martinski fine arts: 2013

Freitag, 8. November 2013

Vintage CCCP Posters

Dienstag, 20. August 2013

Summer Sinema @ Martinski Fine Arts, Part II

Due to the resounding lack of success of Summer Sinema, we here at Martinski Fine Arts have decided to do three more nights of craptastic films!

Free of charge!

Bring your own munchies!

Seating is limited (13 chairs)...
but you can bring your own!

All films in English!

Though we reserve the right to change it as we see fit when we see fit, the planned schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, 21 August 2013 @ 20:15

Maniac
(1934, dir. Dwain Esper)

Trailer:

Aka Sex Maniac. From the director of the well-known classics Sex Madness (1938 / trailer) and Modern Motherhood (1934), Maniac is considered by many as "one of the most amusing bad movies ever made." (John Wilson, founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards)

The plot of Maniac, according to Wikipedia: "Don Maxwell (William Woods) is a former vaudeville impersonator who is working as the lab assistant to Dr. Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter), a mad scientist attempting to bring the dead back to life. When Don kills Meirschultz, he attempts to hide his crime by 'becoming' the doctor, taking over his work and copying his appearance and manner. In the process, he slowly goes insane. The 'doctor' treats a mental patient, Buckley (Ted Edwards), but accidentally injects him with adrenaline, which causes him to go into violent fits. Buckley's wife (Phyllis Diller) discovers the body of the real doctor, and blackmails Don into turning her husband into a zombie. The ersatz doctor turns the tables on her by manipulating her into fighting with his estranged wife (Thea Ramsey), a former showgirl. [...]"
As an extra, a vintage Betty Boop short will be shown before the main attraction.

Who was Dwain Esper? — A Short Documentary:

Wednesday, 28 August 2013 @ 20:15

The Killer Shrews
(1959, dir. Ray Kellogg)

Trailer:

Starring absolutely no one you have ever heard of, The Killer Shrews is the directorial debut of the man who made The Giant Gila Monster (1959), which he filmed in tandem.

This is what TV Guide has to say about the movie: "KING KONG featured a giant gorilla, GODZILLA had an enormous lizard, so the only terrifying animal left for Ken Curtis to make a film about was that evil little creature, the shrew! Curtis served as both producer and supporting player in this so-bad-it's-good feature. Lumet—real-life father of director Sidney—is an evil scientist who creates a formula that makes the tiny shrew resemble something like a collie with a shrew-mask. During a storm the little devils get loose and go after Best and his girl friend Goude, who was Miss Universe of 1957. Good dumb fun [...]"
As an extra, a vintage Betty Boop short will be shown before the main attraction.

Wednesday, 4 September 2013 @ 20:15

The Monster Maker
(1944, dir. Sam Newfield)

From the director of that well-known classic, Hitler, Beast of Berlin (1939) — with over 250 directorial projects to his name, director Sam Newfield is considered the most productive filmmakers of the sound era!

The plot of The Monster Maker, according to Wikipedia: "Dr. Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) has concocted a formula that spreads a hideous disease named acromegaly — which extends bones and distorts facial features. Markoff has no moral dilemma in experimenting on unsuspecting human subjects. His amoral behavior assumes monstrous dimensions when famed concert pianist Lawrence (Ralph Morgan) is injected with the doctor's disease-inducing serum. In return for an antidote, Markoff intends to exact more than his pound of flesh by extorting a fortune from Lawrence and demanding the hand of the musician's pretty daughter Patricia (Wanda McKay)."
As an extra, a Betty Boop short will be shown before the main attraction.

Montag, 22. Juli 2013

Summer Sinema @ Martinski Fine Arts

"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!"
Robert Burns

And our plans did indeed go array: the big summer exhibition of a truly exceptional Polish outsider / folk artist Martinski Fine Arts had planned for the months of July, Aug and Sept fell through at the last moment, and thus our gallery walls are empty of art and white, white, white. And before we cry over spilt milk are run around like a chicken without a head to find a replacement exhibition, we have decided instead to take advantage of those white, white, white walls to show some films — public domain films that we have long wanted to see but, for the most part, have never got around to viewing.

And we invite you to join as we do so — for Summer Sinema every Wednesday at 20:30 at Martinski Fine Arts.

Film quality might sometimes be shaky, as all films are gleaned from the Internet Archives.

Free of charge!

Bring your own munchies!

Seating is limited (13 chairs)...

but you can bring your own!

All films in English!

Though we reserve the right to change it as we see fit when we see fit, the planned schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, 17 July 2013 @ 20.15:

Dementia / Daughter of Horror
(1953, writ, & dir. John Parker)

You missed this one. The "beat-noir" classic — this one-shot-wonder (John Parker has never been heard of again) is more art than horror, and treads a fine line between Surrealism and cheese. That the director was talented is plain to see, as is the fact that the movie is an obvious labor of love, but one can only wonder why he never made another known movie after this beautifully arty-fartsy exploitation film...

The full film, at the YouTube:

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
@ 20.15:
Five Minutes to Live
(1961, dir. Bill Karn)

Title song to Five Minutes to Live:

Aka Door-to-Door Maniac. Johnny Cash makes his feature film début in this low budget crime film written by a housewife (who also plays the lead female role) and co-starring a very young Ron "Opie/Richie" Howard, himself now one of Hollywood's most successful directors. Cash plays a guitar-playing psycho holding a woman and her son hostage in an extortion attempt that goes wrong... It was another ten years before he starred in his next feature film.

Trailer:

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
@ 20.15:

The Sadist

(1963, writ. & dir. James Landis)

Classic Horror calls The Sadist "horror cinema's best-kept secret." Aka Profile of Terror and Sweet Baby Charlie. The first film ever made based on the Charles Starkweather killings, the same source used by Terrence Malick in 1973 for his directorial début, Badlands. The Sadist is nasty little film is a cult favorite, and not only because it's stars Arch Hall Jr. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond now works with Spielberg and the like. Cine de Merde explains the movie: "This film is an exercise in pure vicarious sadism, and as such, it certainly fills the bill. Three good clean decent folks break down and pull into an abandoned-looking house/junkyard [making this a precursor to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and any number of its imitators], and are soon menaced by this overgrown baby-looking redneck goon who essentially tortures them, mentally and physically, for the next 90 minutes."

Trailer:

Wednesday, 7 Aug 2013
@ 20.15:

I Bury the Living
(1958, dir. Albert Band)

"A chairman is newly appointed the head of a cemetery and there is a map with pins on it in the shed. Black pins are for empty plots and white pins for taken ones. Something strange then starts happening: when the chairman puts pins in the empty plots, the owner of that plot dies. Several deaths occur and the police come to investigate. Has the chairman got supernatural powers? (imdb)"

Trailer:

Wednesday, 14 Aug 2013
@ 20.15:

Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory
(1961, dir. Paolo Heusch)

Trailer:

Austro-Italo trash. "When a new professor (Carl Schell — Maximillian's older brother) arrives at a girl's reform school, a series of werewolf attacks begin. [...] I expected little more from this than a forgettable horror/exploitation movie with maybe a touch of humor and lots of bad dubbing. Actually, it's better than that; there's a good sense of mystery to it, it has an assortment of interesting characters, and the subplot about the man having an affair with one of the students is far better than I anticipated (though I did expect it to be a red herring). It does still suffer from horrendous dubbing, though, and it did make me wonder how many foreign movies out there would have a better reputation if it weren't for this latter circumstance. At any rate, there's a lot more meat on the bones of this one than I expected. This one is worth a look for those willing to see past the dubbing." Dave Sincelair @ Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings

The Fortunes sing The Ghoul in School

(from: Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory):

Wednesday, 21 Aug 2013
@ 20.15:
TBA

Wednesday, 28 Aug 2013
@ 20.15:
TBA

And then the art comes back...

Montag, 29. April 2013

AWO-Maler: "Wir auch – Kunst kennt keine Behinderung"

Ausstellung "Wir auch – Kunst kennt keine Behinderung"
mit den Arbeiten der AWO-Maler

Martinski Fine Arts
vom 4.05.2013 bis zum 14.06.2013
Ausstellungseröffnung am 4.05.13 von 16°°-19°° Uhr

Kunst ist ... ... oft unentdeckt, weil "die Kunst von Menschen mit Behinderung" nicht wahrgenommen wird, da sie als Kunstschaffende häufig nur im Verborgenen agieren. Kunst steht für Emanzipation und Selbstbestimmung. Noch immer fristet Kunst von Menschen mit Behinderung ein Nischendasein. Mit einer Ausstellung in einer Galerie im öffentlichen Raum, schaffen wir eine Möglichkeit, dass Kunst von Menschen mit Behinderung von einem breiten Publikum wahrgenommen und gesehen wird. So ermöglichen wir Begegnungen zum Austausch mit Menschen mit Behinderung. Neben der Präsentation der Bilder der AWO-Maler_innen werden wir Vorort zur Ausstellungseröffnung am 4.05.2013 eine Mit-Mach Aktion starten, in der die AWO-Maler_innen und die Besucher_innen der Galerie gemeinsam Bilder malen und so in einen kreativen Austausch gehen können. Als zusätzliche musikalische Untermalung wird die inklusive Rock-Band Akona den kreativen Austausch unterstützen.

Kunst kann die Grenzen zwischen vermeintlicher Normalität und Besonderheit auflösen, Verständnis für das Andere, den Anderen und die Andere wecken und den selbstverständlichen Umgang miteinander fördern. Kunst von Menschen mit Behinderung soll wahrgenommen werden. Bei einer Präsentation der künstlerischen Werke im öffentlichen Raum können die AWO-Maler_innen allen ihre kreativ-künstlerischen Potentiale zeigen. Dies trägt zum Verständnis bei und ermöglicht einen Perspektivwechsel auf die Potentiale und Kompetenzen von Menschen mit Behinderung als Kunstschaffende. Die Besucher der Ausstellung erfahren das Kunst keine Behinderung kennt. Sie erleben den Mut zur Ausdrucksfähigkeit und sie erhalten die Möglichkeit diese Erkenntnis gleich in ein Bild umzusetzen.

Anlässlich des Protesttages zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderung möchten wir mit einer Ausstellung zeigen, dass Kunst keine Behinderung kennt. Durch die Mit-Mal-Aktion, am 04.05., Vorort können die Besucher gleich mit Unterstützung der AWO-Maler_innen zum Pinsel greifen und einen kommunikativ- kreativen Austausch beginnen. Begleitet wird dieser Austausch bei der Vernissage und an einem Termin zwischendurch, zu denen jeweils mit einer besonderen Einladungskarte geworben wird, durch die inklusive Rock-Band AKONA. Die Präsentation der bildnerisch darstellenden Kunst der AWO-Maler und der musikalisch – kreative Auftritt der inklusiven Rock-Band Akona trägt dazu bei, dass sich die Kunstschaffenden selbstbewusst und selbstverständlich mit ihrer kreativen Ausdruckskraft auseinandersetzen können und sie trägt dazu bei, dass sich Betrachter und Zuhörer über das Thema Kunst dem Menschen mit Assistenzbedarf nähern können.

Martinski Fine Arts
Gneisenaustrasse 64 10961 Berlin

Austellungsdauer: 04.05.13 – 14.06.13

Mon—Fri 11—17 Uhr

- Die AWO-Maler
Seit 13 Jahren gibt es die AWO-Maler_innen. Unter professioneller künstlerischer Anleitung (seit 2011 durch Thomas Tuchel, ein Berliner Maler, gemeinsam mit Ayfer Türkan) malen und zeichnen neun Frauen und ein Mann im Alter zwischen 31 und 69 Jahren mit verschiedenen Behinderungen.

Vita der ausstellenden Künstler und Titel

Ines Danöhl ("Der Wald")

geb.1943 in Strelno
seit 2000 im wohlverdienten Ruhestand
lebt in Berlin
seit August 2011 ist sie bei den AWO-Malern des AWO FALK-Club

Marina Markgraff ("Tierpark")

geb.1960 in Berlin
lebt und arbeitet in Berlin
seit 2007 ist sie bei den AWO-Malern des AWO Treffpunkt Thomasstraße dabei