Showing posts with label Afterhours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afterhours. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

AFTERHOURS II: Elke Graalfs painting walls

Already in the morning hours after the first Style! It! Takes! night (see my first Afterhours post for this) it has been somehow clear that this project should continue. So there have been many afterhours, meetings and conversations in the weeks and months after the event.

Schon am Morgen nach der ersten Style! It! Takes!-Nacht (siehe meinen ersten Afterhours Post) war klar, dass dieses Projekt weitergehen sollte. Es gab also eine Menge Afterhours, Treffen und Gespräche in den Wochen und Monaten nach dem Event.


A fine one took place in the studio of artist ELKE GRAALFS in Neukölln. The relatively empty place with its huge white walls, combined with great music playing from the little blaster, drinking coffee and eating Mum's delicious Lemon Cake has been a perfect place for getting the head fresh & free for new ideas for all tomorrow's projects...

Eine schöne Afterhour war im Atelier der Künstlerin ELKE GRAALFS in Neukölln. Der relativ leere Raum mit seinen großen weißen Wänden, gepaart mit großartiger Musik aus einem kleinen Blaster, Kaffee und Mamas leckerem Zitronenkuchen waren der perfekte Ort, um den Kopf frisch und frei zu kriegen für neue Ideen für künftige Projekte...


In July, Elke had been on stage at the Style! It! Takes! performance of musician and artist NORA BELOW and fashion designer LOUIS FLEISCHAUER / AMF KORSETS. On this summer afternoon she was doing her art and I could watch her painting, while we were talking and listening to the music. Mum's delicious Lemon Cake not to forget. (^.^)

Im Juli war Elke bei der Style! It! Takes! Performance der Musikerin und Künstlerin NORA BELOW und des Modedesigners LOUIS FLEISCHAUER / AMF KORSETS auf der Bühne. An jenem Sommernachmittag war sie wieder mit ihrer Kunst beschäftigt und ich konnte ihr beim Malen zusehen, während wir uns unterhielten und Musik hörten. Mamas leckeren Zitronenkuchen nicht zu vergessen. (^.^)

Pictures by Magenta Netzwerk (Summer 2012)



Elke Graalfs painted by her colleague Nora Below:
Elke Graalfs portraitiert von ihrer Kollegin Nora Below:

 
Elke in Iceland by NORA BELOW (Acrylic on canvas, 0,90 m x 0,80 m, 2010)



A 'finished' one of ELKE GRAALFS' amazing works:
Und so kann es aussehen, wenn ELKE GRAALFS' faszinierende Kunst 'fertig' ist:


Elke Graalfs: »then climb into bed and turn to dust« (acryl/wand,decke 2009)


Obviously things are never finished, so here's what can happen with / to this art, too:
Natürlich sind Dinge niemals fertig. Was (mit) der Kunst auch passieren kann:

       

eine performance mit der malerei »schnee von gestern«:
ich bestreue einen sessel durch ein sieb mit puderzucker. dann sauge ich den sessel ab, um ihn wieder bestreuen zu können...
(Elke Graalfs @ Galerie Crystal Ball – Kopfüber)

Elke Graalfs beim Beseitigen der Arbeit. Kunst ist eine Bereicherung, keine Geldanlage.

Traditionally, clothings, fabrics, stitches, patterns and fashion play a big role in Elke's art.
These are wallworks with reflections about coats, below enlarged to an installation:

Kleidung, Stoffe, Maschen, Muster und Mode spielen in Elkes Kunst traditionell eine große Rolle.
Hier Wandtapeten mit Reflexionen über Mäntel, unten zur Rauminstallation erweitert:

      


Elke Graalfs: »oT«
acryl/papier/ausgerissen + tapeziert
265cm x 132cm
2010



  Elke Graalfs: »over the hill« (acryl/papier ausgerissen + tapeziert, 2011)

 

Saturday, July 7, 2012

AFTERHOURS

If you close the door, the night could last forever
leave the sunshine out and say hello to never...
if you close the door, you'd never have to see the day again...
(Velvet Underground - Afterhours)

After a very hot night even we had to finally leave .HBC in the morning of the 7th of July 2012...

Inka had been our extremely stylish door fairy the whole night ♥

DJ Eric van Wonterghem in the morning of July 7 2012 @ Style! It! Takes!(.HBC / Berlin)

So it was time to pack our stuff and leave the location of the first Style! It! Takes! night in Berlin.

 

Dark party bars
Shiny Cadillac cars
and the people on subways and trains
Looking gray in the rain
as they stand disarrayed
oh but people look well in the dark
(Velvet Underground - Afterhours)

Surprisingly now it was raining... Everyone being a kind of exhausted zombie we grabbed a taxi and went home for an afterhour... obviously we couldn't stop now!!! (^.^)

                

My wonderful friends and me after all this amazingly great madness... ♥


It's ok to look stupid after working like maniacs...

While everybody was kinda sleeping from time to time (even on the chairs... :-) discussing our experiences in that long long night Nora's amazingly stylish dog Tia seemed to be the only one awake and alive...  but she hadn't sound checked, set up the stuff, performed, danced, greeted our guests, she didn't sing, didn't wear a corset and of course she didn't walk in very very high heeled shoes the whole night... (^.^) ...


 Nora and her sweet dog Tia


 
Inka's phantastic hair style with blue glowing accessories

My beloved friends gave me a wonderful gift: a stunning collar by fashion designer Louis Fleischauer (AMF KORSETS) which suited my KNOTH KOUTURE dress surprisingly well.

 



Details of my KNOTH KOUTURE dress. The following pictures actually were made weeks before the event.

We later decided to use transparent bra straps to let Jenny's wonderful design fully come to it's right.

 Details of the back side.

The skirt part from the front.

         

At that time we tried out a lot of different panty colours and various shoes. We checked the dress with ripped blue tights, with white stockings and even with a red pantyhose (ouch! (^.^)...). My Lola Cruz heels were quite nice with it, too, but in the end we voted for skin coloured tights and a different pair of black high heels for the event...


 
              

So many decisions to be made...

                    

 
Making up.

What's so funny about?

Diamonds are a girl's best friends. My Lola Cruz shoes.

xxx, ♥

All pics by Inka except
the first one by Dagmar H.,
the second (DJ Eric) and third one (the two in the Collage) by Nora.
Cuts and collage by Magenta.

Photo shooting with my Knoth Kouture dress in this blog: Magenta trägt Knoth Kouture

AMF KORSETS
Couture Leather for Apocalyptic Flesh