The occupation as art director and graphic designer establishes a preference for typography and striking illustrations, mostly painted on large-format wooden panels – a kind of creative upcycling. More or less clearly, individual motifs and words borrow from the media background noise:
song lyrics, slogans, advertising messages and motivational sayings. In contrast to the other elements, words and symbols develop a subtlety, multi-layered like the backgrounds painted over several times. This is sometimes reminiscent of PopArt and graffiti, but is clearly driven by the social question. The work in precarious conditions, the social Darwinism of the street, life in an increasingly foreign-determined urban space, the various degrees of uncontroversial impoverishment, and again and again: the sold rebellion – this and much more (like the hell of adolescence) finds a mocking, dark-colorful echo in the picture cycles.

 

Since 2008 participation in various exhibitions in a predominantly subcultural setting, preferably in appropriate rooms between the urinal and the occupied house.

Hein Fartmann lives and workes in Hamburg, Germany.
Exhibitions

Art against war – Qvarter Gallery, Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Residents and friends – Qvarter Gallery, Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Wright – Urban/Streetart Festival Bochum
Millerntor Gallery 7 – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Tarantino Art Show – Sold Out Gallery, Bochum
Edition 1 – A (Con)Temporary Print Art Store, Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Ink & Ride 2016 – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Ausschnitte – Popup Gallerie, Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Ink & Ride 2015 – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Grafik aus Dortmund – Rathaus, Dortmund
50/50 – Export, Dortmund
Ink & Ride 2014 – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Cover – designxport, Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Artillerie – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Bamboula 141 – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
ReclAim your City – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Kismet Honey – Hannover, Gruppenausstellung
Millerntor Gallery 1 – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
AUFKLEBER – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
FC St. Pauli Kunstpreis – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Die Siebdruckedition – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg? – Kupferdiebe Hamburg, Einzelausstellung
This is today – Bedürfnissanstalt, Hamburg, Einzelausstellung
Wreckers Ball – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
Urban DNS – NPire Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung
White Gallery Harburg – Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung

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