Sleek Magazine : LIGHT | NIGHT

sleek 08 focuses on the theme of light/night. And to throw some light on the subject (!) here are the first motifs with some background info : Tony Ourslers light-sound-installation Influence Machine concerns the connection between spiritualism and telecommunication. The illuminated faces, projected onto fog and trees appear as spectral beings, which can be seen for miles around, but at the same time are immaterial and float above the spectator. Angela Bullochs location specific light installation Anroidika descending the staircase, conceived for the new Dior flagship store in Osaka, is a set of stairs which provides a journey through light. The observer is immersed in a hundred illuminated cubes – climbing stairs has never been so much fun! What’s the lowdown on the myth of creatives, who start working when the average 9to5 worker is in a much-deserved deep sleep? sleek asked artists about their opinion on working during the night and Albrecht Fuchs took the photos. Stefanie Schneider works with old, long-since expired Polaroid film. Blurred outlines and overexposure make her Polaroid photos almost unrecognisable, as if they came from the 70’s – and they look like you have just stared directly into the sunshine. SLEEK IS ON THE MOVE : After a brief stay at Potsdamer Platz they are now packing up their removal boxes once again - Brunnenstraße is to be the up and coming street of Berlin. The magazine is constantly changing locations – this will be number 5 already in just 2 years! ;-) !! So, the new address will be : sleek magazine, Brunnenstrasse 10, 10119 Berlin, Tel: 030-26 93 29 6, Fax: 030-26 93 29 75, info@sleekmag.com, www.sleekmag.com But the team won’t always be found in their new office : after Art Basel aand the Bread & Butter Berlin they are looking forward to PREVIEW BERLIN (28.09. - 02.10.05), Open Space of Art Cologne, a curated open exhibition area for contemporary art (28.10. - 01.11. 05) and the Art Basel Miami Beach in Winter (1. - 4.12. 05).