PIT BECKER
paintmyblues
Visual Artist, Painter.
Blue Planet Earth
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PIT BECKER ARTwork
Region Bergstraße
Germany
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paintmyblues
This is my dance,
my love and longing,
my sadness and joy,
my hopes,
my soul,
my song
and
my painting.
That's me,
paintmyblues.
Participation in the
Exhibition
"'Despierta el Jaguar dormido"
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador,
26 nov 2014 - jan 2015
OpalPath entre los ríos
(OpalPath between the Rivers)
2-12 y 16-17 de noviembre 2014,
MonotypePainting en papel,
140x100 cms
Participation in the
Exhibition "Harassment"
at Darb 1718
Contemporary Art & Culture
Center, Cairo, Egypt
http://www.darb1718.com/activities/exhibitions/exhibitions-2012-2/harassment/
#ENDsh
2012, June 18/19
MonotypePainting on paper,
70x100 cms.
Darb 1718 Contemporary
Art & Culture Center, Cairo.
Enough!
2012, June 19/20
MonotypePainting on paper,
70x100 cms
Nazra for Feminist Studies,
Egypt
Respect us!
#ENDsh
2012, June 18/19
MonotypePainting on paper,
70x100 cms.
Darb 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture Center, Cairo.
The streets are our's, too!
2012, June 19
MonotypePainting on paper,
100x70 cms.
Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt.
Video:
"Vocalising sexual harassment in Egypt",
incl. the Harassment Exhibition at Darb 1718
in Cairo,
by Al Jazeera English, 3 june 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxYGYl0q4C0
via YouTube
End sexual harassment
2012, June 23/24
MonotypePainting on paper,
100x70 cms.
Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt.
Logo Nazra: Courtesy of Nazra for
Feminist Studies, Egypt,
www.nazra.org
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https://paintmyblues.blogspot.com
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Pit Becker paintmyblues
Pit Becker paintmyblues
Visual Artist, Painter.
Born 1953 in RegionBergstraße, Germany.
Drawing and painting since mychildhood.
1969 Training as a typesetter.
Activities: typesetter. Design & layout, painter.
From 1975 onwards, permanent engagement with painting and graphics.
Learning and experimenting with various artistic techniques,
e.g. woodcut, painting with acrylic, gouache, monotype etc.
1980 Painting became my second profession.
Solo and group exhibitions since 1983.
Regular artistic projects since 1990.
Workshops with children, young people and adults since 1994.
1995-1998 Freelance as Visual Artist, painter.
My artwork includes painting, drawing, collage, graphic,
on canvas, paper, wood, textiles etc.
Homepage: www.pitbeckerartwork.de
About my MonotypePainting
While learning the classic monotype and experimenting with different materials and tools,
I had found something new.
It allowed me to express myself in a more versatile and completely different way than before.
Since there is no name for this type of technique in the art world, I called this part of my artwork MonotypePainting.
The combination of painting and monotype in my artistic-working process allows me my largest-ever creative power of expression.
Online exhibition
Amazonia por la vida, 2020
https://paintmyblues.blogspot.com/2020/03/amazonia-por-la-vida-exhibition.html
Single exhibitions (Selection)
Museum Heppenheim/Bergstraße, 2024
Studiobühne, Fürth/Odw., 2010
Palmyra Publishing House, Heidelberg, 2010
Katholische Studentengemeinde Universität Mainz, 2003
Gallery club parterre, Löfflerhaus, Gotha, 2000
Schloß Kromsdorf, Kromsdorf/Thüringen, 2000
Technical University of Bingen/Rhine, 1998
City Library, Heidelberg, 1997
Caritas, Heppenheim/Bergstraße, 1995, 1999
Druckladen of the Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz, 1994
Dom St. Peter, Heppenheim/Bergstraße, 1993
Gallery Art Line, Clervaux/Luxemburg, 1993
Museum Heppenheim/Bergstraße, 1992, 199Z
Group exhibitions (Selection)
'Despierta el Jaguar dormido' (Wake up the sleeping Jaguar)
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador, 26 nov 2014 - jan 2015
'Harassment'.
Darb 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture Center, Cairo, Egypt, 2012
Galerie Treffpunkt Kunst, Angela Mahmoud, Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen, 2008, 2009
Jakobskirche, Weimar, 2002
Gallery Kleines Haus, Staatstheater Mainz, 1999
Gallery in the Cranach-Haus, Weimar, 1998
Gallery Kunsthaus Villa Benary, Erfurt, 1998
„Mainzer Märchen“, Druckladen of the Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz, 1997
Gallery Thurn & Taxis, Michelstadt, 1997
Gallery Ego Art, Mannheim, 1997
Gallery Saper Vivere, Darmstadt, 1996
'Art in black', `Schwarze Kunst`, Museum Michelstadt, 1996
'Gutenberg 2000', Kunstverein Eisenturm, Mainz, 1995
Druckladen of the Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz, 1995
'Beauner Platz'/Parktheater Bensheim, 1992
Artistic works on contract (Selection)
- MonotypePainting and Design of the Mainz Poster Poem No. 16, 1998.
Text by novelist Erich Loest, Germany, „Stadtschreiber“ of the City of Mainz 1998.
For the City of Mainz.
- An Artistic front page of a newspaper, 1998;
for Linopress Publishing Systems GmbH, Eschborn.
- MonotypePainting and Design of the Mainz Poster Poem No. 15, 1997.
Text by novelist Friedrich Christian Delius, Germany, „Stadtschreiber“ of the
City of Mainz 1997. For the City of Mainz.
- Documentation of the interactive video-installation 'Biperception' by Carvien Shiu,
Hongkong, 1997, MonotypePaintings;
for the Museum of Heppenheim/Bergstraße
- Picturesque variations on a product logo, MonotypePaintings,1995-1996;
for Knoll Deutschland GmbH, Ludwigshafen.
- Painterly and typographical dialogue with Bible texts,
nine MonotypePaintings, 1993;
for nine meditation walls in St.Peter's Cathedral, Heppenheim/Bergstrasse.
Common projects
' When Syria has spring? '
Claire A. Poinsignon, journalist, France and Pit Becker, painter, Germany. 2014
http://paintmyblues.blogspot.de/2014/03/when-will-spring-arrive-in-syria.html
' Poème et peintures pour la #Syrie '
Claire A. Poinsignon, journalist, France and Pit Becker, painter, Germany. 2012-2013
http://paintmyblues.blogspot.de/2013/10/poem-and-paintings-for-syria.htmL
My public projects, LIVE (Selection)
realized at the Druckladen of the Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz:
' Is art luxury? '
Variations of the theme, MonotypePaintings. Public talks with visitors, 1998
' Mainz Fairy Tales '
Design of the "First Mainz Fairytale Poster", 1997, text by Markus Lindner (9 years old), Mainz. Monotype, charcoal pencil, use of lead letters (mixed media).
' Poetry & Prose '
Variations, MonotypePainting and graphic art,inspired by the novel 'The Bone People' by Keri Hulme
and by ‘Leaves of Grass’ by Walt Whitman, MonotypePaintings, mixed media, graphic, 1994
Projects (Selection)
' Amazonia por la vida '
MonotypePaintings, drawings, collage, 2012-2019.
Further works have been created since 2019 until today, and I willl create more.
' Under the Skies of Syria '
MonotypePaintings, 2012-2013.
' #ENDsh '
MonotypePaintings, June 2012
' Only 13 signs - Free Pussy Riot '
MonotypePaintings, collage, drawings, mixed media, 2012.
' My Poems Nightblue '
MonotypePaintings, 2011
' My Tahrir Diaries '
Drawings, sketches, collage, 2011
' The Freedom of Colours '
MonotypePaintings, mixed media, collage, 2011
' Inspired by Music '
MonotypePaintings, inspired by Rock, Jazz and World Music, 2010
`Mi hija `
Dedicated to the Mothers of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Pastel crayon, 2009
' Amethyst '
Variations with the shade Amethyst. MonotypePaintings, 2009
' Making space '
Variations on "Making space", the theme of the competition at the Royal Academy of Arts,
London, 2009. MonotypePaintings. (Unsuccessful participation)
' La Tierra '
MonotypePaintings, drawings, 2008-2013.
' London '
MonotypePaintings, Acrylic Paintings and drawings, 2008-2011.
' Stars of Tradition '
MonotypePaintings, inspired by the album 'Introducing' of the band Etran Finatawa, Niger, 2007.
' The Songs of the Stones of Weimar '
Paintings, graphic art, drawings, inspired by the City of Weimar, Germany, 1998-2012.
' My Poems to the Sea '
MonotypePaintings and Acrylic Paintings, 1991-2012.
' Poetry & Prose '
Paintings, drawings, inspired by works by e.g. Keri Hulme, Virginia Woolf, Pablo Neruda,
Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud. Since 1990.
' Cosmopolitan signs '
Developing my own lettertypes. Paintings, drawings, collage, since 1989.
Workshops (Selection)
' Drawing and Painting with children '
in a daycare centre for children
‘An der Modaubrücke’, Darmstadt-Eberstadt, 2007
' The technique of monotype '
With students and pedagogues
at the Schuldruck-Zentrum der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ludwigsburg, 1999
' Drawing and Painting with young people '
two school-classes from Riesa and Osnabrück, Germany,
at the Gallery in the Cranach-Haus, Weimar, 1999
' Drawing and Painting with children '
at the Museum of Heppenheim/Bergstraße, 1997-1998
' The technique of monotype '
at the Druckladen of the Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz, 1994-2002
Media reviews / Film
- Video "Vocalising sexual harassment in Egypt" incl. the Harassment Exhibition
at Darb 1718 in Cairo, Egypt,
by Al Jazeera English, 3 june 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxYGYl0q4C0 via YouTube
- Video 'Pit Becker, a portrait of an artist', directed by Mike Schröder, Mainz/Berlin,
realized at Pit Beckers studio in Weinheim/Bergstraße, 1998
- Feature in the TV programme 'Thüringen Journal', mdr, exhibition Schloß Kromsdorf, 2000
- TV programme 'Kulturcafé', SWR/Rheinland-Pfalz, 1998
- Interview, TV programme 'K3', Mainz-Rheinhessen, 1994
Video Clips
- "paintmyblues" https://youtu.be/9txwTpYs9dk via YouTube.
Published 21 may 2017.
© 2017 by Pit Becker paintmyblues. PIT BECKER ARTwork.
All rights reserved.
Participation at Fairs
Deco-In Berlin, presented by the gallery Kunsthaus Villa Benary, Erfurt, 1998
Public purchase of artistic works
Stadt Mainz . Museum Heppenheim/Bergstraße