Anzeigeberlin | Adam Sello
When it comes to skateboarding matters Adam Sello represents clear points of view: commerce is turning kitschy, culture is good and credibility is best. With his words, work and knowledge the old-school skateboarder and young dad conveys this particularly credibly, ever since he quit his studies in psychology and dedicated himself entirely to his passion in 2000. Starting out in the video and film sector, later working mainly as a photographer, Sello set up the independent media company “Anzeigeberlin”, and within ten years has also published countless examples of his work: at the beginning of 2000 he documented the Berlin skateboard scene around the National Gallery in Berlin, including pro-skater Willow when he was still getting off thestarting blocks of his skating career, Berlin didn’t even have a skateboard hall yet. The result, the video documentary “Anzeigeberlin Panorama”, was released in 2004 and since January 2005 they’ve been publishing the “Anzeigeberlin Information” magazine, a free independent skate mag in pocket format. The hand-copied booklet began as a fanzine and developed into a small magazine, which is published seven times a year – all previous issues can be found on the website anzeigeberlin.de. Adam Sello represents skateboarding in its pure essence, black and white, rough but clear, with no extra frills. Just one reason why the Berliner-by-choice gets on so well with Bright bosses Thomas and Marco and why he has been involved since the very first event in 2006 in Frankfurt: they really valued each other’s creative work. Which is why Bright is delighted to be presenting Mr. Sello’s photographs at the first ever Bright in Berlin!
www.anzeigeberlin.de
Lamono
Young art magazine? Creatively ambitious streetwear label? Hot water bottles? Hot water bottles?! If you believe that this equation doesn’t really pan out, then you shouldn’t miss the “Bouill’Hot” exhibition from Lamono by Ambiguous. 40 hot water bottles will be exhibited by 40 artists. The participating artists, from Tougui to XLR8 and Friedemann Zschiedrich, are interpreting these most grandma-like of all everyday items in their own individual ways, whereby the term “warmth” plays a central role in all of the work. Since 2006 the magazine makers and curators from Lamono have been stirring upthe art cosmos in Barcelona and Madrid. Their supporters, the boys from Ambiguous Clothing, are in no way inferior to them in terms of credibility and they have always considered the cutting edge betweenthe two worlds of “skateboarding” and “art” to be the starting point for parallel existing forms of expression. And they know a lot about everyday objects: last year they sent 500 table tennis rackets customised by different artists on a world tour. But first things first: don’t miss “Bouill’Hot”– bottles don’t get hotter than this!
www.lamonodigital.net
2SickBastards
“We are not you, we’re not just doin’ it, we’re not lovin’ it and we are not the real thing.” With these borrowings from various well-known slogans from the Disneyland of global consumerism along with their own penname the two Londoners Ben Aldis and Sam Pitcher from 2SickBastards are already making it pretty clear where their art will take us. They are transforming pop icons into freaks and laughing stocks of their own questionable images – mostly cynical and cruel, but rather good if we may say so ourselves. Kate Moss’ bloodied nose certainly says it “in ya face” rather than “between the lines”. In a group exhibition in May 2010 they presented their work at STROKE.02 in Munich with our friends from hatch and in August with Cem Cil they will be at the Hype Gallery in Bochum. At Art Bright the two British bastardos are showing us a small and nasty selection of their wickedness and we are full of gleeful anticipation. And by the way, the boys also print their art on consumer T-shirts.
www.2sickbastards.com
BRIGHT Summer 2010
Stasi Headquarters, Berlin – House 18
The building on Normannenstraße in Berlin was constructed in 1980 as part of a huge complex and was regarded as a prestige project and showpiece of the Ministry for State Security of the DDR. In wood-panelled conference rooms, numerous offices, a Hall of Mirrors, the cinema, not forgetting interception-proof rooms, training courses were held, foreign guests were welcomed and festivities took place. The storming of the bastion of the SED regime by patriotic citizens in January 1990 meant the end of the Secret Service and the DDR dictatorship – the images spread through the media like wildfire, making House 18 famous all over the world. Three floors each with an area of 4000 square metres are ready and waiting: DDR charm and luxury furnishings with 1980s Eastern bloc flair included! The units are variable, all spaces can be used individually and flexibly – so nothing stands in the way of maintaining the Frankfurt spirit!
Goodbye Frankfurt | Hello BERLIN!!
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