Incidental Croppings

The twenty photographs assembled for this composition represent a small sample of an ongoing project that dates back to 2015, dealing with grid-based, geometric forms found on everyday items. The captivatingly colorful paintings (both rudimentary and intricate – vibrant and faded) that adorn the legions of trucks crisscrossing the country of Turkey appear here as the subject.

Eyes

Eyes are our first approach of reality, through them we can explore the world and fix all memories.
With eyes we also communicate and discover bad or wonderful emotions.
“Eyes” print is all that, in its simplicity.

Institute Of Monochrome Art

Institute of Monochrome Art (IOMA) is the pairing of two artists who have worked, or continue to work in a single colour and explores, documents and questions the monochrome and the artists’ interest in it, highlighting both the similarities and differences. Facilitating ‘phantom’ or imagined exhibition opportunities for these artists can be seen at the project website below.

www.instituteofmonochromeart.com

Selfie

Silkscreen poster for “Selfie” group exhibition, at XIII Havana Biennale. Commissioned by René Portocarrero Silkscreen Workshop, “Selfie” exhibition was focused on making a portrait of Cuban present society. With this in mind, the work adopted a critical approach to our own inability as social individuals to pay attention to our real problems. Most of the time we don´t listen to reasons and close our eyes to the reality. We cannot afford such passive stance.

New Systems: Rules and Tools

“New Systems: Rules and Tools” featured a series of six artworks and two murals, all of them focusing more on the process, rather than the final product. The aim was to continuously create new shapes and generate new compositions, by creating new rules and building systems. The exhibition was part of EUROPALIA ROMANIA 2019-2020.

night blooming

Floral motifs in weird landscapes. Organic forms and abstract foliage with a wondrous touch. Fine tuned with structure and textures. Inspired, among other things, by Japanese fabric patterns and medieval herb books. This mixture results in modern, subtle patterns and designs with fine details and nuances as well as vibrant and individual colour combinations.

Untitled

Floral motifs in weird landscapes. Organic forms and abstract foliage with a wondrous touch. Fine tuned with structure and textures. Inspired, among other things, by Japanese fabric patterns and medieval herb books. This mixture results in modern, subtle patterns and designs with fine details and nuances as well as vibrant and individual colour combinations.

The Scottish Colourists Foundation

The Scottish Colourists were four well-known painters (Peploe, Hunter, Fergusson, Cadell) who were grouped under this title given their similarities within their approaches and philosophy. Despite differences in medium at times, their usage and angst-free application of colour in their work became their signature. »Every man has to find his way, and mine will be the one of colour.« Fergusson said; based on this sentiment we developed the Foundation’s identity to include a multiple different business cards each featuring a unique artwork detail on the front. This allowed the Foundation to show the sheer breadth of all artists both in terms of subject and style.

Praysong I

The mine is based on a blank sheet of white paper. I am tense. I don’t want thoughts but they don’t stop. I’m looking for the emptiness in my head. As white as the sheet of paper. A white with endless possibilities. What to do?
I’m starting. Carefully, slowly, then faster. The line is created. It runs through the pure white. I stroll to the left, stop, turn and circling, race back and stop. I come to rest more and more until it flows.
My drawings are created spontaneously. I let my pen slide freely over the paper to develop shapes and forms. Later I will go into the shapes that are created in more detail to create various organic elements.

Postcard | Golden Poo with Neon Heart | Riso Print

Metallic Gold glänzender Poo Emoji 💩 mit Hearted Eyes 😍
in psychedelischen Neon Farben.

Idee & Gestaltung: Typo Graphic Design ■ Manuel Viergutz
Format: 10,5 cm B × 14,8 cm H (DIN A6)
Papier: Nachhaltiges Metapaper, warmwhite, extrarough 270 g/m2
Druck: Risografie (digitaler Siebdruck) mit umweltfreundlichem Metallic Gold + Neon Colors
von www.drucken3000.de

The colourful gnomes and the happy cat

They are strange people, the colourful gnomes. As soon as they sense the presence of a happy cat in the vicinity, they immediately run towards it and jump into its mouth.
One day, amazed by the scene, I stopped a blue gnome before it jumped into the feline’s jaws and asked it:
“But why are you so happy to jump into the cat’s mouth? Once swallowed you will die!”
Then the gnome shrugged its shoulders and replied, in a calm voice: “That’s what we’ve always done. If we suddenly stopped, what else could we do?” and with that, it ran off, throwing itself on the big happy cat’s pink tongue.

TSFF 30

For over 30 years the Trieste Film Festival, the most important cinema festival of Central Eastern Europe, has observed and narrated the creative yet often turbulent events of this part of Europe. A series of contrasting circles, transparent, vibrant, overlapping, complete, unfinished or merged, joined or separated, evoke this 30 years-long story.

tat*

tat* — Inspirational Graphic Ephemera is a bit of a graph­ic designer’s curse. Walk into any design stu­dio and you’ll see bits and pieces of graph­ic ephemera pinned to the walls or taped to a com­put­er screen. Even the purist will have a secret cache hid­den away some­where. Design­er Andy Alt­mann has been col­lect­ing tat for more than 30 years. He finds inspi­ra­tion in the ordi­nary, and mag­ic in the mun­dane. Final­ly he has decid­ed to share his col­lec­tion with the world. Con­ceived and edit­ed by Andy, this is the apoth­e­o­sis of tat. A visu­al trea­sure trove, full of sur­pris­es, it should find a place on every graph­ic designer’s desk.

Andy Alt­mann is a found­ing part­ner at Why Not Asso­ciates, one of the UK’s lead­ing mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary design com­pa­nies. Although he trained as a graph­ic design­er, Andy’s work typ­i­cal­ly blurs the bound­ary between design and art. His projects range from exhi­bi­tion design to postage stamps, via adver­tis­ing, pub­lish­ing, tele­vi­sion titles, com­mer­cials, cor­po­rate iden­ti­ty, and large-scale pub­lic art. The com­mon thread is a fun­da­men­tal love of typog­ra­phy, research, and experimentation.

As a student, a decision to present a scrapbook instead of a sketchbook for his interview to St. Martin’s School of Art, was the catalyst for starting his collection of tat: “I rummaged through the drawers at home and found some football cards from the 60s / 70s (plenty of Georgie Best), an instruction leaflet from an old Hoover, Christmas cracker jokes … Then I started on the magazines, cutting out images of anything that interested me … and photocopied things from books before reaching for the scissors and glue.”

It was the beginning of a significant collecting habit that he has maintained ever since. So what is it that makes a piece of graphic tat interesting? Is it the ‘retro’ thing—a fascination with a bygone age, the primitive printing techniques, naivety of the design or use of color? All of the above of course, but it’s never quite that simple. It has to have that indefinable element of magic. To a graphic designer, most of this book could safely be regarded as ‘bad’ design. But there is something special in each and every piece that made Andy pick it up off the street, trawl online or enter a dodgy looking shop on the other side of the world to snap up. You’ll find everything from sweet wrappers to flash cards, soap powder boxes to speedway flyers, wrestling programs to bus tickets. More tat than you can shake a stick at. Taken together, it represents a lifetime of gleeful hunting and gathering.

tat* (noun)—any­thing that looks cheap, is of low qual­i­ty, or in poor con­di­tion; junk, rub­bish, debris, detri­tus, crap, etc.

tat* — Inspirational Graphic Ephemera

Publisher: CIRCA PRESS
Release: April 2021
Author & Designer: Andy Altmann
Volume: 400 pages 
Format: 25 × 21 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-911422-27-3
Price: £ 45.–
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Holidays on Mars

The pictures from astronomic telescopes deliever extremely colourful views of galaxies, exoplanets and space. Those pictures show the tremendous impact of light and its absence on our perception of colours. My work “Holidays on Mars” illustrates and reflects the 2021 mars landing in a form of holiday photography. It’s built out of computer driven light gradients created within the main rule of quantum physics: by a fusion of chance and cause.

“Views”

Two analog collages that belong to a larger series called “Views”.
I don’t use to think about the meaning of a collage when I make it. Sometimes the meanings come later, sometimes they never do it. In this case, this series was made in the spring of 2020, during the lockdown, so probably these works are talking about the need of going out, although I didn’t make them with this intention.

Fluorescent Echoes

These images are self portraits taken using different polaroid cameras and out of date film. I experiment and disrupt the image and its chemistry using various techniques; layering damage to create strange abstractions. Images of my body metamorphose into the universal: landscapes, coastlines, weather fronts, fossils dug from the earth, or distant nebulae.

the future is queer

For me, colour is diversity, spirit, perspective, to live a joyful life. But some aspects are not self-evident for the queer community. Even though they represent colours in every way possible. But we are here and ready to fight hate with love. Together we can realize a colourful and queer future.