Jazz Festival Willisau (Part 1 und Part 2)

„…Antiakademisches Crossover, Cultural Appropriation, Polyrythmus, Improvisation, Pop, Trash, Disrespect. Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends. Allkes kocht, zischt, trinkt noch Glut und schlürft noch Licht. Another dimension, new galaxy, intergalactic, planetary…“ (By Markus Dressen für 100 beste Plakate)

Migration of Color

Artistic colors are as old as civilization. They are diverse in nature and origin, being traded across the globe. This project shows how pigments traveled over time. Selected for their relevance were EgyptianBlue, BrazilwoodRed, Gold, MalachiteGreen, ConchinealRed, MangoYellow, ChinaClay, LapisLazuli, IvoryBlack. Each is introduced with a bio, its history, attributes and example of use. Represented by colored circles, they trace a path in a map, individually for clarity and combined for density and to show where they met. Pigments that cohabit the same areas are represented by concentric rings. MoC tells a history of value, rarity and preference, illustrating cross border artistic evolution.

EUROPA – Because You’re Worth It

A big political poster about Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015. In the future Europe is connecting people. Europe is where people share moments and lives. Europe is finger licking good. Europe is stronger than dirt. And Europe – Das Auto.

By simply replacing the logo of wellknown brands and adding their tagline to the word ‘EUROPA’, the poster resembles the idea of advertisement to satirise the resistance refugees encountered in Europe back in 2015.

The two colours used on the poster, red and blue, where the two most used colours on the chosen brand logos.

Bomba

Rooted in the Caribbean island’s connection to the African slave trade, bomba is a traditional style of music and a dance found in Puerto Rico. This series of posters pay homage to the rich artistic and cultural legacy of what some have called “the world’s oldest colony”. The words on all three posters: bomba, cuatro, and primo, are Spanish words with multiple definitions. The posters simultaneously acknowledge Puerto Rico’s Black history, celebrate its musical traditions, and recognize the island’s oppression by the U.S. as a missile testing range throughout the 20th century.

Porzellanpalast

Glossy white. Every surface has been polished and every individuality meticulously wiped away. It has to look clean. Cleanliness before well-being applies in the porcelain palace. Brightly lit on the presentation plate.
But if you immerse the forms in a new light, completely new worlds of images emerge.

Duty flag

The specific experimental project inspired & created by my personal collection of excise duties of cigarets, forms a different version of the Greek flag, using fundamental elements of the greek culture such as the mosaic. The special pattern formed by the duties was totally handmade as exactly the ancient mosaic used to be created through the centuries. The final artwork criticises the greek fiscal policy & the tension to be tighter & tighter every year, by converting the greek flag into a “duty flag”.

Being ImPulsTanz

As part of this year’s ImPulsTanz festival campaign we designed a face filter together with the hyped 3D makeup artist Ines Alpha. The filter is a key visual for the out-of-home campaign, gives ImPulsTanz the possibility to reach out to their community and overcome Covid-19 restriction by celebrating in digital space. The face filter can be tried out on @cincin_vienna. With the colorful visuals we celebrate diversity, dance and the international ImPulsTanz community.

Alchemical Stages

The Magnum opus is an alchemical term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher’s stone. It has been used to describe personal and spiritual
transformation, attached to laboratory processes and chemical color changes.

The four most common stages are:
nigredo (the blackening or melanosis albedo)
albedo (the whitening or leucosis)
rubedo (the reddening, purpling, or iosis)
citrinitas (the yellowing or xanthosis)

claim your space

The diversity of people needs more space in the increasingly homogenous world of film. The visuals “claim” the “space” to bring more diversity to the screen. The transition international queer & minorities film festival shows the diversity of minorities within the LGBTIQA+ spectrum and uses the opportunity to confront and break stereotypes.

the sexual rebirth

Immerse yourself in a festival full of discussion and reflection. Explore pornography, sexuality and sexual identity far from the monotonous clichéd mainstream porn.
PFFV aims to challenge and expand horizons to collectively present with pride, feminist, queer & LGBTQIA+ positions.

Reciṡi/Severed. Sisters. Chrysanthemum, 2019

The Recisi project, for the Cavò of Trieste, consists of a series of eight diptychs: between anonymous vintage photographic portraits (“severed” in identity but rich in evocative power) and the monochrome painting of flowers (hommage à Katsushika Hokusai), sprouts a true soul correspondence. In his Nishiki-e prints the Japanese master chose to depict the floral world by cutting the composition downwards. As the Japanese ikebana, literally “living flowers”, is a composition of cut flowers, the detachment from the origin becomes a metaphor for a peremptory change that can give creative and poetic results. Recisi pays homage to the tradition of florigraphy, across the ages and cultures.

4×4

A grid of 5 by 8 partially glowing spikes is assigned with 40 dedicated colour values between red and cyan.
By bleeding into each other and bouncing off solid surfaces the colours become a single gradient, thereby contrasting the sharpness of the object and the subtle flow of light.
Among all colours there is also one where red and cyan are in a perfect balance, creating a shade of grey—thereby illustrating that even a place of great difference can have a spot of calm.

_voyager

_voyager consists of analog drawn shapes further edited digitally with bright color and combined with typography.
A combination of analog drawing and progressiv color.

Dance forward. It’s a great journey.

Please keep dreaming

Please keep Dreaming is a free project me and my wife created to support friends of ours. They lost their house, which they had built with a lot of love, in a fire. Apart from raising some money by selling postcards with this motif, we hopefully helped them not to give up their dream of building their own beautiful house. A nice side effect was that people bought the postcards, as the message can be applied to many situations.

Single and Ready to Mingle

This poster takes the phrase “single and ready to mingle” and applies it to the environmental hazard that single-use plastics pose to the earth. Most of these synthetic materials are not biodegradable, leaving them to mingle with both flora and fauna to devastating effect.