“Surface&Color 2”
PORTFOLIO "Surface&Color": 1-4 November 2000
Portfolio (4 prints) Special Price 1600€ Technique: Kodak Ektar 100 24x36 mm color negativ film; high-end
digitized.
Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 76x56 cm, Picture: 66x46 cm Copies: 25, numbered and signed, and 5 artist's copies (I-V) Price: 575.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
The four photos of the portfolio "Surface&Color"
were shot in November 2000 in Berlin/
Germany alongside the tracks of the
S1 between
the stations Mexicoplatz and Schlachtensee.
It is not
graffiti or parts of it, but spots
used by sprayers to clean their
atomizer valves,
which left the circular shapes. Graffiti in Berlin
is
about 5% art (a very kind guess this is) and
for 95% of it the visual
equivalent of dog shit,
another Berlin specialty. In order not to
become
desperate about it you have to make “gold from
shit” and that’s
exactly what these images try
to accomplish.
Surface&Color 1 and 2 have been published in
the American art magazine „Direct
Art“, Volume
10, Fall/Winter 2004