Homo Ferus

solo project for The Essence 09,
anual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna



Vienna 2009
Fotoplot 1189 x 841

In the 80's the Soviet Union initiated an involutionary experiment in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains. The purpose of the experiment was to study the basic and oldest archetype of human behaviour, placed in a time where consciousness did not exist yet. Like this, under strong monitoring and in a self regulated system, wild humans were bred.

Grafik Design / Prof. Oliver Kartak / Institue for Design

Special tahnks to Vladimir Potop

Monuments/indelible memories

with Tobias Egger & Markus Riedler

designforum, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna 2009
interactive installation 5000 x 3000 wood, stickers

There are not only many streets and squares bearing the names of individuals who are thus meant to receive a fixed place in our memories, but additionally there are numerous commemorative plaques, inscriptions and monuments in urban areas that are intented to remind us which events and individuals we once granted importance to, or still do.

Whoever destroys monuments destroys a society’s connection with its history. The Hague Convention was adopted in 1954 in order to protect cultural property from destruction or damage, as well as from theft, plunder, and other forms of illegal appropriation during a war or an armed conflict. Ever since then, cultural property has been marked with a special protective emblem.

With this in mind, public institutions decide in the public interest which objects should be regarded as cultural property. But what do you regard as indispensable? Visitors of the exhibition were given a sticker and were asked to choose their personal favorite.

Special thanks to Markus Hanzer

Auto Indulgentia

inspired by the indulgence trade in the late medieval eve, i designed a vending machine that pardons your sins in the name of god (the catholic church has not yet bought my patent). the confirmation comes as a card with Johann Tetzel's famous quote: "as soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the soul from purgatory springs" on one side and a field for the sins to be pardoned on the other side.
the whole process is "sub rosa", as in catholic for "confidential" and the engraving is burned into the woodboard.

Free Burqa Fashion

if more of us occidentals would wear burqas, fundamentalists would get bored and maybe even naked.

Workshopping

Urs Lehni & Stefan Marx held a two days Workshop to my class. The result was a 100 page fanzine printed in 50 copies hand-binded. I worked together with Leoni and what you see above is my part... something about dreams

Stiegl Braukunst 08

Every year the Salzburg beer brand Stiegl organizes this contest for art students to design labels for a special edition. These are my three proposals for the 2008 Born to be Wild edition.

Copy - Jamming

My first exhibition, a collective one, hosted by MAK Vienna... ESSENCE 08. BUSK and me presented a new concept called Copy - Jamming, this is what it is all about.







Nowadays advertising mingles more and more with the
private aspects of life.
Powerful corporations struggle to get our attention,
the advertiser is in a constant search of new means
and methods that bring to our advertence either
informative or emotional sales messages, with the
intention of motivating the buyer.
Copy-Jamming takes a critical position towards this
development, the spontaneous conquest of the private
estate.
The photocopy is destroyed through a process of
stamping brand names in a standardized pixel type and
printing them with the corresponding slogans. This
procedure eliminates the functional value of the copypaper.
The private estate is destroyed, the originator is
ambiguous and thus the subjet finds himself forced
to take a certain position.

What do you do when trapped between advertising and adbusting?

Old Tails in New Clothes

Practice Change & Reload Vibe

Finding Huha

Using this map, you can keep track of my secrets.

Look at me, I have no eyes to see!

This has been my tag for a while now,
and thats its message, so look at it!

street gifts for brothers in art

I'm not the only one in my familly who's got talent. after my father printed jimmy hendrix t-shirts and faked brand clothes in the 60's in communist romania, our turn comes to prevail in streetart.

the summer inside

floating tag, by the lake, in the mountains,

it was summer... now it's cold.

the blog is dead, long live the blog

you don't need wings to face god,

an improvisation with my chalk drawing in timisoara

10x for the pic manu

over&over again

I.L.S.A still is the most popular abandoned place in temeswar...so, if in town, try to hit it.

class personal layoff

every year my class is showing independent works in a 24h exhibition ...or extended vernissage

down cape town

she finished her studies and left europe for 6 months,
at the party where she shaved her head and
said goodby to the old continent,
i made a drawing in her scrapbook
farewell

test and share away

some day i discovered i can do this move with my hands, many people i showed it to, experienced it for the first time, so here's the "how to":

fo eva&eva

a swanky long-lasting and cheap solution
for expressing yourselves in public space
CHALK

do it in the streets

early stage of streetart

one liner

happy b/day sara

equal pay day

"on september 27th there is equal pay day.
on this day men have already reached the annual income
that women will only reach at the end of the year.
or to put it differently: from this day on statistically women work for free."

we had to, somehow, illustrate this problem in school

vienna autumn

the leaves turn red,
and the payphones brown,
but the grass is always green.

who!hate

made on a sunday morning

collabo'

together everybody achieves more

my world

come on in

bang lassi

some hot night this summer,
at a girls place,
i drew this....
and added some lassi,
as a finishing touch.

TaggCollage

got tagged by tudor three weeks ago & finaly made the task. i took some pics of his & some old flyers i had & out come this. sooo my turn.....i taaaggg neaga linda, rares & omar and to remix me.

\\\big up all sziget massive\\\love is al\\\

once again a great festival,
I thank all the nice people who says "hallo" with no reson, all the ppl who didn't get to the showers, all the ppl who sold druqs, all the ppl who had a great time....nice1brother

the camp



the light of sun

the party

the chill

homeless luxury

some homeless from my neighbourhood in timisoara had the
perfect solution for the heat wave...
genuine romanian D.I.Y....unbeateble!

& the view you wake up with

wien free parade

the freaks come out at day

pace frate

cherry pick session in brotherhood homeland
3p bro'li

my altar in blue

palmpot/ grascarpet/ jewellery box/
footbags/ stones/ ericsson r310s(hark)/ bluebus/
picture i bought from my first earned money/
szigetsoaker/
+furniture

lost and found

tudor found his flickr...after 2 years of forgetting about it!!!!
check check check

cardboard sk8board

I did a last-minute board for "design a deck"....a cardboard becaouse I couldn't get my hands on a wood deck in time.
cun't love cun't

chalk it

I drew this about 3 months ago and it's still there
chalk is great and crayons I liiikeee

pastemeswar

paste's for my homecity!!!!!!!!!!!!!yeyeyeahhh

buff buff pass

the guy did an amazing job puffing my spliff

new stuff fresh

irlo&omar visited me after easter and
left a vibe as fresh as the spring was.

this is tudor's blackbook.

drawing&exploring

Easter holiday in Timisoara, we found a couple more abandoned places that wait in silence to pe replaced by some trade center or shopping mall.

The fact that these buildings are lifeless and therefore invisible for the majority makes me draw, so that some other explorer finds traces of my vibe:)

My mother says that, back in the days, Timisoara used to have a flawless industry, massive export all over the world....now there is Kaufland instead of BegaPam, Billa instead of the Milkfactory ánd soon to come, TenderTradeCenter instead of I.L.S.A. Our country starts to look more and more like an E.U.Corp. marketplace.

I was only 3 years old when democracy got it's second chance, so I don't really have memories of what was before but get very nostalgic when I encounter something from the past, I meet the need to preserve as much as possible.

Explore your city, leave your vibe in lifeless places...Share it.
!!!

21st

bring friends&drinks

happy happy birthday

just finished this present for christina (sud tirol)...
...she throws a big party at her place this evening
and i thought this event deserves some attention.

ethics and aesthetics...

...is the result of my confrontation with graphic design and video at the same time. this was the task we got this semester and i chose a personal approach. worked for this clip about 2 months, building the set was the hard work. when it was ready i gott a bit frustrated because it was only 50sec long... then i was told that this is how it goes when working with stop motion...hundreds of photos going by in a minute.

paste up lesson

busk took me on the streets one day and showed
me how it's done. i've had about 30 posters but
lost the first half while chasing the vienna-timisoara
train and the other i forgot in the train when i arrived
in bucharest from timisoara...so the only ones hanging
in the streets are in vienna.

drawings for last year

made these drawings on the way to revelion 2007.
2007 is only a week old, it's healthy and strong.
i'm back in vienna and trying to get organised.
all the best & "la multi ani si anu asta"!



the station


the car

the cottage

visit I.L.S.A!

each time I go home I try to visit Ilsa, the abandoned
woolfactory in timisoara. this summer I visited
it aggain and did some leisure-spraying
and ready-made-sticking.

.action


.diblunt


.huha


.tveee1


.tveee2


.tvX2


this violent, bucharest-student, friend of mine
accompanied me, cheers mate & pace frate.

restart #1.attempt

what can i say, blogging comes and goes, now it comes again so i'll try posting some stuff....stuff i did this sommer and stuff i did over here...
times have changed, i'm starting to feel really comforatbly over here, it was a hard year, away from home and on my own, but a good lesson!!!

still i'm over here and i miss home and that's why i feel like sharing:)

From Heart to Hort

workshop with eike konig, last week in our class.
we watched 30min. of "dolls" ( takeshi kitano) and got
there our inspiration for the work we were about to do for
the next 2 days...we were free to do everything but avoid
working on the computer.

this is what came out

"you otaku?!" 'stalation and unique poster.
(plastic, paper and pebbles)

i borrowed the objects from a cheep-chinees-import-store in my
bezirk. the bubbles were part of the presentation and aftere that,
everybody was invited to take a pebble from the altar, betwen
the "hello kitty"'s.

eike did a good job, in 2 days, he managed to give a
pozitive impulse to 25 young students....the result of
that were photos, instalations, illsutrations, typography,
stopmotion animation, colages, baloon sculptures
and fake passports.

fain(:fain

MQ WC

lobau

went on a trip to the "lobau national park" near vienna
and fond...

...o pula

...and a great sunset

dani&miki

dani is some serbian fellow born over here
and speaks little romanian,
miki is a yugo (gipsy from serbia)
they're in the business
good boys
much love

friends over here

ingineru and tzunea came to visit vienna and stayed at
my place. I was very happy to show them arround...
museumsquartier, schonbrunn, dounauinsel,
stephansplatz and so on...

the boyz on the go

waiting to satisfy our munchies

MQ


donauinsel




spent the evenings in einhorn...the one in the green
t-shirt is Victor, he was also over here...

..to visit Anca:)

einhorn

that's the cafe where I work (bartender&waiter)....it opened it's doors in 1984 ( I wasn't even born yet!!!) and all the people who spent their time there are regular customers, it happens rarely that someone walks by and comes
in, the einhorn is really a special place and very comfy, that's what I like the most about it....must visit if in vienna!!!!

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haven’t been posting for some time, maybe because spring is here and I was all over checking things out...a lot has happened since last post, the great thing is that I got a cool job...

spotting

the early pioneer days of streetlighting…
the days when gas fuelled viennacity.

InterFuck

my grandpa's neighbors went crazy

rasta surprise

from "the don"

FUBU

for us, by us....von uns, fur uns....
i've put up my fat-marker-drawings

twenty two square meters of chronologically arranged
pictures from an island trip...fainfain

monday evening

some guys -atzgerei- from the grafik-und-werbung class
at the university, had a silkscreen printing exhibition in
a place called wirr. there was also a party afterwards,
there is always an afterparty....
wirr is nice and there entry is free quite often.





the midnight surprise:
....AtzgerMan, the silkscreen super hero
and his sidekicks


on my way home I saw the WienerLinien workers...
they always sit in these ventilated boxes while
fixing the tram rail

the trend

east europe (the balkan) is quite trendy
at the time, so if you are at a party over
here, prepare yourself for some zdob und zdub...

no spring

they say vienna skips spring this year, april is
going to be as cold and snowy as march...blea

schule

the attic of the university of applied arts vienna ,
this is where the grafic-design class is.
I think it looks a bit to corporate, one feels like
walking into an desigm-agency more than into
a class...
either way, it's very cool to have all this space
filled with so much light

more from mapa

I did this t-shirt only beacause Aljazeera is cool


this is an old radio, witch my grandpa brought
back from the olympic games in moskow 1980:

..nice logo

how I got over here

I’m going to start posting the works I had in my mapa when I applied for university, they’ll come as I get along with digitizing them.

I couldn’t do all by my self, tudor helped me a lot…I thanked him already...and there where a lot of other people who helped me in one way or the other so I thank them all, and a BIG thank you to my parents…I know it sounds like a cliché but they are really grate, best parents one can wish for, so I can’t help it…I thank them for raising me how they did and hope to make them proud all the way!!!

The mapa consisted mainly of birthday presents for friends of mine....I thank them all for borrowing me the stuff and promise to give it back as soon as possible.

when everything was over we had to present our favorite work from the mapa, I dunno if this is my favorite but it's the one I choose.

canvas stncl

the sonet for my class...there where bout 1700 printed

there's more to come

todays menu

capsuni din BIOgradina vestEUropeana

my precious

dunno what I would've done without it,
I thank my parents for this treasure!!!!

doggy

doggy was very nice...
shaking friendly as the wind blew...
but he was gone today,
I hope someone adopted him!!!

fainfain

I spotted it in september when I did the exam...
it's right in front of my university
.....my favorite from over here.

vienna also threatened

...don't panic...all suspects are ded

them visitors

Andreea&Miezu arrived Wednesday evening and I’m very happy to have them at my place…I hope there’s going to be more where they came from!!!

We spent Wednesday evening talking about back home, looking through some magazines and enjoying...Eugenia




On Thursday we went walking and got to the Freiraum (MuseumsQuartier) wich was hosting a streetart Ausstellung...it was nice to see all the stuff in one place but indoor streetart is quite irritating, still, if you're around the block, check it out, it goes ‘till march 20.

On our way out we walked through the playFm lounge where we bumped into a rare show, I think…a guy was playing early records (’30-’40) on early pickups and we enjoyed it all through early loudspeakers…

sunny day out

had a good feeling about today since it started…very sunny, +10°C
so, i didn’t waste to much time home and was soon on my way...destination: Donau!
walked the mariahilferstrasse and the neubaugasse to the museumsqartier and further on to stephansplatz were i took the metro to the Donau.



all enjoing the perfect weather...


picked up some beton streetarting on the way




famous NeubaugasseCanvas


my favorite for today

everybody was out today, doing something...

some hobby yamakazi at the museumsqartier


mini hare krishna parade on the kaertnerstrasse



and super street dacers at stephansplatz...grate show

finally got to the donauisland, quite narrow but veeeery long...nice for riding anything...bikes (any kind), skates, blades... very accessible for wheelchairs also



the second shore.....still frosty




got back on the sunny side..and ejoyed the comfortable afternoon sun session



...donno if i deserved this....did enjoy it thaw

my second home

well, here it is, home nr. Zwei...i managed to grab a camera and shoot some pics for back home.




my room facing south


ulrich's room, direct next to mine...ulrich's into shaolin&stuff, very balanced actually, good chi...



but ulrich is in mexico this month so i'm houseing along angie now...like many others overe here, she's nuts about BIOproducts.....


the flat is on the top floor...


it's getting warmer...the snow is melting and so does all the dogcrap on the viennastreets




i did some fatmarkerdrawing for my new home

...hope there's gonna' be more