Street Print is a 1.5 x 10 metre length of cotton satin with prints of objects found in the street. The prints are reproduced in a composition with a central axis and a certain degree of pattern symmetry around the axis. The composition was inspired by English etchings from the 1600s depicting natural objects in more or less symmetrical compositions.
There is a print of each object. The colour is kept as close to the original as possible. If the original has two colours the print is made in a blend of the two colours in the same ratio as in the original objects. The actual found object is included as a repetition of the print version, like a twin on an independent ‘track’. The objects in the Street Print collection were found over a period of 1- 1½ years.
Anne Fabricius Møller is fascinated with the degree of detailing that emerges in the prints of the found objects. The objects are placed on the fabric in the desired composition, and reactive textile dye in the colour of the found objects is applied to the fabric. Once the printing is complete, a fixing effect is achieved through damping and the fabric is washed and ironed.
Anne Fabricius Møller began to collect lost and abandoned objects more than ten years ago. Since then, she has noticed that certain objects have more or less disappeared, while others have appeared. Thus, the found objects reflect their time. Steel wire has been replaced with plastic strips, while handles from bicycle baskets have emerged as a new item. Another observation is that the objects are predominantly in primary and secondary colours, while the more poetic colours are present in the non-designed objects, rusty items, bleached, worn, anonymous and natural objects.
Street Print for MINDCRAFT14 is the result of Anne’s recording of people’s losses, her own bicycle rides around the city and her collector’s gene. Many of the objects have been run over, and they are coarse and filthy, but their imprints are remarkably poetic and delicate. The fine quality of the fabric strikes a contrast to the coarse grey asphalt where they were found.
The Birth of Marilyn
They float in the room, light and flaunting, like a skirt lifted by the wind…
First, a little sculptural sketch, an idea that grows and takes on its own natural shape until it finds its final form – “correct” and well-controlled.
The Birth of Marilyn is a story of creation/genesis – from a timid beginning through the imperfections of experiments and attempts to the final work: a big, floating lampshade.
The development process and production method are the actual artwork, as the different phases of experimentation with the mould become a series of unique products. The lamps are produced by using thermoforming/moulding in the Match tool.
The duo Iskos-Berlin is inspired by experimenting with materials and production technologies, the sensuality of the material and its natural shapes and the associations that are sparked as they work with and study the materials – as wavy as the seashell from which Venus was born or as pleated as Marilyn’s skirt, lifted by the air…
They strive to develop products using rationalized production processes to achieve the rejection-free, undemanding industrial production of unique products with a minimal waste of materials and other resources.