Zitrone (Pure Fruit #20)

 Het stripcollectief en -tijdschrift Pure Fruit uit Kiel (BRD) bestaat vandaag 10 jaar. In die tijd hebben ze 20 (gratis!) nummers geproduceerd, waarvan de laatste ook online te lezen valt. 

Ik deed in 2014 het project 'De Ziel van Kiel'/'The Soul of Kiel' (zoek op dit label als je daarvan werk wilt zien) toen zij mijn artist-residency aldaar hostten.

In Pure Fruit #20 staat dit tekeningetje van mij:

Eine kleine Nachhaltigkeit

The launch of issue #8 of Kieler comic magazine Pure Fruit will be coming Friday, but my contribution to it already online here & now. 'Eine kleine Nachhaltigkeit' (poking Mozart's ribs) is not my first German language publication, but definitely the longest yet.
Staying close to the theme of this PF issue, the story tells about the origin of the concept of 'sustainability', and personal dealings with it in everyday life.
Viel Spaß!

The Soul of Kiel exhibition

Today an exhibition of the works I made in Kiel in September will be hanging in the big restaurant of Traum GmbH (Grasweg 19, 24118 Kiel, Germany). Just until the weekend of November 21/22.
All 22 panels are A3-format artprints, containing drawings of the city and sketchbookpages.
If you are not able to view it IRL, you can here, sort of 'forever'. And if you care for high resolution files or originals, don't hesitate to contact me!

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From November 1 to 22 I will be having an exhibition of my Kiel drawings in the restaurant of Traum GmbH in Kiel. The event is hosted by my colleagues of Pure Fruit, who also take care of all the printed materials. Like this pcture, which is featured on a banner in the room:

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These sketches are supposed to speak for themselves. Hope they do...

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Observations in sketchbook of the Energewende-windmills in the Schleswich landscape, U-boot construction (or repair) and an art nouveau-esk relief in a Wik mansion...

On a jetty at the Ostseekai, looking back at the Segler statue. Tie me down, fly away...

And finally, an article about my residency in Kiel in the Kieler Nachrichten, yesterday 24th September. It's written by Almut Behl:

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Last week in Kiel, I'm sketching like a madman. Elaborate decorations on a housefront at Goethestraße that I cannot ever reproduce, those funny statue/bearers elsewhere, renovation activities at the old marine base. Attended another Pure Fruit board meeting...

And once more the seafront (or should I say fjordfront?). Scratch scratch & splatter:

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Streetpeople sketches (inner city):

Caravans that seem randomly parked at Feldstraße (summerholidays are over):

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Been ploughing around in Kiel's past again, and doing old-style drawings.
But first some freestyle:

Then bunkers. I have been posting about them before, those giant multistorey concrete blocks in the city. Here is a second set of them, for some of which I pedalled around 16 kilometers. These lot are functional, being used as sound studio, cinema, museum or foundation for some great grafitti.

Strolling about in the heart of Kiel I stumbled upon the remnants of a synagoge. The tiny Jewish community in Kiel used this building in the Haßstrasse untill 1910 as synagoge, before they moved to a larger site more off-centre. It was destroyed during the bombardements in 1944. On the banner a plea to restore it.

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Seeräuber Jenny, the song in Dreigroßchenoper (Brecht/Weil), took hold of my drawing hand today. It's the marine aspects of this town, and probably memories of the destruction.
Anyway, here is a Fridaynight abstract:

Closing down with a fragment of the gigantic, landmarking 'neue Rathaus' building (only 100 years old):

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First, related to a post earlier on Kiel-born Harro Schulze-Boysen, one drawing of Liane Berkowitz, another member of the German underground resistance group Rote Kapelle. Often the photo taken from her by Gestapo, shortly after being arrested, is used to portray her. I think this one does her more justice. And no, she has not much to do with Kiel...

Then an impression when I passed by the Kiel red lights district, at Schwedenkai, yesterdaymorning. The street deserted but for this one guy totally pissed ('blauw' in Dutch, which also means blue, the color).

A little further down, near the Wall, a stripped advertising pillar. I found that somehow symbolic for the previous situation.

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Following up from this mornings posting, more semi-random Kiel pics.
These came up when driving into the city by the 'boulevard-'route. The casino at the southside Wall (I believe this is a remnant of the old city moat, but now a completely artifical-looking pond). On the north side is -quite fitting- Kiel's red light district, or houseblock if you wish.

 

And all those awkward trees used to liven up the streets.

Did I already mention this is a great place for cycling?

 

Attended a board meeting of my Pure Fruit comic artist hosts, at their HQ in Königsweg. Introducing: