Joykix, a new artist from Milan in the showroom!
We have brought back from Stroke artworks from another Italian artist and we are now pleased to introduce you to, JOYKIX!
Joykix is a Milan-based artist born in 1964 ; after playing a major role in the underground culture of Milan, he went on with composing music based on industrial sounds and finally started in the 80s and 90s to focus on photography projects.
His series of digital photographs we have here at the gallery show as he describes them ”luminescent friction and incandescent glows”.
This Milan-based artist focuses on urban Landscapes, glimpses, “empty billboards wanting for a message, where the light recovers its leading role, altering the perception and the recognition of places that we usually go through. All the pictures are floating between reality and hallucination.”
Be sure you don’t miss his artworks, either by coming-by or check it out on the shop!
Lisa Wassmann
West Berlin Gallery proudly presents Lisa Wassmann’s first solo show in Berlin from August 5th to September 5th. The exhibition will give a first general overview of the photographer’s works carried out over the last three years.
As a photographer, Lisa Wassmann earnestly oscillates between precision relating to crafts and cool digital aesthetics, hence creating a subtle interaction motif between these two aspects. Both Berlin club culture and unbelievable landscapes are featured in a selection of her favourite shots she has chosen for the show. This selection of mostly unpublished photos, specifically represents the artist’s perspective towards her work; and questions whether showing inner feelings has got a price and discusses how to convey intimate feelings into the open. as she was preparing the exhibition, Lisa Wassmann worked on the principle of representation on several levels: the photographs alone are not at the core of the show; their limited reproducibility and framing techniques restored her digital photography prints to ‘pictures’ in the traditional meaning of term. The unique pieces are developed in such a way, acquiring a clear delimitation from the outside and bear a tense interrelation between tradition and present.
The photographs have been issued as a limited edition of three copies each.
Lisa Wassmann, Ghosttown photographies available in our shop
As you might have heard already we are really proud to present Lisa Wassmann‘s very first solo show in Berlin this august. Save the date for the vernissage on August 5th!
We have already produced a first serie of photographs that were shown a couple weeks ago at BRIGHT. Those come from Lisa’s works in Las Vegas earlier this year and have not been published anywhere else so far.
” I came to Vegas thinking of a sparkling, crowded, glorious sinful city, colourful lights. But all I saw were empty streets. I met a philipine priest and an old man in a wheel chair driving in the middle of the highway. I put myself in disguise as to be someone else. I walked around in Sin City in the middle of the desert and then on the last day it snowed. In the desert / me and my holy friend.” Lisa Wassmann
Those pictures are now available exclusively in our online shop. They’ve been printed by bggrr.com on Aluminium Dibond with 3mm Acryl finishing. The result are 40 x 60 cm amazing pictures with really sharp and bright colors. bggrr.com deals with premium digital imaging (Alu Dibond ,UV, Acryl, Forex, Kappa, Fine Art Printing, Photo Art & ltd. Editions) When you are in Berlin, check out their new showroom in Brunnenstr. We are really happy with the premium quality of their prints. Good job!
Here are some previews of the pictures, more details in our online shop.
Also, here’s a cool interview realised by Dazed Digital a few months ago. This tells a bit more about Lisa.
From sleeping in cars to getting tarred and feathered in the desert Lisa Wassmann shows us her beautiful pictures from her entire American roadtrip.
Dazed Digital: What’s your background as a photographer?
Lisa Wassman: I started six years ago taking pictures in clubs around Berlin and creating shots with my friends. I was more into painting before that, but wasn´t really into being alone by myself sitting in front of an artwork for a couple of days.
DD: Are you inspired by any particular films? Art? Literature?
Lisa Wassman: I love old paintings, especially symbolism. I love Michael Ende´s Neverending Story, movie and book. A Million Little Pieces, Karen Duve, Chris Cunningham, Björk, Martin de Thurah, Arnold Böcklin, Princess Mononoke, Blade Runner, Some Like It Hot… But I get most of my inspirations by looking through old stuff from flea markets such as photographs, magazines and paintings.
DD: What about other photographers?
Lisa Wassman: Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Ryan McGinley.
DD: What is your connection to Texas. Was this a roadtrip?
Lisa Wassman: I was born and raised in Berlin, but I grew up in the west part, so I had a chance to watch lots of American movies and read ‘Lucky Luke’. From far away, Texas was always the place with cowboys, horses, ranches, conservative / religious thinking, typical American food, a red desert and a blue sky. I immediately had the idea to tar and feather somebody and shoot this in the desert… don´t ask me why. And yeah it was a roadtrip we rented a car and slept in it the whole time. I think we went everywhere.
DD: What inspired this series?
Lisa Wassman: Of course my very closed friend Caro Paris who joined me, and all the people I met during the trip.
Most picture ideas came up while I was driving. The colours, the lightning everything looked so different…
DD: How long did it take you to create?
Lisa Wassman: We stayed in Texas for three weeks.
DD: There is an interesting mix of constructed images, and others that seem more spare of the moment. Did you construct the whole series?
Lisa Wassman: The only image I certainly wanted to create from the beginning was the tarred and feathered picture I did one day before we had to leave. I am a very constructed artist but not in advance because I am very impatient.
Stay tuned! there’s more coming up soon!
Cuba Photographs & Aludibond Prints available in our shop
Some of the prints & photographs from the exhibition Cuba, The Sunny Side of Socialism? are available in our shop. More photographs and prints are available in our gallery in Berlin. The Exhibition is open everyday until saturday, 14:00 – 19:00.
Che, Vintage Car & Castrol – 90x60cm Print on Aludidond
Photograph Print on Aludibond* 24,5 x 19,5cm
2011 West Berlin Gallery