I am a bird now

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		<description>Exhibitions / ProjectsChristian Schoeler
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		<title>Si le grain ne meurt, Don't Projects, Paris, France</title>
				
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“SI LE GRAIN NE MEURT”,
DON’T PROJECTSParis, France, 2009
“These paintings 
are much more 
autobiographical 
than porno”


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Today, Schoeler is showing his first solo Parisian exhibition, at left Bank gallery Don’t Projects (at Galerie Hélène Lamarque). 
Drawing inspiration from painters such as Eugène Delacroix, John Singer Sargeant but also David Hockney, the show consists of watercolours and oil paintings, dedicated to male portraiture. In fine lines, and light, breathy colours, he represents realistic, semi-nudes, often recluse from urban or modern surroundings: rather young adults are placed in natural environments, or non-descript studio spaces, as a way of focusing, of drawing light onto thesubject.&#38;nbsp;

The show is called ‘Si le Grain ne Meurt’ and is based on André Gide’s 1924 autobiographical novel about growing&#38;nbsp;into adulthood, and was one of the first books to openly discuss homosexuality. Similarly, the underlying theme of the work is a temporal, rather than purely sexual one:“These paintings are much more autobiographical than porno”, Schoeler explains, “These are not about my desire towards the boys, but talk about a nostalgic journey, it is about growing up, not about sex.” His works illustrate the fragile, transient, years between 20 and 25, key years, the painter believes, where one learns to settl into adulthood&#38;nbsp;“The models have a totally different aura in real life than in the paintings,” he says “they might appear seductive on canvas but are shy in real - but that’s irrelevant, because, in the end, it is my projection that I paint, not reality.”&#38;nbsp;
Christian’s painting process is not dissimilar to a fashion one. He often finds inspiration in photoshoots,
fashion photography; he even selects professional models,
generally from the German agency ‘Nine Daughters and a Stereo’. He goes on to shoot them, and then paints from photograph, or combines live drawing and photographic prints. “When I was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in&#38;nbsp;Munich, there was absolutely no way you could seriously mention an interest in fashion,” the artist explains, “but I like this world, I feel it’s an honest, dedicated approach to beauty.” Indeed, Christian’s work addresses aesthetics in a similar manner, “when I paint, I’m not looking to make a deep social or political statement, I just want to represent beauty – or at least what I personally find beautiful.” Not dissimilar to Dior Homme models under Hedi Slimane’s reign, the boys he chooses are often awkward and nerdy, 

“To me someone who appears insecure, a little atypical is a lot more interesting than classical good looks. The model just has to convey something beyond his facial features, 
in the way he walks, gazes.”
 Christian recently started painting girls – that is, similarly androgynous female faces, whose elongated figures and features resemble German Middle-Ages portraits. “I find it very difficult to paint women, because I feel the painting has a much higher risk of being totally kitschy,” he says. Painting boys remains more of a taboo, the painter explains, “I’m not saying it can’t be kitsch, but at least it won’t be mainstream.” “I know I’m painting youth, but I’m not scared of ageing. On the contrary, look at Lucian Freud, who keeps getting better. Painting is a transient activity that grows and shifts, and this means a constant possibility of improvement.”


www.dazeddigital.comCopyright all images: Gallery Don’t Projects


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		<title>AnOther Man Feature, London, UK</title>
				
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		<description>“ANOTHER MAN FEATURE”,London, UK
2009

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Christian Schoeler paints hypnotic, intimate oils of boys. The German artist constantly pushes definitions of masculinity towards some romantic, damaged ideal. After discussing ideas with AnOtherMan Fashion director Alister Mackie, the pair worked together on a project that melded art and fashion. Alister chose the clothes, both collabroated on backgrounds, and Christian photographed the models himself. For half of the shoot, Christian himself modelled for photographer Benjamin Huseby; for the other half, Christian photographed several young models in his Dusseldorf studio, and then spent two months transforming the results into a series of paintings.
The atmospheric work draws on Édouard Manet and the complexity and chiaroscurs of Diego Velazquez. The aim was avoid making the results feel like illustration, and instead to 
look at wider ideas about fashion: the fluidity of materials, ideas of realism and fantasy, the relationship between photography and paint. Underlying it all was Schoeler’s own fascination with the vulnerability, ecstasy and nonchalance in young men.&#38;nbsp;

AnOtherMan, Spring/Summer 2009Copyright all images: AnOtherMan,&#38;nbsp; Photographer Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Text Francesca Gavin&#38;nbsp;


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		<title>Adam Likes Apples, Schuebbe Projects, Düsseldorf</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:12:33 +0000</pubDate>

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	“ADAM LIKES APPLES”,Schuebbe Projects
Düsseldorf, Germany, 2010

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Founded 1975 in Mettmann, Christa Schübbe's gallery currently represents fifteen European and Asian artists of different generations. Since 1989, the gallery maintains an additional exhibition space in Düsseldorf where local and international artists of all media put on solo and group exhibitions.


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		<title>Louis Vuitton, Paul Helbers, Paris, France</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:12:31 +0000</pubDate>

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Louis Vuitton, Paul Helbers Paris, France, 2009
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Yesterday, on the Louis Vuitton catwalks, three pieces stood out like candles on a cake. Amongst the hard-line, army-chic clothes, colourful, handpainted bags caught surprised gazes. This is a collaboration between Vuitton menswear designer Paul Helbers and young German artist Christian Schoeler. A fan of 19th century painting, which Schoeler inspires his work from, Helbers offered him to create a tangible bridge between art and fashion. After creating suits earlier this year, the pair moved on to bags: 3 models – 2 large weekender-style bags and one square rucksack– were created in a limited edition, out of pieces specially made on leather by Schoeler.In the city of the Louvres and the Musée d’Orsay, this could have been a kitschy disaster, to compete with Mona Lisa mugs and Van Gogh knickers. Yet the strict, square shapes of the bags –picked by Schoeler-&#38;nbsp; contrasted with the style of the paintings. These depicted landscapes and different natural sceneries, but from a distant, looked like poetic myopia, a soft blur of paint and cracks.&#60;img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9362220f5661e9a2c8452bb0afce1937cc4a2eccfbde163caf89410ccb566490/LouisVuitton_07.jpg" data-mid="41380773" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9362220f5661e9a2c8452bb0afce1937cc4a2eccfbde163caf89410ccb566490/LouisVuitton_07.jpg" /&#62;“These are good for traveling, they remind me of the nomadic life artists often lead. It’s not really about the bag, but about mobile life” said Schoeler about the collaboration. “All artists’ clothes are covered in stains, like an accidental customization”, he continued, “My life is about creativity and that applies to art, but also to fashion.”

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“The Singular Suit”,
project,&#38;nbsp;EsquireLouis Vuitton,&#38;nbsp;
Paul Helbers,
Collaboration with Christian Schoeler
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	Th Singular Suit project, which launches at Somerset House in London on 31 July, brings together the creative talents of some of the best designers, tailors and artists in the world. Esquire asked 18 leading fashion designers and tailors to collaborate with a major artist of their choice to create a bespoke, one-off suit that represents their skills and artistic vision. Their efforts have culminated in an extraordinary array of pieces, from the wearable to the outlandish. 

Designs include an Aquascutum and Antony Gormley creation made entirely from metal plates and lead-filled trousers and a “naked” organza suit by Spencer Tunick and Richard James. Louis Vuitton designer Paul Helbers has teamed up with Christian Schoeler&#38;nbsp;to fashion a heavy suit made entirely from a painted canvas (pictured), while Henry Holland has worked with Marc Jacobs’ tattooist, Scott Campbell, to create a leather mustard-coloured suit with tattoo-style markings of supermodels’ names on the sleeve.

They will be exhibited at the Terrace Rooms, Seamen’s Hall, Somerset House from 31 July to 31 August. Many of the designers and artists will attend a special launch party at Somerset House on 29 July. The suits have also been photographed to appear in a unique portfolio in the special hardback September edition of Esquire magazine, on sale 6 August.
Somerset House, 31 
July 2009Copyright all images: DazedDigital&#38;nbsp; 
Photographer Yang Wang, Text Alice Pfeiffer


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		<title>Art Rotterdam, Ron Mandos, Netherlands</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:12:31 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>“Art Rotterdam”,
Netherlands, 2011


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The Art Rotterdam is more a cultural city event than just a fair for contemporary art. On posters in the city, for example, Tracy Enim's "I promise to love you" lights up in red neon tube script, to be seen in the Rotterdamer Kunsthal. The Art Rotterdam will take place for the twelfth time in the glass, two-storey Cruise Terminal on the Maas. Mainly Dutch gallerists with young art have arrived this year. Young and hip is also the audience.


The art fair could also be under the motto "interaction". Navid Nuur's performance on the staircase stands for it: with self-rolled paper filters from old magazines or catalogs, visitors are to throw on targets whose circles are titled "Distant relations between lovers fail by the varnish of focus" titled. The Rotterdam art scene has its local shooting stars.


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This includes the German painter Christian Schoeler with a solo show at the booth of the Amsterdam gallery Ron Mandos. On pink walls, Schoeler shows a drab, melancholic-tender look at young people who appear as pale as if they were trembling in the global cold (6500 euros). For a just completed, two-part, two by 2.2 meters large painting Mandos does not want to reveal the price, he is close to selling to a Dutch collector.
FAZ, von Sophie von Maltzahn, 2011
“Die Distanz zwischen Liebenden”Copyright all images: Gallery Ron Mandos


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		<title>Group Crying Sessions, Urs Meile, Switzerland</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:12:33 +0000</pubDate>

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“WE HAVE GROUP
CRYING SESSIONS
WITH ICE CREAM”,Gallery Urs Meile / Lucerne / Switzerland2012


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		<title>Zürich Minds</title>
				
		<link>https://christianschoeler.cargo.site/Zurich-Minds</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2019 19:18:57 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>I am a bird now</dc:creator>

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		<description>“OH MY GOD”
ZURICH MINDS,Gallery Urs Meile / Lucerne / Switzerland2013
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		<title>I wanne be ignored..., Urs Meile, China</title>
				
		<link>https://christianschoeler.cargo.site/I-wanne-be-ignored-Urs-Meile-China</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2019 11:18:08 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>I am a bird now</dc:creator>

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“It’s about beautiful paintings, not about beautiful boys.”

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Although they are reminiscent of classic portraits, Schoeler’s works are not. The artist once said, “It’s about beautiful paintings, not about beautiful boys.” So, if the work has a name in its title, it might differ from the model’s real name. Christian Schoeler arranges photo shoots with models or friends, as he did, for example, for the Solomon Series.&#38;nbsp;
Debating the issue of whether it is legitimate to use printing techniques and photography in painting is obsolete, because all famous painters have employed the technical means available in their times. Born in 1976 in Hagen, Germany, Christian Schoeler stages photographs and uses the images as starting points for new works. However, he is not interested in staying true to the actual appearance of the person depicted. Other works on paper are based on a combination of photographs he has found or made himself. He takes the scenery from one photograph and a person from another and combines them together in “a miniature of an alternative reality.”
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Schoeler appropriately describes his studio as a laboratory, a place where things are being transformed and experiments are conducted. In his laboratory he converts his models into androgynous, apparitional figures. Schoeler doesn’t paint their bodies; he paints his idealized impression of them. Their indefiniteness makes his drawings function as a mirror for the artist’s emotions. Sometimes, when looking at older paintings he has done, Schoeler wonders why he exposed so much of himself in a work. The people in his works are like ethereal doubles, and Schoeler deals with his own vulnerability when creating them. As a result, we see transcendent beings emerging from a mist; ghostly youngsters, inseparable from back- or foreground, introverted figures that define the space around them and are at the same time absorbed by it.

The title of the exhibition, I wanna be ignored ..., could be read as a statement made by one of these too-beautiful human beings as he disappears into the haze, but it was actually made by the artist. It is strikingly unusual. If the artist wants to be ignored, then why exhibit? Isn’t the purpose of an exhibition to be seen? But this title is not a classic one, meant to be a headline above a selection of works, or a message to visitors. It is an intimate and personal statement. Over the last year Christian Schoeler had the most humbling experience a human being can have: being seriously ill. He suffered from an ischemic cerebral infarction.&#38;nbsp;

The self-deprecating title expresses his wish that—now that he feels better and is more like himself again—his friends would worry less about him and not anxiously monitor all his body functions anymore. Furthermore, it reflects his modesty, a mindset one automatically adopts when one is confronted with nerve-wracking trials and has no chance to exercise influence.


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		<title>Pussy, King of the Pirates, Urs Meile, China</title>
				
		<link>https://christianschoeler.cargo.site/Pussy-King-of-the-Pirates-Urs-Meile-China</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2019 16:50:14 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>I am a bird now</dc:creator>

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“PUSSY, KING OF 
THE PIRATES”,Gallery Urs Meile / Beijing / China

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