Ben Schot

The 5 drawings in the BLACK FOREST series combined. All done in 2025. The larger drawings are c. 115 x 85 cm, the smaller ones 29,7 x 21 cm.

Drawing #1050. BLACK FOREST V. Felt, scotch tape and sticker on cardboard. 57 x 46 cm. 7 June 2025.

Drawing #1049. BLACK FOREST IV. Ink, acrylic and pencil on semi-translucent paper. 114 x 86,5 cm. 18 May 2025.

YouTube video by Punkie1966 Iggy Pop (1977-1979) [11]. Sweet Sixteen (1978-05-31 Scene 78)

Happy 78th, Iggy Pop!

Drawings #1046 (Still Kicking) and #1045 (Black Forest I) combined. Each 29,7 x 21 cm.

Udo Breger - Extraterritorial (Zeiten mit Carl Laszlo) Carl Laszlo, Auschwitz survivor, art collector and art dealer with Hungarian roots, and German author and translator Udo Breger, born during World War II with close ties to key figures of the Beat Gen...

New arrival from MOLOKO PLUS:

UDO BREGER - EXTRATERRITORIAL (ZEITEN MIT CARL LASZLO)

Carl Laszlo, Auschwitz survivor, art collector and art dealer with Hungarian roots, and German author and translator Udo Breger meet in Basel in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Drawing #1046. Still Kicking (For K.S). Watercolour, acrylic and ink on paper. 29,7 x 21 cm. 26 February 2025.

YouTube video by Eirek Sandnes Otis Rush: I`Cant Quit You Baby

Damn... with all respect to Jimi Hendrix's technique, skills, innovation and showmanship, this hits me where it matters a lot harder and a lot deeper.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2t...

Warmonger KAJA KALLAS, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, one of the most negative voices when it comes to achieving peace in Eastern Europe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaja_Ka...

Drawings #1047 & #1042 combined.

Drawing #1047. BLACK FOREST II. Ink, acrylic and pencil on semi-translucent paper. 115 x 85,5 cm. 8 March 2025.

‘...But out of the main camera shot was another sight in the room. Zelensky's ambassador to Washington, Oksana Markarova, who was spotted with her head in her hands as the arguments escalated...

Standing up to Trump like he did on Friday could, ultimately, mean losing to Putin.’

(BBC)

Drawings #1045 (Black Forest I) and #1026 (Landscape) combined. Each 29,7 x 21 cm, watercolour on paper.

David Teniers the Younger - Pie with a wreathed and pearled swan.

Detail in Tenier's painting ‘Kitchen Scene’ (1644). Found in Anneke Bakker's book ‘Bekranst’, published by Waanders Uitgevers, 2024. According to Ms Bakker the white and decorated swan symbolizes love, fidelity and virginity.

Totale flop Von der Leyen. Zowel haar stellingname in het Oekraïens-Russisch conflict als in het conflict in Gaza is rampzalig, ook voor de EU zelf, die zich diep in het eigen vlees heeft gesneden door aan de hand van Biden te lopen i.p.v. een onafhankelijke koers te varen.

Tijd om af te treden. Zelensky staat Oekraïense deelname aan vredesgesprekken in de weg.

Pete Hegseth says return to Ukraine's 2014 borders 'unrealistic' In a stark warning to Kyiv, the US defence secretary also says he does not envision Ukraine joining Nato.

Makes sense. Fuck war.

YouTube video by heymannbrothersfilms Stalags - Holocaust and Pornography in Israel - A film by Ari Libsker

Scene of Ari Libsker's 2008 documentary on 'Stalags': Israeli post-traumatic porn books that were popular around the time of the Eichmann trial (early sixties).

Planlos - Smog & Ruß C-50. Hand numbered edition of 100. Recordings from 1983 and 2022.

new arrival in the tapetopia series, Berlin

PLANLOS - SMOG & RUß

Aufruhr zur Liebe C-50. Hand numbered edition of 100. Recordings from the tapes ‘Irish Folk & Andere Schlechtigkeiten’ and ‘Halt mich steil’, around 1985.

New arrival in the tapetopia series, Berlin:

AUFRUHR ZUR LIEBE - 3X3 = NEIN

Drawings #1045 (Black Forest I) and #1027 (Emmy Hennings - Girl's Song) combined. Each 29,7 x 21 cm, watercolour on paper.

YouTube video by Freddie Hubbard - Topic Echoes of Blue

Freddie Hubbard - Echoes of Blue (1967).

Krampf.

Drawing #1045. Cuckoo series. Watercolour on paper. 29,7 x 21 cm. 3 February 2025.

YouTube video by 3rd Street Jazz Freddie Hubbard - Blue Spirits

Freddie Hubbard - Blue Spirits (1965).

Drawing #1033. UNTITLED. Acrylic and pencil on wood slice. 15 x 33,5 x 1,5 cm. 13 July 2023.

Enjoying a slice of Rotterdam's turbulent history with the recent publication ‘Leve Rotterdam!’ by Siebe Thissen and ‘De grote Vechtpartij’ by Blaise Cendrars, published in 1977. Both books are set in ‘De Polder’, Rotterdam's notorious slum, which was torn down in 1912.

#1021. THE RETURN OF THE BRUTE

3D drawing/collage of paper waste. Various materials, 70 cm long. First two copies of an open edition.

William Levy - A Call for Chaos Three incisive poems by William Levy.

WILLIAM LEVY - A CALL FOR CHAOS

A compound of 3 incisive poems by William Levy, written in the 1970s and 1980s. With some of Claude Paradin’s 16th-century emblems as visual ingredients and Anneke Auer as a master designer, a powerful antidote for these chaotic, inflammatory and crippling times.