Brandhorst

The weekend right after the Melt festival I felt like a religious man
paying a visit to my holy grail.
I went to Munich to check out the new Museum Brandhorst which hosts
the second largest collection on display of Cy Twombly´s work.
A whole floor for Twombly - definitely one of the best days in my
life. (the largest collection can be seen at the Menil Collection
Museum in Houston, Texas - which I have not yet been to)
Brandhorst has an amazing art collection including Warhol, Hirst,
Nauman, Richter, Katz, West ... (check out the whole list on the
website: http://www.museum-brandhorst.de/). The museum was especially
build for his collection and has just recently opened it´s doors.
Not only the art is worth a visit to Munich but the museum itself is
a piece of art. It was build by the Berlin architects Sauerbruch
Hutton who are famous for their very colorful buildings.
If you would like to know more you can find a lot on the website or
better go to Munich yourself and discover this fantastic museum and
collection.

Brandhorst not only ownes older pieces, he has also some of the
latest Twomblys from 2008 and the 12 paintings from the 2001 Venice
Biennale called "Lepanto". Moreover he ownes some of Twomblys
sculptures which have not been shown very often, yet.
I was overwhelmed by so much art from the man who´s work made me want
to become an artist about 15 years ago when I first saw a painting in
an ordinary school book for art class.
Eversince I have been following his work and I have only gotten more
and more inspiration from it.
Twombly revolutionised the way I look at art. He made me become so
much more insightful, more curious, more sensitive and more connected
to emotions within a drawing or painting, as well as any other
genre... When I look at his work I can see and feel things - I
understand how it talks to me because I can sense the connection
between the artist and his work. I mean it is not a secret - it is
all there - just look at his lines and scribbles and you will
experience how easy it can be to become attached to abstract art.
Twombly´s work is a mirror of himself, a direct insight into the mans
soul and thoughts.
Thank you for giving me and the world so much.

Melt

I went to the Melt festival - a music festival about 2 hours south of
Berlin close to the Bauhaus city Dessau.
I have never really been to a festival of that size and I was a bit
scared but I have to admit that I kind of liked it.
It never really seemed too crowded due to the 4 different stages the
people could go to.
The Melt festival is situated in the middle of an outdoor museum
about coal mining, cramped in between 6 or so monsterous machines.
The area is called "Ferropolis - Stadt aus Eisen" (Ferropolis - city
of steal) - a fantastic place to host a festival and highly
recommendable for a day trip.

I was there to film BODi BiLL.
BODi BiLL is a great, hot and upcoming band from Berlin who played a
superb show at the Melt.
They had a really good slot: friday 10.15PM - with the sun already
down and the machines illuminated by super strong and colorful light
beams, with the Klaxons who had just warmed up the crowd on the big
stage and the tiny bit of rain who finally decided to stop and rest
for a few hours. Although the smaller stage is not compareable to the
main stage in size and sound a few hundred people came to see BODi
BiLL to dance the whole set through.

Thanks again for such a great night and you people outthere watch out
for a new BODi BiLL video coming out later this year including
amazing footage from their show at the Melt.