I am strongly fascinated by puppet theatre because I grew up with my parents’ marionette theatre. My work is therefore mainly based on storytelling and creating new worlds you can immerse yourself. Drawn figures or clay sculptures are more or …
My work is based on an intense observation of space and flatness. To accent this, I construct the scene in a way that it looks like a “strange” place. It’s a practice, that overdraws and modifies the real space, but …
Presenting my drawings in a book gives me the possibility to reach more people with my work, it got a democratic aspect. Anybody who likes that stuff can easily buy such a book. One can take the whole project home …
In the digital age, I continue to draw with crow quill and ink because I crave, like a vampire, the direct kinesthetic contact provided by hand, paper and pen. I could live in my own drawings; they are tidier than …
I use watercolors in these animations because the transparent and fluid qualities of the marks remind me of movement. The cutout puppets are a lot like paper dolls and I think this reference to children’s toys with all their innocence …
The drawings mirror the imperfection of the characters that I portray, the same physical and mental improvisations. For this reason my drawings sometimes are funny and dark at the same time, I’m like a television transmitter.I utilize a style that …
As a printmaker, drypoint is my favorite medium. I have studied printmaking since 1993. I have had numerous shows with lots of prints and drawings, including from traditional prints to life size installations using cutout prints, artist books, and even …
Serge Onnen: Making a phenaticoscope is still a lot of drawing. But the strength is that it all fits together in one image. I like Art to be a powerful image. DEPOSIT is about recycling empty bottles. Recycling & rotation …
To travel is a really important part of my work, because I like sometimes to be displaced in order to develop my work under different, unstable and temporary conditions. I also like to question my work – or rather the …
May be it was not as much the medium film itself that interested me, but the question how does a drawing evolve, how do I start, how do I find my theme, how do I set in motion what I …