Happy New Year 2010!

Another year gone by, but for us a pivotal year that meant a com­pletely new dir­ec­tion for 42live. After many years of loose pro­jects we are now in Ber­lin and tak­ing our first steps towards some­thing more sub­stan­tial. It’s been ups and downs but every time I see the found­ing date of this domain, Janu­ary 2002, I think that in these 7 years of vari­ous dis­guises and themes, 42live has sur­vived well and Ber­lin is exactly the right place and time to take our col­lab­or­at­ors’ work to the masses.

So, on behalf of us at 42live I would like to thank every­one that has shown interest and sup­por­ted this col­lect­ive so far, and take the oppor­tun­ity to wish all and every­one a great new year — 2010!  With this our goal is to estab­lish ourselves with Ber­lin as a base, and to pro­duce our first real live exhib­i­tion in sum­mer 2o10!  All this is still in the plan­ing stage but until then, thanks for being there and may the next year be as cre­at­ive and inspir­ing as 2009 was for this collective!

Peter A. Mankowski,
founder 42live

Cover image from series “Bodys­paces” - http://www.petermankowski.com

Fernsehturm Pop | Color image series by Peter A. Mankowski

Ber­lin based pho­to­grapher Peter A. Mankowski has pub­lished a short series of images on his web­site www.petermankowski.com. The series called Fernse­hturm Pop is part of a lar­ger series of images depict­ing urban archi­tec­tural design in Ber­lin and also a play with col­ors and per­spect­ive, touch­ing on the sub­ject of our per­cep­tion of archi­tec­ture sur­round­ing us. The big­ger series will be pub­lished later on this year.

Reduced Landscapes | Watercolor series by Saga Ljunglöf

Swedish painter and con­tem­por­ary artist Saga Ljunglöf is present­ing her water­color series “Reduced Land­scapes” for the first time here at 42live! The 13 paint­ings depict land­scapes in mini­ature and play with the notion of that land­scape imagery always need to big and bold, as well as, explor­ing how far a paint­ing can be reduced in size and still con­vey the idea of a landscape.

See the gal­lery for the whole series.

London Snow | A new short photoseries by Peter A. Mankowski

Pho­to­grapher and 42live cre­at­ive head Peter A. Mankowski has pub­lished a short pho­to­graphic series under the work­ing name Lon­don Snow. The series con­tains a num­ber of black & white, fine art, images from a day of heavy snow­fall in Lon­don, UK. These images and much more can be found at http://www.petermankowski.com

Art of Female Touch | a new series of drawings by Saga Ljunglöf

Gothenburg-based painter and con­tem­por­ary artist Saga Ljunglöf has given us the first pre­view of series based on the topic of women’s choice of erotic pleas­ure. The draw­ings depict free­dom and the joy of sen­sual pleas­ure without pre­ju­dice. Ljunglöf is hop­ing to be able to exhibit these and other some­times in the near future.

To view the series fol­low the link ARTWORK or go dir­ectly to the gal­lery

Lisboa Noir | Fine art black & white urban photography

Ber­lin based pho­to­grapher Peter A. Mankowski has released a very lim­ited edi­tion book of his pho­to­graphic series “Lis­boa Noir”. The series depict Lis­bon from a urban and archi­tec­tural point of view and present a very intim­ate and per­sonal view of the sub­ject. The “Black  Edi­tion” of Lis­boa Noir is a lim­ited edi­tion photo book con­tain­ing the images and Por­tuguese poetry. The series is avail­able for view­ing at www.petermankowski.com and the book is cur­rently pub­lished on Blurb.