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STEPHEN TOMPKINS - FRISCHFLEISCH. Animation Tour durch Berlin |
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Vernissage For your comfort we will serve "Frischfleisch". |
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Wer hat eigentlich die Macht im Staat? Die Polititk oder die Wirtschaft? Wer diktiert Tendenzen am Markt und Entwicklungen in unserem Leben? Wer bestimmt wo es lang geht? Es sind wir! Aber dieses -wir- ist weder ein repräsentativer Querschnitt demokratischer Strömungen noch ist es der Zusammenschluss vernunftorientierter Meinungsmacher. 'We' that is the mass, the raw mass and the social mobilization. The uncontrollable and insatiable ones which are driven without consideration for status, education, origin or religion by a only one large impulse: greed! It is greed for power, for consumption, greed for knowledge, for acknowledgment, sex, beauty and force. We want constantly new, we want ever more of it and we it above all fast: We need "fresh meat". FRISCHFLEISCH! As Brad Martin of Juxtapoz wrote about Stephen Tompkins' work: "What would happen if you took classic 1920's cartoons and Ren and Stimpy episodes, chewed them up with shades of primary colors, and then horcked the whole thing onto a canvas? Nothing as good as Stephen Tompkins' work, for sure, though that's exactly what his pieces remind me of. It's like an abstract celebration of cartoon body parts in a roiling pop orgy." Stephen Tompkins has been exhibiting in the US and Europe since the late 1990's with his complex deconstructions of his own iconography and invented comic (and somewhat mad) forms. His explosive work and style has been shown in innumerable exhibitions in the USA and Europe and his work has recently garnered the attention of some museum curators with exhibition of work seemingly around the corner. Apart from Tompkins' prolific and diverse range of mediums (from painting, drawing, animation, sculpture) Tompkins has leaped headlong into his other interest, film. He recently had an unusual opportunity to portray an EMT extra role in Werner Herzog's and David Lynch's collaborative new film "My Son, My Son - What Have Ye Done?" plucked for the small role directly by Herzog himself. This year he released 13 music videos and an album entitled "Daniel Johnston at Home LIVE" (available on iTunes) from footage he shot in Waller Texas while living in Austin in 1999, of the legendary indie/artist musician and his friend Daniel Johnston. |
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