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...contemporary art scene." tel: [49-30] 32 41 591; www.galerie-schultz.de KIOSKSHOP BERLIN Rump calls German artist H.N. Semjon's "Product Sculptures" a "completely crazy but very sensual exhibition." This permanent, privately funded installation shows everyday articles like milk cartons and newspapers preserved inside a thin layer of transparent beeswax. As the objects can be purchased, the venue is both gallery and shop. Says Rump of Semjon: "He wants to slow down in a [fast] modern society and replace the simple usage of objects with artistic purity." tel: [49-30] 78 41 291; www.kioskshopberlin.de
...Burt’s Beeswax lip balm is minty fresh in scent and refreshing on the lips. Don’t be fooled by the cute, yellow containers—this stuff is heavy duty enough to keep Burt and his motorcycle gang’s lips from chapping. $2.98 for a .15 oz. stick. Harvard Coop...
This is the art room. We made our own paper and scented it with cinnamon, transcribed vast amounts of scripture in calligraphy, made mosaics from medieval tapestries and shaped animals out of beeswax that you had to warm between your hands for 10 minutes before sculpting. “It taught us patience,” I say. “They taught us to work on something before trying to change it.” I feel the need to rationalize the seemingly arbitrary, touchy-feely nature...
...media wall-hangings are more visceral than Richards's pale metal sculptures. Boutelle's "Ambivalent Passages" looks like an open gash with blood pouring forward in hues of petrified amber. But her most spectacular piece, "Ambivalent Passages III," seems to defy this straight sanguine categorization. The layers of cheesecloth, beeswax, shellac, oil bar, paint and rice paper that Boutelle uses in her art are here transformed into a composition reminiscent of Gustav Klimt's "Water Serpents," mermaids entangled in algae and veins, now in vivid carmine hues...
...Above: Peter Richards, "Sleep With Me," 1999, paper, steel, beeswax...