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The Character Ride |
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In cooperation with Japanese artist Akinori Oishi, Pictoplasma invites you to enter an intriguing world of seemingly harmless archetypical beings.
The installation premiered in september 2007 at the Todaysart Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands.
(more on the Character Ride here...)
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GET INTO CHARACTER! |
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In a unique cooperation between the creative Avantgardes from both character and costume design, Pictoplasma has transformed the most captivating, screwball and outstanding characters of our time into fantastic costumes. Padded, hydraulic or helium-filled, the lovely creatures have literally come to life at last and inhabit the PictoOrphanage. Dancers and performers under the direction of choreograph Jared Gradinger (Constanza Macras / Dorky Park, Berlin) have explored these new life forms and their individual character. Freed from the binds of storytelling and advertising, these characters have developed their individual will, which they proudly present in a 60-minutes performance.
As a work in progress, the show premiered in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in 2006.
(more on Get into Character here...)
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COLOUR
ME, PICTOPLASMA |
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Pictoplasma's Colour me! installation makes an all-time dream come true: a selected group of international character designers and artists meet for the first time and create a unique colouring and activity room: thousands of untouched black and white illustrations, scribbles and character madness cover a white room from floor to ceiling, wall to wall. Upon completion, visitors are invited to lovingly colour in the characters, turning the space into an evolving colouring and activity room. With a limited set of permanent markers in pink, blue and yellow, this happening is truly CMYK!
The Colour Me Experience has been set up in Düsseldorf, Halle (Germany), Hong Kong and Peterborough (UK).
Participating artists included Jon Burgerman, Sune Ehlers, Boris Hoppek, Shoboshobo, Neasden Control Centre, Ian Stevenson and Dennis Tyfus.
(more on Colour Me! here...)
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CHARACTERS AT WAR! |
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Characters at War enables visitors to meet the elite of international character design literally eye-to-eye. From Hello Kitty to Emily the Strange: hundreds of all time favourites and shiny newcomers from the flat-faced world of graphical character design are pushing through to the third dimension! The loveliest, cutest, and strangest characters stand tall as life-size cardboard stand-up soldiers arranged in a gigantic walkthrough battlefield installation! A classical war painting comes to life in a cut-throat competition of consumer icons and violated copyrights!
And behind the foot soldiers of this enormous army are none other than the heroes of the international design scene: Büro Destruct (CH), Buffmonster (USA), Francois Chalet (CH), Christian Montenegro (ARG), David Choe (USA), Dehara (JP), Devilrobots (JP), Doma (ARG), eBoy (GER), Fawn Gehweiler (USA), Framegraphics (JP), Gary Baseman (USA),Genevieve Gauckler (FR), James Marshall (USA), Nathan Jurevicius (AUS), Nicholas Di Genova (CA), Niko Stumpo (IT), Phunk Studio (SI), Tim Biskup (USA), and many, many more...
Characters at War has been shown in the Zentralbüro, Berlin and the Forum-NRW, Düsseldorf (GER), at the Space4 Gallery in Peterborough (UK), at the Secca in Winston-Salem (USA) and the California State Univeristy Long Beach Art Museum in Los Angeles (USA).
(more on Characters at War!
here...)
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ESSENCE
OF RABBIT |
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No other living creature features as heavily in contemporary character design and art as the humble hare. Artists, designers and illustrators worldwide express their love for the buckle toothed, cotton tailed and carrot-loving hoppers. Bunnies are definitely the most depicted creatures of all times. World famous rabbit visualizations such as Miffy, My Melody, Bugs Bunny or the Playboy logo are only the tip of the iceberg. But what exactly makes bunnies so irresistible to artists, designers and illustrators worldwide? Depending on the viewers’ cultural context rabbits can symbolise anything from insanity, alertness, defenselessness, all the way to promiscuity, magic powers and utter innocence. By condensing the endless variations of the rabbit motif into one ultimate system - a perfect bunny mandala - the true nature of the beast emerges: the eternal essence of rabbit.
The Bunny Mandala Shrine was installed in Nice (France), London (UK), Athens (Greece) and North Carolina (USA).
(more on the Essence of Rabbit here...)
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