Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2011

NINE EYES / 9 - 67,5 x 22,5 digital prints / white LED`s
Yu Friedel (2005)



`The Design of apparatus made by humans
to substitute our natural capacities
of observation and communication
becomes more and more a perfect copy
of our own human body and it`s organs`




TWO EYES (of totally four)
Digital Photography. 13th January 2011, 10.13 a.m.
Peter Zanger / Foto CID



CID Arte Concept

The idea of the CID Arte Gallery basically was born to overcome the creative isolation of the Piedras del Rio / Riverstones Ceramic Atelier. When in 1999 the artistic design of ceramic artcraft became structural part of the CID Investigation Office, then this happened under the aspect of natural science guided `behavioural self-observation` to fathom the origins of creative inspiration. `How and when do appear ideas and images later used for object design in our mind, from where do these ideas come ?` was the question intended to answer by systematic self observation. 11 years later and seen from the actual matured point of view and with somewhat advanced experience I have to admit, that this formulation of question was only possible from an completely and dramatically unexperienced point of view.

The establishment years in Germany repeatedly drained CID Investigation towards an principal decision about the concentration of all efforts or on the investigative or on the artistic / creative sector to obtain a more successful enterprise development. From the actual point of view it is to consider as success to have maintained the combined structure of investigation, documentation, publication and artistic creation under the superordinate concept of visual communication.

To maintain that `double-structure` the isolated ceramic workshop was embedded artificially in the CID Arte department, that itself began to establish and extend relationships with other artists. For that purpose an Internet Online Gallery was created and Painters, Photographers and Ceramists invited to present themselves together with Riverstones / Piedras del Rio and CID (See: www.cid-arte-artistas.blogspot.com ). Self-evident is, that the new and relatively unknown CID Arte Internet Gallery besides an vast number of already existing, prosperous, and famous galleries wouldn`t attract already established artists to expose their works there, but could be a good tool for equally unknown or unestablished and beginning artists to present their artworks and to obtain certain attention by joining an project that probably receives more attention for other fields of work than art.


SLOE WATERCATCH
Digital Photography. Peter Zanger / Foto CID



Internet Online Structure

To develop CID Arte to more than an presentation catalogue of history and artcraft products of the ceramic studio Piedras del Rio / Riverstones, the initial mission of the project, the homepage www.cid-arte.blogspot.com, that was created the 3rd of October 2008, had to be redisgned. A first restructuration and extension followed 24th May 2009. The new homepage with separated posts for Concept – Art Photography – Ceramic Workshop – Workshop Marketplace – Artists Gallery received several new designs, mostly by adding and exchanging photographies, until at end of October 2010 was established the actual CID Arte homepage structure.


Homepage of CID Arte
www.cid-arte.blogspot.com



Basic structure of the CID Arte homepage are the following chapters:

  • Headline
  • Ceramic Art Craft
  • Foto CID at CID Arte
  • Expositions
  • Concept
  • Friend Artists Gallery

Ceramic Art Craft

The chapter gives an overview about the own design of ceramic artwork from Riverstones / Piedras del Rio. The www.piedras-del-rio.blogspot.com Blog with the historic life table of the workshop from it`s foundation in 1997 until the actuality, that also makes reference to the members and participants of the artcraft design studio, is connected here. The atelier history blog is followed by 4 Internet galleries with the most presentable artworks created in


A concept for a comercial catalogue of the artcraft studio is the `Marketplace`- Blog (www.cidarte-marketplace.blogspot.com), that shows examples of the workshops offered product series of individually designed single pieces as

  • Tea-Pots,
  • Cups,
  • Jewellery,
  • Reproductions of Traditional Artcraft,
  • House Weapon Shields,
  • Letter Character Plates (Script Tiles),
  • Unique Garden Figurines and
  • Extense Surface Mosaiques

Third element of the chapter are links to the newest projects of Riverstones / Piedras del Rio,




CASUAL COMBINATION
Digital Photography, 4
th September 2009, 13.30 p.m.
Peter Zanger / Foto CID



Foto CID at CID Arte

Foto CID overlaps with CID Arte in the composition of non-documentary photobooks and photo-series with `artistic` photography, even if the original meaning of the word all photographies are artwork. As Foto CID art photography in the more narrow sense of the term are considered several image series with pictures that are artificially modified to convert them in `digital paintings`, as

A second level of photo-art, that is not directly related with the artistic expression of a single photography, is the composition of art-photobooks, where thematically related documentary photographies composed under a common headline in a book or image series might develop in coherence an artistic value or meaning. This is intended in several Foto CID image series or books, but seen from the photographers isolated point of view, in search of an visual communication strategy and without deeper reflection of the `art messages` in the observating surroundings.

An intermediate level occupy three communicative photographic activity-projects `outside` the proper CID Blog Internet scene. Therefore CID uses the international Internet photographers platform Flickr. Flickr is an private-public Internet photoagency, where every individual photographer can expose his works to whole world public. The Flick photostock unites all kind of photography, from private self imaging over family event documentations, art and erotic photography, travel-, portrait-, nature- and urban-photography until crime scene, forensic and press photography. The great advantage and exceptional quality of Flickr is, that the image data base is restriction free. Every user decides about the exposed images. Every consultant decides what he observes and what not. No directing interference exists in Flickr. This quality is worth mentioning and to defend and distinguishes the data base from other communicative Internet platforms.

The Flickr photostock nowadays is so complete, that data-researches about nearly every geographic site of the whole world are possible. Besides geography also natural science topics are far-reaching completely documented by Flickr. The inmediate access for every digital camera and Flickr account holder to the worldwide image pool converts the platform in an image agency more fast and more actual than conventional press media could be. Also for cases of minorities in defense or political persecutions Flickr is an excellent self-defense tool against crimes and repressions commited under cover of administrative censorship.

At www.flickr.com Foto CID established 3 so called `Photostreams` that are considered as

  • tool for the establishment of communication with other photographers
  • virtual blackboard for the design of variable `themes in time`
  • communication slate for new or actualized CID Blogs that otherwise would be overseen by public
  • inmediate reaction site for communication of important news

Generic Photostream of the photographic agency is the Foto CID Photostream, ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/37061315@N04/ ), existing since january 2008 and several times re-initiated.

Initial task attributed to the photostream was the presentation of the CID Investigation Office work with focus to the sector Contemporary History and Press Photography. During the first 2 years of existence several `hot spot`-thematics related to documented civil war events in Central and South America during the last two decades of the past century could be presented and in one case of open investigations communication to local photographers could be established ( i.e. El Managuense ). The established communication line got lost in 2010.

The intent to establish `themes in time` photoseries deplorably is overshadowed regular by actual upcoming thematics that Foto CID tries to answer or react on by visual communication measures, using it`s photostream. For that reason a separation in several `streams` with fixed different thematics was seen as solution. This led to the establishment of two imaginary new photostreams with generated identities of foreign photographers, who`s virtual spaces sooner or later should be filled by really existing persons that collaborate with Foto CID. Every image series should maintain permanently it`s general headline as

For the third photostream the headline maintainment could be reached. The first and second photostream deplorable degenerated repeatedly until certain extend to an legal self defense tool against direct attacks on CID at the offices establishment site that had to be communicated to our contacts, even if in this report no deeper reflection of that thematic is forseen.

Obvious is, that the `organized actions` against CID, even if the main actor is a single person, are based on and would not be possible without an extended support structure that consists in a legal background and financial forcing up. The destructive actions aimed almost against the transport and communication structure of the office (October 2002, February 2003, May 2003, March – April 2004, July 2010, August 2010). Several incursions ocurred always and repeatedly short before an economic independence of the office by successful productions of the ceramic workshop was expected (22. July 2003, summer 2006, 20. June – 9. July 2010). Also repeatedly destructions of the office house entrance zone occurr always parallel to visits of from abroad (September 2009, September 2010, June 2010, December 2010).

A new beginning for the Foto CID- and Mistreated Melodies-Photostream is thought. Several photo-segments worth to preserve will be transferred to image-blogs of Foto-CID as already started with the www.weierminsi.blogspot.com series of photographies from the CID offices village. Same is thought for the `Bead Theme` photographies of Mistreated Melodies.




Expositions

Most activities of CID Investigation, Publishing and Photography are `indoor` and bring `invisible` results such as edited texts, knowledge, ideas, theories or digital images. The extension of the CID activities during 2008 – 2011 to Internet has as consequence an even deeper `working isolation`, the results remain mostly inside the virtual world. `Outdoor` working results of the office can be

  • Printed Books
  • Lectures
  • Expositions of Photographies, Paintings, Ceramics
  • Positioning of Ceramic Artcraft in Shops or Outdoor Presentation Areas

It has to be noted, that after the beginning of Internet Publishing in 2008, which in consequence brought the retirement from book printing, and except a single exposition hold in the Venezuelan Consulate in Frankfurt between october and november 2007 (http://www.exposicion-2007.blogspot.com), the ceramic atelier outdoor area construction was the only site where CID in 2010 was visible in the `real world` during the past years. This conclusion explains from our point of view the `target function` of the first outdoor presentation area UNIVERSE MOSAIQUE LAKE that already was mentioned in this report chapter.

The CID Arte homepage `exposition` chapter post presents until now only two links to the hold exposition in Frankfurt in 2007 and to the following, prepared for Braunfels in 2008 but cancelled in latest moment and then transferred to Internet, where the artcraft pieces planned to show under the title `Y Aves` are presented in the blogs (http://www.exposicion-2008.blogspot.com/ and http://www.historia-paujil.blogspot.com/).




Gallery

The CID Arte related artists Gallery homepage http://www.cid-arte-artistas.blogspot.com/ was created 15th August 2009. Actually 9 artists from Colombia, Canada, Argentina, Germany and Israel, between these the two artcraft constructing members of Piedras del Rio / Riverstones Ceramic Artcraft Atelier, are presented here on individual blog-pages that can be extended eventually for example to document complete actual expositions or work-shows. As already mentioned upside the presentation platform could be used by international artist newcomers to obtain attention. Until now the connected blogs are edited and designed by CID Arte. Using the black CID standard design background Awesome AG by Tina Chen, the presentation blogs also could be edited by the artists themselves and the blog direction could later be comunicated to the CID Artists Gallery and connected there. Self-evident, that the blog`s artistic message should be oriented to the basic selfunderstatement of freedom, respect, esteeming of life, mutual protection and covering of minorites, disapproval of physical violence, as well as struggle against racism, abolition of death punishment and production and use of firearms.




Piedras del Rio / Riverstones Ceramic Artcraft Atelier

The presentable advance of the ceramic ateliers artcraft creations in 2009 and 2010 is limited to the development of several new design prototypes. Mentionable are here

  • Script plates with chinese letter characters
  • Small dolphin sculptures
  • Gugans (extremely thin, columnar statue-couples with female & male characteristics)
  • Unique, heavy kitchen salad bowls (hand turned)
  • Jewellery Chains (with glazed and gold plated ceramic elements)
  • Ghost statues
  • Cats, sitting and meditating
  • Small bird statues
  • Phantasy fishes
  • Mosaique lizards

As already mentioned, the most dedication of activity and creativity received the design and construction of the glazed ceramic outdoor mosaique UML during march until june 2010. The actual difficulty to present efforts and results of this project to the interested public is already mentioned in this blog in the respective chapter about Ceramic Artcraft production (see upside). The mosaique will be repaired during 2011 and 2012.

First and only prototype of a new artcraft design line in january 2011 is the `Feather Caresser`, ocasionally developed at 1st of january with prime material from a bird of prey hit by a `new year`s`-rocket from `Hogmanay`-firework between 24.00 and 1.00 a.m. The construction is simple and based on a technique that makes unnecessary the burning of the ceramic object in a kiln, so that similar constructions could be build by every artist elsewhere in the world. The senseful application of the object requires company of one person of the opposite sex.


`FEATHER CARESSER`
Halcon feathers & unburned clay
RIVERSTONES sensual developments (Copyright)





Edition, design and photographies by

Peter Zanger / Foto CID


Contact

peterzanger1@yahoo.de



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