“I came up with the character of Alex Diamond, when I was creating the work for the show in 2004. It was different compared to most of the stuff I had done as an artist before, so I felt I needed to introduce a fictional character. Someone, who would become a part of the story I‘ve been telling in my work. I understood that it was the story of someone else, so I came up with the Name: Alex Diamond.


“At the opening, I was dressed as some kind of pimp. A person that may be the artist behind these works and at first I played the role of Alex Diamond myself. It was pretty obvious for everyone there to see who was behind it all, and at this point I didn’t have the intention to keep it a secret.


“But the name stuck. Alex Diamond. And after that it became a project.


“After several exhibitions, when I started taking the project abroad, Alex Diamond and me started to separate. I wasn’t dressing up anymore when presenting the work and Diamond became a true fictional character: Genderless and faceless.”


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We are really looking forward to what these guys are up to – we’ll let you know as soon as there are new actions…
The TA-Project is supported by G-Shock and we heard they will continue on Stroke, Berlin in October.

Exhibtion info:
Die Kupferdiebe Gallery from Hamburg celebrates the opening of the new exhibition by Robert Matzke today!
This gallery is definetely one of our favourite places in Hamburg – they are strong supporters of the “Gaengeviertel”. This quarter was squatted by artists and like-minded people to protest against gentrification in Hamburg in the last years.
Die Kupferdiebe opened their gallery to show talented artists and to connect like-minded people here.

Robert Matzke is a well-known illustrator from Germany who will show his artworks from tonight until the 29th of may. Always critical, always good ideas and very funny – this mixture makes this exhibition outstanding.

Keep on rebelzing.

Rebelzer.

Contact: trash@rebelzer.com

The Kupferdiebe is on of the first Artist Collective in the Gängeviertel.
We established our gallery in 2007, so 2 years before the Gängeviertel
gets squaded by 200 artists – means we are the first and “oldest” Gallery
in the Gängeviertel (it is in the middles of Hamburg City).
Our Idea about te gallery was, that we want to give unfamous / famous /
new artists a space to present they stuff / art.
We had a lot of good exhibitions and ar looking forward for that what comes.
Our focus lies is graffiti and illustrations,
and streetart.

Our opening hours in exhibition time:
Mi. – So. 15.00 – 19.00 Uhr

Contact:
gold@diekupferdiebe.de

Our stories are not focussed on technical details, but on love for gaming. We feature large in-depth stories and extensive photo reportages not only about the games, but about the people who make these games, play these games and live these games. GEE features not only console or pc games, but also arcade machines, mobile gaming or independent games on the net. The art direction is contemporary minimal, the texts are accessible and intelligent at the same time. GEE is the destination for gamers between 20 and 40 years, who do not identify with excessive pages full of screenshots in normal gamesmags. In short: The majority of gamers.

GEE is based in lovely Hamburg, Germany

GUDBERG is a design mag born in Hamburg, Germany, that’s gained international recognition since its humble beginnings in September 2007. Behind the magazine is a creative agency collective called GUDBERG that mainly works in publishing, illustration and editorial
design. They curate and design four issues a year, each with a major editorial topic and feature international artists. GUDBERG can be found in select galleries, bookstores, cafés or hotels. You’ve got to be quick though – as they only print 2000 copies of each issue, and they’re usually quickly snatched up.

If we look more precisely at his boards, reliefs and steles, we recognize that the structure of the surface is written rather than painted. They are more monuments, which enable the theoretical possibility to let the strange scripts talk; also they allow th

e script as a great cultural innovation to be physical. Heiko Zahlmann himself describes it as Ñgraffiti without graffitiì or simply as Ñgraffiti 3.0ì He examines the progression of his art in the past and the future of his genre. The carvings into black groundings reflect the old traditions of individual Sgraffiti and this technique provides the possibility of co-operating with architects to inscribe his shapes into the cityscape. Graffiti is gaining acceptance after being combated for a long time, however Heiko Zahlmann’s art is causing displeasure especially among the ritualized sprayer community.
But why should someone, who deals with script for 20 years commit his service for example to advertising? The only paradox that he has to tolerate is that youngsters will tag his works in public space in return because the urban textures are continuously rewritten. In his desert action, which had been inspired by the sci-fite classic ÑPlanet of the Apesì Heiko Zahlmann defines the seeming archaeological retrospective as a fundamental leading medium. Maybe the tags will be really hieroglyphics in the distant future, which will be needed to reconstruct our past lifestyle.

Hajo Schiff, Hamburg 2008

Sfly vs Redbull from S-Fly on Vimeo.

Electric Boogie from S-Fly on Vimeo.