ART Habens
Nicolas Vionnet
special circumstances or other conspicuous issues ? In the next stage I start an exhaustive research , go to the library or the city archive and try to clarify the historical background of the site . During this period I normally have the first clear ideas and I start to do visualizations with Photoshop . If an idea is strong enough and can survive for several days or weeks , I move to the final phase where I start to test and to work with the needed material to finally realize the work .
The first project you mentioned ,
, was realized together with my friend Wouter Sibum from Rotterdam . We both graduated from the Public Art and New Artistic Strategies program in Weimar and since then , often working together as a duo . For example we realized the work Colour me surprised as part of the III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art in 2012 . A New Found Glory was conceived one year later in a closed public toilet known as the M¸llloch ( litter-hole ) next to the Herdbr¸cke at the Donau in Ulm . For years , this non-place is closed off for the public . It gathers more and more garbage and is overgrown by weeds and wild flowers over the years . We were looking for a funny
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