Helene Getty took her visitors on a nice tour through her work at the Academy of Arts in Munich. But actually it was more like an aesthetic road trip into the deep philosophies of her legislating. In her paintings she takes the observer to exile places, from the clutches of reality to a constructed utopia, asking questions about the terms making people want to escape. Is it the bland feeling of just living in a work-sleep-balance, regorging Sisyphus-maintainance? Or is it rather the social environment, the expectations and the behavior-clusters that make us want to abscond? The final personal question is: »If you could start of from the beginning, would you do everything exactly the way you did it before again?« Escaping is here a reset button for the breakout from a home-made jailhouse, from the own bereft liberty. Apart from the paintings Helene Getty showed two of her installations: »Sky Valley« and »Everlasting Fight«. [Thank you Helene for such a fine insight on your work!]

Everlasting Fight (2014) [»The gradual decline of the creator within the own work is symbolized with the ficus – which stand for fertility and creation – and the method of piling starting with the loss of power through numbness.«]

From the series »Escape/Preparadise Sorry Now«, acrylic, printing, pigment, paint on canvas, 130 x 160 cm, 2014

From the series »Escape/Preparadise Sorry Now«, acrylic, printing, pigment, paint on canvas, 150 x 130 cm, 2014

From the series »Escape/Preparadise Sorry Now«, acrylic, printing, pigment, paint on canvas, 140 x 160 cm, 2014

Sky Valley 2014 [»What makes a human being successful? What is success? Is it cash, safety or the living dream? Financial freedom versus the death of a dream? What is it all about? What will finally succeed? The ace of spades stuck on the wheel emblematizes the card of death in vernacular. In war-psychological sight it was contrariwise used by american soldiers in Vietnam to encourage them in their mission.«]

All photos © by Helene Getty 2014

Helene Getty’s Website: helenegetty.com | www.flachware.de/helene-getty

Pleasure, pleasure! The UAMO-Festival opened its doors again. »The prettier, the uglier? Or the uglier, the prettier?«, that’s the theme of the festival this year. And it is massively packed with artworks from all kind of creative branches you can ever imagine: Paintings, illustrations, objects, animations & videoarts, photography and performances! As well there will be certain bands giving gigs and some workshops will take place. So there is a good program for the whole weekend and a lot so see, experience and enjoy. I myself have the pleasure showing the work »My Life in Receipts 2004-2014« there.

Artists in the exhibition: Žarko Aleksić, Fakhriya Al-Yahyai, Dimitri Dimov & Lora Azza, René Behrendt, Anna Blumenkranz, Shelly Bradon, Grace Eakins, Martin Geck, Christiane Haag, Hubert von Hayek, Werner Härtl, Marco Hühn, Mehrdad Khataei, Andreas Kopp, Agnes Lison, Sophia Lube, Gregor Micheler, Tatiana Pancewicz, Angela Proyer, Linus Riepler, Giuditta Rustica, Falk von Schönfels, Ronit van Sendling, Heike Siegert, J. C. Torre and Evalie Wagner // Videoscreening-Artists: Barbara Herold & Florian Huth, Sandra Araújo, Karl Heinz Jeron, Kayleigh O’Keefe, Oscar Salamanca, Ulf Kristiansen, David Theobald, Jon Purnell and Josh Bricker // And a lot more stuff … Here are a few impressions:

The UAMO-Festival is taking place at the EinsteinKultur in Munich, Einsteistr. 42, till Sunday the 18th of Oktober 2014. More Information on the program you can find here >>

Oben ist es still [Above it’s silent] is the topic of the current exhibition at the Artothek in Munich. Wolfgang Aichner, Barbara Bernrieder, Christiane Fleissner, Isabel Haase, Chaya Nouriani, Moritz Partenheimer, Daniel Schüßler and Christian Stock are presenting works which are all in relation to this very specific kind of mountain environment: the Alps. The artists went into the hills as a group and reflected the philosophical perspectives of them with the final goal of making artwork due to it. It must have been a nice trip! The whole thing is curated by Tina Hudelmaier. You can still visit the exhibition till the 31st of Oktober 2014 at the Munich Artothek, Rosental 16, 80331 München. [Thanx to Tina & Maresa for the peek!]

There will be a guided tour and a talk to the artists at the Long Night of the Museums in Munich at the 18th of Oktober 2014, and there will be the Finissage on the 30th of Oktober 2014. More Information you may find here >>