By Vurdlak on June 4, 2006, with 110 Comments
Johan Lorbeer became famous in the past years particularly because of his spectacular “Still-Life” Performances, which took place frequently in the public area. His installations like “Proletarian Mural” and “Tarzan” are famous in Germany, but still unknown internationally. This artist was pointed to us, by our fan Simon, who sent us the original article. I have no idea how these performances were done, it bugs me /a lot) quite frankly! So if you have some knowledge or ideas, be sure to post them under comments! This is what Simon sent us:
German news website Spiegel Online features this nice photo of a performance artist Johan Lorbeer in a still-life-performance” in Krasnojarsk (it’s said to be in Siberia…)! Quite fun to see, and “Johan Lorbeer” on google images reveals many more fun installations. I don’t have a clue how they work! Keep on building the fabulous page!!!
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I’m just curious. What’s the 6th one supposed to be? I really don’t get it ’cause it only looks like a man is holding a blanket while his two feet are in buckets of paint.
the 6th one is special becuase he is leaning to far for anyone to be able to naturally stand up, his centre of gravity is to far out, with the buckets on his feet this would be even harder.
these aren’t all paintings. he does LIVE shows. read the top of the page. forget the comments. he does LIVE performances. i’m not saying there isn’t a trick to it, but they aren’t paintings. he’s s still-life artist, who does still-life performances. showing someone a painting you did isn’t exactly a performance. he really does this stuff in front of crowds of people, on the streets in germany. i don’t know how he does it. a trick of some kind, but its not a painting. that’s got to be the stupidest explaination on here so far
WOW!! We don’t have to be so harsh! Everyone is apparently speculating using some logic of sorts…no need to be insulting anyone.
Secret revealed!!!
Click the link below and scroll to the bottom and watch the video. At the end of the video you will see his secret… ahaa!!
http://curiousphotos.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-gravity-johan-lorbeer.html#
it doesn’t show
ON PICTURE #1 . . . WHY DOES HE HAS TO LEAN ON THE WALL? WHAT HAPPENS IF HE JUST STAND STILL? (w/out touching the wall)
ok i wont ruin it for everyone by telling u how he does it, but ill give u a hint, notice in every picture how his hands are either touching something, or sightly obscured, the trick is in his apendeges, now figure out in wat way
not getting what’s so amazing about the 5th pic down…. so he’s sitting in a weird chair?? so?? :(
The desk he’s sitting at is suspended in air, at least that what it looks like to me!!!
in picture 3 when he has his hand on the wall if you look closely you can see an arm in his shirt so its obvious that he has a metal bar or something but how can he not show it to the crowd?
also in pic 4 from the bottem
he has his feet stuck in stuff but he can move his body, but pic 3 from the bottem he has a metal slot or something in his wrist because you can see a bar
He channels his chakra into the walls like naruto :)
ok ok hes photoshopped em its showing, he might have used harness too, or other buggings or stuff we might not know about…
Or he has maybe a Rod in his clothing if their not seen outside of them that are holding him in an incline. ETC.
I’m thinking he may be quadriplegic missing all or partial limbs. Then he can stick stuff in and brace his back and so on. It’s a good thought.
He most probably has rods or something hidden beneath his clothing. Good trick though, it certainly gets the public’s attention.
He’s in drugs!
dudes,i just noticed that in picture 4,the guys zip is flying high (its open).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYUZYJxSXJY&feature=related