Painting – Contre-Jour Art

Roby Ropes’25

Karlo — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:36:02 +0000

Roby in Ropes

BERLIN, APRIL 2025 IN WEISSENSEE AT THE STUDIO OF DANIEL KRAUSE

As a small art project I planned for Roby a surprise, a body paint on her with ropes and wax. My current working place at the Prachtsaal Studio in Neukölln did not allow me to do this performance without further long lastint conversations and elections by the collective which is there as main group.. while myself is a subcontractor of a subgroup who only rented desktop places.. – so no chance to do anything artisticly there. I asked a friend who is a scultpure if we could do this at his place, at his new studio place in Weissensee, Berlin and he agrees.. What a joy.
As a rope mistress I found Svetlana to tie Roby so that we do have her as a human sculpture, painted, waxed, roped into a form..- that was the idea.
To free up my mind I tried to forget as much as possible of what exactly I wanted to do.. – packed all stuff I might need, rented a car and wanted to let things come into a flow – means to be as open as possible to do finally what the situation, the model, the sculpture artist, myself and the rigger agrees.
I find this setting of „clear my mind the day before“ is a very important step to not be bothered or blocked with emotions if something might change, not coming, will go a different path or just things will develop differently, not speaking about people not coming at all..
It is important to keep yourself optimistic and in a good mood for any photography session:
Roby was so kind that she likes surprises and was really very open for anything which might come – so thankful about this cool setting!

Pink Up’25

Karlo — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:17:46 +0000

Pink Up YouR Body

BODYPAINTING AT SCHLOSS BEESENSTEDT IN OUR ART EXPERIENCE SALOON, 2025 MARCH

Body Painting Ceremony in the realm of the „Pink it Up“ Saloon
at a local regional „castle“ burn in Castle Beesenstedt.
The Ceremony was intended as a conscious giving and receiving experience, of let go
our internal expectation how we want to see any results, of let go our impact as we constantly overpaint what was there..
as the receiving artist not knowing what will come and how it will be.
After a quite long time – even with an audience looking quietly into the scenery we even asked if we could do a „famous and proud walk“ into the castle..
to show our art, the art of time, the art of immediacy.
Glad that we did all this..

Jin in Atisha’23

Karlo — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:17:59 +0000

Jin into Atisha Open Air

OPEN AIR FESTIVAL – PERFORMANCE AT HAMBURG-HARBURG, 2023

was a performance which we realised at an open air festival in Hamburg 2023.
It was a combination of making some sculptures, body and action painting and self expression
with some fog and colourful led lights..during a goa outdoor festival..

NineLives’16

Karlo — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:34:37 +0000

Projector NineLives

PROJECTOR MAPPING ON MY MODEL, PHOTOGRAPHY, 2016

Trying out some projector shooting is like using the model as a canvas for adding some art on top of it. The womans body as a reflection area. Do we not all project something on a womans body but obviously not really pictures but more dreams, behavoiour & wishes and with this not taking into account the soul and spirit of the person. So what if projection will not cosy your dreams and maybe the opposite might come true.
With the awesome Model NineLives we both together created something like „classical experimental photography“.

Painter Rabe’16

Karlo — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 20:34:48 +0000

Rabe

Portrait of Painter Rabe Habdank, Berlin 2016

In his studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Doing a portrait of a painter, it’s all about painting, isn’t it? Yes it is and to impact this creative process, we choose a blank canvas and the vision of a picture of a recent photography I have done from a bondage shooting in Hamburg.
The transformation using this material to form an art by contemplation, rethinking and overpainting again and again and again was a unique experience. This is also impacting me as a photographer rethinking of the eye instinct triggered picture making
and asks the question of how to pull again and again the picture by imagination, seeking, struggling and suffer to get the final one. Thanks a lot to Rabe, see his website