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Benjamin - Juvenarte 2011 - Oslo

2011-09-29T15:38:00.000-07:00

Ben is currently exhibiting in Oslo as part of Juvenarte 2011.

He is exhibiting 2 of his large photographs (the two you can see on the wall opposite the window in the image above) and also the sweater custom designed and sewn for his machines and experiments - depicted in the photographs.

The official Juvenarte 2011 flyer is below - the show is open with and until Sunday the 2nd of October - so if you are in Oslo - drop in.

post scriptum and nota bene: i shall wear that sweater in winter and use the sleaves as arms - mainly to wipe my cold icicle of a nose on - so - hands off! :)

dammit janit ... oslo

2011-08-18T17:27:00.000-07:00

The Balcony

2011-08-11T07:22:00.000-07:00

click LINK

... a new project of sorts ...

in munich there is a church made of tinfoil

2011-08-10T01:36:00.000-07:00

oslo

2011-08-06T03:21:00.000-07:00

Important

2011-07-10T14:39:00.000-07:00

If you have got a minute, check out Gent Starkey's video on this link http://unsignedbandreview.com/crossroads and 'like' them to get them enough votes to play at the Secret Garden Party

They are really good!!!!

✰ Denver ✰

2011-06-01T01:41:00.000-07:00

i like denver

my room and my bed in bear creek

somewhere in the surrounding hills

i saw a big wild coyote dingo kind of thing here - i forgot what exactly - but scary none the less

nightime in denver

more pictures on my webpage : http://flaviasollner.com

... Gentleman Starkey...

2011-05-20T09:32:00.001-07:00

I should be studying - i really should

i am listening to joel instead

Arduino

2011-05-15T06:41:00.000-07:00

I never would have thought it possible to derive so much satisfaction from a flashing LED.

Geir Andersen and his brother showed us the ropes (wires). Click on here to see a most fanciful piece of machinery Geir build.

the prettiest gel in all the worlds

2011-05-08T05:43:00.000-07:00

lab-partners make long days fun

not only the prettiest but also the most adventurous gel that ever was seen
unless you count the yellow - red concoction in the bio canteen

placed the piano

2011-04-25T17:07:00.000-07:00

easter is over

... and the flea waltz is wonderful no matter what people say

my grandfather and his sons

2011-04-25T16:53:00.000-07:00

WASS - Imkerei Söllner

Immo and Ben went along to learn about bees and honey - apparently there are about a million bees in the boxes in this garden.

Today me and Antonia wanted to see them as well, alas our visit was somewhat shorter. I was stung nicely over my right eye. Bees apparently feel somewhat threatened when they get stuck under a fringe. mehh....

photos by ben

almost medieval graffs

2011-04-24T02:13:00.000-07:00

Ben has a new blog

he blogs about 300 year old tags ... and some other things

why i love rose...

2011-04-17T16:33:00.000-07:00

...snip snip snip...

partial nudity

2011-04-10T01:44:00.000-07:00

i am very fond of polaroids... i attach the polaroid back to my horseback camera with hairbands and other assorted gummy strings. Gaffo tape would probably work better - but I'm still apprehensive about putting gluey stuff all over my wonderful amazing 6X12 camera.

- I Am: Surf Noir - What Is: Surf Noir - Maybe It Was Film Noir -

2011-03-31T13:58:00.000-07:00

...trees...

2011-03-20T08:11:00.000-07:00

i've scanned the 6X12s from belem. when not scanning i read about brazilian moss, tis an exciting time i have. :)

This is how I feel today...

2010-12-13T07:04:00.000-08:00

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” — Sylvia Plath

Belém - Pará Brazil (in 9 days)

2010-12-07T06:34:00.000-08:00

50 degrees Celsius difference ---- ahhhh

Issue001 - Variatio Photography Magazine

2010-07-30T05:49:00.000-07:00

In issue 001 of Variatio Magazine is a long feature article about Jarach Gallery, accompanied by some images - one of which is my wolf.

if you want to buy the magazine click here.

(sample page with my image to the far right)

.... new web page .... by både

2010-07-25T11:42:00.000-07:00

...

både design went and designed my new home on the web
it is here

Swarco Raiders

2010-07-11T12:09:00.000-07:00

Tyrolean American Football

- we shot some pictures in between jumping up & down in our black swarco shirts-

marineering in drøbak ...

2010-06-30T12:50:00.000-07:00

algea = love

biology girls are happy ... imagery provided by helgas cell

cells bells

2010-06-08T23:25:00.000-07:00

... and i made 14 of these

divide & conquer

2010-05-24T05:09:00.000-07:00

why i love audrey horne...

2010-05-23T14:45:00.000-07:00

...snip snip snip ... totally demonstrating the need for good mental theme music... snip snip snip ...

god helg... hva ... hva gjoer mennesket i mitt seng?

2010-05-16T11:43:00.000-07:00

whilst the sublime and the banal are immeasurably close, they are each other’s flip sides.

... hva?

Fuglekikkin

2010-05-15T02:09:00.001-07:00

pictorial proof from Helga's cell - fuglekikkin means that we looked at birds - not that we kicked them!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Fruit-flies

2010-05-01T01:27:00.000-07:00

drosophila melanogaster possessing great beauty

Mid-Term - Mid-Air

2010-04-05T16:56:00.000-07:00

algea & mose kos

Jarach Gallery | MiArt 2010

2010-03-11T22:08:00.000-08:00

us:

when:

Start Time: Friday, 26 March 2010 at 11:00
End Time: Monday, 29 March 2010 at 17:00

here:

Location: Fieramilanocity | Pav 4 | Booth G03
Street: Porta Teodorico
Town/City: Milano, Italy

you:

come and lookaround :) (unless you are under 18 - if you are under 18 you need supervision - i do wonder what they have on display to warrant this)

good morning algea... i miss my brother wolf!

2010-02-08T08:41:00.000-08:00

fuer julchen,

twin peaks - fire walk with me - like the small man in the red room ---- no not redrum --- red room!

says the wolf!
says the algea!

this was london art fair 2010

2010-01-17T11:44:00.000-08:00

the fair

one of my pictures click here to see

artists on show - photo 50

this be my wall

this be my scraggly signature

this be bens hand holding the catalogue open - text all about my polariods

be right there : oh joy oh joy indeed

some more text about me puctures on a wall

- guarded by a blonde gatekeeper

- tis how we roll

- indubitably

.... thank you ben for the pictures :) x

O trabalho enigmatico da Flavia Sollner e a sua nova exposição 'The Night'

2009-12-10T13:18:00.000-08:00

link to jungledrums article

Texto: Glauce Lucas

Fotógrafa e estudante de Biologia, a jovem Flávia Sollner tem conquistado o mundo com seu trabalho. Ela nasceu no norte da Alemanha, viveu dois anos da sua adolescência em Belém do Pará. Morou alguns anos em Londres e hoje, aos 26, vive na Noruega. Agora, uma série de suas fotografias, feitas em Polaroide e intituladas de The Night estarão em exposição em janeiro em Londres.

“Eu tento procurar por algo que eu ache realmente impressionante e retorço aquilo um pouco – adicionando um elemento de escuridão ou de dor, de medo e horror. Mas espero criar algo que seja bonito o suficiente para fazer as pessoas olharem, mas ao mesmo tempo obscuro o suficiente para causar um sentimento de inquietação”, explica a fotógrafa.

Flávia já participou de exposições em diversos países do mundo, mas suas fotografias ainda não chegaram ao Brasil. “Mas é com certeza uma das coisas que eu ainda quero muito fazer", diz Flávia.

The Night / Photo50
13th - 17th Jan, London Art Fair
businessdesigncentre.co.uk

photo50 - London Art Fair 2010

2009-12-04T15:08:00.000-08:00

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"Photo50 is a showcase for contemporary photography with artists selected by a distinguished panel including Ekow Eshun (Artistic Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts), Anita Zabludowicz (Collector and founder of 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London), David Campany (writer and lecturer on the history and theory of photography) and a team from Goldsmith's MFA curating programme. Fifty works will be shown - all for sale - and the members of the panel will champion the artists they have nominated.

A Photography Focus Day on Wednesday 13 January will feature a series of discussions and tours dedicated to contemporary photography." - took that bit from their webbly page -- too lazy to write myself .... sad sad times!...(see address etc at bottom of this post)

images i will display from "The Night..."

image no 3 from series "The Night..."

2

and number 11 should be here - whatever happened - i do not know

4

7

this is where 5 of my pictures will be in January:

... stoked!!! :)

come and see me! one has to take random little london trips like they fall - this seems to be as good a reason as any.

(although - this time i'll book my tickets ahead of time - getting to the airport at 3am is a bitch! )

Artefiera in Bologna

2009-12-03T17:09:00.000-08:00

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The Italian Gallery I'm with ( Gallery Jarach ) will be at the Artefiera in Bologna this January.

They are a really awesome gang - if i was in Bologna between the 29th - 31st of January 2010 i would so go and hang out at their stand non-stop... just sayin' :)

So if you are lucky enough to be there go and say hello.

BolognaFiere S.p.A. Viale della Fiera, 20- 40127 Bologna

I wrote ben a blurb ... well proud ;)

2009-12-01T18:01:00.000-08:00

Endosymbiotic theory, Euler's formula, Ectomycorrhiza, Eggs .... all the great things on Earth start with an E ... except for Benjamin.

Enjamin is a scraggly looking lad - if you left him unattended on a bus for too long nothing at all would happen ( insert a joke here instead)

more pictures .... less words....

2009-11-28T06:25:00.001-08:00

…As Tangible As Memory Is…

2009-11-26T11:52:00.000-08:00

this is not a picture of the moat in the story this is a picture of rain - i could not find a lovely nice picture of the moat in the story

accompanied bythe rain in the story --- alas --- rain is rain

April 1995 - Belem, Para, Brazil

…BANG, it resonates through the entire house. Bang the mosquito netted door bounces back from the wall, only missing my sister’s face by inches. But she doesn’t seem to care, her face is livid and red with rage: “Shut Up, Shut Up, Shut Up… Why can’t you just shut the fuck up!?!” my sister shouts at the top of her lungs. Her voice intermingling with the ever ongoing never-ceasing chirping and croaking of the frogs inhabiting the moat surrounding us, running by our windows and encircling the entire house. She hates those frogs, she hates the cicadas , she hates the fact that there is never a second of utter silence to be had.

The sun set at 6pm, like every other night, too. Now it is 8pm in Belem, Para, Brazil and the noise has been going on for approximately one and a half hours. It is always the same. Every single night after the sun sets the frogs and toads start singing, only inches away from our window. There are no glass window panes to protect us from the noise, we are in the Amazon, it is humid and sticky, every single breath of air needs to be exploited to its fullest. All there is between us and the choir of amphibians are mosquito nets and window bars, but nothing at all against the sound that never ebbs.

Everything in Belem is very noisy and busy, day as night. The streets are buzzing from the shouts of the vendors, and the droning of air conditioners and fans, the honking of horns and the angry or joyful shouts of pedestrians. A multitude of different music tunes weave in and out of conscience wafting over from the occasional “toneladas de som” (which literally translates into tons of sound) going past – these are huge trucks stacked high with amplifiers blasting out pop tunes while driving around the city, day in and day out.

After April 1995 - Anywhere

Every time that I hear the chirping and croaking of frogs I am transported back to those days, my childhood in the Amazon. I am transported back to that day when my sister had finally had enough and tried to out-shout the constant noise carpet that lay like a fog over our lives. The splatter of water through the drainpipes leading from the roof, the splash it made when dashing into the moat surrounding the house (there to protect the walls and the base of the house from the moist) the cheeping of the insects, the twittering of the birds, the manic barking of my puppy, scared by my sister’s emotional outburst, running past her across the porch, yelping. The squishing of mud and water pressing between my toes, as I run over the field, after my dog. All these sounds in my head and in my memory are triggered by the frogs and remembering the sounds I also recall the feeling of the mud, the smell of the rain and the wet dog, it is almost like I am there again, transported through time and space, closing my eyes I very nearly expect a red ant to bite the sole of my bare foot.

In my mind, in my memory these sounds are fresh, they could have happened yesterday. I remember them as clearly as the sound of the alarm clock waking me up this very morning or the taste of the coffee I had for breakfast just after. Yet, that day in question is more than a decade ago. Many things have happened since. The Puppy is dead. Houses have been erected in the adjoining plots. The guards have been equipped with machine guns. I have moved away. Yet, I am certain, that should I go home next March or April (in the rainy season) the frogs would be there, like always, chirping and croaking just like they did that night in 1995.

first two subchapters from

…As Tangible As Memory Is…
(in time-space pieces) ... partial credit from my MA

photo50...Matteo Consonni

2009-11-25T07:54:00.000-08:00

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Sight is often taken as the most trusted human sense but paradoxically it is the easiest to deceive. For the section “Photo50” of the London Art Fair, Flavia Sollner will present a series of Polaroid prints called “The Night”, a series that challenges the photographic medium and the human eye in different ways.

In the series of Polaroid prints, a medium that was chosen by the artist to contrast the alterability of the digital image, both in its appearance and meaning, darkness acquires an active role.

The subjects that appear from the long exposure shots are taken out of their context, framed by the dark element in their pure visual presence, a presence that our eyes cannot recognize as is. A context is needed to analyze what we see, and darkness does not allow us to look for the bigger picture.

The images obtained seem to be in constant movement among their different meanings, their possible lost contexts, between fiction and reality, planned and casual. Are they part of a blurred dream, a vision, or a staged reality? Or, are they crossing the boundaries between these two dimensions, like in an open-eyes-dream?

Looking at these images is taking conscience of a process of hallucination. Darkness tricking sight in an image that is a pure account of a visual datum. The sense that helps us to believe in reality, blinded. Every time an image is framed, first by using photography and then, in Flavia’s case, using darkness, what can be seen in it enters in a parallel dimension of belief.

Text by Matteo Consonni
(Matteo Consonni is an independent curator based in London and Milan)

Photo50
13 - 17 January 2010
London Art Fair
Business Design Center

Islington, London N1

...birthday present what i liked...alot

2009-11-24T10:42:00.000-08:00

Jungledrums translation : Fotógrafa contrasta natureza do Brasil e da Noruega

2009-11-11T09:16:00.000-08:00

these here version of a text came somewhat as a surprise - unexpeced and such :) - but sweet like candy.

click here for Jungledrums

A fotógrafa norueguesa-brasileira Flavia Sollner transformou no ano passado as paisagens de florestas de Belém e o inverno de Oslo num conto de fadas à la Tim Burton na exposição The Night, Though Clear, Shall Frown, and the Stars will not Look Down, que aconteceu na galeria Hold & Freight, em Mile End.

Usando a noite como pano de fundo, Sollner apresenta sua visão da natureza desses lugares: misteriosa e sinistra, e ao mesmo tempo cinematográfica e lúdica. Em suas fotos, os opostos se atraem: o tropical encontra o frígido, o garoto conhece a garota, roxos e vermelhos vivos contrastam com sombras que dominam quase que toda a paisagem. Fotos como “So As I Might See You Better” e “Company of Wolves” trazem um eco de contos dos irmãos Grimm e de H.C. Andersen.

Nascida no Brasil e criada na Noruega, Flavia já expôs na 07 Art Fair na London's City Hall, Mi Art! Em Milão, Close to Dark em Veneza e na Galerie Poller em Nova Iorque.

E em 2010, o trabalho de Flavia será mais uma vez exibido em Londres, no Photo50, um projeto que acontece no London Art Fair Umbrella, o qual você pode conhecer melhor aqui.

Photo50
13 - 17 January 2010
London Art Fair
Business Design Center

Islington, London N1

BATS...

2009-11-07T08:37:00.000-08:00

... have awesome jaws!!!

talking about bats check these BATS out - they stab things!Proper!

Darren And Flavia Doing Sport

2009-11-05T06:33:00.000-08:00

... found an old video darren made ... i kinda miss all the laz-ettes...

Extreme Sports MA-trix

filmed by Darren Nunez

invertebrates

2009-11-03T07:46:00.000-08:00

... i have come to truely appreciate a good microscoping ... now all one needs to figure out is how to prop my 6x6 up to that lense --- and all'll be good and proper like! ...

more deadness......

2009-10-27T12:11:00.000-07:00

no boots

indeed

wHo tOOk a biTE oUt oF tHe mOoN?....

2009-10-13T10:50:00.000-07:00

... micro macro

... micro macro

Inside Polaroid -Horseman of the Apocalypse

2009-10-03T06:05:00.000-07:00

New Things Dead Things

2009-09-20T14:58:00.000-07:00

Black & White - By Ben & Flavia

2009-09-20T14:24:00.000-07:00

Ben is moving back to the stinky old UK. Because some randome old College of Arts with a smelly Royal in front want him to kick it with them....

... like it could ever be as pritty there as it is in OSLO..... see below 4 months stuffed into sixframes... cryBabycry

untitled

2009-09-15T04:09:00.000-07:00

forgotten and lost ... re-found picture of the day

2009-09-08T04:58:00.000-07:00

for entire series - go here

polaroid by: Flavia Sollner

polaroid in a tunnel 2008

by the light of the BMW

ART Verona

2009-09-02T23:15:00.001-07:00

There is an art fair afoot in fair Verona - 17th til the 21st of September ... here!!!

contact Art Verona:

vicolo Ognissanti 9
37123 Verona - Italia

tel: + 39 045 8039204
fax: +39 045 8015004
email: staff@artverona.it

contact Gallery Jarach

JARACH GALLERY
10am - 1pm / 2.30pm - 7.30pm

from Tuesday to Saturday.

San. Marco 1997, Campo San fantin, 30124 Venezia, I.
In front of Theatre La Fenice
Phone +39 041 5221938 - Fax +39 041 2778936

info@jarachgallery.com
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Megamagro - Megagood

2009-08-27T16:23:00.000-07:00

Megamagro Are Based In Italy And I Like Them Very Much - Very Much Indeed.

click here for one of the many reasons :)

... what do you keep in your basement?

2009-08-26T17:13:00.000-07:00

Maths & Science Buildings Unite...

2009-08-14T15:47:00.000-07:00

science buildings are the new place to be...forget about dingy bars, smokey cafes! If it doesn't have at least one 200+ seat auditorium, i won't be caught dead in it. :)

next time on primetime: picture proof - use of chalk on blackboard - uncovered. are futuristic whiteboards already in the past? and more

...♥...Up-dated Web-Home...♥...

2009-07-24T01:42:00.000-07:00

Updated the internet, didn't I!

click click click

and witness the newness. woooooooooooo

Biodiversity @ University (tis s'posed ter rhyme)

2009-07-18T14:16:00.000-07:00

an hour ago i received my acceptance email for the University in Oslo. i am about to embark on some biological study paths of mystery... but before all that I have decided to share with you, dear friends, THE MISSING LINK!!!!

(see below : polaroid of missing link as proof!!!)

proof of existence in photographic format

please do not be startled! I shall get to the depth of it all - soon he too shall be stuffed and on show in a museum near you!

love munkeyfangirl16

Acari

2009-07-17T08:09:00.000-07:00

What Once Was A Party In Chalsey Lodge....

2009-07-16T17:09:00.001-07:00

Marie Thams (click here to check out her art!)

Ludo & Sophia

Peter (i think???) & Yasushi

Julia Sasse

2009-07-16T13:39:00.001-07:00

click for Julia's home on the web-ernet

Ben's Jam In & Cola Berry Blue

2009-07-16T13:31:00.000-07:00

...anyone who is near-abouts a forest in blueberry picking season ... get out there you damn fools!!! :)

recipe for champions

murder

et voila

fini

Galerie Poller - gallery moved!

2009-07-06T10:33:00.000-07:00

the monkey has news:

see news beneath the monkey:

seriously!

Germany

Galerie Poller

Dreikönigsstrasse 57

60594 Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Phone +49 (0) 69 - 62 40 42

Fax +49 (0) 69 - 62 92 27

Mobile +49 (0) 175 - 809 7309

E-Mail mail-ffm@galerie-poller.com

United States

Galerie Poller

@ Pablo's Birthday

526 Canal Street, 1st Floor

New York, NY 10013

USA

Phone +1 - 212 - 462-2411

Mobile Jimi Billingsley +1 - 917 - 450 5354

Mobile Thomas Poller +1 - 347 - 751 4455

E-Mail mail-nyc@galerie-poller.com

In Between - Polaroids

2009-07-01T12:51:00.000-07:00

Thommy, John et al

Tomb Vomit & Dave

Stu

Marek

Dom Waz Ere

Claire De Rouen

Cathy

Caan Hamlet

Bomb Scare on Charring X - Soho- London

Lauren Vieyra Rocks Australia!

2009-06-20T06:06:00.001-07:00

click to see video of lauren click

click here to see some of her dresses from the olden days

design : lauren Vieyra

photi : me

Lauren is on Australian Telli about to make some awesome things - check her out! click click click

I met Lauren & Alina Tadevosyan while studying in Italy - i was very impressed with the quality of workmanship, ingenuity and creativity they exhibited in their designs.

Some of the loveliest dresses and accessories I have ever seen (pay attention to the thumb gloves she is wearing in the video - they made them - i have a pair , yay!). (oh and i just noticed - I am wearing stuffs she made in my blog-header image - now that's dedication) !

this is me crossing my fingers for her - she is most awesome and does most awesome things! :) x

ϖ Å Ð ∃ - β Θ † Η

2009-06-14T13:47:00.000-07:00

New logos:

he is based in Oslo and London :)

ϖ Å Ð ∃ - β Θ † Η

Some Italy Polaroids

2009-06-14T13:18:00.000-07:00

State Of Change -or - Free Meat

2009-06-12T10:07:00.000-07:00

Sjors arrived from London and wanted a tour... as we where showing him prime real estate for the modern heroin enthusiast - on the shores of the beuticious Akerselva we came across the UKS - Unge Kunstneres Samfund - The Young Artists Society in Norway.

very good decission on various fronts:

Ben getting friendly sausages

1. Sjors and Ben ate free meat (an otherwise very pricy commodity in Norway) which was given to them by a nice looking bearded man with promises of bands and more meat at the nights opening ...

... 2. art was actually interesting .... and ...

artist: Malin Lennstroem-Oertwall - the neon light tubing spelled out: "Maybe I'll never see you again" ... the glass on the Maybe tubing was smashed and splattered across the gallery floor... on the accompanying paper we where told that the pice was built in Palestine and shipped over from Palestine to Norway!

...3... made it possible for us to take pictures of ourselves in the art while on the art while being part of the art .... very confusing ... but as far as rainy Oslo days go .... Very Very Pleased With This One.

artist : Lina Berglund (i think)

State Of Change

13. Juni - 28. Juni

curated by Helga-Marie Nordby

with works by:

Hege Graduated - Prosjektskolen End Of Year

2009-06-02T00:50:00.000-07:00

Last friday we dropped by Hege's End Of Year Exhibit at Prosjektskolen in Oslo, Norway.

Prosjektskolen is a one year course - apparently comparable to Foundation Courses in the UK - or so I have been told.

Obviously i liked Hege's piece/ installation best (i pulled some staples out of the ceiling during the prep stage --- personal involvement always helps) :)

see below for a small selection:

artist: Luca Andreotti - neon light tubing

artist: Luca Andreotti - slide

artist: Hege Marie Franzisca - "Gribber"

artist : Ask Holmen

Ask Holmen's installation evolved around transgender gender

artist: Sjur Nyvold

- a cast of his face suspended in space - through the open mouth of

the mask Sjur projected a video of himself singing his own version off a song by

Beyonce Knowles

Micro - Macro

2009-05-10T05:24:00.000-07:00

This is The Teddy - Anita Oliver made the little critters - thousands of them ...

Teddy looks like the kind of dog I would want if I owned a dog - but dogs don't fit into miniscule match-stix boxes and your back pocket...

Teddies can Travel ---

Teddy is mostly bored - sitting in his little box dreaming of the big wide world.

I bet he wishes he was The Bear - not The Teddy:

click here : here for The Bear Blog by Witold Riedel

Oliver on Oslo

2009-05-03T13:12:00.001-07:00

Because Sjors Has Requested: More Pictures - Less Words!!!

shark

b. e. oliver

oslo

oi .... Klassekampen

2009-04-28T10:54:00.000-07:00

that made a flavia surprised :) ....

my face in newspaper (pic in paper by sophia al-maria)

...suddenly time falters...

2009-04-24T15:50:00.000-07:00

…I jumped, the long rusty screw tore an elongated gash into my thigh, my body twisted, my mid-jump composure evaporated, a sharp breath escaped me as my foot; followed by my body, hit the cobblestones… The world around me went dark…

… As my surroundings slowly regained their contours, colours and shapes, I found myself sitting crouched over in the street, slow rhythmical pangs of pain, throbbing through my left ankle, finding their way through my body and my nervous system, waking up every single sense and multiplying it… I pressed my eyes shut. Attempting by all force to drown out the world around me. My shouting and singing friends, the stench of vomit and greasy hot dogs, the bright neon lights singeing in on my retinas, my conscience. Try as I might, it was impossible; I knew there was a situation I had to deal with… Snap out of it...

…“Suddenly, time falters.
First, the head spins, overcome with a slight vertigo. It is nothing; but then the spinning goes wild, the ears start to ring, the earth gives way and disappears, one sinks back, goes away… Where does one go?”( Clement,C 1994) ...

…Where am I? …

MiART - Art Now! Milano - Italy

2009-04-14T03:29:00.000-07:00

PRESS RELEASE

fairly fair

come one - come all - wherever you are!

Davide Balliano / Gabriele Basilico / Simone Bergantini /
Andrea Botto / Martina Della Valle / Mona Kuhn /
Teodoro Lupo / Robert Polidori / Claudia Pozzoli /
Alessandro Zuek Simonetti / Flavia Sollner / Nicola Vinci

(during these days the gallery in Venice will be closed)

Energy Saving Search Engine...

2009-04-07T15:48:00.000-07:00

.... less power - more flower (s)!

Search Engine For Budding Ecologists (and Biologists)

CLICK

You know you are bored of studying when....

2009-04-01T07:55:00.000-07:00

... you achieve ultimate happiness upon finding out a 14 (or so) year old italian girl has quoted you on her bloggy woggy...

... i don't know what it is but it seems to emulate myspazz but with a whole lot of tokio hotel and emo sadness - distress tattooed tears and facial piercings... how i love the youth of today!

Oslo Snowy Spring ... I spread my spurious wing - and embark on a linguistic string ...

2009-03-28T16:37:00.000-07:00

I have relocated myself to the sunny Oslo you see in the Photos below --- where the easter bunny is preparing to be run over by a sled and the little spring flowers are looking jubilantly forward to pink their crowns through the spring tide ground, skewered by skiing rods!

norwegian running over the easter bunny

norwegian skewering spring flowers with skiing pole

... that is all the newsy news of the day .... so far Flavia 1:0 EasterBunny!

The Old Man's Last Stand - Molde - eFlyer

2009-03-25T03:55:00.000-07:00

design by Ben E. Oliver

black version

wonderful flyer ... out now! ...

...i know the possibility that anyone i know will actually be in norway is miniscule - but the cards are going to look awesome - i am talking A5 glossy awesomness ... maybe i'll take a picture of them once they are done and my next show will be all photos of postcards with photos on... i like shows for the sole purpose of the postcard selection I'm amassing...

see you laters alligaters...

etch-a-sketch card

text: Flavia Sollner (me)

design: Ben E. Oliver

Picatures from Point Of View Exhibition

2009-03-24T09:24:00.000-07:00

Gaia sent these to me today. :) ---
--- made me really happy!

also: CLICK (on the click) to view the official norwegian site in Italy

my polaroids

Flavia Sollner (click)

not sure

Martina della Valle (click)

Simone Bergantini (click)

Ale Zuek Simonetti (click)

Interview - conducted by Federica Tattoli

2009-03-23T06:53:00.000-07:00

Interview by Federica Tattoli from Slurp Magazine

Federica conducted these interview with all the artists participating in the Point Of View exhibition at Gallery Jarach in Venice, Italy. All interview where printed on grey paper and bound as book to accompany the exhibition.

All interviews will soon be published on The Gallery Jarach Webpage

Ben Made Picture Of Chair Person - Chair Person Was In Harrow - On - The - Hill --- Scarry!

beneath the interview with me:

Flavia Sollner

The importance of The Night in your potography.

I enjoy taking my photographs at night – more than during the lighter times of day, because it gives me a certain control over what i want to show, which aspects of the story or the image i wish to be revealed --- i feel that because not everything is on display it is an incentive for the viewer to use their own immagination – i don’t want to dictate – only encourage.

Polaroids, why you decided to use now a vintage and unique way to take pictures and what give to your work?

i like the fact that I have one original. often people make a differentiation between painting (even bad painting ) and photography. Stating that Photography isn’t art – only a mirror held to our surroundings – while with painting there is an artistic process involved. Maybe i was jealous of painters – maybe i wanted to have one original, too. Something that i can hold in my hand or hang on a wall and say: this is the original – everything else is only a print or a copy.

A flicker of light in the dark, what is for you?

Anything and everything – everything and nothing

What do you think and what you would like that the observer feel through your Point Of View?

I want them to feel slightly uncomfortable, voyeuristic, like they are looking at a trainwreck finding it beautyfull --- discomforted by their own moralità

Explane me the genesis of the POV’s work.

I lived with some people in a squalid london flat – i bought a moldy car on the internet – everyone starter getting naked

Wich is your favorite fairy-tale? And which is the connection of fairy-tale with your work?

At the moment i am very much engrossed in fantasy fiction, the worse they are written the more crackish i get about them. I think i like the elements of fairy tales, mixing them, the folcloric meanings behind numbers such as 3, 7, 13. Wolves, Deers, Pigs. Mirrors, Apples, Magic. Mixing all these elemts up and making not a story in particular – but more an alternate reality. Something very similar – yet complitely different from our day to day life. It’s about symbolism.

Less is More, why?

Because it opens up the field for self-interpretation. An illusion is much more powerfull
when part of it is founded and based in the viewers own mind. The most horrible monsters in the world – are the ones you can not actually see – the ones that are hiding under your childhood bed – the ones that where in your closet when you where four – waking up – screaming and sweating in the middle of the night.

Your artistic research: where was born, where is now, and where will bring you?

I think i try to use photography to express how i feel – yet somehow i have more of an urge to do so when i am melancholic, sad or annoyed – not so much when i am very pleased with the world around me. I find myself trying to create something, a body of work that is, like i am, like you are. Something that has a life of it’s own. I don’t know where it will go or where it will take me. I try to live life making one bad or good decision at a time.

Why did you choose photography to express yourself?

I can not paint – at all!

Suspance, Fear, Magic, Mystery, Allure.. what is the meaning of these words for you?

Words that are deeply rooted in the immagination of humanity, words that make our every day life worth living.

You are half Brazilian and half Norwegian, how this mix of opposites countries influenced your work?

I grew up in norway, brazil, germany and england, for a very brief time i lived in italy as well, i think the constant moving has made me want to hide in my own world, in books , and in immaginary playgrounds, with friends who didn’t exist, mermaids and dragons and little princesses made half of chair and half of human, something that carried on into my adult life.

Your goal in doing Art?

I‘m doing it for the money ☺

There are some artists, not strictly figurative, that influenced your work more?

While growing up i wanted to be just like Leonardo Da Vinci and watch drunken chickens lay eggs or build flying contraptions – later in life i discovered the photography of Bill Henson – i try not too look at it too often as i don’t want to be influenced by another photographer too much. But i think his imagery is the most beautyful body of work i have ever seen.

The Old Man's Last Stand...

2009-03-20T08:53:00.000-07:00

... normally i would put a picture here .... a picture of the show flyer ... a beautiful picture of a beautiful flyer ... alas, this beautiful flyer is making me wait .... wait ages.

Maybe Tomorrow.

Until than:

some nudity...holding nudity.... in a monkey mask...

waiting for the flyer... freezing.... who knows!?

Jarach Gallery - Venice - Flyer

2009-03-13T18:06:00.000-07:00

Point of View - Flyer

My Polaroid Prints @ Gallery Jarach (image sent to me by Gaia Conti)

Point Of View
March 21 - May 30 2009
Opening March 21 at 6:00 pm

Davide Balliano / Simone Bergantini / Andrea Botto /
Martina Della Valle / Teodoro Lupo/ Claudia Pozzoli /
Alessandro Zuek Simonetti / Flavia Sollner / Nicola Vinci

Jarach Gallery
Campo San Fantin,
San Marco 1997, 30124 Venezia,
da martedì a sabato
10-13 e 14-19
lunedì e domenica su appuntamento
T +39 041 522 1938 F +39 041 2778936
www.jarachgallery.com
www.myspace.com/jarachgallery
info@jarachgallery.com

Point Of View - Group Exhibition

2009-02-21T12:42:00.000-08:00

link to press release thingi

upcoming group exhibition in venice - italy

i will be posting more information and flyery things later

but for now:

"Point Of View"
21st march - 6th June
opening 21st march at 6 pm

Jarach Gallery

Campo San Fantin,
San Marco 1997, 30124 Venezia,
da martedì a sabato
10.00-13.00, 14.30-19.30
lunedì e domenica su appuntamento
T +39 041 522 1938 F +39 041 2778936
www.jarachgallery.com
www.myspace.com/jarachgallery
info@jarachgallery.com

The Sans Pareil

2009-02-02T04:06:00.000-08:00

... check out there music on the link to the right!

David

John

Thom

Solo Exhibition @ Maerz Contemporary in Molde/ Norway

2009-02-01T06:51:00.000-08:00

Private View will be on the 24th of April

Maerz Contemporary in Molde-Norway will be hosting my next Solo Show.

It's open to the public from the 25th of April until the 16th of May.

I think Julia might come along to Norway - if anyone else feels like it - let me know and i will crack out the blow up beds from the basement :) ... around that time of year there should be the possibility of some Aurora Borealis gawking.

Now - Battery Low! - gots ter go ---

shmo

Links Which I Find Important Much - under constant construction pleased to hear constructive criticisms and whiticisms

2009-02-01T06:23:00.000-08:00

article

Friends What I Like A Lot:

Ben Oliver - some graphic - some not so graphic design and not so design and some machines what are awesome much!!!!

Julia Sasse - does much picturegraphs with her picturegraph capturing machine what i find very interesting and beautifull much ---- so there!

Coralie Sleap - has the best last name and does ceramics!!! and i don't know many girls what do ceramics - and this one here does ceramics and she does them well proper good!

Polaroid in Italian Marie Claire

2009-01-26T09:31:00.000-08:00

link to article click here : here

page 96 - top image

Italian Marie Claire - February 2009

Polaroids Continued

2009-01-17T22:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.the-impossible-project.com/beta/

Polaroid Problems & Procrastination

2009-01-16T05:52:00.000-08:00

I found this Yesterday:

Why is everyone buying excessively overpriced medium format polaroid films from eBay? I am trying it out - this works just as well - I would take fujifilm over others on any given day - and how come no one told me about the existence of this film? :)

The man at Metro says: it has existed for longer than I.

So - Yes - No more lost sleep over Polaroid films demise....

(Fujifilm - Instant Color Film, FP-100 c - Professional) about 11-12£ per 10 images

The Night...

2008-12-25T04:48:00.000-08:00

official writ on exhibit see below picture.

polaroid by: Flavia Sollner

polaroid of the citroen in the tunnel

The Night, Though Clear, Shall Frown & The Stars Will Not Look Down

11/2008 -12/2008

“Flash blindness is caused by the oversaturation of light in the retina. This blindness happens at the most densified space of seeing. At night, the dark-adapted pupil is wide open so flash blindness has a greater effect.

The night permeates Flavia Sollner’s photographs. In her recent work, using a long exposure that denies the capture of a precise moment, she sheds the transitory details of time. A flicker of light in the middle distance reveals another world, one with a different time, at once both myth and reality, dark, intimate and always surprising. What is revealed in that flash of light is the possibility to see beyond the blindness. […].

In a questioning of the ‘original image’, Flavia developed a technique with Polaroid film for this project. As the milky white turns to dark there is an intimacy that takes place between the photographer, the scene and the print. The sense of literal presence of “being there” that a Polaroid gives is unparalleled, for you are with the scene and the image at once. Standing in the scene itself, these new Polaroids can trigger suppressed hallucinations, a reconfiguration of shadowed stories at once beautiful, genuine and scary.”

Text by Amal Khalaf

(Amal Khalaf is the Co- director of Hold&Freight. The curatorial space in which my project ‘The Night…’ came about after I accepted her invitation to use the premises, an old railway arch tunnel in central London, to my hearts content.)

I Moved Aways...

2008-12-24T08:53:00.000-08:00

photi: me took this one of Chalsey Lodge ... good-by my little chalet!

drawing: Sophia Al-Marria

The Night, Though Clear, Shall Frown & The Stars Will Not Look Down

2008-12-24T06:38:00.000-08:00

The Show that came and went - take 4 massive bags of wood cuttings and leaves - two old cars to light the exhibit - a rained down old railway arch and some photographs - and you will have

a) lots of mold

b) a live frog inhabiting c

and

c) an exhibit at "whichs" inauguration people choose to have sexual intercourse inside the light exhibition - on top of some halogen lamps (breaking those) and than choosing it wise to start bitch slapping people in the face ... :)

except for these minor incidents of sex, drugs and violence (partially also very much because of them) - it did seem to be rather fun, engines where revving and the Sans Pareil where smashing it.

The Sans Pareil Supplied The Musics (2 photos above by Julia Sasse)

some people didn't fit in - this might be due to the massive bmw i parked in the entrance - who knows

to view some of the work shown visit this and that, and also here and there!

diplomatic dispatch

the sans pareil where absolutely fabulous...i loved them much - especially this night

i think someone is hotboxing my art installation - probably before more sordid things

installation view - hanging diasecs - head lights lighting

The Night, Though Clear, Shall Frown & The Stars Will Not Look Down - more images 1

2008-11-15T11:22:00.000-08:00

tunnel view - my large diasecs in the front

installation view of the 'Antonia' Diasec and 'Dublin Factory'

'So As I Might See You Better' graced the back wall running of into the forest

Framed Polaroid Prints Distributed over the back walls - lit by the light from the citroen installation

'The Tale Of Our Purloined Breath' Series Diasecs - suspended from the ceiling - towards the middle of the tunnel - separating the entrance and performance area from the woodsy installation.

The Night, Though Clear, Shall Frown & The Stars Will Not Look Down - more images 2

2008-11-14T17:58:00.000-08:00

The Night, Though Clear, Shall Frown & The Stars Will Not Look Down - E-flyer

2008-11-12T11:37:00.000-08:00

Before - prep for tunnel show

2008-10-22T06:02:00.000-07:00

The Hills have eyes –

2008-10-03T11:06:00.000-07:00

pictures of the picture: flavia sollner
pictures on the houses in the pictures: JR

- And the Borders on Charing X does too.

Through my foggy slow-vodka induced haze I see the eyes. Massive eyes, as large as a small house or hut, they are hovering in front of me. Shining and clear, like the imagined water-mirror on a hot desert road.

These eyes are there to haunt me, to follow me in my complacency. Are they Accusing? Are they Watching? Or are they Judging?

These eyes are not a Fata Morgana, not an illusion of my deteriorating mind. They are the eyes of old women, young girls, of children and teens alike. Shot in the worlds poorest and most desolate regions and ghettos, and they are watching.

In the video installation, that is running in the Charing Cross Gallery accompanying the show, a woman exclaims: “The eyes on the Hill are open”. The Hill she is referring to is Providencia, a favela in Rio de Janeiro that everyone outside, every soul lucky enough not to be a resident, would like to not only ignore, but rather pretend it never even existed. That is, until JR the young French photographer showed up, now the hills have eyes – eyes that are open and looking. They are looking straight at you!

The eyes, images and Video are part of JR’s exhibition (currently to be seen on 9 Greek Street, 121 Charring Cross Road and the entirety of Manette Street) and project entitled ‘28 Millimetres: WOMEN’, a show that cannot be ignored, it is not colouring by numbers, not ego-tripping of the eccentric artiste. It is a shout, a scream, a plight; demanding your attention!

text flavia sollner

JR in Soho

2008-10-02T12:27:00.000-07:00

opposite the office - boyses at work

Poisoned...

2008-09-16T11:45:00.000-07:00

A Thursday evening, seemingly like any other, getting off the tube at King’s
Cross St. Pancreas, the stench of men’s clammy polyester shirts and women’s
nylon stockings after a long day at the office – rushing past and bumping
into me.

All this transformed instantaneously the moment I entered ‘Poison’, the long
awaited show of new works by Paul Insect. Reality shifted, like the cutting
point, the leap or rupture between the world as I knew it and another
parallel dimension. A world in which Playboy Bunnies are not just skeletal,
where religion is not merely a subliminally bad joke.

In this world, this other universe that is situated on the former premises
of an old porn set, where the furniture has over the years amassed more life
budding potential than a well managed sperm donor bank; in this universe the
Playboy Bunnies are Skeletons, Popes and Saints are adorned with Mickey
Mouse ears and clowns noses and women don’t have to worry about the state of
equal rights as long as they can balance a glass plate on their
over-plasticised, under-nourished frames.

It is a pushing to the extremes, a courting of the point of éclat, like a
mirror held in front of my face. This is us, this is me, this is what I am
doing. The rupture less abrupt, the leap is diminishing!

text flavia sollner

Show Poison by Paul Insect - offsite exhibition lazarides gallery - 12th - 21st September on 9 Caledonian Road

Zoe Magazine - Primavera 2008

2008-03-23T09:54:00.000-07:00

long interview by Germano D'Aquisto in Italian Art Magazine. click here for link: click