I recently received a few copies of INSIDE ArtZine #11 in the mail. INSIDE ArtZine (founded in 1990) is a glossy Underground & Lowbrow Art magazine from Germany which has featured artists on beinArt.org along with many exceptional artists previously unknown to me. Over all I was very impressed with the quality content and creative layout of this dark and gruesome journal. I was also proud to have introduced Jenzzz to the work of Karl Persson (a close friend of mine) and license Karl's work to be published in Issue 11 (with Karl's permission of course) as well as contributing a photo of one of my own Toddlerpedes for the "Are you still playing with dolls?!" double page spread.

Here is a blurb supplied by Jenzzz, the publisher of the German magazine (and promotional sponsor of Metamorphosis):

Graphical fevervisions from the depth of the creative sewer: The art of the real underground! Paintings, drawings, collages, photos, sculptures, stories, poems, denunciation, lies and other effronteries. A4, 40 pages, full colour, quality paper, english, 4 EURO / $5.40 USD. Order from the INSIDE Artzine website.

INSIDE artzine #11 - This time with MAXIMUM ARTSCUM from Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Brasilia, USA, Japan and Australia: Naoto Hattori (JAP), J.K. Potter (USA), Jan Off (GER), Marcel Ruijters (NL), Microbo (ITA), Karl Persson (AUS), Mike Bohatch (USA), Fabrice Lavolley (BEL), Urs Böke (GER) & many others….

"Are you still playing with dolls?!" - Dolls & Sculptures of the damned, Interview with Michael Hutter, "Ink means eternity" - The tattoomummies from Riberalta, ancient oddities & Reviews. May it hound your dreams….

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Joseph Seigenthaler is one of my favorite Sculptors featured on the beinArt website. His stone and mixed media sculptures and installations explore morbid themes while retaining an absurd sense of beauty. I personally find many of his works amusing with their expressive (and often perturbed) faces and strange contorted bodies. But even though Joseph's sculptures are often malformed and awkwardly posed (sometimes defying gravity), they are still frightfully life like as though they could come to life any moment and start ranting indecipherable profanity like escapees from a lunatic assylum. 

The following exerpts were sourced from The Carl Hammer Gallery website:

'The simultaneously repulsive/beguiling mixed media figures of Joseph Seigenthaler didn’t just crawl out of some dark, murky, mysterious slime. They arrived by car, the CTA, they walked in city streets, they ate lunch in a neighborhood diner, their legs mended in local hospitals, they were entertained in the local movie theater. They were the man or woman who live just down the block.'

'His people studies are the quintessence of freak or sideshow subject matter. His transformational use of exaggeration and distortion creates a reality out of illusion and disillusion. "ALIVE!" they seem to shout while conveying to us a chilling association with all things improbably pre-historic or extra-terrestrial.'

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