Posted by Guillaume | March 5, 2010
Come by tomorrow evening, march 6th, to enjoy great pictures, beach-flavoured pop-music & sunny cocktails. The vernissage starts at 19:00, and the concert of Jules Valeron with his Band “Valeron & the Coconuts” at 20:30. They will present their Debut-Album “Horizons Nouveaux”.
Often regarded as a purely outdated communist regime, Cuba is certainly the world’s most famous time wrap, frozen in the 50s. It’s also important not to forget there have been some real achievements to the revolution: food supply for the poor, provision of housing and education, an effective health care system, and efforts to reduce race and gender prejudices.
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Posted by Guillaume | March 2, 2010
DOPPELDENK are two artists from Germany. They live and work in Leipzig. The concept of doublethink comes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and describes the power of having two contradictionary beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. Unlock the Idea of George Orwell’s novel from total brain-wash and combine it with self-responsible human acting, and you can achieve a new complex form of thinking. In this case you are able to accept the connection of two contradictionary relations and, as a conclusion, to create your own new conviction.
West Berlin Gallery will present a selection of their latest works in Berlin, March 26th – April 10th. Read more
Posted by Guillaume | February 17, 2010
Not much is known from the time before 2005, the year Jules Valeron arrived in Berlin. They say that he has french origins, did something with traveling and used to shave every morning. Something changed.
Highly inspired by the german capital and its creative inhabitants, he started taking photos of the city, focussing on architectural details and the contrasts he discovered between the former east and west, old and new. Lately Jules has been exploring new horizons. Read more
