After a long time and because of the calming music of final fantasy advent children ost i decided to write one last entry here.
I will move to blogger and write mainly on art related things. but maybe i will peek in here also to read or lurk around - ben i read every entry, i'm with you ^^ and catoblake of course.
Last weeks have been busy for me and the last art shows are nearing. Soon a friend of mine will be back here after a long time being away. and i'm making progress on my artbook.
i will post the link soon when everythings ready.
see you.
- goodbye
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kristian_u- October 29th, 20:56
- Linz 09 and random stuff
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- kristian_u
- September 29th, 14:54
So, here i am after a wonderful trip to linz.
I'm far too lazy to write a detailed report so...
exhibition went well, i met wonderful people there
i still have a few catalogues left - if you want one - mail me - they are free.
I'm planning to release a jewel next year. there will be a waiting list for preorders when it's released. anything before doesn't count.
i quit my job today because i wanted freedom and be able to draw again.
i will participate in linz 2011
i smashed a glass full of flies on the receptionist desk in our hotel on purpose.
i beginning preparations for the solo exhib in vienna this dec.
a catalogue of this show will be available next year.
my book will be used as literature in a seminar for consciousness expansion (this sentence was translated freely)
sooo here are a few pics:
- Muse Exogenesis Symphony Part II
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- kristian_u
- September 20th, 7:29
Rise above the crowd,
And wade through toxic clouds,
Breach the outer sphere,
The edge of all our fears,
Rest with you,
We are counting on you,
It's up to you
Spread, our codes to the stars,
You must rescue us all,
Spread our codes to the stars,
You must rescue us all,
Tell us, what is your final wish?
Now we know you can never return,
Tell us, what is your final wish?
We will tell it to the world
- what a week
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- kristian_u
- September 8th, 18:40
So,
a little update on things going on:
i had the two exhibs in baden & tribuswinkel which were not that exciting but fun. I met some very nice people there who will visit me on the next exhib for a little more talking ^^ I even tried airbrush which i want to do some day for my wooden pieces ^^
A few pics:
( more )
Next station is pottenstein where i will show more pictures and have more books there.
Update on my next book project:
the 2 pics drawn publicly are from the project but will be redrawn. i haven't done anything for quite a while since i'm working etc but ideas keep floating and the content gets richer and more complex. my vision is very very clear. I will show the very first part of the book in dec. (maybe little before or after depending on the exhib shedule) which will be available as a handbound book in a very limited edition - like ahuh last year which has sold out for quite a while. the whole book will be available sometime 2011.
there is still a part of it i need to develop. I'm looking for some kind of layer which gives the whole thing one more dimension or one more face.
it hurts not working on it for such a long time, but i work until next week and i talk to them if i can swith to 20hrs a week since i can't keep this up. last week was a nightmare.
there are more things to be said but when the time's right..
- death
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- kristian_u
- September 3rd, 19:43
I think about dying, death and after life etc almost every day. and yesterday and today i came across the following:
in twitter, the artist aunia kahn posted following quotes:
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs" - Edgard Varesethe second somehow became an aha moment for me. actually i never thought of that, but it's so obvious... although we have nothing more or less than the present moment in all it's glory and power, i always forget that, someday, when i'm no longer here - my pictures may be still. and also, while the thunder is on it's way now, who I am here being, not to live life in it's fullest? to embrace every moment and treat people as if it's their last day on earth. while my pictures maybe looking towards timelessness i realize now, that i - although a rather silent and shy person - needs extremes to feel alive - bodily and mentally and i am certainly not looking towards eternity. this is my life and i am not on the earth or in the universe but everythings all. we are made of the same things like anything else and our mind separates us. but to feel connected is like feeling the flow, love.
the 2nd thing today - i was listening to a podcast from wyncs radiolab and the topic was afterlife. the spoke about different theories about death on a medical - but interesting and philosophical way.
i don't feel like writing more on that but death became more of a mistery to me now than it was ever before.
tomorrow is opening night of the group exhib and my body feels drained while my spirit is empowered. but i hurts when i think of my book project and how long i haven't been able to work on it. ....
- Cityfestival, Action Painting, Exhibitions and work
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- kristian_u
- August 24th, 20:28
HI
Yesterday took the city festival in bad vöslau place which was extremely crowded. ... an artist friend of me asked if i want to participate with him there as exhibitors, he had a bar and tables etc. A young artist and me should do some action painting and exhibit in front of the bar.
I heard of that but never thought it would be soooo cool and fun...
This is Max working on large drawings for his academy submission.
Me working on a drawing for my book enjoy this huge spoiler and leak... (there are actual photos of me but i don't have them yet)
We talked so much about this "is studying art really worth it" and he is one of the few people who don't see it as a must but wants to do it because of learning new techniques and meeting people. besides we want to do an exhibition sometime together, i also want a collab but i have to ask XD
on the festival the action painting was really fun, but the people didn't know what we were doing. max and i plan to do it properly with announcement, proper space and time shedules next year since this was so spontanoues
then, i will have a fourth exhib this september, but more infos on that when i have them. it's opening is two hours ahead of the ending of another september exhib. Is this touring already? maybe the best promo for my book? i ordered already new ones..
then, i was told that i could hang up to 16 pictures in pottenstein. so this would be:
tribuswinkel: 5 pics
baden: 5 pics
pottenstein: 16 pics
linz: 11 pics
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enzesfeld: wood burnings.
I developed a new concept for wood burning pictures. so beware of spring '10 also 2010 will be the last year which i show drawings of "an himmel und hölle" I deeply hope for a big exhib to present the new book.
of which speaking is going well the first part is 95 % finished sketching and there is a total of 11 finished pages. (i think it has something about 30)
I have a job now which is limited to mid september and it's awfully boring. problem is no mp3 player is allowed and there is really work. only computer work in an office...but i need the money...
there are also whispers of something i did for an author friend but this is far in the future..
Pictor is doing well and nice, but follows everyone around and sqeaks the whole time. i love playing whith him ^^
- Sopron - Hungary
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- kristian_u
- August 16th, 11:44
Yesterday we were in sopron, hungary which was a great trip ^^
First we went to Tesco and did a little shopping (i boght a hungarian version of harry potter and the philsophers stone for my mother oO) and after that we took a walk through the citiy of sopron:
Then we found this english restaurant and we went there eating:
Chicken - Bacon - Potatoes
Greek salad
Blood orange juice
It felt quite refreshing to be in a different place and a nice little break from the artistic things. Today we will go to neufeld swimming and tomorrow: drawing day!!! I'm in time with my august to do list so i think it's ok to take breaks.
- Logo Print
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- kristian_u
- August 14th, 14:58
hi there
this is my new official logo:
i burnt a piece of wood on a negative way so that everything here visisble remaind in takt, while the white area got burned.
I will buy an ink pad and use this stamp for book signings and prints
*update*
so i got the ink pad now and this is what it looks like in the book, with the ink pad used.
Update 2:
After further testing, i really like this kind of technique although it's very raw and the lines are clumsy. I will have to buy a much more finer woodburning head.
heres a study:
i want to print all the cards i want to make for a cardgame in this technique. but i really have to practice more.
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- kristian_u
- August 9th, 19:00
I just wrote the last poem for Day and Night - i came to me in a dream last night and it is the best ending and the best passage to continue in the 3rd book. But it reminds me also that everything comes to an end. Even if that's still so far away i feels that i can see it from where I'm now. And I'm afraid of the time after this but i want also to go on and be a space for new things to occure.
But right now, it feels right and this is the best i can do just now.
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- kristian_u
- August 9th, 11:21
Howard Shore - Long ways to go yet - Lord of the Rings The Two Towers:
Where once was light
Now darkness falls
Where once was love
Love is no more
Don't say—goodbye
Don't say—I didn't try
These tears we cry
Are falling rain
For all the lies you told us
The hurt, the blame!
And we will weep to be so alone
We are lost
We can never go home
So in the end
I'll be—what I will be
No loyal friend
Was ever there for me
Now we say—goodbye
We say—you didn't try...
These tears you cry
Have come too late
Take back the lies
The hurt, the blame!
And you will weep
When you face the end alone
You are lost!
You can never go home
You are lost!
You can never go home
- whatever
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- kristian_u
- August 5th, 22:17
Cat sleeping - day and night xDD
Manuscript for Day and Night.. thick and heavy
Today i drew a page for text in the book ^^
Yesterday night, i thought of doing something i forgot about a long time ago: a journal designed by me
so i started sketching around and found something i could use. More on that later.
- Close up
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- kristian_u
- August 4th, 23:45
I didn't manage do take a good video of the book, so this pics will have to do it.
( Take a closer look! )
- Es ist da/ It's here
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- kristian_u
- August 3rd, 10:27
- Ausstellungen im Herbst
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- kristian_u
- July 31st, 20:52
Ich bin diesen Herbst auf folgenden Ausstellungen vertreten:4 - 6 September Art Tribuswinkel Gruppenausstellung in Tribuswinkel bei Baden
Noch nicht bestätigt: 18 - 20 September Pottenstein Gruppenausstellung25 - 27 September European Art Fest Gruppenausstellung in Linz
16 Oktober - 13 November Kunstquerschnitt in der Spitalskirche Gruppenausstellung Enzesfeld
-- 16 Okt Vernissage Beginn 19:30
-- 17 & 18 Oktober Tag des offenen Ateliers in der Spitalskirche in Enzesfeld
Im September wird es Drucke von "An Himmel und Hölle" geben und im Oktober "Calling Spirits" - Holzarbeiten.
Auf allen Ausstellungen wird es die Möglichkeit geben, Bücher zu bestellen, in Linz und Enzesfeld auch zu kaufen. Die ausgestellten Bilder variieren bei jeder Ausstellung.
- printrelease: 3 great books + ahuh
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- kristian_u
- July 26th, 14:26
Hi
Die ersten 9 die "An Himmel und Hölle" bei mir bestellen (einfach Email senden) erhalten einen Print aus der Serie "Die 3 großen Bücher" als special dazu.
Sieht folgendermaßen aus:
( Read more... )
- Hello Kitty
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- kristian_u
- July 21st, 20:50
We have a new family member:
Pictor
He is a very shy and wild cat, but we make good progresses in knowing each other and become less fearful of each other
I could write more, but i went swimming today and got tired ^^
The ankle of the last pic is quite strange, i didn't hold him up or so he layed there ^^
- An Himmel und Hölle
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- kristian_u
- July 14th, 19:17
Das Buch ist in ca. 4 Wochen lieferbereit und wird 30€ kosten.ISBN: 9783837098266
Das Cover wurde geändert:
English Translation will be available as extra booklet in spring 2010.
- Die 3 großen Bücher
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- kristian_u
- July 14th, 16:20
- TRIPTYCHON
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- kristian_u
- July 13th, 19:59
Hi there
Today i bought these awesome little frames (without any idea how to use them)
And then i got the idea i could make a triptychon with them! o god how i love triptychons!!!!!!!
So I bought these things you see on the photo to get them all together ^^
Then i had the idea of drawing and not woodburning for this but i will burn on wood anyway because the drawing doesn't fit to this concept...
And i broke one of the glasses... *coughs*
I really feel guilty because i intented to work on my book today but got carried away.. i will finish this tomorrow and then...
i will post also pics of the finished version later on.
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- kristian_u
- July 7th, 23:51
i know that my english is somewhere between awful and not so good but a few things i recognized:
"please send mir your adress and i will ship it tomorrow or so to you."
"mir" is german for me
"charakters" is german for "character"
i know there are some other things but you don't have to rub it under my nose xDDD
