Part of a set of six Ceramixed Plates; remixed vintage porcelain by Tulip Art Projects. The Berlin-based art collective has been working on these porcelain mash-ups since 2003.
In this project, old decorated plates are collected, over painted, and fired once more to create stunning original art pieces.
The themes on the hand-painted plates range from early portraits of night life figures (like the Maertini Broess) to recent political ones on politics, pornography and religion.
Part of a set of six Ceramixed Plates: remixed vintage porcelain by Tulip Art Projects. The Berlin-based art collective has been working on these porcelain mash-ups since 2003.
In this project, old decorated plates are collected, over painted, and fired once more to create stunning original art pieces.
The themes on the hand-painted plates range from early portraits of night life figures (like the Maertini Broess) to recent political ones on politics, pornography and religion.
Berlin/NY:Tulip Enterprises' "Ceramixed Plates" will be available at the New Museum Store, New York. The New Museum attracts attention to the upcoming opening of its new building in Downtown New York through a cooperation with Bloomingdale's, consisting of pop-up shops and other events, during Bloomingdale's "Artragious" season, Sept.6 - Nov.6.
On December 1, the new building for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, will be opened, coinciding with its 30th anniversary. The daring and highly recognizable structure, designed by Japanese architects Sejima & Nishizawa (SANAA), symbolizes and reaffirms the leading role the New Museum plays in its field.
The New Museum Store attracts attention to the occasion through pop-up shops at Bloomingdale's flagship-store as well as its Soho unit. Part of Bloomingdale's "Season for Art - Artragious Fall 2007", and run by New Museum personnel, the pop-up shops present a selection of the New Museum Store's finest giftables, editions and books from its extensive stock. 90% of the proceeds will go directly to furthering the New Museum's artistic and educational programs, which will be greatly enlarged in its new building.
Apart from presenting books and editions by noted artists like Mike Kelley, Jack Pierson and Kiki Smith, the New Museum Store stays true to the New Museum's credo of presenting the under-represented: in its range of "artist-made products" it treads where few museum shops dare to tread, directly supporting emerging artists. Two of those, Dutch artists in Berlin, Hans Booy & Paulus Fugers are proud that two of their "Ceramixed Plates" are part of this offering. Their faux Delfts Blau porcelain plates, hand-painted and inscribed with "Include Me Out", thematize social (self)exclusion, sexuality and multiculturalism.
The New Museum was founded in 1977 by curator Marcia Tucker. Today it is the most important museum for contemporary art in New York, with an excellent world-wide reputation for curatorial daring and progressiveness. It stresses and exemplifies the internationality of art, and focusses on emerging artists and under-represented themes, media and developments.
Bloomingdale’s is America’s only nationwide, full-line, upscale department store; and a division of Macy’s, Inc. Founded in 1872, it currently operates 39 stores.
The New Museum Store's pop-up shops can be found between Sept.6 and Nov.6 at:
-2nd floor of the Bloomingdale's Flagship Store
59th Street & Lexington Avenue
1000 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022
Mon - Sat: 10am - 10pm
-Bloomingdale's Soho
504 Broadway
Mon - Sat: 10am - 7pm
Tulip Enterprises is a Berlin-based art collective working with a Pop-art philosophy. It consists of Hans Booy & Paulus Fugers who collaborate on art production, murals, self-organized art shows and art presentations in public and in galleries, clubs and deserted buildings. They work in a wide range of techniques, from Kinetic Art and projections to Folk Art, installation, painting and collage. The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart owns a major Tulip Enterprises painting, as do many private collectors. Tulip Enterprises' colorful web site offers an extensive overview of Berlin painting, installation, graphics, essays, and a visual "Club-art Diary" that offers reviews and art news.
Berlin Art Show Celebrates Male Sex Objects on Porcelain Plates
Berlin:After successful presentations at several European galleries, and at the "Cologne Fine Art" fair, Gallery "Kloetze & Schinken" now presents the "Disco Sucks Again"exhibition in Berlin. The art show celebrates the male as sex object on vintage decorated porcelain plates, hilariously overpainted by Dutch artists called "Tulip Enterprises".
Berlin-based Gallery "Kloetze & Schinken" are attracting attention with an exhibition that celebrates the male as sex object: it presents vintage decorated porcelain plates from the past seven decades, over painted by two Dutch artists in a mood of subversive wit. Artist duo Tulip Enterprises' wild mash-up of kitsch ornaments and erotic male imagery is highly obscene, terribly witty and acutely political, often at the same time.
The exhibition's title "Disco Sucks Again" is present on many of the plates. It is an adaption of the old 80's slogan "Disco Sucks", used at that time - by those excluded - to criticize the disco era's decadence and permissiveness. Today, after the hedonism of the nineties, and with the rise of religious intolerance, it seems that "Disco Sucks Again".
The use of males as sex object in media, pornography and prostitution is viewed by some as a sign of emancipation, while others see it as an attack on male honor. The exhibition fluctuates between both points of view. It seems to ask: How much more hedonism and libertinism can Europe's atheist society take?
After successful presentations at several European galleries, and at the "Cologne Fine Art" fair, the "Ceramixed Plates" will now be on view for the first time in a Berlin gallery. They are displayed solo, as part of elaborate relief murals, and inside small wall objects. Installation views of the previous Amsterdam "Disco Sucks Again" presentation are on view at the artist's home page.
Selected paintings on a similar theme by Tulip Enterprises are also presented, and special edition wallpaper produced by Berlin wallpaper publishers BerlinTapete.
About the gallery: Gallery Kloetze und Schinken is situated in Berlin Neukoelln, on the ground floor of one of several famous residences by architect Bruno Taut, near Kottbusser Damm. The unusually high ceilings of the exhibition space are still graced with his original playful stucco.
About the artists: Tulip Enterprises is an art collective working with a Pop-art philosophy. Active as artists/organizers/curators, they are known for creating stencil paintings that are kinetic; rhythmically changing appearance. Tulip Enterprises explores the relationship between art & electronic music, and makes art accessible for a large audience.
The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart owns a major Tulip Enterprises painting, as do many private collectors.
Tulip Enterprises' colorful web site offers an extensive overview of Berlin painting, installation, graphics, essays, and a visual "Club-art Diary" that offers reviews and art news.
Gallery Address: Galllery Kloetze und Schinken
Buerknerstr.12
12047 Berlin
Googlemapped Phone:030-26323349
Opening hours: Tu - Fr 12 - 19 hours, Sa 14 - 19 hours.
Prolonged! - Exhibition runtime: March 27 - April 25
