Picture "2012" (2016)

This is a single sheet from the Kieler Woche 2016 collector's folder. Every year a poster selected by a jury is published for Europe's largest annual sailing event in Kiel, Germany, called Kieler Woche, which is also available in a limited edition as a hand-printed collector's edition.

At the ceremonial opening of Kieler Woche 2016, the Mayor of Kiel and the Minister-President of Schleswig Holstein each received a folder with 6 award-winning poster motifs from 30 years. We offer the other 15 copies of the portfolio as well as a limited edition of the individual sheets on ARTES.

ARTES is the exclusive publisher of the sheets and portfolio, which were created under the patronage of Professor Bernhard Stein of the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Participating artists are Doris Casse-Schlüter (1985), Rosmarie Tissi (1990), Henning Wagenbreth (2009), Melchior Imboden (2011), Ariane Spanier (2012), Stan Hema (2016).

The colour screen prints were created using classic pigments in the award-winning hand screen printing workshop Kreuzberg in Berlin.

Original colour screenprint by hand in 2 colours on Pur Coton, 2016. Edition: 30 copies, 15 of which are in exclusive folders, numbered and hand-signed. Unframed. Sheet size 72 x 54 cm.

About Ariane Spanier

Ariane Spanier (*1978 in Weimar) is a graphic designer and draughtswoman whose work is characterized by an experimental approach to typography.

Spanier studied visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and then worked in New York. In Berlin, she founded the design studio Ariane Spanier Design and has since worked mainly for clients in the cultural sector. She designs books, posters, visuals, animations and illustrations, usually with a focus on expressive typography.

Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.

The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.

Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.

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