SLAB Magazine

Here’s a nice piece of old news which did the rounds in late May, concerning the façade of a luxury department store in Berlin, a famous brand of fashionable sports and leisurewear, and a graffiti artist.
In honor of Lacoste’s 75th birthday, KaDeWe (Berlin’s answer to Harrods) invited the fashion label to celebrate in its department [...]

There’s something very touching about amateur art. Maybe it has to do with the degree of effort which goes into it, and the fact that this effort is often so distressingly visible in the final result. In this example, found on a flea market, you can see how much love and time went into the [...]

Public park benches in Münster (Westphalia).

Johannes sent me a link to Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in his comment on the previous article. Hofman’s work fills the uncomfortably large gap between Jeff Koons’ goofy, architectural-scale sculptures and Situationist International excercises in détournement.
Of particular animal interest are the works “Zwarte Kraai” (Black Crow) for its structural similarities to Spanish Osborne Bulls …

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Berlin’s most fecund inner-city prairie, also known as Skultpurenpark Berlin_Zentrum, knows no rest. A work by German artist Valeska Peschke currently occupies the southern plot of land in the form of a black seven-meter-high dog. I was immediately reminded of the scene in Catalan director Bigas Luna’s film Jamon Jamon, in which jilted lover Jose [...]

Mummified: undead sculpture in front of ‘Alexa’ by Mirko Siakkou-Flodin
As I may have mentioned elsewhere, the newly opened ‘Alexa’ Shopping and Leisure Behemoth™ bears more than a striking resemblance to an ancient Egyptian burial monument. I was dazzled, then, to discover that the entrance to Alexa has been decorated with a 9 meter high, stainless [...]

Last November I reported on the goings-on at my favourite inner-city prairie on Neue Grünstraße. What I hadn’t realised at the time, was that the actions and interventions here were part of a ongoing art project financed by Bipolar, whose graphic identity I’ve had the pleasure of designing.
On Friday I dropped by the site [...]

Cycling back home from work this evening I found myself singing the words to Goldie’s Inner City Life, as sung by Diane Charlemagne, a track which blew me away when I first heard it in 1996. I still have the 12″ and played it this evening and tried to remember a few images from the [...]