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The good people at Pictoplasma commissioned me for this year’s festival opening titles and visuals. An honour and a pleasure. In fact so much, I will refrain from making the horrible pun stringing together the festival name and the word StereoScoPIC.
Above is the first image, more coming soon.
Obligatory iconography: 
and reference (cool rating: ********/5).
The festival takes place April 9 and 10 in Berlin. For those of you considering to go, there’s a very attractive early bird offer active now. Speakers include Fluorescent Hill and Peter de Sève (Ice Age, Finding Nemo).
January 26th, 2010 | | Permalink | Filed under Design, Notifications.
Above, is a poster designed as part of the publication/bag/catalog of “The Collectors”, the Danish and Nordic Pavillions exhibition at this year’s Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition concept is built around the topic of collecting, which on this poster is explored by presenting a collection of quotes about the nature of collecting, as told through the voices of “the Dandy”, “the Homeless” and “the Intellectual”.
Commissioned by Elmgreen & Dragset. Text by Anna Echterhölter.
August 28th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Design.
This was made for “The Ark”, an upcoming book published by IdN and curated by DPGH. The book is a collection of 200 renderings of animals from the home countries of an international group of artists.
Given that the Netherlands’ habitat lacks Manta Rays, I chose otter.
detail here
August 17th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Art.
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.
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.
Part of the Madeforeachother campaign for FritoLays, I recently directed this 30 second ad through Post Panic/Patricia Claire.
Read More . . .February 25th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Moving image, Work.
I enjoyed this nice and simple drawing tool on David OReilly’s page.
February 10th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Art.
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Temperatures have dropped a little over here in the Bundesrepublik (exhibit A). In the warm and comfortable environment of my home, I suddenly found the “inspiration” for a tiny update.
Each year production house Submarine gives their employees something special for Christmas. Something special, as opposed to, you know, …kitchen appliances.
For last year’s gift they asked me to do a drawing (exhibit B), printed and signed in a limited run of 40. As may be clear from viewing the picture, it has as a subject several instances of Jesus, portrayed performing the act of imaginative brain traveling. Yes sir. In the most cunning fashion, the drawing incorporates several visual themes that apply to the company’s work and spirit.
B
and finally
Starting next week, some of my paintings will be in a (still somewhat secret) group show in Amsterdam. Part of profits will be donated to charity and part of the profit will be donated to me. Below is one of the pieces in the show (exhibit C).
More on this soon…
C “A Forest”
January 12th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Art, Moving image.
Last year, I’ve done a little character design for the Pictoplasma Character Collision Army, a Go-Kart derby in front of the Ministry of Environment during the Todays Art Festival in The Hague. The project was set up taking visual cues from military recruitment campaigns (I want you for..) and Mario Kart.
My pink hare was the face of one of three teams visitors could choose from, the two other teams racing under the flags of Motomichi Nakamura and Rinzen.
Although from the two versions above, the pumped-up Rambo bunny was generally prefered for its quirkyness, the right one was used, having a more direct appeal and providing a stronger contrast to the aggressive military context.
January 7th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Design.
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Installation view
Excerpt of “Prototype of an unstable vision”
video in a box, version 1
November 15th, 2008 | | Permalink | Filed under Art, Moving image.
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