Tartan Today
Tarten today has not just been the headline of my fifth semster project, but it did reflect as well the actual fashion trend from the winter season 2008/09.
Originally Tartan is the traditional Scottish checked pattern which identified the clan membership.
This motive founded the base for a work on new fabric development with different qualities and new colour schemes. Thereby the check was not just a pattern, but a cultural interface, too.
The artistic aim was to focus on proportions and contrasts, but especially to concentrate on combining colours in their different degress of strength and their setting. So the following composition from pattern, colorit and colour combination expresses the general thougth of the collection and reflects its theme.
The cultural interface of my collection was set quickly, because it came close to the impulses from my last journey which helped me to win important impressions from different cultural possibilities to express art.
On top of that the discovery of streetart and graffiti and its topicality had quiet an impact on me. In my opinion their language of shapes and pictures is one of the most exciting and imaginative regarding art in public places.
Streetart is like a mirror reflecting the cultural life and its social understanding of a city as well as the correspondance with its urban centres.
At the end of this project we did cooperate in a photography course with photography students from the 'Ostkreuzschule' in Berlin and set up our work as installations in public places. We took pictures regarding the place. At this time it was important to me to reintegrate my work in public places where the ideas came from. So my drafts were set up in industry ruins, put together with automates, placed in underground stations and on trash bins, put up in cinemas etc. Though the morbid environment as a coulisse did correspond with the drafts of my work and put them into an actual reference.
Tarten today has not just been the headline of my fifth semster project, but it did reflect as well the actual fashion trend from the winter season 2008/09.
Originally Tartan is the traditional Scottish checked pattern which identified the clan membership.
This motive founded the base for a work on new fabric development with different qualities and new colour schemes. Thereby the check was not just a pattern, but a cultural interface, too.
The artistic aim was to focus on proportions and contrasts, but especially to concentrate on combining colours in their different degress of strength and their setting. So the following composition from pattern, colorit and colour combination expresses the general thougth of the collection and reflects its theme.
The cultural interface of my collection was set quickly, because it came close to the impulses from my last journey which helped me to win important impressions from different cultural possibilities to express art.
On top of that the discovery of streetart and graffiti and its topicality had quiet an impact on me. In my opinion their language of shapes and pictures is one of the most exciting and imaginative regarding art in public places.
Streetart is like a mirror reflecting the cultural life and its social understanding of a city as well as the correspondance with its urban centres.
At the end of this project we did cooperate in a photography course with photography students from the 'Ostkreuzschule' in Berlin and set up our work as installations in public places. We took pictures regarding the place. At this time it was important to me to reintegrate my work in public places where the ideas came from. So my drafts were set up in industry ruins, put together with automates, placed in underground stations and on trash bins, put up in cinemas etc. Though the morbid environment as a coulisse did correspond with the drafts of my work and put them into an actual reference.