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Category Archive: Art

12 Mar

>Smile at the birdie….-#1275

> All I ever wanted to be was an artist. Of course, life’s not that simple. So, before launching my career in 1999, I slung whiskey, taught wikd and wooly…
12 March, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments
23 Feb

>Objekt L/300 – #1258

> “Hommage a Gutenberg” a 1988 work on the Rhine promenade by Wulf Kirschner,  a Hamburg sculptor. Massively big (taller than me, anyway) wavy steel pages with welded implied text…
23 February, 2011 at 12:00 1 Comment
20 Feb

>Tripolitanerin – #1255

> I’m in two minds about Emy Roeder, the Mainz sculptress. On the one hand, I rate her work untold – this is the “Tripolitanerin” from 1961 on the banks…
20 February, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments
29 Jan

>I do like ……. – #1233

> …the Schirn art museum in – ahem – Frankfurt. Not only did they buy me a new iPhone the other year, but their exhibitions are a treat. Current one…
29 January, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments
27 Jan

>Snakes….#1231

>   ……on everything.[Little Feat 1970 – listen] Especially on metal containers. And not only snakes. This is Sabine, our 165 year old neighbours-from-across-the-road‘s daughter.  She’s married to a Protestant…
27 January, 2011 at 12:00 4 Comments
24 Jan

>"If you’re going….1228

>   ….to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.” (Just hate that song) Probably a hibiscus. Sculpture by the inordinately talented Beate Thiesmeyer. Just to…
24 January, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments
29 Nov

>Hold ’em or fold ’em – #1172

> Now, this is a good way to get rid of your old newspapers. Rope the kids into pleating broadsheets (no tabloids, thanks v. much) and then hang them artistically…
29 November, 2010 at 12:00 5 Comments
27 Nov

>A nut fit for a god – #1170

> Wikipedia sez: The word walnut derives from Old English wealhhnutu, literally “foreign nut”, wealhwealh is akin to the terms Welsh and Vlach; see Walha and History of the term…
27 November, 2010 at 12:00 4 Comments
25 Nov

>Through any window (reloaded) – #1168

> I’m going to get that song into the Billboard 100….. The view from Fritz Roßmann‘s potter’s wheel in his studio in Höhr-Grenzhausen, a mere hsaaj from here. Through Any…
25 November, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
24 Nov

>Mme Carambolage – #1167

> Annemarie Kijaszek lives 3 existences. As an artist (here at an exhibition with Britta Jung and Stefanie Schiller in the exquisitely restored tithe barn attached to the remnants of…
24 November, 2010 at 12:00 6 Comments
11 Nov

>Lit up – #1154

> Visitor from Hawkes Bay observing art in the Rathaus
11 November, 2010 at 12:00 5 Comments
05 Nov

>Making a splash – #1148

> Something to brighten up the next line of yesterday’s post. Any ideas? Answers on a €/$/£100 note. Thank you very much
5 November, 2010 at 12:00 4 Comments
27 Oct

>’Arping on – #1139

> Jean Arp was one of the founding circle of the Dada movement and is omnipresent in these parts. This sculpture in front of Mainz’s Rathaus (town hall) and the…
27 October, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
06 Oct

Please be seated – #1118

> As you can tell, the combination of jet lag (just get over it and it’s time to go home…), the constant search for affordable WiFi (Nelson airport this morning…
6 October, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
09 Aug

>"Get a grip"… -#1060

> …as Steven Tyler would say. Classic wrought-iron handrail leading up the steps from the Eisgrub brewery to the (free…I like “free”) on-street parking in the Eisgrubweg. Well worn by…
9 August, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
18 Jul

>In all his glory – #1038

> Splurged big the other day and bought the chappy who’s been (in a heavily cropped version) my avatar for the past few years. And from whom else, but the…
18 July, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
14 May

>Hands up – #974

> Sculpture by Beate Thiesmeyer
14 May, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
10 May

>Aaaaa, springtime!……#970

> Grape hyacinths in a Frank the Potter pot
10 May, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
05 Apr

>And while we’re on the subject of eggs……#935

>Monika Debus is one of Germany’s most recognised and leading ceramicists of her generation. I fulfilled a long-harboured wish today by buying one of her major (as in “a couple…
5 April, 2010 at 12:29 1 Comment
14 Dec

>Honoured, indeed -#823

> Mainz appears to have ben discovered by Yoko Ono and Jeff Koons, although they appear to have run out of space and had to truncate Jeff’s name in the…
14 December, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment
09 Dec

>Advent, advent….#818

> …ein Kerzlein brennt. 2, actually, seeing that now we’re into the 2 week of the traditional Christmas season. All being supervised by the enormously talented Beate Thiesmeyer‘s well-travelled (as…
9 December, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
23 Nov

>Girls of our age – #802

> Mrs jb helped Mrs Frank the Potter, Ingrid, out at the Alzey Potter’s Market on Saturday. They appear to have sold quite well which is a bit of surprise,…
23 November, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments
10 Nov

>Give us a hand, mate – #789

> No worries – tell me when you’re reddy….. Seen in the Kirschgarten
10 November, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
06 Nov

>Street art – #785

> The Johanniskirche is hiding behind a wooden fence during renovations. Someone’s taken it upon themselves to decorate it. Art, supposedly
6 November, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments
05 Nov

>Shameless commercialism – #784

> Not my photo. Not even Mainz. And not even in English. Frank the Potter and 3 of his mates have taken over the running of the Potters’ Market in…
5 November, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
27 Oct

>Don’t belittle – #775

> ..Petra Bittl. Hugely talented (and nice with it) ceramicist. Surface detail from two seriously good pieces
27 October, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
15 Oct

>Different drum – #763

> Detail from the Gardetrommler statue of a drummer from the Prinzengarde, one of the innumerable Karneval clubs around here. Schillerplatz, if you’re looking for itBut I can’t help thinking…
15 October, 2009 at 11:00 1 Comment
14 Sep

>….and a silver spoon on top – #732

> Rosemarie Jäger (left in picture, slightly obscured), a delightfully cultured lady, runs a gallery in Hochheim (hence NQM) in her used-to-be-a-winery house. Attracts top artists in almost any 3-dimensional…
14 September, 2009 at 11:00 Leave a comment
19 Feb

>I spy…..#709

> …with my little eyeSomething beginning with “P” “Poplars!”No, they’re birches.“Plue sky!”Stop being silly“Post with a lamp on!”Now you’re being REALLY silly“OK, I give up…” It’s a pollutant measuring station,…
19 February, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
13 Feb

>Rundgang 2 – #703

> This is one of the less WTF installations at Mainz’s Art College – a Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg contraption with an endless film loop projecting a marginally moving image onto…
13 February, 2009 at 16:46 3 Comments
03 Feb

>This is a pot – #692

> My mate Frank the Potter is a magician, really. He takes a lump of soggy clay, puts it on a rotating wheel and makes a pot. With his hands.…
3 February, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments