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Sound recording in a forest

Fons Schiedon — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:21:11 +0000

2 am on a saturday night: Bram Meindersma in the bushes with a candle and my jogging shoe.

Sightseeing Hamburg

Fons Schiedon — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:19:43 +0000

Over the course of 4 days, I was in Hamburg working with some of the arts students of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. An incredibly fun and inspired experience, centered around the idea of creating works that describe or alter the relationship to one’s own environment. The nice weather didn’t seem to at all have a numbing influence on the critical standpoints of the students -who worked around the clock throughout the weekend, woke up at ungodly hours to do their research and make their interventions, resulting in heart-felt statements that were often as much dark as they were comic. Das war alles sehr toll.

Another university programme called Stilvorlagen has students organizing guest lectures. I had the shock of my life when I walked into the school lobby to find this huge installation of my name.

(above) Honey, I’m home.

Here’s another picture.

Ok, frankly they warned me in advance that there was going to be a display, but this… these are three-dimensional letters floating in space with lights and reflection..In reality, like you can touch it! I love it.
The group who worked on that explained that they took some inspiration from my stereoscopic pictoplasma leader.

When there are more pictures of the workshop online, I’ll put up a link.

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Fons Schiedon — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:20:59 +0000

Pictoplasma 2010

Fons Schiedon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:49:03 +0000

The good people at Pictoplasma commissioned me for this year’s festival opening titles and visuals. An honour and a pleasure. In fact so much, I will refrain from making the horrible pun stringing together the festival name and the word StereoScoPIC.
Above is the first image, more coming soon.
Obligatory iconography: and reference (cool rating: ********/5).

The festival takes place April 9 and 10 in Berlin. For those of you considering to go, there’s a very attractive early bird offer active now. Speakers include Fluorescent Hill and Peter de Sève (Ice Age, Finding Nemo).

The hare, it’s here!

Fons Schiedon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:41:57 +0000

A few months ago I designed a poster for my short film “Hare”. Really just for my own entertainment, until I heard from a few people that they liked the design enough to have it in their house/garage/storage room/palazzo. Fantastic, I thought. Fast forward to today, I can hardly enter my bedroom because of an oversized box of printed merchandise sitting on the floor. Now what?!

You can help, by getting one!

These are generously sized posters (A1: 594 × 841 mm), fullcolor offset on a 135 grams semigloss poster stock. It’s a nice print with excellent color reproduction, and selling for the friendly price of 10 euros +shipping. I figured that you could barely purchase a Deuce Bigalow European Gigilo poster for the same price, so…just saying.

And, I’m throwing in some free stickers and mini postcards on the first 50 orders
Click here to go to the order page

True Self group show

Fons Schiedon — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:46:44 +0000

I’m participating in the group show True Self, curated by Gary Baseman, opening on October 24th at the Jonathan Levine Gallery.
The work, made especially for this show, is a 60×80 cm (23.6 x 31.5 inch) oil on canvas.
Pictured below, is a square centimeter sample.

“An almost entirely perfect representation of a black horse (running)”

Opening Reception
Saturday, October 24, 2009
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Jonathan Levine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor New York, NY

Room with a view

Fons Schiedon — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:45:22 +0000

The desk of Fons Schiedon…has a new view. Overlooking the south-Kreuzberg area of Berlin, I now get a daily treat of ridiculously colorful sunsets and the smell of sizzling grill meat. Great! More! Distraction!
Ooh, butterfly

Bookshelf material

Fons Schiedon — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:03:06 +0000

fig A “Stack”

A couple of publications (fig. A) kindly featured my work in the past few months.
By no means would I want to single out any of these lovely publications, but I’d like to single out one in particular.

Prepare for Pictopia is the catalog published on the occassion of the “Pictopia” exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, past March. It’s a beautifully produced book with excellent reproductions of the works in the exhibition, as well as a rich selection of essays and articles. These texts (by writers including artist Paul McCarthy and researcher Brian R. Duffy) provide an understanding of the historic evolvement of the topic of figuration and the broader cultural context the works are part of. I’m very humbled to be part of this publication, it’s the best you can get on the topic.

More: images of the Pictopia exhibition

Books/Magazines in the stack

The keywords on visual arts in The Netherlands (CN) / ISBN 978-986-686-6858-59-8
Graphic Design Fesival Breda (NL) / Catalog
MU10 (NL) / ISBN/EAN 978-90-79423-04-0
Holanda disena (SP) / ISBN-13: 978-84-96774-95-7
PSST3 (USA) / www.psstpassiton.com
Beyond Illustration (DE) / ISBN 978-3-939566-26-7
MASTERMUNDO08 (NL) / www.mastermundo.org
TASTESMAAK (NL) / WAACS/Spinhex & Industrie
Style and the family tunes (DE) / Magazine feature March 2009
PREPARE FOR PICTOPIA (DE) / ISBN 978-3-98104-587-1
PAGE Magazine (DE) / www.page-online.de

Talk at Pictopia

Fons Schiedon — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:26:40 +0000

This saturday, March 21st at 21.00. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Pictopia. 3rd Pictoplasma Conference

The talk will be brief, intended as an “update”, so I intend to focus on the work in my current exhibition (shown above), and the underlying…etc etc.

Before in place; earlier in time

Fons Schiedon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:08:16 +0000

“Pretty big sort of abstract paintings and a video installation.”

Exhibition of new work: March 17-April 5 at LODOWN “Gallery Westberlin”.

This is the second show of paintings by Berlin based artist Fons Schiedon. Earlier works depicted a visual aesthetic of instantly recognizable cartoon elements, employing a visual treatment inspired by the techniques of animated film. Parts of this approach remain, while the work moves further away from a strictly figurative appearance.

The paintings in this exhibition are complex compositions that seem to exist at more than one moment in time, in more than one place at a time. Materialising fragments of warped memories and detached associations, time is not only a subject, but the works themselves act as a time capsule recording the process of painting. In an intuitive mudfight, these are assembled by overpainting the canvas many times, embracing unforseen changes and incidents as the image gradually takes on its final form.

LODOWN “Gallery Westberlin”
at Brunnenstr. 56, 13355 Berlin-Wedding, Germany
vernissage: TUESDAY 17.03.09, 19.00-24.00h until 5.04.09

in association with:
3rd Pictoplasma Conference and Festival
19.03. – 21.03.2009, Berlin
http://www.pictoplasma.com/pictopia

Preview images coming soon.