Post Panic, the dutch production house celebrating their 12 year anniversary, moved into a new big (huge, grand, marvelous) office overlooking the Amsterdam harbour and a horizon gracefully embellished with fluffy cloud formations but other than that so clear you can practically see the shimmering reflections of a tidal wave of fortune heading over to flush the lower parts of the tiny country with goodness.
That’s the view outside though.
Looking inside, into an enormous two-level space, are several elements of various properties and different objects of distinguished characteristics. As you might expect. And on the first floor, just as you made your way up a staircase, is a wall. And that wall, has a picture on it that I made.
above “mural” design
below Location views
June 23rd, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Art, Interior.
fig A “Stack”
A couple of publications (fig. A) kindly featured my work in the past few months.
By no means would I want to single out any of these lovely publications, but I’d like to single out one in particular.
Prepare for Pictopia is the catalog published on the occassion of the “Pictopia” exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, past March. It’s a beautifully produced book with excellent reproductions of the works in the exhibition, as well as a rich selection of essays and articles. These texts (by writers including artist Paul McCarthy and researcher Brian R. Duffy) provide an understanding of the historic evolvement of the topic of figuration and the broader cultural context the works are part of. I’m very humbled to be part of this publication, it’s the best you can get on the topic.
May 28th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Notifications, Public stuff etc..
Aah yes, easter. What a lovely time of the year.
Speaking of terrified rabbits..pictured here is a theatrical poster design for my epic 45 second sequence “Hare” (published here earlier as a part of the PSST! Pass it on 3 collaborative film project). A micro film in which a hare rabbit carrying a canvas is seen running through a forest, away from an unknown threat.
A poster for such a microscopic piece is ridiculous, I know, it makes no sense, but keep reading.
Not long ago I was invited to create a new film poster for Fellini’s 8 1/2, and that sparked my interest in the relation between film - a time based, immersive medium - and graphic design - still and generally briefly consumed. The privilege of that project was that any marketing motivated aspects could be ignored, making room for a purely artistic expression. That’s where it gets interesting. If the design can be a very subjective interpretation of the film or even an extension of the film’s thematic universe, it not only has the option to honoustly resonate with the viewer, but is also less likely to undermine the experience of the film itself. Doing that for one of my favorite movies didn’t exactly make it any easier, but nonetheless I recall experiencing some degree of pleasure working on it.
So. I couldn’t resist making another poster.
OWN IT!
If you like this design and would be interested in having it as a A1 sized poster (594 × 841 mm / 23.4 × 33.1 inch), just let me know! Send me an email or leave a comment below. If I get enough feedback I’ll do a small print run. Sure, why not! It will be a high quality offset print on medium heavy poster stock…good quality, but keeping the price below 25 euros.
Thanks!!
April 13th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Art.
This Sunday was the last day of Before in place;Earlier in time, the most recent showing of my new work. The characteristically columned white box providing such a welcoming spatial framework for the paintings and videos is Lodown Gallery “West Berlin”. I thank all of you who came over to see it.
Below are some installation views.
UPDATE: video walk-through added
April 10th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Art.
Animated by me. Music by Bram Meindersma.
This is part of PSST! Pass it on 3, a collaborative film series. The full sequence is over here
April 9th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Moving image.
This saturday, March 21st at 21.00. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Pictopia. 3rd Pictoplasma Conference
Read More . . .
March 19th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Notifications, Public stuff etc..
“Pretty big sort of abstract paintings and a video installation.”
Exhibition of new work: March 17-April 5 at LODOWN “Gallery Westberlin”.
This is the second show of paintings by Berlin based artist Fons Schiedon. Earlier works depicted a visual aesthetic of instantly recognizable cartoon elements, employing a visual treatment inspired by the techniques of animated film. Parts of this approach remain, while the work moves further away from a strictly figurative appearance.
The paintings in this exhibition are complex compositions that seem to exist at more than one moment in time, in more than one place at a time. Materialising fragments of warped memories and detached associations, time is not only a subject, but the works themselves act as a time capsule recording the process of painting. In an intuitive mudfight, these are assembled by overpainting the canvas many times, embracing unforseen changes and incidents as the image gradually takes on its final form.
LODOWN “Gallery Westberlin”
at Brunnenstr. 56, 13355 Berlin-Wedding, Germany
vernissage: TUESDAY 17.03.09, 19.00-24.00h until 5.04.09in association with:
3rd Pictoplasma Conference and Festival
19.03. - 21.03.2009, Berlin
http://www.pictoplasma.com/pictopia
Preview images coming soon.
March 3rd, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Notifications.
Part of the Madeforeachother campaign for FritoLays, I recently directed this 30 second ad through Post Panic/Patricia Claire.
February 25th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Moving image, Work.
Tomorrow, a petite exhibition dedicated to the production art of Kika & Bob, opens at the Printgallery in Antwerp. It has sketches, storyboards, backgrounds and model sheets showing the various locations and broad cultural diversity (so very accurately) portrayed in this series. All the production art can be purchased as giclée print reproductions.
Kika & Bob at the Printgallery
February 21-March 22
Muntstraat 8, Antwerpen, Belgium
February 20th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Notifications.
Cut&Paste is a tournament that puts designers on a stage with a Wacom to design in front of a live audience. Now, if you think this sounds like a devastatingly unstimulating activity, behold how this event has the ability to boost the audience’s enthusiasm by throwing sponsored beer into the mix:
It’s an ego trip that would almost make you forget about the actual challenge involved: on a pretty tight deadline (15 or 20 minutes depending on the category) participants are asked to create a 2d image, 3d thing or motion piece. That’s no cookie! Finalists will go on to compete at the global championship in New York with prizes including 3d software and hardware from Apple and Wacom.
I’ll be one of the judges at the Amsterdam edition in April (in a jury alongside Ewoudt Boonstra (KesselsKramer), Dylan Griffith (MTV Networks), Rob Huisman (Director BNO), Jochem Leegstra (Staat,) Tim Phillips (Glassworks) and Andrew Watson (Amsterdam Worldwide) among others).
And since it is my belief that nobody is a loser, just imagine what this means to the chances of winning!
I don’t know either!
Call for participants here
February 12th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Notifications, Public stuff etc..
Vimeo and Flickr
Agenda
