Torsten Siegfried Haake-Brandt
Torsten Siegfried Haake-Brandt (* 1958 in Kiel ) is a German visual artist , musician and composer .
life and work
From 1981 to 1984 Torsten Siegfried Haake-Brandt studied fine art. He has been freelance since 1984. He lives in Hamburg.
In the 1990s he created ballpoint pen drawings “nothing full of emptiness” on the subject of “boredom and managing time”. Haake-Brandt has been the owner of The BLÖ , his “utopian company for theoretical images” , since 2011 . The BLÖ is trademarked. The BÜRO BLÖ is located in Braunschweig. Haake-Brandt removes “traces” from objects and pictures that he does not like and sticks over (“suppresses”) them with brown tape .
With his sound band The BLÖ-BÄnd , Haake-Brandt plays basic color jazz and natural songs sung inward . He produces senseless sounds of the present and explores holes and cavities. In 2013 Haake-Brandt created “The BLÖ” perfume (man / woman) in collaboration with perfumer Kim Weisswange .
literature
- Torsten Haake-Brandt, digging up. Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-923479-59-X (exhibition catalog).
- New visual arts. Journal of Art and Criticism. 2/1998.
- 1. Specialist shop for nothing (bodotoronto). Foundation Art Fund Bonn, Berlin 2001.
- Torsten Haake-Brandt: Dear Linda . Tribute to the best potato in the world. Karin Kramer Verlag , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87956-335-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SVZ of October 29, 2010: The perfumer Kim Weisswange and the artist Torsten Siegfried Haake-Brandt let a color smell.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haake-Brandt, Torsten Siegfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | The BLÖ; Toronto, Bodo; Haake-Brandt, Torsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |