les ARTISTS by Josef Stockinger is delighted to represent internationally active make-up artist Servulo MENDEZ. Servulo Mendez commutes between Berlin and México City as make-up artist, musician and fashion art director. Since 1993, Servulo Mendez has been developing his style in Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, NYC, Berlin, and México City, and works together with icons from the fashion and music industries such as Austra, Ellen Allien, Mykki Blanco, Patrick Wolf, Peaches, Verushka V. Lehndorff, MIA and many, many more.
His work for clients such as Prada, Loewe, Adidas, Louis Vuitton, Levi's... has been published in Wonderland, Visionaire, I-D magazine, Dazed And Confused, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Nylon. His work takes him to all corners of the globe. And he draws his inspiration from these travels – the aesthetics of people, tribes, music, cinema and art flow directly into his work. Find out more about him via les ARTISTS by Josef Stockinger.
LENNART BREDE - I was born in Kiel, Germany in 1975. In 1995, I moved to Cologne to pursue a career in music and music video direction. In 1998, I traveled to Milan at the invitation of directors Ralph Schmerberg and DoP Franz Lustig to work on a first commercial with Trigger Happy Productions. Shortly thereafter, I enrolled at the University of Wuppertal to study Communications Design with a major in Photography and audiovisual media where I studied under Uwe Loesch, Bazon Brock and Susan Lamer and was introduced to Peter Lindbergh – a major stylistic influence on my work.
I have always fused my pursuit of music with my career and academic pursuits. In fact, the videos I directed for my single releases, where part of my degree dissertation. After graduating from University (graduate diploma communication designer), I concentrated on directing music videos for various artists, working with Gentleman, Thomas D, Sido, Monrose and others.
I have also worked in set design, line production assistant and 1st AD on several commercial and movie sets. While shooting a commercial for Porsche with director Jacques Steyn, I sharpened my focus to video direction and put my first show reel together. Since then I have worked on productions from Germany to Jamaica, China and the USA, developing my filmwork into commercial films for Coca Cola, Escada, DB Bahn, TGV, to mention a few.
Going forward, I hope to direct music videos, commercials and ultimately movies.
Be well
Lennart
Berlin, July 2012
GoSee : lennartbrede.com
