Nina Nolte, the artist reveals at Fabian Fyns gallery, her early works from her series BODEGONES (still lives), PADDLES, CHICOS (her stickmen) and her first portraits of Spanish bullfighters and a large size triptych of AUDREY HEPBURN, painted in complimentary colors (yellow/violett, red/green and orange/blue).
The video is in Spanish, but has English subtitles. Enjoy the video!
IN FOCUS WITH ALBRECHT WIDMANN: TALKING TO NINA NOLTE
Mediterranean International TV, 1998.
Albert (Albrecht) Widmann and Kenneth Barlowe – Contemporary Art Foundation
It is an older but lovely interview with Nina Nolte on the occasion of her exhibition at Fabien Fryns Fine Art in the Marbella Club Hotel.
Nina Nolte speaks about her current exhibition at the gallery and reveals us she had been sponsored by Lufthansa and Mercedes Benz, showing her art at the headquarter of Mercedes Benz in Berlin and at the University Club in Washington D.C.
Interviewer: Albrecht Widmann
Sound: Spirit Director: Rodney Hearth
Camera: Howard King
Vision Mixer: Gwilym Rhys-Jones J.R.
Mediterranean International TV, copyright 1998
Nina Nolte was invited to take part in the exciting one day tour, testing the eight really fast AMG sports cars. Highly recommendable!!!
Nina Nolte showed her turban ladies (out of her series THE BEST IS YET TO COME as STRONG WOMEN and part of the first female AMG Driving Performance Tour. She also took part in the exciting one day tour, testing the eight really fast sport cars. Highly recommendable!!!
The MINI Cooper Roadster is one of the most beautiful models MINI ever designed. This one has been converted into an art car and displays the lyrics of one of Nina Nolte´s favourite jazz songs, MY FUNNY VALENTINE, composed by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
The artist chose a jazz song, as this music goes perfectly with romantic tours through the country side.
Besides this, the era of that music is also the era of one of Nina Nolte´s series, THE BEST IS YET TO COME, the paintings with her elegant turban ladies in the water, that look like they’re from the 1950s. The two red rear view mirrors (the ears of the MINI 😉 are truly the dots on the “i”.
Further down you see Nina Nolte and the whole team which helped her to make the car an art car.
P.S. It is fun to drive this car and see the happy faces of the other drivers when they discover it!
The roadster was built from 2011 – 2015. There are only 24609 copies. This roadster is one of the last ones built.
This time it’s not a black MINI, but one in electric blue, symbolic for the now clean air and the bright blue sky over the Ruhr area in Germany, which for decades has suffered from the consequences of extensive coal mining.
The white symbols on the MINI reveal us what characterises the Ruhr area, such as the 81 miners on the roof, with their miner lamps, the so called “Grubenmännchen”. Other symbols are hoe and pickaxe, a winding tower, the miners motto “Glück auf!”, landmarks, etc. or well known other slogans of this region.
As a contrast to the bright blue of the MINI, Nina Nolte gave the MINI two orange ears, the rearview mirror caps.
The Ruhr area, affectionately called “Ruhrpott” by its inhabitants, has developed into one of the important cultural centres of Germany.
The doll, named “Frau Lotte”, was one of twenty ambassadors for the candidacy, all made by artists on different continents. They are 1.8 meters tall, weighing 60 kilos. Nina decided to use the colours of the German flag for hers
The commitee of the candidacy of the Russian city Yekaterinburg to the World Expo 2025 chose Nina Nolte to create the German MATRYOSHKA.
Nina decided to use the colours of the German flag for hers. Nina´s German MATRYOSHKA, called “Frau Lotte”, is an appeal to all nations for peace in the world.
The six biggest world religions form a circle around the peace sign, representing symbolically the more than 190 nationalities that live peacefully together in Berlin, the capital of Germany. In addition Nina Nolte created images on the matryoshka, showing the well known landmarks of Berlin, including the famous Gate of Brandenburg.
Nina was able to create the matryoshka in just five days thanks to the great support from her team and Becker & Beckmann, Berlin.
The doll was exhibited for one week in the Russian House of Culture and Science in Berlin. She was then sent to the Russian Cathedral of The Holy Trinity in Paris, where she was on displayed on the press conference on December 5, 2018, and attended by significant dignitaries, among others the mayor of Yekaterinburg and the Governor of the Ural Federal District.
Unfortunately for Yekaterinburg, the Japanese city of Osaka was chosen to host the World Expo 2025, and “Frau Lotte” and the other nineteen matryoshkas now delight the people in Yekaterinburg until further info.
Nina Nolte’s Art Gallery moves into scooter decoration with the idea of adding additional value to iconic two-wheelers by transforming them artistically to individual art works came to Nina Nolte after successful transformations of normal cars into stunning Art Cars.
That´s why a normal Vespa LX125 turned into the Art Vespa “Go 4 it!”. Just in time for the Marbella Design Fair, where it found a lot of admirers. Newspapers and TV also reported about it.
Vespa plus summer for young lovers is a trip to the beach, the wind around the nose, the Beach Boys song “Surfin´ USA” in the ear, on the luggage rack all the necessities for an excursion to the sea: bath towel, bikini, swimming trunks, sun creme, a drink, flip flops …
The ideas just spilled out of her and quickly found implementation in form of small drawings which a sign workshop in Spain transferred for her onto a vinyl wrap film for cars.
In five days, the originally red Vespa muted into this beauty thanks to the skills of a car wrapping studio in Marbella.
The Vespa has been sold to a car collector.
Marbella – Spain
Nina Nolte had the opportunity to be interviewed by Nicole King of Marbella TV. You can watch the interview on rtvmarbella.tv
