Tine Drefahl

Mood

"Sometimes I carry pictures inside me - for weeks, even months - they mature until one day they will be born. Like little pieces of a mirror they reflect my memories of moods, certain incidents or from my childhood stories. I follow the path of my past and I am inspired by everything that happens around me - everything I see and smell, everything I taste and feel - all of which turns into memories. It's like I'm wandering around on a huge spiral staircase, opening doors here and there - discovering..."

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TARON TREKKA * FREUDE-AM-TANZEN

Taron Trekka record THE TREKKA SHAK PHASE EP out now!

I had the chance to contribute another illustration to my favourite record label Freude-Am-Tanzen and worked togehter in a team with the very talented and double, triple, quadruple confirmed graphic designer of the label Toci http://www.tociwashere.net/.

Watch out and discover the extremely inventive and exciting electronic universe of Andreas Kriester and Daniel Müller-Sachs on the Kompakt distributed disc at Fatplastic Record Store Jena.

Down to the rabbit hole

I am very happy to present recent pieces imagined for the very nice, generous and open-minded Mister Andreas Jahn from a popular restaurant in my hometown Jena, which is called "Gasthaus Zur Noll".

This project is about trust and pleasure, playing, dreaming and about the enthousiasmen of a man who loves being a chef, making good healthy food.

I tried to snatch the magic of blinking fragments crashing straightly into my brain when I thought of my childhood memories to evoke familiar scenes of paradise and fairy-tale.

In every picture one can recognize decorating objects taken from the restaurant such as musical instruments or figurines.

The sugar show

For the series "The Sugar Show" I observed babies and the Parisian baby shoe market over a period of a year and I collected various kinds of baby shoes for little girls between
0 and 6 months. In my research I talked to families, friends and parents and bought baby shoes on e-bay, in specialized shops, supermarkets or international retail store chains. Almost none of the acquired baby accessories are manufactured in Europe.

Inspired by the tradition of the silhouette
portrait of the 18th century, I represented female baby shoes with their specific physiognomy in profile. I wanted to have them look like little persons or characters from a virtual world. Further, I caramelized the baby shoes which means that I enrobed each one with boiling hot sugar which leaves a high gloss surface after a short cooling period and this makes the object still more attractive.

Sugar is a highly politicized commodity which brings into my work a relevant element for interpretation and critical analysis. I heat the sugar to push further, - to underline the importance of the context behind the appearance of those nicely designed objects of desire and imagination.

The installation contains 18 colour photographs framed like vignettes. They will be blown up to icons of a size that will be several times bigger than the real shoe was.
The photographs were taken with a Mamiya RZ 67 on photographic film Kodak PORTRA 160NC in front of a black background in daylight.

Hommage FAT 54

“Cook your own soup” was the message behind the visual communication of the record FAT 50. Artist Tine Drefahl had her own view on FAT 50’s message and created a vanitas representation made of natural products. "Vanitas" is Latin, meaning "emptiness, nothingness as well as falsehood, boast and vainness".
Loosely translated it corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of vanity. “All is vanity.” In Martin Luthers translation the word vain means futile.
Tine Drefahl assembled various organic foods such as fruits, vegetables, cheese and fish.
At first sight everything seems to be luxurious but at second sight one can notice worms in the cheese and mould-infested things... Everything will pass away, but the record will play again and again...

The price for one poster is 3 €. You can buy it directly at fatplastics recordstore.

Save the date

Sonderausstellungshallen Kulturforum

Visions & Fashion * Bilder der Mode 1980-2010

Thu 30 June - Sun 9 October 2011

I am very very happy to announce that some of my work will be shown during the exhibition Visions & Fashion * Bilder der Mode 1980-2010 in Berlin.

The collection combines various artists such as Helmut Newton, Tony Viramontes, Sarah Moon, Michel Comte, Eric Traoré, Lorenzo Mattotti, François Berthoud, Cem Bora, Gregor Hohenberg, Martin Mago, Carola Seppeler, François Cadière, Christin Losta...

presented by Art Library

EUROPÄISCHE KUNSTAKADEMIE TRIER
Folder course for prospective students - 2
Visual Communication

18.-23.04.2011

About the wish to arrive – and the insight that the journey is the reward …

The journey to an artists’ folder that fully expresses one’s personality, creative spirit and motivation is the journey to the self. Such a journey takes more than six days. Prospective students in the departments for Visual Communication / Photography / Communication Design can enrol in a preparatory course at the Kunstakademie which teaches them how to construct and compile a folder and how to submit a successful application for a place at the Academy. The course is designed to clear up some of the mysteries that surround the role of the folder in the application process, to map out the various “districts” in the area of Visual Communication and to develop various ideas and suggestions of how to plan and arrange one’s own folder. Based on the examples of students’ works and artistic positions from Visual Communication and contemporary art, methods of developing and realizing one’s own ideas will be discussed and – on a small scale – put to a practical test. The course has been designed to encourage its participants to develop their own views and opinions, based on a recognition of their own interests and skills, and to understand that it is less the perfect execution that counts but rather originality and intelligently developed concepts.

Existing portfolios will provide the basis for any further analysis and should therefore be brought along.

We request the participants to bring their own paper, scissors, crayons, pens, digital cameras and laptops (if they have one). The course will not include any general instructions of how to use graphic programmes or photographic techniques.

HASENHERZEN is going KARAMBOO

Karamboo is looking for unique books with a soul.

Karamboo is an open space dedicated to art books and artists books. Here you can browse through, discover and buy unique artists and art books. Karamboo gives artists around the globe the platform to be discovered and to sell their art books directly to the art lover.

In cooperation with the artists and the publishers, Karamboo gives a multidisciplinary and an international overview of artists works and its diversity. In this collaborative spirit, and in order to support the artists as well as the small editors, Karamboo developed its solution of online sale.Have a look around, enjoy and discover the work of many artists, no matters if you are collector, amateur or simply curious. We hope that you will have as much pleasure to discover Karamboo than we have to propose it to you.

Diploma, Photography as a Medium, Prof. Hermann Stamm, Peking 2008

Prospective students in the departments for
Visual Communication / Photography / Communication Design
can enrol in a preparatory course at the Europäische Kunstakademie Trier which teaches them how to construct and compile a folder and how to submit a successful application for a place at the Academy.
The course is designed to clear up some of the mysteries that surround the role of the folder in the application process, to map out the various “districts” in the area of Visual Communication and to develop various ideas and suggestions of how to plan and arrange one’s own folder.
Based on the examples of students’ works and artistic positions from Visual Communication and contemporary art, methods of developing and realizing one’s own ideas will be discussed and - on a small scale - put to a practical test. The course has been designed to encourage its participants to develop their own views and opinions, based on a recognition of their own interests and skills, and to understand that it is less the perfect execution that counts but rather originality and intelligently developed concepts.