Tanken.

Alois is not Hibernating!

2011-12-27T10:12:00.000-08:00

Alois is not Hibernating. He is alive and well, Sonja and I just haven't
been as active in publishing his where-abouts. This is a new piece that
was started on a series of colored swatches and I'm sending it back now
to Sonja to work on with my additions. I'm also sending new portrait cards
that I began with graphite so we'll see what happens with those.

2010-06-02T02:19:00.000-07:00

ALOIS IS HERE.
Eröffnung: Mi 9. Juni, 19:00 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 10. Juni - 9. Juli 2010

„We are tanken!“ ist ein Mailart-Projekt zwischen Adam Benjamin Fung (Chicago) und Sonja Bendel (Wien). Seit einem Jahr schicken sich die beiden KünstlerInnen auf dem Postweg Zeichnungen, an denen sie abwechselnd arbeiten. Im Laufe dieses Prozesses entstand das vielseitige Bild des Protagonisten "Alois", dessen Persönlichkeit und Lebensumstände wie Spuren erscheinen. Durch das Zusammentreffen von Bendel und Fung in Wien, wird erstmals ein tieferer Einblick in Alois Welt ermöglicht.

"english translation"

Opening: Mi 9 June, 19:00 clock Exhibition duration: 10 June - 9 July 2010 „Incoming goods of acres refuel! “is a Mailart project between Adam Benjamin Fung (Chicago) and Sonja Bendel (Vienna). Since one year send themselves the two artists on the post office way designs, on which they work alternating. In the course of this process the versatile picture of the protagonist developed " Alois" , its personality and life circumstances such as traces appear. By the meeting of Bendel and Fung in Vienna, a deeper view of Alois world is made possible for the first time.

Alois is here, in Vienna.

2010-05-30T13:51:00.000-07:00

Adam Benjamin Fung has arrived in Vienna and will soon team up with Sonja Bendel to create a site specific work for a small exhibition space. The work is shrouded in mystery, as Alois often is, but one thing is for certain, on June 9th at 7pm you will be able to check it out:

Alois is here

...to be continued

Kunst und Kulturverein

Lerchenfelder str. 65

1070 Wien

2010-03-08T06:22:00.000-08:00

2010-03-08T06:19:00.000-08:00

2010-03-08T04:39:00.000-08:00

teenager alois

square jawed alois

screaming baby alois

racing alois

pointing alois

2010-03-08T04:36:00.000-08:00

propeller head alois

older alois

gloating alois

intellectual alois

cyborg alois

2010-03-08T04:33:00.000-08:00

close alois

an alois hair-day

aloisa waiting for fun

blindfolded alois

aloisa in the sixties

2010-03-08T04:29:00.000-08:00

alois with "geheimratsecken"

alois, elusive

alois winking but looking creepy

alois whistling

alois wearing a bunny-mask

2010-03-08T04:25:00.000-08:00

alois until his chin in liquid

alois looking for his teeth

alois in his new winter jacket

alois after a bad hair cut

aerobic alois

Nightmare 5x7 postcard show in St. Louis

2009-12-11T09:03:00.000-08:00

These are the latest collaborative pieces

by Adam Fung (Chicago) and Sonja Bendel (Vienna).
They are 5" x 7", Acrylic, Watercolor, Ink, Luminous

Paint, Gauche on Blotter Paper. The post cards will

be mailed to Maryville University for an exhibition

and then be kept in the permanent collection of the

University's gallery.

Nightmare 1 and Nightmare 2.

2009-11-18T05:08:00.000-08:00

2009-11-18T05:03:00.000-08:00

2009-11-18T05:00:00.000-08:00

a book about death (nyc exhibition)

2009-08-10T11:47:00.000-07:00

This is a postcard Sonja and I worked on
for this large group exhibition in New
York City, starting in September.

The exhibition is titled " a book about death ".
Everyone who is participating sends in 500
postcards that will be displayed and available
for visitors to collect and form their own "book
about death".

Here is a link for the site with further details about the exhibition.

first complete notebook

2009-08-01T03:42:00.000-07:00

2009-08-01T03:40:00.000-07:00

2009-08-01T03:38:00.000-07:00

2009-08-01T03:36:00.000-07:00

2009-08-01T03:34:00.000-07:00

2009-08-01T03:32:00.000-07:00

2009-08-01T03:29:00.000-07:00

long time no read

2009-08-01T02:14:00.001-07:00

Alois is writing from all over the world

2009-08-01T02:11:00.000-07:00

postcards, postcards, postcards

2009-08-01T02:09:00.000-07:00

mail from Alois

2009-08-01T02:07:00.000-07:00

change!

2009-08-01T01:48:00.001-07:00

change, Alois can do it!

2009-08-01T01:45:00.000-07:00

lately Alois is changing a lot

2009-08-01T01:42:00.001-07:00

!

2009-06-05T05:42:00.000-07:00

...notes, notes, notes

2009-06-05T05:39:00.000-07:00

notes from Alois

2009-06-05T05:36:00.000-07:00

notizbuch

2009-06-05T05:19:00.000-07:00

..Alois, Alois, Alois...

2009-06-05T05:15:00.000-07:00

faces of Alois

2009-06-05T05:08:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Alois

2009-05-01T10:53:00.000-07:00

Recently, these postcards started
filtering in...from various locations.

Alois Cards

2009-05-01T10:35:00.001-07:00

These are trading card sized portraits
of our elusive subject, Alois.

Cowboy Alois

Fat Alois

Alois Longstocking

Divorced Alois

Captain Alois

Prince Alois

Uncle Punk Alois

Philosopher Alois

King Alois

Little Alois

Notebook re workings

2009-05-01T06:09:00.000-07:00

I started this notebook with 4 small drawings.
Sonja returned it to me with some extensive additions.
I introduced the color elements...sending it back to
Sonja for more.

notebook!

2009-04-29T05:11:00.000-07:00

...the first pages started by Adam and completed by Sonja

Completed Portraits of Alois

2009-04-29T05:06:00.001-07:00

Completed April 1st, 2009.

2009-04-14T15:05:00.000-07:00

Started by Sonja...

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Begonnen durch Sonja…

Completed Drawings

2009-04-03T11:05:00.001-07:00

Started by sonja... / Begonnen durch sonja…

...finished by Adam / … beendet durch Adam

new format ?

2009-04-03T06:00:00.000-07:00

I am suggesting, introducing
a possible new format for our
project.

The book format will allow us
to move back and forth between
drawings with ease and keep them
organized as well.

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Ich bin das Vorschlagen und stelle
ein mögliches neues Format für unser
Projekt vor. Das Buchformat erlaubt
uns, sich zwischen Zeichnungen hin
und her leicht zu bewegen und sie
zu halten außerdem organisiert.

early works

2009-04-02T14:48:00.001-07:00

Here are a few early pieces from
our project, a little rough around
the edges. Started by Adam.
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Sind hier einige frühe Stücke von
unserem Projekt, ein wenig raues
um die Ränder.

we are tanken!

2009-03-17T07:58:00.000-07:00

This is a blog / space to document and
present a new collaboration between artists
Adam Benjamin Fung (Chicago, USA) and
Sonja Bendel (Vienna, Austria).

The original idea of this collaboration began
in an Airport while waiting to depart the Vermont
Studio Center Residency in Feb. 2009. Drawings
were exchanged and added to...this is where we
started.

The word "tanken" is a mistranslation from
German to English. Sonja will have to explain
what the original intent was for the word...

In this particular usage tanken can represent
the things lost in communication and collaboration
as well as the beauty and surprise and accidents
that are bound to occur over the course of this
project.

Check back for updates!

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Dieses ist ein Blog/zu dokumentieren ein Raum
und stellen Sie eine neue Zusammenarbeit zwischen
Künstlern vor Adam Benjamin Fung und Sonja Bendel.

Das Wort " tanken" ist eine fehlerhafte Übersetzung
von Deutsch-Englischem. Sonja muss erklären was die
ursprüngliche Absicht war für das Wort… In diesem
bestimmten Verbrauch tanken kann darstellen die
Sachen verloren in der Kommunikation und Zusammenarbeit
sowie die Schönheit und die Überraschung und die
Unfälle, die gesprungen werden, um über dem Kurs dieses
Projektes aufzutreten.

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