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<title><![CDATA[Gilbert &amp; George E1 - ATMA (part I)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<blockquote><p><i>Posted with the kind permission of <a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/" target="_blank">roubiMagazine.com</a> , the magazine created by fashion designer, <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L’ Roubi</a> for individuals who enjoy stylish clothing, music, arts and culture.</i></p>
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<p><i>Art dealers <a href="http://www.eaobjets.ch" target="_blank"><b>Stampfli &#38; Turci</b></a> thank ATMA and Roubi L'Roubi for their support.<br />
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">ATMA charm gets you everywhere</font></h4>
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">The French artist ATMA, living and working in East London, oozes charm and charisma. His art ranges from abstract painting, portraits and graffiti to music and Indian head massage. He says ’there is no difference between my approach to painting, music and massage. It is all art”.</font></p>
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<p>My first encounter with Matt, ATMA, was at a cocktail reception for the unveiling of his mural work of <b><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&#38;artistid=1163&#38;page=1" target="_blank">Gilbert &#38; George</a></b> at the <b><a href="http://www.cafe1001.co.uk/home.htm" target="_blank">Cafe1001</a></b>, the Truman Brewery in London E1.</p>
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<p>Upon my arrival at the reception, <b><a href="http://www.cafe1001.co.uk/home.htm" target="_blank">Cafe1001</a></b> was packed with the ‘happening crowd’ in their skinny jeans and airs of importance. I was welcomed by Mat, this charming handsome artist wearing a suit and a killer smile. He looked more like an established gentleman artist than a street artist who paints on walls. His attentiveness to his guests struck me as so generous in a part of London, where charm is generally absent and perceived as ‘un cool’.</p>
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<p align="center"><font color="#ffcc99">ATMA, Gilbert &#38; George </font></p>
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<p>The mural work in itself is large with bold colours covering the entire wall. ATMA captures his sitters self confidence in a typical pose. With subjects such as <b><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&#38;artistid=1163&#38;page=1" target="_blank">Gilbert &#38; George</a></b>, it sure attracted a crowd.</p>
<p>For many years, the artists <b><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&#38;artistid=1163&#38;page=1" target="_blank">Gilbert &#38; George</a></b> lived and worked in this part of London. Though, historically, East London was more associated with social immigrants and less with art. Now, E1 has metamorphosed into the home of bohemian art. It is the new ‘happening’ London attracting many visitors seeking the latest street art and hoping to discover the next Damien Hirst.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.cafe1001.co.uk/home.htm" target="_blank">Cafe1001</a></b> commissioned ATMA to create a work of importance for their space. They discussed the idea of painting some known personality from the area and Matt suggested <b><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&#38;artistid=1163&#38;page=1" target="_blank">Gilbert &#38; George</a></b>. At that stage, Matt did not know the artist couple personally. But twice lucky, chance meetings walking in the street, has obtained their consent for the work and secured their attendance at the unveiling reception.</p>
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<blockquote><p><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/l_94e4a3d4e948b3d8899caa74f22eaabc_2.jpg" alt="l_94e4a3d4e948b3d8899caa74f22eaabc_2.jpg" style="width:414px;height:243px;" height="235" width="400" /></p>
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<p align="center"><font color="#ffcc99">Gilbert &#38; George </font></p>
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<p>I asked myself that evening, how did such a young artist as Matt get to do such an important piece of work. My own experience with speaking to the couple <b><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&#38;artistid=1163&#38;page=1" target="_blank">Gilbert and George</a></b> has confirmed to me what I suspected. Their energy was frigid, unwelcoming and rather self important.<br />
Perhaps, my prejudiced opinion will be challenged by <b><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/llgff/gilbert_and_george" target="_blank">‘With Gilbert and George’</a></b>, a film about to be screened during the coming 22nd BFI film festival. It traces their journey from their early years to their 2007 retrospective at the Tate Modern.</p>
<p>My prize that evening was meeting an artist of our future, ATMA. It is often the case, one meets people who are busy with great works of our times, and one does not realize at that instance. ATMA’s work is specific in style and has its own signature. The work is from the heart and full of sensitivity and generosity towards the subject. He says ‘I seek to bring the soul of the sitter’ in his work.</p>
<p>Could that moment have been the instance where I met ATMA, the iconic artist of our generation!! Only time will tell.</p>
<p align="right"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?p=126"><i>(See part II : ATMA Portofolio)</i></a></p>
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<p>Article by Roubi l’ Roubi for <a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com">www.roubimagazine.com</a></p>
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<h2>Links</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&#38;artistid=1163&#38;page=1" target="_blank">Gilbert and George restrospective at TATE modern</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/llgff/gilbert_and_george" target="_blank">'With Gilbert and George' BFI The 22nd Film Festival</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cafe1001.co.uk/home.htm" target="_blank">cafe1001 (where the work is on the wall)</a></li>
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<title><![CDATA[ATMA (part II) - Portfolio]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<blockquote><p><i>Posted with the kind permission of <a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/" target="_blank">roubiMagazine.com</a> , the magazine created by fashion designer, <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L’ Roubi</a> for individuals who enjoy stylish clothing, music, arts and culture.</i></p>
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<p><i>Art dealers <a href="http://www.eaobjets.ch" target="_blank"><b>Stampfli &#38; Turci</b></a> thank ATMA and Roubi L'Roubi for their support.<br />
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<h4 align="left"><font color="#ffcc99"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/picture-matt-009_1.jpg" title="picture-matt-009_1.jpg"></a>"There is no difference between my approach to painting, music and massage. It is all art".</font></h4>
<h4 align="right"><font color="#ffcc99">ATMA</font></h4>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">La Mano</font></h4>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=137" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/picture-matt-010_1.jpg" alt="picture-matt-010_1.jpg" height="200" width="265" /></a></p>
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">" The most inspiring time in my artistic life was when I lived in ...</font></p></blockquote>
<h5 align="right"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=137" target="_blank"><i>Click on photo for entire caption</i></a></h5>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">Gilbert &#38; George E1</font></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/picture-matt-010_1.jpg" title="picture-matt-010_1.jpg"></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=138" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/gg_3.jpg" alt="gg_3.jpg" height="139" width="265" /></a></p>
<p><font color="#ffcc99">" About 2 years ago, I started working in East London, just ...</font></p></blockquote>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">Quien eres? Soy tu </font></h4>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=146" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/picture-matt-009_1.jpg" alt="picture-matt-009_1.jpg" style="width:265px;height:209px;" height="457" width="566" /></a></p>
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" This is the front mural of the art gallery Freud in barrio Gotico in ...</font></p></blockquote>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">L’eau</font></h4>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=139" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/picture-matt-014.jpg" alt="picture-matt-014.jpg" style="width:265px;height:284px;" height="406" width="406" /></a></p>
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">" This painting is part of the “Celebration” series that I painted in ...</font></p></blockquote>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">New Love</font></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/picture-matt-014.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=145" target="_blank" title="new-love.jpg"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/new-love.jpg" alt="new-love.jpg" height="342" width="265" /></a></p>
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">" This piece was a present to my beloved friend &#38; agent Lee Bennett ...</font></p></blockquote>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">Emma Flamenco</font></h4>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=144" target="_blank" title="emma-flamenco.jpg"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/emma-flamenco.jpg" alt="emma-flamenco.jpg" height="353" width="265" /></a></p>
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">" This is my love Emma and this picture was painted after our trip ...</font></p></blockquote>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">Pluma</font></h4>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=147" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/picture-matt-012-2_1.jpg" alt="picture-matt-012-2_1.jpg" height="350" width="265" /></a></p>
<p><font color="#ffcc99">" I want to fly and defy gravity in my ...</font></p></blockquote>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">Facing black - 7</font></h4>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=140" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/picture-matt-001_1.jpg" alt="picture-matt-001_1.jpg" height="352" width="265" /></a></p>
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">" This is a portrait of Guem, one of my percussion ...</font></p></blockquote>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">The City Kiss</font></h4>
<p><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/matt-028-the-city-kiss.jpg" title="matt-028-the-city-kiss.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/matt-028-the-city-kiss.jpg" title="matt-028-the-city-kiss.jpg"></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=141" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/matt-028-the-city-kiss.jpg" alt="matt-028-the-city-kiss.jpg" height="200" width="265" /></a></p>
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">" This is the first of my new series about London ...</font></p></blockquote>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">Autoportrait</font></h4>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=148" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.roubimagazine.com/wp-content/matt-005-autoportrait.jpg" alt="matt-005-autoportrait.jpg" height="390" width="265" /></a></p>
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">" I am unfornately a heavy smoker. I just wanted to  ...</font></p></blockquote>
<h5 align="right"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?page_id=148" target="_blank"><i>Click on photo for entire caption</i></a></h5>
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<p align="right"><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?p=105"><i>(See part I : ATMA - Gilbert &#38; George)</i></a></p>
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<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99">ATMA now joins many talented artists as a member of the creative <a href="http://www.roubinetwork.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roubinetwork.com%2F" target="_blank">roubiNETWORK</a>. Artists and patrons of the art are invited to join by visiting <a href="http://www.roubinetwork.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roubinetwork.com%2F">www.roubinetwork</a>.com and requesting a membership.</font></p>
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<p><strong><font color="#ffcc99">Das Wiener Schloss Belvedere zeigt in einer Werkschau das frühe Schaffen des österreichischen Malers in den späten 1910er Jahren.</font></strong></p>
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<em>Oskar Kokoschka<br />
Selbstbildnis, 1917<br />
Öl auf Leinwand, 79 x 63 cm<br />
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal<br />
© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/VBK, Wien 2008</em></p>
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<p><strong>Blick zurück – Götterdämmerung in Oesterreich um 1900</strong></p>
<p>Es brodelt in der Donaumonarchie. Das Habsburger Weltreich, bedrängt von politischen Problemen, sozialen Konflikten und erwachendem Nationalismus, steht vor dem Zerfall.<br />
Auch kulturell brodelt es. Die erste Welle der Moderne schwappt über das Land: die neue Logik in Mahlers Monumentalmusik, der atonale Schönberg, die Freudsche Psychoanalyse, Hoffmansthal, Schnitzler, Jugendstil, Gustav Klimt und Egon Schiele.</p>
<p>Doch auch der kaum entstandene neugestaltende Jugendstil bröckelt bereits. Denn da gibt es jemanden der heftig darauf einhämmert, rücksichtslos, aufsässig, gründlich und kompromisslos. Sein Name ? Kokoschka, Oskar, Maler, geboren 1889.</p>
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<em>Oskar Kokoschka<br />
Schlafende Frau (aus: Die träumenden Knaben), 1907/1908<br />
Farblithografie, 23,5 x 21,5 cm<br />
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz<br />
© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/VBK, Wien 2008</em></p>
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<p><strong>Jugendstil - Expressionismus - Kokoschka</strong></p>
<p>Sehr rasch löst sich Kokoschka vom Einfluss des Jugendstils der „Wiener Secession“, von Klimt. Kaum 20 Jahre ist er alt bei seiner ersten Ausstellung. Seine Exponate schockieren die Öffentlichkeit und die Kunstwelt. Der Skandal ist bestes Marketing, innert weniger Tage sind seine Arbeiten verkauft.<br />
Für seine „Schweinereien“ will ihm Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand alle Knochen im Leib brechen - doch dazu wird es nicht kommen, Sarajevo ist nicht mehr weit – Kokoschka schert sich weder um die Gesellschaft noch um die Kunstwelt. Wien jedoch wird ihm zu „klein“ und er verlässt es. Er sucht neue Wege in Frankreich und Deutschland.</p>
<p>Nervosität, Ungeduld, Leidenschaft zeichnen sein Frühwerk aus. Der Pinsel allein genügt ihm nicht zum Malen; mit Fingernägeln oder scharfen Metallgegenständen kratzt er aufgetragene Farbschichten wieder aus der Leinwand und malt grosse Teile mit den Fingern. Die entstehenden Bilder sind von ungeheurer Ausdruckskraft und widerspiegeln seine Zweifel, Ängste und inneren Kämpfe, seine Ausgrenzung und das Zerbrechen der Liebschaft mit Alma Mahler, die obsessionelle Schlacht zwischen Eros und Geist, und natürlich seine Erlebnisse im Ersten Weltkrieg aus dem er schwerverwundet zurückkam.</p>
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<em>Oskar Kokoschka<br />
Salome , 1906<br />
Aquarell auf Papier, 30,5 x 40 cm<br />
Privatbesitz<br />
© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/VBK, Wien 2008</em></p>
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<p><strong>Erstze Phase einer Meisterschaft</strong></p>
<p>Kokoschka wird zu einem der grössten Porträtisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er radiografiert die Seele seiner Epoche, dringt hinter die Maske seiner Zeitgenossen. Seine Scharfsichtigkeit beunruhigt. Den berühmten Naturalisten Auguste Forel z.B porträtiert er mit angespannten Fingern, das Auge wie tot, das Gesicht durch Leiden zersetzt. Forel und seine Familie sind schockiert und verweigern den Kauf des Bildes. Zwei Jahre danach erlitt Forel eine Gehirnattacke, die ein Halbseitlähmung zur Folge hatte. Unbewusst hatte Kokoschka die Katastrophe vorausgesehen. Kein Wunder, dass sich die Modele in ihren Portraits nicht wiedererkennen können oder wollen.<br />
Aus dieser Zeit geht auch ein grosser Zyklus Städte- und Landschaftsbilder hervor, der einzigartig ist in der Geschichte der Malerei des 20. Jahrhundert. Ekstasen von Raum und Bewegung, Harmonie von Farben und Formen, fieberhaftes Leben das sein eigenes Innenleben widerspiegelt.</p>
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<em>Oskar Kokoschka<br />
Doppelbildnis Hans und Erika Tietze, 1909<br />
Öl auf Leinwand 76,5 x 136,2 cm<br />
Museum of Modern Art, New York<br />
© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/VBK, Wien 2008</em></p>
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<p>Die erste Phase seiner grossen Meisterschaft hat begonnen. Zu sehen ist sie bis 12. Mai im Schloss Belvedere in Wien.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.eaobjets.ch">Helmut Stampfli, Kunsthändler u. Gallerist<br />
Espaces Arts &#38; Objects</a>, Lausanne</p>
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<p>Oskar Kokoschka „Träumender Knabe – Enfant terrible“<br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.belvedere.at/jart/prj3/belvedere/main.jart">Schloss Belevedere, Wien</a><br />
24. Januar – 12.Mai 2008</p>
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Edwar Steichen. In High Fashion
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<p><b>Edwar Steichen. In High Fashion</b><br />
<b>11. Januar bis 30. März 2008</b></p>
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<p><font color="#ffcc99"><b>Das Kunsthaus Zürich zeigt in der Ausstellung „In High Fashion“ eine bisher unbekannte Seite des amerikanischen Fotografen Edward Steichen. Rund 200 Originalabzüge den 1920ger und 1930ger Jahre dokumentieren seine Revolution in der Modefotografie.</b></font></p>
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<p>Als 1910 Baron Adolf de Meyer seine erste Modeaufnahme für „Vogue“ schuf, sah alles noch ganz anders aus. Die Fotografie ersetzte zwar die Modezeichnung, im Mittelpunkt stand aber nach wie vor das Kleid. Alles andere war zweitrangig. Die Modelle hatten schön zu sein, das genügte. Sie waren kaum mehr als "Schaufensterpuppen", ohne Persönlichkeit, ohne Prestige. Naomi Campbell, Heidi Klum, oder Kate Moss, sie wären damals undenkbar gewesen.</p>
<p>Mit alledem hat dann aber Edward Steichen gründlich aufgeräumt, als er 1923 vom Verlagshaus Condé Nast zum Cheffotografen von “Vogue” und „Vanity Fair” ernannt wurde.<br />
Der damals 43jährige Steichen - als Maler und Kunstfotograf schon außerordentlich erfolgreich – nutzte die Gunst der Stunde, überschritt bewusst die Grenze zwischen Kunst und Kommerz und wurde zum bestbezahlten kommerziellen Fotografen seiner Zeit.</p>
<h3><i>Ein Aufwand wie in Hollywood</i></h3>
<p>Steichen standen plötzlich Mittel zur Verfügung von denen er davor nur träumen konnte, er konnte Dinge machen, die ihm als selbstständiger Künstler unmöglich gewesen wären. Er dirigiert ein ganzes Heer von Beleuchtern, Ausstattern, Make-up Spezialisten Kulissenbauern, ja sogar ein Chefkameramann…wie die Hollywood Regisseure seiner Zeit.</p>
<p>Und wie ein Regisseur inszeniert er denn auch seine Bilder. Er arrangiert Situationen, kreiert Interieurs, komponiert surrealistische Szenerien, zieht alle Register der visuellen Verführung. Er erfindet nicht nur die moderne Modefotografie, er macht aus ihr eine Kunstform.</p>
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Actress Mary Heberden, 1935<br />
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<h3><i>Kühle Erotik</i></h3>
<p>Steichen entwickelt seine eigene Bildsprache, pragmatisch, professionnel, mit unerbittlicher Präzision. Bewusst verzichtet er auf avantgardistische Stilelemente, distanziert sich von den damaligen "Galmour Shot" Hollywoods und den erotisierten Starporträt des Broadway.<br />
Den jungen Gary Cooper setzt er mit diabolischem Blick und mit den Händen tief in den Taschen in Szene; das Model Margaret Horan inszeniert er im Abendkleid vor einem vor einem aufgeklappten Konzertflügel – Gloria Swanson Gesicht hüllt er in einen mit Stickereien besetzen Schleier…</p>
<p>Steichens Stil ? Weltmännischer, elegant unterkühlter Art déco Erotismus.</p>
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<h3><i>Geburt der Supermodels</i></h3>
<p>Steichens Modelle sind keine Schaufensterpuppen mehr. Er verwandelt sie in Persönlichkeiten, gibt ihnen Charakter und fotografiert sie wie Stars. Aus Modefotografie macht er Porträtfotografie.</p>
<p>Gleichzeitig porträtiert er Hollywood Stars wie Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Cary Cooper wie (heutige) Topmodelle, Aushängeschilder der Haute Couture und rückt sie in intime Nähe.</p>
<p>Schönheit, High Life, Luxus, Mode und Models lässt Steichen verschmelzen zu einer traumhaften Einheit. Ein revolutionärer Trend der bis heute anhält. So ebnet Steichen den individuellen Supermodels wie wir sie heute kennen, den Weg.</p>
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Actor Cary Cooper, 1930<br />
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<h3>"Make Vogue a Louvre"</h3>
<p>Natürlich schafft Steichen auf seinen technisch perfekten Bildern scheinbar perfekter Frauen eine überzeichnete Kunstwelt, einen Kosmos der Mode für die Schönen und die Reichen, zwischen mondäner Eleganz und künstlerischem Kommerz. Indem er die Mode jedoch ernst nahm, ihren Geist fotografisch festhielt, ermöglichte er ihren Einzug in die Museen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.eaobjets.ch">Helmut Stampfli, Kunsthändler u. Gallerist<br />
Espaces Arts &#38; Objets</a>, Lausanne</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.roubimagazine.com/?p=75" target="_blank">RoubiMagazine</a></li>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99"><strong>„Alpha Males“.</strong> So lautet der Titel der längst fälligen Retrospektive des Fotografen Henning von Berg. Der Bildband zeigt viele Traumkörper und einzigartige Locations. Kein Wunder, dass solche ins Auge fallenden Männer-Akte den Begriff "HvB Photography" zu einem gut wiedererkennbaren Markenzeichen mit internationalem Renommee machten.</font></h4>
<p>Entblösste Männerhintern vor dem Brandenburger Tor und im Allerheiligsten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, dem Reichstag! Die Fotos der sechs männlichen Aktmodelle vor den Sehenswürdigkeiten Berlins sorgten 1999 für internationales Aufsehen und machten ihren Urheber mit einem Schlag berühmt. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.henning-von-berg.com/"><strong>Henning, Baron von Berg</strong></a>, deutscher Adelsspross, der mit 38 seinen Bauingenieurberuf an den Nagel hängte und <em>auszog</em> um zu einem der weltweit bekanntesten Aktfotografen zu werden.</p>
<p>Der menschliche nackte Körper hat von jeher fasziniert. Eine der ältesten Aktmalereien befindet sich einer kleinen Höhle in Zimbabwe und stammt wahrscheinlich aus der Zeit zwischen 15.000 und 10.000 vor Christus: eine kleinformatige Darstellung eines nackten Jägers mit realistischer anatomischer Darstellung. Danach ging es, verkürzt gesagt, von den römischen Fresken über die nackten Heiligen im Mittelalter bis zu den Pin-up unserer Zeit … und zu <a target="_blank" href="http://www.henning-von-berg.com/">Henning von Berg</a>.</p>
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<h5><font color="#ffcc99">BRANDENBURG GATE, Series Naked Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1999<br />
Courtesy Henning von Berg - © www.BookAlphaMales.com</font></h5>
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<h4><strong>Nackt vor’m Berg</strong></h4>
<p>Da sind sie nun also die nackten Männer der Moderne, die „Alpha Males“ oder auf gut Deutsch, die Leithammel. Welcher Mann stand nicht schon mal nackt vor dem Spiegel - mit Stolz, mit Unbehangen, mit Neugier – und musste feststellen, dass er dem medialen Hochglanz-Alpha Typen von der Stange, das Wasser nicht reichen kann.<br />
Und darum geht es bei <a target="_blank" href="http://www.henning-von-berg.com/"><strong>Henning von Bergs</strong></a> Buch; um die Erfahrung der eigenen Leiblichkeit, der Nacktheit und des Trugschlusses der oft grotesken traditionellen Rollenspiele.</p>
<p>„<a target="_blank" href="http://www.henning-von-berg.com/">Alpha Males</a>“ zeigt das Verhältnis von Körper, Kultur und Macht aus einem anderen Blickwinkel. Genussvoll erotisch sprengt Henning die allzu vereinfachten Schemen - wie Mann auszusehen hat, wie er sich benehmen muss und wie er sich darzustellen hat – bricht Tabus und Konventionen mit Humor; z.B. wenn er einen riesigen Bodybilder mit dicken Muskeln in ein weisses Ballettröckchen steckt oder einen Epheben in hochhackigen Fetischschuhen und aufgerichteter Männlichkeit in einer Küche ablichtet. „Borderline Photography“ sagen die Amerikaner zu Letzterem: eine heikle, von Henning meisterlich beherrschte Gradwanderung zwischen „Pornography and Fine Art“. Er zeigt den Mann aber auch tiefgehender, in seiner Scheuheit, seiner Sanftheit und Verwundbarkeit.</p>
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<h5><font color="#ffcc99">THE LOOK, Brett, Agua Dulce Canyon, California, USA, 2002<br />
Courtesy Henning von Berg - © www.BookAlphaMales.com</font></h5>
<p>Der Buchtitel ist deshalb auch ironisch zu verstehen, denn das Buch zeigt ganz viele Aufnahmen auf denen keine klassischen Alpha-Typen zu sehen sind. Bewusst enthält der Band zahlreiche Parodien, sagt Henning : <em>"Monatelang befragte ich Menschen international zum Thema. Frauen und heterosexuelle Maenner verstehen unter "Alpha" zumeist Führer, Primus inter Pares, Jemand der berät und anleitet. Schwule dagegen definieren einen ‚Alpha’ leider oft eher einseitig über starke Muskeln und/oder ein grosses Genital. Ich wollte zeigen, dass auch schmächtige Männer echte Gewinner sein können. Dass die Schönheit von Schwarzen, Asiaten und Latinos der Ausstrahlung von Weissen total ebenbürtig ist. Dass auch gereifte ältere Herren durchaus beautiful sind."</em> Seine Bilder sind denn auch eine Hinterfragung der Einstellung unserer Gesellschaft gegenüber ihrer expliziten und impliziten Werte, Massstäbe und Vorstellungen über Gut und Böse, über Erotik und Sexualität, über „Alpha Mann“ und Herdentier.</p>
<p>Hennings Fotografien sind denn auch im Grunde genommen Portraits. Er knipst meistens Amateurmodels; manche muskulös, einige schmächtig, oftmals jung und manchmal gereifter, mitunter gelöst gelassen, zuweilen kernig stramm, erotisch sowieso, Schwarze, Weisse, Latinos, Asiaten… ohne überflüssigen stilistischen Unsinn, ohne modische Effekthascherei mit Nahaufnahmen von Gesichtern oder spezifisch männlichen Körperteilen, ohne künstliche softerotische Atmosphären oder pseudo-dynamische Aufnahmewinkel.</p>
<p>Er fotografiert sie in grossartiger Natur- oder Gebäudekulissen und stellt eine intensive Raum/Mensch Beziehung her, die das Körperliche und die Nacktheit noch mehr unterstreichen. Diesen Eindruck steigert er zusätzlich durch die Wahl unkonventioneller Posen und (Fetisch)Accessoires. Böswillige Kritiker meinen hin und wieder, dass er die menschlichen Körper eigentlich nur benutze um die Schönheit von Gebäuden zu zeigen.<br />
Dem ist keineswegs so. Im Gegenteil, Henning verleiht seinen Modellen „Grösse“ und bringt sie ins Gleichgewicht mit ihrer Umgebung, mit der Natur und irgendwie auch mit sich selber. Beim genaueren Hinsehen entdeckt man denn auch, dass die Modelle selber erstaunt sind den eigenen Körper ganz anders, neu zu erkennen und spielerisch ungewohnt damit umzugehen.</p>
<p>Das Buch „<a target="_blank" href="http://www.henning-von-berg.com/">Alpha Males</a>“ ist eine Einsicht in einen ungewohnt unkonventionellen Männerkosmos mit einer Vielzahl an Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft, Hautfarbe, körperlichen Formen und Gliedmassen, die Henning von Berg in den letzen 10 Jahren in erstaunlichen Kulissen fotografiert hat. Herausragend, provozierend, faszinierend erotisch …und voller Humor!</p>
<p align="right"><em><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?p=1059">(Teil 2. Henning von Berg im Gespräch)</a></em></p>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99"><em>Besonderen Dank an <a target="_blank" href="http://www.roubi.eu/">Roubi L’Roubi</a> für seine Anregung zu diesem Artikel, seinen Vorgesprächen mit Henning und Helmut und seiner zuvorkommender Unterstützung durch das exklusive <a target="_blank" href="http://www.roubinetwork.com">roubinetwork.com</a>, dem sowohl Henning von Berg als auch Helmut Stampfli angehören.</em></font></p></blockquote>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://eaobjets.ch">Helmut Stampfli - </a><a target="_blank" href="http://eaobjets.ch"><em>Kunsthändler / Gallerist</em></a></p>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.henning-von-berg.com/">Alpha Males</a></p>
<h2><font color="#ffcc99">Fotos aus "Alpha Males"</font></h2>
<p>mit freundlicher Genehmigung Henning von Bergs<br />
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">BLACK WINGS, Series Desert Angel, Adam Killian, El Torro Canyon, California, USA, 1999</font><br />
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">MEDITATION XII, Maxim, Duke’s Island Church, Germany, 2006</font><br />
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">HANGING, Series Gymnasts, Maxim, Prora Building, Rügen, Germany, 2006</font><br />
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">STARTER I, Series Sprinters, Enrico, Warehouse, Stralau, Germany, 2003</font><br />
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">MILK MAN, Adam Killian, El Torro Canyon, California, USA, 2000</font><br />
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">SAMURAI, Ariel, Obelisk Beach, Sydney, Australia, 2006</font><br />
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">GUARDIAN, Aaron Mark, Montage Resort, Laguna Beach, California, USA, 2006</font><br />
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<p><font color="#ffcc99">GLADIATORS, Ben Gunn + Matt Colmar, Joshua Tree, California, USA, 2003</font><br />
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Kunsthändler Helmut Stampfli im Gespräch mit Henning von Berg (HvB), weltbekannter Aktfotog]]></description>
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<h4><font color="#ffcc99">Kunsthändler Helmut Stampfli im Gespräch mit Henning von Berg (HvB), weltbekannter Aktfotograf mit über 420 Veröffentlichungen und 43 Ausstellungen in Galerien und Museen der ganzen Welt.</font></h4>
<p><em>Besonderen Dank an <a target="_blank" href="http://www.roubi.eu/">Roubi L’Roubi</a>, für seine Anregung zu diesem Artikel, seinen Vorgesprächen mit Henning und Helmut und seiner zuvorkommender Unterstützung durch das exklusive <a target="_blank" href="http://www.roubinetwork.com">roubinetwork.com</a>, dem sowohl <a target="_blank" href="http://www.henning-von-berg.com/">Henning von Berg </a>als auch <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eaobjets.ch">Helmut Stampfli</a> angehören.</em></p>
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<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99"><em>Henning, was bringt einen jungen Adelsspross dazu, sein erstes Nacktfoto zu schiessen?</em></font><br />
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Ich hatte mein erstes schwules Erlebnis mit einem 40-jährigen Mann in einem öffentlichen Hallenbad einer Kleinstadt in der westdeutschen Provinz. Beim 4. Treffen nahm ich meine RatschKlick-Kamera mit und bat ihn, Aktbilder von mir zu knipsen. Dann fragte ich ihn, ob auch er für mich nackt posieren wollte. Die äusserst lustige Photosession im Wald ging mir danach nie mehr aus dem Sinn.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">Könnte diese Ereignis Deine Homosexualität erklären?</font></em></p>
<p>Nein. Die Verführungtheorie als ausschlaggebendes Element für’s Schwulsein ist leider immer noch in vielen Köpfen fest verankert. Nun, ich war mit Sicherheit schon vorher schwul, hatte aber auf einen 'Auslöser' gewartet.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">Deine Familie wird kaum begeistert gewesen sein.</font></em></p>
<p>Einen Monat spaeter hatte ich meinen Eltern gegenüber mein „Coming Out“. Um dieser schlimmen ‚Krankheit’ entgegenzusteuern, versuchten meine Eltern danach massiv, mich mit irgendwelchen Maedels zu verkuppeln. Nix half. Später war ich mir entgültig sicher und hatte stolz mein zweites "Coming Out".</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">Warum gerade Nacktfotografie?</font></em></p>
<p>Ich fotografiere am Liebsten Menschen: Männer und Frauen, Babies und Greise, Aristokraten und Prostituierte, Athleten und Behinderte Typische HvB-Bilder zeigen die natürliche Schönheit des menschlichen Körperbaus, aber auch die Vergänglichkeit der klassisch definierten Schönheit/Jugend.<br />
Ich kombiniere Akte gern mit Landschaften und Gebäuden (Bodies &#38; Buildings), zeige gern Kontraste, z. B. warme/sanfte Haut mit kalten/rauen Materialien.</p>
<p>Mit einigen besonders motivierten Modellen gestalte ich erotische Aktfotos. In diesem Bereich wurde ich besonders bekannt durch einerseits freche „Nudes in Public“ und andererseits dreiste „Borderline Photography“ (Gratwanderung zw. Pornografie und Kunst).</p></blockquote>
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<p align="center"><font color="#999999">WIND, Series Dancers, Tavigo, Vasquez Rocks, California, USA, 2003<br />
Courtesy Henning von Berg - © www.BookAlphaMales.com</font></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">Deine Profikarriere hast Du erst mit 35 begonnen. Warum nicht früher?</font></em></p>
<p>Die Eltern legten, völlig zu Recht, Wert auf eine klassische Berufsausbildung als solides Fundament für ein geregeltes Einkommen. Also schlug ich, wie mein Vater, die Ingenieurslaufbahn ein. Nach einer beachteten Karriere und 13 sehr erfüllten Jahren war ich den stressigen hoch bezahlten Bürojob leid und wechselte in eine Laufbahn als freischaffender Künstler, um mich alternativ zu verwirklichen. Geld war drittrangig geworden.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">„Naked Berlin“ war der internationale Mediendurchbruch für Dich. Es sollte die „liberale Grundhaltung der wiedervereinigten Bundesrepublik symbolisieren und besonders im Ausland zum Nachdenken anregen über das oft überholte Deutschland-Bild“. Brauchte es denn 1999 eine solche Aufklärung?</font></em></p>
<p>Ich wurde als Europäer und Kosmopolit erzogen und hatte schon mit jungen Jahren die Welt bereist. Das Deutschlandbild war im Ausland leider auch Jahrzehnte nach den beiden schlimmen Weltkriegen noch immer negativ und mit den absurden altmodischen Vorurteilen behaftet. Ich wollte nun zeigen, dass das moderne Deutschland völlig anders geworden war. Toleranter und liberaler als die meisten Länder der Welt wie z.B. die USA; dass die junge, freiheitliche Bundesrepublik, die aus der extrem furchtbaren Geschichte tatsächlich sehr viel gelernt hatte.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99">Christo umhüllte den Reichstag, Du enthülltest ihn sozusagen. Besteht ein Zusammenhang?</font></p>
<p>Durch Christos Aktion war mir noch einmal die Wichtigkeit dieses historischen Gebäudes bewusst gemacht worden. Also wollte ich die Nackten nicht nur irgendwo knipsen, sondern möglichst am oder gar im Parlamentsgebäude.</p></blockquote>
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<p align="center"><font color="#999999">PARLIAMENT REICHSTAG, Series Naked Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1999<br />
Courtesy Henning von Berg - © www.BookAlphaMales.com</font></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99">„Naked Berlin“ war damals ein gesellschaftspolitisches Engagement Deinerseits integriert in Deine Arbeit. Wie weit geht Dein Engagement heute und wo kommt es zum Ausdruck?</font></p>
<p>Von der Jugend (Klassensprecher, Schulsprecher, etc) bis zum Ende der 1990er hatte ich mich tatkräftig gesellschaftspolitisch engagiert. Für Frauenemanzipation und schwule Gleichstellung gekämpft, Organisationen mitgegründet und Grossveranstaltungen mitgestaltet. Dann war ich etwas müde und überdrüssig geworden. Seit dem Herbst 1999 verbringe ich regelmässig sehr viel Zeit in den USA. Mein Engagement in Deutschland ist daher weniger geworden. Heutzutage führe ich liebend gerne Diskussionen im verkorksten Land USA, um den ach so überstolzen Amerikanern ihre Grossmannssucht („we are born to police the world“) zu belegen und eine Weitsicht auf die aktuellen Themen (Klimawandel, Umweltschutz, Energiesparen, echte Demokratieregeln) zu erläutern.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99">Unbekleidete Körper als Gegenbewegung der Verstädterung, als Ausbruch aus bürgerlichen Zwängen. In Deutschland, dem Land des FKKs sozusagen, begann diese Befreiung um 1900. Dann kamen die 68 und schliesslich 1980 die Nackten im Englischen Garten München. Ist/war Deutschland nicht sehr viel liberaler als sich die Deutschen vielleicht selber bewusst sind ?</font></p>
<p>Stimmt genau. Den meisten Deutschen ist diese enorme Freiheit gar nicht bewusst. Es wird gejammert und geschimpft, wobei die meisten gar nicht wissen, dass 95% der Staaten dieser Welt viel restriktiver mit simpler Nacktheit umgehen. Erst durch extensives Reisen erarbeitet man sich einen anderen Massstab. Erst durch einen gewissen räumlichen Abstand kann sich das eingeengte Bild auf die gewohnte Heimat öffnen und relativieren.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99"><em>Noch vor „Naked Berlin“ entstand "Factory Boyz"-Serie. Mit diesen Bildern gelang Dir gleich zu Beginn Deiner Karriere der grosse Wurf. Wie entstanden diese Bilder?</em></font></p>
<p>Ich hatte eine einfache alte Kamera geschnappt und einfach aus dem Bauch drauflos geknipst. Sicherlich hatte ich abstruse Ideen, und wollte Tabus brechen, aber konkrete Vorstellungen von einer eigenen fotografischen Sprache hatte ich nicht. Schnell waren meine Bilder in Kunstführer abgedruckt worden; fast immer mit absonderlichen Kommentaren. Blödsinnige Dinge wurden hineininterpretiert. Das Meiste war an den Haaren herbeigezogen und falsch. Beim Bild „STAIRWAY“ beispielsweise, dass ich an den Abtransport von Juden ins Konzentrationslager gedacht hätte oder dass ich bizarre S/M-Praktiken verherrlichen wollte. Quatsch, ich wollte lediglich die schöne Architektur von Gebäuden und Körpern kombinieren, mehr nicht.</p></blockquote>
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<p align="center"><font color="#999999">BEAM, Series Sprinters, Enrico, Warehouse, Stralau, Germany, 2003<br />
Courtesy Henning von Berg - © www.BookAlphaMales.com</font></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99"><em>Also nicht kopflastig ?</em></font></p>
<p>Da ich als Quereinsteiger in die Kunst (und auch in die Fotografie) nur begrenzte Background-Kenntnisse habe, gehe ich an viele Themen ohne Kopflastigkeit heran. Ich fotografiere direkt und aus dem Bauch heraus.<br />
Ganz viele meiner Bilder zeigen Frauen oder eher sanftmütige Männer. Parallel inszeniere ich auch einige Tabubrüche/Kontraste mit maskulinen Kerlen mit femininen Outfits. Als Gegengewicht dazu schiesse ich dann gerne Machos mit Erektionen. Ich bin froh, dass mir das offenbar in einer künstlerischen Weise gelingt. Denn meine Ständerbilder werden gemeinhin nicht als plumpe Pornografie eingestuft, sondern als teure Kunst. In Galerien werden inzwischen hohe Summen bezahlt.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99"><em>Du zeigst aber auch viel Humor und Ironie und spielst mit Klischees.</em></font></p>
<p>Genau, ich versuche das ganze Leben von der spielerischen Seite zu nehmen. Ich spiele gerne mit Doppelbedeutungen und nehme traditionelle Sichtweisen aufs Korn. Ich liebe Tabubrüche regelrecht. Konventionen sind grundsätzlich hilfreich, aber sie sollten regelmässig analysiert und an die Moderne angepasst werden.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99"><em>Wie lange brauchst Du für ein Bild ?</em></font></p>
<p>Das kann ich nicht allgemein beantworten. Manche Bilder brauchen 1/2 Stunde und manche nur 1/2 Minute.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">... und Deine Modelle ?</font></em></p>
<p>80% meiner Modelle sind Amateure mit normaler Figur. Für das letzte Buch „Alpha Males“ hat die Redaktion allerdings eher die Übermenschen (Muskelkerls, Riesendödel) ausgewählt. Dadurch kann jetzt leider leicht der falsche Eindruck entstehen, dass ich nur perfekte Körper ablichte.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">Wie wählst Du Deine Modelle aus? Was muss von ihnen ausgehen?</font></em></p>
<p>Da mein Name sehr bekannt ist, erhält HvB Photography pro Jahr weit über 2000 Bewerbungen aus aller Welt. Ich kann also gezielt einige Favoriten herauspicken. Dabei geht es mir nicht um perfekte Masse, sondern um Beweglichkeit. Ich brauche Menschen, die vor der Linse tatsächlich richtig entspannen können. Zusätzlich ist m.E. eine ‚gute Chemie’ zwischen Fotograf und Modell extrem wichtig.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">Deine Bilder sind eigentlich Portraits. Die Aufnahmen erwecken den Eindruck, als ob die Modelle ihre Körper selbst entdecken, eine neue Beziehung dazu entwickeln, und darüber selber erstaunt sind?</font></em></p>
<p>Gratulation, besser hätte ich es selbst nicht formulieren können. Da meine Modelle zu 80% Amateure sind, gehen sich unsicher an die Session heran. Da ich ihnen eine angenehme Atmosphäre vermittele, fühlen sie sich schnell wohl. Durch die Arbeit am Set entwickeln viele der Leute ein neues Bewusstsein zu ihrer ungewohnten Nacktheit. Sie lernen, ihre nicht makellose Figur zu akzeptieren. Sie merken, dass durch bestimmte Posen auch ungünstige Körper/Gesichter ‚schön’ wirken können.</p></blockquote>
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<p align="center"><font color="#999999">SHADOW, Adam Killian, West Hollywood, California, USA, 2000<br />
Courtesy Henning von Berg - © www.BookAlphaMales.com</font></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99"><em>Du lebst zurzeit in den USA. Gibt es Unterschiede zu Europe in der Beziehung zur Nacktheit?</em></font></p>
<p>Mein Hauptwohnsitz ist die deutsche Hauptstadt. Im Sommer reise ich zw. Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Prag, Madrid und Paris munter hin und her und fühle mich schnell irgendwo heimisch. Zitat meines engen Freundes, Felix Graf v. Baudissin, London 2005: „HvB hat oefter Zahnweh als Heimweh!“.<br />
Leider sind die USA bekanntermassen äusserst prüde. Gleichzeitig sind die USA natürlich auch der weltgrösste Produzent und Konsument von Pornografie. Alles Sexuelle, Erotische und Nackte hat daher einen hohen Ladenpreis. Auch auf meine eigenen Fotoabzüge wirkt sich das letztlich positiv aus. Ich bin sehr zufrieden. Grins!</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><font color="#ffcc99"><em>Wie wär’s mit nackten Männern vor dem Weissen Haus oder im Capitol?</em></font></p>
<p>Da die Vereinigten Staaten bekanntlich seit 400 Jahren fast lückenlos von Puritanern regiert werden, drohen für öffentliche Nackt-Aktionen drakonische Strafen. Nicht nur Geldbussen, sondern auch Gefängnis und Visaentzug. Das kann ich schlichtweg nicht riskieren</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">An was für Projekten arbeitest Du zurzeit?</font></em></p>
<p>Ich arbeite fleissig an einem Bildband mit Seniorenportraits Mein bisher ältestes Modell ist eine 108-jaehrige Dame. Dann ein Buch mit nackten Athleten und Behinderten, eines mit Dicken, Alten, Bizarren, Prostituierten und Aristokraten, ....</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><font color="#ffcc99">Eine glänzende 10-järige Karriere. Bist Du zufrieden?</font></em></p>
<p>Ich bin super zufrieden und rundherum glücklich. Der Berufswechsel war richtig. Nun kann ich mehr reisen als zuvor und zudem interessante Mitmenschen treffen. Zudem ziehen sich fast täglich attraktive Frauen und Männer vor mir aus. Was will ich mehr?</p></blockquote>
<p align="right">Los Angeles, Februar 2008</p>
<p><font color="#ffcc99"><a target="_blank" href="http://eaobjets.ch">Helmut Stampfli - </a><a target="_blank" href="http://eaobjets.ch"><em>Kunsthändler / Gallerist</em></a></font></p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<h4><font color="#cc99ff">With the New Year only a couple of hours away, it’s a great time to express our gratitude to you, our readers.<br />
You welcomed us a few months ago and from a modest start, and as faithful readers you have allowed this blog to grow. Thank you.</font></h4>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>We hope to see you all this evening at the Baroque music Concert hosted by Britain’s most talented fashion designer <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L’Roubi</a>, featuring soprano </span><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com//?page_id=656" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration:none;">Anna-Maria Rincon</span></strong></a><span>, Laurence Cummings and Adrian Butterfield of the </span><a href="http://www.handel.cswebsites.org/" target="_blank"><span>London Handel Orchestra</span></a><span> and Rachel Brown on flute. Also on the programme are flautist </span><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com//?page_id=657" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration:none;">Jane Gilbert</span></strong></a><span> and poet </span><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com//?page_id=658" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration:none;">Deanna Moss</span></strong></a><span>.</span></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">The concert  will be held  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">at <strong>St Ethelburga's, 78, Bishopsgate, London ec2n 4ag</strong> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.roubi.eu/map2.html" target="_blank"><span>(see map)</span></a></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span>Tickets are £ 65 - contact : <a href="mailto:roubi@roubi.eu" target="_blank">roubi@roubi.eu</a></span></em></p>
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<a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=656" target="_blank"> Anna-Maria Rincon</a>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         <a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=657" target="_blank">Jane Gilbert</a></p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Angie Macdonald</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[On December 13th, Roubi L&#8217;Roubi is hosting an evening of baroque music and champagne.  The con]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://roubi.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/roubi-concert-chairs.jpg" title="roubi-concert-chairs.jpg"><img src="http://roubi.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/roubi-concert-chairs.jpg" alt="roubi-concert-chairs.jpg" align="right" hspace="6" vspace="6" /></a>On December 13th, <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/">Roubi L'Roubi</a> is hosting an evening of baroque music and champagne.  The concert will feature soprano Anna-Maria Rincon, Laurence Cummings and Adrian Butterfield of the London Handel Orchestra and Rachel Brown on flute.  Also on the programme are flautist Jane Gilbert and poet Deanna Moss.</p>
<p>What is now an annual event started quite by chance four years ago.  Roubi was having a conversation with soprano Claire Rutter and baritone George Mosley about his father’s love for opera. This resulted in a recital for Roubi’s father’s 70th birthday, which was held at Roubi's Kensington house with an audience of about twenty people and so Roubi 's salon was born.</p>
<p>After the success of the first event, Roubi began organising recitals each season with performers drawn from his circle of professional musician friends. Guests were invited to attend and all proceeds were donated to charities like UNICEF and the NSPCC.</p>
<p>This year the highlight of the concert is Anna-Maria Rincon.  Roubi describes her as "the most amazing soprano" with a "wonderful voice".  This will be the first year the concert is not performed in Roubi's home as he recently sold his house and moved to separate studio and living premises in the City of London. Although it is being held in a church, Roubi is intent on recreating the intimacy of a salon.</p>
<p>At the time of our interview, Roubi was about to start designing the dresses for Anna-Maria Rincon and Rachel Brown.  His source of inspiration is a book by Professor Aileen Ribeiro entitled <a href="http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300091519">"Dress in 18th Century Europe"</a><br />
in which  he had come across a mention of 'Spitalfields silk'.  As Roubi's new studio is now a stone's throw away from Spitalfields market, he wanted to try and establish a connection between the old and the new, so it is highly likely the dresses will be made from silk fabric.  But as to the actual design - "It's very difficult to say what it's going to look like – it just evolves."</p>
<p>As Roubi talks about this connection between the historical and modern Spitalfields, I am struck by how much his life is about connection – connecting with people, connecting people with each other, and most importantly for him, "the whole connection between music and haute couture design is magical – it just works."</p>
<p>"I find Baroque music fascinating," he says.  "At that time music was all about power, propaganda and control, especially in the French courts."</p>
<p>What Roubi loves about the music is the "strictness" of it.  In the same way, his clothes are structured, made to measure and custom-fitted with extreme attention to detail and finish. Just as each piece of music is unique, so are Roubi's garments, with no two gowns the same.  He may deviate a little in his designs, but essentially he prefers "the classic approach".  In the same way that we appreciate themes in music and repeated refrains, so "people like something familiar, something that's welcoming in clothes design," he says.</p>
<p>"Fashion and music are both worlds that fascinate people.  This concert represents a collaboration between the two."  With people coming from as far as Switzerland and Morocco to attend the concert, the evening presents "amazing networking possibilities".</p>
<p>Roubi sums it up perfectly when he says, "Music brings different people together."</p>
<p>For more details about the concert and how to make a reservation, visit our <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/indexevents.htm">coming events</a> page for December.</p>
<p>by Angie Macdonald</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>...<a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&#38;post=662" target="_blank">Watch the fashion video</a> (Winter Collection 07) of Britain’s most talented Haute Couture designer <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L’Roubi</a>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>His name in high-fashion brings an irresistible, timeless appeal into twenty-first century couture that will ever stand apart for the unique and personal <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L' Roubi</a> touch of class.</span></p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://roubi.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/jane-gilbert.jpg" title="jane-gilbert.jpg"><img src="http://roubi.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/jane-gilbert.jpg" alt="jane-gilbert.jpg" align="left" hspace="6" vspace="6" /></a>Like many musicians in this country, Jane Gilbert has to earn a living doing something other than music. By day she works as an insurance broker, where she specialises in kidnapping for ransom insurance.</p>
<p>She is also a fine cook and enjoys trout fishing in the summer where she has a rod on the river Test. "Fish out of the river tastes better than anything in the world," she enthuses.  Her penchant for fast cars has seen her clock 141mph in a Porche GT3 RS at a racing circuit track day, an experience she describes as "totally exhilarating".</p>
<p>So it comes as somewhat of a surprise to discover that in-between her job and numerous activities, Gilbert has also been busy as a flautist, having played 20 concerts this year, including five in Argentina and one in France.  Her first concert for 2008 will be on 15th January in Chichester Cathedral. "It's a mad life," she laughs when I describe her life as balanced.</p>
<p>Gilbert comes from a musical family – her father played the saxophone and her mother sang.  She started playing the piano when she was five and by the age of ten she knew that she wanted to be a musician. She was 15 when she started playing the flute.  At that stage she "really wanted to learn the violin".  At school, when the time came to choose instruments, Gilbert picked up a flute and played a tune.  A teacher who overheard her said, "You better learn that," and so her career as a flautist was born.</p>
<p>After school she studied flute and piano at the Guildhall School of Music &#38; Drama.  Although she describes the flute as "a completely wonderful instrument", Gilbert is unsentimental in her description of flute playing.  "It's all about getting the right noise....you can have pure noises and coarse noises... you've got to get your fingers and lips to move at the right time."</p>
<p>In fact it was only several decades later that Gilbert was finally able to realise her dream of playing the violin.  She started taking lessons recently, and describes herself as being "in the nursery" stage of learning.  "It is a big thrill when you get something right."</p>
<p>Jane Gilbert's association with <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/">Roubi L'Roubi </a>has a happy beginning – Roubi helped design her wedding dress over six years ago and since then she's had "loads of clothes" made by him. As a flautist, "it is very important that clothes are not restricting in any way," as this could affect arm movement and more importantly, breathing.</p>
<p>For Roubi L'Roubi's concert on 13th December, Gilbert has chosen two pieces: Debussy's Syrinx and Pan by Leonardo De Lorenzo.  The first, written in 1913 and originally called "Flûte de Pan", was the first unaccompanied flute solo piece of the 20th century.  Debussy renamed it after the myth of the nymph Syrinx who is chased by Pan and transformed into hollow reeds when she asks the water nymphs for help.  When Pan reaches the reeds the breath from his sigh of frustration makes a haunting sound.  Charmed by the sweet sound, Pan cut some of the reeds and so the pan pipes were born.  Gilbert describes the piece as possessing "dream-like sumptuousness".</p>
<p>The second piece, Leonardo De Lorenzo's Pan was composed in 1930.  It is a very short piece, "almost without form" and was written to commemorate the archaeological discovery of ancient pan pipes in Greece in 1929 and Cairo in 1930.</p>
<p>Asked if the pieces represent a challenge to her in any way, Gilbert chuckles and says the challenge is "to learn to play them nicely".</p>
<p>For more details about the concert and how to make a reservation, visit our <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/indexevents.htm">coming events</a> page for December.</p>
<p>by Angie Macdonald</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Einer der schnellsten steigenden Sterne der Modewelt, <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L'Roubi</a>, Designer, Künstler und Keramiker, bringt sein grosses Talent ins Scxheinwerferlicht der Haute Couture. Sein Label hat sowohl europäische als auch internationale Anerkennung erzielt und ist bekannt für Eleganz, wunderschöne <span> </span>Schnitte, luxuriösen Stoffe und schwungvolle <span> </span>Farben.</span></p>
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<p style="position:relative;height:43px;top:5px;left:260px;width:150px;" align="center"><a href="http://www.eaobjets.ch" target="_blank"><strong> Espaces Arts &#38; Objets</strong></a> Swiss Art Gallery</p>
<p><img src="http://eaobjets2.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/swiss_3.jpg" style="position:relative;top:-45px;left:230px;width:26px;height:26px;" border="0" /></p>
<p>siehe auch :</p>
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<li><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/the-making-of%e2%80%a6roubi-l%e2%80%99roubi%e2%80%99s-fashion-winter-collection-07/" target="_blank">The making of...Roubi L'Roubi fashion winter collection </a></li>
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<title><![CDATA[Roubi L'Roubi fashion show winter 07 - Video]]></title>
<link>http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/roubi-lroubi-fashion-show-winter-07-video/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Espaces Arts &#38; Objets</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/roubi-lroubi-fashion-show-winter-07-video/</guid>
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One of the fastest rising stars of haute couture, Roubi L’Roubi , fashion designer, artist ]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>One of the fastest rising stars of haute couture, <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank"><b>Roubi L’Roubi</b></a> , fashion designer, artist and ceramicist, brings his enormous talent into the spot-lit world of haute couture. His label has achieved european as well as international recognition for its understated elegance, beautiful cuts, luxurious fabrics and use of vibrant colour.</span></p>
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<p style="position:relative;height:43px;top:5px;left:260px;width:150px;" align="center"><a href="http://www.eaobjets.ch" target="_blank"><b> Espaces Arts &#38; Objets</b></a> Swiss Art Gallery</p>
<p><img src="http://eaobjets2.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/swiss_3.jpg" style="position:relative;top:-45px;left:230px;width:26px;height:26px;" border="0" /><br />
see also :</p>
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<li><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/the-making-of%e2%80%a6roubi-l%e2%80%99roubi%e2%80%99s-fashion-winter-collection-07/" target="_blank">The making of...Roubi L'Roubi Fashion Winter Collection </a></li>
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<title><![CDATA[Roubi L'Roubi - An evening of baroque music and champagne !]]></title>
<link>http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/roubi-lroubi-an-evening-of-baroque-music-and-champagne/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Espaces Arts &#38; Objets</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/roubi-lroubi-an-evening-of-baroque-music-and-champagne/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Do not miss !

On December 13th, Roubi L&#8217;Roubi is hosting an evening of baroque music and cha]]></description>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">On December 13th, <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank"><strong>Roubi L'Roubi</strong></a> is hosting an evening of baroque music and champagne.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">The concert will feature soprano <a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=656" target="_blank"><strong>Anna-Maria Rincon</strong></a>, Laurence Cummings and Adrian Butterfield of the <a href="http://www.handel.cswebsites.org" target="_blank">London Handel Orchestra</a> and Rachel Brown on flute. Also on the programme are flautist <a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=657" target="_blank"><strong>Jane Gilbert</strong></a> and poet <a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=658" target="_blank"><strong>Deanna Moss</strong></a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">The concert  will be held  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">at <strong>St Ethelburga's, 78, Bishopsgate, London ec2n 4ag</strong> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.roubi.eu/map2.html" target="_blank"><em><span>(see map)</span></em></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Tickets are £ 65 - contact : <a href="mailto:roubi@roubi.eu" target="_blank">roubi@roubi.eu</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=654" target="_blank">Read more here</a></p>
<p><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=656" target="_blank"><img src="http://eaobjets2.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/annamaria_square-1.jpg" alt="annamaria_square-1.jpg" height="178" width="178" /></a>     <img src="http://eaobjets2.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/opera-net-350-1.jpg" alt="opera-net-350-1.jpg" height="178" width="229" />     <a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=657" target="_blank"><img src="http://eaobjets2.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/jane-2.jpg" alt="jane-2.jpg" height="178" width="139" /></a><br />
<a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=656" target="_blank"> Anna-Maria Rincon</a>                                                                                                                                                                                  <a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=657" target="_blank">Jane Gilbert</a></p>
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<li><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/baroque-music-fashion-with-roubi-lroubi/" target="_blank"><span>Baroque Music &#38; Fashion with Roubi L’Roubi</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/we-hope-to-meet-you-there-an-evening-of-baroque-music-and-champagne/" target="_blank"><span>We hope to meet you there - an evening of baroque music and champagne</span></a><span></span></li>
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<p><img src="http://eaobjets2.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/swiss_3.jpg" style="position:relative;top:-45px;left:230px;width:26px;height:26px;" border="0" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Laurence Cummings - Passionate About Handel]]></title>
<link>http://roubi.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/laurence-cummings-passionate-about-handel/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Angie Macdonald</dc:creator>
<guid>http://roubi.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/laurence-cummings-passionate-about-handel/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Laurence Cummings is a very busy man.  Musical Director of the London Handel Festival and the Tilfor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://roubi.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/laurence-cummings.jpg" title="Laurence Cummings"><img src="http://roubi.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/laurence-cummings.jpg" alt="Laurence Cummings" align="right" hspace="6" vspace="6" /></a>Laurence Cummings is a very busy man.  Musical Director of the <a href="http://www.handel.cswebsites.org/">London Handel Festival</a> and the <a href="http://www.tilford-bach.org.uk/">Tilford Bach Society</a>, he is also the Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, a conductor and a harpsichord player.  This week he is conducting the ENO's production of Monteverdi's last opera, <a href="http://www.eno.org/whats-on/whats-on.php?id=0003">The Coronation of Poppea</a>, at the London Coliseum. And on Monday 12th November he is conducting the London Handel Orchestra in a concert entitled 'Tune your Harps' at <a href="http://www.stgeorgeshanoversquare.org/">St George's Church</a> in Hanover Square, in association with <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/">Roubi L'Roubi</a>.</p>
<p>Cummings' association with the London Handel Orchestra dates back eighteen years.  "My first job out of college was playing with Denys Darlow, the founder of the London Handel Festival."  Since then he has shared the role as Joint Musical Director before taking over as Musical Director from Denys Darlow in 2002.  As Musical Director he is in charge of programming for the festival and any out of season concerts.</p>
<p>At the <a href="http://www.handel.cswebsites.org/default.aspx?page=19616">'Tune your Harps'</a> concert, Cummings will be playing the harpsichord as well as conducting.  "I may be a man, but I know how to multi-task" he jokes.  "As a conductor you need to have all your musical tools sharpened... My role is to energise, enthuse and inspire. The conductor leads the rehearsal process, is an innovator and an inspiration.  The harpsichord provides the harmonic engine of the performance...and through that I am able to mould the performance through my playing."</p>
<p>As the conductor, it is also Cummings' role to cast the singers, and to work on the interpretation of the pieces with them beforehand. The duets from Esther are "very beautiful indeed". <a href="http://christopherainslie.com/">Christopher Ainslie</a>, countertenor, is the winner of the Michael Oliver Prize in the <a href="http://www.handel.cswebsites.org/default.aspx?page=19603">2007 Handel Singing Competition</a>.  One of the purposes behind The Handel Singing Competition is to "enable young performers to value what is special about singing Handel."  Carolyn Sampson is an internationally renowned soprano. "I am thrilled to be working with her."</p>
<p>One thing that is absolutely apparent during our telephone interview is Cummings' passion for Handel.  "I think Handel understands the human condition so well.  He paints mood and expression so well through music and text.  He has created the perfect aria for every mood.  Because of that, you feel he really understands us."</p>
<p>Cummings attributes his musical talent to his grandmother, a self-taught pianist who played in picture-houses and a dance band.  As a boy he always sang in the parish church choir before becoming interested in the organ and church music until he was in his early 20s.  While an organ scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, he became fascinated by the music of the 17th and 18th centuries and started playing the harpsichord.</p>
<p>Cummings will be wearing suit and tails designed by <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/">Roubi L'Roubi</a> at the concert.  As a conductor and performer,  it is necessary to have extra arm room in the jacket without ruining the line.  Another factor that had to be taken into account in the design was how much lining to use in the suit, as Cummings did not want to "overheat".  "It was Roubi's idea to go for a period look and an Edwardian cut, with high-waisted trousers."  What is immediately apparent about the suit is the "fine tailoring".</p>
<p>Monday's concert will be followed by dinner at Claridge’s and a fashion show of <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/">Roubi L'Roubi's </a>latest evening collection.  Also on the agenda is an auction.  Along with Christopher Ainslie, Cummings has put himself up for auction.  The winner of the auction will receive a private recital by Cummings and Ainslie.  This is something Cummings enjoys. "It's very nice to be able to give something back to the people who support us."</p>
<p>by Angie Macdonald</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Adrian Butterfield - Loving the Risk]]></title>
<link>http://roubi.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/adrian-butterfield-loving-the-risk/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Angie Macdonald</dc:creator>
<guid>http://roubi.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/adrian-butterfield-loving-the-risk/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What Adrian Butterfield loves about Handel is his &#8220;huge personality&#8221;.  &#8220;He comes a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://roubi.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/adrian-butterfield.jpg" title="Adrian Butterfield"><img src="http://roubi.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/adrian-butterfield.jpg" alt="Adrian Butterfield" align="left" hspace="6" vspace="6" /></a>What Adrian Butterfield loves about Handel is his "huge personality".  "He comes across as an energetic and positive person, direct in his emotions.  Compared to his contemporary, Bach, he was also more cosmopolitan.  His emotions come across in his music and especially in his operas.  You feel he really understands the emotions of his characters."</p>
<p>Butterfield is Associate Director of the <a href="http://www.handel.cswebsites.org/">London Handel Festival</a> and the <a href="http://www.tilford-bach.org.uk/">Tilford Bach Festival</a> and leader of the London Handel Orchestra where he also plays the violin. "Players have to take more responsibility when the leader is playing an instrument too.  It makes it more interesting for the musicians."</p>
<p>Musically, what is particularly exciting about the <a href="http://www.handel.cswebsites.org/default.aspx?page=19616">'Tune your Harps' </a>performance is that the musicians will be playing on period instru<code></code><code></code>ments, which are copies of 18th century instruments.  Butterfield has a reputation as one of the most versatile period-instrument musicians of his generation.  "Composers wrote for these instruments," so it makes sense to use them. "They have a lower pitch and the string instruments use gut strings.  What you end up with is a gentler sound and a variety of colour of sound as the instruments are less standardised than modern instruments and you get more variety of instruments."</p>
<p>Butterfield is looking forward to playing the Concerto Grosso op 6 no 9. "The concerto is number 9 of 12.  We have performed all other 11 concertos, so I'm looking forward to completing it."</p>
<p>"Handel was a vocal composer and he was skilled in an adapting the music for different singers, making it fit their voice like a suit fits a body." What this concert offers the audience is "fabulous singers". "Carolyn [Sampson] is one of the best sopranos in the world, particularly for this type of music.  She has a beautiful voice and is a joy to work with. <a href="http://christopherainslie.com/">Christopher [Ainslie]</a> has come through opera school – he is up and coming at the moment and a potential star.  It will be very exciting for the audience to hear them both."</p>
<p>Butterfield comes from a musical family   For his father, playing the piano was "like smoking".  "He would play ten minute bursts" as if sustaining his habit. His sister also plays the piano to a high standard. Butterfield started playing the violin at around the age of four, sang from a young age and was a chorister of St Paul's Cathedral.  He is a graduate of Trinity College Cambridge and is now Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music.</p>
<p>As a musician Butterfield is obliged to wear the "uniform" of white tie and tails, but he wanted something slightly different, which is what <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/">Roubi L'Roubi</a> was able to offer him. As a violinist, he needed enough shoulder and arm room in a bespoke suit, as his right arm is moving out in a rapid, repetitive motion during performance.  Another important consideration was the material of the jacket and shirt in the chin and collarbone area – it was important that the violin did not slip on the material while resting.  Roubi designed him a shirt of cotton and a tailcoat made of wool.   His tailcoat he describes as "good quality, smart and beautiful".</p>
<p>Butterfield's love of live performance is palpable. Part of that love stems from the audience who attend the London Handel Orchestra performances and the <a href="http://www.handel.cswebsites.org/">Handel Festival</a>.  "Some of them are obsessed with Handel.  They even come to our rehearsals." "Their enthusiasm is infectious" which helps create "a feeling of excitement".  "In live performance nothing is quite the same.  There is a sense of risk and excitement.  You can't beat it really."</p>
<p>By Angie Macdonald</p>
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<link>http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/baroque-music-fashion-with-roubi-lroubi/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/baroque-music-fashion-with-roubi-lroubi/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An evening of baroque music and Roubi L&#8217; Roubi 
Thursday 13 December 2007 

at St Ethelburga]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>An evening of baroque music and <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L' Roubi</a></span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Thursday<strong><span style="font-weight:normal;"> </span></strong>13<strong><span style="font-weight:normal;"> </span></strong>December 2007</strong><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>at St Ethelburga's, 78, Bishopsgate, London ec2n 4ag</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>6:30 champagne reception<br />
7:45 baroque concert dance and flute<br />
9:45 more champagne</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> <em>One of the fastest rising stars of haute couture, <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank"><strong>Roubi L’Roubi</strong></a> , fashion designer, artist and ceramicist, brings his enormous talent into the spot-lit world of haute couture. His label has achieved european as well as international recognition for its understated elegance, beautiful cuts, luxurious fabrics and use of vibrant colour</em>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Baroque concert:<br />
<a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/index/anna-maria-rincon/" target="_blank"><strong> Anna-Maria Rincon</strong></a> (soprano)<br />
<strong> Laurence Cummings</strong> (harpsichord)(conductor, <a href="http://www.handel.cswebsites.org/" target="_blank">London Handel Orchestra</a>)<br />
<strong> Adrian Butterfield</strong> (violin)(leader, London Handel Orchestra)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">Also on the programme are flautist <a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=657" target="_blank"><strong>Jane Gilbert</strong></a> and poet <a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/?page_id=658" target="_blank"><strong>Deanna Moss</strong></a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Tickets are £ 65 - contact : <a href="mailto:roubi@roubi.eu">roubi@roubi.eu</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Related posts</span></p>
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<li><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/we-hope-to-meet-you-there-an-evening-of-baroque-music-and-champagne/"><span>Roubi L’Roubi - An evening of baroque music and champagne !</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/we-hope-to-meet-you-there-an-evening-of-baroque-music-and-champagne/"><span>We hope to meet you there - an evening of baroque music and champagne</span></a><span></span></li>
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<link>http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/gala-concert-by-london-handel-orchestra-and-fashion-by-roubi-l%e2%80%99roubi/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fundraiser &#8216;Tune your harps&#8217; to benefit the London Handel Festival 2008
Monday 12 Novemb]]></description>
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<p><strong>Monday 12 November 2007</strong></p>
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<li>Concert, champagne reception followed by 3 course dinner at Claridge's and auction</li>
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<li> Preview of Roubi L' Roubi evening collection winter 07.</li>
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<p><em><strong>Concert at St George's Church, Hanover Square, London</strong></em> :Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Christopher Ainslie (countertenor), Laurence Cummings (conductor london handel orchestra), Adrian Butterfield (leader)</p>
<p align="right"><a href="http://eaobjets.wordpress.com/wp-admin/www.london-handel-festival.com" target="_blank"> London Handel society</a></p>
<p> Fashion designer <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L'Roubi</a> will be showing his latest evening collection in the Claridge's Ballroom during the Dinner following the concert.<br />
One of the fastest rising stars of haute couture, <a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L'Roubi</a> , fashion designer, artist and ceramicist, brings his enormous talent into the spot-lit world of haute couture.His label has achieved european as well as international recognition for its understated elegance, beautiful cuts, luxurious fabrics and use of vibrant colour.</p>
<p align="right"><strong><a href="http://www.roubi.eu/" target="_blank">Roubi L'Roubi</a></strong></p>
<p> Contact details:<br />
Catherine Hodgson<br />
Festival Director<br />
London Handel Society<br />
Horton House, 8 Ditton Street<br />
Ilminster, Somerset<br />
TA19 0BQ<br />
Tel: 01460 53500<br />
Box Office: 01460 54660<br />
<a href="mailto:c-hodgson@btconnect.com" target="_blank"> Click here to email</a></p>
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