“Japanischer Winter” (Japanese Winter)
"Japanischer Winter" (Japanese Winter) was created in 2004 with "Painter" (Metacreations).
Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 77x30 cm, Picture: 71x24 cm Copies: 25, numbered and signed, and 5 artist's copies (I-V) Price: 575.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
A Japanese company is sponsoring an artistic prize for unpublished,
purely digital produced images and every year a new “theme” is
presented on their website. Concerning the theme “Japaneseness” I got nothing
going. A couple of days after the deadline for submission, I
suddenly felt the urge to try a new paper format I had not often used before a
pretty elongated landscape format, which I instantaneously
divided with massive black line. Some weeks nothing happened with the image,
when like in a frenzy working nearly without a halt the upper
half was created within a few days and again work stopped for weeks. Then
in a third rage I finished the lower half, but because of this
unusual process, the image felt strange to me. With every day of further
looking at it though I realized that this was my “Japanese” image,
after the deadline had expired of course. „Japanischer Winter“ (Japanese Winter)
was published in the American art magazine Direct Art, Volume 12, Fall/Winter 2005.