Scopin

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Scopin (pseudonym for Albert Schöpflin , born January 14, 1943 in Freiburg im Breisgau ), whose real name is Albert Schöpflin, is a German artist who began his career as a photographer and has been painting with asphalt since 2012 .

Education and career

Albert Schöpflin comes from the Schöpflin entrepreneurial family . He studied from 1967 to 1969 at the State School for Photography in Munich and previously worked as a photo assistant in various studios. In 1969 he moved to New York and assisted photographers Mikel Avedon and Bill King. While at Bill King, Andy Warhol shot scenes for his films Trash and Flash in his studio,  and Scopin came into contact with Warhol's social circle. From 1969 to 1971 he lived and worked in the legendary Chelsea Hotel . The 1970 documentary, Chelsea Hotel , portrayed residents of the hotel, including Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe .

In the early 1970s, Scopin founded Yonah Yeend Film , made documentaries in and about the New York cultural underground, including thematic contexts of street theater, graffiti painting and avant-garde video art. In 1974 he moved back to Germany and set up a studio in Frankfurt. Scopin devoted himself increasingly to photography. At the beginning of the 1980s he began to draw and paint, primarily in gray tones of black and white photography. In 1985 he moved to Munich and in 1986 the artist worked on the film and book Lenses Don't See , a discussion about applied photography.

From 1983 to 1988 Albert Scopin taught as a lecturer at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung in Darmstadt , but in 1990 he retired to his studio in Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg to work exclusively as an artist. He has lived and worked in Riehen since 2004 . In 2001, Scopin and his siblings founded the Schöpflin Foundation based on their parents' property in Brombach . The foundation is dedicated to drug prevention , supports a day nursery and daycare center and maintains the Schöpflin workshop .

Working with asphalt

Inspired by the streets of Manhattan in the 1970s and later by the work of Korean artist Lee Bae, Scopin discovered asphalt as a color for his paintings in 2012. His intensive artistic engagement with this material is unique.

The material of asphalt as a natural or engineered mixture of the binder of bitumen and aggregates connotes conservation-archaeological for scopine " refers to bitumen a both naturally occurring as well as from oil obtained mixture of different organic substances, so primordial essence, preserved plant and animal Life. "

Bazon Brock clarifies the material iconography of asphalt as follows:

" Scopin's return of painting with oil paint to artistic design with bitumen opens up a highly interesting variant on the subject of“ art and life ”. Because working with tar / bitumen in road construction has transformed the surface of the world like few other materials, such as fertilizers Herbi- / pesticides or sand / silicon as cement and in electronic systems. Scopin's work will certainly not sink into the swamp of the financial industry and pornography, the helpless definition of the capitalist social order, because they protrude from this swamp as ghostly testimonies to once highly valued histories - or landscape painting. They document the archeology of the future, because we know that everything that is still present is future past. Scopin's bituminous coatings manifest the unity of past, present and future. "

The works have been presented in solo exhibitions in the Barlach Halle K, Hamburg (2016) and in the St. Elisabeth Church, Berlin (2016). The opening speech was given by Bazon Brock.

Video

literature

  • Scopin: Albert Scopin . This book accompanies an exhibition that was opened by the Städtische Galerie Regensburg in January 1992. Braus, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-89466-026-0 .
  • Scopin Asphalt On the occasion of the exhibition "Scopin Asphalt" in the Barlach Halle K, Hamburg, 2016 and St. Elisabeth, Berlin, 2016. With texts by Bazon Brock and Martin Hartung. Argobooks, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-942700-71-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Scopin: biography. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Albert Schöpflin: Lenses do not see. Realities of a dream job . Munich 1988.
  3. ↑ Schöpflin Foundation , schoepflin-stiftung.de, accessed on March 29, 2017
  4. ^ Bazon Brock: Scopin: Scopin Asphalt . Argobooks, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-942700-71-9 , p. 52 f .
  5. ^ Scopin: Asphalt. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  6. ^ Bazon Brock: Ölpest in den Kunst-Ödyllen Introduction to the exhibition. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Arnold Dietsche: Bazon Brock gives opening speech about Scopin's asphalt works. April 13, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Scopin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöpflin, Albert; Schöpflin, Kurt Albert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau