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).

“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

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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

Above, is a poster designed as part of the publication/bag/catalog of “The Collectors”, the Danish and Nordic Pavillions exhibition at this year’s Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition concept is built around the topic of collecting, which on this poster is explored by presenting a collection of quotes about the nature of collecting, as told through the voices of “the Dandy”, “the Homeless” and “the Intellectual”.
Commissioned by Elmgreen & Dragset. Text by Anna Echterhölter.

This was made for “The Ark”, an upcoming book published by IdN and curated by DPGH. The book is a collection of 200 renderings of animals from the home countries of an international group of artists.
Given that the Netherlands’ habitat lacks Manta Rays, I chose otter.
detail here

Looking inside, into an enormous two-level space, are several elements of various properties and different objects of distinguished characteristics. As you might expect. And on the first floor, just as you made your way up a staircase, is a wall. And that wall, has a picture on it that I made.

above “mural” design
below Location views

More images on Flickr

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

This Sunday was the last day of Before in place;Earlier in time, the most recent showing of my new work. The characteristically columned white box providing such a welcoming spatial framework for the paintings and videos is Lodown Gallery “West Berlin”. I thank all of you who came over to see it.
Below are some installation views.

UPDATE: video walk-through added

Flickr photo album

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.

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.