Gini Rose doesn’t like battles (unless they are muddy). Drawing against fighting. Cheerio to all the hippies.
Drawing by Gini Rose C. (2008)
Between 2002 and 2007, I made 15 scientific documentaries for Canvas, the second chain of the Belgian national television. The main goal of the documentaries was not to serve viewers with all kinds of petty scientific facts. Rather, we tried to ‘translate’ what goes on in scientists’ brains and to tell the story behind scientific discoveries.
The programme was called ‘overleven’, and doesn’t exist anymore. Here you find some colourful intriguing scientific stories broadcast on Canvas in that period. I remember I loved reading New Scientist during that period. So if you’re after scientific articles which are well written and inspiring, give it a try, for the sake of science!
Julia B.
In 2004/5 Gini Rose travelled through Argentina.
She took these pictures in Buenos Aires, a city she’d always go back to.
More views here.
Portrait of Dan Perjovschi – Suzy C.
Dan Perjovschi grew up in red Romania, and that marks a human being for life. Often his drawings are a criticism on himself, on his country, and on all the smelly stuff Western, Eastern, capitalistic, democratic, dictatorial and other human civilizations leave lying around. Luckily, his cartoons are never cynical. Dan Perjovschi observes with empathy, not with anger.
He reminds me a bit of David Shrigley, although Shrigley’s cartoons are more poetic and less political. But the two have their unconstrained humoristic intelligence in common. During the Kunstenfestivaldesarts 08 in Brussels (april 2008), Dan Perjovschi drew on the walls of art centre Wiels.
I went to Wiels and had a nice chat with the charming Romanian warrior. What he told me..
“I am not interested in scandals, like the Mohammed cartoons. Sometimes, I even don’t touch some issues. I had to deal part of my life with censorship and I am used to tango around the limits. Here in Europe, I don’t care, it’s free expression here. But in Russia I asked what the problems were. They told me I could do whatever, except for touching ‘Orthodox church’. In that case, I try to find a different way to say things which aren’t allow to say.”
“I think an artist needs to have this responsability. It’s so easy to be an artist, you just throw the thing out and then ‘done’. That’s not my way, and maybe I have got this reflex because in Romania I’m working for the press, so I am always conscious about my brains going to somebody.”
“I don’t rate myself as a political artist, I’m an interpreter. I don’t do necessary judgements, like ‘this is good and this is wrong’. I just observe somehow. You could call my work ‘intellectual’ cartoons.”
“I criticize the market a lot, but I’m not against it. I do not believe that you can be a real radical critic if you’re out of the system. You have to see it from the inside.”
(This reminds me of the great ‘Yes men’)
“I’m coming from a certain context, surviving a switch of ideologies, so I can put a lot of critisism on myself and take some distance, even to myself. And humour is very important to me, with humour you can detach, you can use it as a distance to look at things. I think I learnt to use humour during my school period in Romania – which was a total disaster for me, mentally – but unconsciously the humour helped to detach from it, i guess”.
“My cartoons give me a platform. It is like a natural stage for me, this is it, living. And I am still very amazed that people invite me to do this, visualizing the world. And I enjoy it a lot, it is total freedom to me.”
Want to know more? Watch here..
Suzy C.
PS: I swapped drawings with Dan, he got the portrait, threegirls received a nice art gallery-bashing cartoon
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We are Gini Rose, Julia and Suzy. We draw, take pictures, film, and write (in English or Dutch) about everything we are intrigued by. We are never bored. Our hobby is to search for that kind of reality which may be elusive until the right kind of imagination falls upon it. We like to go outside. We also like to party. Want to know more? About is your button. Or click here to read our mighty mission statement. This page is our magazine, or a cabinet of views, viewpoints and new work. Here you'll find the RSS feed to stay updated. For an overview of our portfolio, take a dive into the deepsea..
