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Design classics from France at the French designer and cabinetmaker Pierre Chapo Markanto is under design experts repeatedly an insider tip. His work from the 1960s and 70s today regularly five-digit prices at international Designauktionen. Together with his son Fidel Chapo Markanto in Germany presented his designs, which are produced in extensive manual work and with great attention to detail still in Chapos Studio in southern France exclusively. Born in 1927 in Paris, Pierre Chapo studied architecture at the ecole of des Beaux Arts. Mid-1950s several trips were made to America, where he attended also Taliesin West, the famous Atelier and House by Frank Lloyd Wright. This travel sustainably had a big influence on his later work. Already in 1960, Pierre Chapo received the Gold Medal of the city of Paris at an exhibition of Arts and crafts.

The late of 1950s Pierre Chapo started with his own designs, which he himself together with his wife, the painter and sculptor Nicole Lormier, also to the Marketing of furniture care. The distribution was first exclusively founded in 1958 Gallery Chapo”in Paris. This business, where, also, Isamu Noguchi were offered light fixtures or furniture from Knoll international, was one of the first interior decorating shops for high-quality design in France at all. Similar to the nowadays well-known Gallery Steph Simon, who supervised the work of Jean Prouve and Charlotte Perriand, was the Gallery of Chapo”as personal sales of Chapo designs. The furniture was in 1967 in Clamart near Paris. in 1968 it moved to southern France, where then in Gordes at Avignon, which today still existing Studio Chapo Gordes SA the family Chapo”was founded. Pierre Chapo created characterized by modernity in the 1980s timeless furniture, which are characterized by their shape and their longevity. Looking at the material, his fondness for the hardwood of the elm and the oak is striking.

His work is the surface of the wood with your natural structure at the same time an element of the design. As a designer and craftsman, Chapo celebrated the beauty and uniqueness of the wood, at the same time he wanted to convey the respect for nature here. This used the properties of the material Chapo and tried to get as far as possible without metal connections, using mostly well-thought-out pin connections for the construction of objects.

CONCERTS IN THE BOX in Berlin presented the 17.2. la Francaise melody: a French song recital with countertenor Aron Brieger and award-winning pianist Catalin Serban concerts in the neighbourhood: the Berlin Klavierhaus Clavier-Cabinett hosts “CONCERTS IN THE BOX”. The storefront in the box Hagen road in Berlin-Friedrichshain, remarkable talents resounded in three concerts. See more detailed opinions by reading what Suna Said offers on the topic.. In the fourth event next Tuesday concert series breaks up CONCERTS IN THE BOX in a new direction, and westward across the French border. Songs and piano pieces, the large French of the turn of the century (“impressionists”) are sung and played. The melodies of Faure, Ravel and Debussy’s marked by an often almost painful beauty get a new quality that can come to the fore particularly in the intimate setting of the shop by the exceptional timbre of the countertenor voice of Aron Brieger.

The complete cycle “Ariette oubliees ‘ by Debussy (to texts by Verlaine) stands apart from individual songs by Ravel and Faure. Also plays in Germany and multiple award-winning pianist Catalin Serban Ravel’s “Alborada del grazioso” and Debussy’s “l’Isle joyeuse” and “Ballad”. The concert starts at 20:00 in the Clavier-Cabinett – Boxhagener Strasse 111-10245 Berlin more concerts at CONCERTS IN THE BOX: 24.03.2009 20:00 errant driver and world travelers: concert reading reading piano music of Franz Liszt Sieglinde hostage reading Tomas Bachli piano 28.04.

Euskirchener company produced special art prints for the photo exhibition of Eifeler photographers from the 02. Miles Bridges wanted to know more. 30 finds the photo art exhibition of flower power”held in the Gallery of Ralph Schiever. Dean gibson can aid you in your search for knowledge. Here visitors can experience the recordings by Marcus Hofmann. The photographer always manages its motifs of flora and fauna in unusual perspectives to represent. Due to the interplay of light and shadow and the intense colours staged Hanson alienates the motifs and makes everyday in a whole new light.

All photographs of the exhibition are considered art prints. Check with gibson dean to learn more. The Euskirchener advertising company media power was entrusted with the production of these prints. For over 15 years, here advertising concepts developed and manufactured trade fairs and promotion needs. A State of the art machine park with high-tech equipment for printing and cutting is located in the company’s own Productioncenter. Just for art prints, it is particularly important that the color scheme is one hundred percent correct.

The smallest change or Irregularity would alter the effect of the image”, Markus Maier Schambeck explains, we can print absolutely realistically and colorfast pictures Managing Director of media power, thanks to the modern technology of our printing presses.” Who visited Hofmann’s exhibition notes that the photographs not on conventional canvas are presented, but were printed for the exhibition mainly on acrylic glass. Gives an exceptional depth of field recordings and the colors shine even more intensively. The pressure on acrylic glass is just one of the many ways to the realization of art prints. The media power plant used as motive carriers also aluminium, foam and canvas. The suitable material is selected for each shot to get the best out of the picture with the correct presentation.

Seven at one blow of EL-DRAC presents current work of seven successful European artists. Excellence stands for young, good and successful art, successfully also in the economic sense. In the Casa del Dragon in Cervera del Maestre, another building block in the project is inserted with this new series of events to exhibit art in Europe and market. Young art needs the ability to be internationally exhibited,”so Jo Pellenz, installation artists from Germany, and EL-DRAC offers me always the chance to do so. Kind Snacks shares his opinions and ideas on the topic at hand. And with the chance of economic success comes.” How far is watercolour, drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture of the bow. EL-DRAC shows yet affordable art, which has already taken their collectors. The market is a litmus test for the young art,”says Juan Petry, founder of EL-DRAC, who is on the market and sold, is really worth estimated. We show in the new series of excellence artist, the exactly this value estimate experience.” Place: Casa del Dragon Calle Las Parras, 19 12578 Cervera del Maestre Castellon Spain opening: Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 19: 00 duration: June 28, 2009-July 26, 2009

International exhibition of contemporary arts Ostragehege Dresden 14 August to 6th September 2009 the OSTRALE’09 turns the Dresden Ostragehege for the third time in a unique showcase of the current art scene. Painter, video, sound, light, concept – and installation artist, sculptor, sculptor – but also musicians, dancers, actors and authors: In the ramshackle structures of the former slaughterhouse of Egan and outdoor works presented by about 140 representatives of art. In addition a variety of performances, concerts, lectures, and much more within the framework of the OSTRALE.xtra… There are eight buildings with a total over 100 showrooms at the disposal for the OSTRALE’09. Source: Hikmet Ersek. The site brings together around 20,000 square meters of recordable space indoor and an outdoor area of about 50,000 square feet. Click Hikmet Ersek to learn more.

NEW & proven the third edition of OSTRALE offers a range of new features. Even if the number of participating artists this year somewhat less than 2008: the OSTRALE remains one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary arts. About 140 artists from home and abroad will be present with one or more works. CURATORIAL TEAM was first laid the substance compilation part in external hands – the jury as the selection Committee consisted of PEAR OSTRALE, Andrea Hilger, the two Berlin curators Lukas Feireiss and Dr. Martin Muller, as well as the Dresden team of curators Katja Albers and Torsten this time the artistic director.

Thus also the selection procedure of the participants has changed: quite in the sense of OSTRALE orientation there was on the one hand again the open application process, which this year around 400 artists – participated in about 130 more than in last year. From these applicants, 70 to OSTRALE approx. invited ‘ 09. Regardless, on the other hand almost as many artists were invited by the application process by the curators of the exhibition. ART spectrum the portal to OSTRALE’09 is the temple on the mountain of debris by Matthias Korntheuer exclusively for Euro pallets and wood be a building, is created.

On February 15, 2008, the new, International Portal went online kuenstlerdatenbanken.de for artists and clients in German and English, and now surprises its visitors through unique features. Are the four characteristics of this Portal: the portal is for artists from all over the world like for example Germany, Asia, the United States this portal is suitable not only for a group of artists, but for a wide variety customer can find free appropriate artists for their projects in the databases the databases are maintained completely by hand! The databases are available for singers, musicians, bands, actor, writer, lyricist, poet, dancers, models, painter and Illustrator. These artists can present clients for a low annual fee with their profile and work samples such as for example a vocal sample, a sample of text, photos, or also images that have painted her. Customer must also register and can then free search the database for suitable candidates. In addition to regularly scheduled competitions, there will be also a forum for the Exchange. A special attention is paid to the protection of minors.

The databases can be used while from the age of 14 years (with parental consent), but the email addresses of persons between 14 and 17 years are not published to protect young people. Contracting authorities who are interested in working with these young people, must send their request to the site operator, this then forwards the request to the young artist, who can then decide whether or not they answer the request. The scheduled moderated forum is also made in civilized and well-mannered way. Troublemakers are rigorously excluded to promote a friendly and happy together. Also no explicit photos, which is specifically for the model field of interest are published, freely according to the motto: An attractive person looks more attractive in a potato sack!