MBU street zine
Weichselplatz, Berlin
Transmission is the main drive of the MBU Street Zine initiative, one started out of « the organic urge » for Vutuc to keep a federating artistic enterprise going after his Heilbronn Basementizid/Plemplem experience; the zines exhibited are from his personal archive and collection of limited international publications that had not been publicly shown since, with each « issue » being themed around specific artists and zine makers - now free to flood urban space and generate social interaction via a new exhibition of their dynamics.
Indeed faithful to its name, MBU Street Zine consists not in the more traditional bound format but instead projects its contents over public Berlin space at skatepark Maybachufer, reusing the structure of an existing billboard originally intended for graffiti and typically eye-catching in design as potential commercial space.
« They are perfectly placed to instill a dialog with passers-by », explains Vutuc, highlighting the newfound role of the panels as a type of cultural window; also why Vutuc leaves the work « exposed, open to transform over time » by the various creative impulses of locals and visitors. Only whenever the current issue was eventually rendered completely unrecognizable would the next one build upon its remains, signaling collective evolution and persistent adaptation.
Every installation typically took place in the morning and culminated in the evening with a spontaneous happening.
Aymeric Nocus, Live skate media
ISSUE UNO _ 26th April 2015
Wulf, Jenne Grabowski, Ale Formenti, Nils Brauer, Tjark Thielker, Sara Parson-Texas, Quentin Chambry, LeLe Leon Zuodar, Rich Jacobs, Christian Nilsen, Henrik Biemer, Sergej Vutuc, Entonio Radioso – Ente, Jonathan Peters
Issue Deux _ 15th July 2015
Bill Daniel from book Tri-X-Noise , Rich Jacobs - Move zine, Quentin Chambry, Chris Milic, Jonathan Peters and Sergej Vutuc
ISSUE THREEE, 8 May 2016
PANCAKE Portfolio by Tokyo based photographer NOBUO ISEKI with RIP Japanes legend Devil Nisi, Soy Panday and Hiroki Muraoka
ITS HISTORY NOW and other zines from San Jose based JAI TANJU photographer, zinemakes, gallery owner Seeing Things gallery and print exchange program
the LARB zine project by artist skater SAM HITZ
KROOK SONG from same title publication by NATHANIEL RUSSELL
POWERHOUSE by RODGER BRIDGES is a small view into early works and hand made skate zines from 80´s using xerox machine as tool.
CB april 2016 drawing issue….
ISSUE FOUR 28th August 2016
Raphael Zarka, Fabiano Rodrigues and Sergej Vutuc
ISSUE FOUR (MBU STREET ZINE) - PRINT PUBLICATION
Raphael Zarka, Fabiano Rodrigues and Sergej Vutuc
risograph printed carton cover, we make it! berlin
11 DIN A3 offset sheets folted into A4 pages
unopened binding, tacked on one side
edition: 100
coming with a color postcard from the billboard MBU Street Zine
Sergej Vutuc explores the materiality of the book itself and activates the reader to intervene in the original setting. The unopened, but bound and tacked pages hide additional images on their backside, one can simply rip the sheets to look behind them—and also put them together again in an own order. In doing so, a key moment of Sergej Vutuc’s artistic method is transferred to the reader: working with the photographic material, ripping, kinking, destroying, and discovering what happened to the images during this process.
The book brings together the work of three artists, besides Vutuc’s work there are the self-portraits by Fabiano Rodrigues and images of the installations by Raphael Zarka. They all have in common that they combine their strong connection to art and photography with the skateboard culture.
For the book, Vutuc took their outcomes and composed a choreography of street scenes, repeated again and again in different extracts and angles, underpinned with abstract architectural shapes and images of objects that are connected to both—architecture and skateboarding.
The flow of rough black-and-white images—resulting from Vutuc’s practice of recopying the material—are hold together by the appearance of a human body, which returns as a recurring motif, interacting and sometimes even conglomerating with the architectural shapes and the public space.
ISSUE FIVE, 7th June 2017
Sergej Vutuc
print publication _ ISSUE FIVE
20x29cm 64pages edition of 100
Cover 300gr cardboard 2colors risoprinted by we make it berlin
Inside 115gr recycled paper
Stapled
2 a6 glossy postcards, taped
more
ISSUE SIX - Bend issue, 28.8.2017
Feature early works by Andy Jenkins and Bend Zine/Press with photography by Aaron Sedway, Spike Jonze, Spot, Tod Swank, O…
http://bendpress.com
https://issuu.com/bendpress/docs/bend23readers-single-page
ISSUE SEVEN 17.april 2018
Matt Hebert aka Airjob aka JuicyWolfLeader
Issue seven has focus on Matt´s playfulness with different texture of paper - forms reusing elements underline link on our life creating new stage, galaxy…
ISSUE EIGHT, 8, 22. June 2018
"From the Fire to the Wind the Water and the Earth we Return“ MARK MONK HUBBARD
The Monk issue, showing his drawing, dreams and plans some of them released; from Burnside and so on,... making influences how we skate, see and build
All drawings are published in "From the Fire to the Wind the Water and the Earth we Return" and "The Water and The Sand" by ELK books
ISSUE NEUN: najn 8.9.2018
Sergej Vutuc
ISSUE TEN 8.11.2018
Sergej vutuc
ISSUE UNO UNO, 26.4.2019
YE OLDE DESTRUCTION, Thomas Campbell
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Brian Gaberman, Arto Saari, Jai Tanju, French Fred, Anthony Acosta and Thomas Campbell
HANDWRITING/COPYMACHINE: Sergej Vutuc
INTERVIEW published in Confusion magazine, made by Jonathan Hay
ISSUE 12, 30.04.2019
Tomas Spiciolli
Tomas Spicolli is a self-taught musician and artist, who born in Argentina in the early 70's, very influential and pioneer in his country of origin and who changed the Brazilian Underground Art Scene in the mid 90's, when his band called “Delmar” toured in Brazil for the first time in 1997. I believe that it was the moment that he broke the mold of what was artistically produced here, all the art produced by his partnership with Delmar's bassist Mariano at the time they signed this collab as Halo/Spicolli was relevant and fresh with what was done at that time around the globe, elevating the Punk / Hardcore / Underground self-taught local art and also catching the attention of a generation who looked at contemporary academic art, shortly before the boom of this in Art Galleries or even the Street Art and Graffiti madness.
Using in the period mixed techniques of painting or collage, composing basically with found supports and papers, as well as paints, pencils and materials that were often available at his friends' houses, showed that it was possible to adopt the dynamics of punk DIY ethos in the Art world, by making at that time numerous posters for gigs and album covers for his friends local bands.
From 1998 his experimental participation to the unorthodox art project called "Draga" organized by Carlos Issa that invited local artists like, John Gall, Carlos Dias among other artists or not to participate in exhibitions and shows inside the house that they lived in São Paulo, this innovated the local scene with a lot of graphic and musical experimentation, and I'm sure that moment was very relevant for scenes or artists that would arise in the next decades, influencing various artists and musicians throughout the South America.
Bands such: Auto, Objeto Amarelo, Strada, Echoplex, Lava, among others were part of this process or even made their first shows in the original house where Draga was conceived or in places that rarely made room for such events by the time.
7Magnificöz was one of his bands between 2002 and 2004 that also had a lot of visual and musical impact, formed by friends of his hometown Zárate, the band impacted with a musical mix of "hardcore punk psychedelic experimental dub" practically brand new by the time, accompanied by a great dirty and organic graphic packaging. The gigs become visual performances allied to chaotic audio dynamics, the day to day life and the band's lifestyle was really an extension of the art and music they produced. If in this period the revival of Hardcore punk of the 80's was marked by Power Violence or Bandana Thrash groups, 7Magz swallowed everything done in previous times, digested and vomited in a unique way being one of the most original bands of the period without no doubt.
Tildaflipers is one of his current sound productions that also stands as visionary, starting from the beginning of mutant line ups since the beggining in 2011, the combination of deconstructed Dub / Pop, allied to chaotic visual video projections or printed publications put out togheter with the band's releases.
He collaborated with graphic art for uncountless album covers and cassette tapes releases, as well as continuing to create new musical projects every month as a maniac.
One of the few that has always produce for decades graphic material such as posters, fanzines and books. This aesthetic was always part of his production, especially in times that few people were interested in collecting or even trading or producing printed material.
His art productions in Galleries have also always followed an honest path, taking the message and aesthetics of what his life is as an artist and musician in the same way to a knowledgeable public or layman of his original references and messages contained in his audio visual works.
Tomas Spicolli has remained artistically relevant for decades because he does not settle for an easy way to produce and live by his art, he renews himself in the deconstruction and re-organization of his ideas everytime.
Text by Alexandre Cruz „Sesper“, Sao Paulo
ISSUE ONE FOUR, 22.2.2020
Artist: Dor Braver Rancourt, Sigurður Páll Pálsso, Jan Vollmann
Issueonefour is based on one three photographers skaters based in around Berlin who found their language to express through zines and selfpublishing creating independent work and field to explore textures, formats, film and stories.
MBU street zine
Weichselplatz, Berlin
Transmission is the main drive of the MBU Street Zine initiative, one started out of « the organic urge » for Vutuc to keep a federating artistic enterprise going after his Heilbronn Basementizid/Plemplem experience; the zines exhibited are from his personal archive and collection of limited international publications that had not been publicly shown since, with each « issue » being themed around specific artists and zine makers - now free to flood urban space and generate social interaction via a new exhibition of their dynamics.
Indeed faithful to its name, MBU Street Zine consists not in the more traditional bound format but instead projects its contents over public Berlin space at skatepark Maybachufer, reusing the structure of an existing billboard originally intended for graffiti and typically eye-catching in design as potential commercial space.
« They are perfectly placed to instill a dialog with passers-by », explains Vutuc, highlighting the newfound role of the panels as a type of cultural window; also why Vutuc leaves the work « exposed, open to transform over time » by the various creative impulses of locals and visitors. Only whenever the current issue was eventually rendered completely unrecognizable would the next one build upon its remains, signaling collective evolution and persistent adaptation.
Every installation typically took place in the morning and culminated in the evening with a spontaneous happening.
Aymeric Nocus, Live skate media
ISSUE UNO _ 26th April 2015
Wulf, Jenne Grabowski, Ale Formenti, Nils Brauer, Tjark Thielker, Sara Parson-Texas, Quentin Chambry, LeLe Leon Zuodar, Rich Jacobs, Christian Nilsen, Henrik Biemer, Sergej Vutuc, Entonio Radioso – Ente, Jonathan Peters
Issue Deux _ 15th July 2015
Bill Daniel from book Tri-X-Noise , Rich Jacobs - Move zine, Quentin Chambry, Chris Milic, Jonathan Peters and Sergej Vutuc
ISSUE THREEE, 8 May 2016
PANCAKE Portfolio by Tokyo based photographer NOBUO ISEKI with RIP Japanes legend Devil Nisi, Soy Panday and Hiroki Muraoka
ITS HISTORY NOW and other zines from San Jose based JAI TANJU photographer, zinemakes, gallery owner Seeing Things gallery and print exchange program
the LARB zine project by artist skater SAM HITZ
KROOK SONG from same title publication by NATHANIEL RUSSELL
POWERHOUSE by RODGER BRIDGES is a small view into early works and hand made skate zines from 80´s using xerox machine as tool.
CB april 2016 drawing issue….
ISSUE FOUR 28th August 2016
Raphael Zarka, Fabiano Rodrigues and Sergej Vutuc
ISSUE FOUR (MBU STREET ZINE) - PRINT PUBLICATION
Raphael Zarka, Fabiano Rodrigues and Sergej Vutuc
risograph printed carton cover, we make it! berlin
11 DIN A3 offset sheets folted into A4 pages
unopened binding, tacked on one side
edition: 100
coming with a color postcard from the billboard MBU Street Zine
Sergej Vutuc explores the materiality of the book itself and activates the reader to intervene in the original setting. The unopened, but bound and tacked pages hide additional images on their backside, one can simply rip the sheets to look behind them—and also put them together again in an own order. In doing so, a key moment of Sergej Vutuc’s artistic method is transferred to the reader: working with the photographic material, ripping, kinking, destroying, and discovering what happened to the images during this process.
The book brings together the work of three artists, besides Vutuc’s work there are the self-portraits by Fabiano Rodrigues and images of the installations by Raphael Zarka. They all have in common that they combine their strong connection to art and photography with the skateboard culture.
For the book, Vutuc took their outcomes and composed a choreography of street scenes, repeated again and again in different extracts and angles, underpinned with abstract architectural shapes and images of objects that are connected to both—architecture and skateboarding.
The flow of rough black-and-white images—resulting from Vutuc’s practice of recopying the material—are hold together by the appearance of a human body, which returns as a recurring motif, interacting and sometimes even conglomerating with the architectural shapes and the public space.
ISSUE FIVE, 7th June 2017
Sergej Vutuc
print publication _ ISSUE FIVE
20x29cm 64pages edition of 100
Cover 300gr cardboard 2colors risoprinted by we make it berlin
Inside 115gr recycled paper
Stapled
2 a6 glossy postcards, taped
more
ISSUE SIX - Bend issue, 28.8.2017
Feature early works by Andy Jenkins and Bend Zine/Press with photography by Aaron Sedway, Spike Jonze, Spot, Tod Swank, O…
http://bendpress.com
https://issuu.com/bendpress/docs/bend23readers-single-page
ISSUE SEVEN 17.april 2018
Matt Hebert aka Airjob aka JuicyWolfLeader
Issue seven has focus on Matt´s playfulness with different texture of paper - forms reusing elements underline link on our life creating new stage, galaxy…
ISSUE EIGHT, 8, 22. June 2018
"From the Fire to the Wind the Water and the Earth we Return“ MARK MONK HUBBARD
The Monk issue, showing his drawing, dreams and plans some of them released; from Burnside and so on,... making influences how we skate, see and build
All drawings are published in "From the Fire to the Wind the Water and the Earth we Return" and "The Water and The Sand" by ELK books
ISSUE NEUN: najn 8.9.2018
Sergej Vutuc
ISSUE TEN 8.11.2018
Sergej vutuc
ISSUE UNO UNO, 26.4.2019
YE OLDE DESTRUCTION, Thomas Campbell
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Brian Gaberman, Arto Saari, Jai Tanju, French Fred, Anthony Acosta and Thomas Campbell
HANDWRITING/COPYMACHINE: Sergej Vutuc
INTERVIEW published in Confusion magazine, made by Jonathan Hay
ISSUE 12, 30.04.2019
Tomas Spiciolli
Tomas Spicolli is a self-taught musician and artist, who born in Argentina in the early 70's, very influential and pioneer in his country of origin and who changed the Brazilian Underground Art Scene in the mid 90's, when his band called “Delmar” toured in Brazil for the first time in 1997. I believe that it was the moment that he broke the mold of what was artistically produced here, all the art produced by his partnership with Delmar's bassist Mariano at the time they signed this collab as Halo/Spicolli was relevant and fresh with what was done at that time around the globe, elevating the Punk / Hardcore / Underground self-taught local art and also catching the attention of a generation who looked at contemporary academic art, shortly before the boom of this in Art Galleries or even the Street Art and Graffiti madness.
Using in the period mixed techniques of painting or collage, composing basically with found supports and papers, as well as paints, pencils and materials that were often available at his friends' houses, showed that it was possible to adopt the dynamics of punk DIY ethos in the Art world, by making at that time numerous posters for gigs and album covers for his friends local bands.
From 1998 his experimental participation to the unorthodox art project called "Draga" organized by Carlos Issa that invited local artists like, John Gall, Carlos Dias among other artists or not to participate in exhibitions and shows inside the house that they lived in São Paulo, this innovated the local scene with a lot of graphic and musical experimentation, and I'm sure that moment was very relevant for scenes or artists that would arise in the next decades, influencing various artists and musicians throughout the South America.
Bands such: Auto, Objeto Amarelo, Strada, Echoplex, Lava, among others were part of this process or even made their first shows in the original house where Draga was conceived or in places that rarely made room for such events by the time.
7Magnificöz was one of his bands between 2002 and 2004 that also had a lot of visual and musical impact, formed by friends of his hometown Zárate, the band impacted with a musical mix of "hardcore punk psychedelic experimental dub" practically brand new by the time, accompanied by a great dirty and organic graphic packaging. The gigs become visual performances allied to chaotic audio dynamics, the day to day life and the band's lifestyle was really an extension of the art and music they produced. If in this period the revival of Hardcore punk of the 80's was marked by Power Violence or Bandana Thrash groups, 7Magz swallowed everything done in previous times, digested and vomited in a unique way being one of the most original bands of the period without no doubt.
Tildaflipers is one of his current sound productions that also stands as visionary, starting from the beginning of mutant line ups since the beggining in 2011, the combination of deconstructed Dub / Pop, allied to chaotic visual video projections or printed publications put out togheter with the band's releases.
He collaborated with graphic art for uncountless album covers and cassette tapes releases, as well as continuing to create new musical projects every month as a maniac.
One of the few that has always produce for decades graphic material such as posters, fanzines and books. This aesthetic was always part of his production, especially in times that few people were interested in collecting or even trading or producing printed material.
His art productions in Galleries have also always followed an honest path, taking the message and aesthetics of what his life is as an artist and musician in the same way to a knowledgeable public or layman of his original references and messages contained in his audio visual works.
Tomas Spicolli has remained artistically relevant for decades because he does not settle for an easy way to produce and live by his art, he renews himself in the deconstruction and re-organization of his ideas everytime.
Text by Alexandre Cruz „Sesper“, Sao Paulo
ISSUE ONE FOUR, 22.2.2020
Artist: Dor Braver Rancourt, Sigurður Páll Pálsso, Jan Vollmann
Issueonefour is based on one three photographers skaters based in around Berlin who found their language to express through zines and selfpublishing creating independent work and field to explore textures, formats, film and stories.