Zen Bubbles

Hi there!

I thought the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair, which we will

attend again this year (of course!) would be the perfect time

to unveal my new book project which is still in its

very early, delicate inception stage. I just finished

my new promo postcard celebrating my decision to go

with this topic. It will also be my diploma.

There are a great many books about meditation, many of

which are great introductions into the matter, my favourite being 

Whereever You Go, There You Are

by the incredible Jon Kabat-Zinn, but I decided

to go ahead and form my own version of how to present

these concepts and wrap them into a nice package

of (hopefully) pretty little pictures.

It is by no means pretending to be a
be-all, end-all guide on meditation,

but a light-hearted, easy-going, hand-holding introduction.

 (It helps that I´ve started doing meditation only a couple of

months ago, so I still have a fresh new view on what it feels

like to start with it.)

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I´ve also vastly changed my website, which includes

first and foremost all the new editorial stuff I´ve been

busy with in the past few months.

Time flies!

http://www.frederik-jurk.de/

See you at the book fair!

Cheers,

Frederik.

Rothenburg

Greetings from Rothenburg ob der Tauber

I spend a few days seeing a friend, walking in the Tauber valley and crossing the vineyards near Würzburg. The drawing will be published in a short booklet which opens a new series of travelbooks.

It's such a fine feeling to be on the road again. I'd like to travel much more than work allows me.

Best regards, Boris

Mikrokosmos: 2nd Preview

The new booklets circle around ambitious themes like Western literature classics, Asian poetry and Swedish party holidays in a VW 'Bulli'. This last book's something like a drawn roadtrip by Michael Zander.

Artists of the latest books (from left to right) :

Boris Servais and Sung Hee Kim

Michael Zander and Simon Prades

C.Pom and Cléo Schwinkowski

The books are now printed by Treu Arti Grafiche in Italy.

You can discover the first fresh copies on Frankfurt Bookfair:

We're on booth n° K507 in hall 4.1

See you there from 12th to 16th of october!

Best regards,

Boris

The Transfiguration of 9/11

The TAZ asked me to make an illustration for the frontpage of their special issue dedicated the anniversary of 9/11. I started with some sketches. One idea was to visualize a weapon-fair booth, decorated with wreckage of the twin tower buildings. The second one (which I prefered) was a kind of „pop-art visualization“. We decided to work on this idea...

... and I did a pencil drawing mixed with some photocopied parts. The drawing should not only treat the remembering of the 9/11 event,...


..but also the new developements in weapons technology and face recognation (the USA produced a new combat aircraft called „Raptor“ and very spacy lookin anti-aircraft-aeroplanes in the last years).

Only some hours before printing the size of the (now colored) illustration changed from portrait to landscape. But during all modifications the image still keeps its fine pop-art-appeal.

- Dieter

A new publication

Now out is a publication including my new pencil drawings, titled „L‘invitation au voyage“. This 16paged artistbook was inspired by a short story with the same title of „poéte maudit“ Charles Baudelaire, selected from his book „Le spleen de Paris“.

Printed on heavy paper (200 g), carefully handbound and limited on 25 copies. Available at the current exhibition at gallery erstererster, Berlin, and at our Poste Aérienne booth, this October at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

- Dieter

"Poéte maudit"

"Den Kult der Bilder verherrlichen

(meine grosse, meine einzige, meine ursprünglichste Leidenschaft)."

Charles Baudelaire


This is one of my favourite quotations of Baudelaire, the poet who identifies himself with the tragic albatross.
The graphic was made for our exhibition „Poete maudit“ in Berlin. It is such a great theme like Dieter and Ib said. Special thanks and greetings to Andreas Rauth!

C.Pom

Nest magazine

Some illustrations I did for a new client, called Nest magazine. I went to Limburg to visit the marl caves of Kanne and to make sketches there. I also wrote the article. I think they did a nice job with the lay-out. Greetz, Leen

L‘Invitation au voyage

Four new pieces in a new technique. The use of fineliner, a smooth pencil in 6 B and some Polychromos color pencils in different grey tones allows me to work in a rather „documentary style“. I was also influenced by faded Polaroids and the more conceptual work of Robert Weaver.

These four drawings belong to a series of all in all seven images titled „L‘Invitation au voyage“. Now you can see the complete series at the highly recommended exhibition „Poete maudit“, curated by Andreas Rauth. This tribute to Charles Baudelaire shows also very fine drawings, collages and objects by David von Bassewitz, Ib Jorn, Birgit Lang, Lorem ipsum collective, Falk Nordmann, Felix Pestemer, C.Pom, Richard Rabensaat and Andreas Rauth.

The exhibition (including performance, artist talk and reading) takes place at the gallery erstererster, Berlin, from Aug. 26th to Sept. 9th.

Greets, Dieter

Mikrokosmos Preview

Hello everybody, the Mikrokosmos project is rolling - half of the books are done. This year's collection has great travelbooks, Craig's rough sketches, an imaginary Herbarium and vigilant studies of human relationships. Between the contributors of this 2nd edition: (left to right)

Sebastian Koch and Katja Spitzer

Ute Helmbold and Julia Gruner

Craig Atkinson and Judith Sombray

Six more to come!

Best regards, Boris

Boris' Mikrokosmos

My own project is about Dragons, here's a first impression:

Cheers, Boris

The Berlin Wall

50 years ago the wall was established by the GDR government. The concrete separated West- from East Germany and cut Berlin into pieces... Here are three new illustrations, done last week for the past weekend-issue of the TAZ.

By the way a great film showing some impressions of the wall and the "old" West Berlin was „Possession“ directed by Andrzej Żuławski. A weird movie starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neil, including some special effects by Carlo Rambaldi (Alien). The color scheme of my illustrations was directly influenced by Zulawskis work.

Greets, Dieter

New etchings

These are 3 new etchings I made last year in the printmaking atelier. The upperone shows the highway in Antwerp, close to my place, and the ones below are street views from Hong Kong, where I went last summer. Somehow interesting to see that there is not a lot of difference between those places.

Leen

By Way of Trial

Here are some graphics as a trial for Mikrokosmos 2011.
The title might be "Songs of Tininess" this year.
At the present time it includes my favourites, Andersen, Blake, Shakespeare,... dung beetles, flies and fleas.

Greets, c.pom

Piss-Demon

Hello Claudia and everybody, one more beast:

The "Piss-Demon", funny little creature that was believed to cause baldness by pissing on your head (in the Middle Ages).

Actually, it was no other than the bat.

Cheers, Boris

Beasts

000x the austrian art collective is preparing the next edition.
The title of the 19 th issue is "Beasts".

I'll take part with three motives:
The beast of Gévaudan,

Fritz Lang "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder"
and Fritz Haarmann the beast of Hannover, who was convicted,
found guilty of 24 murders and executed 1925.

But there are still some more picture ideas for example the film of Jean Cocteau.....

Greetings, c.pom

Bookdesign

This week I worked on and nearly finished the bookdesign of our longtime graphic novel projekt. Now the final title will be „Das große Rauschen“ (a short textfragment of one of Verenas stories). I like this title very much because it brings an additional acoustic aspect (associating „the sound of the city“ or „the restless, never sleeping city“ etc) to our stories. The book will come in an extraordinary size, in hardcover with propably 64 pages.

More informations regarding the publishing next.

Greets, Dieter

Fukushima again

Another effort, constribution, an illustration- comment to the immense theme.

c.pom