After five years of Rotopol, we go back to our roots. in 2008 the very first exhibition of London based illustrator Matthieu Bessudo aka Mcbess took place here in Kassel at Rotopol. Since those days a lot has happened. Today Mcbess is one of the most famous names in illustration. In his surrealist pieces he manages to combine contemporary pop and sub culture quotes with influences from old cartoons like those of Max and Dave Fleischer. The result is a vital universe full of cheese and meat, guitars, amps, bearded men and tattooed beauties.

In Bones & Tones Mcbess presents new work as well as exclusive screenprints and features pieces by Ugo Gattoni, Koa  and Clément b.

Show opening on:
August 17 to September 26, 2012
at Rotopol
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 95 in Kassel

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The American author Fred Schmalz reads a selection of his new poems at Rotopol. His poems are examining the intimacies of relations: among people, between people and the objects they encounter, between people and works of art. In these poems, Close Quarters relates to both physical proximity and emotional attachment and the (de)ciphering of the mechanisms these relations base on. (The reading will be in English.)

Fred Schmalz is living in Kassel since 2007 and studies in the graduate program in North American Studies at Georg-August Universität, Göttingen. His first collection “Some Animals” is forthcoming in 2014 from Jackleg Press. He is founding editor of swerve magazine and his work has appeared in A Public Space, 1111, Zoland Poetry, LUNGFULL!, Spinning Jenny, Conduit, jubilat, Handsome, The Blue Letter, , We are so happy to know something and La Familia.

Poetry reading:
Saturday, August 10, 2012 at 9:00 pm
at Rotopol
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 95 in Kassel

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Hellen Jo working on her pieces “So Now What” and …

… “Wir Reisen Zusammen” for the exhibition.

Some from the opening.

At Rotopol American artist Hellen Jo will present her current and latest work in her first solo-show. We’re especially happy about the fact that she will come directly from L.A. to be present at the opening.

The American artist of Korean descent grew up in Burbank, California. Now she’s living in L.A. and is working as an animator for Cartoon Network as well as a freelance comic artist and illustrator. Her clients are among others Vice Magazine and Poketo.

Her debut comic book „Jin & Jam“ has been published by Sparkplugbooks in 2008. In the past years Hellen Jo was part of two Rotopol group shows (Secret Service and Super Villain).

Show opening on:
Friday, July 13, 2012 at 9.00 pm
at Rotopol
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 95 in Kassel

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Yuki – Hellen Jo

Bay Area Native – Hellen Jo

Pool Skate – Hellen Jo

WHTPP (What Happened To Pajama Parties?) That is not a legitimate but nearly necessary question. But luckily IcyG and KaySee followed it up. They follow their autobiographical traces in TV-history, from The Wire to Spongebob.

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KIIN. #9 – WHTPP
ISBN 978-3-940304-78-0
28 pages, b/w, 14.8 x 21 cm
limited edition (100), numbered

If You Don’t Like The Weather Wait Five Minutes! It’s all very well to say if you stay in cosy Aspen: between rich and beautiful people, motherly waitresses and a wide variety of padded animals. So one easily feels to stay inside, while checking the latest frog leather boots collection.

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KIIN. #8 – If You Don’t Like The Weather Wait Five Minutes!
ISBN 978-3-940304-75-9
28 pages, b/w, 14.8 x 21 cm
limited edition (100), numbered
+ 1 extra dose of sunshine

Born in 1977 in Bruges, Olivier Schrauwen studied animation at the Academy of Art in Ghentand and comics at the Saint Luc in Bruges. He improved his style, a reminisence of classical american comic strips, in several anthologies such as Spirou, Beeldstorm, Demo, INK and Zone5300. His two books My Boy and The Man Who Grew His Beard were published in English by Bries and Fantagraphics.

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Vernissage on:
Saturday, June 02nd 2012 at 9:00 pm
at Rotopol
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 95 in Kassel

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Drawings and collages by Bene Rohlmann aka pearpicker: www.pearpicker.com

Vernissage on:

Friday April 13, 2012 at 8pm
at Rotopol
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 95 in Kassel, Germany

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The first inbetween Kiin.zine. More precisely it is somewhere between Kiin. #7 and Kiin. #8. Created for the Super Villain groupshow at Rotopol, it is an essential companion for the modern villian of today.

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KIIN.between #1
ISBN 978-3-940304-72-8
22 pages, b/w, 14.8 x 21 cm
limited edition (100), numbered