. The National Portrait
Gallery will display the winner of the £25,000 prize –
due to be selected in June – as well as a selection of the
top runners up.
Dates: June 12, 2012 to September 23, 2012
Address: National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London WC2H 0HE
Admission Free
www.npg.org.uk
BERLIN,GERMANY
Classic Open Air Festival 2012
Every summer since 1992, the Gendarmenmarkt
square in the heart of Berlin has been transformed into
a spectacular backdrop for the Classic Open Air Festi-
val - a series of concerts which attracts crowds from
the world over. Since its inception, the festival has at-
tracted abaout 640,000 people to 112 concerts, with a
musical range covering everything from opera, operet-
ta and stage musicals, to pop classics, soul, swing and
jazz - and much in between.
Dates: Juli 5 - 12, 2012
Address: Gendarmenmarkt
10117 Berlin
www.classicopenair.de
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MADRID, SPAIN
International Festival
of Photography and Visual Arts
Madrid will be turning into one giant exhibition. It
isn’t possible you miss that festival since events and
exhibitions will be all over the city. Here, in one of the
most important visual arts event in the world you can
discover new geniuses but also old masters, since the
number of international artists displayed will be over
300. You can join workshops or competitions if you
are feeling super creative.
Dates: Running till July 22. 2012
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MILANO, ITALY
Markus Schinwald:
Old wants-Young desires
If you are lucky enough to be in Milano some-
time this summer, you shouldn’t let the heat
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ested in the psychological analysis of the body
he will manipulate time, space, shadows, and
comfort zones.
Dates: Running till July 21. 2012
Address: Galleria Gio Marconi.
Via Alessandro Tadino 15, Milan
www.giomarconi.com

NEW YORK, USA
The Great Coney Island Spectacularium
If you live in New York, or if you just love New York
and a fair mix of art and history, this is an exhibition
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fee you can feast your eyes on the most beautiful and
strange images and objects retelling the story of the
grim and glorious curiosities of the notorious Coney
Island within an over 100 year span. What more is
there to be said?
Dates: Running till September 23. 2012
Address: Island Museum,
1208 Surf Ave, New York
www.coneyisland.com/museum.shtml
MONTREAL, CANADA
Redpath Museum: Water is Life
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course a breathtaking world culture exhibit on the 3rd
floor!
Dates: all summer but no Saturdays
Address: Redpath Museum, 859
Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebek
www.mcgill.ca/redpath
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