[ the queue - an experiment ]

know what i did last summer?

here it is:

this action between art, prank and social psychology is all about whether people are ready to take the risk of opposing a majority in order to have some innocent fun and what it takes to change their mind…

i chose the format of a pseudo-scientific experiment in order to have a little fun in hot august barcelona and by the way study a little bit of human behaviour, decision making and aspects of interactivity and participation…

[ wallpaper: manet ]

the motiv has been accepted by the online-wallpaper company www.die-wandlung.com
you can find it here: http://www.die-wandlung.com/Fototapete-Manet.572.0.html
and here is an explanatory text about it (in german): http://www.die-wandlung.com/Infos-Projekt-Fototapete-Manet.574.0.html

this is kind of a commercial project ;-). the idea is to produce and actually sell in shops a wallpaper of the landscape of manets “dejeuner sur l’herbe”, without the characters represented in the original painting. the aim is to give the posibility for the “home user” to create his own dejeuner-sur-l’herbe-situation at home and make art part of his/her every day life… or rather transform his/her every day life into art?

you know this one, right?

now thats what i have done to it:

and this is how you could use it:

[ mapas de mi barrio ]

after 2 months struggeling with tons of fotos and imense photoshop-files i finally finished my very own web map… ;-)

have a look and enjoy an unconventional view on barcelona here:

 http://www.mapasdemibarrio.net

[ flieger, studien für bbi (planes, studies for bbi) ]

these were the preparatory studies for my installation in the train station of the berlin schönefeld airport. i put them up in my studio at the universität der künste, and i have to admit, in the end i like them better than the actual thing at schönefeld. it was really fun to see them growing… surprise myself, and then take them apart, seeing how they become fragile and transparent.

[ el circulo mágico (the magic circle) ]

over easter i went 4 days to see my good friend nadege, who lives in the montseny national park. during these four days i painted rocks and roots and trees and leaves… the magic circle is what came out of it in the end. the location is very close to a quiet frequented path, but its giving its back to it. in fact you can only see the circle perfectly from one spot, which i marked on the floor.

this is how the vision disappears by moving just two meters to the right

[ la lucha del bien y del mal (the fight of good and bad) ]

this was a painting performance i did for the opening of the february off massana show. i was collecting the coats from the visitors and created an on-the-spot painting with them. to add the necessary ironic touch i attached the “good” and “bad” faces in an alegoric fight…

this is how it looked throughout the process

the performance was filmed, but unfortunately, the tape broke, so there is no copy

[ me gustan las fresas ]

an installation with a stencil graffiti on loose flyers in the entrance of an exhibition that was intended to be destroyed by the movement of people passing by. the desired effect was not achieved because some visitor stole all the flyers that formed the graffiti the very night of the opening.