 Take your favourite impressionist motif home - in your handbag!
Give yourself or others a genuine present with a Ministeck of a motif taken from a classic impressionist painting! Ministeck? A children's mosaic from the 60's, where colourful plastic sticks are individually pressed onto a grid to form a picture!
The artist Norbert Bayer has rediscovered this game and turned this new material into his logo: Norbert Bayer became Mister Ministeck. His pop plastic pictures are pieced together as following: the digitalised computerversion of a scanned image which appears in a low resolution is equally puzzled into a plastic mosaic. Each pixel delivers the equivalent of a plastic pin.
Why impressionist motifs?
Mr. Ministeck's close-ups of keyscenes are taken from classics of the Impressionism, a Thahitian beauty by Gaugin or Monet's ever-copied waterlilies are pressed into Ministeck. Not another boring copy, but concept art.
Painting has always known the ways to work on every single point of a picture repeatedly and immediately. Therefore it is very similiar to the free definition of pixels. With the impressionists came a more intense confrontation with the picture's surface, the small single brushstrokes which alltogether resulted in a whole picture. The impressionists intensified the confrontation with the individual points of a picture by concentrating on them - stroke after stroke dense and voluptous pictures of landscapes and portraits emerged.
As a consequent continuation of the Impressionism pointilism aroused: the paintings dissolved in their colourpoints and the concentration on the picture point became intensified by the pointillists. Following this "picture point tradition" the "pixilism" as we may call it, the technical dissolvement of a picture into single pixel, appears as the consequent continuation of the pointilism.
Mister Ministeck not only continues the picture point tradition by producing digital pixel equivalents but also expands it conceptionelly by materializing the picture points through Ministeck.
The perfection of details
In the tradition of Zen Buddhism great things are to be found in the small; like the Austrian playwriter Thomas Bernhard discovers the hard core of his thoughts - the truth - through the intense observation of a wall, through the discovery of cracks, notches and even finer structures, the observer of a picture discovers a masterpiece through the perfection of even its smallest elements, through the perfectly and thoroughly combined details.
Norbert Bayer reminds one with imPRESSions of the boldness of impressionist paintings and picks up the painting-based confrontation with the approach towards a picture with technical and material means.
Concept Art meets juicy Pop Art and the Grande Dame of the Visual Arts: the Impressionism.
Don't just hang up an art print on your wall - take the essence of the impressionists home in form of a detail-obsessed Ministeck.
Available in this series:
Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894)
Paris Street, Rainy Day
1877
Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906)
Compotier, Pitcher, and Fruit (Nature morte)
1892-1894
Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
L'etoile [La danseuse sur la scene]
1878
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
Femmes de Tahiti [Sur la plage]
1891
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
Sunflowers
1888
Edouard Manet (1832 -1883)
Déjeuner sur l'herbe
1862-3
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
Water lilies, Water Landscape, Clouds
1903
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919)
Le Moulin de la Galette
1876
George Seurat (1859 - 1891)
Un dimanche après-midi à l'Ile de la Grande Jatte
1884-6
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1901)
Jeanne Avril Dancing
1892
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