press 2018 Badische Zeitung from June 8, 2018 Exhibition Carlo Büchner Sparkasse 2018 __________________________________________ All about football Cartoonist Carlo Büchner is currently exhibiting in Kenzingen   KENZINGEN. The big nose is the trademark of Carlo Büchner's characters. He named the mother figure of his cartoons, so to speak, Ray. So his males are “ray-like”. Büchner's current "Rays" come from football. They can currently be seen in the Sparkasse branch in Kenzingen. The book is called “Full Shot”. It was presented at the exhibition opening on Tuesday. The nose is the first joke that Büchner makes with the national players from the previous tournaments. What speaks for his drawing talent is that despite the dominating lump, you can guess who the player is based on his facial features. And this despite the fact that, according to Büchner, there are fewer and fewer angular faces like Effenberg's. This means that many people are missing something special that a cartoonist can point out. Drawing is in Büchner’s blood. At the opening, Emmendinger, who was born in 1986, showed how quickly he can transform a topic into a drawing when called upon. What qualities the graphic designer Büchner has as a draftsman becomes clear when you look at his pencil drawings of the Freiburg Minster or Martinstor, which are not shown in the book "Vollschuss". The level of detail and depth he gives to the buildings with the pencil is exceptional. For “Vollschuss” he focused on scenes from world and European championships or simply peculiarities typical of football. The sayings in the speech bubbles are a flavor enhancer. So he creates an amusing series of football cartoons that can get you in the mood for the upcoming World Cup. The exhibition can be seen until July 13th. Opening hours: Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. __________________________________________ Lahrer Zeitung from June 9, 2018 Exhibition Carlo Büchner Sparkasse 2018 __________________________________________ Comics get you in the mood for the World Cup Büchner demonstrated his speed in drawing at the vernissage and painted SC Freiburg's head coach Christian Streich within two minutes - although perhaps in a different pose than the audience was used to. Photos: Göpfert (Photo: Lahrer Zeitung) Football can not only ensure full stadiums, but also full exhibition halls. Around a hundred visitors came to Sparkasse Kenzingen to take part in Carlo Büchner's vernissage on the topic of "Full Shot". Kenzingen. "Ball contact" can be read on a comic, but it doesn't show a footballer who is dribbling with the ball, but rather a player who has received the ball full in the face. Such humorous images on the subject of football can be seen at Sparkasse Kenzingen from now until July 13th. The timing for the exhibition of the football comics was ideal, explained Hannes Schmidt, regional director for Northern Breisgau at the Sparkasse, in a welcoming manner and added that he was hoping for a fifth star for Germany in Russia. Artist Carlo Büchner himself also stated that he was betting on Germany at the World Cup. He came up with the idea of ​​capturing football in pictures because he played football himself for a long time. In contrast to his great-uncle Hans Büchner, who played for Freiburger SC and even for the German national team in the mid-1930s, "but very far down in the league." Since he switched from playing to drawing or recording the games in real time in comics, "the risk of injury has decreased significantly," joked the graphic designer from Emmendingen. After a short, emotional interlude by the evening's musician, Manuel Torres, Büchner demonstrated how quickly he can create humorous comics. Within two minutes he drew a picture of a striker on the right wing, albeit a little different than what the audience might have expected: the player was sitting in a jersey playing at a piano on which the letters of a right- wing party could be read. Coach Christian Streich, on the other hand, found himself in the SC Freiburg jersey as the conductor of a string orchestra. Then it was the audience's turn to choose a topic. The visitors decided not to make things easy for Büchner and chose the topic of the burqa. Büchner took up the challenge and painted a player in a burqa, recognizable by the flashing football boots. He then wrote Iran versus Germany about his work of art and received a lot of laughs for it. Following this official opening, many visitors took the opportunity to talk to the artist and had his new book, which was published by Schmidt-Verlag on June 1st, signed. Like the exhibition, it is called "Full Shot" and also captures all those cartoons on the subject of football and the World Cup for which there was no longer any space in the exhibition, as the artist explained with a wink. By the way, Büchner can not only draw comics; in the Sparkasse Kenzingen you can also see pencil drawings from Freiburg or real portraits of celebrities by him. In an interview with our newspaper, he revealed that creating comics is what he enjoys the most. The humorous element should not be underestimated. Büchner's cartoon character, whose hallmark is a large nose, is called Ray. It was created in 2008 when Büchner “came from drawing to graphics, from graphics to humor,” as he explained. Since 2012, the character has also appeared in cartoons in which Büchner lends his voice and parodies celebrities. In collaboration with Otto Waalkes, Willy Astor and Ottfried Fischer, he also produced animated advertising and music clips. __________________________________________ Breisgauer Wochenbericht from June 13, 2018 Exhibition Carlo Büchner Sparkasse 2018 __________________________________________ “Full shot” is a direct hit Opening with the cartoonist Carlo Büchner in the Sparkasse rooms   Kenzingen. Do you know RAY? No, then it's high time. The cartoon character is the trademark of the cartoonist Carlo Büchner. The best opportunity to get to know the clever little guy and other works by his inventor is the vernissage with the apt title “Vollschuss”, which opened on Tuesday evening last week in the Sparkasse premises. The opening is based on the recently published book of the same name by Carlo Büchner, which features 56 pages of wordplay and humorous design. Guest contributions from Otto Waalkes and Willy Astor complete the football cartoons. A small but fine selection of the “full shot works” will be at the Kenzinger Sparkasse until July 13th and is worth a visit. The sharp and cheeky word vernissage with the cartoonist Carlo Büchner in the rooms of the Sparkasse games go hand in hand with clear, sophisticated cartoons and convince the viewer straight away. A big smile on your face is inevitable. The “Raytoons” take you through a colorful potpourri of the football world and prepare you in a lighthearted way for the days ahead, in which the round leather will be the everyday focus. Büchner goes on a journey through time through football history and the sometimes less complicated rules of this popular sport. Because the players alone don't give much here, says the artist with a mischievous smile. “Vegan diesel opponents” would offer far more scope for attack, Büchner continued. The cartoonist knows how to intelligently transform football language into satirical puns. Then one or two political excursions come about. In short: Carlo Büchner's entertaining and refreshing works not only use one of the Germans' favorite topics, but also a lightness and verbal art that even non-football fans get their money's worth. From weird doodles to your own comic character After Carlo Büchner started painting at the tender age of four, his art culminated in strange decorations on his school books during his school years. Although he successfully completed training as a wholesaler, his passion for art was still stronger, so he followed his passion in 2007 and founded his business “Carlo Büchner Arts” just a year later. In addition to graduating as a graphic designer, this was followed by numerous exhibitions, cabaret appearances and even cartoons in which he lent the voice of his character RAY and parodied celebrities. Since 2015, the cartoonist has been auctioning off his paintings at “United Charity” to benefit the Freiburg Children’s Cancer Clinic. This year the talented artist can look forward to the publication of his first book “Vollschuss”. The title of the book suggests that Carlo Büchner not only wants to express his love for football, but also takes into account the fact that he doesn't take himself too seriously.

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