Getting ready for 2010

hi everyone,

for weeks now I have been (and will be for a couple more) very busy in the studio working on my upcoming exhibitions in barcelona (feb) and new york (march). here are the details:

(Don't worry 'bout a thing II.:) Demon Circus
Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona, Comerç 15

opening thursday, february 4, 8 p.m.
running from february 4 - march 6

DAMAGE:CONTROL (joint exhibition w. Boris Hoppek)
factory fresh gallery, East Williamsburg (New York)
1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker, off the L train Morgan Stop

opening friday, march 5, 8 p.m.
running from march 5 - april 11

barcelona will see some of the works from the last series, "Being Alex Diamond", which is also the theme of my show in hamburg (oct/nov '09) as well as the topic of my new book, "Being Alex Diamond". in addition I'll bring lot's of new & different works with me to barcelona.

in new york I'll be mostly showing completely new drawings in ink, from small to xtra large.

well, it all goes in this direction:

or this:

and this (well, this is on wood and with acrylic paint. 2be seen in barcelona):

New video: Demon Catcher - Installation for ARTotale

First: do us both a favour and watch this in HD and with the speakers to their f***ing limits:

Alex Diamond: Demon Catcher - Installation for ARTotale: making of. from alex diamond on Vimeo.

Film about the Installation created for the ARTotale Project in Lüneburg, October 2009. Video shows the building of the whole monster and the construction on site with the Demon Catcher-crew on Oct. 7.

ARTotale is a street art project hosted by LEUPHANA University of Lüneburg, curated by Rik Reinking and featuring these AMAZING artists:

Adam & Akay, Akim, Almut Linde, Ash, Ben Eine, Brad Downey, Boxi, Bronco, Daniel Man, Dave the Chimp, DTAGNO, Faith47, Flying Förtress, Herakut, Herbert Baglione, Jay-One, Loomit, Mirko Reisser (DAIM), Moki &1010, Mode2, Pius Portmann, SKKI, Swoon, Tilt, Trica, Tryone, Vitché &Jana, Word2mother, Zevs, Zezao, 56K

More next week when I am opening my new exhibition at the heliumcowboy's in Hamburg. And go buy the book.

Oh, and if you click "continue reading ..." below, you can see more still images from the installation.

The Demon Catchers

more images over at my facebook album ...

Book launch: The Photos

photos from the launch event at Urban Outfitters, Hamburg. You can also see the installation I build "for" the book. Will be shown at the Fankfurt Book Fair oct 14-18 at the booth of GUDBERG Verlag

Drawing with the jigsaw: work in progress video

Alex Diamond: drawing with the jigsaw from alex diamond on Vimeo.

work in progress: building the base for an installation for upcoming exhibition and book launch "don't worry 'bout a thing" at heliumcowboy artspace, hamburg. plus some nice hamburg city footage.

this baby is about a third ready. there is a lot more to do. will post updates later.

opening oct 17, 2009, 7 - 10 pm

more info:

heliumcobwoy.com
gudberg.de

just a sketch.

and a rough one, also. 2 be build some time later this year. maybe.
I need more time.

a few things ...

Just some stuff that happened the past weeks / will be happening shortly:

ROJO magazine published a new edition, called "®prana pure solid true" and featuring a spread of my latest works from the series "Being Alex Diamond". Get it at the ROJO-website here.

I just finished all images for my first book coming out in Fall with Gudberg Verlag. The book will be mainly about my latest project, called "Being Alex Diamond" (the one with the mask), but will also feature additional artworks & projects, references and texts by authors I admire. Gudberg is going to publish it for the book fair in Frankfurt this October, expect more details soon.

Also in October, I will be opening my next solo showat the heliumcowboy artspace (October 17 - November 13). It coincides with the launch of the book, which is smart, cos the exhibition will be about the same project, "Being Alex Diamond" ...

Just a week before opening the exhibition I will be part of a huge art project in Lüneburg, initiated and curated by Reinking-Projekte. It is an outdoor-exhibition featuring many internationally acclaimed artists. More news about that soon, and of course at the website of Rik Reinking.

Until then you can still check out the group exhibition "Nachschlag" currently on display in Hamburgs heliumcowboy artspace. I've been joining forces with the likes of Evie Haines, Ephameron, 56K, Will Barras, Jon Burgerman, Stephen Smith, Christophe Lambert, Nomad and the Invisble Heroes, and the show runs until August 14. More info here.

And to finish this monster entry: this is what I am currently doing to relax from all exhibition- and book-related preparations for the "Being Alex Diamond"-project - I will be drawing some tattoo-designs for a few people that asked me to do that lately. I'll be going away for some time now and take refuge in a place you cannot follow.

Enjoy the summer & see you soon!

Updated: NACHSCHLAG group show - more pictures

From June 20th to August 14th I am participating in a group show at heliumcowboy in Hamburg amongst a bunch of other excellent artists, such as Evie Haines, Ephameron, 56K, Will Barras, Jon Burgerman, Stephen Smith, Christophe Lambert, Nomad and the Invisble Heroes. The show is called NACHSCHLAG and it runs until August 14.

Pictures are online at heliumcowboy, check this link to view them all and to get more info on the show.

"Continue reading..." below for more detailed installation shots and the work exhibited.

This is the work I'm be showing there. "The hero of tomorrow rises in the golden child and cries: for the love of god!", 80 x 60 cm, acryllic on wood. click image to enlarge (pop up):

In a room with Nomad & Stephen Smith (Neasden Control Centre):

Some details from the installation:

more images here and at NoNewEnemies.net

VOLTA art fair in Basel

Check out the hot shit the heliumcowboys & girls are rocking in Basel at the art fair VOLTA this year. Featuring Boris, Nina & me. The also posted sweet movies from the set up to their site. Seems like they are having fun ...

Progress.

More fresh works from the series "Being Alex Diamond". All very exciting & busy at the moment, got a very tight deadline for a book that will be published about this project in October by GUDBERG-Verlag. Amazing.

Click on "continue reading ..." below to see them all, and on the images to enlarge.

(56x70 cm)

(56x70 cm)

(30x50 cm)

New Stuff.

Just finished some more works from the series "Being Alex Diamond ...". These are really small ones, from 18x18 to 18x27 cm. Click on "continue reading ..." below to see them all, and on the images to enlarge.

New Work: My God Steals From Your Garden.

"My God Steals From Your Garden (of)", 50x60 cm, acryllic and ink on wood. For a group show at Nice / Nice gallery in Hannover, opening April 18. Click image to enlarge.

random sketches.

Just some random doodles from the sketchbook. Finger workout. (click images to enlarge, click continue reading to see more sketches).

You were born inside my heart head...

just a drawing. click image to enlarge. quote by the duke spirits.

In Barcelona

Setting up the exhibition "Das Herz von St. Pauli" at Iguapop gallery in Barcelona. First time I can show the new photo-painting series, at least the first larger output, besides the 2 large ones heliumcowboy presented in Miami. It is a joint group show from Iguapop with heliumcowboy, and it will open on saturday (January 17, 8 p.m.). Finished a small wall drawing yesterday, see a few results below ... and more images over at heliumcowboy.com

Ready for Barcelona

Next week saturday, January 17, IGUAPOP gallery in Barcelona opens a group exhibition called "Das Herz von St. Pauli - heliumcowboy strikes back". After IGUAPOP presented a bunch of their artists at the heliumcowboys in Hamburg in summer 2007, this is the rematch-expo: heliumcowboy was invited to show 6 of their artists in a curated group show in Barcelona. Me, I am one of those artists, alongside Nina Braun, 56K, Stephen Smith/NCC, Christophe Lambert and Arturo Sandoval III.

This is an overview of the works I will be showing, all brand new from the series "Being Alex Diamond" (working title :). Click on "continue reading ..." below to view the individual works ...

Ah, and yes, happy New Year to all of you.

(click on the images to enlarge - in a pop up).

30x50 cm; lambda-print, acryllic paint, polychromos pencils, 2008/09
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70x50 cm; lambda-print, acryllic paint, polychromos pencils, 2008/09
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46x70 cm; lambda-print, acryllic paint, polychromos pencils, 2008/09
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46x70 cm; lambda-print, acryllic paint, polychromos pencils, 2008/09
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30x50 cm; lambda-print, acryllic paint, polychromos pencils, 2008/09
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30x50 cm; lambda-print, acryllic paint, polychromos pencils, 2008/09
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40x50 cm; lambda-print, acryllic paint, polychromos pencils, 2008/09
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First artworks of new series in Miami

The heliumcowboy's took the first two works of the new series to the fairs in Miami beginning of december and just hit me back with some pics from the booth - clean and crisp, I like it a lot. Enjoy the two images here and then go to this link at heliumcowboy to see all the fun in Florida these guys had ... gotta go back again myself next year ...

ah, and find larger views of the two crosspainted photos here.

Other artworks in these images (from left to right ): Antonio Santin, Boris Hoppek, Arturo Sandoval III (from FriendsWithYou) and Nina Braun. Additional artworks by Jon Burgerman were on the outside wall of the booth (not in this image).

Being Alex Diamond, next phase.

Entering the next phase in the mammouth project that this one called "Being Alex Diamond" turns into... the first large prints are in the studio, below some first impressions of the 2 finished re-worked/cross-painted/drawn over portraits of Alex D.. Those 2 will be shipped to Miami to be shown at the SCOPE art fair, heliumcowboy artspace, Booth 255.

More shootings are under way, more Alex Diamond's to come ...

Being Alex Diamond 001_A_XL
80x80 cm lambda-print, acryllic paint, polychromos pencils, 2008
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Being Alex Diamond 002_A_XL
66x100 cm lambda-print, acryllic paint, polychromos pencils, 2008
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More details can be seen when you click on "continue reading" below)

Some details...

Art Bastard: great site, nice interview

Ever checked out Art-Bastard.com? Only half a year in existence, they already got together a huge amount of great talents on their web-based Urban Art platform. Now featuring an interview with Alex D. as well, read it over here.

The next big thing.

First test results from a new series (or much rather: project) I am working on. "Being Alex Diamond" is the name of the thing, and below you find a hint at the direction it may be taking. These two examples are just doodles and sketches over lambda-prints in a format slightly-too-large-for-my-scanner to test out the materials.

But see how nicely I've shaven my legs for the photo shoot! With the hair in my face and on my head, that's another issue... and don't even get me started on the tentacles ...

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Contemporape Dept.

Messed around with the cover of DGV's great new book about young contemporary artists (awesome book, here's more info about it (The Upset). Painted over the cover (by Mark Ryden) 'cos the heliumcowboy's asked me to personalise their present for spanish wonder-boy Antonio Santin, who turned 30 at the opening of his show in Hamburg with them and they gave him the book and cake and flowers and (from what I heard) too much to drink.

Click the image to enlarge.

Sketches.

While I am currently working on a large scale project for next shows, I'll upload some sketches and stuff from time to time, just so it doesn't get too boring here ... click "continue reading..." below for more images, and click images to enlarge.

Pictures from the 5 years anniversary show

Well, it's all over now. It was fantastic. Pictures and everything at heliumcowboy.com, click here!!!!

Alex Diamond vs. Boris Hoppek. In the basement of the Bieberhaus.

5 years heliumcowboy artspace

This saturday, the huge 5 years anniversary exhibition from the heliumcowboy artspace gallery will open its doors ... it is a massive event, if you should be in Hamburg and don't come - blame yourself for missing it!

more info below the picture

Celebrating 5 years heliumcowboy artspace with a group exhibition featuring:

56k, Akane Kimbara, Alex Diamond, Alexey Mirni, Antonio Santin, Blami, Boris Hoppek, Casey McKee, Christophe Lambert, Jim Avignon, Jon Burgerman, Kingdrips, Karen Koltermann, Ki Yoon Ko, Lena Schmidt, Luiza Mogosanu, Lui Roq, Mike Swaney, moki, Stephen Smith/Neasden Control Centre, Nina Braun, Pandarosa, Patrick Farzar, Rinzen, Thomas Markus Schumann, Victor Castillo, Rai Escale, 4000.

July 12 - August 15

Vernissage: July 12, 8 - 12 p.m.
featuring live music by Andrephine, Jay Green, M.D.M.A.x and DJ Sdag (THE AREA BOYS)
and performance art by Luiza Mogosanu

Admission to Vernissage: 3 € (including exhibition catalogue / limited edition posters)
Admission to Exhibition (after the Vernissage): free
at Bieberhaus, Hachmannplatz/Ernst-Merck-Str. 9
A special edition catalogue will be published after the show.

more pictures on the heliumcowboy website

Art Basel

Been invited to be part of a project at Art Basel / Design Miami early June in, er, Basel. Project for Audi (by mutabor), the main sponsor of the fair; they made a great catalogue (no idea where you can get it), and apparently had a great vernissage with the works of 10 visual artists, photographers and designers from everywhere. Don't know about that either, I haven't been to Basel.

This is what was in there from me (click on the image to enlarge/pop up):

No New Enemies - group show in Brussels

One of my works is part of a great show at "le Botanique" - curated by No New Enemies/modart's Harlan Levey, the show combines a lot of artists from the vast NNE-Network, including Neasden Control Centre, Boris Hoppek, Alex Diamond, Bo130, Microbo, Morcky, the Boghe, Wayne Horse, Ado Jahic, Galo, The London Police, Will Barras, Jon Burgerman, Guillaume Desmarets, Never Effect, Ephameron, Maoma, Btoy, L’Atlas, Jerome ‘G’ Demuth, RuediOne, and Smash137.

Won't be able to make it myself there, but the heliumcowboys were taking the "Myth of the White Buffalo" to Brussels, painted the walls and set up a semi-installation/environment for the painting according to my plans. Seriously.

They came back with a lot of pictures, so please follow the "continue reading..." link below to view more.

(exhibition view next with Boris Hoppek's interactive sheep ...)

About the painting:

Alex Diamond: Monopoly Remix: The Myth of the White Buffalo
180 x 190 cm, acryllic, ink, magazine pages/collage on 16 wood panels (2008)

The White Buffalo is based upon one of the most important legends of the Sioux. The medicine man Crow Dog explains, "This holy woman brought the sacred buffalo calf pipe to the Sioux. There could be no Indians without it. Before she came, people didn’t know how to live. They knew nothing. The Buffalo Woman put her sacred mind into their minds.” Albino buffalo were sacred to all Plains tribes; a white buffalo hide was a sacred talisman, a possession beyond price. A white buffalo is the most sacred living thing you could ever encounter.

In the painting, the White Buffalos hide is created from art magazine pages featuring numerous artist portraits. The pages are whitened and then drawn over with many characters (or souls), fighting today’s battle with an art world that is trying to create icons and pop stars like saviours for an unpredictable future. Would you be quickly tempted by beauty (remember, lightning may struck you), or could you wait until it really is time to feast?

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Much much more images, from the whole show and all artists: check out the digilog by heliumcowboy artspace.

More information - go to modarteurope.com or the No New Enemies site or continue reading this entry to check what Harlan wrote in his intro for the catalogue:

NNE is honored to showcase several of our members during Les Nuits Du Botanique at the Botanique
Museum in Brussels.

May 7 – May 18.

www.botanique.be

"Welcome to our playground. We had two days to fill the space. It hasn’t happened yet, but whatever happened I’m sure there wasn’t a lot of sleep involved.

No New Enemies is an international network of artists, activists and passionate people, which began as an open minded collective who enjoyed collaborating on the streets for various reasons. One of these reasons was to communicate with a broad and democratic public … to work outside of institution and reject elitist pseudo intellectual garbage. The network aims to place art in public spaces, support young artists with tools and opportunities and question the citizen/consumer dialectic and the military
style uniform of mass media aesthetics. Our voice is recycled. Our approach is DIY and Do it Together.

Everything is propaganda. Critical questions and brave imagination are the tools we have to slice through it.

Recognized for their work as ‘street artists,’ our members have created a language that has influenced every aspect of the cultural sphere. Want support of such a statement? Visit their sites or Google their names. If you look you’ll find their work, because like the artists themselves, it is constantly in motion. Affiliated NNE visual artists include: The London Police, Galo, Logan Hicks, Will Barras, Mr. Jago, Bo130, Microbo, Nomad, Dave the Chimp, Christophe Remy aka Never Effect, Jon Burgerman, Smash137, RuediOne, Morcky + The Boghe = Twothings, Maoma, Wayne Horse, Influenza, Abner Preis, L’Atlas, Ephameron, Richard Dana, Farm Prod, Victor Castillo, Neasden Control Centre, Alex Diamond,
Beat 13, The Love Movement, Joey Monsoon, Koor, Bayram, Jeremy Fish, The Don, Pixel Pancho, Rabodiga, Dadara, Pez, Above, Veggie, Faith47, D*Face, RIPO, Tina Vila, Thundercut and Vinnie Ray."

(Harlan Levey)

For More information on NNE Original Art, Prints, Products and Exhibition/Art services as well as public proposals, please contact: nonewenemies@gmail.com

www.nonewenemies.net

Diamonds in Gudberg-Magazine

The new Gudberg-Magazine has been published while I was in New York, and it features 8 pages (A3) with spreads from some of my works. Including a couple of the souls and spirits that were floating inside the installation "you don't know what love is" as seen in New York, and some magazine drawings. Continue reading below for more images.

Other artists in this issue: 56K, typeholics, Julian Rentzsch, Lyle Owerko, Dirk Rossbach, Isabelle Landthaler, Matthias Ludynia, Petra Arnold, Eberhard Kohlhas, Tom Leifer

The magazine is available at a lot of cool stores and galleries for free: DIN A3, 48 Pages. You may also order it online (for a little fee) at the magazines website: www.magazingudberg.de.

New York Diaries - part 5

Fair is nearing its end, got a couple of more good shots from the booth today, and also from all the people entering the installation. Most of the people are a bit scared at first, just popping their heads in before entering ... we have seen long queues at the gold curtain ...

See much more images when following the link "continue reading..." below.

The queue starts here:

... and yes, they do come out again ... some at least ...

Getting ready for New York

Last piece for New York has been finished a couple of hours before the shipping got picked up. No real images yet, just some impressions from the 2x2 m painting/collage lying around on the floor. Will look good on a wall ... :)

Some information about the activities planned with the heliumcowboy artspace can be downloaded as a pdf here.

i will write more once the trip starts. There will be The New York Diaries soon, something I did the last time I've been at a fair, remember "The Miami Diaries" from December 2006? So ... stay tuned.

Tan Cierto Como Hay Dios: Installation views

From the current show, some more details of the installation "Tan Cierto Como Hay Dios". Something similar is going to happen in New York soon ...

More images and infos about the current show "Love Me With A Gun To My Head" at heliumcowboy artspace - see entry below.

Love Me With A Gun To My Head - show images.

Finally. Managed to get a new entry up. Merely a link. Check out the images from my recent show "Love Me With A Gun 2 My Head", to be seen until January 18 at the heliumcowboy artspace. Visit my little cathedral "So sicher wie das Amen in der Kirche". Take a seat in my armchair. Don't worry 'bout hiding behind a mask. We had at least 3 Alex Diamond's during the night of the opening. And with Maex Kalin & Andrew Phin also the finest Rap/Double-Bass Duo from Hamburg. Make sure to check the videos also....

Alos, there was a 60 page book printed for the show, take a peek or order the catalogue here.

all links:

the show >>>>>
the videos of Maex Kalin & Andrew Phin >>>>
view and order the catalogue of the show >>>>

Riding your board for charity.

All artworks for the exhibition next week are completed, really looking forward to setting up a massive installation in the gallery soon. The last stuff I've been working on are these 2 skateboards for the group shows THE HELPING HOUNDS OF HELL ...

I've been invited to participate in this great charity project, which will take place next January and Febuary in Berlin and Hamburg. The list of participating artists is really great (see below), and all of them and everyone else involved, starting with the skateboard company Twilite as the originator of the project and all other supporters like Sage Club Berlin, GDBG Design Company, Die Photodesigner, and the exhibiting galleries Neurotitan (Berlin) and heliumcowboy artspace (Hamburg, who also curated the shows), are working for free to support the SAGE Hospital for children in Senegal.

More info as soon as more comes up, latest in December the website for the project will be up and running, right now it contains the general info, here: houndsofhell.de

Participating artists, all dates and complete views of my decks - continue reading by checking the link below ...

THE HELPING HOUNDS OF HELL
a project by twilite skateboards and friends for the sage hospital

www.houndsofhell.de

25.01.2008 - 03.02.2008 neurotitan gallery, berlin
08.02.2008 - 12.02.2008 galerie heliumcowboy artspace, hamburg

with

44flavours | 56k | BEATSTEAKS | blackjune | blami | Nina Braun | Jon Burgerman | CAnTs.DBL | Victor Castillo | Alex Diamond | Gabriel Dubois | Ephameron | GDBG | The Haina | Havec | Boris Hoppek | HORT | human empire | Eilert Janßen | KINGDRIPS | Christophe Lambert | m23 | moki | Neasden Control Centre | Pandarosa & Michael Burman | Rinzen | Antonio Santin | Smash | Via Grafik | YUMMIE INDUSTRIES | Zast Real Estate

curated by Jörg Heikhaus, heliumcowboy artspace

Board 01: "Please Take My Heart (When No One's Watching)", Acrylic paint on, erm, Skateboard, 2007

Board 02: "The Voice Of Reason (I Can't Hear You)", Acrylic paint on, well, Skateboard, 2007

catalogue and show update

Woa. The Catalogue arrived. Very nice. Been down under with creating artwork for the book, well, mainly on creating artworks for the show at the heliumcowboy artspace (nov. 30 - jan. 18), and the SCOPE art fair in Miami (dec 5-9). For a preview of spreads from the catalogue click on the image below or here.

You cannot get it yet, gotta wait till the show opens nov. 30, 8 p.m. ... more info here ...

Love Me With A Gun To My Head.

"Love Me With A Gun To My Head" - this is going to be the title of the next exhibition by the way. Made 2 ink drawings A3 sized with the title in them, for larger images click "continue reading ..." below ...

Something completely different.

Huh? Yeah. Collages. This one is quite small (30 x 40) and called "Hand Me Pettibons Hands" or something. Or was it "Spot RB'S Hands?" Made other ones a lot larger (70 x 100 cm), but they are not reproduced yet. Even though they have been lying around at the studio for a few weeks now...

This is just a detail, click "continue reading .." below for full image.

More black and white.

It really is. Black and white on wood I mean (Ivory Black and "Off"- or "Old"-White that is). Just the photos are pretty poor, but as the heliumcowboy artspace is going to do a catalogue for the show there on november 30, there will be excellent reproductions soon made from all this. Anyway, this is just a preview straight from the studio with the paint still wet.

Check "continue reading" below for more images.

Black and White continued.

Man, these babies are hard to reproduce with an ordinary camera. Seems to be true, though, that you gotta see art live and not online... Anyway, continuing the series "Sorry baby, I only got black and white to give", Acryllic on wood, 40 x 40 x 4 cm. This one is the same size, same material as the one from the last entry (below), but it looks different - blame it on my camerawork. About time I deliver some works to the gallery, so that they can deal with the reproduction ...

click on the image to see an enlarged popup. Or click here ...

Sorry I Only Got Black & White To Give.

Some new stuff I am currently working on below... So much to do lately, because this year it all hits at the finishing line: My solo show at the heliumcowboy artspace (Hamburg) is opening on November 30th, a day later I am taking part in the group show "Don't Wake Daddy" at Hamburgs Feinkunst Krüger, the week after that some of my new works will be shown at SCOPE art fair in Miami ... and there are two other smaller art projects lined up for the next few months ... all good, all pretty crazy, but that's how I like it the most.

The new stuff, currently in progress (image above shows a detail, click on it and you will see the whole image in a popup): working with ivory black, matting it down more and more to give it a soft feel. Adding touches of dusky white with smallest brushstrokes and letting the shapes wander. Tentactles over and over, but please don't trust them (or your head. It may be on fire without you knowing it.) The wood as a basis give me some kind of an earthbound feeling despite all the weirdness in the work. This series will be keeping me busy for a while now ...

No Heroes In Her Sky: new images online

Finally managed to upload some better quality images and closeups/details from the large paper drawing "No Heroes In Her Sky" (150 x 240 cm, acryllic and ink on thick drawing paper).

So, if you want to see details of the work click here for more images (pop up)

Who's the devil?

more images when you click onto "continue reading" below

More for Basel.

70 x 100 cm, same technique as below, if you wanna know what's written in the artworks, invite me to dinner and I read it to you.

Finished just in time for Basel.

What a terrible Photo, but unfortunately there was no good light and the Camera is crap. Will post better images once this large drawing will be at the heliumcowboy artspace booth at the SCOPE art fair in Basel next week (11. - 17. June)... Format approx. 150 x 250 cm, acryllic paint and ink on thick drawing paper.

if you want to see details of the work click here for more images (pop up)

Under construction.

A new large drawing. Approximately 2 x 1.50 meters. Currently under construction, but a small preview here to let you know what's going on. New line development, shapes evolving more and more, clear and bold outlines. Let's see how this continues. Or if.

Pope-a-Dope.

Bishops and doodles. Just some more small inbetween-stuff. Added new boxers below as well.

more below ....

Ever lost a fight?

Some new ideas, styles, moods. Right out of the sketchbook, and testing it on wood. More when you click on "continue reading.." below.

finally some new works.

well, it took me a while to update here, but there were a couple of new works in the making lately, some of the really fresh ones, three paintings on wood (29 x 42 cm, acryllic & ink), i have posted below ... they will be on exhibit at the scope art fair in new york from feb 22 - 26 at booth 60 (that's the heliumcowboy artspaces' booth). unfortunately the large one i made (a 110 by 86 cm drawing on 3mm white cardboard, mounted on dibond) was sent off to new york before i could take a decent shot ... last minute as usual... well, it will follow here next week ...

inquiries about the work as usual via the galerie heliumcowboy artspace.

and if you only want this page to display my artworks (the few things i have posted here, most of the stuff is over at heliumcowboy.com) - just select the category "just the artworks" ...

this one here's got nothing to do with the three above, but hey, it fits somehow but is on the backside of a drawing board/canvas, is 21 by 21 cm, and was painted some time last fall:

diamond diaries, day 2 - painting the wall.

okay, here we go again ... internet connection at the fair is lousy, i am not sure what they are doing with it here, i guess they don't know either ... well. day 2 started with breakfast and a vistit to the beach ... don't mind the clouds, it is really really warm and nice, and today we have sun and .. well, summer, really. (continue reading below)

setting up the booth yesterday was tough, but great fun also. spent approximately 5 hours on the mural at the outside wall of our booth, while lutz was unpacking stuff and hanging the hoppek and and and. we've ben at the fair ground from early in the morning till late, but as a reward we went for some beers in the breezy miami night close to the beach. it's really good to be here. fantastic athmosphere, and the quality of the exhibitors is pretty high.

today, december 6, the fair started - but only after we went for our first swim in the sea and another huge breakfast with a view of the ocean ...

so, here are some images from setting up the booth and making the mural on december 5 ...

... and this is where our day ended. outside, at a bar, under wild miami skies ...

bootlegging friendswithyou

here's my contribution to the great great FriendsWithYou-bootleg show at the heliumcowboy artspace ... click on the image to see a larger pic. prepare to scroll a lot, this one is loooong. original size: 74 x 160 cm, but it's still on the paper roll, so ...

and don't forget to check out the great stuff done by other artists for this show: boris hoppek, moki, kingdrips, neasden control centre, eliza, via grafik, nina braun, haina, and of course sam & tury from friendswithyou themselves ... click here!

riders.

new artwork from august, well these are two large paintings i did and who are hard to show online, cos the lines are so delicate in contrast to the colours used, so there is one shot from the whole wall (to see the dimensions, above) and two mediocre shots from the two paintings (below), click onto each of them to see a larger picture (1000 pix wide, did i mention i got a huge screen connected to my computer? :)
paitings can be seen live at the art fairs the heliumcowboy artspace visits this year, november in cologne (art.fair, 2. - 5. november) and scope miami in december (7. - 11.12.) ...

riders.

new artwork from august, well these are two large paintings i did and who are hard to show online, cos the lines are so delicate in contrast to the colours used, so there is one shot from the whole wall (to see the dimensions, above) and two mediocre shots from the two paintings (below), click onto each of them to see a larger picture (1000 pix wide, did i mention i got a huge screen connected to my computer? :)
paitings can be seen live at the art fairs the heliumcowboy artspace visits this year, november in cologne (art.fair, 2. - 5. november) and scope miami in december (7. - 11.12.) ...

for the book.

and another new one, this is for the book the heliumcowboy artspace publishes end of october, it's actually a double page spread of the ad the generous sponsor of the book (volkswagen) gets in there ...

click on the image to enlarge ... original size is two wooden blocks 30x30 cm ...

for the book.

and another new one, this is for the book the heliumcowboy artspace publishes end of october, it's actually a double page spread of the ad the generous sponsor of the book (volkswagen) gets in there ...

click on the image to enlarge ... original size is two wooden blocks 30x30 cm ...

no sticker-sticker.

new diamond-sticker on the block. ah yeah, new entry in this blog, also. what a busy day for alex diamond... (click here for a larger image)

and a recommendation for kingdrips.de: see the large colorful sticker in the top left of the photo or here at their website...

threesome.

© alex diamond. they do look ... good together.

threesome.

© alex diamond. they do look ... good together.

kids with guns at decoy.

three large format paintings from the last alex diamond-show "gold, kinder!" are currently on display at hamburgs decoy, marktstraße 145. and this time, they are on a white background ...

link: images from the show "gold, kinder!"

done. come see it.

the opening was huge. thanks to all who came, and to barabass & kuku sina portnova and and and ...

some images from the show and from the artwork can be found here!

allright, i am going back to bed ... need some more sleep to recuperate ...

but for those who are awake: the show runs until november 25, and can be visited from wednesdays to saturdays between 2 and 7 p.m. at the galerie heliumcowboy artspace, sternstrasse 4, 20357 hamburg.

3 days to go...

... madness is slowly creeping into the studio.

oh, and a larger view from a weird angle:

diamonds in mokis' forest

well, look what has gotten into the leaves ... a week before opening the next alex diamond exhibition in hamburgs heliumcowboy artspace, and on the last day of moki's fantastic show "fox in the snow" (finissage tonight at 7 p.m.) with all those autumn foliage on the gallery floor, a mean girl with a gun is about to destroy the harmony ...

image below shows a picture taken bei heiko from the moki-show. same leaves as above, much friendlier artwork though... (it's all blurred here, check it out either at moki's or the gallery site)

diamonds in mokis' forest

well, look what has gotten into the leaves ... a week before opening the next alex diamond exhibition in hamburgs heliumcowboy artspace, and on the last day of moki's fantastic show "fox in the snow" (finissage tonight at 7 p.m.) with all those autumn foliage on the gallery floor, a mean girl with a gun is about to destroy the harmony ...

image below shows a picture taken bei heiko from the moki-show. same leaves as above, much friendlier artwork though... (it's all blurred here, check it out either at moki's or the gallery site)

craftsmanship.

and now the jigsaw is alex' best friend... some views of work in progress for the upcoming exhibition in november ...

craftsmanship.

and now the jigsaw is alex' best friend... some views of work in progress for the upcoming exhibition in november ...

liberated shapes.

shapes let loose: compared to the geometrical forms used in the 2004-series "strange sofa" (image below), this year they spread seemingly uncontrolled over the surface, accompanied by strange creatures, but still with the same focus on human strangeness ... (image above, another "test" for the upcoming exhibition/click image to enlarge).

liberated shapes.

shapes let loose: compared to the geometrical forms used in the 2004-series "strange sofa" (image below), this year they spread seemingly uncontrolled over the surface, accompanied by strange creatures, but still with the same focus on human strangeness ... (image above, another "test" for the upcoming exhibition/click image to enlarge).

44flavours killed my tv.

a small tribute to the guys at 44flavours, who are currently preparing the launch of the third issue of their magazine. they have re-designed their website as well, check it out here. image above shows alex' humble contribution to 44flavours number 3 (enlarge image).

p.s.: can you tell i have been working with a different camera since the last entry was shot? quite a WEIRD difference between those two blueish-golden wood paintings, tough it is the same paint that's been used.

44flavours killed my tv.

a small tribute to the guys at 44flavours, who are currently preparing the launch of the third issue of their magazine. they have re-designed their website as well, check it out here. image above shows alex' humble contribution to 44flavours number 3 (enlarge image).

p.s.: can you tell i have been working with a different camera since the last entry was shot? quite a WEIRD difference between those two blueish-golden wood paintings, tough it is the same paint that's been used.

diamonds are always good.

just couldn't get myself up to open photoshop for the promised container-collage. drawing is so much nicer. anyway. life is good. there'll be more fox-related stuff soon(ish). i just recuperated from the project. or should i say resurfaced?

gold, kinder part I

in case you were wondering: the design you see on this page, all images are taken from the new series i started to work on around the end of last year. it is going to be called "gold, kinder!" and is still in its very early stages.

currently there is not much to say about this, can't be too revealing because most of the ideas are still in my head (no, you don't wanna look in there!), but i started with smaller drawings, which eventually will emerge into large format paintings.

all heavily reduced, as usual, but without the colorful LSD-backdrops of the last series (as can be seen here). mostly the colors will consist of black ink and gold pigments, as you may see in the uploaded image below. it is just a detail shot from one of the works, but the gold only truly shows in the original drawing.

i will continue writing about the progress and the thoughts of this series on this site. it will be exhibited for the first time in may or june this year. oh, yes, and one of the illustrations will be featured in the magazine 44flavours, which will be launched (well, the 3rd edition that is) at the heliumcowboy artspace on february 5 during the opening of the 44flavours-show feat. lutz lindemann, julio rölle and sebastian bagge (the artists behind the magazine).