Jimmy Zurek

Jimmy Zurek

Jimmy Zurek (born May 23, 1971 in Vienna ) is an Austrian singer , draftsman , installation , video and object artist and author .

Life

Jimmy Zurek graduated in 2001 with a degree in painting and graphics from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He has been married since 2009 and has a son who was born in the same year; his daughter was born in 2010. Zurek lives and works in Vienna.

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As a draftsman and painter he mainly works in the ink technique on paper, otherwise he uses various mixed techniques on paper and canvas. In Zurek's works, text montages or often just fragments of a text are mostly the starting point for his painted and drawn compositions, but sometimes language flows into the images, similar to the soundtrack in a film. This interplay of text and images has become his trademark. Zurek's other media are: video, performance, installation, object, theater, photography, jewelry design and music.

From 1999 to 2001 a series of jazz concerts took place under the direction of Angus Thomas ( Miles Davis ) together with Jon Sass ( Vienna Art Orchestra ) and Ric Toldon, in which Zurek performed as a singer and vocal acrobat under the pseudonym Philipp Zorn - among others in Museum of Applied Arts and in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna.

At the same time Jimmy Zurek was fascinated by the theater texts by GDR writer Heiner Müller and the directorial work of David Lynch , both of which are reflected in his entire work, both in his visual and musical work. He dealt with the texts of Heiner Müller and staged his pieces on paper in the form of graphic cycles, but also on the stage. Including The Hamlet Machine in the battle tower of the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), as an exhibition and theater performance, The assignment as a 54-part graphic production in the exhibition Between Black Breasts 2004 in the Kunsthalle Wien in the Museumsquartier as part of the Wiener Festwochen in cooperation with Ulrich Mühe who also staged the play of the same name for the Wiener Festwochen. In 2007 he worked on the piece Quartet in the exhibition of the same name at the Salzburg Festival in the Curtze Gallery, accompanying the new production of the piece by Barbara Frey.

In 2007, Zurek staged the film adaptation of GW Pabst's Threepenny Opera under the title 3 Groschen für ein Halleluja for a world premiere including an exhibition in the pillared hall of the Museum of Applied Art. He succeeded in staging Bertolt Brecht's play again . The Austrian actor Georg Friedrich and the German soprano Ingala Fortagne played the leading roles .

At the same time, song texts were continuously being written in which Zurek translated Heiner Müller's poems into English or assembled passages into his own lyrics. These texts can be found in the music of Madchen Amick , a two-man band together with Robert Schwarz. On March 12, 2010 the Viennese label Kinderkreuzzug (by Sebastian Schlachter-Delgado) released Madchen Amick for the first time on the EP single "Shelly Johnson" with the tracks "Big Majestic Douglas Firs" and "Jail Cake". The track "Big Majestic Douglas Firs" was also released in May 2010 on the FM4 Soundselection 22 sampler. From 2007 the television series Twin Peaks by David Lynch became the core of his work, also in his art (for the first time in an exhibition by Agent Provocateur ) and his music. Texts from Twin Peaks are increasingly being incorporated into his band project.

Other topics that have accompanied the artist Jimmy Zurek for years are: revolution, oppression, racism, the history of the Third Reich, power, love, hate, money and the critical examination of capitalist society and the art scene, for example in his in the video carry coals to newcastle described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , which was shown in the exhibition goschert in 2002 in the gallery 14-1 in Stuttgart and in 2003 in the last exhibition of the 20er Haus (Museum of the 20th Century in Vienna) 21er .

In 2008, Jimmy Zurek made the constant slumber of the uprising (alluding to the uprisings in the banlieue of Paris) the subject of the exhibition Sideburns in the form of two meter high portraits (ink on paper) of freaks from film history. In the summer of 2009 he presented a retrospective exhibition series under the title Gin Palace in various locations such as the Loos Bar and fashion shops in downtown Vienna as a criticism of the art world and at the same time offered an alternative.

With the project And don't Forget the Joker , Zurek has been documenting all exhibitions and concerts since 2004 by having them tattooed in the form of partly encrypted images.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2003: 21er , group exhibition in the 20er Haus (Museum of the 20th Century), Vienna
• 2004: Between black breasts , at the Wiener Festwochen, a graphic cycle in the Kunsthalle, Museumsquartier, Vienna
• 2004: The Hamlet machine , painting, graphics, video and theater performance in the MAK contemporary depot in the Arenbergpark war tower, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
• 2007: 3 Groschen for a Hallelujah exhibition in the MAK columned hall, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
• 2007: Convoy Trucks & Rock 'n' Roll , 3Raumtheater, Vienna

Film and theater

• 2002: The superfluous is a most necessary thing , stolen surveillance camera video (loop)
• 2002: Fitz, you stole the whole , silent film with Peter Fitz, Klaus Pohl, Paul Sigmund, Jon Sass and many others. Music: Ingala Fortagne / vocals, Boris Valentinitsch
• 2002: carry coals to newcastle A video-documented action in 15 galleries in Vienna
• 2003: Opening - Alexander Chitsazan Video of a performance
• 2004: The MalHamlet (35 min.)
• 2004: Meinl im Graben , video (loop)
• 2005: Weil Heill , video (15 min.)
• 2005: Hey Joe , video
• 2005: hitler name girl 16 mm, director Jad alias Martin Kirchner, editor: Till Caspar Juon
• 2005: Kraft durch Fräuleins video of a performance
• 2005: The Prince Who Weeps Our Tears Play by Jimmy Zurek, Cabaret Renz, Vienna
• 2006: Hitler's name girls theater performance by Jimmy Zurek in the Kunsthalle, Vienna
• 2006: We are the God , video
• 2007: 3 groschen for a Hallelujah play by Jimmy Zurek at the MAK, Vienna
• 2009: 3 groschen for a Hallelujah 10 minute promotional video by Jimmy Zurek & Jack the Ripper

Music projects / readings / performances

• 1999: Concert at the University of Applied Arts with CD presentation of the live album Anti Art Orchestra : Jazz concert series Niggers, Jews And Nazis, Too! under the direction of Angus Thomas (Miles Davis)
• 2000: Concert at the MAK
• 2001: Concert at the Rabenhof Theater with Angus "Bangus" Thomas / Miles Davis, Jon Sass / Vienna Art Orchestra, Freddy Jelinek / Vienna Art Orchestra, Peter Jakeli, Dick Sells, Fritz Pfannhauser, Stefan Wessel, Ric Toldon, Philipp Zurek alias Philipp Zorn (Vocals / voice acrobatics)
• 2001: The Kids Of The Dark , soundtrack by Boris Valentinitsch, Philipp Zurek / Vocals for Fragment , a film by Helmut Stekl
• 2010: MADCHEN AMICK music project by Jimmy Zurek and Robert Schwarz. Her first EP "Shelly Johnson" was released on the Viennese label Kinderkreuzzug. The first album in autumn 2010 on the Vienna Wildstyle / Grooveattack label.

Web links

• www.jimmyzurek.com Official homepage
• Jimmy Zurek at artfacts.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TW1 KunstRaum - "Vienna in the blood - Or the resilient rise of a dental technician" daily from November 22nd ots.at. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
2. ^ Website DiePresse ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) from June 4, 2009.
3. ↑ Children's crusade website ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 9, 2010.  
4. ↑ FM4 website.Retrieved July 9, 2010.
5. ^ Website Kunstaspekte Accessed on January 2, 2010.
6. ↑ ORF website. Accessed on January 2, 2010.
7. ↑ Website flickr.com.Retrieved on January 2, 2010.
8. ↑ ORF website. Accessed on January 2, 2010.