“Affe” (Ape)
The pictures in this portfolio are hybrids of about 50% work on Paper and
50% drawing with the PC. The basic ideas were drawn with pencils and color ink
pens on paper in 1980, size about 21x15cm. They were digitized as high-end
scans and the pictures have been completed with the computer. Price for complete
portfolio: 1500.- €
From Nr.51/95 Paper: 32x27 cm Image: 24x18 cm Single Image: 200.-€
Price for complete portfolio small size: 600.-€
Print: IRIS-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 76x56 cm, Picture: 42x30 cm Copies: 95, numbered and signed, and 5 artist's copies (I-V) Price: 575.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
Description for the complete portfolio: After the paper drawings, made with anything but non fade colors, on which the visual content of these images is based, had been exposed
for roughly 25 years to light, most of the original color was gone and in many parts the lines were faded too. When I decided to scan them,
restoring the “original” was never my aim. I wanted instead to recreate the visual content by creating a new “hybrid” unity, showing as I
see it, in subtle but also impressive ways the essence of digital production capabilities. As a consequence of this work I discovered this as
production method for future works as well, like “Wiener Mut” (Vienna Courage) or “Tagungsfrieden” (Peace at the Conference), including
new ways combining elements. Enhancing my “visual vocabulary” so to speak is my main goal in this context, not to show off rather shortlived
but most impressive digital tricks of the trade.