This spectacular project took more than nine weeks of hard work and is comprised of six rooms adorned with tape art as well as a mural for the floor of the academy terrace. In its entirety, the artwork spans one whole floor of the Hamburg JVM branch. The individual rooms are connected to create a coherent piece of artwork. Berlin-based tape artist ATAU c/o ART ACT was supported by Matheo Roman, aka @cord.matheo.
Atau on his artwork : “I am an artist based in Berlin who works with tape. My artwork, installations and murals can be found in galleries, exhibitions, street art events and festivals around the world. Developing new space experiences using tape and interacting with a given space fascinates me. I create unique artistic concepts in order to reshape interior and exterior spaces.”
The magazine PAGE dedicated its ‘Portrait of the Week’ to him – in which he tells us : “Already when I was a student, I was always totally absorbed in redesigning my books. I was born in Berlin and grew up under the same roof as the two media artists Gusztav Hámos and Katja Pratschke in Kreuzberg. As far back as I can remember, my parents gave me the freedom to develop my creativity. While I was still going to school, I founded the artist collective Solit together with three friends from the neighborhood. I designed the logo, fashion, stickers and our social media site. In 2018, I came across tape as a medium by chance and decided to continue focusing on my tape artwork. I began to work with various other artists and worked on art projects as a freelance artist for which I cooperated with brands such as Adidas, Samsung or Audi. During this time, my fascination with tape art and the endless possibilities of the medium continued to grow. I have since created installations and other works of art in various countries throughout Europe as well as in Japan, Taiwan and China.”
Thrilling book illustrations in ink by Katrin FUNCKE c/o ART ACT for the book ‘The Reading Life Ink Lake’ by Giwi Margwelaschwili appearing at Verbrecher Publishing.
Giwi Margwelaschwili was born in 1927 in Berlin as the son of Georgian emigrants. His mother died when he was four years old. His father, who taught philosophy and oriental studies, was kidnapped together with his son by the Soviet secret service NKVD in 1946. His father was murdered, and Giwi Margwelaschwili was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen until he was later deported to Georgia, where he taught German throughout the rest of his life.
It was not until 1987 that he was allowed to leave for Germany along with his work written in German. He received German citizenship and an honorary scholarship from the President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1994. In December 1995, Margwelaschwili was awarded the ‘Honorary Literature Prize of Brandenburg’ for his collected works and the Goethe Medal in 2006. He was a member of the P.E.N. Since 2011, he lived in Tbilisi again where he died on 13 March, 2020.
About the book : Is there a such thing as a Reading Life Ink Lake? There is according to the belief of a group of book people who embark on a journey to the Book Mountains to find the lake. Will they be able to see the tip of the nose of the author who sits bent over at his desk writing the story there in the Book World Sky? In the novel ‘The Reading Life Ink Lake’, the group is guided by a reader and wants to finally find out how they will all get their own book world life, their bibliobiography…
Also on GoSee : a selection of Katrin’s conductor portraits, created with a mixed technique of gouache and collage.
Illustrations for the dm customer magazine, a storyboard for a Rhystadt AG commercial and various different event layouts, Jacqueline Urban’s work is versatile. We have samples by the illustrator for you on GoSee.News.
Twelve summery sunny double-pages lovingly illustrated by Anke SEBENING c/o ART ACT. Appearing in the new UVEX picture books in Maxi-Pixi format as a giveaway with the new OYO balance bike helmets. The super-athletic Uvex family with three kids experiences exciting adventures to match the different helmets.
Super sweet and super safe – the UVEX OYO with a glossy finish is both, and boasts a great design as well as innovative safety features such as the Kids Extra Protection System (KEPS) and integrated Baby Buffer.
Based in Fürth, uvex Winter Holding GmbH & Co. KG, founded in 1926 by Philipp M. Winter, is an internationally active German company made up of the uvex safety group, uvex sports group and Filtral group. The company produces and sells protective and safety products for sports, leisure and industrial workplaces. It operates 48 subsidiaries in 22 countries and produces mainly in Germany, where around seventy percent of the 2630 employees in total work.