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A Group Show of IWISHUSUN Friends

iwishusun — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:11:45 +0000

When our friend as well as curator and founder of Circle Culture Gallery, Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer recently opened his new gallery space it turned out to be reunion of friends and supporters of IWISHUSUN: after twelve years Circle Culture has moved to Berlin-Tiergarten opening its third gallery space at a former warehouse on Potsdamer Straße and presents “POTSE 68″, a group show celebrating their new space and 23 artistic positions from Italy, Iceland, Mexico, USA, Germany, France, Austria and the UK, among them Jaybo Monk, Marco “Pho” Grassi and Kevin Earl-Taylor. You can check out their exhibited works below and read their interview here.

1 & 2: Marco Pho Grassi - read his interview with IWISHUSUN here.

3 & 4: Jaybo Monk – read his interview with IWISHUSUN here.

5: Aaron Rose - read his interview with IWISHUSUN here.

6: Kevin Earl-Taylor – read his interview with IWISHUSUN here.

Photography: Maria Ebbinghaus. Intsagram photography: Teresa Koester for IWISHUSUN.

A Short Film About Jaybo’s Working Process

iwishusun — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:42:13 +0000

If our announcement of Jaybo‘s current solo show at Kallenbach Gallery in Amsterdam got you interested in our ambassador’s work, you can learn more about the choices an artist makes when creating in this interesting short film by Rogier Postma:

Proceeding on the assumption that different artists have different focus disciplines and workflows “but they all make something out of nothing”, Postma asks artists such as Jaybo to share their origination process through one of their works. You can check out Jaybo’s way of working above.

Jaybo also supports our cause – read his interview with IWISHUSUN here.

The Space Between: Jaybo at Kallenbach Gallery

iwishusun — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:18:47 +0000

Amsterdam’s Kallenbach Gallery is currently the site for Jaybo‘s new show “The Space Between”. For the first time our friend and supporter (check out his interview with IWISHUSUN here), the Berlin-based artist Jaybo Monk holds a solo exhibition in the capital of the Netherlands which shows an entirely new body of work made on paper, wood and canvas. 12 works, some paper sketches and 3 small installations are on display from this day forward – “The Space Between” not only offers the very unique opportunity to see Jaybo’s first ample experiments with oil as his artistic working material but also to witness an artist’s history in the making: the focus on poetry gets more and more important and so Jaybo’s paintings are accompanied by poems; a poem related to the title of the pieces which is the basis of every work comes along with every painting: “first with the automatic writing of the morning, then put in place around midday” and from afternoon to the evening he would paint on canvas or wood or paper.

It all started with this poem:

the space between

do you see the space between us
barely a hand,

a breath,

a word
it is mountains and oceans
it is either and or, both and neither
it is what we do forget.
all of this

hanging on the nail of fear

For those who are familiar with art history, Jaybo’s latest works clearly refer to past art movement and even though he consistently emphasises that “[s]treet made [him] what [he is] now, to not be afraid of freedom. Paint is just a hobby. Don’t call me an artist, please,” his instense examination of art history and its different movements becomes more and more obvious as time passes. While graffiti and street art defined his early work, he then started searching for new influences, absorbing new impressions taken from art history as well as his environment and to experiment with different extracts. There might be no final result from his openness to new experience regarding style but Jaybo’s latest works unveil a huge impact on his work: in reference to the Dada movement art and literature are combined while his style becomes more and more elaborated, delicate and versed in technique, choice of materials and (line) composition, just as Jaybo states himself: ”I believed to follow or to eflore the surface of dada, which I think the punk movement was the last spark of it.”

But this story ends where it began – in some ways: Just as the Dada artists worked within given artistic concepts and techniques to undermine the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works, Jaybo still remains true to his words: “Don’t call me an artist please.”

A poem finds its place at the back of each piece:

I AM ashes where once I was fire.
I AM sitting, fading, vanishing
I AM alive and so the sun.
I AM between sweet and salt water
I AM a vision in another eye

- – - – -

MY TREE is transparent and give no shade
MY TREE has no roots
MY TREE dance like words in a muted mouth
MY TREE is finishing alone what no one began.

- – - – -

let s get drunk
in the most beautiful glass
drinking to my ugliness
to the gates of my rage
drinking my own legs of
believing again that promise of a better tomorrow

Jaybo: “The Space Between”, 7 – 28 November 2013, Kallenbach Gallery, Amsterdam.

Paper Tears: Artist Interview with Jaybo Monk

iwishusun — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:53:21 +0000

On the occasion of Jaybo Monk’s “Paper Tears” show at Los Angeles-based Soze Gallery Kristin Bauer, editor of Beautiful/Decay, met the artist and friend of IWISHUSUN for an interview to discuss his new body of work, how it relates to poetry and what comes next.

One of his upcoming projects concerns us as well and we are very excited to read Jaybo’s announcement:

“. . . I am working on a project for IWISHUSUN, a new platform for charity, called BLIND MEMORIES, where after a time of observation I will try to interpret the portrait of the observed person in complete darkness. Those originals will be available to purchase and the money will help unfortunate cataract victims with a chirurgical intervention.”

Read the entire interview on Beautiful/Decay Art & Design.

Also, we met Jaybo and Soze Gallery founder and director Toowee Kao for interviews – don’t miss to check them out!

Jaybo Monk Solo Exhibition “Paper Tears”

iwishusun — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:07:57 +0000

“My work is a journey into the bits and pieces of my memories. I am working with the methodic of chance, which means, I let things happen without trying to get any meaning into them. I neither know in advance what it is meant to look like nor during the process what I am aiming at and what to do about getting there.” Jaybo Monk who has been indispensable for IWISHUSUN’s formation has dedicated his work and origination process to spontaneity, to the single moment itself that will define the eventual outcome. What seems to start as a sequence of coincidences turns out to a coherent piece. If you are in Los Angeles, you can check out the latest outcomes of his artistic method: Soze Gallery currently presents a new series of Jaybo Monk’s paper works, called “Paper Tears.”

Jaybo continues: “Drawing is a blind, beautiful and desperate effort to be surrounded by the incomprehensible In this particular pieces, I try to keep influence playing with me during a travel to Portugal to see how it will affect the work. I started all pieces in Berlin, let them evolve in Portugal, than finishing them in Berlin. Some of the title has been selected before the drawings, some after.”

See more of Jaybo’s paper works here.

Jaybo Monk: ”Paper Tears”, 10 August – 10 September 2013, Soze Gallery, Los Angeles.

Photos: Soze Gallery.