Now begins the exciting time in Germany: The time of the "Rundgang" (The Graduate Shows)  The season is started by Kunstakademie in Duesseldorf. Who learns here, gets classes from professors like Peter Doig, Rosemarie Trockel, Tal R, and Didier Vermeiren.

The Rundgang starts the 3rd of February. This is the day when collectors are shopping for works, and the many ad agencies in the town for talents.

Quite a few of the young artists that Notfamousyet has presented in the last shows have been graduates from the Kunstakademie in Duesseldorf. Among them Michail Pirgelis with his sculptures made of "found" airplane parts,  Nina Fandler who in her large paintings plays with the vision of reality by using staged reflections and hidden image, and in the last show Dominik Halmer and Jana Schroeder.

Quite busy working on my plans for 2010: Finding unusual places to showcase exciting emerging artists. And while doing this got a nice mail from  Gwenda Thompson Marchesi who does live-sized animals. Looks like a match. Her work reminds me of the Jochem Hendricks' installation at the large show of Haunch of Venison in London or the pieces of Polly Morgan at Sudeley Castle,  even though Gwenda does not use real animals.

The show at 10 St Clements will end in some days and I am asked what I am planning next. The answer: Continue the concept of finding new surprising places and connect those with stunning works of exciting artists.

In this year we showed exciting young work in an empty shop, converted a small secluded chapel  into a calm meditative art event, and displayed a tongue in cheek installation about plants in a garden shop.

For the next year I am determined to find more interesting places for the selected artists. The aim is to create intriguing new artistic shows, more events than exhibitions. I am talking currently to owners of large private manors, principals of Oxford colleges, supporters of community gardens. A friend pointed me to a National Trust property: so unique, amazing and full of history. Jointly we put this location on top of the list. The next show is already confirmed. It will be a sculpture show in large formal garden.

Which artists will be there? This is of course the more important question. Two artists who have been introduced in recent group shows will be invited for solo shows. Under the title "The Rundgang" we are going to present the most interesting new talents from Germany. A recent contact actually challenges the name of the gallery because the "notyet" does not apply.

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When children pass the gallery they suddenly stop and point and smile. That is when they discover one of Madi Acharya-Baskerville's objects. For "Hybrid" - featured above - she found the skeleton of a toy car, gave it an energetic blue passenger, created four wheels out of various objects, and decorated this little item with tiny wonderful ornaments. 

Would I like to keep it? You bet!

How many seasons does a year have? Certainly more than four, is Jo Stannard's answer. She must know. There is nobody else who observes the changing colours of the different seasons more closely than she does. 

The beautiful range of small works took a year to make. Jo revisited the same location and carefully collected the colours of every season.  Colour panels were meticulously painted, but then fragmented and re-arranged in a collage.