"The Titian of Techno"
The Swatch he designed is already sold out. But you may look for his Male Strip Show, a computer game free to download. "Titian of Techno" he was christened by his fans. For the "Berlin Love Parade"
he designed the leading wagon, admired by several hundred thousand people. Recently he and his friends opened "U-Kunst", a temporary art shop for "E-Art" (entertaining art) with works of art costing less than $ 70.
Art works: destroyed, sold off, given away
At the "documenta IX" he created large sized works of art every day, just to destroy them the same evening. In Frankfurt he has shown 700 of his works ("Get rich with art") selling them at 15 marks each. Many of the paintings still presented online at artzone have in the meantime been torn up by him - to include a piece in each copy of his new book "Popbones" together with 30 new art works. That's Jim Avignon, a Berlin artist.
Revolutionary?
Dreamer?
Advertiser?
What is he? Reviewers and journalists are quite unsure. A would-be revolutionary? Dreamer? Clever and tricky promotor of his own art affairs? The last fighter for democracy in arts? A follower of Beuys, when saying that exhibitions should be like pop concerts? "It's not right that thousands of people attend every pop concert - and that the galleries are devoid of visitors."
Ecology and UFOs, ego problems
and happiness
Most of all he seems to be a fanatic painter. And if he says "Nobody is faster than me" or "I can work incredibly fast and it's no bother for me to paint for 18 hours a day." his works nevertheless don't look like highspeed oeuvres. You will meet UFOs and funny little yellow men from Mars, tired people early in the morning at a bus stop and young men with ego problems, their heads slot into each other like those wooden russian "babushkas" puppets.
His paintings deal with political and ecological problems but also with everyday problems and everyday happiness.
No Haring, no Cave Painter, Jim Avignon!
Reviewers describe his art works as stylistically situated between cave painting, comic art and Keith Haring. But that's an unimaginative label and an expression of helplessness in the face of a new genuine style Jim Avignon has created. You will find artistic quotations without a doubt, images that will remind you of Chagall or Kirchner or Haring too. But it's always Jim Avignon himself.
I DRAW THE WORLD
I WANT TO SHOW THE BEAUTY
+ THE CRUELTY OF LIFE
NOTHING IN MY WORKS IS ABOUT ART
I'M FASTER THAN ANYBODY
I´M JIM AVIGNON
Enjoy our exhibit. And if you are yearning for more: go to our page more of jim or directly to Jim Avignon online.
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© for all images: Jim Avignon.
Exhibit design: Gerd Marstedt (The Fine Site)
Many thanks to Peter Bernhard, Artzone.
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